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Thus did the President commute the punishment of Gerald Chapman, mail robber, so that Gerald Chapman, murderer, might be hanged by the State of Connecticut. Mr. Chapman refused the commutation and denounced it as an abuse of clemency power. His lawyers will seek in the courts to establish his right to finish his 25-year sentence in the Federal penitentiary from which he escaped. If they succeed, his hanging will have to wait.
¶John Coolidge, student at Amherst and son of the President, was the guest of Governor and Mrs. Trumbull of Connecticut, at which time the Trumbulls gave a dinner and reception for their eldest daughter, Florence, 21. ¶President Coolidge let it be known that he is annoyed when persons write him letters and give them to the press before he sees them (as John L. Lewis, for example, did recently). The Presi- dent inclines to the belief that the recipient should have the first look at a letter addressed to him.