Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 1, 1924, Page 1

JAPAN PLEADS REMOVAL OF ‘ Che Casper Sunday Crime VOLUME 33. MAIN NEWS SECTION SPEEDY TRIAL FOR SLAYERS. OF OBERT FRANKS 70 BE DEMANDED A Sons of Millionaires Who Confessed Slaying Of Innocent Lad Present Problem for Alieriists in Mental Complex. By EDWARD C. DERR (United Press Staff Correspondent.) CHICAGO, May 31.—Cringing, fear stricken, in their cell at an outlying police station, broken and haggard by the ordeal of the last 24 hours, Nathan Leopold and. Richard Loeb, who admitted, killing Robert Franks, 14-year-old school boy, ‘‘just for the fun of it,” tonight faced trial for first degree murder. BUILDING. HERE HITS, $195,400 DURING MOWTH Seventy-One Permits Issued; $17,000 Is The Largest. Building permits for the month of May totaled $135,500; 71 permits were ismued, the largest being for $17,000 residence which is being erected by C. V. Norris. That the various departments of the city im respect to new work in connection ‘with building are sup- porting themselves {s shown by the © report issued yesterday, The fees in. nearly every instance showed that a particular department was being run at a profit. Fifty-nine svater meters were sold netting $885. yrhirty-seven -new water services vere installed bringing in $1,459. Frees for electrical permits amount ‘ed to $339.20 and gas plumbing and sewer permits amounted to $431 25 in fees. A total of 450 water mete! were taken out, repaired and re- installed. The service department is installing new water service in all the new paving districts besides laying new water mains in the new $10,000,000-gallon reservoir dd Laeab tar CABINET NO YET FORMED IN GERMANY BERLIN, May 31.--Efforts to re- organize the cabinet following the recent parliamentary elections con- «nued to meet with delays toda: conferences between Chance Marx and the party lenders tinued their conversations. cellor Marx probably will able to attend the funeral ister Monday in Cologne because of he confused political situation it was said. HOME BURNED, WOMAN DEAD PORTLAND, Ore., May 31—Par- alyzed and unable to call for aid, Mrs. Susie Cowan, burned to death in her little cottage here today. “They killed an fnnocent child’ for the fun of it—they'll be brought to justice as rapidly as the wheels of the courts can be turned,” was the word that went out from the office of States Attorney Robert E. Crowe. A coronor’s inquest over the slain youth's body will be held Monday at 11 a. m. Charges of murder will be given to the country grand jury, which convenes Tuesday. Indict- ments, Crowe said, should be re- turned by Wednesday. The trial will follow as soon as the law per- mits. The two confessed murderers, both 19 and both sons of Chicago's ‘first families,” were torn by terror as they sat in their cell tonight» All the bravado, the defiance, the per- verted sense of pride displayed when they described the murder to police were gone. “Please, please tell me that this {s all a ‘horrible. nightmare,” Leo- pold pleaded with jail guards as he wrung. his hands and: wailed. “We didn’t Know what we were doing—we were just plumb damneq@ fools.” Loeb was too exhausted to speak. Soon after the confession he broke down and collapsed. He was taken to a hospital and revived; then forced to accompany Leopold and a party of officers on a trip over the scene of the murder, reenacting the crime in all its revolting de- tails. Tonight he was crumpled in a corner of the cell, limp and mo- tionless, save for incessant wring- ing of his as. Whi ches of the state's at- torneys office were preparing the case against the two youths, at- torneys for their wealthy parents were hastily getting up a defense Benjamin B counsel for temporarily No definite in behalf of the een decided upon nists throughout the meanwhile, were studying the strange case to formulate profes- onal opinions. AN withheld their views ,however, lest they be called as expert witnesses during the course of the trial. Why two boys, sons of milltonaire families, profound students, clear thinkers and worldly wise, should carry out a plot of murder, “just for the fun of it,” is the problem perplexing the alienists. It may lead, one of them admitted, to the writing of a new chapter in the textbooks of crimonology, the case is unparralled, Leopold, son of the president of the Morris Paper Box company, holder of a degree of bachelor of esilosophy from the university of Chicago, and for many years a stu- dent of all forms of perversion, ad- mitted it was he who plotted kidnapping and murder. Just fore conte: discussing philosophy and with his examiners. to be an atheist. Loeb, son of Albert H. Loeb, vice president of Sears Roebuck malh order firm, was Leopold's accom plice. Loeb is known as the young (Continued on Page Two.) be sing, young Leopold was religion He professed 125 CARPENTERS TO SPEED WORK AT CAMP CAREY An increase in the number of carpenters scheduled to o to Camp Carey today to er Kcouts of the Casper council was note ras expected that fully 125 bave early this morning from the Unio: y them. f cars can be found to carr Several carpenters went out Fri cut the lumber in such slz that it might be put together Th of the cabins will be featured by a contest, the men being divided into teams, They should make short gvork of the matter. Officiala of the Casper council will | camp ect 10 cabins for the Boy d last night and it men and their families will m Labor temple y water to eral at noon a ved in true barbe t beef was donated by Re Carey, ex-governor of tho state, who donated the 40 th scouts for a permanent summer ear them and will act as ert WD. ulso acres to CASPER, WYO., SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1924. ILLED FOR FUN’ YOUTHS SAY CONVICTED BISHOP TO GIVE FIGHT BISHOP BROWN CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 81.—‘I will knock at every door in the land to gét jus- tice. I am not through This will be the last heresy trial.” Bishop William —_ Montgomery’ Brown of Galion, Ohio, retired bishop of Arkansas, tonight hurled this defiance, to “fundamentalists” in the chufch: Brown was found guilty of heresy by a tribunal of his peers in Trinity cathedral here. GRADUATES T0 HEAR SERMON THIS. MORNING Rev. L. E. Carter Will Address Seniors of Natrona High. Commencement week exercises for the 1924 graduating class of Natrona county high school — will start at 11 o'clock this morning when Rev. L. E. Carter of the Methodist Episcopal church preaches the baccalaureate sermon at the high school auditorium. The graduation exercises will be held Thursday evening at the high school and owing to the limited seating capacity, admission will be limited to those who have reserved seat tickets. The complete program for this morning's exercises is as follows. Processional. Invocation, ‘Rev. L. E, Carter. Chorus, “The Lord is Great” from Mendelssohn's Athalle. Scripture reading, Reverend L. B. Carter. Prayer, brand, . Sextette, “God {s Love." Shelley. Sermon, Reverend L. EB. Carter. America, Audience. j Benediction, Reverend R.) KR. Hildebrand. Reverend R. R. Hilde- Weather Forecast Headquarters for Health Demonstration Work Is Held Possible for City Unsettled Sunday, showers, somewhat warmer; day generally fair. probably local Mon- GIANT GASSER Possibility of Casper becoming the headquarters for the Pacific and Rocky Mountain states in Na- tional Health demonstration work was expressed yesterday by Dr. Ralph J. Malott, director of the SIX GIRLS IN STATE HOME ARE INJURED LOS ANGELES, Calif., May 31.— Six inmates of the Hope Develop. ment school for feeble minded girls at Playa Del Rey, near Venice, were injured and 19 were reported missing when fire of unknown origin de- stroved the building tonight. Latest reports from the Venice police department do not confirm whether the missing young women were trapped by the flames or if some of them wandered away in the darkness in night attire. Sixty girls were residents in the bullding. —_—_— MAN AND WIFE FINED S00 FOR DISTURBANCE Charged with being drunk and creating a disturbance in a local restaurant Albert L. Landers and his wife Myrtle Landers were each fined $25 by Judge John A. Murray yesterday afternoon, Several minor cases including charges of intoxication and of traf- fic violation were settled. sored ve Soe Nomination of | Hunt Accepted WASHINGTON, Muay 51.—The ronate today confirmed the nomina- ltion of Charles’ W. Hunt of Des | Moines, Iowa, to be m member of the federal trade commission, Natrona County Health unit. There are at present only three places in the United States where the work is Ueing carried on. Casper would be the fourth. The members of the Nationai Health Demonstration board are trustees of an endowment fund left for the purpose of carrying on health work throughout the United tes. They choose one city be- tween 20,000 and 75,000 . popula- tion and use it as a center for demonstration for five years with the understanding that the local people and that they carry on the after the na onal board to fu n The work would be carried on in schools and throughout the city as a whole. | The County Health unit has ‘recelyed an invitation to apply for the health demon- stration here. ‘The Casper Cham- “ber of Commerce will also back of the proposition, it understood. There are at present only three such centers in the United States, Fargo, D., for the middle west, Athens, for the southern section, and Ruther- ford counts nn., rural center co-operate work ceases Natrona DRIVING IT HOME Reading Between Lines in the Day's News of Casper. Asphalt versus concrete. Last night there was no quorum at the city hall to decide whether or not paving district No. 43 should have one or the other or nothing at all. Use of asphalt means utilization of black oil, means employment for workers here, means development of Wyoming's many practically dor- mant black oil fi Asphalt. has @ remarkably outlay of advantages and seems to be favored by many for No. 43 district. Not to be irrelevant—but in what convenient place in Casper has a certain councilman stayed in order that twice during the past week no action be taken in selecting No. 43 district's paving material? You wonder what the bride of a few weeks thought when her hus- band, Frank Simpson, deserted her and skipped from impending pen- alty at Worland the other day. In the midst of their honeymoon the Simpsons were arrested in Casper not long ago. They were being re turned to Cody where Simpson was charged with frauduleatly obtaining the car in which the couple had been traveling. Having first dis- graced his bride he next abandoned her, She may well consider his dis- appearance good riddance. Compared with April, last month was a dull one for the police depart- ment. There were only 181 arrests in May, or about half those recorded for the preceding month. Givé credit ‘to the department for enforcing the law. But even 50, when summer comes crime lessens. ‘Winter is th: dark time of the year, it fs rigorous and drives oft-times to desperation, “Not so with sum- mer, for then comes revival of hope and tempered winds. (Continued on Page Eleven.) MAIN NEWS. SECTION 27835" | Legion auxiliary, in Casper, IS UNCORKED Twenty-Five Millio Again a wildcat bit has sand and added another pri for the ac n section duction to Casper. BOARD BY RED CHOSEN CROSS; REPORT HEARD Featuring the annual mee ting last night of the officers of the local Red Cross organization was the election of a new board of directors an report by M. A. Becklinger. d the reading of the year's In his statement Mr, Beck- linger pointed out the excellent financial standing of the Casper branch of the Red C work of the past thre years by a] The ted to comprise tho] 1924-25 board of 8 were Mra B, B, Brooke, Mre, George Campbell Mrs. R. C. Cather, Emmet Ful George Mechling and M. A, Beoklinger, At tending the meeting ta sxplain the A. Reed, ross, covering in detail the immense area of earth-bound wealth that is tributary to LEGION AUXILIARY OF CASPER TOE NATIONAL PRESIDENT 101 ARRESTS MADE BY) POLICE QURING MONTH) One hundred eighty-one arrests were made by the police d ment during the month . of Drunks headed the list, ther 61 persons charged with this The: arrests made in about May demeanor. » were only half as man as in April WIND RIVER CANYON work being sponsored by the nat fonal org at Temple repre, A t : Red Cros, fram Chiengo. highway © from During the week the direct vill | Thermope in to’ the effect that meet to elect a chairman, vice chalr-| the 1 along Wind River will be man, seeretary and treasurer, At|open and passable today | the same time a board member to! There ts a two-foot raise In Bad (Continued on Page Lighty Water near Bonneville, ’ crows the NTERTAIN MRS. FRANKLIN LEE BISHOP Mrs. Franklin Lee Bishop of Leicester, Mass., national president of the American Legion auxiliary, will be. the gifést of honor of the ‘Wyonilfig’ department, American A banquet in the evening at the Henning hotel with representation from all the ex-service organizations, the city of Casper, and all civic and patriotic. organizations, iis in | Cumstances” June 5. the principal ;feature planned honor of this distinguished visitor. Auxiliary units and I ih surrounding nvited tc Sefd representatives and a large at tendance is expect Mrs. Bishor will. deliver-an: address «which -wil give an inspiring insight into the re and i of the Aux plans ding hosy . ’ ordinated efforts with clvic organ at 1,080 Feet in Crook’s Gap teatior Hi The local unit of the American by the Southwestern pases oee Acer ame ates Sone thundered its way into pay] yw, Py sa served on t oducing field'to the already |ing tine in every r this country has t Her ght since 1 band and two brothers were in the hus- foug egion posts NUMBER 45. ISCRIMINATION EXCLUSION AC PROTEST GIVE TO SEC. HUGHES AT WASHINGTON Position of Japanese Government Is Out- lined in Statement on Immigration Act. By A. L. BRADFORD (United Press Staff Corre- spondent.) WASHINGTON, May 31. —In a bitter protest against the new immigration law excluding her subjects from the United States, Japan to- day requested the American government “to take all possible and suitable measures for the ree moval of such discrimination.” The protest was’ made in a note, presented to etary of State Hughes today by Japanese Ambaa- sador Hanh and was made put lic tonight the state without comment A complete statement of the po- sition of the Japanese government of the exclusion law is contained in the ‘memorandum" which makes these salient points: 1.—Any sort of international dis- crimination is utterly opposed to tha policy of the “open door” so ur- dently championed by the United States. 2.—Still more objectionable ts rac+ jal discrimination, strongly demned in the past by the United States. 3,—Japanese are not incapable of assimilation {i the United States, but are victims of circumstances that have prevented their assfmil- ation. 4.—The exclusion law “Is in en- tire disregard of the spirit and cir of the treaty of com- (Continued on Page Two) pa Na om — ald BOOSTER TOUR POSTPONED ON COUNT ROADS Chamber of Commerce Forced to Give Up department Casper. — ; late World war. Mrs. Bishop was Plans for Tup. Blowing away at the rate of 25,000,000 cubic feet of |porn in Mt. Carmel, Pa., and edu _—— gas daily from a depth of only 1,080 feet, the South-|cated in Philadelphia, where she] ‘The Casper Chamber of Com+ western Exploration company’s'test] Present drilling is running an|Was a nurse when she met and| merce booster tour which was to be well of Crooks Gap structure has pixbeiack hole, hip sing hav. : ae Ba sponte cans M/ taken’ through the south eastern perators ©: © qui|M& been previously set and cement- ey ave” one ‘ughter,| part of Wyoming and western por- pa the big operators m the qui ed at 1,000 feet to shut off the. first | France now 19 years c tion of Nebr ate thie wee has oe nt te: flow of gas at 445 feet An ice unit to do} postponed and not be carried Starting last year through a the Dakota 1 and| out until early 1 1 » sandy overburden that practice © picked up Y 1 ne I " ment of the trip ec up obscured the structure, the South-| within r iganized Bist polituient..to- 1 intend western pushed Its test to pth | Deeper [the a ath war. From June,|ed taking it but is: heen) aiade of about 1,000 feet, then shut down] the Mu nd 1191 1 August he was in| necessary by rea t bed for the winter Resumption of | pees cl t } b of the Pluilie troan the: recent ratne drilling came several weeks At| gepth a Y. W. C. A. at ¢ r | prol r the 1,040 feet, a 10,000,000-foot flow of] whether t 2 01 ner | When there was no longer the dur r few da gas was run into. Then came |deepen its present ne f n tc Mrs The towns all a s the ne sensational outbreak of 25,000,000 | o¢¢ the 25,000,000-fo M-| Bishop turned her interests to, the| Which have prepared a ome for cuble feet at 1,080, ‘The Frontler|tinue the for oll, is not yet| patients in the Veterans Bureau| tho booster c 1 urday series is the source of this big known, The possibilities of ofl be-| hospitals, where she saw.the need| by Charles B. Stafford, secretary of ser. Last year at the very sha ing found in the Dakota series are|of some t of an organization to| the Casper Chamber of Commerce. depth of 445 feet, 2,000,000 feet were excellent, and ‘in consideration of| carry on t work of the wartime | These towns while the were all set loose. the comparatively negligible depth | organizations ready to receive the trade trip- One hundred cleven miles from| requiring penetration, it is not at! ‘The pioneer work of organfzing| pers with open arms will undoubted Casper, via the Lost Soldier ficld,| all improbable the well will be! the Auxillary in the Department of|ly be just as enthusiastic when the Crooks Gap field in Fremont county | deepened | Massachusetts was conducted» by| trip ts finally mad finds this city the logical place for s —- Mrs. Bishop and the When taken, ably on July consumption of its output, Exten- |ment of the organ it will be the third annual booste sion of the Mahoney Dome gas line DRUNK | state was the result of tour of the Casper Chamber of for a diste e of miles will pro- (Continued ont Commerve. vide transportation of its gas pro - ae = GLOBE FLYERS CROSS TOKIO IN RESUMING TRIP 3 TOKIO, May Ame earth by air was resumed at three Douglas air cruisers } flying field, 40 miles north c aver Tokio toward Nagasaki, 410 north Pacific from Attu erica’s attempt to circle the 0 a. m, today when the 1opped off from Kasumigura, of here and winged their way miles to the south- | V_ formation, roaring toward tho|the little fleet took the alr. China #ea “oe The y\anes lar Kasumigura| OSAKA, June 1—The_ thred a week ago after rous filgh ited States planes which left Kas ‘| (Continued on Page Bighy 4