New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1924, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 THO OF DOUBTFUL STATES ARE CLOSE Goolidge Has Advantage in Mon- fana and North Dakota GAINING IN NEW MEXICO Democrats Still Lead Th.cre How- ever — Wisconsin Has Given LA Follette Tead of About 100,000 Yotes Over Repu blican Cholee, Helena, Mont, Nov, 6.—Returns of Tuesday's balloting today from 1,- 162 of the 1,683 Montana precincts increased the Jead of President| (‘oolidge over La l'ollette more than The count gave: Coolldge La Follette 48,003; Davis | More than 3,400 votes were for the farmer-labor and ®o- clalist electors, also pledged to la‘ IFollette although repudiated by him in favor of the Independent electors. or Thomas J. Walsh, drmn- Congressmen John M. Ev Aemocrat, and Scott Leavitt, rrpub- lean, were reclected. J. E. Erlck-| son, democrat, continued to pile up a substantial mbjority over Gover- Dickson in the gubernatctial &t nor race, Leads in N, Dakota The As e Fargo, N. D, Nov. Returns from 1,618 precincts of North Da- Kota's for president give: Conlldgs 81,174 La Tollette 70,560; 177, In the last ten pre- Iollctte registered a gain | s a precinct, La Follette s, hovover, expect him to n even better gain than this more complet returns (""m"‘ from Mcl.ean, McKenzie, Mountrail, | Mercer, Hettinger and Burke coun- ties, where La Follette Is piling up a Davis 13, cinets La ajo six connties lity for the is slow always turn in progressive non-partisan movement ways throws ner of it is tt turns t as to the in North Dakota, With remaining precin clatmed by Folle it 15 helieved that t's pluraiity in the state 10,614 will be eut down rapf an elec- | the La W ion Behind in New Mex, ne, N. Mex, Nov. 6 from 534 out of 715 pre- in the today con 1 to give the demgcratic na- lates a lead gradually by e vote: A atetanly : Davis 2 um, s: Hubbel o1 Otero, 1a Follette Ahead i Senator R umniated votes over Jette h o ert A. La da a lead of nearly 100,060 Coolidge Wisconsin in ial election tab Prosident was leading entire state was also elect flgnres. Represent Wiseansin v same ress froni | secking election ! the face the in 1 on unt Ahead in Colorado Nov President d a oyer of , (Col [ intat majority of m ‘ Terno presidential of v today returns When | 1.404 precincts Coolidge La Follatte The gres: rep e Davis 72,510; 11 and con- excep- in the state, Taylor, was the the re- to natori sior offic ¢ in Edward district, candidate, cally will be wer bl this from curth neratie on prac complete o returned larence J. Morlay, repub- nt landslide piling up a 20,000 votes over inc wm. proposed soldier honus was of the state ticket, by majority of nearly Governor William E A snowed under Sweet, Dakota No of cts in South Dakota for United glve McMasters 8 Ayers 18,8 South 6.—Re- 1,588 pre- senator Win State Office Phoenix, Ar ov. 6.—The publican ket ca Arizona, state re- ied can- , election re- om 408 state's 454 election precincts indicated early to- | day | The vote on president stood: Cool- Davis 21 La Fol- but turns f lette 13,862, G or George W. P. Hunt, running for his fifth term was conceded the Dwight B last night. over executive tion by his opponent republican, late New Klan Temple in Fort Worth Destroyed Fort Worth Nov. 6.—Fort Ku hall recently $50.. 1y to-! Texas, Kiux Klan ta of ab jestroyed by fire ear structure was of brick The | telegraphy | Lehigh Valley | ehief | Connectient | Western He -‘ or harm | said. | with 5 W Official Recount Likely to Be Called Before Contest is Decided—Republican Press in Milwaukee Concedes Berger’s Election—Schall Leads Johnson in Minn. | | Steck (0)/owa Brookhart®lowa flv ’[he Assoclated Press. Moines, Nov, 6. partial r ‘(nnrk on returna from the Towa sen- |atorial election today showed Sena- [tor Smith W. Brookhart to be lead- ing his democratic opponent, F. Steck, of Ottumwa, by slightly more than 700 votes. An error of 300 in Buena Vista county in favor of Brookhart, unccvered by county auditor Kauffman, at Storm Lake, was the biggest factor in changing the standing. Other additions were made to Brookhart's total in half a dozen counties. Another error, thi county, (Des Molnes) hart 20 more votes, briuging his lead to 759. The new totals follow: Brookhart 447,248; Steck 446,489, The unofficial vote from all pre- [cincts gave: Brookhart 446,506; Steck 446,440, While three missing precinets in |Lee county gave Steck a lcad, re- |ehecked figures from other counties allowed Brookhart to more than | hold his own over the figures report- ed on 2 |a lead of forty votes, | Senator Brookhart this morning sald that he had private advices in- | dicating his election was assured, He said vesterday with more than 100 {precincts missing that his defeat {seemed apparent. | Secretary of State W. C. Ramsay | this morning said that under the law {the officlal count cannot he started | before Monday. Tn case of a tie, a |cording to Attorney General Ben | Schall (Q)Hlnn Johnson() Minp, TELEGRAPH SERVICE VETERAN 15 DEAD seorge F. Groff Was Operator for Over Half Century one in Polk gave Brook- George F. Groff, aged 65, one of the few real pioneers in telegraphy and formerly local manager of the | | Western Unfon Telegraph Clo. office, died suddenly at his home 381 West Maln strect shortly after 9 o'clock last night. Medical Examiner Water. | man Lyon gave the cause of the death as heart trouble, Mr. Groff was first attracted to in 1869, when he over- heard an iInstrument in the Wilkes- Barre office ofthe Deleware River | Telegraph Co. and was so interested | t he hunted up the manager and | obtained a position as delivery clerk. Telegraphy was in its infancy then, messages being sent with no assur- that they would be delivered, hey were received by means lines on a tape instead of the present auditory method. The Delaware River Co. merged with the Western Union in 1872 and Mr. Groff worked for the new con- 1 for some time, then transferred became relief operator for the & Central Raliroad | of New He changed com- panies frequently as he worked his way upward and in the 80's became operator for the Amerlcanl Rapid Telegraph Co. at Ol City, Pa. In 1859 he 1ook charge of numerous private wires Is ance while of lots. Mr. Gibson |in a senatorial contest. er Also Afwad, Nov. #.—Victor L. socialist representative in the fifth Wisconsin has been A. Braun Jersey. Per Milwaukea, ’Bergar. H"’)\’VK.’“R! from from the old | qgtyicet, solidated Stork Exchange in | aver Ernest w ¥ city to brokers in ail [three daily newspapers here parts of the country. | A fourth newspaper, however, in Mr. Groff had his first taste of 'firet editions, still finds that Braun In 1909, when he Wad|s |eading by a small margin 1 managar of the Danbury | mne official count was begun at 9 of the Postal Telegraph Co.l, m today and until it is completed following vear he was transfer-|yn. rocuit will remain in doubt red to this city and. although he | "y poroar fegued the following left New Britain in 1911, he return- {40 b g rk aproint office to stay in 1914 as manager of the | "Nyl L0 ovany e held th1S | oorted Fa Follette with thelr organ rosition until about four and a half iy 040 " 1oenapers and their work, years ago, When he hecame manager |, 4 o are othar way, -even with their tHeiibrokerage ROTMEGCITRER G0 2o s St dE SRR B o n in Milwankea did not reciprocate |Ta Falleite ran ahead of me in my |district. The difference in 1a Fo U'nion office Keogh Tt thought that My, record equalled that of any person in the telegraph ven in late years he often took his \Hyv‘ :v' v'h:- key and handled the |district proves that his followers did rush of u,wcs;,g.fq with as great ac- | MOt reciprocate even though we had e an alliance with La Follette.” Groft is survived by a sister | by a ughter, Nan, of Sacra- me Cal. His wife, Katherine, | lied in September and was buried in Bound Brook, N. J. Funeral rangements for Mr, Groft are in the cara of M. J. Kenney and complete NEGRO 1S ELECTED AS CHICAGO COURT JUDGE This Is First Instance In American Groff's other service. is curacy My, and Johnson Behind §t. Poul, Nov. 6.-—Returns from » cts out of 3,607 in Min- nesota. gave for United States Sena [tor: are in- | 2,933 ar Tofin Farrel all, republican, farmer-labor 45,701, FAMOUS ACTOR DIES Frank Holland, 1111 ,842; son 333 democrat, Known to Three Generations of Playgoers, Col- Jurisprudence—Another Negro e | lapses on Sidewalk in New York. ! New York land, a of playgor disease today n R Nov. 6.—Frank Hol- to three generations died suddenly of He was leaving th club in West Sixty-nintt g0 to the Lambs’ club, when he collapsed 6.—For the first a negro Amer- Albert to the Chicago, Nov. time, so far as known here fran court of record, He is | B. George, elected Tuesday | municipal eourt of Chi The first negro ever to sit in the and felll to the sidewalk Ninois state ac e also was cted, linols st senato also was wected | My alana, who was 62 vears “I am {mpressed with the thought | “ith Robert Mantell, Fannie Daven that the welfare of our group may | port, Eleanor Robson and William rlously ed fl\'h’r for good H Among t ‘ plays in which George he appeared ights of Lon- T atn seneible to.the fact that | don” and “Handa Across the Eea it Will be my duty to be a good I”fi’:":f tils AN Ay judge in every sense of the word.” Georga attended school in Wash- tngton, D. C, studied law in t office of a white attorney in Al toona, Pa.. and afterward was grad- uated from Northwestern University law &choo jcorge's vote Was nactor re. heart where he lived, is Crane. | be wer be o Danbury l-ne House Is Burned Early Today Danbury, Nov. 6.-—~Tha building of Beckerle and Co., hose company on | East Liber was burned though he ran last of t | early this morning with its contents, cipal judges elected. Judge Daniel | including motor chemical and P. Trude led the republican ticket |apparatus, furnishings and fire fight- 1 ing equipment and an automobile | owned by & member of the company | The 0"gm of the fire is unknown. 5.664 al- ve muni- street, hose Roberts, for state senator, re- ceived 63 agminst 6,479 for his democratic opponent with elght pre- cincts missing. - |Severe Defeat But Must TIE VOTE 1N “”“""""""' | Look Ahead Says Bryan | | w Hartford, Nov. 6.—The cretary Miami, Fla.,, Nov. Tt s A has been notified U at there 18 a tie Vote in the town of Wood- dofcat and we must begin at bridge for justice of the peace and the campaign for 1 that a special election will be held Jennings Bryan sald, on November 11 to vote on the tie. d here from The andidates, both democrats, Pa., today “Tt is too early William E. Wilson and Albert | to analyee but T wi make ns, each of whom received 40 |a statement soon,” the telegram votes, added. of stat severe once on William telegram receive a in s bury, we returns Daniel | 30 precincts which gave him | |Glbson, the candidates must draw gaid there is no | | provision in the Towa covering a tle | declared winner republican by | lette’s vota and my vote in the fifth OVEMBER 6, 1924. Coroner Says Rogers Was Killed In Company With White Slaver | Wi Machine Hit Pole tod Dope Peddlers ‘GIRL WAS DRIVING CAR WIFE BIDS HIM PAREWELL Their Leave-Taking Oceurs At Jail— | No One Is Held Responsible But i Both Victim and Miss Schneider | | Blind, Former State Treasurer Is TUnable To See Friends Who Were Under Influcnce of Liquor i Comie To Bid Him Goodbye, at Time of Crash, Finding Says. Gilps cut, Nov. -G, asurer of Haven, L] Harold 6.—No criminal : Connect! omiesion or carelessncss of any contributed to the death, of Charles G. nephew of of New New Haven, Nov, [ act, | person | last Eaturday night, | Rogers, bond salesman, Mrs. Ogden Mills Reld, | York ecity, Coroner Eli Mix sald today in a finding. Rogers was | found in a dying state in an auto- | mobile on the side of the turnpike in North Haven and was brought to a hospital here where he died. | Girl Had Fainted. When Rogers was found by pass- ric, late t trusted and honored in his home | town as cashler of the First N al bank of left family, home and friends behind this noon, he the Atlanta | penitentiary to expiate for betrayai of trust, | confessed to misuse of funds bank by pleas of gullty to counts fn an inditement of smms and sentenced to an aggregate ing automobilists his companion, 15 years in the penitentiary his Marjorie R. Schnelder, of this city, | had been "wf‘j’l':l Ss rr;‘rt:wl was in a fainting condition and ;A g over Mo IRrgie! when revived was unable to tell (Liwn; D. )w‘v. myrust a lifelong what had happened. The machine |friend, was his custodian. bore marks which suggested a pe . Could Kot Sea Frieads. el cullar collision, efther that it had | Gllpatric, blind from his ac r.r" run into & projection, such as & |fh00URS, was unshie Lo ses fhe pi {timber, on a machine ahead or had |{riends who were at the station been sideswiped across the wind. |When the Colonial Express over the eMeld by a projecting object from |N- Y- N- H. and H. railwad came in, % bane s and on which the marshal and pris- Afiort twolldayatiort tanl (he |Oner embarked. Tn the party going coroner discarded the collision the- | #OUtR wore deputios with threo other ory and inclined to one wherein, be- ’F’}‘]': ("")’:' :’W" ”_' & ('("‘:"‘m;' cause of the fog the machine had "¢ PTHETE M T o left the roadway and hit a pole. Al L L 8 : : with his wife at the county jail here Miss Schneider, meantime, had been |10 A SR T2 able to recall certain incidents just ] viinat : " 1 preceding the accident and the| Vhon Gilpatric reaches Atlanta coroner. tlossd tho case andl today |Penitentiary Tialcase will be closed 3o the finding In the usual way|t0 ® considerable extent an far as made the fincing In the usual Way 'pq nag personal connection with fit. filing it in court. The affairs of the bank are yet to be Party Had Tiquor. adjusted, and the tangle of financial Rogers died of a fractured sKull. | 3.ayinee’ in which he was engaged The coroner found- that Rogers and "¢l 1o be S ehiailibe Miss Schneider lunched at noon Sat- | oo o “hire urday, and had Hquor. They wit-|yy oy of the money which he used, nesaed the football game at Yale apg which was taken from the hank Bowl and later went to an inn inl,ng from funds deposited and held Walllngford where lquor was 8erved | in triet at the hank, went to. to fhem as they sat at a separate Nad Vere P rominent table, and to acquaintances at other! Giipatric was the first state treas- tables. Rogers and Miss Schneider |yror in three-fourths of a century to left the inn at 10:15 to drive home, |hs elected for a third term. A man and’ the coroner eays, “both were n¢ prominence in political affairs in more or less under ‘the influenca of the state it fell to many of his elos- intoxicants taken at sald inn;” fhat est friends to ha the Instruments {on account of the dense fog pre- through which he has come to suffer valling, sald operator (Miss the peralty of his crime. Major Schnefder) experienced difficulrr in lJohn Puckley, fust sworn ' as 17, 8 | obgerving ~njects upon the highway, district atto had this as his first |and so leaned over the front left case; Federal Judge Thomas was hand door (car having a left hand acquainted with the banker, and drive), to observe the highway. Marshal Walter, for many vears a Rogers #at at the right on the front friend and political companton, seat. through membership on the repub- Miss Schneider drove at a rate lican state eentral committee, AS 20 miles an hour. While on the his custodian from the time he was highway between Wallingford and committed to jafl awalt trans- New Haven, near Pole } J1587, portation and uatil his arrival at the Miss Schnelder hecame aware t | prison, a pertion of the windshleld in front of the steering wheel had been smashed by some object coming into contact with it. She stopped car and found Rogers' body Iving on the edge of right r door which s closed, his stomach pressed against the top of the door, d and shoulders being down- in the car and back of the seat his feet and a portion of legs being outside the car over right running board Girl Called Help. Miss Schneider, the finding says, endeavored to attract notice of pa ing and one v with two young men did stop. They gers from position de- condition nd carried him to the side Lodge, road. Short rward v at Miss Schneider came up ok Rogers into the hospital. r friends drove Miss Schneider a Cedar Hill precinct station to await word from the ner Mix says the door of Miss « , which was de- on the wind- had previously many times thrown off as it was not well damage e to the machina other than to The ¢ ner gaid eider “ill- tior Putnam, when started for the of remoy took to well of to SENATOR LONGE VERY LOW, AFTER STROKE the W Critical—Patient Is Unconscious automobilists, hicle Cambr Mas ige, who suffs red of aft the Char the nds of lar coroner. ce J submitted to an was that fricnds of Miss S advised operat the machins her to sav she tatements" on ¥ and subse which served dents preceding the The r with the examinat s and t which th nent recital of the to explain inei- ainder of the f deals wit- ; gave on P the head se of the nes and bruises on his face and head INQUEST ORDERED R quest John Robert L. who wound recely raig: last 1 preferred by ¢ E. Brown. He and was held THE WEATHER Hartford, Nov. 8.—Forecast for New Britain and vichnity Rain late tonight or Friday cooler Friday, ~SIXTEEN PAGES. Senator Brookhart Now Lzading ][IUU[]R HM] PART fiILPATRIG STARTY In Towa As Votes Are Rechecked | |\ AUMAEEI]Y[ OFF FOR ATLANTA Condition Ts Regarded as, r——————————— Averats Maily Circulation For | N1 11,188 —_——) PRICE THREE CENTS ABILITY OF REPUBLICANS T0 HOLD - CUNTR(]L Uf NEW CONGRESS RESTS L~ RACE IN THREE STATES Sreaqiy © Business Expected to Improve | Industrial Leaders Here Say’ »Admmhtratlon Has At Least Working Ma- jority In House But New Mexico, Wyo. And Minn. Are Doubt- ful In Upper Branch. Claim- Result of Election ME“J]N PRE"ICTS Bl[l Will React Favorably and Anticipate Stimula- | tion of Conditions. BUSINESS EXPANSION |Brakes Are Off and Out-! look Is Bright, Treasury Secretary Says Congressman Madden of Almost without exception, manu- cturers opinfons were today expressed belfet that | siness throughout the country will improve as the result of the elec- | tion. “We think the continuance of the same people in office will make bus-'| iness better,” Vice-President George | T. &imball of the American Hard- | in ¢ will go ahead with a pro- ware Corp. said. here has been | gram of expanding development. a great deal of construction work | ary, it was said today at and development held up pe nr)lng the treasury, believes that the elec- the new congress elected Tues- the outcome of the election and this | tion has taken off “brakes” that| day appearcd today to hinge on the will now go forward."” | have held back business somewhat| outcome of senatorial contests in President F. 8. Holm in the last several m . He thinks | three states—Minnesota, New Mexi« & Judd Mfg. Co. expre also, it was added, co and Wyoming. There was little views, saying: “The result managers will feel t doubt that it would have at least & election will stimulate bus We | out programs for the next few years| hare working majority in the house have been waiting to getethe elec-| With more confidence that moves| over democrats and La Follette in« tion out of the way and now that | inimical to them will not be made| surgents. that has been accomplished condi-| b¥ T | It the republican candidates for tions should improve,” With the uncertainty of a possible| U.v senate In two. of the three states “Everything 13 set to go ahead,” | d¢adlock on the presidential vote re-| still in doubt are victorious, and the sald President Elisha H. Cooper of | Moved, it said Mr. Mellon fore-| vacancy in Connecticut is filled by & the Fafnlr Bearing Co. “I have|5¢°S a generally healthy condition, | repubiican, a coalition of democrats heard of several orders conditional | Oth at home and abroad. He traces| and consistent supporters of Senator on the election and T belleve we're | (1€ improvement in ope La Follette would fall two short of seitlement of the reparations p em through the Dawes agreement | d expects that better conditions| will result not only in the countries immediately cted by the settle- 'S | ment, but in the United States and whose Ilinois Is a Candidate Washington, Nov. 6—General bus- to SUCCCCd (’I"ett ineas sees a “clear eky" in the opin- J ion of Secretary Mellon, who now | .%peaker. expects that doubts as to the future | will be removed and commerce and b as % By The Assoriated Press, Washington, Nov. the republican organization to con« Ability of of North similar of the Republicans Tead. In Minnesota and Wyoming the an nominees are leading on 2 of icomplete Irns as re- d as sve , but in New Mexico electlon Was 80 | n other cofintries which have impor- | Senator Bursum was trailing his £ ndlcates that the | tans trada rel lemocratic opponent, Sam G, Brat business men of the country were of | j . o g Witk 1o west) At one opi and the result should | g ©° yarAhopesuln slsictipaly o ment. {onal districts atill in doubt, the help a grea st deal The treasury ne-up of the new louse based on It will improve | now to round out its sug unofficial returns was republicans Maxwell 8. Hart, the next congress on t but these | 238; democ 17 ‘attered four, & Hutchinson recommendations, it was stated, will| Of the missing districts, nine now It won't act 1 ¥ ment of the po-| are democra and seven are repub- ought to help,” the reply of | aitlon taken last fall. The proposals| lican, but even zhould all of these Robert 1. Hyatt, president of the | will be made in the treasury’s an- | seate be captured by the ocral American Hoslery Co. “We Xave | nual report d probably will the republican nizagion still been going along in good shape al- | clude suggestions for certain tax “re- would have a jority of 19 with though the wea 8 held up or- | forms,” a3 well as references to! which to offset deflections in the I ders to some exte here 1s only 10ds of dealing with t stion }‘m;vv:‘e blae. one way to go and that is forward. curitia Recapture 23 The election ttle the muncer- This majo falnty that has existed, especlally in | roads the repiblica the wool market fn which, of course, | democratic we are finterested. The election of 3 seats while Mr. Coolidge will help us more than | the election of any other candidate would hava done. Now that elec- | tion is out the way, business should be stimulated.” 450 of the Works &aid: “We hops busi- ness 18 golng to better. One man’s guess is as good as anothe The fact that the overwhelmong W be tions with those who reparations settle- | ton, paring busine: business, ons to said president of Hart ats avorably and it ma meth of tax exempt se COMMITTEE SELECTED T0 REVISE CHARTER - Work on Proposed Amend- | =1 representation in 1 ments Will Begin This | fver the six scoie oe Month Seats, sult of in 1e on t recaptured rats tool m. With in Penn- into t wiil Pl n hey deino demo three places from tt Tnst NoUBLEILL S larEiGe nia f blican be without ng of the umn, will GASES OF BOOZE ON CAPTURED LAUNCH Gasoline Craft Petrolia No. from Uncerta plexion of t oday by t Steck, a democrat 5 to the senat intensif fight Brookhar son ions that en eded to Towa Senatc Paonessa made an- his afternoon of the s follows 1018 2 opointine Taken Few Miles Off Mon- tank Point. cases of don, Conn., alcohol Norv. 6 in her Petrolia, a few te vesterday With hold, | No. gasoline launch miles off in Downes ught in port he destroyer coast . held for ssioner Earl 200 AUTOS BURNED Brandford destroyor after she had be Star Garage at ra., De- stroyed By Fire—Machines Almost All Were Privately Owned worth Endorse er Fnlem T‘an of Guiltv in Al Nov Geor That SOCIALIST ETECTED vantage of Well i his city also & ar charges. al FLORIDA INCOMES EXEMPT hich 3 the pald tate, but or the t the estate of LaFollette shows t svestmime TNt Of about