New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 2, 1924, Page 1

P———————— News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 LIEUT. NELSON MAKING FOR ICELAND AFTER LOSING COMPANIONS IN FOG | Lieutenants Smith And Wade Are Compelled To Return To Kirk- wall After Attempting Flight. Other Aviator Lost in Haze But Is Reported Over Faroes Islands Later in the Morning, Hy The Assoclated Press Kirkwal), Scotland, Aug, 2,~Lleu- tenant Ervie Nelson and his mechani- clan, Lleutenant John Harding, the army atrplane New Orleans, were belleved here this afternoon to be making a lone attempt to reach Iceland in the first leg of the Amerl- can world fliers' transatlantic flight, in The attempt by Licutenant Lowell | H, Smith, the flight commander, to lead the round the world fllers to Hornafjord, Tceland, the first sched- uled halt on the trip ucross the At- lantie, was frustrated by a heavy fog north of the Orkneys, Trapped in Fog Lieutenant Smith and Lieutenant Wade in the Boston, were trapped by the fog when only 60 miles from here after a late start this morning, and were forced to turn about and return @to their base in Houton Bay. Lieutenant Nelson in the New Or- leans became separated from his lead- «r and supposedly took another course out of the trap, continuing his flight to Tceland. Nelson had more than was necessary to carry him to Teeland, even though he wasted a quantity of it searching for his col- leagu He was under orders to continue the flight under such condl- tions unless his commander signalled otherwise, petrol and oil Reported Over Faroes A wireless message from the Cruis- er Richmond relayed aymessage from the American destroyer stationed off the Faroes reporting the passage of 1ieutenant Nelson In thé@New Orleans over the Faroes leading for Iceland at 12:50 o'clock this afternoon. A dispatch from Thornshavn in the Traroes reported an alrplane passing over one of the islands of the group about the same hour, the sound of the motor being heard although the machine could not be seen because of the fog. Some uncertainty as to Nelson's movements was created by a dispatch to the English Press assoclation at London from Kirkwall saying Lieuten- ant Nejson was returning to Kirkwall. The source of this information was not given in the dispatch, The message from the Billingsley declared that Lieutcnant Nelson was fiying inland over the Faroe Islands The Richmond is returning to Hou- ton bay. Planes Are Separated The Assoctated Pre Kirkwall, Aug. 2.--The American army airmen on their world flight struck a heavy fog off the north coast of the Orkneys after getting out from here for Iceland early today and the planes separated. Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith and Lieutenant Leigh Wade cireled their machines for some time in a hunt for Lieutenant Eric Nelson in the New Orleans, who was appar- eitly in the rear, but not finding him returned to Kirkwall, * The machines that put back after- wards settled down in Houton Bay to awalt the expetced return of iLeuten- ant Nelson. A wireless message to the cruiser Richmond, which had preceded the airplanes, notified her of the situa- tion, and she is returning. Lieutenants Smith and Wade re- turned to Kirkwall at 11:20 o'clock. Their machines flew over Kirkwall, and a message from Lleutenant Smith was dropped reading: Smith Drops Message “Send a message to the Richmond that we all became separated in the fog and that Wade and I have re- turned. Have not seen Nelson since we became separated on the course 25 miles from Birsay.” Lieutenant Smith expressed his be- llef that Lieutenant Nelson was con- tinuing on to Iceland. The flight commander sald that just after clearing the Orkneys the three planes plunged into a dense fog, ex- tending up 3,000 _ feet. The fliers avolded it by dodking eastward, but were soon trapped in another and thicker fog The filers iramediately lost sight of ®ach other but 8mith and Wade, turn- ing eastward, came together in a clear space 25 miles off Birsay, in the Orkneys. Search For Nelson They searchd half an hour for Lieutenant Nelsén and then aban- doned the hunt to seek for the Rich- mond in order to drop a message bag. The Richmond was hidden in another fog off the West Orkneys, and they gave up this effort and returned over Kirkwall, dropping their message and then anchoring in Houston Bay. Had Hopes Today The army fllers got away today with strong hopes of favorable con- ditions for the 560-mile flight to Ige- land. fog conditions had caused the airmen te become impatient, and Licutenant Smith said that if the weather fav- ored them he hoped their next lengthy By (Continited on Page 11) e, | NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1924, —SIXTEEN PAGES, SWEDISH G. 0. P. CONDEMNS BOLTERS FOR GAGGING VOTERS IN ELECTION OF PRESIDENT; PRAISES COOLIDGE IS BELIEVED WOISARD FLEES T0 Takes Refuge in Water to Escape 3 Argument Over Yaccination BEDLAM BREAKS LOOSE! Members of Medical Liberty l“mwi Descend In Force on Health Board | Meeting To Protest Against Co pulsory Inoculation, (8pecial t ald, Bristol, Aug. rally frothing | ut the mouth, supporters of the Con- | necticut Medical Liberty league, op- {posing compulsory vaccination for lo- ‘} |cal swnool children and attackes before | September, turned the hoard of health | meeting lust night Into a bedlam, After two hours of aimless discus- slon, the commissioners wire able, with the greatest of difficulty to ad- | journ and then fisteuffs threatened tor a moment to end the display of | vocal pyrotechnles, which had taken | place during the meeting. One member of the board, Mrs, H. {Wells Taylor, arose and expressed her opposition to Yaccination and was loudly cheered and applauded. Woisard In Swimming Pool The sensation of the meeting, which drove the gathering into a frenzy and disheartened the members of the board was the adamant refusal of Health Officer Woisard, who was en- joying a s¥im at the high school lnthlng pool, to appear at the meet- ing. At the opening of the meeting, a letter was read from the-health offi- cer saying that he was leaving the city on his vacation and that he was sorry that lhe could not attend the gathering. Disappointment was ex- pressed at the letter as he falled IO‘ attend a previous meeting. | Mayor John F. Wade promised at the earlier session to have the health officer present at the next gathering but he, himself, was absent last night, and ‘Acting Mayor Frank R. Graves (found himself thrust_into a turmofl that beggars description, Water’s Fine! Come On In Boon after the leiter frown Health | Officer Woisard was read, it was an- nounced to the health board that he was at the high school. As the health board could do nothing to the petition presented, asking that the compulisory vaccination order be modified, Com- missioner John J. Kaicher and John Murphy went to the high school, ac- | companied by several of those attend- | ing the meeting, Dr. Wolsard \v:mf located in the pool and expressed his | stand in no uncertain terms. Plead- | ings and arguments of the Tealth hoard members 2ould not move him. He sald that the order stood, whether | the health board apgroved it or mot. He would not go to the council cham- her, he sald, as further argument was unnecessary and besides he was ‘on his vacation. The commissioners re turhed to the meeting and reported the attitude of the health officer. A small riot was averted by the mo- tion of Commissioner A, W. Suther- | land that the matter be tahled until a meeting could take place Wwhen Mayor Wade and the health officer or the acting health officlals could he present and hear the views of those opposed to the vaccination. This w: speedily passed and the board ad- Jjourned. Acting Officers Absent. Acting Health Officers Ralph A. Richardson and Wlililam R. Hanra- han were not present as some doubt wag expressed last night as to their knowledge of any meeting. The gath- ering of 20®people did not attach any blame to the acting’officlals for their’ presence elsewhere, but developed in- to a howling mob at the refusal of Woisard to present himself and settle the matter one way or the other. Willard Hunt, one of the leaders of the local branch of the Medical| Liberty league, asked that the health board return the petition of the league, but this was not done. De- flance of the strongest order wae ex-| pressed at the vaccination ruling. | | Among those who spoke and ex- pressed dissatisfaction with the rul- ing were Rev. C. H. Riemers of Dur- ham, an officlal of the liberty league; Sidney F. Risdon, Charles H. Benton, | ‘Willard Hunt and former Councilman | Harry N, Law. Cecil Robertson asked that the board disapprove the tition and even this was not The meeting ended with no pe-| done. | (Continued on Page 13.) | Rainfall Deficiency for Month Is Over Three In. New Haven, Aug. 2. — The record | dry spell which was alleviated by rain which fell during thunder show- lers on the 31st of July, though not entirely broken, caused a total de- ficiency in rainfall for the month of 3.61 inches, according to the monthly | report for July of the local weather bureau. The normal rainfall for the month is given ag 4.78 inches and the actual rainfall for the month meas- ured 1.17 inches. The excess of rain- fall for the year, which existed up fo |July 1 was turned into deficiency by the lack of rain in July. At the end {of the month the deficiency below | | normal for the year was 2.66 inches. { The two days of delay due to | | Washington, Aug. 2.—Weather out- | 100k for the week beginning Monday [for the north and middle Atlantic state: Showers Monday and possible | Tuesday. Temperature about nor-l # M. S BATHING POOL ! ported hy O'Nelll, | few weeks ago. | talning several negro men drove into [the yard of the plant and O | erowd was intoxic | freight | shken told | tive that | negroes had not an enemy action | work. |1y affected. Relatives Convinced O’Neill Was Murdered; Criticize State Police; No Clue Yet to Missing Watchman 'Wife and Brother-in-Law of Ex-Serviceman Refuse to Accept Theory That He Wondered Away hat the state police have been ]u'n\-'n inefficient is the opinion Pershken, brother-in-law James O'Nefll, night watchman at the Stanley Chemical Co in East Berlin who has been missing sinco las! Saturday morning. Ho claims that | the poli have takew too little in | torest In the case and falled to at tach much importance to it until It was too late, Mr, Pershken was Interviewed yos | terday afternoon by a representative of the “Herald,” and he expressed the bellef that O'Nelll has been mur | dered, He told of an Incldent re which occurred o An automobile con of hearing the noise of the motor, wo out to see what they wanted. | warned them that they were on pri vate property and they retorted thal! they were not, that they had a vigh to be there hecause It was the road An exchange of words is reported t¢ have followed, resulting In the d¢ parture of the automobile, Mr. Pershken sald 1t would have been a simple matter for the negroes to have done away with his brother- in-law later, He let his imagination have swing for a few moments, tell- ing what could easily have happened. The car might have returned upon the night upon which the watechman disappeared. Assuming that the ted and that they happened to be riding past the place, they might have seen O'Neill and thought that it was a chance for them to get even with him Pershken refused to believe in the story that O'Nefll's mind had left him and he had wandered away, a theory | that has been advanced by those working on the case, He contended that someone would have surely seen him and that he could not have possibly escaped detection, attired as he was in his working clothes, an old pair of trousers and a khaki shirt. He also ‘said that the railroad offi- cials had not been at all obliging and had not taken any interest in it. While the police were investigating the theory that O'Neill might have climb- ed into a box car or might have been bundled into a box car by his assail- ants, they attempted to secure the number of the cars composing the train that passed through iast ‘Berlin at about 3:30 o'clock in the morning, daylight time, The re- ply given ,according to Mr. Pershken, was that the company was not inter- ested since O'Nefll was not an em- ploye of the railroad, and that they did not care to bother witli the case. Criticizes State Police./ f Pershken criticized the state Mr, | police department. for its lack of in- terest in the case and seewied to be of the opinion that if the police had ap- plied themselves fin the beginning | some clues wonld have been found by this time, He stated that they had de- : cided too late that the case was a erfous one, He had an interview with Captain Nichols of the depart- ment yesterday, he said, and the lat- ter is alleged to ha police had not made any headway be- cause the case was a hard one. Per- the *“Hearld"” representa- any assailants would have had ample time to get out of the state before the police got on the job. Mr Pershken has covered the ground in East Berlin and has been active in trying to find O'Neill, He said yesterday that there were no signs of a scuffle at the plant, as he had looked for them and had failed to find them. He sald he was un- able to learn whether thefe were signs in the roadway, as several trucks had passed along before he arrived and would have obliterated any footprints. He expressed the opinion that there were too many fingers in the pie from the start and said ¢hat a bloodhound placed In the trail immediately after it became known that O'Neill had dis- appeared would have done a great deal toward finding him. Another matter which he did not like regard- ing the case was the fact that company and the police had been s secretive about the matter during the first few days, “Jim had had around Pershken, “but, trouble the place,” outside of that he in the world, He was a quiet fellow, always minded his own business and was one of the most consclentions workers T have ever seen. Whan he was through with his work he would come home, eat his meal, read a book for a short time and then go fo bed, rising shortly before it was time to go to Yes, T think he was mur- with the sald dered.” Mrs, O'Neill appeared to be serious- “To think that he shonld have gone through the Spanish- American war and the World war safely and then to come home and he killed like this,"” she sobbed “No man ever loved his work or his home like Jim did.t she said, *1 just know he never would have gone ay of his own free will, re he has been murdered.”, Pet Dog Waits in Vain When presented with the theory that O'Neill might have wandered off, suffering from lapse memory, she was eertain, @ was Pershken, that he would have been noticed, She told of waiting for her h 1 of home at about 7 o'clock,” she said. Seven o'clock came and 1 put on the percolator to heat his coffee and glanged down the road to see if he was in Sight. There was on sign of him. It got to 7:15 and still he did not put in appearance, Our pol dog, always met him as he came an who home, (Continued on Second Page) said that the' the | | | | eutor William | Hillside home, to hunt ¥ N O'NEILL FORMER WEST HAVEN COP HEAVILY FINED Jail Sentence Suspended— Man Who Bribed Him Asgessed $200 West Haven, Aug. E. Lee, a former policeman, pleaded nolo | contendere to two counts of extortion before Judge Wm. L. Larash in the town court here today and was fined $100 and costs on each count and sen- tenced to 90 days in jail. The judge suspended executlon of the jail sen- tence. A charge of bribery was nolled, Michael Barberri, who with Lee, was arrested following the police |y roundup of the saove properifes in an | alleged rum landing party was fined 200 and costs on a charge of bribery, He pleaded guilty. Eight men charged with conspiracy in connection with the affair were re- cently bound over fo the superior court: under honds of $5,000 each. TLee was charged with accepting the sums of $10 on one occasion and $25 on another last May from John L. Goff, watchman at a wharf on the local water front, whera liquors were alleged to have bheen unloaded. Prose- T. Hadden told the court in a statement of the case that the money was paid to Lee so that ha “would keep his back turned” when a cargo came in, Barberri, the prosecutor said, had been in the lquor business and be- came acquainted with Lee while the latter was on a beat pn“lng his home, He had paid Lee $75 on one occasion. The money was paid ostensibly as a loan the prosecutor said, but in his opinion was not a loan at all, but a bribe, The prosecutor said ha had con- sulted with tha state's attorney and as a result of his suggestion asked the court to take jurisdiction in the cases. Judge Larash then sentenced the two men, Charles TWICE TRIES SUICIDE, NOW MAKES HIS ESCAPE Stamford Burglar Clad Only in Night Clothes When He Flees House of Custody. 2 Raymond of three Aug. under senteénce Bridgeport, "hillips, |months in the county jail for burglary at Stamford, who twice tried to com- mit snicide at the jail here by slash- ing his wrist, last night escaped from where he has been de- tained since his last attempt at self- destruction. Phillips, officials, was according to the Hillstde clad only in a night- gown and a blanket. An alarm has been sent out by Sheriff R, Pease to deputy sheriffs in neighboring towns for the fugitive who is be- lieved to have headed into the woods |to the north of Hillside home. |wrist and v | * am sband | [ on the morning of his disappearance. { “He always got Phillips was received at the jail July On July 18 he attempted sui- cide by slashing his wrist, After treatment at 8t. Vincent's hospital he returned to the jail last week. On Monday night he again slashed his i removed to Hillside home for t nt. HIGH TIDE! (standard Time) At New Tondon— 1:05 A, m.; 11:04 p. m, At New Haven— 12:18 p. m. | back away from Loeb Was “Mentally lll ” On Day of Murder, Alienist Testtfies Leopold the Same, Alienist Says—Prosecutor Crowe Attacks Credibility of Witness, Claiming Origin- | Held Boys | al Report Insane. By The Assoclate Chicago, Aug on the credibili White, head of | pital for the In was made in Juage Laverly's court lo- day by, Robert K. Crowe, state's at- torney, who cross-examined the doe- tor on his testimony In than Leopold, Jr, and Loeb. Charges Insanity in Report The attack developed in a shortened half-day scsslon.when the prosecutor asked Dr, White to produce the “or- iginal report” he had made to attor- neys for the defense, It was stated flatly by Mr. Crowe, over objections, that came hurriedly from: Attorneys Clarence & Darrow and Walter Bache rach, that the report held the de- fendants insane rather than mentally sick. Judge Caverly suggested that since Richard | the quest®n of insanity was barred from the present proceedings, the re- port might not be competent, Opinions At $250 a Day “But your honor,” expostulated, Mr, Crowe, “If that report shows that for $250 a day this witness has found these boys insane and then for the same fee now holds them only men- tally sick, I believe your honor will glve lesy weight to his opinlons.” Another refusal of the report by the defense caused Mr. Crowe to say he was satisfled to “let the matter rest right there.” Was Mentally Xl Richard Loeb was “mentally {1” on May 21, 1924, whon he and Nathan Twopold ,Jr., kidnapped and murder- ed Robert Franks, it was testified on cross-examination today by Dr. Wil- llam A. White, Judge John R. verly sustained an objection by Walter Bachrach of de- fense connsel when Robert E. Crowe, state’s attorney tried to learn whether the expert thought Loeb, was insane, The same opinion was given as to Leopold. A Battle of Wits The session developed a sharp spar- ring match between the witness and prosecutor. Sometimes Mr. Crowe's questions elicited a smile from the doctor; again he insisted upon going into lengthy explanations when the state's attorney asked for *‘yes or no answer." “That is {mpossible to give,” was Mr. White's usual response to such at- tempta. [] Mr. Crowe once asked iIf the doctor thought Loeb had *“dementia praecox, yes or no."” “If he can't answer yes or no, let him answer as he pleases,” said Judge Caverly. dementia praecox ity?"” asked Mr. Crowe. “That is for you lawyers to say,” re- torted the doctor over the “object- sustained” that came from Mr. Bach- rach and the court simultaneously. The questioning went into the doc- tor's definition of such things as “de- pravity” and “moral insanity” and the distinction between right and wrong. The doctor sald “depravity” was “a moral term not a psychiatric word at all" Strong Insinuation. “You say that Loeb and Leopold are mentally sick but you will not legal insan. say they are legally insane,” said the | state's attorney. *“Does the fact that their lawyers desire them to appear here in just that light, cause you to an expression of opinion on that?” A sustained objectlon blocked any answer to this insinuation. ‘Can Loeb distinguish tlon that caused a deal of sparring as to the “sense” in which it was meant whether “ordinarily” or “legally.” “What is right.™ “l would like to eryptic reply. “Did Loeb know on May 21 that it | was wrong to kill Robert Franks?" “He knew it was against the law.” Cyuldn’t Tell Wrong. he know it was know,” was the “Did morally wrong " “He could not distinguish exact] Ts he legally insane?” Another objection was sustained “What s criminal intent?” was asked at another stage of the battle of witnesses. “l don’t know; comeback. “Haven't you referred to 1 “No, I used the term ‘criminalistic tell me,” was the | tendencies." " The doetor defined this soclal” and then said that bility” was a “legal fiction,” best “a critique of society.” Today's Proceedings. Dr. Willlam Alanson White, defenee alienist, still was on the stand at the resumption of today's session of the “anti- “responst- and at THE WEATHER Hartford, \m.' 2.—~Forecast for New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight and Sunday; mod- erate temperature, I E * | Franks, court today promised but little ;.m.|\'n!|», a Congress avenue saloon pro- |present moment, hearing before Judge Caverly to de- termine the punishment of Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb for the kidnaping and slaying of Robert| The two hour session Robert E. Crowe, gress, state’s at- (Continued On Puo Eleven). defense of | between | right and wrong?” was another ques- | MAN SHOT WEEK AGO T0 BE WEDDED TODAY Halt Marriage Plans of Couple nfret, Conn, Aug. 2. s White, daughter of Edwin T, 72, who was recently shot wnd by his 80 year old brother Lenjamin and the murderer shot and killed by a posse the following day, {18 to be mariled at 4:30 this atlcrnoon [to David Mairson, of Hariord at the home of her late father at Pomfret Landing! The wedding which had been set for today before the tragedy which removed the father and uncle of the bride-to-be from the family circle, was expected to be a simple affair, One hundred and fifty invita- tions issuved to guests, were recalled following the shocting of Miss White's father, Rev, George A. Barker, pastor of the Congregational church of Pom- fret will perform the ceremony and the couple will be unattended, only members of the immediate families heing prescent. A wedding trip which tragedy, was called off: The marriage is the culmination of a romance of several years' standing. The bride-to-oe was a teacher in the Arsunal school at Hartford where Mr, Ma.rson was super‘ntendent of the buiiding. "Lhe marriage intentions of the cou- ple were believed to have had some- | thing to do with vhe shooting of Ed- win White by his brother, Benjamin White, before the shooting told a {friend, that he might have to use | f:earms on Mairson. He did shoot Malrson after kflling his brother, but the wounds were slight, MUCH BEER SEIZED Seven Thousand Bottles Packed Sugar Barrcls Are Captured in New Tondon Today. New London, Aug. 2.—S8even thous- and hottles of beer, tain more than four per cent alcohol, tand packed Ih 25 sugar barrels, were | selzed together with a large five ton |truck on Montauk avenue early to- day by Sergeant Nelson §. Smith, John J. Cavanaugh and Thomas J. Lyden and Carlos Selecnitzky of the local police depart- |ment. Two men, sald to be the | driver and helper on the truck, both | | colored, were arrested at the same time. Howell, Haven, the truck when arrested. ¥rancls Hogan of 494 Eim street, New Haven was found in the lobby of a hotel here. Both are employed | by the New England Haulage and Trucking company of 88 Dixwell avenue, New Haven. When arralgned in police court this morning before Judge §. Victor Prince on charges of illegal transportation of intoxicating lquors they were ordered held in bonds of 1,500 each for ap- pearance in court next Wednesday | morning, at which time an analysis of |the beer will have been made. Both | The driver said he was Wesley 1564 Dixwell avenue, New He was asleep on the seat of | This s the second load of beer scized | here within two week Miss Dorolhv V. Rumn To Wed Worcester Judge | Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Rogin of 397 engagement of thelr daughter, Doro- thy Virginia,_Rogin, to Judge Jacob Asher of the Worcester, Mass,, court. Miss Rog'n New Britain high school and Path institute at Springfield, Ba! the Institute there, later she was an instructor being engaged to teach {commercial subjects at New Britain { high school. &he is a member of sev- (eral societies and enjoys wile popu- | larity. Judge Asher is a gradnate of | Columbia university, New York city, and is a prominent member of the | Massachusetts bar, No date has been {set for the wedding. First of More Than 50 Liquor Cases Up in Court | New Haven, Aug. 2.—The first of | {the more than 50 cases against al- Ileged violators of the liquor law, who | were arrested here Wednesday when ll'\lv-n.!l\‘(' raids were made by the | police armed with search warrants, were to come up in the police court today. Though little evidence was ob« | tained by the police on their visits with the warrants, private detectives | had previously obtained evidence on | which the arrests were made, accord- ing to City Attorney Sheriden T, | Whitaker, The police who have been following up the cases to serve warrants’on per- sons who were ahsent when they pre- 1 prietor, who is charged with 24 counts f Hquor law violations. His case was | to be heard in eountodq with others, Pomfret Tragedy Does Not | — Sadie | had also been planned preceding the | in | alleged to con- | Patrolmen | Theodore | were later remanded to the Frankln | street jail here, in absence of bonds, ' Chestnut street today announced the ! city | ‘s a graduvate of | For a year after her graduation from : Dlllrflufih 10,306 PRICE THREE CENTS Week July Zflh " State League Accuses La Follette And Wheeler Of Attempt To Put Choice Up To Congress, Not The People. Danielson and Johnson Unanimously Re-elected President and Secretary Respectively at Business Session, At the 19th blennial convention of ithv- Swedlish-Ameriean republican state league of Connectlcut held in this city today, resolutions were adopt- ed approving of the Coolidge-Dawes ticket and condemning the La Fol« lette-Wheeler ticket as “an attempt by enemies of duly constituted author- ity to prevent any of the candidates nominated for president of the United States obtaining a majority of votes in the electoral college, thus denying to the people a volce in the selection of their chief magistrate except through the medium of a session of the congress not representative of popular sentiment.” The resolution also complains that |the democratic party has placed “par- {tizan zeal before the welfare of the ‘counlry" and “encouraged the high- |handed tactics of such radicals in the congress." Text of Resolution The resolution in full follows: “We, the representatives of Swedish-American Rpublican State league, assembled in state conven- tion at New Britain, Coun,, the sec~ |ond day of August, 1924, endorse the {action of the republican national con- |vention in nominating the Honorable Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts for president of the United States, and the Honorable Charles G. Dawes of Illinols for vice president. Capable, conscientious, fearless, yet calm pub- lic servants, they possess {inherent lqualities of leadership requisite to [the welfare of a great liberty-loving |people at a time when republican in- | stitutions are menaced and the ore {derly processes of government chal+ lenged by radical forces, the achieve- yment of whose proclaimed purposes would destroy the fundamental law fand place in jeopardy the sacred rights of established property. “We perceive In the candidacies of |Sf-nn|or Robert M. La Follette of | Wisconsin and Senator Burton K. {Wheeler of Montana, an attempt by |the enemies of duly constituted au« !thority to prevent any of the ecandi« | dates nominated for president of the [United States obtaining a majority |of votes in the electoral college, thus |denying to the people a volce in the 'selection of their chlef magistrate, ‘excom through the medium of a u::i the isfon of the congress not represen Itive of popular sentiment. Such a ;mn\fimrnt is in effect a bold chal- ilenge to government of the people, by the people and for the people, and |threatens the constitutional safe- guards of life, liberty and the pur- suit of happiness. It is deeply to be !deplored that the democratic party, placing partizan zeal before the wel- fare of the country, encouraged the high-handed tactics of such radicals in the congress, and is therefore in ia measure responsible for the grave {situation confronting the people. “We declare our faith in the exist« ing leadership of the republican party, in the nation and in the state, tand renew our alleglance to the prine jciples of ' the republican party and lour devotion to the cause of repubs lican institutions, protesting against | federal encroachment upon the pews ers of the states and reaffirming our {unchanging belfef in local self-gove ernment. It is important that the (rights of every individual to the freest’ development of his own powers and resources and to the control of |his fustly acquired property, so far as those are compatible with the rights of others, shall not be inters fered with or destroyed. Wa pledge our support to the proposal pending {in the congress for popular referen- {dums for the ratification or rejection of fiture proposals for amending the federal constitution, “We favor international arbitration wherever possible and the establish- ment of means for the adjudication (of international disputes without re« |eourso to entangling foreign alllances, “We approve the action taken by |the president speedily 1o bring to the {bar of justice any and all persons |found to have betrayed their country by participation in corrupt practices, and note with satisfaction that in- | dictments have already been returned arainst republicans as well as demo- |erats who have proven faithless to their trust. tisfled that the mission of the |Swedish-Amerfcan Republican State league, to assist in the naturalization |and enfranchisement as American |citizens, and the enrolilment as re- | publicans, of Swedish subjects whe 'mlgm(e to our shores to share the |benofits and the responsibilities of republican institutions, has never n{‘\lnuuly called, last night arrested John [been of greater value than at the wa rededicate our- selves to the principles upon which (Continued on Page -w.) 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