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DENPSEN WILLIG 10 FIGHT GRED Champ Only Wants Good Offr, He Says Los Angeles, July 31 (® — Jack Dempsey still is willing to meet Harry Greb at Michigan City next Heptember providing Promater Floyd Fitzsimmons will make it interesting enough fér him financlally. The champion explained last night that he had about given up hope of | a September bout when week after week passed and “nothing definite was done about it.” He, however, expressed his will- ingness to go ahead with the bout, “if Fitzslmmons can sign Greb and we can reach an agreement when he oomes out here to sign me, as T sup- pose he will, In order to be in shape for the fight, if It goes through, T am continuing my light training.” Dempsey sald he was planning to wire the New York boxing commis- slon that he could not possibly be in New York within the two weeks 1imit allowed him for signing for the City Items Chamberlain councll, No. 2, Jr, O, U. A. M, will meet this evening at Jr. 0, U, A, M, hall, A daughter was born at the New Britaln General hospital today to Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Wood of 414 Lincoln street. EULOGIZES BANCROFT President Coolidge, In Letter on Am- bassador's Death, Lauds His Pub- lic Service Swampscott, Masgs, July 31 (P— The death of Bdg A. Bancroft, American ambassador to Japan “de- prived the forelgn scrvice of one who had demonstrated the fullest mensure of equipment and had won |the unqualified confidence of both his own ggvernment and that of fhe {great empfre to which he was ac- |eredited, President Coolidge declared in a letter nt today to Dr. Fred- erick Ban t of \ashington, a brother. “His designation fo the highly i [ portant position which he held with g0 much credit to himself and ad vantage to his country,” said the XYW BRITAIN' DALY T ran to a pasture nearby and| watched the building burn. She was later taken into custody by | police. The girl will be brought before the probate court and will probably be placed fn some institu-| tion, SENTENCE COMMUTED Woman Governor of Texas Orders Condemned Man's Penalty Pixed At Life Imprisonment Huntsville, Toxas, July 31 (= | sentence of Arnulfo Valles | 15 to have been executed at penitentiary here this for the wurder of an El | Paso policeman, was commuted to | life imy nt, it was announced | (ot irden’s office shortly after nie midnight | office could supply n as to when or why ation was granted. Last I came from Austin that Perguson had officially vould not interfere with duled execution. The hoard pardons had acted adversely on Valles' commutation application. Valles, a 2l-year-old Mexican, a personal plea to the gover- rday in a message in which no informat L nor y | their attempts HERALD, 'FRENCH WOMAN SWIMNER TRY CHANNEL SAT. She 10 Slon Sure i Jane of Success, Says, Good Weather Holds Out 81 P swimmer Boulogne, France, July Jane Sion, the French | who will attempt te ncgotiate the| | Engllsh Channel tomorrow, starting | | tfrom Cape Gris-Nez at 3:00 a. m.,| arrlved at Callais this morning. She will be accompanied by the tug Champion, which followed the Argentine, ful channel swim in 1923, Lo I'rench swimmer says if the resent weather holds for elghteen hours she Is confident of success, and of earning the distinction of being the first woman to swim the )9 mile and England. Meanwhile the American and -Argentine entrants in this 1u's women's ohannel swimming Derby are hard at work tralning for scheduled for (he middie of August Miss Gertrude Bderle, the American champlon, fs practicing daily In the waters oft Cape Gris-Nez and Miss Lillian Har- rison, of Buenos Aires, who hae An ira Boschi, on his suc-| waterway between France FRIDAY, JULY 81, 1925. | iefs | Wall Street | The Westinghouse Alr Brake earned 35.98 @ share in the first half 025 with net incomu of §4.7 mpared with $5.05 a share a year | ume, of business ca | 1924 contributed lar | proved showing. New business, like | the Locomotive and Car | Manufacturing companies, is report- {ed to be considerably bel Br S— 'he vol« jed over from ¢ to the im-| that of v normal. Mid-Continent P {merly Cosden & Co., increased et income for the half y 34 before depreclation de- pre to $5.24 a share v ghare in th | Working « roleum Co., for. It tion, equal after divi- | first ) pital W compared w $11.472,941 Competition of hanks s h |ng 5o great In New York city, Fi | Age savs, that the margin of fit 1 smallor and sma With t1 or as rs go | fnerea |1owering of the inte | opening of tod TODAY'S MARKET UNEVEN IN TONE Opposing Speculative Forogs, Seeking Conol | PUTNAM' & CO MEMBERS., NEW DR & HARTTORD STOCK EXCHANGES JWEST MAIN ST NEW BRITAIN= Tel. 2040 MARTFORD OFFICE 6 _CENTRAL ROW TEL. 1-mat York, movem July 31 (M—Uneven its characterized the y's stock market with | forces still Professic price We Offer 100 Bristol Brass Common for control combined protit fractional Ward Baking B open: rs Mar v 1925 high ] wi many itial sales, | hig rand Spi ifac- JUDD & COMPANY Members New York Stock Esxchange Members Hartford Stock Exchange w Britain—Burritt Hotel Bldg., Tel. 1815 Judd Building, Pearl St., corner of Lewis, Hartford, Conn. 4 his innocence and re- I now n to av bout with Hapry Wille, but would he | willing to meet the negro fighter | July ¢ or any date thereafter, acter and peculiar fitnesa for The champlon announced yester- |service. Through a life time of de- day that Jimmy DeForrest had vis- |votion to the broadest public in- {ted him and “offered me a substan- |terest and of scholarly concern for tlal guarantee if T would fight Wills [the development of high id for him next July 4. T told him Tex |connection therewith, he Rickard had the first call on my |equipped himself for fhe services, but that if for any reasen |puhlic usefiiness and Rickard dropped out, then we might | have been rendered so talk business.” | affectively as to reflcet high honor of other bouts besides the Greb and ypon him. Although not particnlar Wills fights, the champion #aid | amibitions for public place “‘everything depende.” | at an times enlisted in eauses whi Dempsey said the task of stralght- |, 01 .9 to the advancement of t ening out his business affairs With |¢iya'niviic fnterests Jack Kearns, his former manager, will keep him busy for weeks. “There {s still a lot of detall to be gone through in connectlon w(fh\ the division of our pgoperty,” he ex- | plained, “nona of which would in-| terst the public but which will keep me busy for weeks “Roughly speaking, Kearns takes the Wilshire Apartments here, and 1 take the Barbara Hotel; and 1 do my own managing." | "The Wilshire apartments {s a plece | mentally unbalapced, stated that|=iEn of property valued at $300,000 and |she had trouble with her ",‘j"v"' ! 1s unencumbered. The Barbara | Om the previous day and o elibdnni G, i said to be worth more than half a | had left her. She 1‘ o dr EATIS t : million, but there is a $200,000 stroy a desk 1‘1””1“ h ‘vl‘.\rv\‘fi“m; V"HrsH.xlwnn Ivl:l‘VM\n‘];!y vh‘e‘ cln ;b; e but was unable to move it out cf | n . e preferre mertese oL the house. She then resolved 1o this latest one hut takes oc- farms of this country sre |stroy the desk by burnin n her cas deny its truth ns to every man, woman home and fthe barn ated ! ! have no doubt h in the entire United some rags with Kerosen: and tion to remain as head of .t | lighteq them. After doing this che treas president,” was In an especially de- made three unsuccessful assaults on 2 commutation of sentence. gree in recognition of his high cha { fon ! the swirling channel currents, has policeman, Enrique Riverd. | zone to Paris to compete in a mara- | posits to t1 1 in November of 1923, thon swim In the Seine tomorrow. | w! Mile. Sion holds the woman's| channel record, having stayedg in the water 14 hours and 45 m\’r&t Sun Ofl Ca S A in 1923, abandoning her swim owing [ 000 shares of « \ to bad weathar when ehe was only | puhiie, shows o om fires in the city during | g four miles from Dover \ of July according to the| ‘ | lef W J. Noble of o= e et | Four Taken to Hospital in Nerwalk Auto Crashes | for a single fire was at the | Sk i ple were taken to the Norwalk hos- mag pital suffering from Injurles received req!in automobile accldents early this | I wora | 2fternoon. I 16 stin | Willlam Zelter of 1580 Fast 95th | jtee street, New York city, received al — .~ . . fractured right arm and cuts and | bruises when a car driven by him | skidded on Westport avenue hill and crashed Into a stone wall at the | bottom His wife recelved cuts and brulses and Miss Mabel Sufiell of 1605 East V4th street a fracture of a finger on right hand. | Mre. Mary Dee of 113 Teller ave- nue suffered a fracture of a right rib when an automobile fn which she was riding skidded and crashed into a telephone pole on Mill 11ll, ssary from 8 t ot cunital rs a ratio of fiy fticlont fatement of a of 158 for a suc aind s was kille n in former y five Loss in This City 5 Duvring July Is $5,000 eary es sine 100 shares American Hardware e o 8 "# 100 shares Landers, Frary & Clark K, T S & S pid 1 At The Market > of abont largest his services unstintedly the halt v I mont anuly share on common sto At 1074 ¢ The compares et full year W ahout ling and Yonng Wife Admits She Set Fire to House Norwalk, July 31 (P -0ld wife of Carl Reers has con- | fossad to, the loeal police that she | started the fire that 1id damage estimated at $5,000 in Beach road Wednesday night ., The girl, who is thor calls were ar ent, while by the d 12 of whic hell al alarms, | @homson, Tenn & Co. Burritt Hotel Bldg.,, New Britain Tel, 2580 MEMBERS NEW YORK AND HARTFORD STOCK EXCHANGES Donald R. Hart, Mgr. 20514 59 f2% ars, Y 637 182 To Me Mellon Denies He Is Leaving Cabinet York, 1y 31 (A—Secretary nding the sum- s 1} he is to re- abinet, A I by his secretary says tal ritain She o + 1t We Offer and Recommend: to be that vom t state wihorized me nd these repeated to say d , and weden, The rom the 1} a brother funeral will Monday il R would ome = e T PRICE ON ATPLICATION 1o W to w0 that the R Applications for patents in Great Britain totaled more than 30,000 in 5 AN | about his ail int e WT DO NOT ACCEPT MARGIN OCCOUNTS and child < Btates. : Ah'\‘nnnhw‘ 1uskas Mazinlans Aley xas (Morrisx) | morning af § o'c at t 1 Mary's cet wrd V Burial was in St ne Mrs. Faony 1. Plagt Mre. Fanny E. Platt ) ce died last ra rs of ag | of this city for abo 1 survived by her hi Platt, and {EDDY BROTHERS & HARTFORD NEWHBRIJ;‘A!N; ® Hartford Conn. Trust Bldg. BurrittHotel Bldg. Tel.2°7186 Tel. 3420 long We Offer: 50 Shares Landers, Frary & Clark 75 Shares Stanley Works | BRYAN UNIVERSITY | Clinton Clinton, Conn,, * 3 o'clock will be in Clinton, LOCAL STOCKS | | | | | | i I unerals Grace Hildebrand | Rum Laden Schooner Is | Taken Into New London wdon, July 31 (P — The 1 Ire | Mrs, | brand was he funeral $ 's church People In Tennessee Continuing ch schooner Maus- Miguelon, with ey aboard, was s south of Sankety itucket Island, late laet r Red Wi ac- recelved at the uarters here today. r is in tow for this port Maurice La Fitte and en in custody aboard o ship's papers show t Yarmouth, N. 8, on Under craft, records, With Their E 'lans For Orga - | MeCrann was ce 1 ganiza neral mass. There w tendance and a profusi ranl ¢ woere M nk Th h Bowen, Charl McC hearers Kenneth Mary's ceme tion of School There rers Kane, and was in St cfln%mfiwing Mis. John Toomis Funeral Loomis were r Nassa the guard -laden, on April arbor of New York. s el ip 5 s ROUT CALLED OFF of ; ; SRS 2 n with y to the ¥ July 81 (M—The quiem mass, Rev 3 weight eontest be- Over 100 Improvements and Refinements e i Beadiahe e e A & C N POL ) NEW bodies by Fisher— ) flOt@i (’%E S low, racy lines—hood distinctive new color combinations 1 head and cowllamps—all com- Id this mo t the Smart New and body beading—lower running boards and fenders—rici, in enduring Duco—newly designed nickeled radiator and specia bine to inspire admiration. 10 o'elock Market Rev, chrant strect ist RAPLAN was EuD:dsncon oAsah w Orleans, scheduled ing taken from the cl 7s been postpened on should operate so smoothly and quictly. And yet this car has beer qifl further beitered by more O'Brien sang O than 100 improvements and refinements—including Qil Filter, pprh-ctud full pressure Qiling he pall bearer e ¢ {READ THE tecided upon. System, larger Crankshaft and Bearings, Air Cleaner, Four-wheel Brake refinements, still larger . Francls Ke n i 1 : : : : Chester Jac: Balloon Tires and many other features of advanced engineering which contribute to the out- 4 ‘ Patrick standing value of the car. A vitally important and exclusive Oak- The Harmonic BalanCer { ity imseran md excluive ode flower bearers read the committal s research and development by Oakland and General Motors engineers—renders the Oakland Six engine positively unmatched in the absence of vibration at all speeds. It establishes Oakland even more firmly than ever as the outstanding lcader in advanced engineering. Oakland's much low- ~ and New Prices ~$70 03350 lower Oends much low. themselves make this announcement one of the most important of the year. Considering the many important refinements which have been added to a car alrcady unmatched in appearance and performance, the new prices are all the more impressive. Oakland Six owners everywhere have expressed surprise that a car so powerful and spirited of rain HERALD CLASSITIED rs wer ] CEY ARING HOUSE STATEMENT | The Housewife’s weewe Lament - - About her seeming inability to e reduction in household expens ha grave in St Mary's comete OF THANKS We wish to thank our f neighbors for th sympathy shown cent bereavement our heloved husl John R thank the & Governor and Staff at (‘amp This Afternoon Genr Yect a further eN— society, : Can be changed quickly to songs of praise if she will but follow the example of one local woman and make the readir d use of Herald Classified Ads a daily habit. t udy the remarkable Harmonic Balancer— Come in—see the new Cakland Six—drive it—s ) alance outstandingleader in its field. get the new lower prices—see why Dakland is more than ever the THE HARDWARE CITY MOTOR CO. 6 Elm Street Phone 2724 OAKLAND SIX WINNING AND’ HOLDING GOOD WILL 1g an NEW sHor This woman has found that those Classified Ads make it possible to buy or sell odds and ends of household furniture and equipment— And she knows that by calling 925 and insert- ing an ad she will soon get result VISIT OUR AND BEAUTIFUL 89 West Main St. AT (Profess 1 al Bollerer’s Posy; Shop The Telegraph Florist of New Britain HERALD’S Classified Service ' Josaph A. 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