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POSTAL RECEIPTS | SHOW INCREASE, Prosperity Indicated by Returns From Conneotiout BY GEORGE W, MANNING (Washington Lureau of N, B. Herald) Washington, D, €, Aug, 9-—Judg ing from postal receipts in the large cities in Connecticut whieh showed an | during July over the same last year, business prosperity 15 still in progress with indications that it will continue throughout remaining months of this year The post oftice department nouncing the postal receipts at 100 largest cities in the attention to the lurge inoreases aps parent over the same period last year and asserts that as postal receipts .re an unfailing bargmeter of conditions the country appears to aave nothing to fear to check pros- perity during 1024 Bridgeport had postal receipts of $45,007.68 in July, an lncrease of 31,- 919,08 or 3.04 over July, 1923, The postal receipts in July last year showed an inerease of 25.48 per cont over July, 1922 Hartford had increased postal re ceipts in July of 9.46 over July last vear; New Haven's postal receipts in- creased Mrl per cent in July over July, 1922, and Waterbury's showed Increase month country calls over July, 19 The five largest cities of Connecti eut have shown a healthy growth in | A postal receipts during the fivst seven |State bureau of labor today, months of this year over last year and 1922, - POLITICAL ROW New Haven Republicans Charged With Handing in Names of Dem- ocrats at Last Minute, New Haven, Aug. 0.--Many voters| whose names were handed to the reg- istrars in the 33 wards of the city ye terday by republicans will be eum- moned today and asked to show cause why their names should be placed on the voting lists for the fall caucuses of the party, according ta republican general registrar August Eirich, Jr., who claims that more than 1,000 of the names handed in were those of democrats. The serv- ing of summons, which thg law pro- vides must be served withfh 48 hours | from the time of closing of the regis- trars’ sessions, was expected to be be- gun today. The action ie a feature of a con- test for control of the republican party locally between the so-called or- ganization, or Ullman faction and the faction led by Clarence Willard, as- sistant secretary of the republican state committee, Representatives of both factions were busy yesterday, which was the cdate set for registering of voters in the party and it-was admitted that the Willard faction was successful in handing the largest number of names to the registrars. Assistant Secretary Willard claimad, | in‘a statement, that the cases of dem- ocrats who had asked to have their names placed on republican lists were few and isolated. The date set for the hearings in the | summons to be served is August 18, | REPORTED RAGE IS OFF, New York, Aug. 9.—The schedule sailing of the United States liner Le- viathan has been postponed from noon, August 16, until 8 p. m: of the same day to end a report that she would race the Majestic. Both ves- eels were scheduled to sail at the same hour, trained Mhe United Blates embassy business | an increase of 15,76 during last month | in | situations against 66.7 per cent dur- |ing June whila of female applicants | for employment | per cent during June. 'miuad was 62.5 against 61.8 per cent | were furnished i | Potato Supply Figured at But 88 Per and 89 the ten-year average. commercial surplus late crop, had a els as against 47,162,000 last year and Willgold T Burns to Water's E(]gei a power hoat owned and plloted by| Jack Williame of this city, blew up in Lake Erie yesterday afternoon as it was being groomed for entry in the Buffalo launch power boat regatta next week. caping liquid came in contact with a short circult in the wiring. The craft YouWant YourChild toBe His future rests in vours is the influence that molds, life- lastingly, the childish mind. The practice of thrift cannot be taught. too early. It is a splendid habit, as hard to hreak, once formed, as a bad one. Help your children acquire that habit. This bank will be happy Start today. to suggest the way. 'W BRITAIN DAILY GOING ON VACATION mbassador Hemiek Today sails From France On Reoveation Trip Back 10 This Country Parnis, Aug. %~Myron Heivich American ambassador to Franee, en for Havre at 10 o'elock this morning, for a vacation trip to He Varmely and son, who looked the told the corvespon 20 was accom panied by his son, Herriek and the latter's wife The ieture of health ambassador, {dent he never felt better and that he expected 1o return to his post within | two months after resting on his Ohio farm The work of reno buiding during his absence hoped his have to supervise the touches, s0 he could give & warming to the Ameriean colony be- fore Christmas, Mr, Herriek and his party will sail on the steamship Paris. Other pas. sengers on the will be the French Davis eup team, several mem- bers of the American Olympie team who have been traveling in Scan. dinavia and the intrepid young navis gator, Alain Gerbault, who is plan. ning to cross the Pacific alone in his sailboat, the Firecrest, ating the new be pursued he continued, and merely to fnishing house- will he on veturn == ssmrs g Macon, on the right. |edly, say these Georgia peaches. Employ menl Situation in "lpl it be a real one, {this latest mannish trim, State Shows Little Change hlt they contend Hartford, Aug, 9—Very little change : " ' FOR BUSY SESSION July from the five free employment bureaus of the state reported by the 'Returns to New York Monday to Prepare Second Speech Male plicants for employment numbere 190 while females numbered 1,7 total of 3,968, ed for 1,242 m a total of 2,452 Of the male applicants for employ- ment 56.7 per cent were supplied with , A Situations were secur- 0 females, 69.7 per cent were supplied with situations against 8.5 | The total per- centage of all applicants for employ- (ment for whom situations were ot Aboard the St, Louls Express, En | Route to Clarksburg, W. Va ~John W, Davis came back home state today to receive to his in June, & wel- Of the total applying 92.1 per cent with help against 89.4 per cent during June, CROP and to he formally notified of his nomination as the democratic presi- | dential candidate, | Crossing into West Virginia in the | early morning of his trip from New | York, Mr. Davis was determinzd that | until the notification ceremonies Mon- day he would forget polities and spend | his time enjoying himself among the people who know him best. ‘While his own town of Clarksburg | had prepared the official welcome, his | first reception had bheen arranged by the people of Grafton, a 15-inute stop for his train ,an hour and a quarter before it was due in the little city in | the hills where he was born. After the ceremonies at Clarksburg, Mr, afternoon when he will go to Fair- mont, 30 miles distant, to attend a second “home coming.” Falrmont was a bulwark of strength in the early days of his political career and it has furnished +him with the field marshal of his great political adven- ture, Clem L. Shaver. There the nominee will make his i second address of the day and like that at Clarksburg it will be an ap- TIMATES, Cent Normal. Walkefield, Mass, Aug. 9.—The New [ngland crop reporting service today reported the condition of New | England’s potatoes on August 1 ml 86 per cent of normal, compared with 88 per cent at the same time last year The early crop is very light, recent weeks having been too hot and dry for the crop, especially in Massachusetts, Rhode Tsland and Connecticut, Maine, which produces most of the | condition of 87 per cent, promising a yield of 28,275,000 bushels against 31,992,000 last year and 28,596,000 the flve-year average. The total New England forecast is 39,488,000 bush- 40,431,000, the average of 1923. 1919 to| POWER BOAT BLOWS UP. | him. When Gas Tank Explodes, After the delivery of hls keynote | speech Monday night, Mr. Davis will Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 9.—Willgold I, | return to New York to prepare the second address of his campaign, sttae democratic convention at Colum- bus on August 26. From that time until election day, it is the plan to have the nominee carry on vigorously under a program which will take him into many states, east, west, north and south. club’s international | The gasoline tank burst and the es- burned to the water's edge. convenient time” for arrives for the active Successful For low your hands. ing a definite plan. vital matter. , Aug. 9. come from his friends and neighbots | Davis planted to rest until late | | preclation of the welcome extended to | which is to be delivered at the Ohlo | If you have not made your should take the first step today, by prepar- HERAL™ Meet a Couple of Regular Fellows Sophie Horne of Atlanta, on the left, and Mur\' Berckmans of There's little use doing anything half-heart- If a girl is going to have a bob, So they went to a regular barber, and got Looks all right, feels all right, and is Wall Street Briefs While Wall street had been expect- ing that the stock market was due | for a technical reaction after several weeks of steadily rising prices, it was rather disturbed that the decline should come in the face of a large | budget of good news, Favorable de- velopments, including the reduction of | the rediscount rate, progress of the inter-allled conference and semi-offi- cial announcement of the Nickel Plate | merger terms, seemed to Inspire sell- ing on the theory that the “good news was out,” Whether a general revision of in- terest rates paid on depesits and com- mercial banks will be made as a re- sult of the lower re-discount rate now depends on the action of the New | York clearing house association. Un- | til a few weeks ago the interest sched- | ule was antomatically adjusted with | each change in the bank rate. A new amendment, however, gives a special | clearing house committee the power | to review the situation the fixing of new interest charges. Although the Hungarian loan was offered here only a few weeks ago, ithe bonds are now &elling at a premium, having advanced a point “ above the offering price, Their rise in line with the upward movement of | other foreign bonds has attracted at- | manded a premium prior to dissolu- tion of the underwriting syndicate. Establishment of a record high price hy the Austrian 7s is believed to have contributed to the demand for the Hungarian obligations, FLYING TO KIRKWALL, | By The Associated Press, Brough, Eng., Aug. 9.——Lieutenant Locatelll, Ttalian aviator who intends | to fly across the Atlantic ocean, along the route ueed by the American round-the-world fliers, left here at :05 o'clock this afternoon for Kirk- wall in the Orkney Islands. Weather | conditions were jdeal. Locatelli hopes | to be able to catch up with the Amer- ican fliers in time to fly with them from Greenland to the North Ameri- can continent, L TRV A T A TR SR R AT New Britain Trust Co. The Business Man and His Will M\NY business ben find that important business and personal matters con- stantly prevent them from carrying out their intentions to make a will. The “most making a will rarely business man. In order to care for this important mat- ter, most busy men find that it is necessary to arrange their affairs carefully and to fol- some definite plan. will, you Write down on your calendar the day you will attend to this Do it today, if possible. Your family’s future welfare and happi- ness depend upon your making a will, and especially do they depend upon the pro- visions you will make to protect and con- serve the real and personal property you leave. Come in and Talk This Over With Our Trust Officers and control | tention because fow issues have com- | Bige-Htd Cpt Co. com . SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1924 WAIT STREET STOCK EXGHANF REPORTS low © 14y 12 L) T 0% "y se Am Can Am Loce Am S & Ret Am Sy Ref com Am Bum Tob Am Tal & Tel Am Tob Am Wool Ana Cop Aleh T & 8 ¥ Bald Leoce Haltimore & O Beth Steel B Con Textile | Can Paefic Cen Leath Co Ches & Ohio Chi Ml &%t P Chiklsil & P | Chite Copper China Copper Con Gas Crueible Steel Corn Pro Ref , Endicott John Erie . Erie 1st pfd n Electrie .. n Motors Nort Pfd In Cop Ine Mer I'Id Alls Chal | Pacifie O R4, .86 &5 Int Nickel | Int Paper Kel Epg Tire .. 18% | Kenn Cop L ATN |Lohigh Val Yy | M14 Btates O1l ., 1Y% [ \iss Pacific 18% N Y Cen BLIEN NYNH&H. 27 Nor & West ... 124% No Pacific Ry Nat Lend Pure O} . PanAm P & T.. Penn R R Pierce Arrow . Pitts Coal Ray Con Cop .. Reading . Sfin OIl Ref . South Pacific South Rail Stude Co Texas Co oo Tox & Pacific .. 3 Tob Prod . Trans Ol Union Pacifie . U 8 Ind Alco 17 8 Rub Co U & Steel 11 8 Steel pfd | Utah Cop ... Willys Over Westinghouse .. 4% LOCAL STOCK QUOTATIONS (Putnam & Co.) Bid 580 178 . 53 % 15 I 5% | Asked Aetna Casualty . | Aetna Life Ins. | Aetna Fire Am, Hardware Am. Hosiery .. Automobile Ins, Billings & Spencer com Billings & Spencer pfd .. Bristol Brass |Colt’s Arms . [Conn 1t & in pfd | Bagle Lock e | Fafnir Bearing Ln HhH & Cooley |Hartford Fire . |Hfd Elec Light {Landers, F . [ National Fire . N B Gas N B Machine . N B Machine pfd . Niles-Be-Pond com . North & Judd ..... Peck, Stowe & Wil . Phoenix Fire Russell Mfg. Co. Scovill Mfg. Co. .. Southern N E Tel Standard Screw ., Stanley Works .. Stanley Works pid Torrington Co. com Traut & Hine ... Travelers Ins. Co. | U'nion Mfg. Co. | V. & TREASURY U. 8. Treasury balance, STATEMENT $232,032,274, BOND MARKET New York, Aug. 9.—Mixed price movements featured today's early bond trading, which was marked by the usual Eaturday dulness. U. 8 | government issues continued to re- spond to the reduction of the olcal re-discount rate, the fourth 41-4s es- tablishing a record high price at 103, the first of the active libertys to reach this objective which govern- ment hond experts set for {hem some time ago. Treasury 4 1-4s held around 108. A strong underlying demand for | French obligations held the foreign firm. Several railroad bonds, includ- ing Chesapeake & Ohio convertable 5s, and Lonisville & Nashville 4s moved lower. Wilson convertible 6s lostmore than a point. MUSICTANS ASK RAISE Chicago, Aug. 9.—~Labor Day has j been set by union theater musicians | as a strike date unless theater owners |who have offered a five per cent in- | crease accede demands for a 10 per cent wage boost. The salaries now range from $57.50 a week to $87.75 a week, according to classification About 700 musicians and 35 thea- ters are involved. slimu q FOR MISS FORERG | A miscellaneous shower was dered Mies Arfield Foberg of | street at the heme of Mrs, Irnest | Ahlquiet of 22 Whiting gtreet, last |evening. Piano selections were ren- |dered by Mrs. Ahlquist and a lunch- N|eon eerved | Miss Foberg received a | beantiful gifts. 8he will hecome the | |bride of Carl Neurath on September 14, | MAN W 'TH!’“ TAC fll NTRY Binghamton, N. Y., Aug 9—Tof- foroni Pabbe, a man without a coun- | try, has been recommitted to the state hospital for theé insane here. Babbe | was ordered deported by the Russia soviet government oficials after ex- | amining him refused te permit him to {1and. He was returned fto | 161214 and has new ben brought Irzcl\‘rl ] here, gknk ko [l J il 154 || 47% || soul of of East Main street 7:45 o'clock at the church of St Jchn the Evangelist Have the Herald follow you on your vacation. —ad-t. Plans for the annual eonvention of the C. T. A. U, in this city progressing in charge committee of members of the Y. M. T. at ENis| A. & B. soclety. tions will be enjoyed. Carl Rackliffe ten- | Daughters of Veterans at the national Arch | alljance, vention week | Car Parking A P There will number of | quiem high mass PUTNAM & CO. Membors New York Siock Eachangs Members Hartlond Siock Eschange 81 West Maln 8. Tel 3040 We offer: 100 LANDERS, FRARY & CLARK 100 AMERICAN HARDWARE 100 EAGLE LOCK JUDD & COMPANY | Members New York Stock Exchange Members Hartford Stock Exchunge HARTFORD-CONN, TRUST CO. BLDG. TEL. 3.0381 New fritain: Burritt Hotel Bldg,, Tel. 1818 EAGLE LOCK COMPANY The Annual Meeting of the stockholders of the Eagle Lock Company will be held on Wednesday, August 6, at which time the statement for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1924, will be issued. We have compiled a ten year comparative We invite inquiries, alysis. EDDY BROTHERS & & HARTFORD NEW BRITAIN Hartford Conn.Trust Bldg. Burritt Hotel Bldg. Tel,2-7186 Tel. 3420 We offer: 50 Shares American Hardware 50 Shares Landers, Frary & Clnrk : 50 Shares Stanley Works 50 Shares North & Judd. @Thomson, Tfenn & Co. Burritt Hotel Bldg., New Britain Tel. 2580 MEMBERS NEW YORE AND HARTFORD STOUE EXCHANGES Donald R. Hart, Mer. WE OFFER:— American Hardware Price on Application We do not accept Margin Accounts We offer 100 American Hardware 100 Eagle Lock 100 Landers, Frary & Clark " 100 Stanley Works 100 Yale & Towne At the Market. Fuller. Richter. Aldrich 8 ® MEMBERS HARTFORD TOUE EXCHANGE 84 Pearl] St., Hartford, Conn. Tel 2-5261 JESSE MOORE H. P, SPAFARD Tel, 2080 JOS. M. HALLORAN 122 Main Street. E. T. BRAINARD, Mgr. The Hartfoid-Connecticut Trust Company 0ld State House Square, Hartford, Conn, Safe Deposit Boxes, $5.00 and upwards. Foreign Exchange to all parts of the world. LETTERS OF CREDIT — GENERAL BANKING Bank by mail. It is safe and saves time. Home cooked lunches at Crowell —advt. Lunch at Hallinan's.—~advt. Earl Hoffman, employed on the new building at the cornér of Main and Myrtle streets, while at work on one of the walls yesterday was struck on the head with a brick and had his head cut open. Three stitches were reqnired to close the wound. City ltems Elizabeth the local and Mrs represent Eddy will con- next Dauvghters of Veterans, to be heid in Boston Rear 141 Marsh.—advt be an anniversary re. for the repose of the James Fitzsimmons Monday morning Main St ! RECOVEDING FROM DIABETES Morristown. N. J, Aug. 9.—Miss Elizabeth Hughes, youngest daughter of Secretary of State Hughés, s pro- gressing favorably from an attack of diabetes, Dr. F. M. Allen sald today at the sanitarium to which Miss Hughes was brought yesterday. Dr. Allen added that she will be able to leave in a few days. Miss Hughes was brought hers Thursday night from the home of her sistér. the late 1%c a wesk, cash with order. which is to be held 25 and 26, are of the joint August 24, One-third of the victims of strest aceidents in London last year weré under 15 years of age. society and the Ladies’ T. A A number of social (unc-l

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