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TTIE WEATHER Fair and warmer tonight; cloudy and colder tomorrow. Temp', at 6 a. 18 at 12 noon 41 FINAL EDITION ii.hul I nli? IKUI. Ct I 1 14 w.w 1 8 PAGES PLAIN FIELD, NEW JERSEY, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1927. (Delivered by Carrier 18c per week) PRICE, THREE CENTS Business, Professional Leaders New Jersey Pays Heavy Fire Toll; $17,585,000 Loss 1925, Smokers Again Leading Cause Tax Cut In Excess of $350,000,000 to Be Made By New Congress Coolidge Decides Protect American Lives and Property In China President Points Out There Is Difference Between Position of America and Great Britain; We Hold No Concessions There truction of in 1924, or an increase for the year of 8 per cent.

Second in importance among originating cause of fire in the Staite was: "Spontaneous combustion" with aggregate losses of $8 39,52 then came "defective chimneys and flues" with $58 and "petroleum and its products" wit a $415,695. It is stated that all of fthese causes are nsidered either wholly or partly Treasury Experts Declare Surplus of $200,700,000 on June 30, 1928, Is Under Estimated at Least $165,000,000 New York The total recorded amount of property destroyed by fire in 1925 in New Jersey was $17,585,003, according to figures released today by the National Board of Fire Underwriters. The leading originating cause of loss in the State was "Matches-Smoking" its individual toll being It requires about a year for the Actuarial Bureau of the Board to classify, segregate and tabulate the million reports it receives annually, and, until this task is completed, it is not possible to analyze in detail the losses of a given year, state by state and cause by cause. For the entire United States the grand total in 1925 was the aggregate including the usual 25 per cent, allowance for unreported and uninsured fires. The total of $17,585,003 for New Jersey compares with des property in the present emergency, it was said.

The President wants it understood there is wide difference between the positions of Great Britain and the United States in China. The British have concessions there and this Government has not, it was explained. American policy regarding protection of American lives and property in China remains the same as previously outlined, and this Government is doing everything it can to protect them, the spokesman emphasized. The vast extent of the territory adds to the difficulties of affording protection, it was said. At Shanghai, where 4,000 Americans live, the IT.

S. has armed forces which will attempt to protect these Americans from disorder and mob violence, the spokesman added. A detachment of 300 marines will leave Guam Island for the Philippines tomorrow aboard the U. S. S.

Gold Star, the Navy announced today. The marines presumably are for service in China. Master Builders' Association Concerned Over Prospect of New Wage Demand April 1st Ail Mechanics to Seek $75 For Five-day Week, Is Report; Some Contractors Regard This As Likely to Make Cost of Building Prohibitive Ton Drawing by Harry rainier froi Photo hy Luckey. RUSSELL CAMPBELL By ROBERT S. UN'S) Staff Wa.ington, Jan.

25. An annlis Government financial estimates for 1928 disclosed today that the Treasury probably will agree to a tax slash of over when the new Congress Wets. Tnasurv experts declared that the estimate of $200,700,000 surplus for June 30, 1928, upon which depends, to a great extent, tiie tax reduction, has been un-(ler-f igvued by at least 175,000, 000 provided business conditions main substantially as they aro. Democratic leaders, it v.as burned. ilan to "go the Treasury least $200,000,000 better" in any tax reduction measure which tie presented, in order to joiitiially counteract the reaction cf a Republican tax slash just before the 1'resident ial election.

Where the Treasury estimates the 1 2 7 surplus at $303,000,000 ami that of the subsequent year Et $200,700,000, Democratic experts in Congress maintain that this year's figure will exc-d $500,000,000, with receipts over expenditures by only tightly less in 1928. Officially, wretary Mellon holds that lxVeonsideration of a tax reduction can be made until the 19 2 0 revenue act has been School Building Cold; Pupils Go On Strike Hoihrook, Jan. 25, 1 1 N'S. Declaring that the High School building here was cold and uninhabitable, 15 members of the Junior and Senior Classes today went on "'strike." The action of the pupils this morning follows the refusal of the voters in special town meet ins; last night to authorize the erection of a new Hiiih School building. Though teachers did their utmost to convince the pupils that they should remain in school, their efforts were futile.

A special meeting of the school committee has called for this after-neon to deal with the situa tion. Program For Crusade Adopted Yesterday at Meeting Held in Parish House, Grace Church At a meeting of the committee of arrangements for the Bishops' Cr ade, held at Grace Church parih house yesterday, a program of dates and services was arrang- ed, to begin Monday, February 21, at o'clock, and to conclude Sunday. February 27. All crusade filer: ings will he held li Grace Church and the crusader will be Kt. Rev.

Irving P. Johnson, D.D., Bi-Oiop of Colorado. Speaking of the Bishops' Cru- Mr. Campbell is the manager of the Suburban Transit Company. He was born in Elkland, and comes of old pioneer stock.

His ancestors, on his maternal side, came to this country from England in 1639, on the ship "Mary and John." They settled at what is now known as Nahant, Mass. On his paternal side, his ancestors came to this country from Scotland in 1714. He received his education in the public and, private schools of Oneida, N. and was graduated from the high school of South McAllister, Oklahoma. At that time.

South McAllister was in what was then known as Indian Territory. Mr. Campbell served two years in the tecting department of the Corbin Manuf acturin'S plant, in New Britain, Connecticut, and an Washington, Jan. 25 (U. P).

President Coolidge has decided to protect in every way possible American lives and property in China, he expects tho State Department soon to announce this Government's policy toward the so-called "unequal treaties" with China, it was announced today at the White House on the President's behalf. The White House revelations followed closely upon the House Foreign Relations Committee's action in favorably reporting the modified Porter resolution, calling upon the President to undertake negotiations for revision of the treaties. After referring to the recent British memorandum urging; modification Of the treaties, the White House spokesman said the State Department within a day or two will make a statement defining this Government's attitude toward the treaties. It will not apply to the protection of American lives and Held For Grand Jury Alfred Boland, Leo Lyons Charged With Larceny of Auto Tires Alfred Boland, of 969 South Second street, and Leo Lyons, of 538 West Third street, charged with the larceny of automobile tires belonging to Julius Velinsky and Harry Mintz, of West Third street, were found guilty in City Court this morning and were held in $200 bail each for the action of the Grand Jury. James Sullivan, of 136 Plainfield avenue, charged with receiving stolen goods, was also arraigned after he had testified in the case of Boland and Lyons, but because 1 of insufficient evidence, the complaint against him was dismissed.

Boland and Lyons were arrested after the tires were found at Sullivan's home. It was partly through evidence furnished by William Peterson, colored, of West Third street, that the tires were located and recovered by the owners. Peterson pretended that he wanted to purchase a pair of tires, and he testified that Boland told him that he could get them. Young Girl Takes Poison Kathsrine Morgan Swallows Nitric Acid, Strand Theatre; Youths Freed Miss Katherine Morgan, 15, of 60 6 New street, who, it is said, had lost her pay envelope containing $18 and was afraid to go home, swallowed poison last night, according to Patrolman Theodore M. Sliker, who found the girl and a partly emptied bottle of nitric acid in the ladies' rcom of the Strand theatre.

Her mouth and throat were badly burned by the acid. The officer took the girl to the office of Dr. Julian Linke, who ordered her Muhlenberg Hospital. Later police headquarters was informed by the hospital authorities that the girl's condition was not considered serious and that she would probably recover. Sergeant George Leorch made an investigation and found that Miss Morgan after losing her money, had gone to the home of Albert Rossi, at 31 Elm place.

After remaining there a short (Continued on Page 17) preventable. It should be remembered, too, the board points out, that in addition to the direct bill for fire destruction there are an interruption of business, which swell the actual toll perhaps 100 per eent. of all of ithe burden being carried, necessarily, by the public. While there are no accurate records covering loss of life and injury due to New Jersey's fires, it is known that there were numerous fatalities and countless injuries by burning. been working only five days a vveek and now it is proposed to put all of the trades on the same working schedule.

At present the scale of wages is different in various trades, but the plan now is to establish a uniform weekly wage, which it is hoped will meet with the approval of all journeymen and eliminate the trouble of arbitrating for a new scale when Qo-rconifinto vnir What concerns the master (Continued on Page 5) I Aged Woman Hangs Self Mrs. Ida Reiver, 63, Found Hanging From Rafter in Hennery Special to the Courier-News: New Market, Jan. 25. Joseph Reiver, of William street, New-Market, reported to Chief Elmer Barrett of the Piscataway Township police, about 7:45 o'elock this morning, that a short time before he had discovered his wife, Ida, 03, had committed suicide by hanging. Her limp body was found suspended from a rafter in a hennery on the Reiver farm.

Mr. Reiver told the police that Mrs. Reiver had been in a nervous state for the past few months, and it was likely that despondency drove her to the act. He had been in the kitchen while his wife went outside, he said and wondering why she stayed so long, he made an investigation. Chief Barrett called Dr.

Roger L. Cooley, of Dunellen, who pronounced the woman dead. County Coroner E. K. Hanson was summoned.

The body will be removed to Brooklyn, where burial will be made. Mr. and Mrs. Reiver have lived in the section since last September, when they moved from Brooklyn, New York. The couple had been married about twenty- eight years.

They had a son, A' (X MV A I 9 IXKJ 11 CtO ill VY York. Says World Grows Better Rev. W. Warren Declares 3 Classes People Are to be Found A largely increased attendance of members of the Kiwanis Club listerffcd with pleasure last night to Rev. LeRoy Warren, pastor First Presbyterian Church, as he addressed them on the subject of "A Better World," at their regular weekly supper meeting in Tuohigs' Blue Room, Babcock Building.

Mr. Warren prefaced his message with complimentary remarks on the singing of the club, under the direction of Ross Hall, accompanied at the piano by Miss Edna Doe. Mr. Warren is a firm believer in the fact that the world is growing better, and offered some advice on how to continue to make it grow still better. "Ia the wrorld," he said, "are always to be found three classes of persons, the pessimist, the blind optimist and the contented ideal- (Continued on Page 15) Pre-inventory Sale at Anne Corset Shop, 127 Watchung Ave.

Advertisement. 1-21-24-25-26 THORNBURGII Correspondent studied longer ito determine Its revenue producing ability. Thus far the law has produced more revenue in spite of lower rates. Experts, explaining the underestimate of the 1928 surplus, said that although no rate cuts will apply in that year, the Treasury has announced a probable reduction of $15,000,000 in customs receipts, $100,000,000 in income taxes and $60,000,000 in miscellaneous internal revenue collections. They insisted that, with approximately the same business situation, there should be an Increase, rather than a decline in these receipts, with the possible exception of customs.

Treasury figures also disclosed that the Government in 1928 will be $2,556,394,000 ahead of its originally established debt reduction program since 1920. Surplus funds of this amount will have gone into debt retirements by June 30, 1928, with an annual interest saving of $102,255,000. The Treasury now estimates tax receipts for 1927 at greater by than, in 1926. The official estimate for 1928 income tax collections is $2,100,000,000. Democratic leaders declared that both figures will exceed the estimates.

Thrift Among School Pupils 1,077,953 Deposits Made Weekly During Novemher; Good Showing Here An average of 1,007,953 deposits were made weekly during November by pupils in schools throughout the country served by the Educational Thrift Service, of New York City, according to statistics compiled from Novem- i ber summaries. The deposits were made by 62. per cent, of the pupils present in school on bank days. Plainfield is ranked twenty-I third among the Class schools having a daily attendance of be-jtween 3,500 and 10,000 pupils, i During November Plainfield pupils averaged 5,216 deposits weekly, securing a percentage of 69. S.

Pittston, led the Class schools of the nation with every child in the system, numbering 3.722,' making deposits. Atlantic City ranks sixteenth (Continued on page 13) $41,355 IN BUILDING PERMITTED BY BUTLER Permits for the erection of new buildings in this city, to cost $41,355, were issued by Building Inspector Thomas Butler during the past week, and include a concrete hollow block addition to the Woodhull Martin store on East Front street, to cost $27,950. Other permits issued were as follows: John Belthrop, 1400 East Second street, frame dwelling, J. A. Fass Son, 206 West Front street, frame alteration, Joseph Schiappa, 343 Cottage place, frame addition.

James C. Hansen, 255 tiarheld avenue, frame garage, Alice B. Love, 229 East Ninth street, frame alteration, $135; Town Teller sign, $150; United Advertising Company, signs at 13 40 South avenue, $150, and at 31 West Seventh street, $50: Gulf Refining Company, sign. $50: Sacks Brothers, 317 West Second street. sign, $60.

and Loonard F. Collins, 612 South avenue, sign, $10. CAKK SALE The young ladies of the Young Peoples' Society of St: Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church will hold a cake sale on Saturday, February 5th P. B. Hodge's Pharmacy.

ha ve been formed, and fortune tellers have been consulted in hopes of finding the lost gold, so far as is known, there has been no success. The only key to the gold dust' mystery, a faded old map, treasured for years in the family Bible of a resident of this vicinity, has recently been stolen. But before the map was drawn by the one! prospector who survived the Indian attack, modern farming had! changed the topography of the! (Continued on Page Three) Senate Refuses to Confirm Cyrus E. Woods as Member Of Commerce Commission Reject Former Ambassador to Spain and Japan by Vote 49 to 28; Movement Launched For Reappointment cf F. I.

Cox, New Jersey By WILLIAM K. HUTCHINSON (INS) Staff Correspondent Texan Drinks 1 00 Cups Coffee In 7 Hours, 1 5 Mins. Port Arthur, Texas, Jan. 25, (INS) Caress the counter, boys, and drink to the new coffee consuming champion of the world. He is DeWitt Kinnard, real estate man, who 'got away with 100 cups in seven hours and fifteen minutes, in a restaurant here yesterday.

He downed the last one just before six o'cock and was pronounced in an excellent condition, considering. Kinnard broke by 15 the former record of 85 cups, held by "Guzzling Guz" Corn-stock, of Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Kinnard's count was check ed by a battery of Judges. City Needs Policemen Police Board Discloses Problem; To Install 43 Traffic Signal Boxes At the Councilmanic Polics Board meeting last night in City Hall, considerable time was taken up by a discussion of the annual appropriation thought necessary for this department, and the question of an electric traffic signal system, which may be installed this year. It ia proposed to include in the appropriation an amount which, it is thought, will enable the board to cover at least a good portion of the city with the traffic system.

According to the investigation thus far made, forty-three points have been selected for signals, but they will probably not all be included in the first installation. Plans are also being considerel to secure several new men for the police department so that it will be possible to more fully cover the residential sections of the city. DOWNTOWN TF.M PKKATUIl KS Downtown temperatures as reported today at the State Trust Company Building were as follows: 10 a. 36; 1 p. m.

42. BLUE RlimON HUTTKK is rich in health-giving Vitamins. It produces vigor and helps growth. Cook and bake with Blue Ribbon Butter. Serve it at the table.

It is the last word ia purity! Advertisement. New3 Service Many larvae-eating fish were studied in southern waters, resulting in the discovery that tho "gambusia affinis" is the most etticient of American fishes in clearing ponds and streams of mosquito-larvae. Under favorable conditions this fish i3 guaranteed to control the mosquito output and hence Jia3 been found to be of remarkable value in the reduction of malaria epidemics. As a result gambusia hatcheries Members of the Master Builders' Association, of this city, are much concerned over the announcement by the journeymen employed in the various crafts affiliated with the association, that they will demand on April 1 a working schedule of five days a week with a flat salary of $75 a week. This, it is understood, will apply to all trades and is in conformity with similar action being taken in other parts of the State.

Some of the trades, including the painters, have for some time Sentence Postponed N. Deutsch Found Guilty of Reckless Driving; Car Overturned in Crash Nathan Deutsch, of 509 West Third street, arraigned in City Court this morning charged by Andrew Compton, of Pluckemin, with reckless driving and causing an accident at "West Fifth and New streets, yesterday, was found guilty. Sentence was postponed until tomorrow morning when Compton was requested to be in court and present a bill of damages to his automobile. A com plaint of reckless driving, which utsch preferred against Comp ton, was dismissed. According to the testimony of Compton, which was corroborated by Peter Serquist, a chauffeur for J.

Philip Bird, who witnessed the accident, he was driving north on New street, when the automobile operated by Deutsch on Fifth street, struck the rear end of his car and overturned it. Compton escaped injury. While Compton was unable to determine the speed of Deutsch's car, Serquist stated that the latter was traveling between twenty-five and thirty miles an hour. Deutsch said that he was not exceeding twenty Plainfield's Water Clear Compares Favorably With Any in State Not Lacking in Iodine Plainfield water, secured from driven wells several hundred feet deep, is acclaimed by health officials to be as good as any water to be found within the State. Frequent analysis by the State and city health boards have failed to show any unfavorable characteristics in the water, it is said.

Reports that Plainfield water was lacking in iodine, and that as a result many persons in this vicinity were sufferers from goiters, was denounced today by N. J. R. Chandler, city health officer, who declared that thewater furnished Plainfield rates as well in iodine content as water secured in any section of the State. Iodine Is found in water in very minute parts, Mr.

Chandler explained. According to a recent test made of the city water, it was (Continued on Page 4) January Dance and Basketball Game. Community Recreation Society, Washington School, Friday evening. January 2S. Dancing 9 to 1.

Cox's Orchestra. Advertisement. 9-25-27-2S other year of training in automobile mechanics. He later became a salesman for several leading makes of automobiles and has taken over several automobile sales agencies. In 1913 he came to Plainfield as the manager of the old Plain-field Rapid Transit Company, which later became known as the Suburban Transit Company.

When this company became a subsidiary of the Spicer Manufacturing Corporation, Mr. Campbell remained in the capacity of manager and treasurer. Mr. Campbell is a member of Anchor and Jerusalem Lodges, is Senior Warden of the Knights of Templars, President of the Plain-field Lions Club, is a member of the Imperial Council Nobles Mystic Shrine, and of Somerset Council, Jr. O.

U. A. M. ick I. Cox, of New Jersey, the expiration of whose term resulted in Woods' nomination.

Friends of Cox. however, feeling that he had slighted, were not certain he would accept the appointment. The Senate's action, to many political observers, definitely marked the extent of the spirit between the Executive and the Senate. Administration leaders r-dmitted afterwards that no Executive within memory had suffered so crushing a defeat on a persona 1 appointment after making so valiant a fight as was made for Woods. Some leaders even deter ibed the vote as the worst blow to Coolidge prestige since he en- fContinued on Page 15) Bills Before Legislature Pierson Would Tax Buses Two Cents Per Mile cf Highway Trenton, N.

Jan. 25 (INS). Nearly a score of new bills were before the State Legislature for consideration today, introduced at last night's session. They included the following: By Assemblyman Henry W. Rennern, of Hudson County, to enable first class counties to obtain State aid for the construction of county roads in towns or other muncipalities.

By Miss May A. Thropp, Assemblywoman, of Mercer County, to prohibit corporations from (Continued on page 1) nigh Harold, Inc. Undertakers, 224 East Front St. Fhoce 242. Advertisement.

Slide, Rt. Rev. C. K. Woodstock, 1 of Kentucky, says: "We are attempting a great thing and the whole church must be aroused.

The crusade will fail if our pecple look upon it as an incident and no: an epoch. Our biggest task nit to interest but to convert. When the Nation calls her people to her colors they rally to her ell; when the- chinch caUs her people to Clirist she is only as (Continued on page eleven.) Wanted High-class man to eU Cadillac cars. Apply Laing's Garage. Advertisement.

l-21-3t Washington, Jan. 25. President Coolidge was seeking a new appointment for the Interstate Commerce Commission today as a result of the Senate's overwhelming rejection of Cyrus E. Woods, of Pennsylvania, named by the President at the behest of Pennsylvania influence. Although the President and Secretary of the Treasury Mellon threw all their political resources into the fight, the Senate refus ed to confirm Woods with as little compunction as though he were a postmaster instead of a former ambassador to Spain and Japan.

The vote of rejection was 49 to 20. A movement meanwhile was launched to have the President re-appoint Commissioner Freder Advocate A Gasoline Tax Scuth Jersey Port Commission Urges It; Traffic Signals Discussed Trenton, N. aJn. 25 (INS). The fight for highway traffic and transportation improvement in New Jersey, was in full swing in the Legislature today.

Significance was attached by political leaders to the report by the South Jersey Port Commission to the Legislature, which advocated a gasoline tax, designed to make automobile owners assist further in paying for highway improvements, to the navigable streams. The argument wa3 set forth that inasmuch as boat owners will likewise be taxed, the navigable (Continued on Fage Four.) Malaria Doomed to Lose Its Danqer; Gamhusia, Mosquito-Exterminatinq Fish, 'Now Sent From U. S. Over World Altered Aspect Land Makes Chart to Buried Gold Useless; Two Treasures Have Baffled Prospectors For Year By International Washington, Jan. 25.

Malaria, once a malady which caused thou-stnds of deaths throughout the United States every year, will cease to be of public health importance within the next 50 years in this country, if the present progress in attacking the ravages of the disease are maintained, according to Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming. During the past year an intensive study of malaria has been conducted throughout the South, featured by an investigation of fish control of mosquito production. Press). Two small fortunes lie somewhere ia this vicinity.

ne of consists of gold hastily secreted prospectors, returning jc-m gold rush years "Ar' pursued and overtaken u. i ae uiuer is me -frdrf a mier who died from fating five cents' he ever squandered, vn a expeditions, Me Ci-S from a long distance, (Continued on Page Three).