New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1924, Page 4

RALSTON TUNES I8 ON HIS WIRELESS Spends Day Listening (o Conven- fion Doings ——— Indianapolis, July S.==8enator Rals ten was listening today en the ra at his farm home when the suth jot taken in the demecratic nations eonvention for nomination for presi dent was announced the senator had received 100 and a half wotes, his high mark, He declined to comment, He continued ta receive telegrams today, declaring that his nomination will restore harmony in the demos | eratic party, Mr, Ralston made pub- lle one such message, received Jjust | after the &9th baliot from B3, 1 kum, New York husiness man and widely known in farming circles, as follows “The democratic national conven- tion is becoming a joke throughout the country, Your nomination would restore its cespect and confidence not only among the delegates, but the ecountry at large.” Mr, Ralston raid he was not reply- ing to messages received since he re. quested the withdiawal of his name from consideration by the convention en July 4th, DEMOCRATY GIVE VOTE OF SYMPATRY Resolution for Coolidge Adopted at Today'’s Session showing New York, July 8,—The democratic pational convention paused in its fac- tional quarrels today to pay respect to President and Mrs, Coolidge in their hour of sorr: | When the session began, Rabbi Ste- phen Wise, New York, offered the following resolution on behalf of Franklin D. Roosevelt, chairman of the New York delegation: “This conveption of the democratic | party gathers this morning under 'Iv‘ shadow of the great grief that come to the home of the chief magis trate of our nation together with all| our fellow Americans. We bow our heads in sympathy and reverence by the side of our president as he and his family pass through the valley of | the shadow of death. “We pray that the divine comfort and healing may be vouchsafed to the | sorrowing parents. May the father and mother of'the lovable youth, who has been called from life to life find solace and strength in the thought of | the loving sympathy of all the Ameri-| can people. “In token thereof this convention silently bows its head with loyal and affectfonate regard for the president and mother of Calvin Coolidge, Jr."” The resolution was adopted by a rising vote and a copy sent to the| president. | Prominent Engineer for | General Electric Dead | New York, July 8.—Benjamin G. Lamme, chief engineer of the West- ingheuse Electric and Manufacturing company and one of the pioneers in | developing methods of high power | transmission, died today et his home | at East Liberty, Pa., at the age of G0 | years. He invented the gencrators hy which the waters of ‘a Ialls were harnessed and recently designed 62,600-kilowatt genciator, the larg- est in the world. In 1919 the Amer Electric Engineers awarded to him the k on medal. The niversity of Ohio last year calied him “the great- est living mathematician.” + He was a close friend of the late Charles P. Steinmets and of Thomas A. Edison, an Institute of TELEGRAPII CONDOLENCES Madison Square Garden, N. Y., July 8.—Messages of condolence over the | death of Calvin Coolidge, Jr., were telegraphed to the youth’s pavents and his paternal grandfather today by the Vermont delegation to the national convention, | | priation allo | from top to Lottom under I tions NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 8 “Cave Without Ending” Ixplorers have penetrated Cari outlet, The cavern consists of filled with a dazzling display of natural .formations, the famous Carisbad Cavern at bad, N. M, for more than eight miles, without finding an| a series of connecting chambers, Improve- ments now are being made which in time may permit an auto- mobile tb drive into the cave for a distance of two miles, DAWES GRIEVES FOR HE 100 HAS LOST A SON| Candidate For Vico-President Knows Sorrow of Death i His July 8.-In the loss by Ivin Coolidge, Jr., the has the unseen comfort of grieving deeply with Dawes, of Chicago, geveral times yesterday had phone communications with the House in seeking news of the who died night. Gener: Dawes lost his only Rufus Searing Da , aged 21, Frinceton student in 1921 by drown- ing at Lake Geneva, Wis, Although naturally xcept among his intimates, Da , when his only son was taken, wrote a tribute to his boy whieli was read at the fune In it the father took pride that his son while only entering a business career, had otherwise liver a “complete life and had become a splendid and complete | young Christinn gentieman.” This tribute the Young Men's Christian as- sociation distributed by more than the ramily Chiea death of president a friend Charles G, who tele- White youth son, 1 150,000 coy |Will (";)m;;}c*e‘—w ork Within Appropriation I, Mechan of the John ¥, stated toda that ng the soldiers and gail- ent on Central Park will 1 the appro- John Mechan Cc work of clea ors' somplet unforescen difficulties iment is being cleaned Mr. Mee- 1t is be- sioners unile: arise. The m han's perzonal supervision. ling recut completely and is being re- New piping is also being in- The work is necessarily clow, It is nearly half pointed. stalled, Leing done by hand, | finished, Sailors Ferm Guard of Honor at White House | Weshington, July 8. —— fix llm’ fiom *he Presidential Yacht er, abnai 1 which Calvin Coolidg had taken many trins with his father, and sir 1 oo pliced abont the Wiite Houge spray was fo st '.A oL of inou anl a great pro- s weve | room where the boy Louisiana I‘emoclats in Legisiature Indignant | July §,.—Resolu- | taton Rouge, La the ‘merited indigna- L and filo of the the conduct * convention in the lower voicimg tion,” of the rai ry natioaal demor were introd.co1 todo house of the Louisi Howaid DO TR eaniot be weled upon democratie ji of the gain, Acadia, Tt mtil tomory The D. Miller 26 CHURCH B5T. Wednesday Morning Spe cial Ladies’ Union Suits 79¢ and 50¢ vaiun for. . . w39¢ Ladies White Pri incess Slips, $2.25 value, for.............$175 Ladies’ Silk Hoszs, 59%¢ value, for 32-inch Imported Gingham, 39¢ value, for............2% yd. Men’s plain and dron stitci Hosse, 50c valu Silk e, for....,.30¢c pr. sparing of | the | the park commis- | e in the | ature by | PLAYGROUND BALL (NDER WAY AGAIN Season of 1924 Opens This Moin- ing at Walnut Hill Park Bascball has taken a big hold on the youngsters who frequent the play- grounds of the city and the opening games of the interplayground haseball leagueg, played this morning at Wal- I nut Hill park elicited as much inter- est among the youthful fans as the world's series’ games do among their | fathers and big brotherz, The senior league game between |the Smalley school and the Smalley | parli-teams resulted in victory for the former 11 to 2. §€malley park played a much better game than the above |score might indicate. As this play- him, | ground opened for the first time this | | year its players were mnot so well | known and the lineup was constantly chm:ml I'rom the showinz made Hm morning big things are expected |from this team. Batteries: Smalley |school, Rudman, Lipman; Smalley | Park, Smith, Jones. | The senior league game between the Bartlett and Burritt teams ended with | the score 11 to 9 in favor of the Dart- [ett, boys. Makul and Florkowski made dp the battery for the Bart- letts, and Hinchie and Zapatka the Durritt, The game was exceptionally well | played. During the first inning the | Burritt boys had everything their own | Way, but later the opponents found their stride and kept the Burritts on [ their toes to keep going. | | | Only two tcams showed up in the | | junior league. The game between the Bartletts and the Burritts was {won by the latter, 11 to 5. Sapke | twirled to Potkay for theBartle tts, | Lasky to Miik for the Burritt team, | The following schedules for boys and girls teams have been arranged: | Boys teams, Walnut Hill Park on Tuesdays and Fridays at 9 o'clock. July 11—DBurritt vs. Smith; Smalley |school vs, Boys' club. | July 15 — Bartlett vs. | Smalley Park vs. Smith. July 18—DBurritt vs, Smalley ley Park vs. Bartlett, July 21—DBurritt vs, Smalley Park; Boys' club. 5—Burritt vs. Boys' Bartlett vs. Smalley school. July 25—Boys' club vs. | Park; Smith vs. Bartlett, August 1—S8mith vs, Smalley school. Girls' Baseball League | Tuesday and I'riday afternoons: July 8—8mith v Bartlett, Smith grounds; Smalley school vs. Burritt, | Smalley grounds, | July 10—Smith vs. Burritt, lgrounds; Smalley Park ve. Bartlett groun | Park vs. Burritt, gronnds; €mith v rounds, ulley sehool, Boys' club; 3 Smal- Smalley Burritt Bartlett, Partlett grour | 8mith, Smaliey July artlett vs, ritt zround school, Smalley Personals Park giroun Burritt, Bu vs, Smalle rounds, Witliam nd family of Slea‘h's r Droad- street, and avenue, trip to artford on an auiomobile Puy a car through “classified.” READTHE WANT AD o for | club; | 5. | sldere WHITE HOUSE ONGE MORE IS DARKENED BY DEATH'S SHADOW (Continued from First Page) | and a failing heart marked the co of his struggle, It was shortly after six p. m, yes- terday that the collapse came and he lapsed out of consciousness, At that tima a military guard had been thrown around the quarters assigned for the care of the boy and through | this the only meager news obtained | was that brought out at infrequent in- tervals by K. T, Clark, the president's personal secretary, With oxygen and restorativos, his attendants were hold- [ ing some glow of the spark of life in his wasted frame but with no hope, | At 8 o'clock it was announced that | he was dying, Dut it was not until two hours and a half later that the physiclans pronounced the end, Courageous Youngster The boy's courage met the test many times when it was required that he submit to pain in the preparation | of blood tests, the use of hypodermic, | and, finally, the stomach washing as a last resort to make the taking of nourishment possible when the ac- cumulation of gas began: It was only | necessary, it was sald, to tell him when and where the hurt would come | and it would be endured without com- plaint or protest, Messages of sympathy were received by the president and Mrs, Coolidge | today from persons of all lands nnd‘ of all walks of lite, The tragic death | of their son had touched the heart not \nnly of friends but of many others who wished to convey their sympathy | and condolences. | A Tragic Reminder | Calvin Coolidge, Jr,, according to | | White House attaches, is the first son | of a president to die while his father | held that office since Tad Lincoln died | ‘ln his father's arms in the White | House near the close of the Civil war. So far as they recall, there has been | | no instance of a president's daughter | ‘rly|n,': during his occupancy of the | White House, The death of the son of President Coolidge marks the third administration in which the irse family | illness. | visited by death or critical The first wife of the former President | Wilson died in the White House and | later Mr. Wi breakdown which left him an in\'.)li(l;' until his recent death. Services for | of their son had touched the hearts not White 1louse after his sudden death in San Irancisco and previously Mrs. | | Harding suffercd a critical iliness | there., At the White House this morning, Irank W. Stearns, frignd of the Coolidge family, who has been with them throughout the ordeal, said President Coolidge was bearing up under his grief and that there had been no breakdown on the part of Mrs. Coolidge. President Coolidge went to his of- fice again today and as soon as his | presence became known he was over- whelmed with messages of sympathy. Secretary Weeks, Postmaster Gen- eral New, A. Butler Wright, third as- | sistant secretary of state; Admiral Benson, of the shipping board, and others were callers. POOR EYESIGHT FATAL ‘Inability To Find His Way Caused | stamford Man To Wander Onto Tracks—Killed By Train, Stamford, July 8.—No criminal re- sponsibility was found by Coroner John J. Phelan today in the death ef Irederick J. Birchard, a Darien real estate m whose hody was | found on the railroad tracks at Dar- lien station early Sunday. s Witnesses said that Birchard who | had defective eyesight, apparently | lost his way in trying to find a train |and was on the rails when another | train passed by the station. 1t was not determined which train of several hit Birchard. IKES LITTLE BOY Lucian zuk, 9, of 255 South | Main street, wa truck this morning lon South Main street by an automo- | bile driven by Arth Volz of | Lower Lane, Berlin, suffering injuries that necessitated his removal to the New Britain general hospital for | treatment. His injuries are not con- rious. Volz reported the accident to the, police, saying that he was driving !north on South Main strect when the | boy ran from the curbing in front of his machine. He said that he did not see the boy leave the curb as his view | waz obstructed by a machine parked | just ahcad of him. | ¢. 1 Bradiey reported to the po- lice today that a horse he was dri g | on Sotuh Main strect this morning | | was struck hy au automohile owned | [by the Eimer Autn company. | { horse was not injured. The | tired systemanightof r-rmh(nfrmnndnbflgh tomorro the worl of £ tablets. 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