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The New York herald., 1921-08-09
MURPHY'S CHOICES
A TRIO OF CLASHERS
Continued from First Page.

Tammany induced the Comptroller to
take denomination
1t had been settled that Henry Smith,
Deputy Comptroller, was to be named
for President OF the Board OF Aldermen.
Tammany thought 1t would be just as
we'll TO have a man Of standing in line
for the Mayoralty In case Hylan were
reelected and then something should
happen to him. But yesterday Mr..
Smith was forced to yield to the politi-
cal necessity Of having an Irishman on
the ticket to offset Vincent Gilroy, the
Republican Coalition candidate, SO Com
missioner Hubert went on the slate.
AS Dock Commissioner Mr.. Hubert
has had great deal OF business 70
transact with both the Sinking Fund
Commission and the Board Of Estimate,
where he has almost constantly clashed
with Comptroller Craig. Both haye used
rather strong language at times. Each
has cast aspersions on the motives or
the other. These quarrels had been car
ried to the Mayor by Hubert resulting
In trouble between them, and the Com
missioner has threatened TO resign on
more than one occasion. 1t has been re-
ported.
According to the story last night Craig
protested vigorously against the selec-
tion OF Hubert for the city ticket. but
he was told he had nothing to say be-
yond his own designation. The Dock
Commissioner who served several terms
in Congress prior to his entrance into the
Hylan administration, was at his birth
place, Waterloo. N. ~, last night He is
a lawyer, as are Mayor Hylan and
Comptroller Craig.
The Tammany New York county slate
as It stood last night was.
For Sheriff. Percival e. Nagle. leader
of the Twentieth Assembly district, or
Joseph ]. Mccormick. leader Of the
Twenty-second for County Clerk. AS
semblyman Maurice Bloch of the Six
teenth district; for Register, James A
Donegan, redesignation; for Judges OF
the Court Of General Sessions, Joseph +.
Mulqueen and Alfred J. Talley, redesiG-
nations, and a third man not selected ,
for Justices OF the City Court. Edward
B. La Fetra and Louis A. Valente. re-
designations for District Attorney. Joab
II. Banton or Frederic Kernochan. Chief
Justice Of the Court OF Special Sessions.
After indorsing the Hylan-Craig-
Hubert slate Brooklyn postponed action
on the local ticket until to-day. In
Queens borough Mr.. Connolly was for
mally indorsed. also the following can
didates: Edward w. Cox. for County
Clerk: Judge Burt J.. Humphreys. fol
County Judge. Denis OIeary. anti-Con.
molly leader, announced he would support
Hylan, but would run against Connolly
| for the borough Presidency nomination
His ticket will bear the name OF Leon.
ard Ruoff instead Of Cox. for County
Clerk.
In The Bronx the redesignation Of Ed.
ward ]. Glennon for District Attorney
and Robert l.. Moran for County Clerl
is assured. A legal question to be settled
to-day Is whether Thomas O'Neill. ap'
pointed Sheriff year ago. is eligible fol
reelection. If 1t Is decided in the mega
tive. the designation lies among Pat
rick Kane. leader Of the Fifth district
Charles Griffin. leader of the Seventh
and Assemblyman Edward Flynn.
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Raymond Smith. is, a palefaced,
shabbily dressed youth found in hall
way at Lewis and Gates avenues.
Brooklyn. told a story of a struggle
against poverty and i'll health in Gates
Avenue Court yesterday that caused
Magistrate Dale to send him to the
up and In" Club on Middagh street
for care. Smiths clothes were still wet
from Sunday nights rainstorm when he
was araigned.
Smith said his father died in 1917,
his brother in 1918 and his mother in
1919. 1t took all the furniture and all
of his clothes except those on his back
to pay for his mothers funeral he said,
and when the funeral was over and he
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a hoods on me an amount in ! excess Of

So
ana hoods on me amount in excess Of
SIS.
Mems and boys hats on the amount
in excess OF IS.
Mems and boys caps on amount in
excess of So.
Boots. shoes, pumps and slippers on
amounts in excess of $40.
Neckties and neckwear on amounts
in excess OF 81.
Mems and boys stockings or hose on
the amount in excess OF 81 per pair.
women's and misses silk stockings or
hose on the amount in excess OF 81 per
pair.
Mems shirts on the amount in excess
of SO.
Pajamas and pightgowns. and under
wear on the amount in excess Of s5.
Kimonos. petticoats and waists on the
amount III excess of sl5 each.
Rugs and carpets made principally of
wool, in excess of IS a yard.
The sporting goods on which il Is
proposed TO cut the tax in half include
tennis rackets. nets. racket covers and
presses. skates. snow shoes. skis. tobog-
gans. canoe paddles and cushions. polo
mallets, baseball bats. gloves, masks
protectors. shoes and uniforms, football
helmets and harness and goals. basket
odh SodiS anu uHiioTils, SOlL DdbS civ
clubs. lacrosse sticks. balls OF all kinds,
including basebaHs, footballs, tennis,
golf lacrosse, billiard and pool balls.
f1ishing rods and reels. billiard and pool
tables, chess and checker boards ana
pieces. dice, games and parts OF games
Except playing cards and children's
toys and games). and all similar
articles"
Repeal OF the ten per cent. tax on
carbonated bottled beverages. which is
collected and paid by the manufacturer
monthly. also was discussed at the meet
ing, and favorable action was predicted.
Some members of the committee have
asked the Treasury Department for an
estimate as to the amount that could be
obtained from a tax on advertising, but
this levy is not approved by majority
Of the committee and Il seems unlikely
that il will be included In the bill.
Representative Frear. tWis.) said he
would seek to have a 10 per cent tax
placed on undivided profits so as to
prevent tax lodging through stock divi-
dends. which have, been held by the
Supreme Court not taxable as income
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$500 LIBERTY BONDS
IGNORED BY BURGLARS
They Take $l73 in. Cash and
S62 in Checks.

Liberty bonds worth $1,000. In the
office OF State Senator Albert Gilchrist
at 2s Court street Brooklyn. were ig-
nored by burglars who got into the Of
flee Sunday From an adjoining office.
occupied by Michael Rose, agent OF the
building. $i73 in cash and So In checks
gere taken from a safe.
Three young men were arrested yes
.erday charged with being concerned in
he burglary. They are Harry Hayden.
Q years old. of 1853 ,Seventy-seventh
.treet, Brooklyn Albert Contano. II
ears old, of 1916 Thirteenth avenue
BROOKLYN a clerk. and Frank Patella. 20
ears old, lof 7724 Fourteenth avenue.
Brooklyn, a laborer. Hayden was ar
aligned before Magistrate Walsh in
he Chief Magistrates Court and held in
1000 bail for examination tomorrow.
'rhe other two will be arraigned to-day.
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CONFESSION NO HELP
IN ELWELL MYSTERY
Florida Statement Causes No
Stir by Police.

Statements at Orlando, Fla, by Lena
Clarke, accused murderer Of Frederick
Mltimore OF that town. that she had bor-
rowed s3S. 900 from Joseph B. Elwell,
the murdered whist expert and gambler.
caused no stir at the District Attorney $
office and Police Headquarters here yes
terday She had never figured in the
various fruitless Investigations made
here after the murder.
1t was pointed out that although the
Clarke woman was quoted as having
referred to w8man in light dress"
who had been seen coming from the
Elwell house the morning he was shot. II
was the fact that no one had been seen
10 eitl-er enter or leave the Eiwell resi-
dence.
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NURSE REMORSEFUL
AT KINKEAD DEATH
Il Didn't KnoU What Was
Doing; Am Sorry She Says.

The elation which Miss Olivia NJ p.
Stone expressed Saturday over the slay-
ing of Ellis Guy Kinkead, one time Cor
poration Counsel of Cincinnati, has given
way to ranoise.
Il didn't know what I was doing, but
row know and am sorry
The nurse made that declaration yes
.erday in the presence of Abraham H
kesselman. her lawyer, and several re-
porters. Mr.. kesselman added that "the
reaction has s6t in" and expressed the
belief that Miss Stone was not in her
full senses when she fired Ave shots
Friday night into the body of MIR.
Kinkead.
Ellis will be my spiritual lawyer"
the nurse said. pacing up and down her
cell in Raymond street jail, 'and he VIII
be at my trial.
The nurse expressed a wish to see her
,ictim. Il love him." she said. i want
to look upon his face once more. Can
see him?'
She lapsed into silence for several
minutes when informed that the lawyer
had been butied In Covington. Ky.
Il would have loved to have one more
look at him." she continued. my dear
boy. He was wonderfully brilliant
man and one OF the greatest criminal
lawyers in the country. Ellis loved me
He wrote me thousands of letters telling
how much he loved me and saying that
he would do the right thing
What have done is forever preyins
on my mind and can neither sleep nor
eat. MY only dissipation was to chew
toothpicks. Now ] chew the sheets OF
my bed. / am so nervous"
Mr.. Kesselman stated that evidence
has como Unexpectedly from a source
that will prave his clients assertions
regarding her friendship with Mr.. Kin
kead. This, be said. will Offset the
assertions of Mrs. Kinkead that their
relations were merely that OF patient
and nurse.
Whether Olivia Stone is permanently
insane only alienists can decide. he
added, but she certainly was temporarily
insane from the moment she saw Kin
kead on Friday night until several hours
after his death. Her mind was com
plete blank and she does not remember
having shot him."
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7oMAN SUES GROVER wHALEN.
INJURED on Bus Line by Tree
Branch. She Alleges.

Grover A. Whalen, Commissioner of
liant and Structures. is sued personally
r $1,000 damages in an action begun
sterday In the Supreme Court by Miss
eta Kurtz. She was a passenger
lly last sin tone OF the buses run
lng from Fifth avenue and 10th street
Mosholu Parkway and Grand Con-
ourse. The Bronx. Passing through
,4th street. branch OF tree struck
.r In the face. bruising her and ag-
;-avating a neuritic condition.
The action Is begun against Mr..
ihalen because he. the complaint al
ges. assuming to act by the color
his said office. and under his super
ision and control, but without legal
ght or authorization" permitted others
} operate the bus line. established
criminals for II under police protec-
on" and had placed in each bus
lgns representing TO the public that
aid bus line was in fact owned and
perated by tho city" all OF which, the
omplaint asserts. was designed, cal
ulated and intended to deceive the pub
ic and this plaintiff into the belief that
aid motor bus route was in fact munich
,ally owned and legally operated by the
ity."
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cred ss.5oo to $500 that Hylan would

De the next Mayor.
Vincent Gilroy, Republican, Coalition
candidate for President of the Board
of Aldermen, will speak at a meeting
OF the New York Young Republican
Club at the Hotel Pennsylvania tonight
The Bronx County Republican execu-
tive committee and representatives Of
various independent bodies completed
the coalition slate In that borough last
night by naming as the candidate for
Borough President, Joseph NJ. Levine. He
is an independent Republican. a lawyer
and a builder. who is said to be distantly
related to Henry Morgenthau. at one
time treasurer of the Democratic Ma
tional Committee.
Mr.. Levine was educated in the New
York city public schools. the College of
the City of New York and the New
York University Law School. He Is 80
years old and lives at S32 Medina street
He is a trustee and director Of the Free
Synagogue, of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise,
secretary and treasurer of the Bronx
County Children's Society and for
twenty-five years has been associated
with the Henry Street Settlement. In
1916 he ran for Justice of the Supreme
Court on the Progressive ticket.
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BENDER CHARGED WITH
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
Nothing More Learned About
Barber Estate Shooting.

Peter Bender, who was found with a
bullet wound under his heart on the
grounds OF Mrs. George Barbers estate
at Succasunna. N. j.. Saturday night,
was placed under arrest yesterday on a
charge of attempted suicide. Prosecutor
John NJ. Mills of Morristown was the
complainant. Bender is likely to re-
cover He will be sent to the county
jail as soon as he is able to leave
Dover Hospital
Nothing further concerning Bender's
act could be learned yesterday at the
Barber estate. 1t was said Mrs. Barber
had left for New York and would not
return for some time.
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LEON LEITRfM, DANCER,
: IS OUT OF JERSEY JAIL
Released on Bail in Reckless
DriUing Case.

Leon Leitrim. dancing partner OF Flor
ence Walton. was released on $3.50 bail
yesterday after spending a night in Jail
at Hackensack on charge OF driving
an automobile while under the Influence
of liquor. Leitrim was to have had a
hearing, but on his plea and that of
Miss Walton, who deposited the ball.
that he wanted a lawyer. the case was
put over until Thursday. Leitrim's New
York address was given as 10 West
Sixty-ninth street.
If convicted the dancer must serve
thirty days In the county Jail Us there
Is no alternative of fine.
Leitrim was arrested on complaint OF
Henry Leonard of Hackensack. who
alleged the dancer drove him into a
ditch. Police followed the car to the
Edgewater Ferry and brought 1t back.
The New York herald., 1921-08-09
PIcKETs ANNOY MARLBOROUGH
Restaurant Man Obtains Injunc-
tion Against Union.

The Hotel Marlborough restaurant
and grill at Broadway and Thirty-sixth
street. obtained yesterday from Eu-
preme Co art Justice Burr an injunction
restraining picketing OF It's eating places
by members OF the International Work
ers in the Amaleamated Food Indus
tries.
Charles Cornell, who controls the res
taurant privileges. alleges his patronage
was being disturbed by the picketing
He recites that tho cause OF the strike"
against him was that he discharged all
the old help at the time he bought the
privilege. little over month ago. and
hired fewer new ones though at the
same prevailing wage rates
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rMPEY ANSWERS SUIT.

Arthur Guy Empey filed an answer
yesterday to n suit for s39.S50 begun
in the Supreme Court by Miss Florence
Martin. denying that he knows anything
about the release from pawn of certala
articles of tewelry. and countercfaiming
that he had lent the plaintiff $4,000
which has not been repaid The suit
arose over business transactions be-
tween the two In connection with EN-
pcy's motion picture enterprises.
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ARENA ESCAPES FIRE;
ROUND HOUSE BURNED
Bright Midnight Blaze in Jer-
sey Seen Many Miles.

Fire which swept the roundhouse OF
lie Pennsylvania Railroad in Kearney.
(. j., soon after midnight this morning
as visible for miles and led to re-
,rt that the Rickard Stadium in Jersey
ity was ablaze. The roundhouse is on
,e meadows bordering the Harrison
/. lrnpike in kearney. 4.s..
A spark from an engine is believed
( have caused the fire, which was con-
J ned TO the roof the structure No
amage was done to locomotives in the
clubhouse. which were hauled TO
1fety.
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j. p. windle OF Port Washington. L. I. !.
four members of the Indian team which
will play In the Davis tennis cup tourna-
ment-S. NJ. Jacob. captain l.. S.
Deane, A A. Fyzee and Mohammed
Sleem--and Sydney Howard Mr.. and
Mrs. W. p. Simonds of Boston. Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles E. Ward. Robert Wilson.
Commander c. b. Dickson. II. N. and
Col. w. Tobin.
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TUBERCULOSIS VICTIM
LEAPS ROOF TO DEATH
Jonifor Ends Life as Brother
in-Iou Turns Back.

Samuel Bila, Ss, superintendent of an
apartment house at 3OS West Ninety
fourth street, jumped from the roof
yesterday because he had tuberculosis,
and was crushed to death on. the side
walk. seven stories down.
Bila and his brother-in-law went to
the roof for air ana Bila Jumped when
his relatives back was turned. The man
fell In front OF the entrance to the
apartment house, narrowly missing
ma seerghy.
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Is HURT WHEN BUS UPSETS.
-Four Victims Taken TO Rocknwny
Beach Hospital.

eleven others had minor injuries when
motor bus. running between Rock
away Point and the Long Island Termi-
nal at Rockaway Park. went off four
FOOT emDankment Yesterday One rear
wheel sank TO the hub and upset the
vehicle.
Mary Harrar. 30. ~ Cornelia street.
Brooklyn Kate Peg. 10, 240t Jerome
avenue. Ozone Park: Barbara Hanhaas-
err. Sc, 234 East Thrty-third street.
Manhattan, and Reginald Edmunds, 35.
2345 Broadway. Manhattan. were taken
10 Rockaway Beach Hospital. The
others went to their homes.
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MCCARTHY DYING IN HOSPITAL.
Mrs. Kruer's Condition Is Not Com
sidered to Be Serious.

Thomas F. Mccarthy. Is. who shot
Mrs Josephine Kruer in front Of the
Hendrix Hudson apartments. 110th
street and Riverside Drive, early Sunday
and then turned the gun upon himself,
was still unconscious last night at the
Knickerbocker Hospital and was not ex-
pected to live much longer. Mrs Kruer,
who Is in st. Luke's Hospital with
wounds in her jaw and shoulder. Is not
in a serious condition.
Mccarthy was foreman of laborers
In the Water Department
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Sc, 900 in Scattered Coin
Ties Up Street Traffic

A TLANTIC CITY, Aug. s.
Street car traffic in Atlantic
avenue was tied up half an hour
to-day when Andrew Higbee, en-
ployed as a messenger by the
Atlantic City Street Railway
Company, alighted from a trolley
to deposit Sundays receipts in a
bank.
Higbee carried $4,000 worth
of coin in a bag. The bottom
fell out of the bag, paving the
street with silver. A corps of
detectives was summoned to pro-
tect him during salvaging oper-
ations.
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AMERICAN CHEMIST
JAILED IN FRANKFORT
Charged With Trying to
Bribe Employee.

BERLIN. Aug. s.-A Frankfort des-
patch TO the Boersor zcituno says DR.
Nathan Van Stone, Chicago chemist
has been sentenced to four months I'M
prisonment by the criminal court there.
He was tried on the charge OF at
tempting TO bribe chemist In the en-
ploy OF an aniline concern at Ludwigs-
hafen into betraying factory patent
secrets.
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GOTH BABY IN rs YEARS.

EAST Sr. LOUIS, ILL.,. Aug. SHE'S
the twentieth" declared Mrs. Sidney
Johnson when her husband came home
from work. Again !" gasped the city's
champion father as he took the new
baby in his arms. The Johnsons have
been married twenty-three years.
The New York herald., 1921-08-09
STORM sILENCED 5,42O PHONES.

Sunday afternoons storm put 5,42t
telephones temporarily out of commits.
sion In this vicinity, the New York Tcic.
phone Company reported yesterday
Manhattan and Bronx suffered the least
with 6T5 lines affected. and Paterson
n. j., the most, with 1.422 lines. The
company expects TO have full service re
stored by Tuesday night.
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TRIED TO SEE YAMAGATA.

TOXIC. Aug. s.--A man believed to be
Insane was arrested to-day after q severe
ftruggle as he wsS attempting to enter
the room Of Field Marshal Yamagata
at his summer villa at Odawara, forty
miles southwest OF Toxic.
The New York herald., 1921-08-09
ROMAN LAW

By the Roman law against
luxury, even mans food
was restricted.
For instance, he might con-
sumo annually 10 pounds
Of beef, but no more.
However,. no restriction was
put on vegetables; SO the
Romans developed a superb
physique,
And enjoyed their meals,
too, if the vegetables were
as succulent as those served
at CHILDS.
Fresh. vegetables, 20 cooked
that thsy retain their natural
flavsrs-
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
B siness N G w .
Credit and Investment Abroad
Urged to Boom Foreign Trade
Trade Stagnation
Of Benefit, Vie,u

Blue sky can be seen beyond the
clouds of depression that recently
settled over industry, Stephen G.
Mason, of Pittsburgh, president of
the National Association of Manu-
facturers, said yesterday in his ad-
dress before the organizations con-
vention now in session here.
Certainly the recent course of
business events" he said, "has not
been an entirely unmixed evil. The
stagnation has checked the coun-
try's tendency TO indulge in financial
kite flying and general extravaganza
and we hope it has restored better
sense of economic balance and
spirit of sanity in the management
of our affairs. If no other general
result of the depression can now be
seen it is to be hoped that both
employers and labor have learned
that policy of small production
and arbitrarily high wage scales
carries with it an inevitable national
penalty for violation of we'll known
economic laws"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
Jewelry Sales Better
Marked Increase i'm Silverware
Sales; Workers Still Out

Sales during April at the retail Jew
elry stores in the downtown districts
showed a scarcely perceptible increase
over the figures for March, according
to a survey yesterday. The same slight
gain in sales was shown during the
first fifteen days. this month. when com
pared to the corresponding period in
April. Although percentages of reduc-
tions We're unavailable, many retailers
asserted that they had made a substan-
tial cut in their profits.
Sllverware retailers reported sales
thus far this month far in advance of
the preceding month and on par with
the figures for May, 1920. A leading
retailer ascribed the increased demand
to large number Of weddings which
are taking place in this month This
belief, he said, is somewhat substan-
tiated by greater demand for bridal
presents than formerly. An even better
bridal gift month is anticipated in
June.
Silversmiths, whose employees have
refused to accept a forty eight hours
week schedule, in effect since Janu-
ary, in lieu of a reduction in wages,
have taken on number Of new men,
it is said. Orders which they are un-
able to fill. are being sent to New
England siversmiths.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
Costly Dwelling Houses
Figure i'm the Buying

Pease e. Gilman sold for Chauncey
B. Spears the new FIVE story American
basement dwelling lis East Sixty ninth
Street, 20xl00, between Park and Lex
ington avenues, overlooking Teachers
College, for which the seller has been
asking $120,000. and which it is said
was sold close to that price. f. T. Car
ter, the buyer, recently bought 81 East
Sixty sixth Street, but found 115 East
Sixty-nnth Street more to his liking.
The Lebertan Corporation purchased
322 Riverside Drive from the estate of
Emma s. Chamberlaine, a four story
dwelling, 25xl00 Frederick II. Allen,
of Frederick Zittel & Sons, was the
broker.
Henry w. Holling sold to Ross S. and
Florie Groman 4l6 West Forty~third
Street, three-story dwelling, 16Sx
1908
James H. Cruikshank sold to V, Fos-
cato 357 East Forty y-ninth Street, a
three-story dwelling, 18.9x100, through
the Everett M. Seixas Company.
Mrs. M. r. Cunningham is reported to
have sold her residence 253 West
Ninety ninth Street, four-story Amer
lean basement house, 14X100. She is
said to be the buyer of the dwelling at
26l West Eighty-ffth Street, recently
reported sold.
Louis Friedman sold to Morris L..
Cohen t04 West 118th Street, three
story dwelling, t7x100
S. ODonofrio sold I'd West 12eth
Street. three-story dwelling, l9x1o0.
Flora Kempner sold to Bertha G.
Emanuel 252 West 130th Street, three
story dwelling, 18x100.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-18
Failures Show Decline
Number in First Half of May
Below Aprii's

The number of commercial failures
in the first half of May, as reported to
The Credit Guide, was $50, against 776
for the corresponding period in April,
and liabilities averaged $27,450, against
$4,000 for April and $33 600 for March.
failures. In April they formed 40 per
cent.
Buying activity shows slight i'm
provcment. For every l 200 orders for
mems wear, including shoes, placed in
the first half of April there we're ,240
in the first half of May. For every
900 orders for women's wear in the
first half of April there were 1,062 in
the like period this month. The house
furnishing industry reports 1,149
orders in the first half OF May for
every 1000 placed in the first two
weeks in April. Collections indicated no
Improvement, according to the report.