New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 9, 1923, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press SEE BRANDEGEE AS PERSONAL ADVISER TONEW PRESIDENT Conn. Senator Only Man With Whom Coolidge Has Discussed Administration Alfairs Thus Far COOLIDGE DESCRIBED AS BEING YERY MUCH ALOOF Senator Curtis of Kansas Is Only Other Legislator With Whom Chief Executive Is on Very Intimate Terms—Nutmeg State Man Seems Destined to Become Official Mouth- piece of President on Capitol Hill, BY GEORGE H. MANNING (Washington Burcau of New Britain Herald). ‘Washington, D. C., Aug. 9.—Sena- tor Frank B. Brandegee of Connecti- cut seems destined to become one of the “powers behind the throne” in the Coolidge administration and the pres- ident’s principal adviser regarding matters before congress. Out of the hundreds of senators, congressmen, cabinet officers, political leaders and personal friends who called on President Coolidge to pay their respects during the five days he was in Washington before he left for the Harding funeral at Marion Sen- ator Brandegee was the only one with whom the president had a real heart to heart talk ? Listened, Said Nothing. President Coolidge. heard all his other callers pay their respects, ex press regret over the wunfortunate death of President Harding ‘and listened to their nice words of hope for his successful administration. Many of them attempted to engage him in a discussion of politics and to ascertain his views and Intentions re- | garding international and domestie af- fairs and his attitude towards leading questions of the day. ly and attentively, but made no com- mitment, Talks With Brandegee. Only with Senator Brandegee did he talk at any length. With him he discussed almost every subject en- gaging the public attention today. President Coolidge and S2nator Bran- degee are of the same distinctive type —each keeps his own council, varely (Continued on FEleventh Page.) HIT BY AUTO, MAN DIES Michigan Tourist Runs Down New York Man in Clinton This Morning ~—Driver Being Held. Clinton, Aug. 10.—Willey Frey, about 52, New York city, was struck by a car bearing a Michigan registry number and driven by Clarence Weh- ster, on the Main street here today, and died in a short while of a frac- tured skull. Mr. Frey, who was ac- companied by his chauffeur, stopped NTs car at the curb and alighted. As| he was crossing the street he was struck. Mr. Webster, and the wom- an with him, were detained by the town officers pending instructions. Dr. Fox, the medical examiner, reached Mr. Frey before death came. Mr. Webster was on the way Hampton, Conn,, to visit relatives. MURDER IN COURT ROOM New York Negro Kills Wife, Shoots to At Policeman and is Killed As Bluecoat Fires Back. New York, Aug. 9.—Washington Heights court was thrown into an uproar today when Norman Roberts, a negro, who had been summoned to court on complaint of his wife, shot her dead in a corridor, fired on a patrolman who attempted to capture him and was himself shot dead by the policeman. CAUGHT WITH THE 60ODS “Here’s Your Gin,” Says Pullman Porter to Springfield Barkeeper As Federal Men Take Hand. Springfield, Mass., Aug. 9.—While federal agents were raiding the old time saloon of C. J. Murphy here to- day a negro railroad porter, Erskine Bynoe, in uniform, said to have just come into the city on a Montreal train entered and passed a sultcase to the bartender with the remark “Here’s your gin.” As he turned to go he was placed under arrest, as was the bartender. Early to Bed, Early to Rise, Coolidge’s Policy Washington, Aug. 9.—President Coolidge has spent much of his life| on a Vermont farm and he indicated today that he intended to introduce farm hours at the White House., This morning, despite the straln of yvester- day's funeral ceremonies, he was early astir. By 6:45 he had left his suite in the New Willard and accom- panied by secret service men, he walked more than a mile to Thomas Circle and back before breakfast. Un- the | To all | President Coolidge listened respectful- | | up. NEW BRITAIN, GONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, AUGUST- 9, 1923. —SIXTEEN PAGES. | ISAFETY GABLE SNAPS, " GITY ELBVATOR DROPS, Four Men Besides Operator on Car When Steel Rough Shaking Up. Five men, including the operator, narrowly escaped serious injury th morning about 10:30 o'clock when a | cable on the City hall elevator sud- | denly snapped, pernfitting the cage to drop from eight to ten feel before it stopped. Rope Breaks—Get from the fourth floor Ralph C. Wainwright, park superintendent, and William B, Wilbur, operator, were the only ones who were on when it started, ' On one of the lower floors Edwin W. Abbe, Alfred H. Clark and Julius H, Péase also got on The elevator is equipped with an automatic stop, controlled by a steel cable, Half way between the first |and second floors this cable suddenly snapped, letting the car drop.to the bottom of the pit, No ®#ne was in jured but all five were badly shaken The elevator was out of com The elevator was on the way down | PROGRAM FOR MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR PRESIDE HARDING AUGUST 10TH, 3 P. M. ON WALNUT HILL PARK RO William C. Hungerford presiding Band, 2:45 o’clock. Mayor’s proclamation, 3 o’clock. Quartet, “Lead Kindly Light.” Scripture reading, Rev. William Ross. Prayer, Rev. Dr. Abel Ahlquist. Quartet, “The Homeland.” Eulogy, Rev, J. T. Winters. FEulogy, Charles F. Smith. Eulogy, Rev. Henry W. Maier. Quartet, “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” Firing of Salute, Legion Squad. Renediction, Rev. G. E. Pihl. Taps, Legion Bugler. America, Band. mission for the balance of the day Had this cable snapped while the car was farther up the elevator shaft ‘no one at City hall seems willing to | hazard a guess as to' the probable FATHER. MOURNS SON “My Boy, It Se | Harding’s Parent Kecps m-pomin;‘; Over and Over Again, Marion, O., Aug. 9.—Dr. George T Harding, father of the late president, came to his office in the Marion Star building last night for the first time since the death of Mr. Harding. Mr. Harding had loaned his keys to a Marion friend in order to obtain something for him and was apprehen- | sive lest everything was not in order, so0 he decided to take the trip to the office. He told friends at the office he “was | feeling as well as could be expected under the circumstances.” Friends who conversed with him said that he | “was bearing up well under the | strain.” Dr. Harding kept repeating over and | over the same words which have been on his lips since the night he was no tified of his son’s death: "My boy. My boy. Its like a d m to me. It seems it can’'t be true. | Mass. Commerce Chamber HARDING'S BODY REACHES OLD HOME TOWN FOR FINAL HONORS AND ETERNAL REST| | Constable Brown stated this morning | | that it is likely that the girls will be | Marion Today is City of Mourning — Six Carloads of Flowers Accompany Funeral Train From Washing- ton—His Old Desk in Star Office Draped in Black and White. Marion, O., Aug. 9.—The funeral train bearing home the body of the late President Harding crossed the Marion county | line at 12:13 p. m. This was two miles from Blooming Grove, | the little Morrow county village near where he was born. As th]el. train reached Marion county, the court house bell began1 tolling. The passing of the train through Marion county was slow | due to the large crowds which lined the right-of-way. [ Many of them were boyhood neighbors of the late president. z_\t Martel, the first town in Marion county, where Mr. | Harding visited in youth, and at Caledonia, where Mr. Harding | |played his famous “slip horn” in the band, large crowds had as- | sembled. . | Traveling slowly through long lines of home folks, the fu- neral train carrying President Harding’s body arrived in Marion at 12:38 p. m., two hours and 38 minutes late. | Opposed Check-off System Boston, Aug. 9.—The Chamber of Commerce in a letter sent to members today urged the adoption by each member organization of resolutions declaring opposition to the granting of the check-off and the closed shoy to the union mine workers of Ameri- ca and asking that the federal govern- ment “Immediately start legal pro- eeedings to prevent the United Mine Workers: of America -from conspiring | to tie up commerce in anthracite coal for the purpose of enforcing its de- mand for the check-off and the closed shop monopoly.” | New Yorker Killed in Fist Fight Over Woman New York, Aug. 9 —Julian- Baggel lar was kiled today in a fist fight in the Bronx over attentions he was alleged to have paid to the wife of | Arthur Weyreuch, a real estate dealer. Weyreuch was locked up on a charge of homicide. P HEADS RICAN RED CROSS. | Washington, Aug. 9.—President Coolidge today accepted the presi-| der ordinary circumstances Mr. Cool- 1dge retires early and is frequently up by 5:30 a. m. dency of the American Red Cross, a position always held by presidents of the United States. Auto Frightens Horse, Driver Thrown, Is Hurt Cheshire, Aug. 9—Patrick Coleman Briefs From Marion There was one desk in the office of thé Marion Star today where there was no typewriter clicking and where | ©f ‘East Cheshire, thrown from a there was no copy paper. It was the | VA80n drawn by two horses fright- arge flat top oak desk in Mr. Hard-|°ned by a passing automobile is in a | Waterbury hospital with back in- ing’s office where he had' sat for so| '™ many years writing editorials and | Juries. John Coleman, ten, son of a reading proofs. It was draped {n| 'vaterbury attorn Gl black and white as was his editorial | chair. | l*”— I ey, ]| HIGH TIDES { o August 10. (Standard Time) At New Haven— | 9:03 a. m.; 9:13 p. m. All telephones in the Columbus re- || At New London— on of the Ohio Bell Telephone com- | 7:38 a. m.; p. m will be silent for two minutes!| | afternoon at 3:30 central | o - e the hour President RS | at the “i‘*" N Six c is of flowers, tributes to| the late president coming to Marion from Washington. | are &l pany tomorrow standard time, Harding’s body Marion cemetery is entombed THI: WEATHER o— Hartford, 2. 9.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Fair with moderate tempera- || To keep away souvenir hunters and I the curious, a special guard was sta- | | tioned around the Marion Star office | {oday and no one is permitted to en-|| ture tonight and Friday, vari- || ter the building without official | able wln:fh X | [ A L | (e8vd yusayyy wo panupue)) * r Average Daily Circulation Week Ending 9’1 71 August 4th e PRICE THREE CENTS DANBURY MAN IS SLAIN ON LONELY EIGHWAY, BODY IS FOUND UNDER AUTO TRUCK R R IRUNAWAY GTIRLS FODND " ONTHE BERLIN 'PIKE, Chicopes Missse, 14 and 15, Left Home Becanse They Had To Be In At 8 P. M, (Special to The Herald) Berlin, Aug, 9.—Two young girls, | Stella Bizon, 14, of 208 Exchange street, Chicopee, Mass, and Marion Staychasz, 15, of 196 Exchange street, the same city, were found on the Ber- lin turnpike near Galpin's hill, Berlin, | at about 1:30 o'clock fhis morning by | Constabled Wrank Brown and Orville Ventres. Thinking something was strange the | two officers took the girls in charge | and found out t they had left | their homes last Friday and had start- | ed for New York. When taken in' | charge they were waiting for a ride The girls said they had left’ home be- | cause their fathers objected to their |staying out later than 9 o'clock at | | night. They said they could not stand |that and so decided to run away. | The girle were dressed well, al- |though they wore no hats or coats. | They carried some articles of wear- | ing apparel in small boxes. They said that they had had little to eat and {had heen forced to beg several times |during the trip. They did not know what they would do when they ar- rived in New York. The girls were taken to the New Britain police station and the police department in Chicopee was notified. | sent for shortly. If no word is re- | |ceived they will be confined in some | institution until arrangements are | made to get them to their homes. GET ALLEGED EMBEZZLER NEW BRITAIN READY G. F. Smith to Deliver Enlogy | Practically All Stores and Commercial | | Ross. | was elected unanimously to lead the | er My God to Thee,” and other sacred {banks at 1 p. m | conducted Friday evening. | All Wires in State to Be “Off" For |some time before Discovery Made Early This Morning By Dep- uty Sheriff Who Saw Feet Protruding When He Passed Twice. FOR FUNERAL HOUR on Harding MUSIC BY ALL LOCAL BANDS : Motive Unknown, Robbery, or Vengeance, State Po- lice Think—Victim Evi- dently Shot From Behind. Danbury, Aug. 9.-—The body of a man about 45 years old, was found at six o'clock this morning under a motor truck on the Danbury-Newtown highway, about five miles east of this city. The man had been shot through the heart y The body has been identified as that of Luigi De Biase of 56 Wlldman street, Danbury, a hat factory em- ploye. Shot From Behind An examination by Dr. H. Frank Moore of Bethel, disclosed two bul- let wounds, one in the regiom of the right kidney and the second about two inches below the collar bome in the left chest. As the authorities pie~ ture out the shooting, De Biase was about to climb into the seat of his motor truck, which was standing just off the travelled portion of the state road, one foot on the hard surface and the other on the step, when he was shot from behind. The man evidently turned around and recsived the second bullet Internal bleeding caused death, in the opinion of the medical examiner. The scene of the murder is a se- cluded spot on the state highway but the road is much traveled at all hours of the day and night. Morris D. Beers, deputy sheriff of Newtown, passed the truck with the dead man's body lying partially under it, the feet extending out into the road. Believ. ing that the man was making some minor repairs, the officer continued on to Brookfield Jet When he return- ed and saw the body Iyihg in the same place Sheriff Beers stopped and made an examination, finding ths man was dead, He at once notified the authorities of Bethel and Dan- bury. De Biase was formerly a hat- ter but for several months has been eccnducting a general light trucking business. He is a widower with three children. Relatives and friends claim that he had always had a good repu- tation and that they know of no enemies Trying To Find Motive Institutions to Close—Services on Walnut Hill Park at 3 0'Clock To- morrow. | | Charles F. Smith, chairman of the board of directors of the Landers, Frary & Clark plant, last evening consented to be one of three men to deliver eulogies at the memorial serv- ice in memory of former President Warren G. Harding at Walnut Hill park tomorrow afternoon. The exercises will start at 3 o'clock with Judge Willlam C. Hungerford presiding. The program will include sacred music by the quartette from the First Congregational church, and by the combined bands of the city, prayer by Rev. Dr. Abel Ahlquist, Beripture reading by Rev., Willilam There ‘will be eulogies by C. K. Smith, Rev. J. T. Winters of St Mary’s church and Rev. Henry W. Maier of the First Congregational church. Mayor A. M. Paonessa will read his proclamation. Eddy-Glover Post, American Le- gion, wil fire three volleys following the usual custom for military fu- nerals and “taps” will be sounded at the close. At a meeting last evening of the New Britain local of American Fed- eration of Musicians, Edward J. Lynch, senior band leader in the eity, massed bands in the playing of sacred music. “Lead Kindly Light,” “Near- selections will be rendered. This morning John C. Dolan, presi- dent of the musicians’ local, issued a call to all members of the local to appear at the bandstand at Walnut Hill park with their instruments not later then 2:45 p. m., tomorrow. At a meeting of local bankers ves- terday it was decided to close all All stores will close at 12:30 Professoinal offiees, barber shops, ete,, are expected to close at noon. Factories will shut down at noon. The post office will close from 3 o'clock until 6 | The Herald will go to press at noon. The Y. M. C. A. will close at noon for the balance of the day. | The coal dealers have decided to| The state police are following up close up all afternoon tomorrow. | the theory The U. 8. recruiting station will be | some clandestine love affair or rob- closed all day today and tomorrow.|bery, is the basis for the crime. A The swimming pool at the Y. W. C.| wallet found in the dead man’s trous- A. Will be closed from p. m. until| ers contained a small sum of money. 6 p. m., but the usual classes will be The police have not secured a trace of the man’s movements since 11 o'clock last night when he went to his rooms, apparently to retire. The body was discovered ubout six o'clock this morning and rigor mortis | had set in, showing that the man had been dead several hours. John Sil- ver, who lives on a cross road about a | quarter mile distant was awakened laylight by the sound of a shot. He cannat tell the hour except that it was after mid- | night. A 32-calibre revolver, all | chambers loaded was found on the The plant and commercial depart- (Continued on Fourteenth Page) SUSPEND PHONE SERVICE One Minute At 4 o'Clock (S. T.) Tomorrow Afternoon. | Former Teller of Washington, D. C,, | Bank, Sought Since March, Arrest-‘ ol Near Everett, Washington. | Wash., Aug. 9.—M. H.| 4 with the embezzle- | from the District Everett, Dinsmore, charge ment of $29,000 | National bank of Washington, D. C.|New England company today. arrested at Langley-Whibby, twenty miles east of here by | gent of the department of justice. Dinsmore, who was teller of the bank, had been sought since last March. w W an a e NEW SEAPLANE RECORD Naval Licutenant Pilots Big Machine . at Rate of 177.5 Miles Per Hour at | Philadelphia Navy Yard. Philadelphia, Aug. 9.—A new sea- plane speed record was made at the Philadelphia navy yard today when Lieut. A. W. Gordon of Providence, R. 1., flew over the Delaware river course at the average rate of 177.5 miles an hour. The previous record made a few s ago at Port Washington, L. I, was 175 miles by Lieut. R. Irvine of | Brooklyn. Both fiyers will compete in the Schneider cup race at the Isle of Wight on September 28. Excavators Find Relic Of Lost Age in Calif. Santa Barbara, Aug. 9.—Investigat. ors of the Smithsonlan Institute of Washington led by J. P. Harrington have unearthed in an anclent grave on Burton's mound In this city the prow of what was once a soapstone canoe. DIES OF FRIGHT, New York, Aug. 9.~—Mrs, Anna De- cross dled of fright In her Brooklyn ! home today when a kerosene lamp| exploded while she was preparing breakfast. |low employes to reach their various | dent. ! suicide by inhaling gas in a rooming | dent Harding following her conviction | | lar ¢harge. 'Y. J. Stearns Taken [ — | agaln. New Haven, Aug. 9.—Telephone | %% service will be suspended through- | out the state for one minute at 4 o'clock standard time tomorrow aft ernoon and every operator will stand at silence at her switchboard posi- tion as a mark of respect to the Married Mdn Suspected At the Danbury police headquarters his morning a report was received y Capt. George J. Schoen to the effect that De Biase more than a week ago told some one he was afraid some : an was planning to kil late President Harding. This gener. | Married man was p & % = him. This information has been al order was issued by the Southern |, ., the state policc and Deputy 4 } Sheriff George Brodie, of Bethel, who _I“°"‘°?": is working with the state officers on close at %]the case. =" SULLIVAN REWARDED Thousand Business offices of the here and elsewhere will o'clock daylight ving time religious serv- late pres churches in time for ices in memory of the Gets Channel Swimmer Pounds Sterling and Valuable Alex- Bride of Eight Days Is Suicide Via Gas Route Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 9.—Mrs. Annie Schlosser of Philadelphia, a bride of eight days, today committed ander Cup Today. By The Associated Press. London, Aug. 9. — At a luncheon given at the Hotel Savoy today by the Daily Sketch that newspaper's 1000 pound check and the Alexander cup were presented to Henry Sullivan, | Massachusetts shoe salesman for his successful swim across the English | channel, The costly Alexander cup was sur- mounted by a silver statue of Liberty in deference to the nationality of the winner. Sullivan announced he would for violation of the liquor laws was|T®main in England several weeks to re-arrested late yesterday on a simi-|8iv® exhibitions for the benefit of var- | ious charities. house herc. Her husband told the police they were married August 1 and that five days later she disappear- OF 11 RE-ARRESTED. Muskegon, Mich,, Aug. 9.—Mrs.| Anna Hozier, mother of 11 children, | who was pardoned by the late Presi-| MOTHE MEMORIAL IN SWEDEN. Stockholm, Aug. 9. service for President H: held in the Cathedral of Stockholm en the national day of mourning, Friday, Sick on Atlantic Relatives of Yeaton J. Stearns, sec- retary of the New Britain Cooperative Savings and Loan association, who|August 10. His grace, the Areh- with his son, Howard, s now in| bishop of Sweden, Nathan Soeder- Europe, have received word here that| blom, will, officiate and will be assist- Mr, Btearns was taken suddenly ill| ¢d by the chaplain of the American while crossing the Atlantic and it was | cruiser Pittsburgh, which arrived fa found necessary to rush him (o a hos- | Swedish waters yesterday. pital when the boat arrived in Liver- pool. Mrs. Howard Stearns has re- MAY RAIN AT FUNERAL. oelved a letter recently, however, in Columbus, O., Aug. 9.—Cloudy and which it was stated that Mr. Stearns| possibly rainy weather may prevail ‘was resting comfortably and was ex- | during the funeral services for Pres- pected within a few days to be about | ident Harding at Marion tomorrew, | the Weather Bureau predicted. that either revenge for .