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Mitchell Evening Republican (Newspaper) - June 2, 1924, Mitchell, South Dakota Twenty pages vol. Xxx 1>ie evening Republican Oty edition Beauty divorced wife of millionaire is infatuated Helen Patterson insists Shell wed a Dapper done col Lins in jail cell follows him to u. S. Girija who eloped when 17 re. Fuses to believe charges against gentle w criminal _ Mitchell South Dakota monday june 2, 1924. Determined to marry 1924 Raffles millions enter number 208 by Ali Rov Bronner Nea be prof staff correspondent Pari. France june 2.�?�?odapper Don Quot Collins. 1 924 Raffles and rum runner extraordinary is one of the world s Slickest criminals in the eyes of the police who have finally captured him after a Chase half Way around the Earth hut in the Eyer of Beautiful Helen Patterson. 20-year-old divorced wife of Otto Heyworth Uhi Caso Multi millionaire he is just Plain Arthur Husser. Sweetheart ardent. After but Ipser turned Down by the French prison authorities. Miss Patterson is determined to follow a a Dapper Don a and his captors to America and marry him just As soon As she Nan. But she May he doomed to considerable disappointment. For there is a pins sine sentence awaiting Dapper Don in new York a grilling by Federal authorities in Philadelphia concerning the importation of 1800 canes of liquor a trial in Middleton. N. A. Growing out of hotel robbery for which he was indicted and numerous oth a offences for which the police expect to hold Collins to strict accountability. Despite All this. Helen Patterson i believes her As she Calls him. Be innocent and she proposes to i go the limit for him. She told me so herself. It s Only another reel in the crowded film of her Short life which she outlined to me As follows Peel one a a school girl elopement with a millionaire followed by a i j Vorce. Reel two an introduction in unexceptional Paris society to a handsome 35-year-old Man of the world who captured her heart just before the police captured him. Reel three an accidental fall out of a Paris hotel window which would ordinarily have killed her. Reel four a futile attempt to get the French police to let her marry their or inner. When Helen Paterson Cornea into the 1 turf room to he beside her Lover a if he in put on trial she will probably be the most described and Pho a Rera phed Young woman America has known for years. This because she i far lovelier in face and figure than Marv of the professional stage Beauty does t Uke spotlight of publicity i found her in a Small hotel in an obscure Side Street where she. Had moved to avoid newspaper men. She Rny broke her silence when i asked whet Lier she proposed to give Hussey up now that he finally had been extradited to America. Quot not for one Little she replied promptly. A i done to think he is sulky of any of the charges the police have been so free in making or the newspapers. And if they Suc re ded in convicting him. It shake my Confidence in him. Inno Rrt men have been convicted before Quot a and if he goes to prison he will Rood me More than Ever. I can live r Quot r by and visit him. When he is again he will find me waiting him. Had he whined to me to him in his adversity. I might wavered. But his thoughts were or Rne and not of himself. to this written from Sante prison As for marrying me. Sweetheart a a a re it Over seriously Aret and you change your mind. I personally Birk you would he foolish. You can do much better. And there was much More for my Eves alone. Quot to Don t enjoy being in the spot apr hut it seems Fate is alway nuttier me there. I jumped right into Middle of the front pages of the ago papers when i ran away Choel and had an elopement to triage with Otto Heyworth. There a a muh happiness for either of so i divorced him. In addition to a he court allowed me of amorous settlement whip1 Well off. Rut it meant Moe publicity. A oame Over to Europe to travel rect. A year or so before that Battle to save boys slayers first move is made by wealthy parents of Chicago kidnappers confessions repeated Leopold and Loeb both Tell parents they Are guilty of Franks boys death miss Helen Patterson divorced wife of a Chicago Multi to marry a Dapper done Collins 1924 Raffles. Millionaire who now wants we fell in love with to i ran into him. Each other. A hours was not the Vansante Fiance because Harry is not a dancing Man. But i found him a charming. Educated companion the Pink of Courtesy and chivalry. We became engaged to marry. A then every Hing in my Rainbow House went smash. I came Home from a party one night to my rooms in the fashionable Majestic hotel. Feeling ill i opened a window and Learned out to get the air. My doctor says i must have fainted. At any rate when i woke up i found myself in a bed in a Paris hc3p1tal with a Long bad Frac suicide hrs Japan a spirit against u. S. The Chi fro so Tokio Japan. June a the suicide of a japanese outside the ruins of the american embassy has Given a great impetus to the a National spirit movement against the to Erica exclusion legation. Cements of the press and interviews with prominent citizens which the newspapers published this morning indicate that a profound nationwide impression has been created. The newspapers Are strongly taking up the suggestion that the suicide should be Given a National funeral since As one publicist declares a the truly expressed the feelings of the japanese people. The suicide was carried out according to the strange romantic japanese code which appeals very strongly o japanese sentiment. The suicide is re to be regarded As a Martyr. Accuse Coolidge Tokio Japan june 4 a agitation in the japanese press Over the american exclusion Law continues unabated. The Chu Ossi Bun accuses president Coolidge of a a double Tongue since he Quot simultaneously issued a statement disapproving the exclusion clause and told the people of the Pacific coast that the exclusion provision was the paper adds a we must remember henceforth that ter. My real friends will understand i american principles and Honor Are lout in my forehead and a Ture in my left leg. Lamely without her Harry a Harry visited me in the Hospital and then suddenly stopped coming. There were no letters either. When the nurses could Calm me no More they told me he had been arrested i and was in Sante prison until new York detectives came with extradition paper. T got out of the Hospital in record time procured the necessary papers and proposed to marry him forthwith to show my Faith in him. A a but there was a fatal hitch. French Lair provides that a civil marriage must be performed by certain officials in their Bureau. I could t get the prison authorities to let Harry come accompanied by police. So now i am planning As soon As the doctor says it is Safe for me to travel with my injured leg to get Hack to America and stand by the Man i love. A a lot of old dodos who never knew what love Means have Given me a lot of refrigerated advice about dropping Harry lest people drop me. They Tell me How lonely i will be. They talk about people cutting me. Well. I am lonely now for that mat couple leave to live in Woods by their own hands Mountain Lake n. J., june 2.�?a note saying that she was going to demonstrate they could Liv by their hands alone in the Woods was left Early yesterday in the Home of mrs. James r. Crowle by miss Helen Cole. A week end guest who with Charles Carter disappeared after the family retired saturday night mrs. Crowle said today. State police Are searching the Woods for the couple. A discussion of a novel of two people living by their hands in the wilderness led miss Cole to declare she could do it. She is believed to have induced Carter to accompany her in the Experiment. Mise Cole is 24. Carter is a few years older. And sympathize. Count the rest wont a re i h of s i met Hussey in Paris. People Barding introduced us. Six months non i came to Paris again i French franc Back almost to lowest figure near York City june 2.�?an abrupt decline of 26 Points in French francs today carried the rate below five cents for the first time since it crossed that level in recovering from its collapse Early in March. After dropping As Low As 4.87 cents the rate later rallied to above $4.90 cents. The unsettle d French political situation was blamed by local Bankers. A to charter issued for reorganized Bank at Emery weather forecast Minnesota generally fair tonight tuesday not much change in temp Grature. T tartly Cloudy tonight. A slav it or not much change in to up attire ring a rth and South Dakota fair to a and tuesday not much change my Rater. Lineal temperatures t a so mum and minimum tempera a rom 7 a. M. Yesterday to 7 a. A corded by the official a rement thermometer maximum. 78. Minimum 49. R a. M. Today. 60. Precipitation la. Weather and roads bulletins Are flied at St so a q.,a, a the associated press Good partly 56 roads Mitch ii Rypar. 60 roads Good. R. A us Clear 53 roads Good. Cloudy. 54 roads Good. A a Rdeen partly Cloudy 50 roadshow pad a of a. Fief Moling Sam different from ours thus avoiding future disappointment in dealings with americans. The yom Iuri urged emigration to Mexico pointing out that the obligation to restrict such emigration ended with the abrogation of the gentlemen 1 agreement. This journal proposes a special immigration agreement with Mexico. Report plot to plunge dry agents into mine Shaft Sioux Falls s. A. June 2.�?an alleged plot to entice prohibition agents into a room through whose floor they would have been plunged eighty feet Down an abandoned mine Shaft was reported by Federal dry agents who returned to state Headquarters Here today after a series of raids in the Black Hills. Raiding the Home of John Basso near Trojan second highest City in the Hills the agents entered a Small outhouse where several barrels of Mash stood. On the threshold according to Quot Ike Mccoun Federal agent they noted that several of the planks which formed the floor had been sawed almost through and upon examination they found that under the sawed planks was an old Shaft of the Trojan mines eighty feet deep. \ Basso was arrested and held on charges of prohibition Law violation. Three other successful raids were made in the Region officials said. A o backers of new Railroad Bill give up fight today Washington. A. June 2.�?House supporters of the Barkley Bill to abolish the Railroad labor Board today abandoned their Light to enact the measure into Law at this session of Congress. O a baptists meet next in Seattle Milwaukee. Iws., june 2.�?seattle Cool i was selected for the 1925 meeting 14& had pardoned him. Was today place of the Northern baptists con granted a Pierre. S. D., june 2.�?a charter was issued today to the Farmers state Bank of Emery s. D., with $40-060 of capital Stock subscribed by 185 stockholder the Bank will replace two suspended state Banks. John j. Fluth of Emery is president. A in House passes Bui to increase postal menus pay Washington. A. June 2.�?a i carrying salary increases for postal employees differing in Many respect from the one approved recently by the Senate was passed today by the House. Grossman out on Hareas Corpus by High court Washington d. A. June 2.�?philip Grossman of Chicago recently committed to the Chicago Bouse of correction on orders of judges Carpenter and Wilkerson after president proposes Cut in duties on goods Farmers import Washington dc., june 2.�?04 a a reduction of any percent in Tariff duties on products exchangeable for farm products is the latest legislative proposal for farm Relief put Forward today by senator Stanley Democrat Kentucky. He introduced a Bill which would Amend the Tariff act to that effect and also a joint Resolution to give the president authority to determine when an emergency existed warranting such action. The reduced duties would apply Only to goods imported by cooperative associations not run for prof says Sot her husband in Nightmare writ of Hab Eai com of mention at the morning Pelion of that body harm today. Superior wis., june 2.�?with a a Hrnek mrs. James Howard awoke Early this morning the Roar of a revolver shot in her ears. In her hand she clutched a smoking revolver. Beside her Lay her husband probably fatally wounded. This was the Story she sobbed out to the police today while surgeons at a local Hospital fought to save the life of Rajnee Howard 30 years old whose lungs were pierced by a Bullet from his wife a .38 calibre revolver. Her Story was almost incoherent. The shooting according to informs Tion gleaned by officials occurred about 4 a. Rn., today while Howard Lay sleeping at the Side of his wife. The woman told police it was customary for her to keep the revolver beneath her Pillow. She said she fired in a night Mare and Only awakened to full consciousness and to a realization of what she had done after she heard the report of the revolver. Physicians held out a Little Hope for Howard s recovery. Coolidge who act by tomorrow on tax measure Wallington d. C., june 2.�?president Coolidge probably will dispose of the tax Bill awaiting his signature today or tomorrow. He has virtually completed his study of the measure along with the report sent to him of Fiat it Day by Secretary Jwj urfi Chicago. June 2.�?a letter addressed to Jacob Franks father of the murdered boy in which there were instructions As to when and where to place the Ransom Money has been found on a Pullman car in the new York Central Yards according to information made Public by states attorney Crowe Here today. The letter according to states attorney Crowe was found in the rack of a Pullman Sleeper on the Michigan Central railway. This car or. Crowe said. Had travelled through Cleveland. Cincinnati grand rapids and Buffalo since leaving Chicago on May 22, the Day after the Franks boy was murdered. The address on the letter was Quot Jacob Franks do not disturb this. Important. Or. Franks will get the letter is believed one of the instructions which i Leopold and Loeb prepared. This was one of a Chain of such letters which the boys described in detail. First according to the Story. States attorney Crowe said the boys told they sent the. Ransom letter to Franks. The next Day he was informed by Telephone to take the $10,0-00 Ransom to a drug store and that a taxicab would Call for him. It was planned they said to Telephone him at the drug store and direct him to look in a refuse Box on the Curbstone. There they said another letter was to Awalt him. Instructing that he take the Money and Board a Michigan Central train take a seat near the time table rack. There he was to find another letter directing him to wait until a certain station was passed to count five and then glance from the window and if. He saw a certain sign he was to toss the Roll of Money out of the window. Chi go. Til., june 2.�? up a states attorney Crowe announced today As attorneys began their Battle in behalf of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb confessed kidnappers and slayers of 14 year old Robert Franks that he would seek two grand jury indictments against them tomorrow. The states attorneys announcement came at the moment that petitions for matits of Hareas Corpus were presented to chief Justice Caverly of the criminal court by counsel employed by the millionaire fathers of Leopold and Loeb. The court made the writs returnable forthwith and the prisoners were taken immediately into court. The Legal Battle into which the millions. Estimated As High As $25,000,-000. Of the Leopolds and the loebs will he thrown in an Effort to save the boys from the Gallows is intended merely to permit Legal counsel to consult with them. The attorneys say they do not expect to free them. Indictments charging kidnapping for Ransom and for murder both punishable by death As provided by the Illinois criminal code will be asked or. Crewe said chief Justice Caverly continued the hearing on the writ until june 6 and ordered the boys sent to jail without Bond placing them in the custody of the sheriff As sought by the defense attorneys. Leopold was unbroken and apparently still unaffected by the tragedy. A you know a he said last night Quot we be got a lot of dough i done to know How Many millions. How about fixing this up by getting to a few of the jurors a he also asked a detective to go to his Home with a note asking for a pint of Gin or whisky. The detective destroyed the note. Loeb is the son of a vice president of Sears Roebuck and company acid Leopold the son of a Box manufacturer and Lake shipping magnate. Both were Post graduate students Leopold in Law and Loeb in history before their arrest. Millions for their defense Chicago iu., june 2.�?the first skirmish in what is expected to be one a f the hardest fought Battles in the history of Illinois jurisprudence was aet for today when attorneys for Nathan f. Leopold jr., and Richard Loeb scions of millionaire Chicago families and confessed kidnappers and slayers of 14-year-old Robert Franks also a millionaires Eon demanded their release on writs of Hareas the defense attorneys contend that the youths have not been permitted to discuss their predicament with counsel chosen by the Leopold and Loeb families and that the state has had alienist exx Amine the boys in an Effort to forestall a possible plea of insanity the inquest into the death of the Frank lad also was set for today. Through confessions made Public by Robert e. Crowe states attorney and newspaper it had been established that the child was enticed into an automobile occupied by Leopold and Loeb on the afternoon of wednesday May 31. Struck on the head with a tape wrapped cold chisel rolled into a heavy Blanket with a gag rammed Down his Throat and left to die. His body some ave hours later according to confessions by Leopold and Loeb was stripped and jammed into a Culvert in a wild isolated spot on the far South aide where it accidentally was found the next morning by a passing labourer. Wasted to commit suicide the Youthful kidnappers slayers who claimed they Kiuei the lad through a spirit of adventure As Well As for the $19,000 Ransom they demanded of Jacob i. Uniter the father mined a new sensation last night that of being relegated alone to police precinct cells with special guards to keep them from committing suicide. Accompanied by detectives and newspaper men or. Crowe took the boys Over the Roul e they had traversed with the body of Young Franks in their rented automobile and Elater As they disposed of Tell tale clothing i probe it old. Chisel and the typewriter on which Leopold admitted he composed the Ransom letter. Everywhere crowds quickly gathered. Unnerved by the gazing curious the pair aided in piecing together the circumstantial evidence which with their confessions or. Crewe regards As sufficient to warrant the Hangman a noose. G Young Leopold whose father is a manufacturer and Lake shipping magnate. Is sure according to or. Crowe and newspaper men. Who heard the conversation that Money can do anything and through use of it he Hopes that his son win avoid the Gallows. A you he said a we have got a lot of dough. I done to know How Many millions. How about fixing this thing up by getting to a few jurors a or. Crowe merely smiled in reply. Loeb son of the vice president of sear Roebuck and company is less sure but hopeful. Repeat confessions to parents the Young men were permitted to Telephone their parents last night. Loeb talking with his Mother assured her repeatedly that he had committed the murder insisting that he could do. And had done such a deed. Young Leopold assumed a business like conversation. His father is 111. His Mother is dead. Quot Send me a change of clothes and Isnit it about to Fine you employed an attorney for me a he was reported As having said. A a yes i did it. We have got to face it ind make the Best of mrs. Franks Mother of the slain boy is reported in a serious condition. The lad was a Cousin once removed of Loeb and mrs. Franks suffered a relapse when she was informed who had killed her boy. She had not recovered from the blow of Roberts death. The police established a zone of quiet around the Franks residence. All Day yesterday the streets in the Vicinity of the Franks Leopold and continued on Page ten House Vohs to end session on next saturday farm bloc la outvoted on adjournment Resolution by House leaders declared however nonpartisan majority in Senate is for adjournment Washington. June 2.�? a a while the House was voting today to adjourn saturday senator Lafollette Republican Wisconsin opened a fight to have Congress resume its sessions after the National political conventions. Senator la Follette Resolution proposed a substitute for the routine adjournment measure already prepared by administration leaders and scheduled to be acted upon tonight recited statistics which he said showed a conclusively evidence of alarming conditions in the agricultural Market conditions As reflected in foreclosed mortgagee and a Long succession of Bank failures particularly in the wheat Belt were cited As indicating the a a economic life of the nation was threatened by continuation of the farm depression. Coolidge signs tax reduction measure today Washington a. C., june 2.�? up a the tax reduction Bill was signed today by president Coolidge. Although the legislation does not Accord with his stand for the 3feilon plan the president affixed his signature because he believed it represent an improvement Over the existing Law. It reduces the Levy of Federal government on Almos every taxpayer and especially benefits the Man or woman with a amal taxable income. The effect of the measure is immediate in that it reduces by 25 per cent taxes on last Ysra a incomes payable this year. More than a score of excise and miscellaneous taxes Are to he stopped within 30 Days and the new scale of income and sur taxes affects incomes and revenues dating from last january i. President Coolidge believes an effect on business Wil la noticed within a few weeks not Only because of the reductions provided but also because of removal of the uncertainty which has existed in business since discussion of tax reduction began nearly eight months log. Coincident with his signature of the Bill the president dictated a statement embodying the reason which impelled him to approve the legislation. Howie is chosen new police chief a for Sioux Falls Sioux Falls s. D., june 2.�?w. H. Howie formerly of the Northwest mounted police of Canada and for several years an automotive dealer Here a named chief of police today by the City commission succeeding Charles Johnston who becomes assistant chief. Roy d. Burns was named City attorney succeeding Roy Marker resigned. Both will take office at once. Soo Falls High school student is killed in dive Sioux fall 8. D., june 2�?Howard Saxton aged 18, a High school student Here died yesterday of injuries received Friday when he dived into shallow water at the Sherman Park swimming Beach Here. The youths Back Bone was fractured when he dived into four feet of water. He was taken unconscious from the Pool by two companions and died without regaining consciousness. A i <1 o pm my the most valuable building in new York is the equitable Worth $30,-000,000. To stockings which Are too Long or too tight can do As much harm As ill fitting shoes. A today a Dassau. National league St Louis too 010 010�?2 g i pp\3urgh too too 05x�?i 13 i by Pfeffer and Gonzales be i be Gall Erstner Cooper and Gooch. Boston. Too too is new York. 010 513 of Mcnamara Bachelder Lucas and of Neil Ryan and Snyder. American league Washington. Too 200 04 Philadelphia. Too too of Johnson and Ruel Hennach Baum Gar intr. Walnea and Perkins Washington p. A. June a a 41�?a Resolution providing for sine die adjournment of Congress at 7 p. Rn., next saturday was offered today in the House of representatives by representative Longworth the Republican Leader. A proposal for a recess for a month or six weeks and a return to consider a definitely outlined program a being discussed meantime by members of the Senate farm bloc and some progressives. It was expected the suggestion would be introduced in the Senate As a substitute for the adjourn ment Resolution. Scant encouragement was Given at first to the recess proposal. Both the Republican and democratic Senate leaders were said to be convinced that a non partisan majority was in favor of adjournment. The adjournment Resolution was adopted in the House by a vote of 221 to 157. The opposition came chiefly from democrats. Republican insurgents and other republicans from the Middle and far West who have been demanding action on farm reclamation and Railroad legislation. Fifty nine republicans 95 democrats. One Farmer labor one socialist and one Independent opposed adjournment while 136 republicans and 85 democrats supported the Resolution. A a Hopes Vot Tymn Aid a a sincere Hope that some form of farm Relief legislation could be passed before adjournment was voiced by representative Longworth. After representative Rubey Democrat Missouri one of the chief supporters of the Mcnary Haugen Biri bad remarked that its defeat appeared probable. Declaring to would not seek to Block adjournment representative Garrett the democratic Leader said he was certain no Good Public service can be rendered by keeping i Congress in session so that the Republican party can wander around in the wilderness accomplishing Noti rip or something worse. Quot the responsibility for putting through legislation rests with the Republican majority where it belongs and the minority should not attempt to usurp that responsibility when it is without Power to Force its will. Despite the stand taken by their leaders More than half of the democrats present voted to keep Congress in session. Or. Longworth is presenting the Resolution said that a a Large majority feels we Are ready to adjourn and we ought to he announced there would be a vote later in the Day on the postal salaries Bill and tomorrow on the Mcnary Haugen farm Relief measure. A delegation representing Farmers of the West and Northwest conferred today with the Republican leaders in an Effort to agree on some substitute for the Mcnary Haugen Bill. One suggestion was that the scope of the Bill be limited to wheat and either hogs or cattle. No definite declaim was reached. Packers Trust Case reopened by decision today Washington d. A. June 2.�?a decision that May have the effect of reopening the whole Field of litigation involved in the big five packers consent decree Case was handed Down today by the District of Columbia court of appeals. Reversing a lower court ruling the court of Appeal upheld the right Quot of the California cooperative canneries to intervene in the Case. Of Short crop of Cotton forecast for this year Washington. I. C., june 3.�?th? condition of the Cotton crop on May 25 was 65.6 per cent of a Normal compared with 71.0 a year ago. 69.9 in 1922 66 0 in 1921. And 72.8, the average of the last to years on May 25, the department of agriculture announced today in it first report of the season. Baptists say by Resolution War is wrong Way Milwaukee wi#., june 2.�?war As a method of settling International disputes was condemned in a Resolution adopted at the Northern Baptist convention at soon hers today

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