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New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1925-10-16
GEORGE NORTON IS
Pneumonia victim
Well Known KelSinBton Resi-
dent Passes AVA This Morning
DEATH MOlRNED BY ALL
Town Meeting Accompanies Lots of
Talk-Fire In East Berlin De-
stroys Clones Closet - Meriden
Woman rw Church Organist.

George 5enJanln Norlol, ohS VI
Konsingtd's pest known citizens a
man kuon and loved throughout
". tow, died this morning at his
home atcr a weeks battle with
nneumnia. HIS many friends we're
shocka to learn of his demise. as 1t
was enerally supposed that he was
recovrng from his illness.
Al, Norton was rs years of age,
hoyig been BON on May "a, 1877
msoirthplace was in kensington
an, he was born in the same house
tnwhich he died. His father was
pilip Norton and his mother was
macbeth Newberry Norton, a native
: Watershed. His family is one
[ the oldest in the town, there haH-
ng been Nortons in Berlin almost
since the first settlers arrived here
and settled south of the Great
Swamp.
Mr.. Norton spent his carly life IN
town. having been educated in the
schools here. When a young man he
went to New York, being engaged IN
the paper business with well
known New York firm. He returned
to his birthplace several years ago
and until the time Of his death,
lived with his sisters in the old Nor
ton homestead,
During the past few years he vas
engaged in no active business AL
though he was considered an active
investor. He was an auditor of the
Berlin Savings bank and was known
throughout Berlin as a kindly soul.
ever anxious to please and ever
ready with CHEEKY word for every
one
His illness came as a surprlsc 10
those who knew him He was about
town as usual last week, but was
taken i'll on Saturday. His sickness
was not considered serious until
Tuesday of this week, when a change
was noticed. From That time on he
became steadily weaker until his
death this morning.
He is survived ny two sisters, Miss
Alice Norton and Miss Elizabeth
Norton, who live at the Norton
homestead. The funeral will be held
from his late home on Sunday aft
ernoon at o'clock, Rev. Vernon l..
Phillips, pastor Of the Kensington
Congregational church, officiating.
Burial will be in Maple cemetery.
Annual Church Meeting
The annual meeting of the Berlin
Congregational church will be held
this evening. Reports OF officers
will be submitted. now officers will
be elected and other business of i'm
portance will he transacted, it is eX-
pected.
Not Much Accomplished
The annual meeting of the town OF
Berlin got away TO a slow start last
evening. when over one hour Was
consumed in accepting. the reports
o. town officers and committees.
This work should have been con-
cluded IN much less time. but a
lengthy talk and discussion. many
times entirely off the subject before
tho house, extended tho time ron-
siderahly. In fact. the entire meet
ing wss much TOO long for thu
amount OF business TO he transacted,
The meeting approved the reports
and ihe annual budget after a con-
siderable period. II also appointed
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Dept. of Justice View
On COnstitutiOnality
OF Rent Bill Sought

Determined that whatever rent
legislation is decided upon by the
Joint Congressional Committee shall
be upheld by the Supreme Court,
Chairman L. Heisler Ball OF the
committee has requested report
from the Department of Justice on
the constitutionality of the Whaley
Rent bill and other proposed basic
remedial principles under consider
alton.
1t is understood that this has
been the principle subject under dis
cussion at the several secret con
ferepces between Chairman Ball and
Judge HI. L. Underwood, special as
sistant to the Attorney General.
1t is considered significant that
throughout the hearing yesterday
Special Assistant Attorney Under
wood sat unobtrusively in a corner
and took notes on the proceedings.
Want Courts View.
Senator Royal S. Copeland of New
York, who declares he is convinced
of the need of some rent legisla-
ton, and other members of the
on numerous occasions,
during the five hearings held so far.
have stressed the point that their
labors will be wasted unless they
hold their proposed legislation with
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NDED
MEASURE
V|AYVV|N
FAVOR
ConstitutionaIity Of Present
Discussed Legislation
in Doubt

The WhaIey rent bill, in its
present drastic form, is doomed
The only question is whether the
measure shall be modified or an.
other bill creating . real estate
commission and making it = peni-
tertiary offense to pyramid trusts
or indulge in similar fraudulent
practices substituted.
This appears to be the consensus
of opinion among close followers
Of the joint Congressional com
mittee hearings, now a little more
than half way through the prom
Used eighteen hours to proponents
and opponents of the Whaley rent
bin.
Next Hearing Thursday.
Following the hearing held last
night, which was in the large part
devoted to a discussion of the con-
stitutional aspect of the WhaIey
rent bill by General Nathan William
McChesney, national counsel of the
National Real Estate Association.
Chairman Ball announced the next
hearing will be held in the caucus
room of the Senate office building
Thursday night at o'clock.
General MacChesney asserted last
night that the proposed Whaley
rent act would not be held con
stitutional either under the police
power Of Congress to legislate for
the District or as legislation to
meet an emergency. He described
the bill as an ''atrocious piece of
legislation"
Realtors Willing to Clean Up.
Senator Royal S. Copeland Of
New York, put Attorney Roger L.
Whiteford on the record as saying
that the real estate. men do not
think that regulatory legislation of
any kind dealing with rents is neces.
sary. He added that the board lis
ready to assist people in finding
habitations'' and would do what 1t
could to stamp out fraudulent
practices
IF them Senator Copeland OBJ
served, ''the real estate, men by
moral suasion and sudden CONVEX
sion. have decided to change things
and are going to be good and reduce
rents, we might as well adjourn
this hearing"
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MA FERGUSON
now RULES.
TEXAS
Inaugurated as Governor
While Crowds Cheer in
Old State Capitol
BY S. J. X. HUGHES.
international News Service.

AUSTIN, Tex, Jan. 20.--Tri'
umphantly resplendant in her hour
of victory, Mrs. Miriam Amanda
Ferguson today laid trembling
lips to the old and tattered
inaugural Bible that has received
the oath of many warning and
stalwart predecessors, and the
transformation of a fighting little
housewife into the chief executive
of the State of Texas was a
dream come true.
Surrounded by the same old his
torical walls of the Texas House
of Representatives that seven
years ago looked down as the lash
o Impeachment sent her husband
from the chambers in bowed dis
grace, Mrs. Ferguson today swore
that she had never fought duel
with deadly weapons and pledged
herself with the aid of Divine
Guidance to administer the affairs
Of state with honesty and all
capable wisdom.
Thousands Cheer.
Thousands of cheering Texans
and applauding celebrities from
abroad were in those battle SCARED
legislative halls today to share in
the glory of wifely happiness that
has come to Ma" Ferguson from
her prayers for vindication of a
politically prosecuted" husband.
Lifting her lips from the Bible
that has held sacred the duties of
Texas governorship since the vast
Lone Star State became an integral
part of the nation, Mrs. Ferguson
turned to the great thrOng of spec
tators and read her brief inaugural
address.
1t was considered the shortest in.
augural speech ever offered in
Texas and embraced simple re-
iteration of her economy pledges,
devotion to A greater educational
Continued on Page 8, Column 81
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Thus the two main ideas re-
garding the peace of the world
were brought into direct hostile
opposition at this conference.
BOr0h Not Invited.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, gen.
eral chairman Of the conference,
which is supported by such world
famous institutions as the American
National League Of Women Voters.
of Women's Club, and the American
National Women's Trade Union
League, was learned today TO have
address the conference.
In a lengthy letter, addressed TO
a constituent member Of the con-
ference. Mrs. Gait declared that
since Senator Borah was against
the League and the League World
Court he could not and would not
be invited t. address the conference
in spite of his being in favor of
the abolishing of war through the
device technically known as the
outlawry Of war"
Mrs. Gait said in her letter that
Senator Borah seemed to be against
the ideas which were in favor in
the minds of the callers OF the con-
ference, and that no good could be
gained by inviting him to speak.
Idea Lacks Support, She Says.
She said further that the "Out-
lawry of War" had little or no sup
port among the callers and man
ayers of the conference, and that
accordingly the idea of asking the
chairman of the Foreign Relations
Committee of the United States Sen
ate to address a conference called
to further a settled condition OF
foreign affairs could not be enter
tanned.
Subsequently a belated second
thought arrived in the conference
and Senator Borah, through another
official of the conference, was in
vited to address the conference at
a minor meeting for thirty minutes.
Borah Refuses.
Senator Borah promptly refused
for several reasons, the chief of
which are supposed to have been
that he did not care to defend his
IDEAS at a minor meeting when the
contrary idea was being defended
al major meetings and that he did
Continued on Page 8, Column -
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]. 8. AGENT
TELLS()F
BUYING
RUM
Says He Paid Legislator
So, 300 for One Hundred
Cases of Scotch
Political Frame-Up,
Edwards Declares

The charges Of Lionel VIII
son, q Treasury agent, that
Senator Edwards Denl) Of
New Jersey, received q $500
bribe were denounced today
by the Senator as a political
frame up.
Edwards told the Interna-
sionaI News Service he would
make no Otl1er. reply TO the
sensational testimony given
at the Weellawken rum con.
spiracy trial.
81 am not concerned with
the testimony given by prOlli-
bftiOn agents at the Weehaw-
ken trial. said Edwards. 'Tt
Is Just . case Of politics.
They have tried 20 frame me
for years, but You can rest
assured they haven't sue
ceeded.
'That Is why am so bitter
against prohibition. They are
always trying to frame inno-
cent people. / don't care to
make any other reply to the
charges"
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VIEW
ST|RS|RE
Of ANTS
hughes. Denial U. S. Is Be-
coming EntangIed Fails to
Hush IrreconcilabIes
BY GEORGE R. HOLMES,
international News Service.

The denial by Secretary o.
State Hughes that the United
States is neither illegally OF
morally" committed to help the
allies enforce the Dawes repara-
tions plan upon Germany by sign
ing the Kellogg Churchill agree
ment did not satisfy the Senate
irreconcilables to-day. They pro-
ceeded with their plans to pass q
resolution tomorrow demanding
"full information" concerning the
much-discussed Paris pact.
The old anti-league forces re-
gard Mr.. Hughes statement as
simply an unofficial interpreta-
tion," which European nations
might or might not accept If mat
tiers came to a showdown.
Ask Specific Information.
The johnson resolution request
ing Hughes to furnish the Senate
with a complete copy of the agree
ment, which is to be called up to-
morrow, probably will be amended
to demand specific information as
to whether, before signing. Am
bassador Kellogg, had not made q
futile effort to attach a reserva'
ton to the agreement preserving
American freedom OF action in any
issue arising out of the operation
OF the agreement.
Considerable mystery attaches
to this reported reservation. Press
dispatches from Paris asserted
positively Kellogg made such pro-
posal and that it was promptly
turned down by the Allied repre-
sentatives on the ground that j
the United States became a part
ner in the receipts under the Dawes
plan the United States became
also a partner in every aspect OF
the pact.
Deny Reservation Was Asked
When the reported Kellogg reser'
walton was called to the attention
of the State Department on Friday,
1t was denied fatty that Mr.. Kel-
logg had proposed any such reser-
walton. While an authorized quota
ton of department officials to this
Continued on Page 2, Column A.
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1LL.IONS
ASKEDFOR
SCHOOLS
Or. BalIou Tells Congress Cost
of Five-Year Building
Program Here

Armed with volumes of statis-
tics and data, Doctor Frank w.
Ballou, superintendent Of schools,
this afternoon is telling the joint
congressional committee on school
legislation everything they want
to know in connection with the
proposed five-year school building
program.
Anticipating 4 demand from the
committee for an estimate Of the
amount of money necessary for
the completion Of the program,
Doctor Ballou told them that as
close as he could figure it will be
in the neighborhood of fifteen or
sixteen million dollars. He said
that this is between one and two
million dollars annually more than
is now being appropriated for
school purposes.
Replies to Criticisms.
Asked to give his views on the
platoon system in the public schools,
Doctor Ballou told the committee
that many more needs for the
schools are included in the five-year
building program will be imperative
If the two platoon system is deemed
the wisest course.
Doctor Ballou said that the special
committee of the Board of Educa-
ton headed by Ernest Greenwood
had only few days ago warned
friends Of the school bill that If
they insist on the inclusion Of the
two platoon system at this time,
they will jeopardize the entire five
year building program.
Referring to the criticism voiced
by Senators, at the joint committee
meeting yesterday, of the character
and condition Of many of the schools
here, Doctor Ballou told them that
he is aware of this lamentabIe situa-
ton and it is the plan in the five
year building program to gradually
tear down and remodel the anti
quated school buildings of the city.
Favored By Members.
1t was evident at today's meeting
that all of the Senators and
Congressman on the committee are
in hearty accord with the five-year
building program and, If anything.
Will be disposed to go even further
than the hill provides.
Others who are scheduled to be
heard today are: Commissioner Of
Education. J. ]. Tigert: John T.
Lloyd, president of the Board Of
Education; A l.. Harris, municipal
architect. and various representa-
ttves of citizens associations through
out the city.
Chairman Capper admonishcd the
committee that inasmuch as they
are all agreed upon the merit of
the five-year building program, 1t
will be well to report it without
too much debate.
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WOMEN'S PEACE LEAGUE
QUITS NATIONAL COUNCIL

Because it's program 'is too far
advanced" for some of the other or
CARNATIONS. the Women's Interna-
tionaI League for Peace announced
it's withdra wal today from the Ma
final Council of Women.
The letter Of withdrawal was adj
dressed to Mrs. Eva Perry Moore
of st. Louis, and made public to-
day by Mrs. Hannah Clothier Hull
Of Swarthmore, Pa.
Jane Adams of Chicago, is pres
ident Of the League
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The more we take the nourish-
ment out OF our food-the whittier
we make our bread and flour-the
more we may expect neurasthenia,
perversion. murder irritability and
incorrigibility among our youth.
We cannot take the long, narrow
face OF Dorothy Ellingson and say:
"You alone are responsible for the
murder of your mother"
/ can give you limitless reasons
why she, temporarily, saw her
mother as a spirit of the dark
ages through her blinded, starved
Continued on Page 2. Column g.
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BOY, 8, HELD BLAMELESS
FOR SHOOTING OF MOTHER

REDWOOD, w. Va, Jan. 20
Harlan Greenleaf, eight-year-old
son OF Mrs. Mary Greenleaf, a
widow, was held blameless today by
investigating officers for the acct
dental shooting to death of his
mother.
According to the boys story he
was playing with revolver in the
kitchen Of his home when it was
discharged killing his mother.
Besides the young son, five daugh-
ters survive Mrs. Greenleaf.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-20
EPSILON CHAPTER, TEN
YEARS OLD, TO DANCE

Epsilon Chapter, one Of the local
chapters Of the National Fraternity
Of the National Fraternity Of the
Delta Sigma Phi, Inc, a CONNER
ciaI fraternity, will celebrate its
tenth anniversary Thursday evening,
January 20, at the Connecticut
Avenue Studio in the form Of a
dance.
Charter members Of the chapter
are Joseph c. McGarraghy, Norman
T.. Duehring, C. Albert Parker, Ro-
mine Taylor, Robert T. Miller. and
Lieutenant William e. Griffin.
The committee for the dance con-
sists of Joseph c. and Alfred Nc
Garraghy and John A. Reilly.
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DISTRICT BOYS, OUT TO SEE
WORLD, BEING RETAINED

Lured with the desire to see the
world, Judson Kingman, thirteen
years old, 2009' H street northwest,
and John Nichols, sixteen, I'LL
Pennsylvania avenue northwest.
were arrested last night while
roaming through Arlington Beach,
by Officers John r. Burke and
John Wise. The boys were taken
to the Arlington county Jail,
searched, and each found to be
armed with a 80 pistol and a
pocket full Of shells.
Deputy Sheriff Harry woodward
notified the Washington authori-
ties. who took charge OF the boys.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-20
ESCAPED BANK RoBRER
HELD BY JERSEY POLICE

ELIZABETH, n. J., Jan. 20.-Ed-
ward Ryan, known by several
aliases, was held I'm $4,000 bail to-
day in police court, charged with
being a fugitive from justice in
Tacoma, Wash. He pleaded guilty
to carrying concealed weapons and
was held for the grand jury.
Police said Ryan told them he
escaped from the Walla Walla,
Wash, penitentiary on October IL,
1922, after having served eight
months of a ten to twenty-year
term for robbing the State bank
at Eatonville, Wash, Of $4,000.
He admitted also, they said,
having served five years in a
Canadian prison for a Montreal,
Quebec, bank robbery.
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w. VA. LEGISLATORS WAIT
ON NEW COMMITTEES

CHARLESTON, w. ) Va, Jan.
20.-The legislature was marking
time today pending completion Of
Senate and House committees.
Speaker Keatley had made SO
much progress in selecting per.
sonnet for House committees that
he expected to announce his APP
pointments when the House con-
vened.
The Senate stands adjourned
until tomorrow to permit Senator
Coffman, president, ample time to
make committee appointments.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-20
LITTLE HOPE FOR AIRMAN
HURT IN PLANE CRASH

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich, Jan.
20.-Little hope was held today for
the recovery Of Lieutenant Duane
G.. Warner, twent six, who suf-
fered a fractured skull when his
plane crashed on the ice Of Lake
st. Clair.
Lieutenant Warner was attempt
ing a forced landing due to engine
trouble when his plane skidded and
turned over. His home il in New
Haven, Conn.
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D. InternationaI Sew servIee..

AUkEBuBElOn1l service.
JERSEY CITY, N. J., Jan. 90
Lionel Wilson, a Treasury Depart
ment general agent, testified today
in the Weehawken rum-running
trial here that United States
Senator Edward l. Edwards,
Democrat, had arranged to sell
him and another agent liquor and
that he had seen $500 paid the
Senator for 100 cases of Scotch
whiskey.
Wilson ventured the belief that
the Senator was the director of
the bootlegging ring, which he
said operated at the foot of Bald
win avenue in Weehawken.
The witness testified that he
and Charles Hurlbut, another
Federal agent, posed as bootleg
gers and visited Edwards at the
latter's home in Caldwell, N. j.,
just before the scandal was re-
vealed. There, he added, they ar
ranged with the Senator and with
William Griffin, accused of being
one of the rum-running directors,
for the purchase of 100 cases OF
Scotch whiskey. Wilson said Hurl
burt handed $1,000 for the liquor
Wilson said:
after my arrangements with
Senator Edwards in his home in
Caldwell, n. j., / and my partner
Charles Hurlbut. called at his bank
saw Senator Edwards, and, in my
presence, Herbert handed $4,000 Il
Senator Edwards for 100 cases OF
Scotch"
Wilson testified he is genera
agent for the United States Govern
ment, connected with the Treasury
Department"
Knew Griffin.
He testified he knew Griffin ant
that he had gone to Griffin's offic,
to make arrangements to buy 1O
cases Of Scotch whiskey at $38
case. He said:
II wanted some assurance abou
delivery and also that the STUFF
WAS not cut. Griffin said: If yo,
knew who was backing me and VIII
] am connected with, you woul
need no more assurance. / don
mind telling you, it's Senator Ed
wards"
Wilson testified he had Gale
upon Senator Edwards by appoint
rnent and that Griffin was presen
at the time. He said that at tn
Senator's home in Caldwell, y. ]
he made arrangements for the de
livery OF 100 cases Of Scotc
whiskey.
Wilson then told how he saw hi
partner, Charles Hurlbut, pay So
$50 to Senator Edwards Tor the 10
eases OF whiskey,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-20
MONDAY EVENING CLUB
BACKS NEW CHARITY PLAN

Support of the charities indorse-
ment committee Of the District was
pledged by the Monday Evening
Club at a meeting held at the Col
lege Women's Club last night.
The charity Endorsement move
ment was outlined to the club by
Doctor James Ford. Of Harvard
University, and Charles J. Column
bus, secretary of the Endorsement
committee Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor
presided at the meeting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-20
CAN'T WEAR THIN HOSE,
ASKS $11,5OO DAMAGES

HOUSTON, Jan. 20.-A scar on
her leg which prevented her from
wearing thin hosiery formed the
basis of a $11 500 damage suit filed
by Miss Blanch Reneer. twenty,
a ainst the International-G Great
Northern Railroad.
Miss Reneer listed the scar
among injuries received when she
stepped from a train at Huntsville
in 1928. 1t is exceedingly painful
and unsightlY. her petition said.
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President and Borah
Agree on Peace

RY WIL.LIAM HARD.

great obecves of the Conference the Cause
and Cure of War; which continued its sessions here today
under the auspices of nine great national organizations Of
women, shown be effort to set up supposed
President Coolidge policy of world peace through the League
World Court against the Senator Borah idea of world
peace through so-called "Outlawry of War
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Bv EDNA PURDY WALsE
Character Analyst.

international serVlce)
CHICAGO Jan 2O--We find we'll nourlshed
criminal!
We find people who have every one or the sixteen
body their proportonate amounts com
uniting murder.
The rising generation starved racegettng hungrer
and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-01-20
White Bread Blamed
In *Jazz Baby Staying

The fOoinR the Ellington h0. bee" ts" f0'
NcO Service by Miss Edna T"01 "0'" e0O' "
character anaLysis magazine
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THE WEATHER

this afternoon or tonight; colder
west temperature about 20 de-
fair, continued cold.
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written for International News Ser\