New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 23, 1927, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 20 FACE COURT IN BOSTON AFTER FIGHT FOR SACCD Mounted Police Charge Mob of 20,000 in New York—8,000 Reds Assail Gourts HARVARD ALLY THOUGHT INSANE AND IS TREATED Magistrate Imposes Two-Months Sentence on Radical, Saying There Is No Room in Metropolis For ‘“‘Reds”—Police In All Large Cit- ies Armed With Machine Guns in Anticipation of Riots—Public Of- ficlals Continue To Be Guarded: Boston, Aug. 23 (A —With the ar- rest of eight pickets In Charlestown this morning, the total number of demonstrators in behalf of Nicola Sacce and Bartolomeo Vanzetti tak- en into custody by Boston police in past two weeks was brought to more than 250. Just at the time that the men were being executed at the state prison a group f 50 opickets appear- ed in front of the city square police station, half a mile from the prison. The line dispersed after eight who carried placards were arrested. Most of the arrests have been made in front of the state house. So fast were the prisoners brought in vesterday that officials were in doubt as to the exact number taken. Some said 154 and others 156, but the dis- crepancy was believed to be explain- «d by “repeaters.” Some are more or I well known, including Edna St. Vincent Millay, noet; John Howard Lawson, drama- tist; John Dos Passos, novelist; Clarina Michelson, author; Miss Al- len Hayes, former professor at Wel- lesley college; Powers Hapgood, Al- fred Baker Lewls, organizer of the socialist party. The ages ranged from 11 years to more than 75. Hap- good, a Harvard graduate who turn- ed mine worker, was sent to the Psychopathic hospital for observa- tion while the rest were released in bail for court appearances. No Room For Reds New York, Aug. 23 (P—Declar- ing that there is no room in New York for “reds” Magistrate Ewald today imposed a 60-day sentence on Harold Wood, 32, who was arrested Saturday while distributing Sacco- Vanzetti literature in front of Jeffer- son market court. The only reason the sentence was not longer, said the magistrate, w that the workhouse is already con- gested. “There Is too much of this going on in New York,” the magistrate said, commenting on the charge 1Continued on Page Five) OFFIGIALS UNABLE TO HALT KLAN FLOGGINGS 17 Persons Lashed on Naked Skin by Mobs of Robed Men Aug. 23 (P—Of- ficials here today were helpless to move against prepetraters of re- cent masked floggings after a report late yesterday by the Randolph county grand jury in which the in- vestigating body declared that “in- tolerable conditions” existed in the county, blamed members of the Ku Klux Klan for these conditions and declared itself unable to secure evi- dence on which to indict. The report of the jury said: “In obedience to Your Honor's charge the grand jury has diligent- ly, decply and earnestly investigated the alleged kidnaping and flogging of citizens of this county. The in- vestigations reveals most intolerable conditions. Evidence developed dis- closed that 17 persons have been whipped. “In each case the victims of these criminal activities have been whip- ped in the late hours of the night by organized mobs of men wearing white robes and “‘hite masks over their faces, who travelled in auto- mcbiles with tags covered. Most of them were lashec with instruments of torture that in some left wounds, scars and bruises that the victims w ently carry through life. “Some of these victims, the evi- dence discloses, have suffered in lence without so much as consulting a physician. because of fear result- ing from threats made against them by the mob if they talked. “It is the unanimous concly the g and lashing of these victims has beea done by lawless members of an organization known and called Knights of the Ku Klux Klan who Jiave bound themselves to secrecy reference thereto.” The report recommended an nimous opinion of the grand that the Alabama legislature laws forbidding masking on public highways and concealment of automobile license tags. The report vigorously attacked these practices and declared the grand jury believ- | cd that such laws would have pre- vented the floggings and even it they had occurrcd, with such laws xisting, evidence could have been Wedowee, Ala., 11 u on the naked skin | appar- | ion of nd jury that the kidnaping| TIVSAT e 0) ‘pLOJIIH “pde APV ] JT)S JRI1IINUO) Viola Howe, Battling With Attempting to prevent the theft of a handful of chewing gum from | her counter in the 8. S. Kresge Co. store at 183 Main street on May | 20, Miss Viola Howe of 24 Beaver | street was struck by a 10 year old boy with such force that she was knocked agalnst the counter and |suffered a concussion of the brain. |She has been unable to work steadily since that time and wid not recover for several weeks at least, it was learned today, al- though she is able to be about. At present she is away from the store on her vacation. The unusual occurrence, which might have had more serious re- TESTS OF SEWERAGE GALLED STATE DUTY Ex-Mayor Quigley Objects to Gity Risking Funds ANSWERS WADHAMS' NOTE Would Have Connecticut Build Ex- perimental Plant in Berlin, Which Could Be Bought By New Britain. It Successful, “If Mr. Wadhams Is positive that New Britain's sewage problem is casy of solution and that any of the known systems would easily take care of New Britain sewage, Why not let his commission build the disposal plant and if it is successful, turn it over to the city and let the city pay for it?” Ex-Mayor George A. Quigley to- day asked this question in reply to a statement made last Saturday by S. H. Wadhams, engineer for the state water commission in which Mr. Wadhams, in effect, declared that Mr. Quigley had reached er- roneous conclusions concerning the proposed expenditure of $2,000,000 for the solution of the sewage prob- lem in this city. Belleves in Caution “The ex-mayor decried the fact that there was a beliet that the city | was going to fall down in a public | service to the state. He said: “New Britain has done more in the matter of attempting to solve the problem | of sewage disposal than any other city in Connecticut for this never failed In its duty to its peo- | ple, the state or nation. T don't be- {lieve that New Britain will fail now, | | but T don't believe that we should | be rushed igto something before we know what we are doing.” In his letter Mr. Wadhams cri { against the expenditure of all or a | part of the $2,000,000 and said that {any of the known s would | take care of New Britain. | He sald he had read of Mr. Quig- | 1ey's declaration that he would op- | pose the appropriation for a sewage | disposal plant from the floor of the common council if the members | would give him permission to speak and of Mr. Quigley's talks before civic clubs. Trade Wastes in Sewers Mr. Quigley's answer, in full, fol- Tow: “T differ with Engineer Wadhams regarding trade wastes not being a great problem. Mr. Wadhams states | that a great part of the factory | trade wastes have been eliminated | from New Britain sewage. T know | that a portion has heen climinated but not the bulk. “Another factor that Mr. Wad- | hams has not taken into considera- tion in his letter of the 20th is the waste from garages. The great prob- lem of sewage disposal is the de- struction of sewage bacteria by trade wastes and ofls. If the bacteria is killed then no system that Mr. | Wadhams or any other engineer can build or any of the present known | systems can operate successfully. “The attitude of Mr. Wadhams |and others in trying to force the | issue of sewage disposal upon New Britain before a comprehensive sys- tem is laid before the people of this city is in ftself peculiar, “In regard to the costs of a sew. |age disposal plant T have never | made the statement that a proper system would cost $2,000.000. T merely protested against the fssu- ance of $2,000,000 in sewer honds (Continued on Page 18) LINDY NEARLY KISSED | Young Tady at Banquet Almost Kisses Air Hero, But He Guards Face With Basket of Flowers, Madison, Wis thinking by Colonel Charle: | bergh kept him from being ki |last night by a young lady gues a banquet in his honor. | The young woman presented the fiying colonel with a bouquet and as | he accepted it, smiling, she sought to kiss him on the cheek. Colonel Lindbergh held up W basket of flow- | ers, stepping hackward as he did so, 1d the young woman quickly with- drew. The flyer had Minneapolis as his distination today as he prepared to resume his aerial tour of the states. His mother, Mrs. Evangeline Lind- obtained on which to indict the guilty parties. bergh’ of Detroit, was to meet him there. Girl Defending Store Gum Stock Knocked Against Counter By Boy And Suffers Concussion of Brain Expected to Recover For Several Weeks. city has | cized Mr. Quigley for his campaign | BRITA "HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTfCUT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1927. —.TWENTY PAGES. 10 Year Old Desperado, Not sults, became known today In con- | nection with the apprehension of Miss Howe's assaflant and a 12} year old companion. It is said the| former is one of the most persis- tent shoplifters the local store man- {agers and employes have to con- tend with, and his narrow escape on May 20 did not have the effect, of keeping him away from the counters, for he was in Kresge's store yesterday afternoon attempt- ing to steal merchandise when he | was captured. It is said he offered |resistance but was overpowered. His companion, it is said, was with him on May 20 when the sensa- ‘tlonal escape was effected. CRACK OPEN SAFE, FIND IT 1§ EMPTY Yeggs Go Unrewarded for El- forts at Quarry Officc | RED TWO GAS STATIONS | the great windows League’s Dog Saves Palace From Rioters Geneva, Switzerland, Aug. 23 (P —The League of Nations' watchdog, whose upkeep figures on the league budget, is credited with a leading part in saving the league palace from being burned by a gang par- ticipating in last night's Sacco-Van- zettl riots. The rioters stoned and demolished of the famous glass room, scene of many interna- tional conferen: and meeting place of the league council. then attempted to force their way in, indicating their intention of set- ting the building on fire, Two night watchmen with the dog, an Alsatian, offered stiff re- sistance and the invaders were forced to retreat, with torn clothes and bleeding hands. GARY BEQUESTS WILL EXCEED TWO MILLION Trinity College, Hartford, Left Trust Fund of $50,000 Mineola, N. Y, Aug. 23 (UP)— The will of the late Elbert H. Gary, former chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, was filed for probate here today. It contained no estimate of the vaue of the estate becoynd the us- ual declaration that it amounted to more than $10,000. Proprietor of Plainville Road Place, Disheartened by Repeated Bur- | glaries, Turns Key in Door and | Gives Up Business. | (Special to the Herald) Plainville, Aug. 23—Thieves made | three breaks on the New Britain | road last night, wrecking the safe | in the office of tho Connecticut | Quarries Co. at White Oak and ef- | fecting entrance into Tator's filling | station near Cook strect and the | Colonial filling station across the | highway from it. The largest haul was made at Tator's where two of merchandise were.stolen, the loss | his first marriage. radios and several smaller articles |l It contained specific bequests amounting to more than $2,000,000 The will creates two trust funds of $800,000 each for Mrs, Gertrude Gary Sutcliffe and Mrs. Bertha Gary Campbell, Gary's two daughters by They will re- ceive the income from these funds for life. On the death of Mrs. Sut cliffe, the income from the fund s aside for her goes to her son, Elbert Gary Sutcliffe. The income the fund set aside for Mrs. Camp- bell on her death will go to her daughter, Julia Elizabeth Campbell. On the death of the children the in- comes go to their children, or if they leave no children, then to other heirs. The will was made October 24, 1925, and makes the New York st company executor and trus- tee of the estate. 1t sets forth that there are mno being estimated at about $230. At the Colonial station the gasoline | tanks were drained, but there was | no money in the safe at the quarry | and the burglars had no reward | for their efforts there. 1 The small office at the quarryi was closed yesterday afternoon | about 5 o'clock, and no employes of the firm were there until this| morning, when the wrecked safe | was discovered. The thieves had | gained entrance by breaking the lock on the door and had ripped debts or claims against the estate “except such as are puklic and well known including principall; debtedness of $100,000 to the Chat- ham-Phoenix Bank and Trust Co. duly secured. A trust fund of $300,000 is set up for Elbert Gary Sutcliffe, grandson of the steel magnate and a fund for Julia Elizabeth Campbell, granddaughter. They are to receive the income and on their deaths thelr heirs are to receive it. A series of trust funds of $50,000 open the safe with a pick-axe, com- | pletely wrecking it. The safe con- | tained only the payroll records and | other similar papers heing kept | there by the company. | The local authorities notified the | |New Britain police. who informed | [them that the quarry was outside of New Britain's jurisdiction and |advised calling the state police. | | This was done and state officers | were on_ the scene this morning. Statlon Owner Slecps Nearby L. S. Tator, proprictor of the fill- ing station which suffered the more | heavily, did not lock up last night until about 11:30 o'clock, and he | said today that it was midnight be- fore he went to bed. He lives in a cottage next to his place of business, but none of the family heard noises | which aroused their suspicions. ng trucks maintain a fairly wdy din all night and the family has grown accustomed to nocturnal (Continued On Page Five) BUYS DRUG STORE BUT DOESN'T WANT IT NOW| Ownership of Belvidere | Pharmacy Is Subject of Dispute Residents of the Belvidere section are trying to answer the question: “Who is the owner of the Belvider Drug store at 1531 Stanley street?” On August 6#James Miller of 531 | Stanley street, who two months ago came from Scotland with his mother to make his fame and fortune in this country, decided to enter the drug business, He came to an agreement | with the Kolodney Brothers to buy | the stock, fixtures and good will of their drug store. He was to pay | $10,000 as a deposit which would | also be the fi payment after a period of 14 days. The entire cost | of the purchase would be $17,000. | It took Mr. Miller just one week | to begin to figure that possibly he | was paying too much for his first | business enterprise and he took‘ steps to place an injunction on the | $10,000 which was in the hands of Attorney Edward Mag. This oc- curred last Saturday when Miller quit the store. He claimed that the place was misrepresented and engag- ed Forward & Daly of Hartford as his_attorneys, KD\(\dm v Brothers, Ralph, said they hav with the store, hecaus it belongs to Miller, nothing to do with for the past few d been playing the keys." In the meantime John Hyland of Bristol, the clerk at the store, Is Kegping it open and asks the ques tion: “Wio is my boss? am and | nothing to do , they assert, Miller will have the place and ! both have ne: *“Toss the | money is to pay tuition. | sacco- {to from {forced domicile. | tral cach is set up for scholarships at eight educational institutions. The trustees or governors of the schools are to name the students to benefit under this pro The students are to be tho: able to pay helr tuition” and “morally, mental- and physically competent.” The chools receiving these trust Kendree colle, Lebanon, TIL University of Pittsburgh, Pitts- burgh, Pa. Lafayette college, on, Pa. Trinity college, Hartford, Conn. Lincoln Memorial university, Har- rogate, Tenn acuse York. orthwestern unive w York unive For the family after naming those who have com pleted 10 rs of service with directs t at the end of the ten years of service each servant is to be paid $1,000, or in the event of Gary's death before the second 3 expir $100 for each served over 10 years ANTI-AMERICAN PARADE Berlin, Aug. 23 (UP)—Anti-Ame ican placards were carried here anzetti paraders. About 000 persons participated in several scattered demonstrations. Truck loads of police were concealed near the United States embs untversit Syracuse, LOAN Venice, Aug. loan sharks were SE (UP) sentenced three to eight y Eight They | from | an in- | similar ! 10 year | hy | .| der full loa WIFE AND SISTER ARE OVERCOME BY DEATHS ?Shrieks of Hysterical Women Alarm Neighbors and Summon Doctors Boston, Aug. 23 (A—Mrs. Rose 0, who had attended her hus- band constantly during the seven years he was charged with murder and who made an eleventh hour ap- | peal in person to Governor Alvan T. | Tuller yesterday, today was closely | sheltered in the Beacon Hill apart- ment where she took refuge last | night with Miss Luigia Vanzetti, ster of Bartolomeo. The house was barred to report- ers but it was gathered that me: | cal attention was necessary to quiet the two women after they were no- |tified by telephone of the exccutions | this morning. | Dr. Edith Jackson of New Haven, { Conn., spent most of the night there. The apartment they occupied is owned hy Miss Wedgewood, head | of the child hygiene division of the Boston health department, and an- | other public service nurse. The residential district of Beacon | Hill had long since been quiet and sleepy when residents were alarmed by piercing shrieks which echoed up the norrow street. The telephone message had been received. cries were renewed a little when members of the Sacco-Vanzet- ti defense committee arrived to tell of the execution. street spent a slecpless night from then on. Funeral plans were not yet for- mulated this morning. One member | of the citizens national committee | for Sacco and Vanzetti explained "the situation this morning by say- ing, “Up to the last minute last night we had hope and so had talked little of the funerals. After the execution we were too weary to consider anything.” Vanzetti was believed to have ex- pressed a desire to be buried in his native land, Ttaly. e hodies rested this morning at northern mortuary, only a few bloc s away from the house Where the closest relatives of the | were recovering from the shock of | the executions. LITTLE HOPE 1 FELT FORLOST DOLE FLIERS lay Ban Land Planes l From Water in Future | th as the Result San Francisco, Aug. 23 (A—While | the scarch for the lost fliers in the | | Dole race from the Golden Gate to | Honoluln continued with unflagging zcal, though dying hope, efforts to a profits from the flight's les ons were under way today, fust one week after the start of the 2,400- { mile air marathon. As 40 naval vessels observation planes fruitlessly ched the greedy Pacific’s w | for the six men and the girl who | made up the crews of the Golden | Eagle, the Miss Doran and the Dallas Spirit, Lieut. Benjamin Wyatt, of the navy air corps, who inspect- ed the planes and their compasses |for the flight committee, declared |that two indisputable lessons had ! hec rned from the flight's dis- asters, | Tirst—All planes to undertake an extended over water flight should {have a thoroughly adequate test un- Second—land planes be prohibited from making ve s ve {should (Continued on Page 17) REPUBLICAN LEADER SAYS CONNECTICUT WOULD BACK COOLI Hartford, Aug. 23 no doubt that as things stand now Connecticut would favor the renom ination of President Coolidge,” stated Henry Roraback, man the Republican stat committee and national N tod qualifying i 1t by adding that much ppen between this time and convention next summer J. of com- mitteen statem would national and that he would prefer not to go | on record as favoring the drafting of the president for at this early date. “I have not changed opinion expressed in my made immediately after idge said he did not ‘choo for president in 1928, that if the convention nominates him it would be very difficult for him fo refuse the nomination, 1 have never garded the presic atement barring the way tion as far the convention is concerned I do_ regard it pressing the president’s own wis on the sub- ject,” continued Mr. Roraback. The republican state chairman was que: tloned on the subject of drafting Mr. Coolidge, & wmovement for which from the statement Mr. Cool- as (A —"There is| to run | though | DGE FOR REELECTION is under in the indorsement ate chairman there. | Mr. Roraback expressed in the movement and said, “Of course, the way to draft Mr. Cool- is to send a delegation that vote for him." But the republican leader reiter- ated his opinion that it is now too carly for any final statement on the ubject of Mr. Coolidge's | drafted by his party. New Jersey, of the with republican interest idge {will another term | THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Cloudy, probably showers to- night and Wednesday. { | ! — % * HIGH 1 st 24—Daylight Time) New London 8:09 a.m., 8:26 p.ni | New Haven 10:08 a.m., 10:26 p.m. | | | % | | i | * The | later | Residents of the | men { and a field of | being | SACCO MOB RUINS NATIONS' PALACE Onlooker Shot; 25 Injured in Struggle AMERICAN MOVIES RAIDED Forelgn Press Bitter—Official United States Buildings Stoned in Many Countries—March on Buckingham Halted. New York, Aug. 23 (A—Demon- strations in behalf of Sacco and Vanzett] were staged before after their execution in various Eu- ropean and South American cities. At one place—Geneva—they took a serious trun. The manifestants, after marching on the United |States consulate and being beaten loff by the police, broke windows of |the great hall of the library of the {league of nations palace. From the palace the crowds went to the American agency of two pic- ture theaters showing American |films and began to attack it. Streams |of water had to be played on the | demonstrators before they could be |dispersed. In the course of the struggle with the police, someone fired a shot killing an onlooker. The Geneva correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company, Lon- !don, said 5,000 persons took part in the rioting, attacking and badly damaging Amcrican shops. He de- seribed raids on motion picture jtheaters where American films were being shown, films of Douglas airbanks, Mary Pickford and } almadge being destroyed in the streets; 25 persons were injured. i As soon as news was posted that the two men had been electrocuted ja crowd in front of a newspaper office in Buenos Aires, Argentina, {began stoning United States com- mercial houses. Only with the aid |of reinforcements were the police jable to quell the demonstration. | March on Buckingham | To the strains of the “Red Flag” land shouts of “Sacco and Vanzetti {must not die,” a procession march- lm into the Mall in London at an {early hour this (Tuesday) morning This is the wide thoroughfare in front of Buckingham, and as the imarchers neared the palace, mount- ed police seattered them, arresting a number. Those who took part in and ill\e demonstration apparently were | Aug. 23 (P—O0ld ‘mr-n and women who attended a gathering at Hyde Park last night, {where it was announced that if the {two men were put to death, a mass idemonstration would be staged | Tuesday a sort of memorial {service, beginning in the afternoon land lasting until 9 o'clock tonight. | Throughout the night a strong iguard was kept about the Ameri- ican embassy in London and mount- {ed police and guards were in readi- ness in neighboring vards and en- jclosures. The Amecrican embassy in |Paris and TRome likewise were heavily guarded. {. Paris had se but a stes i Al demo; Iy rain kept then reasonable hounds. Seventy mem- {bers of the communist party went [to the American embassy in an ef- |fort to plead with Sheldon White- [house, the American charge d'ai- {faires. He consented to receive a {few of them and they presented a resolution urging that a final ap- {peal for pardon be sent to Wash- |ington. Communists in rations, within Berlin and other German cities attempted to stage | manife tions, but they were ! promptly suppresscd by the police. Some disturbances took place at {Stockholm and Gothenburg, Sweden, {At the latter place the police had |to charge the crowd when it tried {to reach the American consulate. Many on Hunger Strikes There was a fairly complete stoppage of work throughout Ar- \&entina yesterday as a mark of |sympathy with the condemned me In Buenos Aires a number of pri |oners abstained from food. No taxi cabs ope d in the capital and lonly a few busses were on the | stre The most serious of a num- ber of disorders was the burning |of a street car in a suburb of Bue- In ires. Montevideo, Asuncion, Paragua ped work. There were no taxicabs ;“r bus and no newspapers, the printers having joined the protest At Urugua and laborers stop- o-Vanzetti sympathizers Mexico City held a parade in the | business section, after which there was an orderly demonstration be- fore the United States consulate and |the Huasteca Petroleum company, [an American concern. Speakers | protested against the executions, charging that “Yankee capitalism’ was responsible Italy Is Bitter Rome, Aug. 23 (P—"This is not the healthiest moment for American aviators to come to Rome,” 1s a re- mark which was heard in various forms in front of the bulletin boards, (Continued on Page 3) in | Sacco’s Crucial 7-Year Fight Reviewed in Brief Boston, Aug. 23 (P—Important dates in the Sacco-Vanzetti case are: April 15, 1920—Murder of Fred- erick A. Parmenter, paymaster of Slater and Morrill Co., shoe manu- facturers, and his guard, Alexander Berardelll, at South Braintree, Mass. May 5, 1920—Bartolomeo Vanzet- ti and Nicola Sacco arrested in Brockton. eptember 11, Vanzetti indicted. May 31, 1921—Trial Defham. July 14, 1821—Both found guilty of first degree murder. December 14, 1921—Judge Thay- er denies new trial motion. ® March 27, 1923—Alienists declare Sacco sane, April 9, sane, January 10, 1926—Celestino Ma- deiros made statement saying “Mo- relli gang” killed Parmenter and Berardelli, April 5, 1927—Judge Thayer de- nies new trial on Madelros state- ment and other new evidence. April 9, 1927—Sacco and Vanzet- ti sentenced to die week of July 10. June 28, 1927—Governor Fuller, having begun investigation of case, postpones death of Madeiros, Van- zetti and Sacco to and including August 10. July 17, 1927—Sacco and Vanzet- ti begin hunger strike. July 22, 1927—Governor Fuller interviews Sacco and Vanzetti in prison. August 3, 1927—Governor Fuller gives decision refusing clemency. August 8, 1927—Justice Sander- son, Massachusetts supreme court, refuses intervention. Judge Thayer, Massachusetts superior court, re- fuses intervention. August 10, 1927—Justice Holmes, U. S. supreme court, refuses writ of habeas corpus. Governor and coun- cil vote further respite to midnight, August 22, August 19-22 — Further legal moves fall. Counsel asks governor for further respite. COOLIDGE ENJOYS HIS TOUR OF YELLOWSTONE President Did Not Learn of Sacco’s Fate Until This Morning 1920—Sacco and starts at 1924—Vanzetti declared 927 Yellowstone National Park, Wyo., Faithful geyser, wellgknown to thousands of Ameri- ca's tourists, was the goal of Presi- dent Coolidge as he moved forward today on his tour of Yellowstone national park. The president's party is expected to spend tonight at Old Faithful Inn, not far from the famous geyser that spurts upward at imervals of one hour. It is not certain just where the president and Mrs. Coolidge with their son, John, will go in the park nor how long they will stay but the formal itinerary includes many of the important sights of interest. Arriving in the Yellowstone short- ly after noon yesterday, the presi- dent's party left the train at Gar- dine Mont., and drove flve miles to Mammoth, where they spent the night. President Coolidge retired early last night and did not hear of the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti un- til this morning. Although it was not believed President Coolidge would be troubled by any demon- tration of Sacco-Vanzetti sympathiz- e that might be in this territory, the quarters where the president slept were heavily guarded through- out the night. Although the schedule of sight- seeing yesterday called for an end of activities at 5:00 p. m., when the president and Mrs. Coolidge returned from a 45-mile automobile drive which took them to Roosevelt lodge and Tower falls, Mr. and Mrs. Cool- idge and John set out on foot and hiked to the top of Jupiter terrace, a promontory overlooking all of the immediate vicinity. Twilight was falling and it was just a little past the dinner hour when the president led his weary companions back. The hike involved a climb of about (Continued on Page Nine.) Probe Explosion in Judge Thayer’s Town Webster, Mass.,, Aug. 23 (P—Po- lice were today investigating what is belicved to have been an explo- sion of a small bomb or a fire cracker on the front steps of the post office late last night. The blast excited a number of people who were waiting outside the office for pews of the Sacco and Vanzetti ex- ecutions. The blast did little dam- age, which leads police to believe that it was caused by a very emall bomb or a big fire cracker. Five men speediag away in an automobile after the explosion failed to heed a patrolman’s order to stop. A guard was placed about the building for the remainder of the night. Webster is the home of Judge Webster Trayer, presiding judge at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, Average Daily Circulation For Week Ending Aug. 20th 14,033 PRICE THREE CENTS SACCO AND VANZETTI PUT TO DEATH IN CHAIR; MADEIROS FIRST TO DIE; NO WEAKNESS SHOWN; WIFE AND SISTER BESEECH GOVERNOR IN VAIN Radicals Proclaim In- nocence in Last Talk With Counsel---Van- zetti Converses on Electric Chair---Sac- co, Dying, Whispers, “Farewell Mother.” ) Members of Defense Com- mittee Claim Bodies— Plan to Exhibit Them in Several Cities of the East —Special Caskets Or- dered. Boston, Aug. 23 (UP)—The Sacco- Vanzetti case, which dragged through the Massachusetts courts for seven years, ended dramatically in the electric chair early today in Jjust 24 minutes. Stolcally and with a flash of des flance, Nicola Sacco, the shoe mak- er, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, the fish peddler, went to their death protesting their innocence. Celestino Madeiros , the youthful Portuguese, who had confessed to the crimes of which they were con. victed ,went with them. He, too, died a stoic. A gray old prison that resembled an ancient fortress was the scene of this closing chapter of the case that started as the murder of a paymas- ter and his guard and ultimately be- came a world issue. Up to the hour of doom, weary attorneys who had battled relentless- ly that the lives of the condemned anarchists might pe prolonged, held the faintest simnrer of hope of stay- ing the hand of death. Once before—only 12 days since— these same lives had been spared by a midnight reprieve. But last mid- night brought no respite, and in the minutes that followed, Sacco and Vanzett! paid with their lives for their alleged killing of Frederick Parmenter and Alexander Berardelli during a payroll hold-up on April 15, 1920. Execution Dramatic The triple execution was intense- ly dramatic, yet methodical, careful and not without dignity. The three men were ready for death and met it without show of fear. Madeiros, who played only a min- or role in the drama, was stolid and resigned to the inevitable. At 12:02 a. m. he entered the death chamber. He walked to the chair, led by two guards, and sat down to die. At nine minutes and 35 seconds past midnight the doctors announc< ed he was dead. Nicola Sacco was brought in next, at 12:11 a .m. A man of 36 years, he seemed younger as he walked with pale face but set lines, and steady gait to the chair. Just before he died ,he voiced his unalterable conviction “Long live anarchy Italian. He was sitting in the death chairs Guards adjusted straps and the electrodes. “Farewell, my wife and child and all my friends,” he said audibly, this time in broken English. Just before Robert Elliott, the ex« ecutioner, threw his switch from be« hind a screen, Sacco spoke his last " he cried, in . mother.” Sacco's Body Removed A deathly silence then prevailed in the room. A dozen men were there, but the only sound was the subdued shuffling of the two men who carried what had been Nicola Sacco to a marble slab behind a pro- tecting screen. He was pronounced dead at 12:19 a. m. Vanzetti was brought in at 12:20 a. m. with his mild, reproachful brown eyes and drooping, walrus- like mustache, he radiated even at the hour of death the restless en- ergy which made him, an Italian im- migrant and fish peddler. an intel- lectual leader in his ¢ He was three Sacco. Vanzetti was more dramatic. attendants seemed more to be companying than leading him. He stopped to shake hands with his guards. Then he sat in the death without a tremor and said: “T wish to tell you I am innocent and never committed any crime but sometimes some sin. ‘I thank you for everything you have done. “I am innocent of all erime, not only of this one, but all. “I am an innocent man. “T wish to forgive some people for what they are now doing to me."” The carnest, broken Englishiwas ., followed by a brief, profound silencey™ Vanzetti Pronounced Dead Then the warden's arm raised in the signal to the electrician. Van- zetti was pronounced dead at 12:26 a. m. The triple execution was over be- fore the day was half an hour old. The hundreds of police and troops, than The ac- seat (Continued on Page 17),