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ws of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1024, —TWENTY-FOUR PAGES FRENCH COMMUNIST | DA VIS MENTIONS KLAN ITALIAN AVIATOR IS MISSING DURING HOP TO GREENLAND; AMERICANS SAFE IN PORT Naval Vessels Ordered to Start Search for Locatelli -- Smith and Nelson Arrive on Schedule. MAY START ON AGAIN TONIGHT The Assoclated Press. On Board U, S. S, Lawrence, Indian Harbor, Labrador, Aug. 22—Wireless advices received aboard the Lawrence this eve- ning indicated the American army world fliers planned to con- tinue on from Frederiksdal to Ivigtut, on the west coast of Greenland, tomorrow, (Friday). From Ivigtut, it was stated, the aviators expected to hop off Sun- day for Indian Harbor. By The Assoc Il‘lfld » Press. N ’ Aboard U. S. Cruiser Rich- mond, on Patrol Between Iceland and Greenland, Aug. 22—Rear Admiral Magruder has ordered the United States cruisers Rich- mond and Raleigh and the de- stroyer Barry to make a search east of Cape Farewell, Green- land, for Lieut. Locatelli, Italian aviator, who accompanied the American round-the-world fliexs. The American fliers arrived in Greenland without mishap. The search will-be made with planes carried by the cruisers for scouting purposes and will be continued indefinitely. It is believed by some of the officers of the Richmond that the Italian aviator may have proceeded to Ivigtut, instead of halting at Frederiksdal. Admiral Magruder is preparing to send out a general alarm if Locatelli is not found soon. The Italian aviator, who left Reyk- Javik with Lieut. Lowell H. Smith and Lieut. Erik H. Nelson yesterday morn- ing and who, in a faster plane than those used by the Americans, had out- distanced them in the earlier stages of the hop to Greenland, was not men- tioned in the messages reporting the arrival of the Americans at Freder- iksdal, With the sanction of the Italian government he had flown alone from Plca, Italy, to Iceland, taking advan- tage of the hops from England of the facllities which previously had been prepared for the American fliers. These had been offered him by the American authorities. By Assoclated V'ress, Byn:,;;javik. Iceland, Aug. 22.—The American round-the-world fliers, winging their way yesterday afternoon and evening from Reykjavik, Ice- land, to Frederiksdal, Gerenland, where they arrived last night, passed the United States cruiser Richmond and the United States destroyer Reid, Billingsley and Barry on scheduled time, according to a message from the Barry. In a mist they apparently missed the United States cruiser Raleigh, which was stationed off the cape, and which reported that she had not sight ed the fliers. Weather Was Ideal. \Weather conditions in the early stages of the flight were favorable with good visibility and a helping wind but as the airmen neared Cape Farewell at the southern tip of Green- Jand, they had to cut their way through a mist and a drizzling rain. Previously the Richmond, Reld, Billingsley and Barry had sighted them, passing each ship on scheduled time, and flylng low so as to receive the benefit of the cushioning effect of the water. Italian Flier Missing. A later dispatch from the destroyer © Barry declared that the flash report- ing the arrival at Frederikedal of Lieutenant Lowell H. Smith and Lieutenant Erik H. Nelson, did not mention the arrivéll of Lieutenant Lo- catelli, the Itallan aviator who was accompanying them. Locatelli, who had flown to Reyk- javik from Pisa. Italy, to accompany Lieutenants Smith and Nelsen across the Atlantic, was using a faster plane than the Americans and in the earlier stages of the flight yesterday had outdistanced his companions. Landing Was Dangerous Battling a dense fog over the last miles of their periious trip, and feel- ing their way toward Frederiksdal with the utmost caution, Lieutenants Smith and Nelson landed almost an hour apart under conditions described by the Danish gunboat, Islands Falk, patrolling off Cape Fareswell, as “ex- tremely dangerous.” Lieutenant Smith added to his rep- utation as a skilful alr navigator by “landing at Frederikedal at 6:30 o'clock, Greenwich mean time, nine hours and 55 minutes after taking off from Reykjavik. iLeutenant Nelson landed at 7:15 o'clock, requiring 11 hours for the trip. “Formidable Feat.” While the hop from Reykjavik of (Continued on Page 21) DAWES GETS RECEPTION BY WESTBROOK FOLKS Vice-Presidential Candidate Leaving for Maine Late Tonight, After Visit Westhrook, Conn,, Aug, 22.~Resl- dents of Westbrook, Including mem- bers of the town's summer colony, were Invited today to a reception for Charles G, Dawes, republican vice- presidential nominee who is the guest here for the day of Walter H, Wil- son of Chicago, before he resumes to- night his trip to Maine to speak to- morrow at a state-wide republican ral. | ly in Augusta, Mr, Dawes, it was consldered lkely would make a brief address to those invited to meet him, It s not antiei- pated however, that he will make any extended remarks on the campalgn fssues as he has given the impression that hie will reserve such speeches for ‘ate scheduled by the republican na- tional committee, Indication were for a large turnout at the reception to be held at the Coutanset golf club as word that Mr, Dawes might speak was spread early today to nearby towns along the coast and up the Connecticut valley from which the nominee's ancestors on his | mother’s side emigrated to Ohio. The nominee intends to leave W brook late in the day and from W Haven again resume his trip to Maine. He will leave New Haven at 8:13 p. m. and arrive in Brunswiek, Maine, at 7 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing continue his journey later and arrive in Augusta about 9:30 a. m. His address here will be delivered at Island Park, a short dis- tance outside the city, and word has been sent Mr. Dawes by Harold M. Sewall, republican national commit- teeman from Maine that most of the republican state candidates to be voted on in that state next month would be present. t- U, S, CITIZEN KILLED NEAR PUERTO CASTILLA State Department Seeking More Information Concerning Death Washington, Aug. 22—George Gate- wood Hamilton, an American citizén, and Charles Edward Rimmer, a Brit- ish subject, were killed in the district of Puerto Castilla, Honduras, on the morning of August 21, the state de- partment was informed today by Wil- lard L. Beaulac, American vice-con- sul at Puerto Castilla, The vice-consul has been directed by the department to obtain and for- ward additional information immedi- ately. Belgium Takes Firsz Step Toward Ruhr Evacuation Bruassels, Aug. 22.—Belglum's eco- nomlc evacuation of the Ruhr, which is a preliminary step to the military evacuation, began today when M. Hannecart, at the head of a Belgian technical delegation, left for Duessel- dorf charged with the task of lqui- dating all the Belgian civil services, an hour | CITY HAY DISPOSE OF BARTLETT PLANT Sacred Heart Parish Wants to Buy School and Grounds SENTIMENT FAVORS SALE Enroliment of 11,000 in Public Schools Looked For = Accommodations Committee Opens Six Bids on Ad« dition To Osgood il Building, Sentiment for the sale of the Bart- lett school bullding and grounds at the corner of Broad and Grove streets is reported among members of the school committee and it in likely that there will be a recommendation short- ly for acceptance of a proposition made by the congregation of the Sa- cred Heart church, The school properti of the church, and a | main building of the school. It has been the city to dis 1join those ose to the wered Heart definitely declded by ontinue the use of the Bartlett sehool this year. The build- ing 1s belleved to be unfit for further use in its present condition, being re- sarded by members of the committee as a firetrap, Throughout the struc- ture thers are wooden staircases and [in two instances boilers are located under the stairs. Tn Its present con- ditlon, the Bartlett school would not meet requirements of the state hoard of education, it is believed, and If it is purchased by private interests much alteration will probably be made be- fore it can be occupied. Schools will open September 8 with {an estimated enroliment of 11,000. 10,600, The increased makes necessary increased school ac- administration building, formerly the old state normal school, will be avail- able. These wilt take care of 10 classes, three of which will be taken from the open air school when the present building on Bassett street is abandoned. The committee on school accom- modations met yesterday afternoon, Chairman Joseph M. Halloran presid- ing. The estimates of six contractors on an Osgood Hill school addition were opened and read and were then turned over to Architect Max Unkel- bach whose plans for the building have been accepted by the board. No taction on the recommendation of contract awards will be made until a statement is recelved from the architect and Chairman P. 1. "King of the school committee will then be asked to call a special session of the board. The plans call for a four room school house, Bids on an addition to the Smalley school will be recefved by the com- mittee up to noon, September & and will be acted upon at a special meet. ing to be held on that day. Clarence C. Palmer drew the plans for this buflding and specifications are in his hands. Majestic Goes_A;n:;und On Bar Off Southampton ¥ The Associated Press, Southampton, Eng, Aug. 22.—The giant steamship Majestic, Inbound from New York, grounded on a sand- bank at the entrance to Southampton at low tide this afternoon but was re- floated with the aid of two tugs a short time afterward and proceeded [to Southampton. LIPPTTT FUNERAIL. Norwich, Conn.,, Aug. 22.—The funeral of Costello Lippitt, former state treasurer, who died at his home in this city late vesterday, will be held at Trinity Methodist Episcopal church on Monday, August 25, at 3:30 p. m,, it was announced here to- day. The burial will be private. McCOY MUST FACE DEATH ON GALLOWS OR FROM DISEASE Indicted Prize Fighter Showing Signs of De- mentia an'd Paralysis, Says Doctor. Los Angeles, Aug. 22.—Death on the gallows or that living death of paralysis and total dementia today appeared to be all was left for Kid McCoy, once dapper prince of the ring, charged with murder of Mrs, Theresa W. Mors here August 12. The prisoner’s elghth wife, Dagmar Dahigren, dealt his defense a blow when she repudiated a previous alibi volunteered to show he could not have been gullty of the murder. Then an alienist sent into his cell by defense attorneys reported that even if Me- Coy could prove his innocence he would fall victim within three years to complete paralysis and total de- mentia. The allenist, Dr. Cecll Reypolds, saild McCoy 18 “without question” suf. fering from paresls—a form of de- mentia due to organic changes of the brain and brought on in his case by excessive addiction to alcohol and a blood infection of long standing. The disease is In its early stages, the alienists’ report said, during which acts of violence should be expected as a matter of course. McCoy’s shooting orgy in and near the Mors' antique shop the morning after Mrs. Mors (Continued on Fifth Page) RUM RUNNER SHOT IN FIGHT AT SEA Half Hour Battle Between Boats—Six Men Captured by Coast Guards Asbury Park, N. J., Aug. 22.—An- tonio Piepro, of Asoria, Long Island, N. Y, a rum runner, was killed to- day during a half hour's running gun battle one and one-half miles west of | the Roamer Shoals Light Ship be- tween six coast guar of the Sea Bright station and six men in the speed boat Lynx II. The ecrew and boat were captured with five hundred cases of whiskey found aboard the craft. The coast guard fought chine guns and revolvera, The remaining ftve members of the Lynx crew identified themselves as: Joseph Wilson, John Dykes, B. L. Smith, all of New York, and Henry Wolf and Hans Karlsen of Brooklyn. After bringing ashore the prisoners, Piepro’s body, and the whiskey, the coast guards, who had been on patrol all night, put out again on another search. Plepro was the third rum runner shot in this vicinity during the last two weeks. The two others are now in Monmouth Memorial hospital, Long Branch. with ma- The enrollment this year was about | enrollment | |a claim that the grouping of six sup- commodations and classrooms in the | PREACHER TO SHARE PULPIT WITH MONKEY Butte, Mont.,, Aug. 23 ~The Rev, Z Colon O'Farrell will share his pulpit with a menkey when he delivers a sermon on evolution at the First Baptist chureh here Sunday night, he announced teday, The minister sald hia theme would be that if man was evolved from a lower animal, he came from the ass, rather ||/ than from the monkey family, The title of the sermon will bhe “The Soul That's in 11" he added, DEMOCRATS RESENT HALL ENDORSEMENT Town Committee fo Discuss Mayor's 0. K. of Republican G. 0. P. HAS OWN TROUBLES First Real Blow Struck at Quigley | Last Davis Candidate and Supporters at Meeting Night—Oliver 1. For Representative, Factional splits in both the repub- | lican and democratic parties gives In- dication of an Interesting campalgn preceding the fall election here, The Quigley wing of the republican party is accused by the so-called “machine” forces of introducing a slate of state convention delegates, which accusation Is promptly denled by the Quigleyites who counter with posed ' ‘“‘machine” candidates is the work of the organization headed by State Central Committeeman George W. Kiett, | In the democratic ranks the first ripple in several months made itself evident with the reaction to Mayor A .M. Paoncssa's endorsement of the | candidacy of Edward F. Hall, repub- | lican, for state senator. Casale’s Friends Resentful, Members of the party think the mayor acted too hastily and friends of Attorney S, Gerard Casale, who is considering candidacy on the demo- cratic ticket for state senator, feel keenly about the matter and are in- clined to bolt if an effort is made to give the mayor's action the offictal sanction of the lacal democratic party, it became known this morning. The democratic town committee s to meet tonight at 8 o’clock to organ- (Continued on Page 32) SHOT IN ABDOMEN, YOUTH FIGHTS ON oung Italian Seriously Wounded in New York Gang Fight New York, Aug. 22.—~Anthony Par- ettl, son of an Italian storekeeper in Greenwich Village was eritically wounded today, by two gunmen who attacked him while his parents and a half dozen customers looked on, The shooting convinced the police that the lower end of Manhattan was again in the throes of gang strife. The shooting of a boy in Sullivan street recently, the attack upon two men at Downing and Bleecker streets, the shooting of three men at Eighth avenue and Sixteenth street earlier in the week, the arrest of four gunmen at Tenth strect and Second avenue, ATTACKS AMERICA 'Dawes Plan Not Disinterested But Sellish, He Says AN IMPERIALISTIC NATION Premier Herviot pellas tlons Concerning U, K at Today's Cabines Gets Ind Sossion==Iussian Treaty Will Be Discussed Soon, By The Associated Press, Parls, Aug, 33—Communist Leader Marcel Cachin, interpellating Fre« mier Herriot at today's scssion of the chamber of deputies on the London reparations accord declared that “Dawes represonts American fmpe- rialism in a most direct, personal and conerete fashion.” M, Herrlot mere- Iy shrugged his massive shoulders, readjusted his horn-rimmed glasscs and continued making notes. Resuming, Deputy Cachin - said “that the new American policy is not very disinterested. It has strictly an economlie basis. The Americans hope to find an enfechled European market where they ecan impose their condi- tions. They must ha healthy mar- kets to which they can export, hence the Dawes plan. They have no sym- pathy for Europe nor for our coun- try.” The communists in the chamber alone applauded the interpellator and M. Cachin proceeded to make the charge that the Americans at London conference Imposed the Dawes plan “with force and some brutality,” referring to the Hughes speech at the Pligrims’ club as an example, American statesmen, ac- cording to the communist deputy, are hostile to red Russia “both from a class spirit and because they do not wish to see Russian wheat flooding the world’s markets," M. Cachin dilated on American im- periallsm,” casting doubt on Amer- ica's professed pacifilsm and pointing to the size of the United States navy and the rivalry with Great Britain. At the end of the morning sitting the chamber voted to begin discus- slon of the Russian treaty as soon as the debates on the T.ondon con- ference have been concluded, The chamber of deputies today lis- tened with slight enthysiasm to alter- nate attacks on and defense of the Dawes plan and Premier Rerriot’s ne- gotiations at the recent London inter- national conference. While the pre- mier interjected Dbrief replies from time to time to his critles, vesterday'e excitement had subsided and only the communists relieved the monotony with occasional outbursts of condem- nation, The soclalist leader, Leon Blum, this afternoon, upheld M. Herriot's work at the conference as the best that could be done under the circum- stances, He repeated explanations ow hy the matter in in- terallied debts and security could not be eettled at the London gathering and how France was forced by cir- cumstances, to disucss the Ruhr. He described Prime Minister MacDonald as “our comrade and friend.” Premier Herriot won the first party battle in the chamber of deputies on the London reparation agreement, and, barring the unexpected develop- ment always possible in politics, he may be fairly expected to win the second after submitting to the inter- pellations, the total of which has now reached 14. Herriot's Victory. His first victory came last evening when the chamber defeated, 320 votes to 209, a motion to refer the London accord on the Dawes plan to a commission, with the understand- ing that the premier sign the agree- ment before parliament debated the (Continued on Fifth Page) the | the premlor's| Daiy Circulation 10,273 PRICE THREE CENTS Ave Week Aug, 16th ., IN SEA GIRT ADDRESS ' MAY HAVE BEEN KILLED Man Tells Police Companion | Fell Down Stairs After | Drinking Bout N Y. Be. Rochester, Aug, 22 night of revelry in the apartment occupled by George Louth, 47 years, the body of Mrs, E la Bauman, 33, was found bruised and battered on the bed 1in hor room today. h e discovery was made Louth stumbled into a police station and told officers that the woman, a vaudeville actress of Binghamton, was dead after a drinking bout and a { plunge down the stalrs Near body was a broken arm of a chair which police selzed as the possible weapon with which Mrs, Bauman was beaten to death Police are Inclined to doubt Louth's | story, belleving the wounds on the | body of Mrs, Bauman were of such | nature that would not be suffered in a fall, Taken to headquarters this morn- | ing Louth declared he went home at 9 o'clock last night and she was not there. “I called to her and when she did not answer I looked down the | cellar and found her at the foot of | the stairs, “I carried her up stairs ,and put her to bed. When I woke up this morning I thought I would go in and |see how she was. I took hold of {her and found she was dead, Then I hurried over and notified the police,” Louth told the police. LETTER STEEPED IN DEADLY GERMS Receiver Warned Death Would Follow Unless He Bought Antidote after | Milwaukee, Aug. 22.—An attempt to extort $25,000 from Joseph' Ulhlein a member of an old and wealthy family here, through the medium of a letter which the writer said was seeped In deadly germs that might produce death, was frustrated by po- lice and a young man giving the name of Roy L. Schultz is held for investigation. The writer of the extorttion note |who signed himself Dr, Hans Kopf, |after stating in his letter that he was possessed of degrees of bacteriology from German universities, wrote that he and four other men of similar education, were desirous of advanc- ing their studies in science, but had no means with which to accomplish this aim. Accordingly, the letter stated, Uih- leln and one hundred other citizens of the United States had been select- ed to contribute to forward the cause of education in the manner named. The germs, the letter stated, could be counteracted and their effect made harmless by other germs to be fur- nished if the deposit of money were made according to directions. Police went to a place designated in the letter with a decoy package and the arrest followed. and the fatal shooting of one man on Bleecker street last night, have led officfals to fear that the police are facing a gun war of large proportions, All the attacks have occurred within a week. The police attribute the outbreaks to three causes: Gang dissension, at present unexplainable but apparently not connected with the drug traffic which has given much trouble in pre« vious years; a ‘“chicken pullers” war, wherein the victims were shot because they *squealed,” and clashes among the bootleggers. Paretti, though wounded in the ab- domen, crawled to a shelf and obtain- ed his revolver. Staggering blindly he chased his attackers for several blocks and in turning a corner fired two shots at a policeman. Then he collapsed. The patrolman, who had known him for some time, grasped the wounded man’s revolver and pursued the gun- men, who escaped by dodging into a building. Residents of the section, aroused to extreme anxiety by the series of shoot- ings, poured into the street and for a block a squad of reserves was come pelled to wield night sticks to clear passage. * HIGH TIDES—AUG. 23 (Standard Time) —— | At New London— 3:48 a.\m.; 4:22 p. m. At New Haven— 5:47 a. m.; 5:56 p. m. * WEATHER —— Hartford, A for New Britain and vicinity: Partly clondy tonight; Saturday showers, little change in tem- perature. THE e ——— % NEW YORK POLICEMEN FIND DISMEMBERED BODY IN BOX STOECKEL TAKES AWAY 19 DRIVERS' LIGENSES Record Breaking Number on Suspension List of Motor Department The operators’ licenses held by 19 local residents have been suspended by the commissioner of motor vehicles according to notices received today by the police. The number is the larg est number of suspensions that the police have ever received in one day. The list foilows: Thomas J. O'Brien, 5 Main street; Zumont Rell, 83 Silver street; Anthony Morowsky, 190 Broad street; Eolomon Sargls, 177 Kim street; Lovines Johnson, 408 Arch street; Patrick F. McLoughlin, 103 West Main street; Sanefa J. Cadrain, 40 Pearl street; Paul Wolk, 31 Horace street; Heromin Soberaj, 68 Booth street; Louis J. Galeck, 26 Alden street; Absolom Georges, 156 Main street; Frank Teranora, 43 Glen street; Edwin K. Adams, 181 Maple street; Willlam H. Gray, 369 Fast street; Peter Nagrelll, 239 Brook street; Albert Vitali, 430 West Main street; Joseph Dobroweki, 14 Edson street; Henry Neuman, 95 Fairview street; Sam Garcia, 35 Lafayettp strogt | | Greenwi ch Village Cel- lar Yields Corpse of Man Sought For Sev- eral Weeks. New York, Aug. 22.—The partially dismembered body of Aaron A. Graff, 72, a radio cabinet manufacturer. | who disappeared on Aug. 1, was found | by police today in a shell gealed cor- rugated tin box in the cellar of a Greenwich Village dwelling. Before leaving his home August 1, Graff told his wife he intended to call | on John Logasy, a carpenter with | whom he had business dealings, and beneath whose house the police found the body. Logasy, the police said, had | been missing from his home sinc August 9 The legs had been chopped and | sawed off at the hips to get the body | | into the four-foot box. A quilt had been thrown over the nude, mutilated | form. This had been covered by plaster of Paris, over which a tin | covering had been rammed tightly. | The casket had been soaked in a! shellac solution, in an effort to ren- der it air-tight. Strangulation was the death, A tightly-knotted_rope was found | about Graff's neck, Discovery of | the body was made by police who had | | been hunting for Graff since a r‘wl cause of (Continued From Fifth Page) | declaration I stand. CYTARIIOTY) AN ISSUE Efllfss FUUNU bEAp; Democratic Presidential Candidate Delivers Opening Speech of Campaign ~ Criticizes 0Oil Adventures. lieved to have been murdered after a ;PROSECUT'ON THREAT NOT EXECUTED Sea Girt, N, J., Aug. 22.~Calling the Ku Kiux Klan by name, John W. Davis, democratic presidential nominee, declared In an address here today that this organization or any other which raises the standard of raclal or religious prejudices, “must be condemned by all those who be- lleve as T do In American ideals, Having thus made his own position clear, Mr. Davis expressed the hope that President Coolldge, as the re- publican presidential candidate, would see fit, “by some explicit declaration” to join with him in entirely removing the Klan issue from the field of poll- tical debate, Mr. Davls sald these matters “must not be permitted to divert the atten- tlon of the public from the vital questions now before them and added that the Klan issue had no proper part in this or any other campalgn. The democratic nominee's declara- tion with' respect to the Klan, pre- pared after his arrival here, was made at the conclusion of his set ad- dress, the second of his campaign. “There 15 one other word I wish to say, It concerns a matter that has no proper part in this or any other campaign and which must not be per-~ mitted to divert aitention from those issues the people must settle in No- vember by their vote, I mention it now in the hope that I may dispose of it once and for all so far as I am concerned. “Since my arrival in Sea Girt I have been asked by more than one person now present in this audience what views 1 entertain concerning the organization known as the Ku Klux Klan. I am constrained to think that those who ask this question did not hear or have net done me the honor to read speech of accept- ance which I delivered at Clarksburg on the 11th of this month. “In that speech I took occasion to declare that nothing would so utterly destroy our happiness and security at home and our dignity and influence |abroad as the separation of the citi zenship of this country into discord- ant groups along racial or religious lines. T affirmed my personal beliet in the great guarantees of religious treedom and religious toleration which have made thls country what it is, and I assert it to be the sol- emn duty of every belfever in Amer- ican institutions to oppose any chal- lenge, organized or unorganized, of this ascred doctrine, under whatever name or in whatever character it might appear. Meant It Plainly. “It was my purpose to state thess truths in language plain enough to leave no room for doubt or misun- derstanding of my personal views, and in terms sufficlently broad to in- clude any and all forms of bigotry, prejudice and intolerance. On that If any organiza- tion, no matter what it chooses to be called, whether ku klux klan or by any other name, raises the stand- ard of racial and religious prejudice or attempts to make racial origins or religious bellefs the test of fitness for public office, it does violence to the spirit of American institutions and must be condemned by all those who believe as I do in American ideals fean ideals. “T repeat that these matters must not be permitted to divert the atten- tion of the public from the vital ques- tions now before them. T venture, therefore, to express the hope that the nominee of the republican party will see fit by some explicit declara- tlon to join in entirely removing this topie from the field of political de- bate, Prepared Address. Mr. Davis’ prepared address follows ing the above statement was: “This is my second appearance at Sea Girt. You will not be surprised if T find my memory turning at this time to the clrcumstances of my earlier visit. It happened on a hot July day, 12 years ago. 1 was one of a party of 200 or more who tramped in the dust from the station to the governor's house at Sea Girt, at our head marched that grand old Roman, Champ Clark, then the speaker of the house of representa- tives, Among the party 1 recall a Jerseyman who was then my c¢ol- league in congress and who was soon to take a seat in the senate—the oved and lovable Biily Hughee. We vere calling on a governor of New Jersey who had just received the democratic nomination for the preal- dency. Most of that company, in- ‘cludlnx myself, had never made his personal acquaintance. It was our ere rand to assure him of our hearty sup- port and to place ourselves atjhis service, The impression of the day were summed up for me by one cf my colleagues as we tramped back to the waiting train. Said he, “When that man comes to Washington there will be a leader in the White House. “I recall how quickly this lTeaders ship asserted itself when Washington (Continued on Page 120).