New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 4, 1925, Page 1

Al i G R A v - o » v LIRS SIS News of the World By Associated Press et 'ullttgd'p.lo!uvu ESTABLISHED 1870 KT g g 30”-‘0‘) COOLIDG w CROWDS ASSEHBLE EARLY N HORNING oStand in Ling Hours Awaiting Tnangural Procession C0OLIDGE APPEARS CALM FELONY CHARGES AGAINST BORGLUM Georgia Grand Jury Presents Formal Indictments Today SCULPTOR WILL FIGHT President Up and Outdoors ‘Before | IS Asslstant In Stone .‘lflunmin! %:30 a. m., Then Attends to Mat- | WOork Also is Indicated—Accused | ters of Business—Dawes Has| Says Fle Had Right (o Destroy Im- | g | Conference With Reporters. perfect Models, 1 Atlanta, Ga, March 4.—Indict- | ments charging larceny from the house, simple larceny and maliclons | mischief were returned against Gut- By The Assoclated Prees. Washington, March 4.—March drew from her finest wares to pro- vide a perfect dawn for inaugura- tion day, and Presidept Coolidge | 700 Borglum, deposed sculptor of | Was onb of tho first among all the | the Stonc Mountain Confederate me- inauguration throngs to be cut of | Morial by a DeKalb county grand doors in the bright morning sun- [JUrYy today. Larceny from the house Is a fel- light. 2 : Before 7:30 o'clock, while most ;‘"ly‘ ;‘”"\"”"' lawe of Georgla. Two v i 3 ndictments w returned against J f the White House circle was just| = gainst J. (iRt C. Tucker, Borglum's superintendent beginning to bestir itself from . ._ sicep, the president stepped to mw°‘,;LJ‘.‘;"UQI‘|U"-1‘ ! north portico of the mansion, test- cker is charged with simp! ed the mellowing spring alr, and ‘““!" ny from the house. Borglum is| then took a round afoot out the | nhoer \L.,r:un Jbond to appear in| northweat. |gate, pAst. thal stana:li=Censboro, €., Saturday night | after his arrest on a warrant charg- | ing mallcious mischief a misdemea- | nor. Tucker has not been arrested. | The warrant on which Borglum | where he later was to review his inaugural parade, and then back through the southwest gate to the executive offices. The bright morn- | ing light was playlng gladly on the [ W8 arrested and upon which are rod, white and blue that decked cd toduy's indictments involve | destruction of models of Con- | | federate figurcs to be used in the memorial and alleged removal of | other models from the Stone Moun- | tain studio, Promises Fight | Cleveland, March 4. — Gutzon | Borglum when told of indictments | returned against him today at At-| lanta, said: | “I will meet them on their own grounds. They have made a court matter of this thing now and they | | will have fo earry it through the courts, They have closed the door to any diplomatic arrangement that | might otherwise have heen r There is no opportunity to exerci out the staid government buildings fianking the White House on either side, and the breeze fast was losing its sharp bite of yesterday To the secret service nen who were his sole companions during the walk, the president remarked that on every onec of the other eight days when he took an oath of office the weather had been at its best. e added that he hoped it would not break a precedent today. A Vermont Mcal Soon after he re-entered the White House, Mrs. Coolidge and their gucets we ready for break and the party sat down in the stat ing room fo the usual buckwheallthe elause in our contract which | cakeg, Vermont maple ip and |provides for arbitration.” | sausag Fra Stearns, the presi- | Mr, Borglum issued this state- dent's friend was missing from the [ment: | “The indictments return me in Dekalb county unfounded, unjust breakfast table, having gone to the union station to meet John Coolidge, Amherst student who came into | inst are malicio Georgia, and an hour la Crowd Is Out Early Soon after 8 o'clock the first of the throngh that werc to wili the taking of the oath on the Cap tol plaza had begun to make a thind oo % (50 Ryt SRR B srings of humanity around the rear | o B 0 R el B L et of the mammoth reserved 108, g0 rtat of. friends of the memorlal ito They had four hours and s s | an Washington ai last of the|persceution, that in itself as against inauguration that had|me is unimportant. | gathered to see his father become| “My passion in destroying imper- | chief executive another four [fect models was within my own | years, His train was due at 8:30 |prerogative and loyal to the high | a m, but Mr.. Stearns found n|standard of the work which 1 alone | he re d the station that it was MUst prot | | | I | “Deliberate vandalism was plan- {ned in the brutal effort, without no- Itice to me, to seize all my personal l‘lihl.'l and hru]m‘) 10 be used by |uninformed workiMen. “These continued actions on the | more wait standing, before the president S 5 i was to appear, Meantime the final s stand, long garlands of greens, were put in place among the folds of the flags that were draped cvery- | | | \ ~:\(L‘I| | His Lawyer, Co-defendant, is Freed where about the post of honor. | | Then the radio announcers gave one| ©f Charges On Order of Judge | & last tryout to the broadcasting ap- X ‘ paratus that was to carry the| Today. faaugural specch to the country, and | py Thoe Associated Press, | pronounced the arrangements Per-| Ghicago, March 4—Although W, | D, okes, wealthy New York ho- | °l man, today was shorn of one ao- | {defendant in his trial for conspiracy | The president went to his desk at exceutive off five e | | minutes before and began looking over the |y gorame his wite, Helen Ellwogd day's correspondence, Last night|gioes Judge W. N. Gemmill refused | he had cleared up the accumulation |y rogtrict the trial solely to Stokes of logislative busincss and he had |y ovor vuiing pleas for dismissal of before im only the :]‘r\\ Gl R | Visitors Arrive Larly | The indictment against Daniel F.| Several visitors already were 1n|Nygent of New York, former attor- | the waiting room wlen the cXecu-|pey for Mr, Stokes, was dismissed by tive reached his office and srall |¢ho state. The state objected to dis. groups b e ’:"“M»““"'-"“l“ missing Hattie Johnson and Robert also were beginning saunter st througi the White House grounds | syt el il and peer in from a respectful dis-|i1jq) Lee definitely and the Johnson tance at the windows of the east| . .10, subject to the judge's change poom. - of mind after submission of all evi- The first to call at the executive| o | offices and pay their respects were | ige Gemmill in ed e Johnson woman 1, but would p: on trial. Indica e of t don Choral |, I L rdon LhOTallypgught that the arre, Pa., who had come | 5 should be dismi n to sing tonight s mit her to rems the membe of Wilkes| to Washin concert preceding th bail. | B R Senator Shortri soon |tlons were that Stokes would be alerwatdl with & 1a cluster of | i ‘\'} to V;m stand this afternoon as flowers sent from alifornia in a‘(w RL NS IEnEN R ILIOAS, special refrigerator car for Mrs. T g Coolidge. They ranged from roses| TaX on Chewing Gum Is to violets and were the gift of the { Prpposed in State of Utah ornia Women's Development league : Lake City, March 4.—Chew- | Shaves Himselr [Ing gum would be faxcd and the Vice-President.Elect Dawes. in his| Proceeds used for a new girla’ dor- apartment at the New Willard hote, | Mitory at t '_‘:“' el ol ; e rose at 9 o'clock. As usual he a measure before the \ shaved himseif and dressed lelsurely | DOUS Deal, and distributor: . L . | 1 w lleens E 0 per een preparatory to having breakfast with | $ould be llcensed and a 10 per cent his family in the apartment. ‘The |'3X on retail sales would be levied first of the family circle to be up|Mrs: No A. Dunyan, of'Salt Lake | was young Dana Dawes, the adopted | CItY 1% or of the bill #on, w amused hims f while he INSURANCE MAN DIES waited for hreakfast by reading the | | €omic pictures in the morning news- | Springficld, Mass, March 4.— papers. George Caddock of Samuel W. Munsell, €0, president | filinola, who led General |and founder of the Monarch (for- ident Insurance Yawes as head of the Minute Men, |merly Masonic) A was the first caller to be received Ly ; Co. and known In insurance and Ma- the vice-president-elect sonic circles throughout the country, President Coolidge nt th died early t He was formerly first half hour at his Ask at work |president and director of the Health {and Underwriter's confer- ence. —_— Acebdent ntinued on Page 11) | the rep NEW BRITAIN, PRESIDENT SIGNS SHLARY WEASURES Last Act Belore Inauguration (Gives Gongressmen Morg Pay | SESSION 15 CONCLUDED 08th Congress Passes Into History in | Calmness Compared to Stirring | | Scenes on Other Occasions—Ap- proval to Some Measures, ‘Washington, March 4.—President Coolidge today signed the legislative appropriation bill carrying increase salaries for members of congres the cabinet and the vice-president, The measure was the last signed by the president today at his room at the capitol, where he had gone to take the oath of office. H After signing a large batch of bills, the president t back from | the table and conferred for some time with Budget Director Lord on | the bill. | The bill had been at the White | House for eral days and there had be much speculation over the president’s attitude towards it. l[r:? refrained from approving it when | { he went over the bills at the execu- | tive office carly today and it went to the capitol wtih him. i Under the measure members of the house and senate will receive | $10,000 a year instead of $7,500, and | the vice-president, members of the! cabinet and the speaker of the house | will receive $15,000 instead of $12,- 000. | Peaceful Conclusion Thes sixty-eighth congress died fo- | day amid a peaceful calm in striking contrast to the throes of bitterness | Al o e ot ; {and strife which have tortured it eyt Coolid duriuz most of its tenur: of pawer, As against the sensational acter of some of its sittings, char- with | the long list of tions, | president. A curtailed parade followed, but there will be |, N 2dvance copics of the address n pearl. The costume of | clouds as the hour of inauguration s "f‘"d‘,;(:l:’,:(, s * | plenty of pomp and panoply at unofTicial ball in evening. ten 7 el 8A0% e et thopone "“”"”'; e th j‘”“:';’ both in house and senate and there C T’ d been well kept. | e; t and lower po: Ided by a large steel canopy. was Jacking the wild legislative jams | i it was apparent before h s of a light i which usually accompany the close | ’ I | \ finished his speech that (1 were | known as “Joscenu \\’lv-‘:xusflim:lv".:];y‘“m'»'r‘,:("-p the of a session. | 1y on the senate floor who ugrecd hat of a cross bo- | © I L E lm\ ey ]{”;h P]‘ shonc Nrflh et ! W G . (et i ray | 121 the ear of t atest audi- ans d dent Cummins of the sen- | T 1 e monie 1 sen gray | oe r 8 g d v one a i hours signing hills so they couid be | throng on d silver dropped from the |the Mistory of time. Not only tho laid before the president before | grown 1o the hem of the thousands gathered before him or sk i i ST it iTie by the capitol plaza were enabled to won. h As one of his last official acts as | Party Misses president Lof the senate, Mr. Cum- | mins appointed a commission to| continue the investigation the | proposed St. La ¢-to-Gulf wa- | 01 terway. ic house adjourned at 11:52 nd the senate began talki short ess awaiting time for the | beginning of the official remonies. The house, which long ago ght up with its 1 passed | few minor measures and occupied 1f in listening to complimentary speeches touching its membership. | ntative Longworth of Ohio, lican floor leader, s0on to | become speaker, complimented Rep- | sentative Garrett, the democratic der, and vice versa, and both in | turn paid tribute to Speaker Gillett, | who will be the junior senator from Massachusetts in the next congress. The house, at the instance of Mr. | inaugura\ Reprd Garrett thanked the speaker for his | “fairness and impartiality.” | The Omnibus naval bill, cover a wide r of subject; ng | second deficiency appropriation bill, were the principal measures receiv- ing final congressional approval dur- ing the short day's session. e senate, after passing the de- ficiency bill, had trouble keeping it- self in order for a time because of | the ¢ cd order of ts made necessary by the inauguration ar- rangements, It succeeded, however, In acting upon a number of minor measures, and sed from time to time awaiting the inaugural cere- | monies. The house roll call for a quorum showed 350 members were on hand Zor the wind-up. Farewell Messages A series of farewell speeches were delivered by represeniatives at their presentative Barkley of Kentucky, ranking democrat on house commerce committee, oft with a parting address last session. I to « irman Winslow who was not | a candidate for reclection | Seated on the house floor were three women—>Mrs. Alice Robertson of Oklahoma, a former member; Mrs. Mae Nolan of California, who | retired today, and Mrs. Mary T Norton of Jersey, who as a democrat, will be one of two women in the next house. Five Dead, 38 Injured in | German Explosives Shop s ; arch 4. —Five 138 ¢ ers in- | Killed 4 jured in a dyn explosion after a fire in the powder division of the | Westphalian-Anhalt Explosives fac- tory here today. The force of the blast was ®o strong that the roofs of surrounding buildings were torn off. | { dinner to whi Our While simplicity was ilg Breakfast With Senator—Pro- gram of the Day Washt Du ngton, to train de or John H. Trumbull of and his the inauguration of President Coolidge recticut party, here to did not rcach Washington until ncar- this luled ly 10 o’clock morning. Th train was sche to arrive 2 governor's p uded Governor Trumbull, their governor's staff and secretary, Edward L. by M 1d two ds ghters, his exceutive Kelly, wa or Cole to the Powhatan hotel, where they were the guests of Senator and Mrs, | Hiram Bingham, today. Due to their late arrival, a num- ber of functions and appointments which had-been scheduled for the governor during the morning h be dispensed with, in ords vernor's party could inaugurdtion ceremonies at the A breakfast at the Hotel at 9 this mor , Which have b en given by Senator umby of honor ab Inauguration cere- the governor and other guests of ok at 8 Mrs, o'c| Bing: ton his party, of Connecticut, members in con vited. The charity ball in t new Mayflower hot falr which will t state fnaugural ball of former yea will be attended by the entire ( necticut party Repul State ¢ Heary (Contlnued on Page Seven.) ge as Presideit ¢ |ington, D. C., today, was unique in the fact that it was the t time an ex-president has administered the oath to a —EIGHTEEN PAGES DAWES FOR CHANGE IN SENATE RULES Objects to Filibustering Tactics of Senators | | { | | | \ | MAKES INAUGURAL SPEECH | and Conscience of Individual Sen- ators Demands Reform in Upper House of Congress. Washington, 4.—Reform the rules of is de- manded by American public opinion and by the “conscience of individual | senators,” Vice President Dawes de- March in the senato |clared today in his inaugural ad- dre Under the present rules, he said, “the rights of the American pecople are overlooked.” | | He referred especially to the pres- nt rules which permit a senator o delay proccedings inde nitely by holding the floor. Under this rule, the new vi | president said, a minority of even one senator can prevent a vote on | a measure which two thirds of the scnate has agrced to bring to a vote. | Although the constitution gives | congress the rules, he s customs which might put the power in the hands of individuals to be used in legislative barter.” Much Astonished There aces of many astonishment - on the senators when their keynote, the inauguration of f the United States, in Wash- I time hon- , particularly that s a one man filibuster ion indefinitely. new presiding officer Jaunched at at ence into ored en anate which perm |to hold up I City May Sell $750,000 Worth of Subway and Sewer Bonds his time had like a tang in uncomfort- il to The He Hartfor March today pa Lill allowin 1 to onds in had been received Britai on finanoe with a nal victory for : to show 1w ward F. Hall and e tee Clerk F. O, iaEghoal Brita Heretc SResonomy were included in borrow | stricts an a ive per cent o Senator lall e subw inciuded since telograph companies el N e T sty 3 U | business, but this s the ccticut party wit- ] 1 ause of tl rad 1 arade from 5 1 lwwu the this a iS i for them by Senator | HES = o SY& Bingham, Deming s Governor Trumbull and hi av y hel A Ay n to Representative 5 SOt DE AL =t amendment” which 1 not s | House this afternoon, where they |Stand an attack by M v Leade o were received by the newly inaug B. W. Alling : e rated presid Visitors at the c today Ar is 1 A tea and reception giv Frank E. Woods, Deputy 1, b |Hert of Kentucky T, § Y, A. I the republican N vy D. L. Nair of this afternoon wi New & of th sy RE 880,000 ¥ ' A Tor 0, ing and a morial hall THE WEATHER o For New Britain and viclni- ty: Unsctied and slightly war- moer tonight; Thursday fair lD('('hu't'fl American Public Oninlnllt Zht to make its own | d, “this docs not excuse | Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending 1 1 ,933 | Feb, 28th ... !lnaugural Program Proceeds Without Hitch ' And President Takes Oath of Office at 1 o’clock—Adherence to World Court Stress- | ed In Address—Thousands of People Throng | Capital City While Millions All Over Coun- | try Listen-In On Radio. Washington, March 4.—President Coolidge was inaugurat- ed president in his own right today by overwhelming mandate |of the people. For the first time in 19 months the country has a vice- | president. | Standing at the historic spot where a long line of prede- cessors have taken the sacred oath, President Coolidge bent {and kissed the Bible in the hands of Chief Justice Taft and de- |livered his inaugural address. . ‘ Vice-President Dawes a few minutes earlier had taken his 1fiath and delivered his inaugural address in the senate cham- ber. The president took the oath of office precisely at 1 o’clock. Vice-President Dawes had taken the oath at 12:14 p.m. | Marked Contrast |for a lack of expensive display, ISNENSTHE R - he last degrees of simplicity, it upplants the Famous ' still was a marked contrast from the midnight moment of 19 months ago, “Harding Blue” of Four | Years Ago when roused from sleep by the news of President Harding's sudden death, he took the same oath by a glow of an oil lamp in his father's Ver- mont farm house, The President’s father, Colonel John Coolidge, stood near him to- day, and gathered close by were Mrs. Coolidge, with her mother, Mrs. Goodhue; members of the cabinet, the supreme court, ranking officers of the army and navy, members of the diplomatic corps, and members of the congressional commiitee in fated Press. iington, March 4.—"Harding Blue," the mew shade brought out four vears ago by Mrs. Harding, had | its counterpart today in “Coolidge iting tone of |charge of the inaugural arrange- ge's costume for the In- |ments. ation cerentonies. A March sun which had promim«d new color known s | to flood the ceremonies with a glori- Moonstone,” a shad Nadtitar s eper avercast by gathering ar him with the aid of ampilfy- devices, but throughout the country millions heard the addres music of the Marine band and the bot ng upwards under the it was a collar of upper portion of the gown |t 1 was of gray satin crepe. progress of the entire ceremony Mrs. Coolidge's ha s of soft | by a great radio hook-up which cov- an straw, rather \ crowned |ered stations all over the United nd small brimmed, trimmed across | State : band from s of burr Pennsylvan route of m: to side with a Her slippers a avenue, historic pagehnts of war and were her hose. peace, contained a smaller audience The . Dawes was | tod i s at other in- a blue h bhat 10 | augural within the emory of old de of b time observers t Modest decorations Mrs. Dawes told friends 1 a much reduced program for the ‘s b “Navy, night 2" procession—all due to the “No, lue.” dent’s insistence on economy, 1 reduced the attraction of the inaugural as a magnet for crowds Takes Oath At 1 P. M. Bowing his head over his grand- mother'’s Bible, the president took the oath at 1 p. m. precisely. f Justic the words BUILDING OPERATIONS IN FEBRUARY TOTAL S438.63 Fifty-Six Apartments Included in of tt obligation which he himself Permits for Construction Taken 120 once enain agyolce ithak could be well by the crowd Out Last Month. as Mr, Coolidge stood silently with upraised hand. His “I do” at the C e of vas ily audible outside the month of nd. Then he bent his head & o . I e Bible and the great throng 5 th a cheer that an y with 60 permits issued hadl bean s estimated at $438 s building was an his address buildings, st her more 11 brick bu ) Spots of Address nents ated h It and st y b tening 4 » of peace throug! ith the na- e outlined in his Canadian Govt. Asked To Amend Shipping Law is address | i o S n F is conclu ling ( 1 1 s I left tossing on tumul pplanse as he turned - = handshakes of thos * m Amplifiers Work Well The Complete Text Of Pres- ' other relatives ilent Coolidge’s Inaugural Ad president had dress Will Be Found (n Pag ely behind him as he 12 cfore of the inau- * —— —————— % (Ce \ ! 5