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The New York herald., 1921-11-15
Business Troubles
PETITIONS IN BANKRUPTCY.


Petitions in bankruptcy filed yesterday in
The h United States District Court were:
Inyoluntary, by Rubin Kofsky. who claims
SS5I; IL. Reichmsn. Si0s. and +. kleine'
STANDARD MILDLY RLoUsE CO., INC. II
East Twenty-second Observation-Disclosures, by
FRANK Weiner. who claims $500 Abraham
cGfS GSttie5 Iets,l, S23 and Rose senft, S45 "a w..
Forty second street-Involuntary, by Joseph
II; Lettal, who claims s4.35l; Anthony
DfLLHEIMER-uNcAs lH AS, MACHINE I WORKS,
First ayenue--vountary, with liabilities
PARsTEcIl BEsKIN. INc.-Involuntary
by Max Kosenblatt. who claims 81 ,o56 !;
Bessie Rosenfeld, sl77. and Ephraim
Badth. Sis. Liabilities. $4,000; assets.
DAVID .HIRw1Tz. 81 West Forty-sixth
street-lnvoluntary by Jeannette Frikarck,
and Belle Siegel. $40.
GERsoN BROS, INC, 10 Madison avenue--
sasSS9luntar ssSo by Leo EoveEs %h0 claims claims
JACOB LANCER, los Lewis stree.--volun-
FAULTLEss Fur MANUFACTURiNc; Co.
10 West Twenty-first street--Involuntary.
by Tessie saslow, who claims $3.50: Law
renee Silver, $500. and Thomas i. Roberts.
BENJAMIN FINGER. ess Intervnle ayenue,
The Bronx-Voluntary. Liabilities. ss.7os;
MOSES & KrsnNER, Max Moses and Max
kushner, furs. 215 West Twenty-eighth
street,Involnntary, by Dorothy Resnikoff,
WEINsTEIN. LEVY COAT co, 100 West
Twenty-sixth street-Involuntary, By Fannie
Eaab. who claims S5Sf.
RECEIVERS IN BANKRUPTCY.
Receivers In bankruptcy appointed yester-
day in the United States District Court were
SIMON DAVID-Susan Brandeis. receiver;
bond 81 900.
STANDARD MILDLY BLOUSE Co.--George
w. Eikins receiver; bond s., 900.
WALTER KLEIN, trading as the Solax
Speciality Shop-William J. Clark. re-
ceiver: bond 81 600
COIN DEVICE AND SIGNAL CO.--Iouis
Jersowith. receiver; bond $4,000.
PARSTECK 6 BESKIN-Cllfford g. Lud-
vigh. receiver; bond 5000.
GERSON BROS.--J. 5. Maxwell, receiver,
for David liurwits; bond 5000.
SCHEDULES IN BANKRUPTCy.
Schedules In bankruptcy filed yesterday in
the United States District Court we're:
TIGER. DREEBEN s. SIASSEF, NC. .
Tompkins street. furniture makers. LA
bnities. S11,5o9: assets. S2.66T
SAMUEL WEINGARTEN. trading rs the
Majestic Jewelry and Novelty Co., % Allen
street. Liabilities Sj.2l, assets, S2.Sol.
JUDGMENTS FILED.
Tho following judgments were filed yeater-
day, the first name being that Of the debtor:
MANHATTAN.
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Ind sav. Bank. k................... GsG56
GoLDSTEIN, Joseph C.-Derts &
Gutenberg, Inc. nc.................... 2GsI0
sAME-H J. Dentz. 7,O57.GS
state Of \. Y..................... 32o.7i
LEVINE. Louis. and rsidore Fisher
--Mamot Ran Fur Dyeing Co,
'1c........ ................... 63ios
RlBBLER. Nathan--C. c;reenberg 25i ~
SAND, Hyman-M Wolfson. ....... 2,3T7.ot
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SUGAR.

Omen. High. Low {
The diamond drill., 1921-12-03

You needn't be afraid for me. Dad
uy, said the girl, and could hear
her low laugh. You know you've al.
ways said I'd have TO marry money.
ana Charles Bullerton hasn't enough
TO tempt even me-"
heard something that sounded like
deep-throated Gosh listen ar thar
VIII yer thens If Charley Buller.
toms been In 'Tropa he'll be Dustin
IN mere next tryin' to get his claws
into this here Cinnabar carcass And
me- | hain't got no boss to stand he.
mind me. Thatn be nice Kettle O.
fish :"
4 stuck my head out OF the blankets
ana listened greedily II seemed 10 he
very highly necessary that / shopld
De made acquainted with the precise
ingredients OF that kettle Of FISH Rnt
my luck had exhausted Itself In !
rev minutes there was stir In tho
nFing-room below, and / heard Daddy
IWombly shovellng up ashes 70 cover
the hre. That meant goodnight. ana
housh | continued TO listen. there were
no more sounds, and l was finally
oniiged to go to sleep. leaving the Ash.
kettle stlll unanalyxed.
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CHAPTER VII.


The Laborins Pumps.
on the third day after l had tried
10 brain myself In the old boiler I was
pretty nearly az geod as ever. and INV
two Good Ssmaritsns reluctantly con-
sented to my going back TO work,
Jeanie renewing tho bandage on my
broken head. and laying many injunc-
tens upon Daddy Hiram to send me
right back 70 the cabin IL I didn't be-
have; behaving" In her use OF the
word. meaning that 1 was to take Il
easy on the job.
That sounded mighty good to me,
the way she said IL. Most men, I fan.
cy, are only overgrown children In the
sense that they like to be fused over
by their womankind. Don't mistake
me. please; wasn't In love with her
then. Canddly, don't think knew
what real love was. But Il was
mighty pleasant to live In the same
house with her. and to eat her deli
ctous cooking; to be, with her every
day. and 20 have those undIsturbed
evening halfhcurs with her In front
- NAtN AtNs A AMA Ah0 w Mtt Out
or II there had been another man
but ! won't anticipate.
In due time and after We had con-
pletely overhauled the rusted and
gummed-rp machinery, Daddy and
happened upon a day when We wero
ready to put fire under the boilers and
we did H. III should live to be a
years old, shall never forget
The tense. suppressed excitement that
yripped me as we brought the wood for
the furnaces that bright. hot. July |
morning. BY eight o'clock we had |
ninety pounds Of steam pressure on
he boilers. but we held OF until II |
had climbed 10 the regular working
pressure Of one hundred and twenty. |
Then I started the pumps; two big
'entrifugal suctions, mounted on a
4
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tie hole"
IT'S much easier when you're alive" "
] offered.
I'm going 10 bring you cup Of
herb tea, and then III go and lie down
for while"
since, as afterward learned. the
dose she gave me was some sort OF
home-brewed sleeping draft, I very
nearly slept the clock round. Daddy
came in and helped me into my clothes
they were eating their noon meal
when woke up and called-and apart
from being still a bit headachey and
lottery. was all right again. But
Tor two whole days they made me slt
around and be waited on, hand and
root, and coddled and petted, those
two; for their own fiesh and blood
they couldn't have done more.
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piatfchm In the smart mouth and 10
arranged that they could be lowered
TO follow the water level down--lf II
should go down: pumps that each
threw a stream SIX inches In diameter.
After the pumps were started and
the Indicators showed, or seemed 10
show. that they were working up to
full capacity. rigged up a measuring
gauge; bit Of wood for noat, with
string tied to II. and the string pass
Ing over pulley In the shafthouse
roofbcaming with a weight on the end
Of II. II tho water level should 20 down
the noat would sink with II. pulling
the weight up. A smooth board. with
feet. inches and frnctions penciled on
Il, was stoed up beside the weleht 70
answer fcr measuring scale.
AT the end OF the hour the noat
hadn't moved hairs breadth; not a
hundredth part of an inch. 20 fnr "a we
could see.
Il don't believe the pumps are work.
ingf' ! exploded. "surcly they'd make
some little difference In the level un-
less that shafts rot all the under
ground water In the world 10 back II
up. Those indicators must be out Of
whack In some way. Where does the
discharge water empty ltsclfY'
Daddy knew this. too.
"Over In the left-hand gulch--lnto
The creek"
"Show me-" I directed.
We found the discharge from the
pumps a little way below the end OF
he path: a ten-Inch pipe which had
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peen laid underground from the shaft
house. presumably TO keep II from
freezing In winter. The end OF the
pfpe stuck out over the stream and II
was projecting pretty nearly a solid
sen-inch tet OF water The pumps were
working all right: there was no doubt
about that. I dug up enough OF my
college math 10 figure that two sir
men streams would inst about al a
ten-iDch pipe, and hers~it was, running
full and pouring like another torrent
into the guIch. So back we went 70
the mine buildings 10 pile more wood
into the furnaces and to resume our
watching Of the indicator and its pen
cilmarked scale.
Noon caught up with rs affer
whiie--with nothing doing save that
We were rapidly diminishing our wood
pile. For a solid week we chopped
down trees and split them up. Daddy
ana !. and kept the fires roaring under
the boilers and kept those monster
pumps whirring and grinding away AZ
the shaft mouth-night and day. mind
you watch on and watch on. And.
right straight through n ali. that little
weight l had rigged up stood
STOCK still; never moved the width Of
one OF the pencil marks I had drawn
on Its gauge board.
by this time my stubhornness was
yielding something 10 the stnl more
stubborn fact If all this pumninr
hadn't even started the fiood toward
Its dlmlnnilon, truly ali the waters un-
ier the earth must be hacking the un-
ialllng Wei OF that drowned shaft.
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IN other words 10 oblIterate swiftly
and completely all signs OF the pres.
ence OF third member OF the family.
In minute or 40 there was a grufr
hall from somebody outdoors and Dad
dy sot up 70 20 and look out.
Why hello, Ike. you old xeener p.
he called. ~what under the shlnin'
sun fetcbes you up on old Cinnahar
this e~ly In the mornin'f Light down
and come IN; you're just In the nick
O time for breakfast"
Whine was sudeelIng my brain In
vain effort 10 recall what, II any.
memory association there should he
awakened In me by the mention of an
Ike person. this particular Isaac pre-
sented himself az the cabin door ana
clumped In with the stinIexped walk
of q man who has ridden horseback
far and hard. knew then why
should have becu able 10 siig that mem.
cry association. This was Mr.. Isaac
Beasley, my Angelic friend of the over.
grown silver star and tie unshaven
HUH he grunted. "them Triddle-
cakes shore do look mighty righteous
TO mel ! been ridin' sense two hours
afcre sun-up: wild-goose chase clear
over on t'other side o'qost mountain.
Couple o. prospectors blew into Angels
aay afore yistidday and said they'd
seen that con-dummed IunatIc that got
.oose from us and busted up a car rr
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CHAPTER WI.
Honorable sears

n l had been what I had inv,.as
seanis Twsmbly to imagine me mere.
~ an ordinary drifting tourist set
aIoot IN the wilds by circumstances
oV@ which ! had no control. NV cue
!" DC On my way the following morning
couldn't have been delayed much be-.
yond the appetizing breakfast 70 whIcb
4 sat down a little after seven o'ciocsr
But once / had reached the end q,
tne rainoev, aud had no intentioa az
mo'ing ca befsre l could have INV
cnsnes TO Ax fer the pot Of rsld which
said to BE the reward of successf,s
rainbow chascrs. was casting ahout
Lr nm excuse to prolong my star when
AWombiy, In accordance with the hit
OF talk whch had ovmhsard In the
I0t eAamser. took the matter out OF
my hands. -
when We was tslkln' about auter.
NOODLES and such. las night. ycu Iet
on TO me that you knowed sorneth,nx
ABOUT machinery." was the way he be-
gan III leu ain't In a tcarin. hurry
70 be geia' somewheres, maybe I codd
set you ts hang round fec spell and
snow me hsw 10 take a steam engine
20 pieces 30 { could doan IL No ard
Keep Il from gsin' to raok and ruin. .
with all the pleasure Imaginable. q. =
hastened to SAP. before he could have
Time to change has mEnd.
while the cerwean-eged maiden wa
carrying the dishes out o< the kitchep.
the old man donned oy~alis .snd 4
lumper. and few minutes later I was
introduced to the mine--my nane. N
you piease-or rather to 50 mucfh e n
as was open to any visitor Other ,s,an
submarine divcr.
MY heart went hot In sympathy for
good old 0raadfsther Jasper. The |
scoundrels WHO had done him No haa |
not been ccntcnt with merely selling
MIN the god brick; bhey had let him
spend Thousands more for the pump-
Ing machinsry. after they, themselves
were well assured that he was merely /
throwing money swur.
l ssked DADDY what ne wished "a
40 With ths machinery. He said he
was AFRAID It. might be rnstlnr inside
ssanding usused so long. and hs want.
ca 70 take II apart; especially the
sSfsm cn6ne. So | told Ellm how 70
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the railroad; S;.c.a -oddleheads said
they'd seen him workln' In the Lost
Creek placers.'
"A looney?" said Daddy Hiram, as
innocent as a two-weeks-old lamb.
yep; that feuer that stole an in
spection car and got Il smashed up
and then took to the hills. You hain't
seen anything OF him. have yef"
Mary lunatic," said Daddy Hiram
calmly.
His breakfast eaten, Friend Isaac
showed no disposition 10 hurry away
much TO my chagrin. He took time
to SMOKE a leisurely pipe with Daddy
Hiram and to ask lot OF indifrerent
questions about the drowned mine.
"Hain't heard nothin' firm yer own
ers yit, have ye. HiramY ne wanted
10 know, after-as II seemed 10 me-
the subject had been pretty thoroughly
talked 90 death.
i heard Daddy's reply. made az 70
one with whom the matter had been
canvassed before.
"Nothin' but that clIppin' from sems
newspaper back East, tellin' about Mr..
Dudley's passin' out"
Kinda curious somebody don't tell
ye somethin'. amt it7- the marshal
put In. Looks lihe the heirs a be
either fishin' r cuttin' bait on thIs
here CnnaDar layout-not as it'd do
'em any good II they did. Didn't any
letter come with the newspaper pieceY
Nary a penscratch."
"Whereabout was the envelope
possedr'
"washinton.-
"Ahai" said ] to myself. II have you.
Cousin Percyi For some reason best |
known to yourself you didn't want
Daddy Hiram 70 get hold OF Grand. |
father Jaspers proper address,"
His pipe smoked out, the marshal
prepared to take horse. Daddy went
with him 70 the far side Of the dunn
and the murmur Of their voices came
TO me In diminishing cadences. After
n BIZ Daddy came back and called up
TO me IN tho singsong OF the miners
after the flnal blast has been fred
"A-a-il over. Stannse. I reckon ye
can come down now and get you some
breakfast"
Jeanie served me In silence whom
took my place AZ inhle and the good
Did man stood In the doorway. keeping
watch. as ! made no doubt. against
4 possible seeondthought return Of
Friend Isaac. the bristle-bearded.
throughout the working day which
'ollowed he never made the slightest
eference 70 the episode Of the morn.
ng and. truly. ! think the whole Incl
lent would have been buried lnrobliv-
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begin, and he fell TO work: but in Just
a few minutes his awkwardness with
the tools gave me a fit OF the willles.
"See here" said: III you've got
another pair Of overalls and jumper
~
Sure pop, have" he admitted:
and that was how discovered my first
real job of honest-to-goodness work.
We stuck at IL until noon. dIsas-
sembling. and scraplng rust. and pol
ishing and oiling, and incidentally find
Ing the machinery In a great deal bet
ter condition than II had any right to
be after standing idle for so long a
time. OF course. i bunged my soft
hands all up, and got as dirty as a
pig, and all that: but that first fore
noon Is written down In my life as one
OF the most enjoyable I've ever known.
And when Daddy Hiram called the
noon halt. and we went across TO the
cabin 70 wash up for dinner, | was
hungry. ! think that forenoon meas
ured about the only useful half-day's
work I'd ever done; and the afternoon
made II full day. Say, people--it
was greatl For the first time In an
idle. happy-go-lucky life I had job
with a concrete object In view, and a
keen ambition 10 see IL through. Twas
thirstily eager 90 get that machinery
In shape and 70 start those old he-
pumps. and this In spite OF Daddy HI |
rams repeated assurances that IL |
wouldn't do no good a-tall."
During hard-working interval Of |
two weeks number OF things had /
happened. One was visit from the
desperadoish-looking Anglican who I
had impressed me with the fact that |
he belonged to the Ancient and Honor
able Order OF the Silver Star. I'll have
to tell about that visit, because it
proved what tremendously lucky
thing II was for me that / had fallen
among friends.
II was this way. On the second day
OF my stay In the bosom OF the Twom-
bly, family / noticed that u battered
surveying instrumental transit which
was probably leftover from the time
when the Cinnabar was a working
with an engineer 10 figure
out its dips and angles-had been
moved from its place In the corner OF
the living room and was stood upon
Its three legs at small, square win
dow which looked out over the plateau
bench Of the mountain 10 the south
eastward.
Two mornings afterward found out
the why and wherefore OF the old
and its "set up" as an engineer
would say. Daddy Hiram and l were
with our backs 70 the hearth
IRE, waiting for breakfast to be put
m the table, when Jeanle came In
rom the kitchen with a great stack
u hot batter-cakes. AS she darted
ut again after the coffee and bacon.
he paused just fraction Of a second
o put her eye to the telescope. /
ldnt see what kind OF a signal II was
hat she passed TO Daddy Hiram, but
'hateyer It's nature, II made him get
ction In q tearing hurry.
up into the loft with you, quick.
fannie y he yipped at me; and as
'ent stumbling up the ladder in blind
bedience saw him hastily helping
Is daughter TO remove my plate, knife
nd fork, spoon. coffee cup and chair;
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"N-no. What heard was that he
had left there 10 90 TO Atropia.s
II don't want to see him come fool
In round you any more. whatsoever,
Jeanle girl. ! KEEP still the other
time. but that was afore ia found
out how eyerlastin' crooked he lG"
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-13

The annual luncheon of the Fannie A. smith atunEae association will be held al The Strrtfield tomorrow noon when Edward F. Bigelow, A NJ, Ph-D., editor of the Nature and Science department of "St. Nicholas" will sepak on Girls" Miss Florence Persiani, and Miss Bertha Cole, are the committee in charge of making arrangement for the affair.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-13
ROB PRIVATE
 BANK OF $5,OOO

New York, May 1.-Two men to- day held up the private Italian bank of Anthony Sason of Brooklyn, rob- ping the safe of s5s000.
 The two men entered the bank shortly after o'clock and told the clerk they had some Italian money they wanted to exchange for Ameri- can money. As the clerk stopped over upon him.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-13
N OTI c E

Wheeler, No. 92, F. of A, are re- quested to be present at a special meeting, the same to be held Sat. Eve, May 14, 1921, at 162 State St., at 8 p. m- Business of importance to be transacted
 Per order, John J Howe, c. R.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-13

The Common Council will act on a complaint received Monday evening from Stratford avenue property own CTS relative to an unsightiy shack near the Stratford avenue bridge. An eyesore'' is the way the com plainants describe the structure
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-13
Stefansson To
 Go North Again

Pasadena, Cal, May 13-Another expedition into the Arctic regions, in two or three years is planned by ViEhjalnlur Stefansson, the explorer he announced here today at the resi- dence of Ernest DeKoven Lefdngwell, also, an explorer, where is guest.
 'The center of the icebound re- gions of the North never has been reached by man." he said. 'The North Pole is 45O miles from the edge of the icy area, while the center is 800 miles from the edge"
 C. F. Mccullough, a cotton broker. of Oklahoma City, and Sergt. Algoti Bloomquist were killed and Sergt. B. Grogan seriously injured in an air plane accident near the military res ervation at For Sill, Oklahoma
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-13
FLASHES

Three hundred thousand men were affected by Cotton SpiunerS and Man ufacturers' Association, of Manches- ter, England, wage cut of 50 per cent.
 Fire caused a loss of S1,50o, 900, de- stroying No. breaker of the Lehigh
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-13

Mrs Raymond Topper of Cottage street will entertain the members of her bridge club on Tuesday afternoon at her home.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-13

Coal & Navigation Co.,. at Coladale, Pa The structure and valuable ma chinery is in ruins.
 At a meeting of stockholders of the Grand Trunk Railway Co. in London. it was decided to ratify' the agree nent between the management and the Canadian Government providing for the transfer of the road to the Government.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-13

The Franklin Nurses Registry, which has been located at 52S State street, will move into new quarters ,n June l. at 406 West avenue.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-13

And values, the next yearsand more ered prices actually this of Hadley's Spring Values. They the thousands to be found Floors The Furniture is included this such reductions indicated
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-05-13

Easy Payment Plan all
 times! You take advantage of these low if outlay the whole amount in cash Buy NOW-a the lowest imaginable prices Deposit only poronatey entire selections at Month Pays the Baance! what by 'Terms To Suit"
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1921-12-15
DON FERNANpo vALLEpoR

Acaba de regresar de Espafia, dom
de paso una larga temporada de re-
creo, nuestro estimado amigo don Fer
nando Valledor, antique y acreditado
almacenista de tejidos de esta plaza.
Ell senior ValIedor realiz6 ell indica-
do viaje por via de los Estados Uni
dos, donde hizo inportantes compress
para su referido estableciniento.
Bienyenid0 u. -, \, 5. Il rsfE
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1921-12-15
A|aTHIa en- PdGIta
! dc TiaTa
Una nina atacada de "difteria" en- el
barrio "Portugues"

~.
!" En- la tarde de aver, dia 13, fue in
'i2 tornado ell DR.. Melendez, segun nos
aseguran, por ell Inspector de la Sa-
nidad lnsuiar, DIR. Garcia Lascot, de
I un case de difteria ocurrido en- la
! persona de una nina de ID amos, en-
~ Ia casa No. 161, del barrio Portuguese,
- de Puerta de TERRA.
Ell referido DR.. Melendez procedio
go enseguida a aplicar la referida nina
una inyeccion de suero antidifterico,
= como preventive par> yer de salvarle
'e''F' la vida.
A la hora que tonlanlos estas in
~ formation, l p. nl., del microbes, Sc
10 nos n1aniiiesta que todavia la Sanidad
teal. Insular no ha tornado precaucion al
ian, guna para evitar el contagio de la
enfermedad, una de las mas traicio-
neras y de mas facil propagation;
pues ninos Y personals mayores estan
entrando y saliendo dicha casa cons
tantemente, agenos al peligro que les
q amenaza.
hat Dicho barrio es uno de los que Sc
u hallan mas descuidados, en- cuanto a
So Sanidad Sc refiere, y no sera NADIA de
extrano que esa otra enfermedad Sc
1tst conviertan en- epidemia Y extiendan su
Influenza destructora por todo ell po
= blado, donde hay unos cuantos JAR
Dimes desbordados, sin que hasta la
NE fecha haya habido quien ordene su
limpieza, por no haber sido visitado
aquel sitio por empleado alguno sani-
tario, desde que la Sanidad Insular
Sc hizo cargo de ese servicio.
La salud publica requiere un POGO
de atencion este respecto y espera-
mos Sc proceda rapidanente, antes de
tener que lamentar males mayores.
Hay alguna alarma y seguramente
que Sc tendra muy en- euenta que la
salud p1blica debe de estar sobre to-
das las cosas no Sc debe descuidar
un instante la campaiia contra esa
amenaza.
OF - CorrespOnsal.
o. Diciembre IA, 1921.
El Imparcial. (San Juan, P.R.) 1918-197?, 1921-12-15
.LIRT0.
FINANcIERos QUE REGREsAN

Aver tarde regresaron de Estados
Unfdos Jos distinguidos financieros don
Jorge Bird Arias Y don Ramon Aboy
Benftez, este iltimo presidente de la
Association de Productores de Azl1car,