New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 4, 1924, Page 1

% i News of the World By Associated Press ‘ESTABLISHED 1870 Ja0 ELECTORAL VOTES ARE CLAIMED FOR COOLIDGE AS BATTLE OF BALLOTS WAGES FRENCH PREMIER WING ON CONFIDENCE VOTE Deputies Agree to Indefi-' White House Statement Also Predicts Repub- lican Working Major- ity Of 20 Or More, Exclusive Of Insur- gents. i | By The Assoctated Press. Parls, Nov. nite Postaponement of Interpellations Davis Votes 232 on List and Turns in “Democra- tic Ticket Straight”—La Follette Family Votes in Body. | exchange, {clzed former Premier W ton, No 4.—President Coolidge cxpeets a vote in the elee- toral college of at least 350 and a republican working majority in the naxt session of 20 or more, it d today at the White House. |he had objected to the loan, | the Morgan firm had xacted estimate is based on reports 'promise that the government would from Chairman Butler of the re- jimit expenses and overhaul finances, publican national committee. The | The recent renewal, he declared, working majority expected, it was | \was made without limiting the free- said, 18 exclusive group. of the insurgent | gom of the government, REPUBLICANS LEAD President Satisfied. §is of the president who vis- ited th® White ITouse today said they found Mr. Coolidge well satisfied | with the conduct of the campaign | EARLY THWN REP“RTS and feeling that no apologies wero | i | n regardless of the out- come. The president also believed | expenses had been cut down and | Windsor, N.H. and Kansas ser d more closely than ever | ’ before, | President Coofldge slept until § | o'clock this morning, & much later | Districts Announce In- complete Returns : o 13 | o'clock. Last clection he was at the hour than usual. Soon after rising, | polls ten minutes before the opening DL TR A MO LI o O |hour. The youngest voter is the carly returns received from the Now | apivcpecier N M., Nov. A | England Windsor, Hillsborough county, the| (Gontinued on Fourth Page.) Early Congratulations. first town in this state to report its ey A table flood of m vote complete In foday's presiden- | grect Mr. Coclidge upon ais ar- | tja) election gave Coolidge 9, Davl:,SMITH [i[]ES BAGK T‘] rival at the executive offices, many | 5, LaFollette 0. i of them from thoso who had already | 14 1020 the town gave Harding | ed and who 1 they wanted to seven votes and Cox five: congratulations. Others gave appro of his addresg de- ! mopoka, Kas, Nov. 4—The in- | livered last night over the rad¥b. | complete and unofticial count as an- | Among telegrams was ono [nguneed in five precincts in Kansas | fromECt oy W, Depew of New | 54 noon today gave for president: | York, vetcran republican leader, exs | aolidge , Davis 95, LaFol- tending “cordial congratulations on | jete ap unusual vietory.” slied that the mes- ind added eon- morning of eclection | Boston, Nov town of Mashp Yeheer fidenc on 1) today's election follow: hope that long helped For president -— Coolidge, Davis, 2; La Follette, 1. 2 governor — Curley (r), 48. FFor senator — Glilett (r), ‘alsh (d), 12 Mashpee's vote in the tial election of 1920 (r), 43; Cox (d), 4 ° - Tokrka, Kan, * he said “in the many more to the have (4), 1 I'he 1 or Lord of tha president, n 14 1 Direet- held by hour of W the lmdget than discnzsion an Ar's appropriations, rt Covildges” Ballots President which were reeeived urday by City Cler 1, wil ov, 4. Nort] The Cool- precinets gave for governor: Governor Jonathan M. Davis democrat, 180; Ben H. Paulen, publ independent, S lere last R. late to- Tames he 1o, presid an. & wrd the of other ab- Massacluigetts vill not the pols ! sentees in Kansas and one board counting within a few the polls open. sible to obtain incomple ur o'clock of the the bo e figures. ron: IS ON HUNGER STRIKE the dropped ir ntees wili | Davis Votes oo John shortly ore noon t Not Faten Since Monday and Faints in Cell. Bridgeport, Nov. 4, bord, 19, one of five youths arrest- ed Monday {n connection with a series of 38 burglarles in Bridgeport George Du- umber 23 T B T e luring the last month, refused to s to vas marked, ghe | €at any breakfast today, continuing ! ted hod not negatived @ hunger strike he started when the 1 of taken into custody. He has had no food now for 48 hours. La Vollette Votes Weak from hunger and hysteria A i hrought on by his arrest, Dubord v ., Wis., Nov. 4—Senator falnted In his cell last n Robert M. La Follette, independ iz sid candidate, \-..,nqm ON NON vt county courthouse early today n Diego, Cal., 4.—Headed and cast his ballot, accompanied by by Lieutenant Low Smith, the Robert Jr., and Philiip. Mr. | army world flyers took - off from | cast his vote at the same | Rockwell field at 9:50 o'clock this place where 44 years ago he entered Morning on a non-stop flight to El political life as district attorney of | Paso, Texas. Dane county ———— Mr. La Follette visit- ANOTHER EARLY ONE, out Madison with old acquaint- | Selma, Ala., No¢. 4.—Tha total aking several calls upon | vote of Martin Station, Dallas coun- close friends. He will spend the re- | ty, was poiled at 9 o'clock and gave mainder of tne day with friends | Davis 7, La Follette 0, Coolidge 0. and at Maple Biuff, his farm home just outside of Madison, and recelve | election returns tonight at the state house. 104 But Stands in Line, Awaits Turn, Asks No Assistance Sold Auto and Lost Track of Purchaser | 0— A. G. Cohen of Hartford, com- Jamostown, N. Y., ‘Nov. 4— plained to the police that he had |} Among the first voters at the told an automobile to a_man Who || polis fn Jamestown today was gave the name of Joe Press, Box || amy E, Price, who was 104 years 48, Canton, and that he had 1ot || 014 last Jume. She took her of him. He said he thinks | piace In the line of voters, waited name and address are false. Hc her turn and asked the manipulation of machine, no help in the voting th e to investigate and * automobile is located here, to Press, This makes it pos- 19 Year Old Bridgeport Youth Has Néw Haven, Nov. 4.—Yale and | Notre Damaswill not meet on the gridiron in the fall of 1925, despite | reports to the contrary, it was off! 4.—The chamber of deputies today gave Premier Her- riot a vote of confidence, 410 to 170, when, upon the reconvening of par- llament, he demanded the indefinite | postponement of interpellations, the chief of which was a criticism of the | government for renewing the Mor- gan loan to ald I'rance In stabilizing The interpellation on the loan re- | newal was directed against the pre- {mler because he had bitterly criti- Poincare's | transaction with the Amerlcan bank- ing firm when it was first negotiated. | M. Herrlot, in replying, sald that as | negotiated by M. Poincare, because | the The vote of the ee, In the Cape Cod | listrict, in the princlpnl contests of | 62; The in- complete unofficial count in fourteen . T€-lthe whole family, William Allen White, governor, Mrs. Smith, their daugh Double election boards are used |yt Mrs, in about one-third of the precincts| | unable to go to the polls today. Canrlght had visited a newspaper of- | NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1924, —EIGHTEEN PAGES CASTS VOTE . NEW ASHFORD, MASS., Coolidge 20, Davis 4, La Follette 0 — Somerset, Vt, Second Town to Complete Voting, With 8, Going Solid for Coolidge. #clock the complete {town was cast. Through the count goes Republican, vote to the waiting world, news to Californla, | voters were wide awake. Autos Get Votel the Berkshire hills, over hour of 6 a. m. ments and a willing spirit | greater success than ever. Only 30 Registered. were 36, |and Harry Phelpe. is Warren Baxter, this year is Walter Smit! 1916 could “se no goos | But Says It's Straight | Ticket {fred E Side today to vote. | Notsily welcomed by nefghborhood i |children armed with blaring horns, |the governor who is a candidate for 45; {reclection drove with his family |trom the Biltmore to a public school presiden-lat Henry and Oliver streets was: Harding | efte the Smith home, and there cast his baliot He had to fight to get into everybody | Several women—old the Smiths neighbors fer, Emily, their son Alfred, Jr. |the latter's bride. Al cast Smith, Jr. The ¢ the job, and |voted a split ticket when he reap | peared. Inot, sure and “vote for proposition No. New Ashford, Mass., Nov. 4. —The vote of this town, the | first to report its returns in the presidential election, gives: Coolidge 20; Davis 4; La Fol- lette 0, The 1920 vote was | Harding 28; Cox 6. Through Early Today. Within a few minutes after six vote of this its early vote New Ashford has come to be | known as the “political barometer of even though it always It was the first town in the past two presidential elections to flash fts Without | telephone, telegraph, post office, rail- road or trolley, this second smallest | town in Massachusetts, has given the long before its This year for the third time, The Berkshire Evening Eagle, of Pitts- | tleld, 15 miles from New Ashford, | went in the wee small hours, to the doors of lonely farmhouses, high in rough mountaln roads, ready with automo- biles to carry the townspeople to the polling place in time for the opening Previous arrange- on the | part of the voters, made the,plan & This year there were only 30 regis- tered voters; four ycars ago there ‘The selectmen in this tiny town are Bernard Mackey, Elmer Beach The town clerk The oldest voter 76, who in in getting out at 6 a. m. to vote and so held up getting the complete return until 10 THE OLD EAST SIDE Takes 20 Minutes to Vote, New York, Nov. 4 —Governor Al- Smith went home to the East oppo- | the booth for the crowd was dense and ited to shake his hand of -went 80 far as to kiss comprising the and ballots owd \\'91"‘(1 patiently while starta |the gubernatorial party voted hours after | governor took about 20 minutes for was asked if he had The He smilingly replied he had but that he had wanted to be 1," which provides for a state park band issue. “That's the smile that won't come | {off,”” Mrs. Smith sald when her hus- | 1 widely at the request | band grinn [ of news “No,’ { 400,000 cheered. »er photographers. The governor Wil receive the re- | | turns tonight at the Biltmore. Before voting, the Smith |attended a mass in memogy of the governor's mother at a Brooklyn church. Although Tnjured While Pla; | Fli Mich . Nov. 4.—Theodore kept up 1 he fell was &0 ser hi tiome yesterds injured he w be fice to toll of his votint ment and and to declar to vote again today. home deep gash in his head and suffered internal injuries. Nowspaper men no- tified City Clerk King, who made an exception and aent an ahsent voters' ballot to the aged man. Notre I_)ame. Yale Will he in Iy stated at Yale today. Prof, C. W. Mendell, chairman of the athletic board of control sald today that there has been no negotlations be- tween the two institutions and ow- ing to the top-heaviness of the Yale schedule there would be none. corrected, “that’s the | rality smile.” The crowd | family rars old, who voted for record this year though Mr. | achisve- | Not Meet Next Season | | | men and he worker. dent, the prasident’s by h accompanied his lot. drive hi mile of h i Coolldg home fro drove to the his hou: ots were deposited become a t Colonel ( 1i¢ Although the vot be overwheln solidly Coolidge. prevented a s | two men workers ir { home in Cherry stre | they took a | rived { « Charles Hanson, 6 nning, He Gets a Vote | in the charge of tacking Otto Pence of the institution. ne, was arated the nien an Hanson He was in $2,000 ball for b VOTES AG. N, B, Conecord, ote for F has the record of v republican prestde since, went to t He is 96 years old that he had marke | Calvin Coolidge. ng the quarrel In t m the Moore hall at Plymouth Unfon. bitched up his horse in e in 3 ye No ended | Hodgson, of this city As he reached [ first v 1 from the porch, cut a| Plymouth, Vermont, Nov John Coolidge, father of the presi- was the first to cast his vote when the polls opened in this town, birthplace, Promptly at 10 o'clock voting was to begin, Colonel Coolidge entered the hall at Plymov 4.—Col. tod when the h Union housekeeper, Aurora Pierce, and marked his bal- The president’s father earlier had refused offers by several persons to in an automobile v road that separates the | Frank H. He over the d buggy and hall accompanied eeper, There the two bal- boxes provised from butter pails. the sald today that ons man had nounced his intention of voting for Davis in order that it might not go |wamrrv From Slashing Another. felonious assauit It ha presi be a by im- 1 adition i Plymonth that e will cast the ballot on election day. firat dent’s old home town is expected to y for Coolidge, it was sald that there would least one vota for Davis in the town. Nelghbora of the president's t father NONS PREVENT FIGHT Three Sisters of Mercy at New York Madonna Home Stop One Worker | New York, Nov. 4.—Threa nuns| tendent JOHN COOLIDGE . There are 214 registered voter® in the town of which CHICAGO HAS KILLING One Dead. ed—Relief Is That Union Feud is Cause, Chicago shot and probably fats volver fight 1 Early at the with factior sters’ wnion The m Claude M wounded Maddox a sald to have mobile when vachine The ass Another Fatally Wound- Teamsters' THE WEATHER Hartford, Nov 1. —Forecast for New Britain and vicinity Generally Wednesday; day, fair tonight cooler Extra Election Herald Soon after the ballots are counted an extra e and Wednes- the New Britain Herald will be printed with complete in- formation on the election results in this city. The polls will close at 6 o'clock and the extra should be on the streets shortly thereafter. Returns from the state and nation will be bulletir and megaphoned at the Herald office on Church street t evening. Motion pictures will be shown. ed NEW BRITAIN HERAL The schoolhouse at New Ashford, Mass., where the townspeople go on Election Day to cast their vote. Inserts, left to right, Miss Beatrice Nichols, youngest |the state police department as well voter; Warren Bexter, town clerk, and Miss Phoebe Jordan, a pioneer woman suffrage Spurning Auto, Coolidge’s Father |TRAINCRASHES AUTO Drives Old Horse And Wagon To Polls And Is First Man" To Vote | ighbor Announces Intention of Voting For Davis So Plymouth Will Not Go Solidly For “Cal”—Half of 214 Voters Are Women. i i centers in th t sre Lol e heencen Voted for Lincoln, sunny and war Not Again Till Now; SR Bl ted, Yoting un- Declares He Is 113 a sky and with the Eel ons brought » ou A s € y voters in Los H ast and ) y ‘?-‘o‘.\\.\\‘ N 0) A \ o Rt E\S R\ W £1 1 @ \"'\‘; WY \ AW TIDE OF VOTES Towns And Cities Of State Voting Heavy | Hartford’s Turn Out Hartford, Nov, 4.—A light wag cast here during the morning but party leaders expected 85 per cent of the 49,000 registration would be brought to the polls by closing time, An unusua ly large amount of cutting of tickets ! apparent, workers at the polis | said. This was explained in part by the fact that both major candidates | for secretary of state, Francls A. lott!, republican and John A. ham, democrat, are Hartford | resldents, Democrats are hopeful that the La Follette workers are supporting thelr state and local | nominees. The third party was well | represented by workers at the polls. This is Hartford's first state election ‘m which the 57 precinct plan has | been A machine in a down- town precinct broke down during the morning and voting was held up for about 45 minutes, vote hours that Waterbury's Vote Waterbury, Nov, 4.—About one. | half of the total vote that will be | cast in Waterbury had been regis- | | tered at noon today, republican and | democratic leaders agreed. A tot#l {of 11,000 had voted. The republi- can districts showed the greatest | number of votescast. Every democratie district In the city was patrolled by members of at breakfast time as by local police and there was much consternation among the | democrats as a result of what they | | termed an insult to thelr honesty | and integrity. In New Haven New Haven, Nov. 4—~The early morning vote In this city was gen- | erally regarded by observers as light !today. In the voting preoincts | where republicans prevall the party BUS, 11 ALREADY DEAD Baby Only One of Four workers and favilittes for getting out | NP R the vote, while the precincts where Survivors With Chance | the aemocrats usually are successtul of Recovery the vote was light, due to the ab- | sence of workers and leadership it {was saild. Early indlcations were | that the heavy vote which had been | expected in this city would not be | polled. The La Follette-Wheeler | | Newport News, Va,, Nov. 4.—Only four of the fifteen persons in a bus | | Average Deily Circulation For i Week Ending Nev.l:iiiia 11,188 PRICE THREE CENTS SWEEPS INTO y | POLLING PLACES AS CITY IS - OUTTOBREAK ALL RECORDS Reports Are 10,688 | Had Cast Ballots At 2:30 o'clock This Afternoon — High Mark Is Anticipated. | Third Ward Has Margin Over Others at Press Time With First Ward 300 Behind and the Sixth Ward Trailing, i With the closing of the polls bulg! a few hours away, Republican and§ Democratic leaders this afterfioom reiterated their optimistic states ments of last night the former des claring that the city will go Repubs lican by 2,000 votes while the lattesl party confldently expected s slighff majority for Davis, Early morning balloting convince® the political organizations that & heavy vote would be cast and the hourly reports through the morning and early part of the afternoon gavel further proof of the great inferest i today’s election, f Auto Fleets Out Farly, ' The polls opened at 6 o'clock thilf morning, but for more than an houg prior to the balloting, party checkd rooms in each of the six ward werd busily preparing to bring in the early voters. Hundreds who leave the city on earty trains were escorted to @heir ward voting booth and then to | their trains by scores of automobiles that have been on duty all day. Automobile fleets were under ons ders from headquarters of both poli= tical parties and in neither office was there a shortage of transporta- tion facliities. Betting Favors G. 0. P, Betting odds favored a Republican suc There were takers for all backers of the Coolidge-Da tick- et and there were aiso betters whe d heavy wagers on the T. lette vote. Heav one group of sporting men th Progressive ticket would poll a 3,000 Fols Jald hy |struck by a Chesapeake and Ohio|party had workers jn many pre- | passenger train late yesterday at a| cincts but reports indicated that the | blind crossing in North Hampton re- | early vote for the third ticket was | | mained alive today, and only one of | not heavy. | ’mm‘, an infant, was thought to have Lieut, Governor Hiram Bingham, a fair chance to recover. Fight were | republican nominee cast his l\a'\0t1 dead before rescuers arrived, and|at 11:30 this forenoon in the 18th three others died shortly afterward. | Few details of the accident were obtainable during the night. Ben | | Battlin, engincer of the train, which |was making a specd of 45 miles an ! the first indication he had | The noonday rush was absent at the polling place due in considerable measure to the announcement of | industrial plant managements that | | | precinct. | { | hour, sa shops would elose at 4 p. m. to per- | great many split Hok vote in New Britain, but a majority of the wagers fixed either 1,500 or 1,800 vot Tdeal weather conditions and the three cornered contest were respon= sible for the heavy of this morning, ward worlers experiencing no dificulty In getting out the elecs tors, Many Split Tickets Reported Tn every ward reports indicated & . Although it vote {that the bus was on the tracks was|mit employes to vote. This w i not possibie to determine how ar |the ecras of the survivors| probably mean a heavy vote the | elector 18 voting in view of the cure |coutd be interviewed, and a coron- last fwo hours. | tained booth, the length of time ler's jury, ter viewing the scene,| At 1 p. m. precinct reports were | gpent by him in registering his | 10t to hold its inquest until that the vote was not particularly [ preferences very often. indicates ! heavy up til that hour but the re- | whether or mot he is voting ® | The bus, which was operated be-|publican wards were having the | straight tieket. That there would be ton and Poquoson, Va, | better of the argument. Democra- | many split, votes was predicted fole the center tlc ward figures showed a great|lowing the rush during the recent dead | falling off in expectations. Ward } demonstration and the many fnquires nts of the workers sald that the democrats were not d vote, ng much to get out the Meriden Votes Tarly Meriden, Nov. 4.—An exceptional- 1y large vote is the outlock it being estimated that one third of the entire electorate had voted at ten Chief interest gth of the third REAL OLD TIHERS Bridgeporter Wha Voted For Lincoln lock this morning. Votes for Cal.—Neighbor, Backer of Douglas, For Davis, party, whis en quite active. | Of the old party candidates, F. L Nov. 4.—Joseph L. e S Bridgeport, who voted (Continued on Page 15) nt expected ntial vote to- am J. nelgh e will cast Davis, having s when Lin. and for | g 4 —1 25 = = — —3 = = = = = =<1 Mr. Baye nw. Do Report Is That Several Were Slain and Corpses Spirited Away in Sat- urday’'s Riot at Nfles. of Hart- er first ballot to- rs| ay for Cool ' | Baralah B. ( 95, voted [ % he Republica cket today and James T. Hat : [ or Abrahan 1 1 fatteeiis " i e e the two f <;-' ‘M“:; SUNSHADES-SNOWSHOES 1 2c1comes vt e wouit s e sur- | d. | Two Extremes Are Reing Used Tn A VOTE FOR DAWES | Going To Polls Today in Califor- Otiu 1 hY 4.—Miss | nia Voting. Hettie Tir 85 years of age.| and a g | | w ar ¢ was a rep t | a weat n the moun Barnes ago from Moblle, Ala ame h N ma (Continued on Page 18) — YORK BANDIT 1§ KILLED BY POLICEMAN Shot to Death After Hold- up—Campanion Flees in Taxicah , Nov. 4.—Deserted by 1 who fled in a taxie 1 bandit wha d cashler of a restaurs at the p a pistol in low+ 1 o a fusil ed ; two His hody, with a base 3 h the ® ade by his £