New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 4, 1925, Page 1

f ness upon B Bridgeport Trust company, | | News of the World By, Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW BRITAIN HERALD VOLUNTARY R. R. MERGER IS TRANSPORTATION SOLUTION, | DUGEDFS30000 REGINNEIRPILE Operaions SAYS PRESIDENT COOLIDGE Declines To Commit Himself On Nickel Plate Consolidation In Favor of It. Believes Under United Control Vexing Rate Problems Could Be Satis- | factorily Adjusted. ALSO WILL SUMMON FARM CONFEREES By The Assoclated Press, Swampscott, Mass., Aug. ¢ (P— Woluntary consolidation of railroads, in President Coolidge's opinion, | would pave the way to a solution of the transportation problem. While he has refrained from com- nitting himself on the proposal, the | president fs watching with interest the efforts of the Van Sweringen in- terests to receive interstate com- merce commission approval of their micrger plan. make it possible for other transpor- tation systems, now at sea as to whether they can proceed with con- | solldations, to definitely proceed with their programs. Mr. Coolidge, who in the past has advocated voluntary consolidation wherever advisable, is of the opinion that in this way the vexing rate problem can be solved. Transporiation be- Hves, could then be fixed at level which wonld enable large operating | systems to make a fair return on their entire business and wonld do away with the present conditions, where some lines are making an enormous profit making none. Agricultural (onference President Coolidge will all his | sgricultural conference fo map out & iegislative program for farm aid. The confercnce, which was pointed a year ago, presented a pro- gram to the last session of congress in which prin was for government aid tive marketing. Coming before elosing days of the ference report failed of approval with considerable opposition voiced to some of its main proposals. Spokesmen for the farming terrl- terities told the presid mer, however, that they believed co- cperative marketing legislation to be the principal need of the farmers in ccopera- congress In the session the con- and the president has determined to | sgain lca's the problem in the hands of his conference, headed by Robert D. G of Wyoming. GET BAD CHECK WAN Kew Yorker Arrested In Bridgeport Aftor He Tried To Work Worthless Paper. Bridgeport, Conn. Jacques Lazarns 28, of 1004 Bryant o York, who made an unsuccessful attempt worthless check for $200 at Spector's Jewlrey store today was capfured by Traffic Officer John Carroll and Frank Lewis, a clerk in the stor before he mak getaw: n a taxicab. TLazarue appeared at store shortly before noon and asked to be some mond rings. Belecting one value at 125, he tendered a check $200, Une: the Lazarus caused Joseph I the store proprietor to present the note to the on which nue, New conld i the jewelry shown for part of Spector, 1 to the He station about Spector return us had dis the railroad as he wa ppeared traced to end arrested to board a taxicab ust Qupleme (oult U nho]rl~ Power of Assessors Aug. 4 (P—Boards of are New Haven, assessors and boards of relief not conipeli neither are ti upelled to go to the trouble of verifying his property, but the prope owner must st each plece separately, the supreme court of errors makes plain the decision in the appeal of George A. Wilcox against the town of Madi- son, filed with the clerk of superlor court here today. Assessors also have the sole power to determine whether property 18 unimproved acreage or suitable for building lots and so classify it. the court adds. Wilcox appealed from the assessment of a large tract of land which he claimed to be farm ment. land LEADS IN TOURNEY. N. Y. Aug. 4 P Raymond J. McAuliffe, of Buffal obtained a long lead in the first yound of the national public links golf tournament today when he shot a 70 over the 73-par Salisbury Coun- try club course. Four birdies kept he go over the allotted figures. Dbe over the allotted fgures i Garden City He belleves that set- | tlement of the points at issue will | while others are | ap- ! cipal recommendations | Off | Avg 4 (B | to ca a | o, ‘.‘N}'N. But AFFECTION OF COUPLE STRONGER THAN LIFE Husband in Death Within Two Hours By The Assocated Press. Chicago, Aug. 4¢—Affection which bound the lives of Charles W. Clark, | widely known concert &inger and teacher, and his wife, reached across the vold of death last night. Two hours after Clark had been fatally stricken in a motion pitcure theater, Mrs. Clark collapsed and followed her husband in death. The double tragedy came while the famous baritone and his wife ap- parently were in robust health and the best of spirits. Apoplexy was as- signed as the cause of Mrs. Clark's death. Last night they sat together view- {ng a motion pleture. Without warning Mr. Clark sank in his scat. |Mrs. Clark trled to rouse him, but |physicians hastily summoned, found he was dead. Throughout the ordeal [Mrs, Clark remained calm and self- |possessed but when she reached {home she gave way under her pent- up sorrcw. Physicians tried to re- vive her, but she was beyond hope and within a few moments she, like |her husband, had passed away. | Mr. Clark, who won fame as an in- |terpreter of modern song, married Jessie Baker at their home town, | vanwert, 0., in 1838, and she had Ibeen the close companion of hls suc- [cesstul career. |" During the period that Theodore {Thomas conducted his erchestra, now the Chicago Symphony, Mr. |Clark was a soloist on various pro- |grams from 1895 to 1906, Of late vears he had been devoting most of his efforts to teaching. having el lat the Tush Conservatory of Mus where he was a member of | taculty. | In the decade followlng 1900 he attended the Conservatolre Naton- lale, at Pa receiving several |medals there and sang before that Ischool. He made successtul tours in the United Kingdom, France, Ger- imany, Ttaly and Portugal. He was born in Vanwert, O., in 1865 and was educated in the schools there and at the Methodist college at Tort Wayne, Ind. He later came {o Chicago and studied singing. SUIl later he studied in London as well as Paris. Mr. Clark Is survived by children, Ronald Clark, a teacher of singing In Paris. Mrs. Virginia |Lawrence of New York and Mrs. |Leuise Gardeniere of Chicago. the three But Appean To Beers. Clark Follows Singer NEW BRI’I‘ Al CONNECTICUT, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1925, —EIGHTEEN PAGES EXPLOSION GAUSES RADIO REACHES T0 | Millions of Dollars in Building ow Under Constructi lon Blast at College of City of First Direct Transmission and‘Total Number of Permits Issued First Seven | Months of Year Equals Almost 1,000— New York SEVERAL STUDENTS HIRT None Seriously—Firemen Burned and Spectators Somewhat Gassed Spread Into Streets, New York, Aug. 4 P—An explo- slon today in a vault in the chemis- ry bullding of the College of the City of New York, blew out many windows and filled the neighborhood with fumes, Several students were reported slightly injured and suffer- ing from shock but none sufficiently to require medical aid. Chemicals valued at $30,000 were fire which followed. There were 8¢V~ eral explosions after the fire started in the vault, Firemen . Injured. Seven firemen fighting the flamee were burned by water which had be- come mixed with chemicals. Fumes from the vault spread the neighborhood, driving back the crowds that had been attracted by the noise of the explosion. No students were in the when the explosion occurred. Thirty students in a classroom In the build- ing were routed, but none of them was injured. SWIHHING CHANNEL vault Early This Afternoon Irench Girl Swimmer Was But Nine Miles From English Coast. gland, Aug. 4 (A—The captain o' the cross channel boat Invicto reported that he observed Mile. Jan Sion, the French girl, nine miles from the English coast at i o'clock this afternoon. Dover, Cape Gris-Nez, France, Aug. 4 » —-Mlle. from Cape Gris-Nez two hours and forty minutes after she began her at- tempt to swim the English *hannel today. She appearcd to be swimming strongly, The sea is calm, fthe weather cloudy and the temperatire of the water 58 x|$;:rr‘f‘= fahrenheit Death l)m ers Must Stay Indiznapolis, Aug. 4 (M—An hour alone in the morgue with the body of the person for whose death he was vesponsible will be ishment infllcted henceforth —upon any Indianapolis motorist who brings death to a pedestrian or oth- er motorist by careless or reckl driving or by driving while intoxi cated. This punishment was devised today Rikehofi and Dr. deputy coroner. William Depper dent this sum- | Army of Business Advances Upon Flffl’\ Avenue Real Estate Turnover in Past ‘Seven | Months Approximately | §50,000,000 — Places of Wealthy Giving Way to Commerce. slated Press. Aug. 4 P —The turn- avenue real estate de- nent in the seven months end- ing July 81 was approximately $00,- This is about one-third the total land and building expenditures in Manhattan f{or the same period. 1f you have a sentimental interest in globe-trotting foreigners have declared the most wonderful thoroughfare in the world, better take a good look at it the next time vou are in town. Tomorrow one may hang his hat in a cafeteria where once a stately mansion rose For the current of commerce takes its way on Manhat- tan Island and massed soclal and fi- nancial influence has been powerless to divert its flow. Sale of the Cornelius Vanderbilt chateau, holding the block between 57th and 5Sth strects, to a syndicate for “development” marks the col- lapse of the last redoubt In what was once the very stronghold of resi- dential exclusivencss. 0ld Order Changeth One by one the family holds of Astor. TFish, Huntington and nderbilt lines have fallen to the beat of the waves of bar- ter and sale. The same inexorable pr re from the south which trans- formed lower IMifth avenue first into wholesale hou: and then into loft what northward bulldings has taken over the great ! gargoyle - fronted bronze - doored villas of New Tork's admitted social leaders, and with magic swiftness has changed them to exclusive sho and duplex apartments | The Final Stand. A final stand is being made few loyal retain ler behind the rampart of Central Park already the first foamy crests of the advancing time have that berrfer, just as it by a ers of the old or |jumped washed at U'nlon and Madison squares. Fish mansion at 62nd street, three (Continued on Page 13), triumphantly over the dikes | The | he Strongholds of New York Society BEER PROVES T00 NEAR, FOUR SELLERS FINED : Only One | Brew Halt of One Per Cent Over Iegal Limit Analysis Shows. Beer of the continues to be the hobby detective bureau of the police | department with the result that four defendants pald fines of $100 and [ costs in police conrt this morning for sclling beer containing over o I of one per cent of alcohol. The brew in the city seems to be getting weaker, for analysis shows that some of it contains only about one-half of one percent over the legal limit, according to the chemist's report From the manner in which the cases have been disposed of in police t, stores and restaurant keepers about the city are selling the beer openly, making no efforts to conceal their dealing in the Tiquid so the po- lice have @n easy time securing evi- dence of beer selling. In some cases the keepers have sold beer to cus- tomers while the police were present waiting to take samples for analysis. Tn most of the cases the fedend- ant have told the court that they did not know that the beer was anything but “near beer,” {iy admitted selling it, charged varying from 15 to a bottle, the same rates that are sct for legitimate Those who were fined this morn- ing for selling beer John Lu- cas, proprietor of a store at 221 Elm street: Walter Donohue, pro- prietor of a store at 57 Fast Main strest; Michael Galdimanskas, pro- prietor of a restaurant at 239 Eim street: nd Joseph Placzai. proprietor of a restaurant at 7 Frankiin square. May cour the prices 25 cents “near beer.” were Ask (ounfll To Probe Gas Prices That the machinery of tI mon council would be set in motion at the next regular meeting to in- of around he com- hject some gossip city hall this morning, ports that Colonial Filling Stations | in Hartford had offered that city gas at 20 cents a gallon. | One en man who asked quoted at this | stated that he ~~- positive a resolu- tion would be effered asking that the prices be investigated in this city. following Te- that be time, When Chemical Laboratory Fumes destroyed by the explosion and the | throughout ¥ Jane Sion was six miles out | In Morgue With Victims ‘ by Chief of Police Herman k. | but read- QUESTIONS ARE A ANSWERED And i Reception Via Wireless Smflnn OXN Talks to Hears From MacMillan Fxpedition—Boy of 16 Gets Messages From Rein- | hartz Associated Press Heights, Ill, Aug. 4 history the ssion time in direct traner s to and successful reception of e A C i re carly today MaeMillan Arctic answered a query of man from station Is 3,700 Miles Away The expedition, located Greenland! approsimately miles north of Chicago, flies, clearly within 15 mess from expedi tion paper news. as the crow hindere ther cond tions. Operating on a low wave length of 40 meters and 1,000 watt station OXN of the Zenith Radio corporation led their president, 1, 1. Mebonald, Jr., vice-commander of the MacMillan expedition at 12:20 m., castern standard time. The adio crash of international was immediately acknowledg Okeh MeDonald.” Test Questions Asked | A series of test questions g cd by newspaper men and repr tatives of press fatior then despatched to MceDonald. first 1 “Have yon reserved s when Washin serfes?" not be par- en- were sats for use world “Afraid help Wast wins the er ot back in time to ington. Root Griftith (Clark Gliffit pre the Washi ton My compliments from this of iee and those at home. Melonald.” Etah is approximatel south of the pole. [t fof the pole varies « {of ten miles cannot calenlated due to the finer of instrumen which d by the borealis and magn | Phonograph Is H | Prior to the tra 8 , members of for sident of snow 2 degrees cen said ocation differenc inued on JOHN HAFFEY PASSES AWAY » part of the pun- | TLawlor Street Man Flad Lived in New Britain 1or Over 50 of His 70 Years—Funeral to Be Thursday Haffey a resident his morning Mr. I John 50 years died [Lawlor strect in Wethersfic 1til his comin |man. He 5. W. Byrne concern h: was first 1 by tie 8 sine employe n Bros | daughters, Brale M William M land Mrs. Will 'v.\k and later Gordo | leaves four | of Oxford jam Ahearn of Hartford Sons, Ha | and M Fdward Rristol; Mrs. ; and stepdans s Wichn of New 1B dchildrer ane itain “'AY ACCIDENTALLY KILLED rial Prominent Tynn DBusinces Man Shoots Himself While Cleaning Revolver At His Home Mass., vice Lynn Magrane. ant tre ment store in 1 shot himself in 1] home nidnig] {hours H er in 1} weapon was ing a revol the father-in-law h found Magrane mortally wounded Iying IN SCOPES CASI ug. 4 Pi- the tederal NEW MOVE Chattanooga. Tenn. A A sec pt to T Scopes ¢ nd att ution case N ief counse of e teacher, f titlon with the cierk of ciredit court, seceking to restrain state aufh from prosecution defen rities further HIGH TIDE a0 August 5 (Standard Time) At New London, 9:42 a. m | 10:04 p. m At New Haven, 1:21 8. m.; 11:40 p. m. THE WEATHER o Hartford, Aug. 4.—Forecast for New Britain and vicinity TIncreasing cloudiness tonight Wednesday unsettled; prob ably showers —— ¥ to Over $4,600,000 and 707 building op- going on In this city resent time, re presenting a to- ent of more than three rs. according to figurea the city building record of New Britaln for the en months of 1925 is sald to in the number of permits « same period as any city econd only to Hart- nt of investment sented year's record is also sald to ance of any previous history of the from record an the record January 1, that of by more mdred thous- for more than 900 new » n issued in this city for the first seven months of t year, accor tions for t ng to offictal record of buflding opera- period amount 1o umost five mitlion dollars. Of this amount more than two- thirds of the bulldings are now un- der construction, it Is sald. The permits issued and amounts cost sam In New Buildings. involved are recorded Month i January 201 April ; May June . Tuly 208 ing houses. 1t is esti probably s now The record for the sa 1434 15 as follows January February .. March April . May .. fssued were ited Vost for that ho of the dwel 650 or 700 of are under constr 159 84 Augast bids to keep up 1 same record assur the fact that permits for the crectd of &ix one-family a total cost of $42.000 were issued to one firm this afte o] were is- sied to H. T. Christopher and Ben olo The houses will be of ck construction, and |work will be star Five of them will be on street from 97 to 121. Th at 208 Carleton street, Total That Vir 1 seems houses at one-family, once Franc r will he * SCOTT'S MOTHER ON .~ STAND FOR DEFENSE! Aiding Her Son in Fight for Life Via Insanity Route Aug. 4 (P Village, mother 11 Scott, testified today in her son in the sanity before Superior Jo- seph 8. David. Under the law excluding witnesses until they have testified Ju David Gered all aline s frow the conrt, psychiatrists sat at the counsel table yesterday during the sclection 1d opening statements. excluding them was rously contested by th Later alienist from ¢ permitted to remain in court lition that his testimony be contined to obsevational conclusions vather than hypothetical tonching insanity. Mrs. Seott sald Russel was second child, born 31 years ago. A question as to the condition of her child was withdrawn after an objection by the state. Questioned as to the birth of Rus. sel were also overruled, W. 8. Stewart ,of defense coun- el sald he would nect the her's testimony in regard to the child's birth with the insanity plea through the testimony of alienists, “Then you must establish your foundation first," the judge ruled. Stewart was granted permission withdraw the witness for the - Mrs. Ohio, fcago Rilla Scott of Bay g on on co her firs! to time When Dr. H. S Hulbert, first jofense alienist testified that Scott's mother “had been in 11l health and his father alcoholic,” David »se from his seat. “Don't you object to that” the :dge demanded, turning to the prosecution table, The prosecution lid and the court sustained them. Dr. Hurbert said examination convinced that the prisoner has be- come Insane st February 14, jate of the sentence to the gallows. Judge David took the alienist in ind. “You say that this prisoner had declusions of conspiracy, of prosecution in his business affair in Michigan and Canada? Do you know anything of those affairs? “Very well your testimony The court ruled repeatedly ott's history would be ad itted. General conclusions to manifestation of insanity and vpothetical questions as to the auses were alike excluded The defense brought Scott had been a drug addict the court halted an effort to tablish the habit as a factor con- tributory to insanity. Dr. Hulbert 14 he had been persecuted crown attorneys of Canada. “He said bribed Governor Small, the parole board and Judge Lynch who tried him for murder.” This testi- money was ruled out as was also a neral statement as to how a long eriod in jail under a sentence of jeath might affect a man's mentall Judge the you will please con- to facts.” that not ont that but Scott told him by they at the counsel table, wordy session On cross-examination Dr. Hulbert he found no indication of in- in his physical examination Rlood pressure, pulse and texture were normal. There was no evidence of in- nity in that?” he was asked. No.t Dr. Hulbert said found no i » of organic troubles in the “He was oriented he knew his and the time. all and sen- he understood slept said sanity of Scott he vous system. his surroundings, . where he was, x he was in d to hang, but (Continued on Page 16) questions ‘FOUR ROBBERS SECURE 1 LOOT WORTH 70,000 New York Bandits Take $11.000 in Cash and Jewelry Valued At $60,000 New York, Aug. 4 (P)- s held up a Grand stre hop on the cast side, ter binding two ¢ with diamonds estimated to 87 Four rob- 't pawn today, and escaped value A woman customer, the shop during t who entered robbory, be e men drew r way silenced in She wit Then she office where gagged with the across the forced Into g back 15 bound and store employes. The loot cash and nearly mouth, consisted of $11,000 in 360,000 in jewelry. News of the robbery spread rapldly through the district and within a short time scores of women who had pawned jewelry at the shop stormed the The ex- citement grew so intense that police reserves were called o restore or- der START MEMORIAL DRIVE Take Part in Campaign For Funds or doors, Men Prominent Abhout State Washington Monument. Hartford. Aug. 4 (A men, prominent in Hartf state, were present this tuncheon which opened the Con cut campaign for the Navy and \m rine memorial to be erected in W ington at a cost of & 00, Rear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske and Gov- ernor Trumbull the principal cpeakers. Among those present were United Stafes Senator Hiram Bing- Congressman E. Hart F Representative Frederick (. W, of Norfolk, Bank Commissioner John R. Byrne, Morgan R. Rrainard thur Collens, Heywood H Col. Fllery W. Allen Wainwright About thirty and the at the ord noon were ham and WOULD ELIMINATE OFFICE Lowell, Mass,, Aug. 4 (P—-A plan to abolish ti office of secretary asurer, held by M of Boston, was proposed of the state brancl her vention n Fed in the report 1 of Labor, iay of a special ommittee on finances, Tt s pro- | posed to create a office The arge was made the branch ar and that obtain a balan ures ditton SAULSBURY Me. Ang Adition of former 1S BETTUR 4 (M r Wilard ols il a srted Rorkland The slsbury of Delaware, wl immer he as improv Dr. Fben Alden comfort Sa his today hassed A clan sald that kept anger of a relapse being the very quiet Connecticut State | | Aug. Ist, ... Average Daily Circulation For Vo Tuive 71 049 thrar Advt. Dept,, Hartford, Conn, CENTS MNERS EXPECT TO BREAK OFF NEGOTIATIONS OVER COAL ADJUSTMENTS TODAY BflRfltR PATR[]L NEAR Authorltatlve State- 100 proh will complet tahlished a movement i to organize th the the bi! to forel through which cont York horders, treas have he voy Andrews operation and it 1s his determination a sufficient | nt pathways 1 1s coming ws recently DETROIT 15 ORERED Mile Stretch (ruarded Against Smuggling B to of a 100 miles to Port Huron to uggling of linuor, aband from U 3 Ly f the roit river Assistant rews » will take from the exact num The to be 1 after His force ibitlon for of patrolmer be determine a survey employ he jering the ted t ritlated by patrol first action consti indivi result will be several fors border on and other se will he the customs, vices, by a centralizatic exp more give each collector o to hlock the pr ab: Uni ates. o with the new policy additional patrols he n Vermont i and hav n doing A hig business. of the situation mont border MACMILLAN'S PLANES One of Them Makes Suc- Washington, the navy planes with the MacMillan | Arctic as- mbled at h, sie was made for thirty The take off w Lient commanding the despatch fil department “Naval unit with here N.A-3 and breakdown. MacMillan _passenger. Approrimately Plan But oximately 19 Work on NOW ARE ASSEMBLED| cessful Trial Flight at Etah Aug. 4 (A cxpedition have been essful flight with one minutes and it is to huild Commander navy section, necessary a runway hant in snid: started work since first sunlig All me which Wis wera brov which was erec haule out and i foet from beach. N.A.-2 for test hop at & p. m., and Hop (sic) at 8 . ained in air 3 5 p.om., Lieutenant Schur, ille (aviation n a mechs Flight details of the messaga ap- were garbled in transmis BRIDGEPORT STRIKE 500 Taborers Any Walkont Ang. 4 (P—A tgeport, Conn V) laborers re according to the trat then 4 building tr contract said o strike of al lay who h owing to a wit which does not tractors with no claim on strike, tinues today ntractors that union men are New York Clty Loses Quarter of Million People Since Last Count : FAtim;ned Population On July 1 Was Less Than 6,000,- « Ferguson will | orboats and atuomo- step Andrews border patrol work 1 customs collectors. a unification of 's now employed on | the prohi- directing head Al ) efficient a num- reports to the indicated smugslers | An- made a personal sur- along the Ver- Two of Greenland, and a of them last as made from the | assiimed it will not Byrd a panies, 1 last night to the navy early arriving hanics sent to work was erected at ht work on 4 by 8 p. m.. 1 up to buoy took had m. minutes and {s moored to buoy near pllo chinist's rfe and Commander was Quit Associated Workers Do Not are o would » des- | the explre all the leading butlding apparent only ment Says This Will Be Fact “Barring Un- foreseen Develop- ments,” At Atlantic City. Operators Will Stand Pat Against Lewis' Challenge —Warriner and Rich- ards Fail to Attend, COMMERCE DEPT. Is TO HOLD ALOOF NOW Atlantic City, N, J,, Aug. 4 P— Anthracite scale nvegotiations will definitely be broken oft this aftere noon, “barring unforeseen develop- ments,” according an opinion [volced by a high authority among miners today, What ground uld likely be adduced for such a break was not indicated. hracite operators for the meeting expressed fuil des termination to uphold their scale committee against the challenge they felt John L. Lewls, president of the United Mine Workers of America, | had raised against it, Operators' Teaders Absent | samuel D. Warrine airman of, the anthracite operators eonference, and William J. Richards, president of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company, ¥hose pres. ence Mr. Lewis had requested to- | day, did not accompany the other | operators here, It was officlally an< nounced the twe leaders would not come . W. Parker, director of the An- thracite Burean of Tnformation, {o- day said the operators' scale wittee, which Mr. Lewls impug was elected Ly the entire industry |at a special meeting here July § af |er a canvass of all available candt | dates, The committee was nominated by a labor committee headed by F. H. | Hemelright, an independent tor of Scranton, Parker sald, and the committee's personnel was ac- |cepted by tlie mecting as a wholg only after an hour's discussion | Various other candidates were proposed, according to Parker, who | was secrotary of the meeting. who said various amendments to the la | bor committee's report had to be dis- | posed of before agreement wag |reached. 'The cholce of the com- mittes, Parker sald, “was anything {but formal and cut and dried." The meeting, lie protested, repre- lgented 1% anthracite mining com- virtually the whole of the industry, and comprised not only the 15 corporations included in the an thracite pro- per, but perhaps 100 more, to on arrival opera- operators conference, Hoover's Statement Washington, Aug. 4 (P ratary Hoover who returned to Washington today from a vacation in California declared the commerce department would hold itself aloof from the an thracite situation unless instructed otherwise by President Coolidge. No instructions have so far come from the president, he said. bearing on the question. West Ts Flourishing Business conditions throughont the west are In a flourishing state, Mr Hoover sald, with trade in all branches active and little unemploy | ment | “Farming is on the vpgrade.” he added, “the farming population {s |not entirely out of the woods yet ir a financlal seuse, but prices and {markets are favorable, and the out- look and the feeling is hopeful from the Pacific coast to the Mississippi Valley PROBE STRANGE DEATH Police And Medical Fxaminer Still On Fairfield "tion Not Declded. state- Working Case—Ac « (®—D into th Balek e amb Rri islon eport, Conn hold Mrs jeath Tos Fairfi nday on the g P or to consider the matter closed. will depend n the rep of Medical Examiner H. Lebar Peters, it was €aid at the coroner loffice today Pr Peters perf ed an > body yestarday and his report awaited by acting Corone Stevenson. Sergeant Frank the state police, is con investigation to nee way Bridgeport hospita autopsy is being m-n © 1, of ducting an mine if there is anything to warrant {minal action [ deter 000—Decline Blamed On Exodus to Other Places Secretary Jardine Is and Restricted Immigration. New York, Aug. 4 (M—The popu- ation of New York city on July 1 was less than 6,000,000 people cording unofficial estimates of New York and Washington census of Man- ac- a s The borough hattan since the last census lost 250,000 people to the su bs, of ! whom 100,000 were believed to have found thelr way into Jersey. Joss Another cause of the Plflmnvdl'nrlnu\ to the drop in immi- [aliment for a number of years, and is due gration The will final taa for several months Westchester county and a similar number to New revised census figures not be available for publica. Taken to Hospital Today Washington, Aug. ¢ (P—Secretary Jardine entered Walter Reed army hospital for treatment of a stomach disorder, | His condition was described as not He has suffersd from the it was aggravated by his recent long western tour at the end of which he as forced to go to Wisconsin for & rest. g N £y T s Y8