Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 8, 1924, Page 1

] . i pe r ene VOLUME 33. ‘HUGGESTION OF GOLLEGE CHUN LED TO CRIME Typewriter Hurled Into Park Lake Is Found By City Divers. BY EDWARD C. DERR, (United Press Staff Correspondent) CHICAGO, June 7.—“I would not have been ¢ap- able of killing Franks had it not been for the suggestion . and stimulus of Leopold.” * This was the statement of Richard Loeb, 19-year-ol¢ million alre’s son, whose confession that he took part in the murder of Robert Franks, 14-year old school boy, was made public today. Loeb, whose _ tear: stained face trembled as he broke down and made the first confession of the crime. Jaid ali. the blame on his former college chum and comrade, Nathan Leopold, Jr. Roth boys, held on_ indictments charging them with kidnaping a. murdering -young Franks, ere without bail at the county jail. They will be arraigned, Wednesday. Divers working for the police to: day found on the lagoon’in Jackson Park the typewrher on which the “George Johnson” ransom notes were written, The boys had told of throwing the machine into the Jagoon in. their vonfessions. Fin@ing of the typewriter, the Atates attorneys say, welds another link in’ the. chain. of circumstantial eyidence on which the prosecution < jase depend if the confessions are “thrown out. Germaine ‘K. Reinhard, 18 year old sweetheart of Loeb, whose name ywas reported to have been connect: @d with the states case against the two youths, “is in no way eonnected with our investigations,” it was stat- ed at the state's attorney's office this evening. Miss Reinhard said she thought Loeb insane, officers who question- ed her, told the United Pre: “Dick used to send me foolish telegrams, when he was right here in the cit¥,” the officers quoted her as saying. “Several times he sent me postal cards by special delivery. They Would contain silly sentences—none of thetn meant: anything to me.” Miss Reinhard, a beautiful Chi- cago society girl, and formerly a student ut the University of Chi- cago, exhibited an imported cigar- ete holder bearing her own initials It was a gift from Loeb, she said. “Knowing that Miss Reinhard was n friend of Loeb, it was’ natural that we should question her regard- ing what she knew of his habits,” an alle of State's “Attorney Robert E. Crawe told the United ress. “It is true that her initials—GRK appeared at the hottom of the letter written by Leopold and Loeb in which they demanded $10,000 of Robert Franks father, but we have never and do not now suspect this girl of any knowledge of the crime. Reports had been circulated that Crowe's staff was working upon a theory that Miss Reinhard had typed (Continued on Page Two) LINDSEY CLEMENCY FOR YOUNG SLAYERS _ Leopold and Loeb Not to Blame for \ ye Casper MAIN NEWS SECTION CASPER, W¥O., SUNDAY, JUNE 8, 1924. > LOEB BLAMES LEOPOLD FOR FRANKS SLAYING c Motor Club To Elect at Forum Meet The chamber of commerce for- um luncheon scheduled for Tues- day noon at the Henning hotel will be given over to the Casper Motor club for election of five directors to serve for a period of two years; for a report on the past year's activities and an outline of some of the work to be undertaken this year. Arrangements are being made for short talks on Automo- bile Insurance rates; boosting the Old Oregon Trail; development of the Casper Mountain Park and other subjects of interest to Cas- per motorists. Every member attending this meeting will be presented with an interesting picture showing a por- tion of the Old Oregon Trail. This picture which was secured :through the courtesy of C. H. Bowman District Engineer of the State Highway Department, has been named ‘Tracks in the sands time.” SLAYER HELD AT RAWLINS RAWLINS. Gages Taylor, allegea to have “Charles E. Robertson at Fort Steele, Is being held here on the charge of first Galas murder. Taylor was employed ‘at. a@.adok by the Roberstons “at thelr Fort Steele hotel, In a controversy which arose Taylor plunged a 24- inch butcher knife through Robert- son, puncturing the liver and kid- neys.. The stabbed man died several hours later. of .Wyo., June 7.— Backtracking on Death Trail Nathan Leopold spot where divers ye: dohnson” ransom notes were writte quarantine. indicated by arrow) pointing out y recovered the ¢, ypewriter on n before it was thrown Tuto. The lake is in Jackson park, Chicago. CITY HEALTH AUTHORITIES UPHELD BY COURT IN REFUSING HABEAS ~ CORPUS RELEASE HERE ‘The city. and the. county health départnent won a significant victory yesterday morning in district court when Judge R. R. Rose refused to grant a habeas corpus re- lease for Ollie Kelly, colored, being held in the city jail under suspected venereal The victory sets an important precedent in that persons reported to the health department to be suffering from venereal disease will not be permitted to roam ee the MORE WORK ON SCOUT CAMP. 15 ASSURED TODAY Union Carpenters Glenrock to Tum Out in Force. Further progress on the Boy summer camp, Camp Carey, will be made today when 20 union carpen- ters from Glenrock and several un- fon carpenters from Casper go to the site to do more work on the buildings which were started last Sunday. The labor has been vol- unteered as it was last week. = though there will not be so many men working this Sunday it will be a “big day” all around. A fine lunch will be served at noon. Several cars left this morning taking the workers to the camp. Members of the painters’ the brick- layers’ and the stone masons’ unions have volunteered their services for work at different times until the camp is completed, of couts: at large and possibly contaminate the public with the germs of diseases of this Lodge Deposed By His Party Governor Cox of Massachusetts Heads State Delegation and Gillette Goes On Platform Committec rf 3 BY ROBERT J. BENDER, (United Press Staff Correspondent). CLEVELAND, O., June 7.—Through, action of the Massachusetts delegation enroute to the convention, Sena- tor Henry Cabot Lodge will be definitely removed from the power he long has wielded at Republican conventions, ac- cording to advance information received here tonight. The Massachusetts delegation, it is said, Governor Cox as its chairman and will select Congressman Frederick H. Gillette, speaker of the house, as its representative on the conven- tion resolutions committee. If this is done as schedule, Lodge, who has presided at conventions in thé past, has delivered keynote speeches and many times has direct- ad the framing of the G. O, P, plats form, will be completely submerged URCES Training and Should Not Be Sent to Death, Jurist Maintains DENVER, Colo., June Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loe 7.—Characterizing Nathan b as “infants” and the “pro- duct of ‘a system of education for which they are not re- sponsible,” Judge Ben B, Lindsey, famous juvenile jurist, today declared the murderer; be hanged. “These boys are In part the prod. wet of a system of education f which they are not responsible,” lindsey said. “They should pe of w s of Robert Franks should not treated are very much as the insane ated, clearly they are cases rped or lopsided mental Ceve’ (Continued on Page Two.) A will elect as an imiportant factor in the party deliberations, It probably \would forecast his eventual Cethronement as the administration leader in the seriate, ' With the passing pf Lodge, the Republican party will have’ lost most of the faces that for many years have appeared in the fore: front of the convention picture. Muryay Crane and Boles Penrose are dead. Senator James Watson pears to be out of focus. Harry M,. Daugherty, is, a casualty. Reed Smoot alone remains among the vet erans d¢ recent campaigns to figure still—but not as in by-gone years. In + their 8, Coolidge is grooming for pergonal ler and 5 § setts; his secretary, C. Bascom Slemp of Virginia; Charles B, War: ren of Michigan; Speaker Gillefte and Frank Mondell, for the most part men’ outside the ranks of con- gress, but all of them skilled in pol- ities, The president has been singu'arly Partial to Warren, making him am bassador to Mexico after he had held a similar post at* Tokio, Per. haps the climAx of the president's manifestation of conftitence in the Michigan man was reached when he selected him as the White House choice for chairma nof the resolu tions committ which will draft the party platform—disposses: Lodge from a he has edly post repeat the chairman the m committee one muat mbers of the reno: lutions delegate «Continued on Page Two.) nature, The judgment of Judge Rose will permit the health department in the future to hold any person suspected of being infected until an examina- tion can-be made of them. The evidence given in the hearing this morning showed that a cursory examination of Kelly made by Dr. Ralph Malott, city health. officer, showed symptoms of -venereal dis and the health officer decided to hold the man in jail-until a thor- ough blood test could be made. With this condition existing and Kelly giving.indication of being in- fected with a venereal disease, coun- sel for the man attempted to Have him released through a habeas corpus: Kelly was represented by frank Perkins. Ambrose Hemingway, city attor- ney, handled the health depart- ment’s end of the case and won a clean cut victory in the issue. Rocks Showered By Blast; Finger ’ Lost by Victim LOVELL, Wyo., of rock hurled a thousand feet from a place where blasting was being done, crushed the hand of Frank Gaylord the other day. It was necessary tc amputate the index finger. A gang of workmen busy half 9 mile away from the explosion was showered with rocks. ease OF 1865 had died Friday at the home Greene, Sanjouquin, Cal, Canper sho had visited her son here umes. Her husband d into the Shrir in He ts $0 years of age, many init: Jelty. 3 was this (duos) weri048144 9: may Crilnme MAIN NEWS SECTION DRIVING IT HOME Reading Between Lines in the Day’s News of Casper. Startled out of a restless, feveNsh nodding of sleeplessness that tor- ments by conjuring up ghostly demons creeping in and out of eee shadows to leer at eet the asper sweetheart of Walter Sim- Eee sees his ashen face rioueh the death mask, his lifeless body limp in the electric chair. Condemned to die for the murder of Frank Pahl, garage man, at Spencer, Neb., in Simmons cringes in his cell in Nebraska gtate penitentiary and listens for the sound of the guards coming down the silent corridor to take him to the chiir in the dawn of Tuesday morning. On May 23 he was to have been strapped to the grim arms of that ‘monster and sent into eternity, elec- trocuted. ‘The governor granted a reprieve to June 10. . Armed with new affidavits, rela- tives of the condemned man have again petitioned the state's execu- tive for another reprieve. Without approval of the full board of par- dons,the governor declares he is powerless to act. When +that body meets. tomorrow will it deny life to Simmons, merly of Casper and an ex-serv man who was in the navy his sweetheart heye, having a > died a thousand deaths, have her petition to a higher power answered? Little Wilma Edenfield hasn't *| missed a day at school here in the ast three years. Evidently her life has been conducted according to schedule, healtlt has been cared for, proper hours have been kept. Business concerns everywhere are looking for just such persons, We read where through excesses of various Kinds that lead to the il ness and absenee of employes, mil- Mons, of hours and — consequently millions of dollars, sre jast. in 1 country every year. “t For one. hundred years Mrs. Mar- garet Sowers of Sheridan. has lived in these United States. Abraham Lincoln was but 15 years old when she was born. A century of living fs a long, long time. To endure that seeming age requires marvelous vitality. All of us would be Methusalas if we could. (Continued on Page Three) NUMBER 46. ‘LEGISLATION Is CUT SHORT AS _ SENATE ADJC N DISORDER DEFICIENCY BILL IN CL LOST OSING Reclamation, Soldier Bonus and Other Work Goes Unfinanced as Session Is Brought to Conclusion In Uproar BY PAUL R. MALLON, (United Press Staff Correspondent). WASHINGTON, June 7.—Congress adjourned sine die tonight amid unusual turbulence. Unless called in special session, it will not meet again until September 1. The important deficiency bill providing money for first year payments and administration of the soldier bonus, reclamation? and other urgent expenditures of the govern- TWO SAFE IN PLANE CRASH DENV Jolo., June 7.—In one of the most miraculous escapes on record in the annals of air disasters, Captain Lowell Yerex, stunt aviator aud Norman Fuller, newspaper artist, emerged today without criti- al injuries from the wreckage of he Oriole plane in which they had erashed from 2,500 feet in the air. Crowds at the alr circus were stupified with horror when the plane shot to the earth a short dis- tance from the flying field. Fellow aviators rushed to the scene and in @ private car took the two men to a hospital. where physicigns said their injuries, gro: serious {but not heritical, Yerex succeeded in temporarily arresting the bullet-like descent of his plane when about 400 feet from the earth. The machine then shot to the ground where it was totally destroyed. Neither of the men has been able to give a clear account of the cause of the accident, although both have been conscious since shortly after the crash. Country Club Opening Today Thrills Golfers George Campbell, President of Club, to Drive First Ball at 9:30 This Morning; Great Accomplishment Scored In Improvement of Beauty Spot Near Casper Where, had Casper been less prosperous and the need of a county poor farm more apparent, poverty-stricken old men and women would now be plodding through patches of garden produce, today men will gather in nifty nickers and diamond dotted golf socks and will baptize the new links of the Casper Country club with slices, hooks, clubs, misjudged putts and likewise, it is to be hoped, some long and sure drives and generally brilliant golf. hooks, dubs, misjudged putts and likewise, it is to be hoped, some long and sure drives and generally bril- liant golf. This morning at 9:30 o'clock George Campbell, president of the club and a man who deserves much WOMAN PIONEER Word was received yesterday by Dr. W. of the Burnett Optical company, that his mother, Mrs. F. G. Burnett, 72 years of age and one of Wyoming’s pionee Although the deceased had never heen a resident of credit for the accomplishment, will drive off the first fall, officially opening the course. A brief cere- mony will be included. This will be followed by a Blind Bogey tour- nament in which members of the club will participate. . The first nine holes of the course are PASSES AWAY ON COAST) Dr.W.G. Burnett Receives Sad M essage Telling Death of Mother, Early Resi- dent of South Pass Region ' G. Burnett of her daughter Mrs. A. I Mrs. Burnett came to South Pass City, Wyo., in 1865, when only 18 years of age. Thero she met her (Continued on Page Two) all that can be inittated today. The naining nine holes will not b completed this summer but work will be continued on them so that they will be in perfect shape for play next year, One of the big events planned for this year is the Wyoming State Golf tournament which will be held at the local club August 28 and the four ensuing days. Large delega tions from all part of the state as well as from Colorado, Nebraska, and Montana are promised, The Casper Country club long felt need for a y fills a e where Cas per citizens and friends may seck rest and solace from business strife Casper has been so busy kicking off jts swadling clothes to pay attention to such things. r, With the influx of people from other localities and with Cus perites' taking time to see what Other citles are »ing in the matter, an insistent demand sprang up that this phase of a city’s activity should be given more attention. ‘Then be: gan a strenuous search for a suit able location and ample grounds for a country club. After combing the country for miles around it was found that the present site was far better than anything else which ld be obtained The links which are located four miles east of Casper are composed of 860 acres of ‘naturally irrigated land nestling in the beautiful val ley of the Elkhorn beneath the shadows of Casper mountain This tran: try poor fa formation from a 1 to a p club, from a useless insti prosperous Natrona cou to one of the things needed to make Cas per @ real metropolis has been brought about by the untiring ef. forts of Roy ©. yland and other public spirited citizens with vision, The property was purchased for $25,000, full possession not given until April of this ye cause of this latter fact much hes until about 60 days ago when work was started in earnest. being Be- not way was made Tom Bendlow, a famous golf course architect, wi mployed to lay out the 18-hole Plans weré laid for a delightful, artistic clubhouse by R. 8. Webb, architect. (Continued on Page Three) ment died without action, the naval reconditioning bill, The senate adjourned promptly at but the house remained in ses- sion until 7:07 to permit Speaker Gillette to sign last minute bills, by the expedient of stopping the clock, so as not to violate the terms of the adjournment resolution which called for the session’s end sharply at 7 p. m > A fillibuster starting in the sen- ate in the early afternoon over the ‘oll scand report and ending with a protest of western senators against dropping a Nevada reclama- tion bill hitched to the deficiency measure as a rider, was responsible. A desperate effort was made to rush through a’ resolution during the last 10 minutes which would have appropriated $181,000,000 for bonus payments independently of the deficiency bill, The house passed the resolution in less than 90 seconds’ at 6:50 but as did 3 action on it was blocked in the senate, The progressive farm bloc also was blocked in a last minute at- tempt to force through the 35-cent per bushel export wheat bounty. The Walsh report denouncing the naval oil leases'as corrupt and {l- legal failed of approval, chiefly be- cause of a three-hour Speech by Senator Spencer, Missourl, repub- lean. The $150,000,000 naval -recond!- tioning bill which had passed both houses was held up by a last minute objection from Senator King, Utah, democrat, and a “small navy" man. Every effort to get separate ac- tion on the bonus appropriation f 5 Senator Pittms Nevada, held the floor to the’last and although every arliamentary effor was made to get him off his feet, none of them were successful. He ob- jected to both the deficiency bill and the separate bonus resolution. At three minutes to seven, the clerk of the house brought over resolution authorizing the bonus ap- propriation ag a separate measure, Senator Robinson, democratic leader, asked unanimous consent that the resolution be adopted by the senate, Objection nator made repub- was immediately Borah, Idaho, “If you're not going to enact re- for our poor suffering people west, yOu not to pass bur- Bora Net of the going dens,” Friends of are certainly any h sald Pittman a more tax then rushed him to call aid in an un- he gallery, you.” up to him and ask off his fight, but he dertone that carried % » the devil with Senator |, Missourt, democrat, then obtained recognition and mov- ed that the senate concur in the house resolution, Borah jumped ing. “On that It was then (Continue up again shout- I want to be heard.” one minute to seven on Page Two) GOLD BOOM IN LANDER iS REGION IN MAKING Old Atlantic City District Beckons to Prospectors; Homestake Company Plans to Work Old Mine With a glinting gleam that ‘travels fd than the voice of radio, gold calls men away from the beaten paths into desert wildernesses From the Mine De half century of being dormant, that region bec kona those who seek gol Long ago in ploneer times th sands of men, panning and picking only the surface for the richest find- even ht near Lander tn Fremont county that will flood it with pros spectors unto the ends of the earth. and Atlantic City district , now flashes the signal Once again, after a t millions there and it wea ruly @ n delight What fs it that again lures with en volce? It fe the r (Continued en Page