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The Washington times., 1920-06-13
NEGRO MARRIES COUPLE
WHEN OTHERS REFUSE

DANVILLE, Va, June ia wed
ding ceremony unparalleled in this
town OF stern Southern beliefs was
performed a few days ago, when
white couple were made man and
wife by a negro minister. who was
asked to officiate.
A couple came here from Franklin
county, obtained a license and went
to the home of a well-known Baptist
minister, who told them he could not
marry them because the man had
been divorced, and that there was an
agreement among the white clergy TO
per- no ceremony for man or
wor y, who had been defendant In
such action. Tho couple then drove
the humble cabin Of a negro preach
or who had no such scruplcs and the
ceremony was performed.
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pensation in cases of partial incapac-
ity.
Fixing minimum wage of scrub
women employed by State at 40 cents
per hour.
Empowering insurance commission-
er to require companies doing bust
ness under the workmen's compensa-
ton act to deposit with the state
treasurer cash to meet outstanding
claims.
Providing all laborers, workmer and
mechanics in the employ of the state
with an annual vacation of not less
than twelve working days.
The governor also claims credit for
the following provisions for men who
were in service during the world war
Bonus Tor Veterans.
Providing 500 bonus for Massachu-
setts war veterans.
Preference given in public employ
ment to veterans.
Provided a certificate or other tes-
timonial to war veterans.
Created a soldiers and sailors com
mission to find positions for veterans
Continued for two months alter
death of veterans State aid for de-
pendents of service men.
Cities and towns be authorized 20
appropriate money to welcome vet
Grams home. ...... .-
Signed an act authorizing the gov
ernor to proclaim general holiday
for celebrating of homecoming vet
Grams. w
Created n new volunteer militia
force with Yankee division as basis.
Preserved standing In state emf
ployment system of service members.
Appropriation made for Yankee di-
vision parade.
Provided free hawkers' and ped
delrs' licenses for disabled veterans.
Preserved civil service ratings OF
veterans. :,
Continued exemptions from poll
taxes of veterans while in service.
Granted special credit of per cent
to veterans taking examinations Tor
plumbers licenses.
Approved an act authorizing cities
and towns to lease quarters Tor
American Legion posts.
Signed a bill authorizing the use OF
state armories by war veterans.
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The Hsrdings were of colonial
stock. coming originally from Scot
land, settling in Connecticut. remov-
ing later to the Wyoming Valley. Pa,
where some OF them were massacred.
Others fought In the revolutionary
war. Warren's mother, Phoebe Di"k-
erson, was descended from an old
time Holland Dutch family and :hus
was blended the blood OF the Holland
Dutch with that OF the hardy scotch.
The country roundabout where the
Hardings located was mostly wood
land. His grandfather owned a small
tract OF land and was neither better
nor worse on than his neighbors. They
were all engaged In cutting away
the timber and Transforming a orinil-
tive forest into cultivated farms. And
In those days every child was expect
ed to contribute his share OF toll in
overcoming the obstacles of nature in
the transforming process.
AS Warren grew up he learned 10
fell trees. chop wood, split rails. plant
and hoe corn and do all ths things in
cident to farm life. Those were the
days when farm labors were Ter
sormed by hand. In this way young
Harding acquired the habit of indus
try.
However. II was not all toll for
young Harding. He attended the VII
lage school until fourteen, when he
entered Ohio Central College. at
Iberia, from which he graduated.
During his college course he was edi-
tor OF the college paper where he frst
displayed a nose for news"
Like all boys of that day he was
obliged to work during vacations to
l. s..Asf n a
an amateur painter, and drove team
in the grading of the T. and o. C. rail-
road which was being constructed
through that community.
At seventeen he was teaching school
and footing a horn" in the village
brass band.
At odd times Harding worked in the
little printing office in the village
nearby. He became a first-class COM
poster and interested himself in the
mechanism of the entire plant. When
linotypes were introduced he mastered
the keyboard. so that he finally mas
tered the intricate workings OF
newspaper office. from the editorial
room to the press room. ..
A friend recalls an incident which
illustrates the human" side OF Hard
ing's character.
Entering the office of the Star"
one New Year morning he found the
Senator making up the form and per-
forming all the duties of the foreman
who was busy elsewhere
whats the idea" inquired the
friend.
well, you Sec" responded the SEN
ator, "this is a holiday, and we want
to go to press early so that the men
may get home and pass the day with
their families. SO I'm lending n help
ing hand"
When the forms were made up and
the paper went to press the Senator
and his friend adjourned to the edi-
, torial room for a chat. Suddenly the
rumbling Of tho press ceased. The in
evitable, which always haunts a news
paper office in the rush hour or on a
holiday, had happened. Springing from
his chair the Senator rushed down to
the press room. His trained eye soon
located the trouble, and 1t was not
long before the edition was again on
| it's way.
This mastery of detail was an early
trait of the Senator, and has follow
ed him throughout his career.
But to return to the Star. This was
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MARION ENTHUSED
BY NOMINATION
OF HARDING

MARION, Ohio, June 13.-
With the announcement that
Senator Warren G. Harding had
triumphed in the Presidential
race at the Republican conven-
lion, bedlam broke loose in this,
his home town. The din of
shrieking whistles and ringing
Of bells rent the air. Practical
Iy the entire population partici-
oated in the celebrating.
Senator Harding's father, DR..
]. P. Harding, a practicing ply
sician, who was celebrating his
seventy-sixth birthday yesterday,
received without excitement the
news of the honor which had
come to his son.
The Washington times., 1920-06-13
COOLIDCE'S HOME
TOWN IS WILD
WITH JOY

ORTIZ AMPTDN, Mass,
June Ex-Governor Coolidge's
home city staged a wild demon
stration last night when news
was received of his nomination
for Vice President. -
Fire alarm bells were rung for
an hour. Smith College girls
joined with citizens in a parade
through the streets to the home
of the governor.&
Huge bonfires were lighted out
side of the governors residence.
The crowd was disappointed
when they learned that the gov
ernor and Mrs. Coolidge were in
Boston.
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capable OF welding much greater in
nuence than the average nrst year
men. He demonstrated his ability as
bill drafteP and came into promi-
nence through his hght against the
so-called New York theatrical trust.
The second year of his legislative
career saw him . member OF the judi
ciary committee and the committee on
banks and banking, where he was ac-
tive in eodifying the banking laws
and In the redrsfting of the anti-dis-
criminAtion laws.
As chairman OF the agricultural
committee OF the State Senate In 1912
Coolidge interested himself in the pro
lection OF farmers who supplied the
State with milk. He was successful
In having enacted laws to this effect
Another of his accomplishments dur
ing this year was an extension of the
work OF the agricultural college.
In 1918. as chairman OF the commit
tee on railroads in the state Senate
he was directly responsible for the
passage of the revised railway laws.
the most important piece OF lesisla-
tion during that year.
As president of the senate, Mr..
Coolidge was regarded as firm and
dignifed. His rulings were said to
have always been based on the
Square Deal" and he won and re-
tained the respect and friendship OF
the men who served with him In that
body. 1t was said of him that he was
always master of every situation
that he always led. .
While lieutenant governor 1t was
openly commented by political friends
and foes alike that he refrained from
playing politics. He assumed the
duties of the office as a trust from
the people. In the Massachusetts
the finance committee exercising
oversight over expenditures Of public
money. AS a member of the COM
mittee on public safety during the
world war he represented the taxpay-
ers in the scrutiny of expenditures.
claw and ORDER Stand.
o. As governor, Calvin Coolidge. II
one is to judge by the constantly in
creasing matorities he received in
each succeeding election, has ad-
vanced rapidly in the estimation OF
the people OF the State. He was
elected in 1918 for his first term. His
reelection by an increased plurality
was practically conceded when the
police of Boston left their posts.
After a night OF rioting, the gov
ernor took command of tile situation,
restored order with State guards
men, destroyed every effort Of the
police. to win their places back. ended
for all time the possibility of a po-
lice union with an outside authority,
and faced the electorate on the issue
Of law and order.
He was reelected by a plurality of
175,oOo..
In addition to settling the Boston
police strike, Governor Coolidge as
sumes the full responsibility for
having had enacted into law the fol-
lowing measures:
Establishing 4S-hour working
week for women and minors.
Requiring that labor specifications
be runished textile weavers.
Providing for two-platoon system
for firemen in such cities as accept the
act.
Providing for representation of en-
ployes on directorates of manufactur-
ing corporations.
Requiring posting OF DEGREES OF min
imum wage commission by employers
affected.
Increasing maximum weekly pay
ment under workmen's compensation
law from S14 to SIS.
Providing weekly payment Of com
The Washington times., 1920-06-13
Harding Has Worked
In Every Department
OfHis Own Newspaper

Warren H. Harding, United States Senator from
Ohio and Republican nominee for the Presidency, was
born on his grandfather's farm, where his father then
resided just outside the village of Blooming Grove Morrow
county Ohio, November P 1865 He the eldest of eight
children.
He is the of Dr. George T. Harding who at the time
of Warrens birth the village doctor In those days no
night too dark journey too long almost impa
sable roads for him to to alleviate the suerngs
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Rival Sought After
Theory That EluUeN
Was Broke CoHapses

CONTINUED from First Page)
Furthermore. from the fact that only
one shot was fred, and that this
struck it's mark squarely, the assassin
must have possessed a good aim and
a strong, masculine wrist.
- Detectives Rnnsnck House.
While a number of detectives were
dispatched to the Belmont Park race
track yesterday to question Elwelfs
turf acquaintances, others continued
to ransack the three-story-and-b base
ment house that he occupied.
Arthur Bishop. who served as Ell
wells chauffeur during the war when
Edwin Rhodes, his regular chauffeur,
was in the army. furnished the police
Yesterday with some very interesting
information. He said that to his
knowledge Elwell had given house
keys to from seven to a dozen wom-
en-"
Rhodes, when told of this later, said
that these keys would not have ad-
mitted any one to the premises on
Thursday night or Friday morning,
because the locks had been changed
last fall after the place had been bur-
glarized.
The police. however. are OF the opin-
ion that IL IT was Elwelfs custom IN
the past to give house keys to women
acquaintances he probably continued
II. and they are trying to ascertain
what women. II any, had keys at the
time of his death, and IL any or those
women may have had a male associate
who would feel called upon TO Wreak
vengeance upon Elwell.
1t was learned that the detectives
have been trying to obtain some In
formation concerning the whereabouts
Of a woman who owns racing sta
BILE and who is said.t to have an at
tractivc daughter.
One friend of Elwelfs who talked
at length to the police yesterday was
william II. Pendleton, of Cedarharst'
Long Island. well-known turfman.
Mr. Pendleton said he had owned
half interest in Elwelrs horses until
last summer, when the whist man
bought this interest from him.
Calls "Broke- story Absurd.
william Barnes, steward OF the
Studio Club, where Elwell spent much
of his time playing cards, put in most
of the day at the West seventeen
street house. Hc knew much OF the
deceased mans affairs, and he de-
clared that in addition to his racing
interests Elwell was the owner OF
large tracts of real estate at Long
Beach, Long Island, and that the story
The Washington times., 1920-06-13
FUNERAL TOMORROW
OF JUDGE c. D. NICHOLS
Official of Pension Office, Who Died
Wednesday, to Be Buried
in Arlington.

Funeral services for Judge Charles
d. Nichols, of the United states Pen
sion Office. who died suddenly We'd
nesday morning at Emergency Hos
pital. will be held tomorrow after
noon at . o'clock at the First Pres
byterian Church, John Marshall Place,
between c and ID streets northwest.
Relatives and friends are invited to
attend the services. Interment will
be in Arlington National Cemetery.
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Prominent in First Year.

During Coolidge's first term in the
legislature he was recognized as
The Washington times., 1920-06-13

CONTINUED from First Page.)
Furthermore. from the fact that only
one shot was fred, and that this
struck its mark squarely, the assassin
must have possessed a good aim and
a strong masculine wrist.
The Washington times., 1920-06-13

II might almost be said that Prest-
dent Meiklejohn, OF Amherst College.
must have had that phrase In mind
when, in conferring the degree OF
Doctor OF Laws on the governor he
complimented him on the teaching OF
adequate bYevity."--r.--
Carrying this thought of adequate
breyity" to his conception OF the re-
} sponsibility of citizenship, the gov
ernor sums the subject up In these
phrases:
"offce holding is the incidental,
but the standard OF citizenship 10 the
essential. Government does rest on
the opinions OF men. Its results rest
on their actions. This makes every
man n politician, whether he will or
no. This lays the burden on us all"
or Calvin Coolidge II Is generally
remarked throughout Massachusetts,
that he talks little and says much.
and that every word he says or writes
is understood by everyone. His style
Is clear, simple, and convincing His
capacity and liking for hard work are
characteristic OF his twenty years OF
progressive public service.
Governor Coolidge was born In
typical American town-Plymouth
Vt.-twelve miles from railroad. on
July =, I1Is was a typiSai
American family, and behind him
were generations OF Massachusetts,
ancestors who had served their coun-
try in every emergency. He was not
brought UP in poverty, but enjoyed
the comforts of a farm home, free
from luNuries. Early In life he
learned the dignity and necessity OF
work. '..
Graduate Of Amherst.
He was educated at Amherst Col
lege. He was an able and industrious
student. 1t was during his college
course that he began the study OF
American politics. His conception OF
this intricate subject then formed and
since maintained Is that "there will
come out OF the Government exactly
what is put into it," He believes that
politics is the process of action in
public affairs"
At Amherst in his senior year he
won the first prize. a gold medal. for
the best essay on the principles of the
War for American Independence. This
competition. was open to the under
graduates Of all American colleges.
2 After only twenty months study Of
law in the offices of Hammond and
Z Field in Northampton he was admit
ted to the bar. He thereupon open
ed an office in Northampton and at
once gained a rating as a jealous,
broadminded propotor of the com
munity's welfare.
Appointed by the Supreme Court
to fill a vacancy caused by death, he
declined to accept his party's nomi-
nation for election to succeed him
self and returned to the practice of
law. B.
Hard work was the foundation OF
his career. 1t developed another Of
his well known slogans: DUTY is
not collective; 1t is personal"
Calvin Coolidge entered politics ac-
lively in his home town, Northamp-
ton in 1899 when he was elected to
the city council. The next year he
was made city solicitor and held that
office for two years. He went to the
Massachusetts, State Legislature in
1917 and 1918. He left the Legislature
to become mayor of Northampton.
holding that office two years. He was
then elected State senator where
he served four years, during the last
two years Of which he was president
of that body.
Prominent In First Year.
During Coolidge's first term in the
legislature he was recognized rs
The Washington times., 1920-06-13
'Do the Days Work, :
Slogan of Coolidge,
Harding's Ticket Mate
"Do the days work"

To the casual observer those four words quite com
monpace when with machine gun force they came from
the lips of Governor Calvin Coolidge, of Massachusetts,
Republican nominee for the Vice Presidency they car
red weight and significance that will live long in the
memory of those who heard them uttered In fact they later
became the political creed of the claw and order governor
New-York tribune., 1920-06-01
Six Almost Lost i'm Rescue
Before Jersey Beach Crowds

BRADLEY BEACH. N. j., May 81
Hundreds on tho beach here to- day
witnessed the rescue Of young woman
and her man companion many yards
cR shore. Tho rescue was made by
Captain Joseph Ruddy, Stephen Ruddy,
his nephew; Jeremiah Smith and
Thomas Gilligan, all members of the
New York Athletic Club swimming
team.
1t was due to Captain Ruddy's pres
ence Of mind, his coolnesB and skill as
a swimmer that not only the girl and
her companion but he and his three
teammates did not lose their lives in
the heavy breakers. For while it
seemed that all would be drowned.
Captain Ruddy was in. boat, wish
his team members swimming about it
training for the Olympic games, when
he saw Miss Myrella Edelson, OF 05
West 10th Street, and Leon A. Fried
man, Of 900 Riverside Drive, New York
were in peril. Miss Edclson, who is n
good swimmer, WIS overcome by heavy
wavcs and bnttlcd in vain to reach tho
shore. Friedman went TO her assist
ancc. but he, too, soon found hinaclf in
di fficlltv
New-York tribune., 1920-06-01
Man Proves It's
His Double, Not
He That's Dead
Pete Keenan, Enjoys Day,
Even Though Brother
Tom and Two Little
Nieces Identify His Body
Police Given a Shock
Think It's Ghost When Pete
Walks Into Station to
Look at His Remains

At 1915 o'clock yesterday afternoon
a crowd clustered around the body Of a
man who had dropped dead in front of
"a Amsterdam Avenue. The man ap-
parently was about tifty-five years old.
Policeman Caviglio, of the West Sixty
eighth Street station, took charge.
"Anybody know tins fellow ?" he
asked
Yes spoke up little girl, Eliza
beth keenan,. as she and her sister
Mabel, both of 90 Amsterdam Avenue,
peered into the dead mans face.
That's our uncle. His name is Uncle
Peter"
SO Elizabeth and Mabel went quickly
for their father, Thomas Keenan,. Sure
enough said Mr.. Keenan,. as he exam
ined the body. Sure enough-that's
brother Pete"
An ambulance took the body to the
West Sixty eighth Street station and
Thomas keenan, communicated with his
brothers wife at 504 West Forty
eighth Street, telling her that her hus-
band was dead. He called for u un-
dertaker and then started for the place
on West Seventy-fcurth Street, where
his brother had been employed as a
watchman.
But upon his arrival there he =
ceived the shock Of his life. Before
him stood his own brother, Pete, alive
and breathing and enjoying the fine
May day.
"Pete!" he gasped. Tit ain't
really you?"
Sure enough, Brother Tom" as
sured Pete, with a grin. Who'd you
think it was ?"
Pete knocked off work long enough
to accompany his brother to the West
Sixty eighth Street station. When they
reached the station they found ar
undertaken on the scene ready to take
charge of the body Of Peter Keenan,
with due ceremony. The station police
thought they were gazing upon one of
Sir Oliver Lodges ghosts when the real
Pete walked into the room.
Peters wife was called on the tele-
phone, and her JOY was as great as had
been her sorrow
The resemblance between Peter
Keenan, and the unidentified dead man
is remarkable
New-York tribune., 1920-06-01

go ahead with his adjournment res
olution under the assumption that it
probably would be found satisfactory
TO the Senate majority
Only the Armenian mandate resolu-
tlon and conference reports are on the
list of important measures slated for
passage before Congress quits 1t is
likely that after the Senate has voted
on Armenia tomorrow it will spend its
time on various bills of a minor or spe-
clal character while the House con-
slders the Armenian resolution. This
process can be FASTENED at the will of
House leaders under the suspension of
rules plan limiting debate and amend
ments adopted last week.
To speed up its procedure the Senate
to-day agreed to begin its session to-
morrow al 10 o'clock, two hours earlier
than the usual meeting time, and
various committee chairmen were told
TO hasten their work to clean up loose
ends of legislation.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-01
Reaches CHICAGO
To Direct Fight; King
May Return to Camp
Congressional Leaders Agree
10 an Adjournment Saturday
Program, However, May Be Changed to Recess Only
for Conventions; Armenian Mandate and
Conference Reports Await Action

WASHINGTON, May 31-Republi-
can leaders of the House and Senate
agreed tentatively o-day on final
adjournment of Congress Saturday.
Many members Of both the Senate
and House, however, have indicated
that they prefer recess for the polit-
zeal conventions to sine die adjourn
ment, and this may cause a change in
the plans as agreed on
The agreement reached by leaders
today contemplates the calling up by
representative Mondel, of Wyoming
Republican leader in the House. to-
morrow, of his resolution proposing
final adjournment at D. m. Saturday.
Final decision as between recess
or an adjournment, it was said, might
hang tire until the last moment. In a
conference with the Senate leaders to-
day, however, Representative Mondell
is unders TODD to have been advised to