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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-10
WAR LORDS IN
NEW FIGHT FOR
SHANGHAI CITY
Secession of Deluge Is Signal
For Resumption of Firing
Along the Line

Shanghai, China, Sept. 1o.-(By the
A. P)-Secession of the deluge
which halted fighting along the
fronts south and west of Shanghai
was the signal for resumption of fir
ing along the whole line this morn
ing between the forces of rival mil
itary governors battling for posses
sion Of Shanghai.
Reports from the Lunghwa head
quarters of the contending forces
this morning said that additional ad-
vances were made by forces in the
Thing sector west of Taihu lake, 80
miles west Of Shanghai. The Che
kiang troops reported the capture of
the village of Susan in their drive ia
take hing.
The drive on Thing is part of the
campaign to take Changchow, the
point from which the defending
forces hope to attack the Kiangsu
troops from the rear line on the
Shanghai-Nanking railway.
A force of Chekiang troops pene-
trated beyond Anting today, although
that town remains in possession of
the Kiangsu forces.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-10
BOBBY FRANKS
MURDER 0NE0F
MOST BRUTAL
Youth Slain After Leopold
and Loeb Try to Seek Ran
som From Boys Father
HOW THEY WERE FOUND
Failure to Put Body Clear in
Culvert, Dropping of Spec
tacles, Give Clue

Robert Franks, 14-year old son Of
Jacob Franks, retired president Of .
watch case manufacturing company
and former pawnbroker, was kid
naped while enroute to the family
home at 5052 Ellis Avenue, Chicago,
from the nearby playground Of the
Harvard preparatory school, pri-
vate institution he attended, late in
the afternoon of May 21, 1924.
While the family was searching
frantically for the boy, telephone
message informed Mrs. Franks that
Robert had been kidnapped, that he
was safe, and that the family would
be advised further as to how to re-
cover him. Early the next morning
Mr.. Franks received a neatly typed
special delivery letter bearing the
signature George Johnson" with the
dictation marks &c. X. r." informing
him that Robert was held for $4,000
ransom. that the lad was safe, and
to stand by for further instructions
as to how to pay the ransom and re-
cover the boy.
At dawn the next morning a
workman traversing the Pennsylvan-
ia railroad tracks at 118th Street,
wild, uninhabited section just inside
the southern corporate limits Of Chi
cago, saw the feet of nude body
protruding from a culvert between
two small lakes. The body was taken
to an undertaker's establishment
where it rested unidentified until
late in the afternoon, when brother
of Mr.. Franks went to the morgue
on chance that the body might be
that Of Robert.
He identified it positively although
pair Of hornrimmed spectacles were
affixed on the face. The glasses
were found near the culvert and the
undertaken thought they belonged to
the boy.
Manhunt Begins
Then began one of the greatest
manhunts in the history of Chicago,
because of the evident brutality of
the murderers and the prominence of
the Franks family. More than
score of persons, including two in
structors at the Harvard school, were
arrested, but released when they
were able to disprove connection
with the kidnapping and murder.
Columns of newspaper space were
devoted to the case but the head
lines were diminishing in size as
hope of apprehending the murderers
dwindled when unexpectedly Robert
E. Grove, states attorney, announced
on May % that Richard Loeb, SON Of
Albert H. Loeb, 5017 Ellis Avenue,
vice president of Sears Roebuck &
Co., and Nathan F. Leopold, Jr., son
of wealthy paper box manufacturer
and shipping man, 4754 Greenwood
Avenue, had confessed to the kidnap-
ing and murder.
1t developed that all clues with the
single exception of the spectacles
found near the body had been ex-
hausted. BY tracing thousands of
prescriptions for spectacles, the
states attorneys force finally eli
minated all but four which called
for spectacles the same - those
found alongside the body. OF the
CONTINUED on page 81
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-10
MANDAN HOUSE
IS BURNED

Mandan, Sept. 1O.-A loss estima-
ted at $4,000 occurred last night
when fire destroyed large frame
dwelling owned by Mrs. Emma Met
chen. The property was occupied
by the family of James Johnson, all
members of whom were away from
home and none of whom had yet re-
turned today from a visit in the
eastern part of the state.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-10
COBBLER WHO
IS COOLIDGE
FRIEND WINS

Northampton, Mass, Sept. TO-
James Lucey, cobbler-philosopher
friend of President COOLIDGE today,
at the age of 6s, won his first poll
tical battle. Competing in the prim-
ary in the first Hampshire county
district for nomination as Republi-
can candidate for state representa-
tive, Mr.. Lucey decisively defeated
John Mariz, his opponent.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-10
PRISON START DELAYED

Chicago, Sept. 10.-At the Of
flee of the county sheriff in the
criminal courts building it was
announced that Leopold and Loeb
would not be started for Joliet
today. They probably will be
held in the local Jail until Friday,
it was said. There was, however,
a persistent rumor that the start
would be made within a few
hours.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-10

Criminal Courts Building Chicago, Sept. 10.-(By the
murder of 14year-od Robert Franks and of 80 years i'm
prsonment for kidnapping the boy meted out today for
Nathan F. Leopold Jr and Richard Loeb today by Judge
John R. Cave The youth of the defendants 18 and 19
years. all that saved them from the
1T would have been the path of least resistance to i'm
pose the extreme penalty of the law said the grayhared
judge in his decision "In choosing life Imprisonment in
stead DEATH the moved chiefly by the of the
defendants boys of 18 and 19 years.
ut is not for the court say that he will not in case
enforce capital punishment but he believes is within his
province decline impose the sentence of death
sons who are not of full age N-.. q r -
'This determination appears to be in accordance with
the of criminal law all the world and to the
dictates of enlightened humanity. More than that
to be in accordance with the precedent in this state
'The records of Illinois show only two of minors
who put death by legal process to which number
the court does not feel inclined to make addition"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-10
FREIGHT RATE
BOOST HELD UP

Washington, Sept. 1O.-Proposed
new freight schedules readjusting
rates on coal from points in northern
and central Illinois to points in Mich
igan, Minnesota, North and South
Dakota and Wisconsin, today are or
dered suspended by the Interstate
Commerce Commission from Septem-
ber 10 to January 8.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-10
WHITE KITTEN
is GOOD OMEN

Chicago, Sept. 10.-No one was
allowed to talk to Nathan Leo
pold Jr. and Richard Loeb be-
fore they were sentenced this
morning, but one visitor gained
admittance to the defendants
cell on tier six at the jail. It
was a tiny white kitten that in
some manner scampered into
Leopold's cell.
"Ah, that's a good omen," he
exclaimed.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-10
TO LEASE LAND

The state board of land commits
sioners has decided to lease culti-
waited school lands for three years
instead of one, as has been the rule
in the past. The reason given is
that many who lease such lands de-
sire to do fall plowing. Under the
new order, the farmers will be re-
quired to rotate the crops.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-10
MCKEE HEADS
STEELE BANK

D. d. Mckee Of Tappen is pres
ident of the reorganized Farmers
and Merchants Bank of Steele, Kid
der county, which has reopened its
doors. Other officers are: Arne
Vinje of Steele, vice-president; F.
B. Lodge of Steele, vice president;
j: w. Mckee of Steele, cashier.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-10
II KILLED IN
STRIKERS FIGHT

Honolulu, Sept. 10.-(By the A. P.)
Seventeen persons are dead at
Hanepepe Island, Kauai, as the re-
suit of clash among strikers and
workers on the Mcbride plantation
yesterday, according to word receiv-
ed here today.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-10

Boys Are Sober
Leopold and Loeb were extremely
sober as they were led through the
states attorneys office after receiv-
ing their sentence to be incarcer
ated in the Jail again where they
will remain until taken to the Joliet
penitentiary to serve the life SEN
tences.
They accompanied their guards
with quick strides and the express
sion on their faces was unchange-
able. After sentence had been pro-
nounced, Nathan Leopold Sr., father
of one of the defendants, who sat
with head bowed while the jurist
read his opinion, said he would
never attempt to obtain the release
Of his son from the penitentiary.
When, asked if that vas his atti-
tude he replied emphatically "Sureiy,
surely"
Judge Caverly added that while
life Imprisonment "may not strike
the public imagination as f9rcibly
as would hanging" yet "to the Of
tenders, particularly of the tyre
they are, the prolonged suffering Of
years Of confinement may we'll be
the severer form of retribution and
expiation."
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-10
Weather Report

WEATHER FORECASTS
For Bismarck and vicinity: Gen.
orally fair tonight and Thursday.
Cooler tonight with probably light
frost.
For North Dakota: Generally fair
tonight and Thursday, preceded by
rain tonight extreme east portion.
Cooler tonight west portion with
probably light frost.
Orris W. Roberts.
,za Neteorologist
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-10
NAMED DELEGATES

W. F. Reynolds, state dairy COM
missioner, and w. r. Page, former
deputy, have been named among del
egates to the National Dairy Show
at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sept. 27 to
iocsl4, by Gov. Nestos.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-10
YOUTH ALL THAT SAVED THEM
FROM HANGING, JUDGE CAYERLY
SAYS IN ANNOUNCING ACTION

Life Imprisonment For Murder and 80 Year Sentences For
kidnapping of IA Year Old Robert Franks Is Decision
Reached by Judge Cavery Who Declares That Ends of
Justice Are Satisfied Even if the Public Imagination Is
Not-Youths Sober They Hear Sentence Pronounced
in Chicago Court.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-09-10

WEATHER FORECASTS
Fair tonight and Thursday. Cool
er tonight, probably light. frost.
aSSEss, fft
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-28
COLLISION VICTIMS
 ALL RESTING WELL
Nine Persons Hurt On Saturday
 In Birmingham

With one exception the nine victims of Saturday automobile wrecks were reported recovering at the various hos pitfalls and their homes late Sunday night.
 Charles Keith, who sustained frac- tured skull when his automobile blew a tire and turned over on the Truss vile road, was reported as being about the same" at the Hillman hos pital. Keith has been unconscious since the accident, which broke the collar bone of his brother. J. H. Keith, and slightly injured third brother J. II. Keith was reported resting WeA at the Norwood infirmary.
 James McLaurin, 1894 Fourteenth street. city fireman; J. w. Haney, 1r31la Twenty-fourth street; Miss Carolyn Brook, SIS Sixteenth street, south. and Mrs. H. B. Hayes, Macon. Ga, principals in the collision between a fire truck and an automobile Satur- day evening. were reported resting well at the hosnital and their horlrs.
 George Hogan. R. F. D., who was in .ured when his auto coliIded with T switch engine at the Frisco crossing at Ninth avenue and Thirtieth street, was reported doing nicely at St. Vim cents hospital.
 Mrs. A. C. Moffett, 1910 Altamont avenue, was reported recovering from "a sprined back. sustained in colli- sion with an automobile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-28
BUILDING IS ACTIVE
 IN THOUSAND CITIES
Winter Construction Going
 Steadily Forward, Report

CHICAGO. Jan. 27.-Winter build ing construction is going steadily for ward, it is shown in reports from near ly thousand cities and towns to the Indiana Limestone Quarrymen's asso- citation.
 Leaders in the construction industry generally declare that the winter building movement has proved a sue cess from an economic viewpoint and that it as gone far in eliminating seasonal unemployment
 Many cities have swung into new phase of development. in the opinoin of construction experts, who base their views on the tremendous activity in office building construction during the last 12 months," said the report. This activity has been. particularly marked in Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston and Atlanta, and promises to continue generally. Reports show building con struction is being encouraged in the hope of gradually bringing the nations building program up to meet existing demands.
 Cost of new Chicago buildings in the last 12 months totals $331 .S52,354. ing surpassed in the next 12 mOnths." with every prospect of the figures be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-28
FEDORA T0QUK
 ANDERSON AGAIN
Prosecutor Not Convinced In Dry Leaders Tale Of Un-
 identified Angel

| NEW YORK. Jan. 27.-Although William II. Anderson. superintendent of the New York Anti-Saloon league. charged with third degree forgery, has secured an expression of confidence in his absolute innocence and integrity from his pastor. the Rev Charles H. Ross of Yonkers, he is having diff culty in securing similar expression from Assistant District Attorney Ferdi- nand Pecora.
 Pecora is decidedly unsatisfied with Anderson's account of his strange meeting with the mysterious John T. King and the latters even stranger $25,000 gift and he is no more satis- fled with what Anderson had to say about Henry Mann. who, as an alleged publicity agent appears to be about as thropist.
 So when Anders0n's trial is resumed Monday before Justice Arthur & Tompkins, Pecora is expected to con tnue his pointed inquiries about both King and Mann and their relations with Anderson's finances. Unless King and Mann appear to testify for their friend Anderson, PecOra is expected 10 fire line of questions at Anderson and a speech to the jury which will make pre- vious similar attacks in the trial seem tame.
 Although former Gov. Charles & Whitman. chief counsel for Anderson. said that the defense expected 10 com plete its case before tte court recessed Monday. it is believed that both sides will require at least half a day to make their final arguments t" the jury. and it will probably be late Tuesday or early Wednesday before Anderson s fate is placed ir tne hands af the jury.
 Hotels Dp Not Rerall McE Continued investigations in Ralti- more has failed to disclose any further knowledge about John T. King. Elm ploycs at the Hotels Caswe,I ami RPn. nert did not remember any one so named evef coming to their establish ments. although Anderson, who is well remembered there, said he had lunched often at these places with King. Several Henry Manns were brought to light through investigation, but only one whose calling would seem to make him eligible to receive such a large fee for publicity job. That was the late editor of Prosperity, a monthly maga- zine. This Henry Mann died in 1915.
 Johnson and Green. two other pub licity men who are said to have assist ed Mann in his publicity work for the Anti-Saloon league. have been equally modest and retiring. in spite of their benefactor'S plight. for nothing has been heard from either of them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-28
DR. 7. E. HOWARD
 PARALYSIS VICTIM
Widely-K Physician Dies At
 Home In East Lake

Dr. J. k. Howard, age 6S, died Sun day morning at the residence, 1928 First avenue, following a second stroke of paralysis.
 The stroke came about thirty days ago and he was confined to the hospital for three days. He was at home when the second attack came Sunday morn ing and was apparently recovering nicely from the first stroke.
 Dr. Howard was born in Bridgeport Ala, in 1856. and was deucated at Vanderbilt university at Nashville, Tenn. He was known and loved throughout the southern states. where he had practiced for the past 40 years He had practieed in Birmingham for 30 years.
 Professional interest and love for humanity characterized his work throughout his life. He was a physi- clan of the old school, always making his own interests secondary.
 Dr. Howard is survived by his widow, Mrs. Lucy J. Howard; two daughters. Mrs. J. F. Gullatt of Hollywood, Ala. and Mrs. 0. I. Stephens of Cusseta, Ga: four sons. Thomas W. and w. D. Howard of Norfolk. Va, and W. E. Howard and Charles k. Howard of Blrmngham; f1ve sisters, Mrs. Mary Grubb, Mrs. Marion Salters, Mrs. Eva Hendrick and Mrs. Rebecca Wilson of Revanna, Ark, and Mrs Lettie Booth of Birmingham two brothers, J. NJ. Howard of Albertsville, Ala. and w. H. Howard of Revanna, Ark.
 Funeral services will be held at , o'clock Tuesday at the residence. 1928 First avenue. with Dr. George R. Stuart. Dr. Henry NJ. Edmonds and Rev. Milton WigIey officiating. Inter ment will follow in Elmwood cemetery, with Vice in charge.
 Active pallbearers are: Judge Thomas R. Lea. John W. Lewis, c. H. Gayle, Thomas w. Lloyd, ". NJ. Gray and Dr. AM. Reid. Honorary pallbearers will be: F. D. McArthur, Dr. B. D. Sib- ley, Dr. James Alto Ward. Dr. F. $. cGlathery, Dr. John w. Galloway, J. l.. Williams and r. A. DeVOre.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-28
LEVINE BURIED;
 RUSSIA MOURNS
Body Lies In Grave 25 Feet Deep In City Of
 Moscow
By I0HN eRAUDENz (lsased wlrs to The Age Herald)

MOSCOW. Jan. 27.-The crippled body of NicOlai Lenine lies in a grave p feet deep that was blasted out of the frozen soil below the red square of Moscow.
 Above the grave rises wooden mauseleum which is to be replaced by a concrete tomb when spring suns again unlock the frozen Russian wastes.
 East, west. north and south, over the white plains and under the grey sky, rises the mourning cry of na- tion, while in Moscow new leaders car ry on the work of the government the dead man built
 Sunday a million people, bareheaded in the biting cold, stood silent for blocks around the red square. and in the square itself, as Lenine's body was lowered into the grave.
 About them stretched world of white silence. From where Baltic ice fields stretched beyond the western ramparts of KrOnstadt to where the eastern slopes of the Urals roll down to the great Siberian wilderness. from northern Archangel to where Odessa looks on the Black sea, not wheel stirred in all Russia.
 Traffic and industry was stilled at D. m.. as all that was mortal of Lenine passed to the grave. The hush of death fell on an ice-locked country.
 When, out of that cold silence, came voice. the far-flung call of soviet government radio stations, hurling one message across the lonely forests. steppes and mountains
 'Lenine Is Dead"
 'Lenine is dead. His work lives forever"
 In the red square they were burying Lenine. But in 10000 cities and ham, lets a new deity. legend and a tra- dition was being born.
 Five minutes of silence ended Massed field pieces of the red army thundered out salute. Factory whis- ties roared into the sky. From the masts of the radio station here n broad casted funeral march rolled out.
 Such was the final act of the dra- matic story of Lenine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-28
POSTPONE INQUEST
 OF MINE DISASTER
Officials Reticent About Cause
 Of Explosion

JOHNSON CITY, H., Jan. 27.-- The coroner's inquest into the cause of the explosion at the East Side mine of the Crerar Clinch Coal company, in which 32 miners were killed and nine others injured Friday, was postponed until Tuesday mOrnin.
 Representatives of the central di- vision of the American Red Cross ar rived here today to assist the local chapter in its relief work among the families of the victims of the mine disaster.
 Witnesses for the inquest were being summoned today and others, it is ex- pected, will be subpOenaad tomorrow. Officials of the coal company were re- ticent in their statements as to the cause of the explosion. The nine in- jured men who are still at the local hospital, it was said today, would not be able to appear at the inquest, and arrangements were being made to take their depOsitions probably tomorrow.
 Two of the injured were reported to- day to be in serious condition and little hope was held out for their re- covery.
 Public services were conducted here by the coal miners locals, assisted by the churches and civic organizations of Johnson City. today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-28
| REED SEES NUMEROUS
 AND ORA VIZ PROBLEMS CONF'RONTINGAMERZCA
Missourian Announces Candidacy For The
 Presidency

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Jan. 27.-United States Senator James Reed, democrat, Missouri. Sunday formally announced his candidacy for the democratic nom- ination for President
 Reed outlined his platform fragmen- tarily in brief statement accompany ing the announcement.
 Indica ton that Senator Reed will seek only that the Missouri delega ton 10 the national convention in New York June 24 be instructed for him. reserving the brunt of his attack for when he stated:
 ment that I shall ask the indorsement of the democratic party of Missouri in the national convention, it seems to me proper to refer to few of the grave problems confronting the nation, re- serving for the future a fuller discus sion.
 Ayers Farmers Suffering
 '"The farmers are suffering from conditions of unprecedented hardships. It is the duty of the government to employ for their relief all reasonable and practicable measures. The demo- cratic party proposes to accomplish this relief, in part, by 8 sensible reduction in tariff rates, so that the farmer who is compelled to sell the surplus of his products in European markets will have the benefit of freer competition on articles which he is compelled to purchase.
 ''The development of great system of internal improvements, embracing the development of rivers, as national highways, will bridge a sensible reduc- tion in freight charges. provide compe- tition and accomplish further relief.
 Railroad freight rates should be ad- justed so that the farmer may make his crops without excessive or eyOrbitant | charges.
 "The appalling disclosures involving , the integrity of high officials of the government have shocked the national conscience and aroused widespread in- dignation. The fraudulent and cor rupt transfer of the public oil lands to private corporations demands vigorous prosecution of the indicators con cerned and the cancellation of the fraudulent grants obtained. The eradi- cation and punishment of all graft and bribery is imperative.
 Party's Responsibilities
 II believe that the democratic party has high duty to perform in the solu- tion of these great problems, and would like to be privileged to con. tribute to that accomplishment.
 Il have during the last two days been in consultation with prominent democrats from all parts of the state and as result of the conference ] have concluded to ask the indorsement of the state democratic convention for the democratic nomination for Presi- dent. I believe that national plat. form can be written which will give of. fense to no good democrat, and all ele ments of the party in the state and nation can be brought into harmonious cooperation.
 ''I ask the people of Missouri to con