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* GANT THEATERS m Popularity of R-K-0 Roxy Bill (f Cited in Rockefeller Center Shift. 'y the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 5—The two t theaters of Rockefeller Center, vhich opened Christmas week, are go- to “change places.” M. H. Aylesworth, president of Radio- “fKeith-Orpheum Corporation, announced i y that beginning next Wednesday J¥rie Radio City Music Hall, which began with stage spectacles and no movies, would swing over to a mixed program ‘*o{ feature pictures and stage produc- 'tions. gan with the sort of mixed bill which ‘is now to go on the Music Hall stage, will on the same day switch to & pro- ‘gram of State productions only. Mixed Fare Popular. Aylesworth said the reason for tha kchange was that the mixed fare of the /R-K-O-Roxy, which seats 3,700, had proved so popular that there was in- sufficient accommodation for patrons there and so it was decided to move that type of program to the Music Hall, which seats 6,200. The Aylesworth statement denied gumors that the R-K-O-Roxy was to be losed and that the corporation did not ave access to sufficient feature pic- tures to meet its nesds. It also said that Samuel (Roxy) Rothafel would re- sume active direction of both theaters as ryon as he recovers from a minor operation performed soon after the theaters were opened. Aylesworth planned to confer today ‘The R-K-O-Roxy Theater, which be-| ‘with Roxy, who has been ill for several | days, on th> policy changes. Receipts Revealed. In the first week of their operation #oth theaters, he said, had shown no Joss. The R-K-O Roxy, however, had | been the more successful of the two, he | sald. Its gross for the first week was| red with $112,000 for | vention had been a principal subject of BN pared : | contention during the latter years of | | the Coolidge administration and one the Music Hall. The latter, however, has a much greater operating expense, fnd for that reason, according to the R-K-O president, the R-K-O Roxy, with a smaller gross, made a more satis- factory showing. The Daily News understood that the ‘R-K-O Roxy was to ciose because the management “discovered it had nothing with sufficient drawing powers to put into the larger Music Hall.” Radio- Keith-Orpheum, the paper said, has no picture available after the current film, “The Animal Kingdom,” concludes its run at the R-K-O Roxy. ! CHANGE PLAGES ( Cogtipuedfih‘omist Page) years as a review of t reers of those who had served two full terms had shown him that the latter part of their tenure of office was devoid of construc- tive accomplishments. The, Nation was startled when on August 2, 1927, the President issued his famous statement: “I do not choose to run for President xsvx‘ It interpreted variously through- |out the country. Many saw in it & sincere for retirement, but still a willingness to accept the nomination should an. insistent demand arise. Others looked upen it as a final decision that he would not be a candidate for {in | regarded it as. a shrewd attempt to avold the third iterm issue by having himself “drafted for office.” Clarified in Address. ‘This confusion was clarified by Coolidge in an address before the R publican National Committee the fol- lowing December. In six crisp sen- tences which were added at the last {minute to a prepared speech, the Pres| dent declared that he had “eliminated” | himself entirely from the presidential race and advised the party to continue “the serious task of selecting another candidate.” This decision, he asserted, “must be respected.” But Mr. Coolidge did not stop there. | When the Republican National Conven- | tion met at Kansas City in June, 1928, | he dispatched his secretary, Everett | Sanders, to the session with instruc- | tions to mnotify several leaders of the State delegations “‘not to vote” for him. “Had I not done so,” he said in his | magazine writings, “I am told I should | have been nominated.” | Mr. Coolidge is on record as having said that he had never formulated in | his own mind what his attitude would have been had he been nominated. “But I was determined,” he added, “not to have that contingency arise.” Farm Sections Restless. One of the major issues of that con- that the President had tossed squarely into the center of the presidential cam- paign. It was farm relief. re-election. There were many, t0o, who | THE EVENING STAR. ASHINGTON, Career of Calvin Coolidge Born July 4, 1872, at Plymouth, Vt. Received preliminary education in ungraded school at Plymouth and at Black River Academy at Ludlow and St. Johnsburg Academy. Was graduated at Amherst College in 1895. In senior year won gold ‘medal in national competition for best essay on causes of the Revolutionary War. Studied law in offices of Hammond & Field at Northampton, Mass., and began practice there. Entered politics as member of Northampton Common Couneil, 1900-01. City clerk of Northampton, 1904. Married Grace A. Goodhue of Burlington, Vt., October 4, 1905. Member Massachusetts House of Representatives, 1907-08. Mayor of Northampton, 1910-11. Member Massachusetts State Senate, Senate in 1914 and 1915, Lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, 1916-17-18, 1912-15; president of the Elected Governor of Massachusetts, two terms, 1919 and 1920. Elected Vice President of the United States in November, 1920. Became President of the United States August 3, 1923, upon the death of Warren G. Harding. Elected President of the United States in November, 1924, While on vacation August 2, 1927, issued famous statement, “I do not choose to run for President in 1928." Retired from presidency March 4, 1929, and resumed residence at Northampton, Mass. ton aircraft carrier. Although the bill | a plurality of 1,700. It was in that year encountered stern opposition, it finally | that the late John W. Weeks, afterward was approved by Congress. Another major Coolidge policy was | that of reduction of the high tax sched- Coolidge cabinets, yielded his seat in the United States Senate to David I. | Secreiary of War in the Harding and | ules that came with the war. Three | cuts were effected during his adminis- | tration, which relieved thousands of | citizens of the burden of a Federal levy, | in addition to sharply decreasing the amounts paid into the Government by the large corporations and big business | generally. Long before he retired from office Mr. Coolidge received numerous offers to make professional and business con nections at the expiration of his term Signs of unrest in the farming sec- | tions of the Middle West were apparent | when Mr. Coolidge took office. The | farmers of that section were confronted | with a serious depression and called | upen the Federal government for help | in finding a way out. Their spokesmen in Congress clamored for legislation and | the passage of a measure which Mr. Coolidge felt he could not support. but consistently declined to_entertain any of them. After he returned to | Northampton he engaged in literary work temporarily, writing for magazines the story of his administration and an autobiography. About two months after leaving the White House he made his first business connection, when he. ac- cepted election as a member of the | board of directors of the New York Life | Walsh, Democrat, by about the same plurality. Up to the time he was elected Gov- ernor, Mr. Coolidge was scarcely known beyond the borders of his State and not | very widely within except in the east- ern section. police strike. Whatever the merits of the contrqversy as to whether the Gov- ernor received much of the credit due to Edwin U. Curtis, the Boston police commissioner, there is no question that the abrupt ending of the strike through the use of the State Guard turned the | eyes of the country to the Governor of Massachusetts. Largest Gubernatorial Vote. The next year Coolidge was re-elected Governor on the slogan “Law and Or- der.” His plurality was 125,000 and his vote the-largest ever given a candidate Then came the Boston | d | That was the original McNary-Haugen ‘The Music Hall represents a reputes investment of $25,000,000 and is part of the quarter-billion-dollar Rockefeller Center project in the middle of Man- hattan Island. e ASHURST CONGRATULATES GLASS ON ANNIVERSARY Virginia Observes 75th Birthday by Attending Ses- sion at Capitol. Senator Carter Glass of Virginia who yesterday celebrated the seventy- fifth anniversary of his birth was con- gratulated by Senator Ashurst of Arizona in a brief address delivered on the floor of the Senate. “I arise,” said Senator Ashurst, “to congratulate the junior Senator from ‘Virginia, Mr. Glass, who today reaches his saventy-fifth milestone. A con- structive statesman, diligent and. cour- ageous—proud indeed must be the State making such a contribution to the Federa! Government. With much literary grace Senator Glass speaks a classic English to which the muse has apparently entrusted her deepest and most sustained meditation. “His services in the Senate are ardu- Senator ous for the public good and are con- | stant endeavors to aiscover and to fol- low the truth. Senator Glass is one of the few men remsining in American public life who would be at ease in the | company of and who would clearly understand the plans and purposes and the processes of thought of the | Olympian philcsophers, the tragic poets and the comic dramatists who, in the days of antiquity, made Attic Greece immortal. CORNELL HEAD GUEST Dr. Herbert J. Burgstahler, president | of Cornell College, Mount Vernon, Towa, will be the guest of honor at a dinner to be given by the Cornell College alumni of Washington tomorrow night at the Kennedy-Warren. Dr. Burgstahler is en route to Atlan- tic City to attend the meeting of the Association of American Colleges. £ | bill, containing the famous and much | | discussed equalization fee provision. | , Urging the development of co-opera+ | tive marketing organizations as the best | solution for the depression, Mr. Coolidge | declared he must oppose any form of price fixing, either direct or indirect, and called for the measure's defeat. It was passed twice by Congress and on each occasion it received a presidential veto. With the second veto the Presi- | dent sent to Congress a scathing mes- sage in which he termed the measure “economic folly.” ‘The Coolidge characterized by peaceful relations with the rest of the world and attempts by the President to make that peace a last- ing cne. Early in 1927, he asked the | vessels of war, to supplant the Washing- | ton treaty of 1921 which applied only to capital ships. Japan and Great Britain accepted and representatives of the three nations gathered at Geneva, It has been said that the conference | was not preceded by a sufficient amount | of preliminary consideration of technical | methods of disarmament. but at any rate, irreconciliable differences of opinion arising from the widely varied caused the conference to end in a dead- lock that continued to the end of the Coolidge administration. Sought te Preserve Peace. Mr. Coolidge also sought to preserve peace through the Kellogg multi'ateral treaty for the renunciation of war, which he declared the most important subject to be discussed by the Senate during his time in the White House. In spite of determined opposition from a group of Senators who regarded the act as an “entangling alliance,” and one destined to lead eventually to member- ship in the League of Nations, the pact was formally ratified by an overwhelm- ing vote. opinion that peace could b preserved | through the maintenance of a strong | national defense and he was a consist: ent advocate of a large, but non-com- petitive navy. In the last year of his administration he vigorously indorsed a measure authorizing the construction of |15 new 10,000-ton cruisers and a 16,000~ SPECIAL NOTICES. | 'SPECIAL_NOTICES. NOTICE _OF STOCKHOLDERS A_S. Pratt & Sons. offce of the company. ¥ Washington. Tuesday, Jan MEETIN .at 1 uary 10. 193 " G 'c. TRUE. Secretary. _ HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE ting of the stockholders of The ction Company, for the election TICE annual mee Capital Tr and M Str Thursday, u o'clock am. The polls_will be open a.m. until 12 o'clo H. D. om 11 o'clock Secretary. OF THE STOCK- 2006 Pennsylvania Avenue DOW open for subscriptios the 5510 series JAMES M. WOODWA_.D. Secretary. THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE Capital Insurance C ct o! the 9th day of November. A 2 in compliance with the provis ctio; 6315 of Subchapter Four of Chapter XVIIT of the Code of Law for the District of Co- lumbia, notice is hereby given that a ‘meeting of Stockholders ny. to be held January 11th. % o'clock noon, at the office of v, 336 Pennsylvania 7 hington, D. C.. the aques he Charter of said Company s business to permit the insure risks im by the second ar Annual Compal : F._ DONOHOE, GEORGE R REPETTL HOWARI Washington, D, ary ‘9. 1933, at ‘1% o'clock no election of directors for the ens: and for any other business that m Come_befors the meeting. Transfer books i be closed January 5o, 1033, to Peb- y 9, ,_inclusive. ODELL S, SMITH. Secretery. -LB. CAN. PURE. 90c DELIVER- POT. West 0654, b am. rwri_l."nm 1) ess contracted by A_K._KERCOUDE. 134 P WANTED—LOAD OF HOUSEH s unl myself personally. K. KI st ne . vicinity, Ja RESPONSIBLE other thap those contracte L. JONES, 1768 Wi n Pol} vt afgrin BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY OLD FURNI- o) . 7th | condition. | Canitol. | "IN THE MATTER WASHINGTON AMERICAN LEAGUE BASE BALL CLUB. t the amount of capital stock fixed by club 15 two huni . which sum is fully paid in., and ed seventy-five thousand dollars CLARK C. GRIEFITH President. EDWARD B. EYNON. Jr. District of Columbia. to wit 1. Clark C. Griffith, president of the Wash- rican League Base Ball Club., do d upon oath say that the mafters the foregoing state- ibed s day of Janu e Executive Committee and the transac- tion of other necessary business MARGARET HOOD ROBBI) Asst. Secretary. OF THE SHAR C al Trust Compa at the office of the compan. reets n.w., Washington, D. C.. v '10th, 1933 at be he and G on Tuesd o'clock pm ness as m ch busi- ne. BARBOUR. Secretary. MEETING OF THE STOCK- rican Building Associa- ¥ co of the Asso- sout ry 1033, De o'clock p. nd directors for and for the transaction business as may properly come be- ‘meeting CHARLES H THE ANNUAL holders of t & avenue nsuin KINDLE, Secretary. _ INGS BANK stockholders of directors and | of suci ‘uu the administration was | | principal naval powers to meet for a| | discussion of the limitation of auxiliary | needs of the United States and England | ‘The former President also was of the | dred | 1d_the outstanding bonded | and other indebtedness amounts o about | | for Governor up to that time. During his first term as lieutenant Governor, Mr. Coolidge formed the | friendship cf Frank W. Stearns, Boston merchant. The latter immediately be- came a Coolidge enthusiast, declared the lleuutnnnt Governos 1o e ane of p ¢ = e great men of Massachusetts and to the world whether he would have | 51C, €120, Ion, Of Sacsechusetts, and made a great lawyer for he was drawn | dent of the United States. Mr. Stearns almost imediately into politics, and with | continued to champion the Coolidge few intervals tnat thereafter was his | €ause until his prediction was fulfilled. e o | e me the closest personal friend On October 4, 1905, Mr. Coolidge |and unofficial adviser of the President married Miss Grace A. Goodhue of |&nd, with Mrs, Stearns, the most fre- Burlington, Vt., making a home for his | quent White House guest. bride in a two-family house in North-| In 1916. Mr. Stearns, in order tolearn amptcn. They continued to occupy Insurance Co. He was chosen to fill the | vacancy caused by the death of Myron | T. Herrick, American Ambassador to | France. ¢ Drawn Into Politics. Mr. Coolidge never had time to prove | that until Mr. Coolidge became Vice|publican convention at Chicago. President. Throughout his trip he kept urging the Calvin (fxlldge was born on Inde- | name of Mr. Coolidge and insisted that pendence day, July 4, 1872, in Ply- | he was the best “dark horse” he had mouth, a geuntry village in the Ver- |ever seen. mont hills, the son of John C. and| With the prestige that accrued to Mr. Victoria Moor Coolidge. He was de- | Coolidge because of the Boston police scended from John and Mary Coolidge, | strike, some leaders turned to him in who had settled in Watertown, Mass., as & possible candidate for the about 1630, and his ancestry ran|Republican nomination for President. through a line «f farmers who|The late Winthrop Murray Crane put lived in chusett- until his great- | his influence behind the Governor and great-grandfather mcved into Vermont. | Mr. Stearns induced James B. Rey- His father was the village storekeeper | nolds to resign as secretary of the Na- as well as a farmer, and so the son | tional Republican Committee to take had a doubfe training under his father's | charge of the Coolidge campaign for care, plowing and digging in the fields | the presidential nomination. and selling and figuring behind the | Roostvad Seatieond Vatn. counter. Here were developed in him | the industry, frugality and self-reliance | The plans then were unexpectedly which shaped the course of his life. | upset when Mr. Coolidge in a statement | His mother died when he was 13 and | ahnounced that he was not a candi- four years later he lost his only sister, | date. In the convention, however, he but a warm bond of sympathy devel- |received the votes of Massachusetts and oped between him and his stepmother. | Vermont and a few scattering from Between “chores” on the farm and in | Other States. While he never was a the store the future President attended | Serious contender for the head of the the ungraded school at Plymouth, a|ticket, he swept the convention for the single room with a wood stove. After- Dlace as the running mate of Warren ward he attended the Black River | G. Harding. Academy, at Ludlow, and the academy | As Vice President, Mr. Coolidge's at St. Johnsburg before going to Am- |Principal duty was presiding over the herst College.* He was & keen student, | Senate. but only in & modest way did he enter | Tuesdays and Fridays to permit him to into the activities of college life." | attend the cabinel meetings at the | invitation of President Harding. In Busy Future President. | 1922 he made a long speaking tour in During his senior year, in open com- | the West to place before the people more about politics, attended the Re- | ‘This he delegated to others on | petition with students of all American | colleges, he won the first prize, a gold | medal. for the best essay on the causes | of the Revolutionary War. He was| graduated in 1895, with the degree of | A. B. and at the commencement was | Grove Orator. Had he had money | enough to go through law school that fact might have changed his whole career. As it was he moved across the | Connecticut River to the nearby town | | of Northampton, Mass., apd found a position in the law office of Hammond | & Field. Within 20 months he was ad- | mitted to the bar and began practice. | They had two sons, John and Calvin, | jr. The latter's death, which occurred | after a brief illness during the Sum- mer 6 1924, was the first of two bereave- ments in Mr. Coolidge’s family during his occupancy of the White House. Early in 1926 his father died at his Vermont | home while his son was speeding from Washington to his bedside. | Called “Lucky Cal.” Mr. Coolidge’s training in public serv- ice and, it might be said, for the presi- | | | dency, began when the latter thought | perhaps was farthest from his mind. | \ l Less than four years after he left col- legz he tock his seat as a member of the Common Council of Northampton and later served two years as city solicitor. Next he was appointed city clerk, but declined a nomination to suc- | ceed himself. 2 | A year after his marriage he was elected to the Mas:achusetts House of Representatives and near the end of his second term was elected mayor of his home town. Another two years and he was back on “Beacon Hill” as a senator, to which office he was re- clected. It often has been said that Mr. Ccolidge’s public career was shaped by a series of “political aceidents,” and because of them he frequently was re- ferred to as “Lucky Cal.” One of these so-called accidents | occurred near the end of his second | term as senator. Levi H. Greenwood, | who had been president of the Senate, | was defeated for re-election because of a campaign against him by the suffra- | | | | | | ‘come | gists, whom he had antagonized. Hear- 0 the bank | ing of Greenwood's defeat on election | st " | night, Mr. Coolidge took the earlie "~ Cashier. _|train for Boston and by SUITABLE FGR | Dext day had lined up enough party |was firs FPOR _RENT. PARTIES. banquets. weddings and r day each: new chi 3 'ATES STORAGI | EMPTY TRUCK TO GREENSBORO. N. C. wants load or part load. Met. 6171 SYRUP, LE; GA. CANE, SORGHU: Bonea aelivered. 2 C. 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In that, as in his speech of acceptance the preceding year, he used ghrm which came to be regarded by his friends as his creed: “Do the day’s work” and “Be brief.” Another step forward in the career the future President that was termed political accident was his election as ieutenant governor in 1915. For more of ent |than 50 years no president of the Sen- ate had been able to ascend higher on daunt Coolidge. He was re-elected twice and during his third term, in 1918, he the accomplishments of the Harding administration up to that time. After Congress adjourned in March, 1923, and before President Harding started on his long-projected trip to | Alaska, Mr. Coolidge returned to his native Vermont to visit his father. was there he received the word that death had cut short the career of Presi- dent Harding and thus had placed him in the presidency. Mr. Coolidge probably was better equipped by experience and knowledge totake up his duties as Chief Executive | than any of his predecessors who had been called to that office by the death of a President. He alone of all the Vice Presidents had sat in the cabinet meet- ings, where he obtained first-hand in- formation as to the varied affairs of the GSvernment and the reasons which had prompted President Harding in his decisions on major problems, domestic and foreign. Coolness Tmpressive. It was not surprising, therefore, that | he put his hand to the helm of the Ship of State with a sureness and cool- ness that impressed those with whom | he came in contact. = His first an- nounced determination was to carry out the policies inaugurated by Mr. Hard- ing and, in the accomplishment of that task, to retain about him the advisors | who had assisted Mr. Harding in shap- ing those policies. While this pronouncement was reas- | suring to the leaders of his party, to most of them he still was an unknown equation. “Silent Cal” he was called. So the leaders came to see him in a steady stream, ostensibly to pay their respects, but in reality with the hope of learning what manner of man it was who had sprung over-night to the| titular leadership of their party. What the President said to them re- mained a closed book, but signs were | not lacking that he could shed his cloak of reticence and talk, briefly perhaps, but to the end of making known his views, definitely and conclusively. The reaction was favorable and it was not long before some party leaders were hailing him as the logical Republican candidate in 1924. The tranquil qualities of his mind 00d Mr. Coolidge in good stead in many a difficult moment during his presi- dency. Within a few months after he t inducted into office he found himself facing a_situation in Govern- ment which might have tried the soul of a man lacking his fundamental calm |and belief in the unerring judgment of the American people. Revelations of Scandal. Under a drive by the Senate that perhaps was without precedent, revela- | tions of scandal in high places rocked | the Nation. There first were disclosures | as to the conduct of the Veterans’ Bu- reau under the administration of | Charles R. Forbes, followed quickly by | & series of sensations in the investig: tions of the naval oil leases | administration of the Department of | Justice under Harry M. Daugherty. Refusing to be stampeded even by his own political advisers, Mr. Coolidge met | the political ladder, but that did not| each situation with & cool deliberation, taking such as in his mind would ey action It and the [ C., THURSDAY, JANUARY Calvin Coolidge Rose to Highest Post In Land From Start as Humble Lawyer scandal, and although evehtually he sent Attorney General Daugherty into involuntary Tetirement, he passed no judgment on the Senate disclosures re- garding the Department of Justice, re- questing Mr. Daugherty’s resignation on the ground that he was not competent to pass upon what documents in his de- partment should be submitted to the Senate investigators. Strengthened by Inquiry. The President’s enemies insisted his hand was forced in every action he took in connection with the Senate revela- tions and that thought of his own po- litical future dominated. On the other , his friends were equally as posi- tive in their declarations that he had met these situations with the same courage that he had the police strike in Boston, which first brought him into national prominence. ‘Whatever the merits of this contro-| versy, he emerged from the welter of | investigations strongly entrenched ini the regard of the people. The convic- | tion became general that Mr, Coolidge was & man of high integrity, insisting steadfastly on honesty in government, and that what had transpired could reflect no discredit upon his adminis- tration since all these events had oc- curred before his elevation to the presi- dency. Facing as he did from the outset a Congress plainly hostile, Mr. Coolidge encountered the most serious difficulties in putting through any of the major proposals on his legislative program. Republican insurgents, under the di- rection of the late Senator Robert M. La Follette, wielded their balance of power by repeatedly lining up their strength with the Democrats in direct opposition to the President. Lacked Leaders’ Support. ‘The Chief Executive, moreover, found little material surport forthcoming from | the constituted leaders of his party in the two Houses prior to his nomination at Cleveland in June, 1924. This ab- sence of outspoken aid was particularly noticeable in the Senate during all the long days of attacks on the administr: tion in connection with the Senate in- vestigations. Therefore, he was obliged to look elsewhere than to the halls of Congress for champions of his cause. The immediate result was seen at the Cleveland convention, where congres- sional leaders who had dominated party affalrs for so many years became mere cogs in the party machinery. The President placed his political fortunes in the hands of his personal friends, among them Willlam M. Butler of Mas- | sachusetts and Charles Beecher Warren of Michigan. ‘Without any organized opposition having developed, Mr. Coolidge was nominated on the first ballot. Although the President’s nomination was accom- plished in short order, & hitch developed over the selection of his running mate, and it was there that Mr. Coolidge suf- | fered his only reverse of the convention. After former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of | Hlinois had refused to accept the nom- ination as the vice presidential candi- date, some of the old-line leaders of the party blocked a plan to put Herbert Hoover on the ticket with Mr. Coolidge, and forced the.nomination of Charles G. Dawes. ‘While Mr. Coolidge, prior to his elec- tion in his own right, undertook to carry forward the policies of the | Harding administration, he centered a great part of his own cffort on the question of economy in government, and it was on that record that he went to the country. Veto of Bonus Bill. Besides approving a measure ma- terially easing the tax burden from which the country was suffering, Mr. Coolidge, in carrying out his economy program, vetoed the soldiers’ bonus bill and the measure to increase the pay of postal employes. The bonus was passed over his veto and subsequently the postal pay measure went through with his approval after means of pro- viding the revenue had been incor- porated. Opposed in the campaign by John W. Davis, as the Democratic nominee, and Senator La Follette, running as an independent, the President remained in Wishington, making but few speeches and left active campaigning to his running mate. The November elec- tion swept Mr. Coolidge back into office, the popular vote for the Coolidge- Dawes ticket exceeding 15,000,000— nearly twice that given the Democratic nominee and more than three times as great as Senator La Follette's total. In his inaugural address, delivered from the east portico of the Capitol on March 4, 1925, the President pledged himself to a continuance of his effort | to bring about greater economy in gov- ernment with a view to lessening the tax burden and to the promotion of | peace through mutual understanding with the nations of the world. | Helped Europe in Crisis. | _As to his foreign policies, he had | already helped Europe extricate itself from the post-war muddle by designat- ing Mr. Dawes, then a private citizen, as the American to work out a settle- | ment of the vexing reparations problem | —an achievement which won the ac- claim of the world. Like his prede- cessor, he advocated adherence to the Worid Court protocol with reservations designed to prevent American involve- ment in the League of Nations. Re- pe:tedly he urged Senate action to this end. Mr. Coolidge had long felt that ad- ministration should be given a chance to catch up with legislation, in view of the great mass of State and Federal statutes that had been placed on the books annually for many years, and the program he announced after an in- | tensive survey of conditions upon en- tering the White House was not as extensive as some laid down by other Presidents. Yet he regarded it as cov- ering all essential points, and as a re- sult of his management or the sound- ness of the policies enunciated, he could say by the Summer of 1926 that his program had been in a large part achieved. Under his leadership Congress had set up intermediate banks for extend- ing credits to farmers and had en- couraged the co-operative marketing movement, but this was held entirely inadequate by many in States of the Middle and Northwest. Insisted on Enforcement. Another issue which arose in intensive form during the 1926 session was that of prohibition. It was almost continu- ally under discussion in committees and on the floors of the House and Senate for months, but Mr. Coolidge took no part in it. His policy from the first was of enforcing the law, and so long as the prohibition amendment and act stood it was his intention to support them. The aviation question also arose as a result of dissatisfaction expressed with- in the Army Air Service. Col. William Mitchell, a former assistant chief of that service, was the outspoken critic of conditions, and although he was con- victed by court-martial of conduct to the prejudice of good order and disci- pline and resigned from the Army, President Coolidge met the attacks on the preparedness of the country in avia- tion and aeronautics by *appointing a board, headed by Dwight Morrow, the New York banker, to investigate the entire question. ‘The report of that board, recom- mending expansion of the air services of the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and an encouragement of civil aviation, was adopted by Congress in legislation sub- stantially carrying out its chief points, and the agitation in the country on that issue subsided. Personal Factors Important. Aside from any element of luck, there had been personal factors of first im- One of his nserve the publie He was chcsen Governor of the State by quietly ordered prosecutions in the oil characteristics was sound A 5, 1933, which his friends said was reflected in his marked ability to see a given situation to the fundamental basis. Mr. Coolidge also was a man of re- markable poise, a poise that was un- disturbed when he was ‘middle of an August t in his father's little Vermont farm to be told that he was President of the United States. He was through that e ), quietly down the stairs, greeting newspaper d- ents, carefully obtaining an official copy of the presidential oath, being sworn in by the dim lamp light by his aged father, & notary, and then leaving quietly for Washington, where for many days he was to go through a most trying experience, in connection = with the obsequies of President Harding. Considered All Sides. It was in accordance with his out- standing characteristic that he heard all sides of a question before taking a position. There was no haste, there was little talk on his part, but when all of the factors were at hand the deci- sion was made and adhered to. Nor was there undue worry in the face of any situation. After he had been President a few weeks and had passed through the trying time of the funeral of the late Chief and then was dealing with a threatened suspension of, work in the anthracite coal fields, a friend said to him: “Mr. President, you appear to be standing the strain well.” “Haven't been under any strain yet,” he_replied. The former President was quiet and determined and not given to display or parade; a man who did not create sit- uations, but rather met them as they arosz. He was wont to make his own decision after ' careful analysis and study, but he never failed to avail him- self of the views and advice of his friends and advisers. Mr. Coolidge was a great reader and devoted much of his spare time to works of law, government and history. In tact, reading was his one recreation. If it could be said that he had a hobby, it was constitutional law. Iie was a profound student of the Corstitution. At a time before he became President, when it seemed the demand for changes in the fundamental iaw was regarded as the only cure for most of the existing ills, he declared that it was “not a change that is needed in our Constitu- tion and law so much as there is need of living in accordance with them.” ‘Walking Chief Recreation, ‘The former President never had shown any aptitude for athletics even during his earliest school days. The growing national passion for golf left him untouched. After he assumed the presidency he sought recreation and ex- ercise occasionally at horseback riding, but generally contented himself with brisk early morning walks as a means of keeping himself fit for the arduous tasks of his office, which had broken the health of more than one President before him. Upon leaving the White House he prided himself on the fact that he was in better physical condi- tion than when he entered it and bet- ter physically than most of his pre- Gecessors when they retired from the | office. Interest in Mr. Coolidge’s activities continued for scme time after his re- turn to Northampton. There newspaper correspondents and photographers gath- ered and for eseveral days interviewed | the former President in the same fash- | ion as at the regular press conferences in Washington while he was President. Mr. Coolidge good-naturedly continued these daily meetings until he believed they were no longer necessary. He em- phasized his desire to get back to the routine of a private citizen and the press representatives, wishes, dispersed. For vacation diversion Mr. Coolidge turned to the patient, quiet sport of angling. Each year while he was Presi- dent he and Mrs. Ccolidge spent the Summer months in a section where Mr. Coolidge indulged in his favorite out- door pestime. DOBBS HATS respecting his | INUTE Dr. Fordney is professor of criminology at a fumous university His advice is ofien sought by the police f many cities when confronted with particularly baffling cases. This problem hus been taken from his case book covering hundreds of criminal investi- sations. Try your wits on it. It takes but ONE MINUTE 6o read. Every fact and every clue necessary te its solution are in the story itself—and there is only one answer. How g00d a detective are you? The Professor Investigates. BY H. A. RIPLEY. HAT a dull, dreary day, mused Prof. from the knee of his left trouser leg and surveyed the weedy and neglected lawn closely sur- rounding the house. Kneeling down, he looked into a cellar window and observed a man putting the base- ment in order. Why didn't he answer my knocks, thought Fordney as he walked around, opened the kitchen door and descend- ¢4 the steps. The ¢ man looked up at his visitor with 'a vacant expression. The professor’s smiling blue eyes and cheerful coun- tenance were most disarming as he said, “I'd like any information you can give me about that | diamond bracelet, Towers.” “I told Inspector Kelley all I know. | T was down here working and heard | two men outside talking about a rob- bery. . . . I don’t suppose they thought any one lived in this desolate looking place. They were sitting over there on that stump just a couple of yards away and I could hear them plainly. In a few minutes they left. A little later I looked out again and saw the bracelet lying on the ground near the stump. They must have dropped it, and that's the truth, professor.” Fordney noticed how carefully the dirt floor below the high window had been raked. Quickly opening the door of the furnace, he remarked, “Come, now, you can't see out that window!" “Oh, I stood on'a box and . . . later burned it,” was the reply. “Yes? Kelley was right, You're a poor liar!” DO YOU AGREE? (See Page 16-A for solution.) NAVY CONTRACTS LET and Towers. Contracts totaling _ $49,687 _were | awarded today by the Bureau of Yards | and Docks, Navy Department, prom- inent among them being improvements to the Santee Wharf at the Naval Academy, Annapolis, which will cost $25,844. Extension to the wharf at the naval ammunition depot, St. Juliens Creek, Va, will cost $14,322. Refrigerators | and refrigerating machines at the | Brooklyn, N. Y. Naval Hospital will | bring th.!o contractor $3,950, while facilities Sor securing airplanes at the San Diego, Calif., air station will cost $1,593. A road and clearing at the Naval Radio Station, Hilo, Hawaii, will entail $3,978. Fordney as with a| grimace he removed a burr| TROOPS RECALLED IN MINE FLARE-UP {Central lllinois Is Peaceful Again After Killing of Two Persons. By the Associated Press. TAYLORVILLE, I, January 5.— Tllinois Natlonal Guardsmen today brought peace to the latest front on the Central Illinois coal miners’ war. Rushed *here to maintain order after two persons were killed in street fight- ing_at the nearby mining community | of Kincaid, the Guardsmen brought a feeling of security to the citizenry of Christian County. Left 12 Days Ago. Twelve days ago the Guardsmen, here since last September because of vio- lence, demobilized. Yesterday they were brought back on the heels of & gun battle that sent bullets whining through Kincaid streets and cost the lives of a working miner and a woman who dashed onto her porch to see what the shooting was about Tuesday night. ‘The woman, authorities said, apparent- ly was struck by a stray bullet. Other outbreaks occurred before the Militia arrived. Two workers were wounded as they approached the pits at the Peabody Mine in Kincaid yes- terday. Mine officials blamed snipers who hid in houses in the village and spat lead at men who wished to work. Resuit of Long Siege. Tuesday night's outburst apparently was the result of the drawn-out siege of working and non-working miners. Last Summer the old United Mine Workers Union accepted a basic wage scale of $5 daily. Several members of the old union objected to the wage scale and quickly obtained recruits for their cause. ‘They organized a new union, the progressives. Later the new union agreed to the $5 wage, but set up for their contracts a series of qualifica- tions to guarantee that laborers would not have to purchase many of the ntxg- plies now required by them of mine operators. FARMER FOUND SLAIN AND WALLET MISSING Shotgun Fired at Close Range From Behind Ends Life of Iowan in Lonely Home. By the Assoctated Press. OELWEIN, Iowa, January 5.—Ashley Downing, 80, wealthy farmer, was found shot to death last night in his home, where he lived alone. His wallet, in which he was reputed to have c large sums of money, apparently,K was the only article taken from the house. Downing’s property and security hold- ings were valued by acquaintances at $150,000. ° ‘The body was discovered by a neigh- bor, Harry Leisner, in the kitchen of Downing’s_home, eight miles northwest of here. It was pitched over an arm- load of kindling wood, which he appar- ently had been carrying into the house. Officers said it appeared Downing's assailant had fired at him with a shot- gun at close range. The charge en- tered the back of the head. There weradno signs of a struggle, officers re- ported. FOOT-JOY SHOES VERCOATS AND TOPCOATS Regular West Quality Coats Priced for CLEARANCE This is not “sale merchandise,” but our regular stock of fine quality Coats—ranging from light topcoats to heavy Winter overcoats. tions from their former prices. $225o x $2950 33450 3 $385o : . 58 Including our famous $ Now at substantial reduc- Fruhauf and Jos. May Coats Sidney West inc. 14th & G Sts. UGENE C. GOTT, President,