New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 7, 1923, Page 1

Average Daily Circulation Week Ending 9’1 71 News of the World August 4th PRICE THREE CENTS By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1923, —EIGHTEEN PAGES. WASHINGTON SORROWFULLY AWAITS ARRIVAL OF FUNERAL TRAIN THAT MAY BE DELAYED TILL MIDNIGHT ALTHEAERSIN.S. A |Delays, Occasioned B MISS DOHRENWEND IS LA T B &y (el coaiiioan My HURT BY AUTOMOBILE - Vast Throngs That Will Hays Today Starts Action to Have [jned . statiom En- Route, Makes Fast Time Difficult. FUNERAL FRIDAY 1 SET FOR 3 0°CLOCK Body Will Lie in State in Hard- ing’s Father's Home SERVICES ~ VERY SIMPLE Rev, G. M, Landis to Conduct Service ATNODN ON FRIDAY Merchants Will Do Likewise, It Is Expected Dr. A. Freeman Anderson Will Be In Charge and PROCLAMATION BY MAYOR House Chaplain Montgomery Will Offer Prayer R epe LR —Generals of Army Will Head Military Escort morial Sfl'vlm Not Yet Made— In Funeral Procession. ERVICES AT CAPITOL IN WASHINGTON ARE FINALLY SET FOR 11 A. M. TOMORROW -y ~—Remains Will be Interred But | - Will be Placed In Vault Uutil Maso- Every Movie and Playhouse R. Neri Strikes 22 Year Old; & y ik Girl—Had No Driver’s S e } New York, Aug. 7.—Steps were| License taken today to have all the moving| | picture, vaudeville and legitimate the- | .. aters of the nation remain closed on| Friday, the day of the Harding funer- | al in Marion Will H. Hays, president of the Mo- | Kovery Detail of Services at tion Picture Producers’ and Distribu- tured shoulder and several body|tcrs of America, announced that alll Nation’s Capital Worked Out—Official Ceremonies bruises as the result of being struck | members of that association would by an automobile driven by Roale| keep their theaters closed until six End When Body Starts for Marion. Autoists to Stop—Funeral at 5 5 o'Clock. Definite plans for a community wide memorial service in memory of the late President Warren G. Hard- ing are as yet incomplete and it prob- ably will not be known until early this evening just when the exercises will be held. A meeting of the Manufacturers' as- sociation was held today at noon and a meeting of the mercantile bureau of the Chamber of Commerce was held this afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Manufacturers’ association voted to close up all plants at noon Friday. All but a few of the factories were represented at the meeting and of the others all have decided to close at noon except the Malleable Iron Works ahd Hart & Cooley. The Malleable Iron Works will be closed all day whie Hart & Cooley had not decided at the time of going to. press. The mercantile bureau decided to recommend that all local business nlaces close at 12:30 o'clock Friday =npon for the balance of the day. Henry W. Maier representing rial association has called Ll. a committee represent- blyus branches of civic ac- leum Is Constructed. By The Associated Pre Marion, O., Aug. 7.— President Harding will not be buried beside his mother and sister in the Marion ceme tery, His body after the funeral serv ices here Friday afternoon will be placed in the receiving vault at the cemetery and held there pending the Washington, Aug 7.—The progra!fi of the funeral services for President Harding in the rotunda of the Capitol at 11 a. m. tomorrow is as follows: Invocation by Dr. A. Freeman Anderson, assistant pastor of the Calvary Baptist church, Mr. Harding’s place of worship. Hymn, “Lead Kindly Light” by the male quartet of Calvary Baptist church. Scripture selections, 28rd Psalm, nicak, sixth chapter and eighth verse; Revelations, 22nd chapter, first to fifth verses. Proper quotations. Prayer by Dr. James Shera Montgomery, chaplain of the house of representatives. | Hymn, “Nearer My God to Thee,” by male quartet. Benediction by Dr. Anderson. ~rq Order of Cortege. 2 The order of the funeral cortege of KA[;EYS ARE LA' President Harding from the White 3 ¢ House to the capito} tomorrow will % 3 0, be as follows: IN Gflflllfl{: v%"# gt e 0 Section One. 7y The general of the armies of the ae:té'[a rg %, Uy United States, commanding the mili- President Praises Ideals an\.q’% i nen S p e tary escort. The military escort. | Patriotism—Convention [the - of Kirkham, Cooper, Hun- | gerford . i1d Camp on the fourth floor at Montreal Miss Hazel Dohrenwend of 139 Lin- LY coln street is in a serious condition at | the New Britain General hospital suf-| fering with a fractured jaw, a frac-| Neri of 71 Robert street, at the cor-ffl'flock Friday evening, and suggested | ner of West Main and Lincoln streets| Similar observance of the day on the| part of all other member picture thea- | | at about 8:45 o'clock this morning. | ters of the country. Captain George Kelly received a | Augustus Thomas, executive secre-| call at police headquarters at 8:50/ , o'clock that someone had been badly|'ary of the Producing Managers' as-| soclation announced that directors of | hurt on West Main street near Lin- coln. The patrol being out at the|the association by a unanimous vote, recommended that all legitimate the- | time Captain Kelly sent Detective Ser- | geant Willlam P. McCue and Police- &:9‘;‘5' of America be closed Friday| night, man Patrick O’'Mara to the scene of the accident in the service car. Ar- FRESH AIR EAMP DIRECTRESS ELOPES oo T .~ e | skies, heavy with portents of storm, riving at Lincoln street in a short time | the officers found that the injured girl had been removed to the hospital. They, however, examined the scene of the accident before returning to po- lice headquarters with young Neri who | is 4 17 year old High school student. | 1 Harry Gamun of 125 Fenton Park but broken occasionally by hot, hasy avenue, Waterbury, who took the sunlight, hung over Washington Dohrenwend girl to the hospital has| through the last hours of waiting to- told the police his version of how the | day for the funeral train that is bear- | ing President Harding to the ultimate honors his sorrowing countrymen ecan | pay him. | Hour by hour messages poured in telling of the slow pace of the train as crowds at stations along the way forced changes in the schedule. Plans accident occurred. He said that he| was driving east on West Main street for the reception of the dead were unchanged. at about 20 miles an hour when he| End of Services sawsa young lady endeavoring to cvoss! the street. She had succeeded . in passing in front of his car, he said, and was about to cross from the cen- ter of the road to the north side when suddenly another car passed his ma- chine to the left and struck the girl o Young Neri, when questioned at po-| President Coolidge authorized thee lice headquarters, stated that the car| statement today that the “official” he was driving was ewned by Ernest ceremonies attending the funeral of Antomioli of Plainville but he had se- President Harding will end when the cured permission to drive it. With body has been placed on the funeral him at the time of the accident was train for the journey to Marion. “The participation by the president and the representative groups of the | legislative and judicial departmen of the government in Marion,” the statement said, “will be entirély oh the basis of that of guests of the town of Marion. They will not par- Mary Tierney of 18 Church street, Plainville, whom he was taking to ticipate officially in any way in the funeral there."” Baltimore, Aug. 7.—The Harding funeral train will not reach Washing- ton much before midnight, at its present rate of progress, in the opin< ifon of operating officials of the Balti~ more & Ohio railroad at the executive offices here. Storm Seems Likely By The Assoclated Press. Family Objections Prove Unavailing—But All Is Forgiven Now Section Two. The civic procession, Senator Henry of the City hall building to make final arrangements. Among thosg requested Cabot Lodge, chief marshal. | Clergymen: . The Rev. A. Freeman | Ito attend the meeting are Rev. John T. Winters, a representative of the Anderson, acting pastor of the Cal- vary Baptist chureh, r. Harding’s| N, AN ihe, By, Jarnes Shera Manufacturers' association, the Cham- ber of Commerce, Rev. William Ross, George H. Dyson, Judge William C. Montgomery, chaplain of the house of representatives. | Physicians who attended the late LB F o president: = Brig. Gen. Charles E. g:‘;‘,ii"é_'%pfl;‘f‘“ F. Gaffney Sawyer and Lieut.-Commander J. T.| L [oaEHnG of restayrant awusta this morning it was decided to close restaurants between the hours of 3 Boone. and 4 o'clock Friday afternoon, this The caisson bearing the casket, flanked on the right by Speaker Gil-| being the only time that would not interfere with the supper hour. Those lett, members of the cabinet and six| members of the house, and on the| left by Senator Cummins, president who agreed to this were the Victory Lunch, the Presto Lunch , the New York Dining rooms, the Hudson pro-tempore of the senate, members of the cabinet and six senators, all| Lunch and the Delaney Lunch at the Beloin hotel. of whom are the honorary ball hearv‘f The New Britain Rotary club will ers, On each side of the lines of hon- orary pal] bearers, a guard of honor | hold memorial services for the late consisting of three general officers of president at the Fresh Aifeamp in the army and” three admirals. Burlington on Thursday. President F\ The pall bearers to be selected by O. Rackliffe will read the president's address delivered at the St. Louis con- vention of Rotary clubs, Rev. Stanley Mrs. Harding. The family and relatives of the late e Iciek will deliver a eulogy and Rev. Henry W. Maier will offer prayer. Local theaters are waiting for fur. ther information from their booking circuits concerning the general plans before announcing their poligy. It has been sugested that the me- morial service be held in some public Montreal, Aug. 7.—A parade of sev- VDIS eral thousand delegates, followed by | S celebration of high mass at Notre| Dame cathedral marked the opening today of the 41st international con- vention of the Knights of Columbus. Admiral Wm. 8. Benson, former U. 8. chief of naval operations, is to address the convention tomorrow. Bishop Con- | roy of Ogdensburg, N. Y., is to speak later. A message from President Calvin Coolidge, hailing the Knights of Co- lumbus as ‘‘a patriotic order stead- fastly devoted to American principles and ideals,” was read. ' ¢ In the message, presented by Wil: liam C. Prout, state deputy for Massa- chusetts K. of C., President Coolidge said: y “The Knights of Columbus is in every sense a patriotic order. You have established great war charities, you have helped to fill the national treasury with your contributions to the various Liberty Loans and you have sent your dearest and best to bear the heat and brunt of battle. “Your order has ever shown its steadfast devotion to American prin- ciples and American ideals. You are Married since sometime in July is the information just received by the parents of Miss Ruth Doolittle, daugh- tr of Mr. and Mrs. Howard C. Doo- little, of 343 Farmington avenue, and at present the director of the New Britain Fresh Air camp at Burlington. The bridegroom is Arthur M. Doo- little of Mount Carmel, Conn., and a first cousin of the bride. Mr. and | Mrs. Howard Doolittle objected to the | | wedding and the young couple quietly | slipped off to some town in New York state last month and were married. Sinee the wedding has been per- formed there was nothing for the | parents of the young couple to do but | forglve and forgeét, and it is an- | nounced today a reconciliation has taken place and the newly wedded couple will be at home at 343 Farm- ington avenue after September 1 Mrs. Doolittle, who is a graduate of the New Britain High school and of the Northfield seminary, was director of the Fresh Air camp last season during the first half of the summer when the camp consisted of all girls and is at present director, succeeding | Mr. and Mrs. Charles C. Wilson last erection of a masoleum to receive it. This was part of the funeral ar- rangements agreed to by Mrs. Hard- ing, widow of the late president, as communicated to Dr. George T. Hard- ing, Jr., the president’s brother, and Dr. Carl W. Sawyer. He left the funeral train at Willard Utmost Simplicity The funeral plans approved by Mrs Harding call for the utmost simplicity. Rev. G. M. Landis, pastor of Trinity Baptist chureh, the late president’s place of worship when in Marion, will conduct the service. Among the tentative plans vgtoed by Mrs. Harding, was for Troop B, Ohio National Gnard cavalry, to act as an honorary escort at the funeral The troops will attend the funeral but will not act as escort. This was said to be in keeping with Mrs. Harding's request thi no military display be made at t uneral services conduct- ed here. At ther's House . Mrs. Harding's plans call for the body to lie in state at the home of his work at the New Britain Trust Co. The injured girl was attended at the hospital by Dr. C. M. Cooley who, after an X-ray picture was taken, stated that she was suffering with a fractured jaw and fractured skull and that her condition was serious, She will be confined at the hospital for some time, the doctor stated. After examining the autnmobl]e,' the police expressed the belief that the girl was struck by the right head- light and mudguard of the car as the headlight had been pushed back three inches and the mudguard was badly Train Running Latte On Board Harding Funeral Train, Youngstown, O., Aug 7.—Inability to regain during the night time lost yes- terday caused railroad officials in charge of the operation of the funeral train or President Harding to predict Section Three. | President Coolidge with his mill- tary aide. Chief Justice Taft and aide. e Former President Wilson and aide. Foreign ambassadors.’ Associate justices of the supreme court. Knights of Columbus, a name of great significance, representing not only a Foreign ministers. Senators and officers of the senate, Members and officers of the house. Governors of states and territories and commissioners of the District of Columbia. Acting secretaries of the depart- ment. Circuit Court of Appeals, Court of Claims, Court of Customs Appeals, and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, Under secretaries and assistant sec- retaries, the United States Marshal and the United States Attorney Gen- eral. Chairmen of the Federal Reserve Board, Interstate Commerce Commis- sion, Civil Service Commission, Am- erican-British Claims Arbitration Commission and Mixed Claims Com- mission; Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution; Director of the Pan-Am- great discovery, but the eternal prin- ciple of all discovery and progress. When all the world doubted, when his own followers sought to turn back, he sailed on, daring to follow the truth, There is no finer knighthood. “In it your noble order stands re- sisting all evil every patriotic cause, eternal principle that ‘the truth shall make you free DARING ROBBERY FOILED; CONSPIRATORS ARRESTED| Police Learn of Plot and Prevent counsel, supporting following the Looting of American Express Com- meeting place other than a church and steps probably will be taken to this end at the meeting this afternoon. A number of men have been invited to speak, among them being Rev. john T. Winters and Judge Willlam C. Hungerford. Mayor Paonessa will (ssue a procla- mation tomorrow calling upen all citi- zens to cease their activities for a specified time and show reverence for the memory of the deceased president. Automobiles probably will be stop- | ped on the streets for five minutes and all activities are expected to cease for the time being. No meeting has been | held by local barbers, but it is expect- ed that the shops will close at noon. One barber interviewed sald he thought they would close at noon al- though it was up to the individual shops, while another manager said he would do whatever the merchants de- cided upon. father from soon after fits arrival Thursday morning till nine o'clock or 10 o'clock that night and again for a few hours Friday forenoon. She would not approve tentative plans for the body to lie in state at the Marion county court house. The funeral serv- ice at the Harding home will be con- ducted at 3 p. m., Friday, (Central standard time.) Detailed funeral plans, typewritten and approved by Mrs. Harding, will be placed in the hands of Attorney Hoke Donithen, chairman of the general committee on funeral arrangements this morning. Plans approved by Mrs. Harding, are contingent however, upon the condition of the body on its arrival from Washington. The coffin, it was said, had not been opened during the trip across the continent and would not be until it reached Washington. bent. The Nerl youth was placed under arrest on charges of reckless driving and driving without an operator's cense and was released under bonds of $300 for appearance in police court tomorrow morning. He admitted to the police that he did not have an op- erator’s license and never did have one. STATE ROTARIANS 10 MEET IN CITY Spring Conference to be Held Here April 3, 1924, in New ' Hotel. At a meeting of executives of Ro- Tuesday when the boys all came home and girls were sent places. She was very reticent when called up by a reporter this morning and vouchsafed the above information very reluctantly. Arthur M. Doolittle is a farmer in Mount Carmel. Efforts to reach him this morning elicited the information that he was in New Britain but he could not be located here. He is well known in his home town and is| a graduate of the New Haven High school. | ' PARALYZED AFTER DIVE | | to take their 19 Years Old New Yorker Badly In- jured While Swimming in ‘.\lal\sfl('ld' . | —TRxtent of Injuries Uncertain. on arriving here at 9:10 today that it might be around 9 or 10 o'clock to- night before it reached Washington. Columbus, O, Aug. ' T.—From Hicksville, the first Ohio vilage en- countered after the train crossed the Indiana line shortly after midnight, to Youngstown, where it left the state, and slipped on into Pennsylvania, people gathered by the thousands. On Board Harding Funeral Train at New Castle Jet, Pa., Aug. 7.—The State of Pennsylvania shortly after 10 o'clock took up the sorrowful task of paying tribute to the memory of President Harding. The funeral train entered the state near this point and then started across the southwestern corner, passing through Pittsburgh, Connellsville and a number of smaller towns. Although far behind its schedule, the train was seen by thousands who tary clubs in the 30th district, held at | the Bond hotel in Hartford yesterday, | it was voted that the annual spring | conference of New England Rotary clubs will be held in New Britain on | April 3 and 4. This will be the first | time in the history of the organiza-| tion that a Rotary club conference |porarily paralyzed from her neck | will be held in this city. downward. It is believed she struck | Although it had been planned to|qa rock. She fioated after the dive and | hold the conference at Waterbury, again sank but was rescued by other | pany's Los Angeles Vaults. Los Angeles, Aug. 7.—Frustration of plans to rob the 1.os Angeles vaults of the American Express company by shipping a man into them in a box has been disclosed by the police. The plot was broken up by the arrest of three alleged conspirators, the police announced today. The man was actually inside the when two arrests had Willimantic, Aug. 7. — Ernestine | Dallen, 19, of New York city, sum- mering with her family at Pleasant Valley in Mansfield, dove into the water at Perkins corner last night and today is in St. Joseph's hospital, tem- To Sing Favorite Hymns The choir of Trinity Baptist church will sing the president's favorite hymns at the service. The body wilk be borne in a hearse from the funeral train to the Harding home and from the home to the ceme- tery. No caisson will be used. The simple funeral was said to have | been the late president’s wish and this erican Union; Librarian of Congress; Comptroller, Director of the Budget, Chairman of the Railroad Labor Board, Director of the Veterans Bu- reau; Chairman of the Red Cross, Federal Trade Commission; Shipping Board, Emergency Fleet Corporation; Railroad Administration and =~ War Finance Corporation; Alien Property Custoatan; Chairman of the Tariff Commission Director of the Bureau The larger corporations such as the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railway company, the Western Union Telegraph company and the Connecti- cut Co., are awaiting further orders |before announcing a definite policy for the day, but a five minute period of silence is understood ‘is not unex- pected by each concern. The railway officials will meet in New Haven this lined the route. Plans at Washington By The Assoclated Press. Washington, Aug. 7. — A city of mourning awaited today to pay su- preme tribute at the bler of Warren G. Harding before his body is taken to lie forever in the Ohio soil among the kinfolk and neighbors he loved, led her to of Efficiency, Chairman of the Em- ployes Compensation Commission; the Federal Board of Vocation Training; the International Joint Commission, the International Boundary Commis- sion and _the Inter-American High Commissi®h. vaults, but been made, others of the to the express company and demand- ed and received the box, according to the police. gang went Detectives said they were searching for Charles Drehnau, who was arrest- evening to decide. It is likely also that at the time of the funeral, 5 o'clock daylight saving time, there vill be a five minute pe- riod of silenc on the Southern New Englanad telephone exchange when the entire exchange will be silenced. desire will be carried out as nearly as is humanly possible to do so. Dr. Carl W. Sawyer, Mrs. Harding's personal physician, said that he found Mrs. Harding in much better physical condition than he expected and be- lieves she will be able to hear up un- President F. O. Rackliffe of the New | pathers. A scalp wound Britain club asked if it were not pos- | suggest that she be taken to a hos- sible to change the place to New Brit-| pital and on her arrival there, it was| ain as the new Elihu Burritt hotel|founq that paralysis had set in from | would be completed by that time and | an injury not yet determined. New Britain Rotarians would like to| R Ui { make the conference one of the first| and who loved him. Thousands Waiting Hours before the long special train with its freight of sadness was due, the folk of Washington, high and low had begun to gather along the way Reports of the ed three years ago after having him- der the grief and strain. big events to take place in the hotel. to the White House. Veterans and military organizations, marching in this order: Medal of Honor Men, Officers of the army headed by the assistant secretary of war, Officers of navy headed by the as- sistant secretary of the navy. self carried in a trunk to a warehouse of a Hollywood Transfer company. Drehnau recently was paroled after tence at San Quentin for that offense. The police declared -they believed Drehnau was the man sent into lhl" serving two years of a five year sen- | |FIVE LIVES SNUFFED 00T AS TRAIN CRASHES AUTO Friends from Marion and other cities who had gathered in Willard to see the funeral train were extended :_he first privilege of passing the cof-. in, Secretary Christian announced that no more floral tributes could be re-| Secretay IFrank Shields and Mr. Rack- liffe attended the gathering. TRAIN IS SLOWED DOWN | ‘;‘ SEEKS CHILD'S MURDERER | 'Inrge Posse Combing Woods Near | Barre, Vt., Looking For Man Who | Shot 12-Year-Old Girl. train's delay had not altered the plan of thousands here to be in their places early. As the hour of arrival drew near the machinery of government ceased to move; the great departments of government grew blank and silent and Officers of the coast gnard and pub- lic health service headed by the as- sistant secretary of the treasury; offi- cers of the' coast and Geodetic sur- vey, headed by the assistant secretary of commerce, Ten representatives from each of the following organizations: Grand Army of the Republic; Loyal [egion, United Confederate Veterans, Indian War Veterans societies, Vet- crans of the Spanish-American War, Military Order of Foreign Wars, Vet. srans of Foreign Wars, Old Guard of New York, Military Order of the World War, Disabled American Vet- srans of the World War, American Legion, World War Veterans, Knights femplars, representing al¥ Masonic sodies (in uniform), Knights of Py- hias (in uniform), American Red Sross, Sons of the Revolution, Daugh- #rs of the American Legion, the Colo- slal Dames, Sons of the American Revolution, Order of Cincinnati, Sons if Colonial Wars, Daughters of the American Revolution, Sons of Veter- «ns, Daunghters of Union Veterans, * falvation Army, Y. M. C. A, Knights express company's vault. | Four Others Hurt, Two Probably Fa- tally, in Huntington, Ind., Grade Barre, Vi, Aug. 7.—Nearly a hun- [the thousands of government workers dred officers and citizens searched [trooped out to join the, other citizens until late at night for the murderer |in the sorrowful throngs. of little Leona Tracy, the officers| There were no ceremonies planned keeping up the search all night but jaside from the brief military honors no trace of him had been found up |at the station and again at the White to 7 o'clock this morning. | House. The girl, 12 years old, was shot | late yesterday on a road near her| President Coolidge and the few eab- home in Barre town, a mile from this | inet members in Washington upon city. Her mother, Mrs. Herbert | whom has fallen the sad duty of Tracy believes the shooting was done | planning the honors to be paid in the by a young man sald to have served | name of a hundred million Americans at Leavenworth, Kansas, for desertlon |to the fallen chieftain, had arranged | from the army. to be gathered at the station only a PR TETOET R short time before the funeral train Posse of 500 Seeking Two appeared and {o assemble in the presi- dent’'s waitin om, designed espe- | Negroes Wanted for Assault vl Whnts Carthage, Ind., Aug. 7. — A posse | cially for the happy events of the na- tion's life, for the weicoming of new made up of farmers and officials es- | presidents and of honored guests of | that the train at no point exceed 50 timajed to number about five hundred | the nation. By that route came many miles per hour and that In towns persons were searching today for two |great men to Washington in the yes- where the people have come perhaps|negroes who are alleged to have at- [terdays. Thus came the men of place from miles around to see, the special |tacked the 16 year old daughter of |and power in Europe during the war | be brought down to ten miles per|Walter Aldridge, 2 white girl of Sex-|to consult as to America's part in that hour regardless of the effect it may ton, near here late last night. Blood- |great adventure; thus Pershing came have on the time the train reaches hounds are being used in the search. ‘Washington.” Ihe girl's condition is serious. (Continved on Tenth Page). e ceived even from friends of the presi- | Mrs. Harding Asks That It Proceed dent’s home state, as the train now was already overloaded with such silent tokens of esteem. (GOLFER KILLS BOY Richmond Player Slices Ball, Which | More Slowly, That Monmers Along Crossing Tragedy. Route May See Tt More Fasily. Huntington, Ind., Aug. 7. — Five persons were killed and four were in- jured, two of whom may die when a 18 S0RGits Tiser. ‘(rnighf train on the Legin Joliet & | Bastern railroad crashed into an auto- mobile at Griffin, Tnd., several miles frem here carly today. The automo- biie tried to cross ahead of the trafn. The dead are: O. L. Kendall, Kings- ville, Ohio; Robert, 9, his son; Doro thy, 3. his daughter; Charles Spalding, Kingsville; Leola Spalding, 15, his daughter. The four injured persons | were members of the Kendall and Spalding families. Willard, O., Aug. 7.—Miss Abigall Harding, the president’s sister, board- ed the train here to continue to Wash- | Ington. Mrs. Harding has requested road officials to see that the train travels no faster than 50 miles an | hour at any time and that its maxi- mum speed in cities and towns where | erowds have gathered, be ten miles per hour, according to a telegram | made public by Superintendent B. F. | Stevens of the Baltimore & Ohio rail- | road. The telegram read “It is Mrs. Harding's expressed wish Hits Caddy in Néck, Canses Death i i e HIGH TID Take Famous Route = August 8 (Standard Time) At New Haven— 7:36 a. m.; 7:43 p. m. At New London— 6:07 a. m.; 6:24 p. m, | rail- [ I Richmond, Va., Aug. T7.—Attempt- ing to drive out of the rough on a golf links late yesterday, R. L. Henley sliced the ball slightly and it struck his caddy, a negro boy, in the neck, inflicting an injury which the lad died 15 minutes Jater. A verdict of acci- dental death was returned Greenwich Taxi Driver ‘ | Held for Manslaughter MARKETS TO CLOSE Hartford, A"‘f ViePoverast Bridgeport, Aug. 7.—BEdward A. o { Morrell, 28, a Greenwich taxi driver, New York, Aug. 7—Following the || for New Britain and vicinity: Thunder storms this afternoon was today held on charges of man- |!°ad of the New York stock exchange | | slaughter and operating an autome- | 2!l security and commodity markets or tonight followed by gemerally bile without a license, following the | In New York are expected to suspend falr weather Wednesday, not death early today of Doris Canfleld, & | business during President Harding's || much change in temperature years old, run down by Morrell’s au- | funeral services in Washington tomor- tomobile yesterday. | | | » » (Continued on. Tenth Page),