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Man Leaps From 17th Storey; Had Spent 11 Hours On
On Ledge
New York.
n foot-wide
After terrifying New York for nearly 11 hours by perching himself on ledge on the seventeenth storey of the Gotham Hotel, in Fifth Avenue, John Ward jumped to death. Ward was a 26-year-old man from Chicago. His appearance on the ledge follow- ed a family quarrel.
When his figure was seen from the street polico roped off the crowds from three blocks of houses in the busiest quarter of central New York. threatening to jump while thousands gasped. Women screamed and many fainted while Ward He remained there all the afternoon, walked along the ledge or sat smoking cigarettes and throwing the ends down into the street.
Exports Drop £25,725,000 in Six Months
While again showing a heavy drefine as against a year British overseas trade in
ago, June
did not suffer any further falling off compared with May this year, so far 0 exports of British manufactures and produce were
concerned,
with June last year are follows:
Food, drink & tobacco Itaw materials
Manufactures
Imports were:
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shown
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June 1911
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When Ward jumped he crashed through a glass canopy of the hotel. He landed on the kerb head first, while screams went up from the crowd. Among the spectators was Ward's sister, Airs, Bull. Ward ignored her. Mrs. Bull wept bitterly.
Ile remained on the ledge while extra forces of police and firemen were brought up to deal with the ever-gathering crowds.
Ward paced up and down, smoking Decrease incessantly, occasionally stopping to on June rest before threatening to jump. The police tried persuasion and fail- 2,639,000 a11,000 ed. 4,436,900 3,100,000 28,772,000 5,001,000
Difference nn
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went to the window and pleaded to Ward,
"Oh, John, please come back. We love you, and you know it. Come on in and have » drink. You know I havo never failed you. I'll help you if you will please only conte in"
A priest and a psychiatrist later joined their pleas to Mrs. Bul's. There was a gasp when Ward The crowds began to grow enorm-
the
reached down and took a gloss of ously as carly workers left their There was, however, a sharp drop Foud, drink, & tobacco 38,433,000 +2,915,000 through one of the hotel windows,
June 1938 June 1937 water placed on the ledge for him onlees und hurried, to watch taw materials
drama. Manufactures
in the re-exports of imported mer- chonda from the exceptionally high Jevel in May, which was probably due to a considerable extent to the unsettled state of European palities. As a result, total exports were sub- stantially lower,
This is disclosed in the pre- liminary summary of the monthly
given In
DVDFSORS trade retums Hourd of Trade Journal,
The gures are:
19,443,000-7,080,000
18,078,000 -0,331,000 He picked up the, glass, drank the They visible adverse balance of trade for June was £31,022,000, com-
JUMPS AT LAST waler, and retained his balance pared with £30,052,000 in May and easily. He was heard to remark. "Ifavenue buses had to be diverted. All trafle, Including the Fifi- makes
£36,687,000 in June 1937. Thin
the total visible balance will work this thing out for myself." Photographers were at work taking against this country for the half-year After Ward had been on the tedge pictures of Ward from every possible £283,576,000, against £192,331,000 for 10 hours the firemen and policejngle. The radio sent out minute-by- for the Arst half of 1937,
For the first six months of the year tel to the building from below the|
were preparing to struteli a net paral-minute reports. exports amounted to £233,194,000, or £10,020,000 less than for the cor-sixteenth floor, then pull it up to when Word had been on the ledge for The crowd was still increasing responding half of 1937, white re-enclose Ward against the wall and 101⁄2 hours. exports were £7,705,000 lower at enable him to be pulled to safety. £32,840,000. Total exports were £266,042,000,
At last Ward jumped.
Decrease on! 725.000.
a decline of
£25,~
Imports amounted to £469,518,000,
June 1938
June 1907.
Imports
Exports
Re-exparty
& 11,681,000 36,891,000 7,473,000
4,987,000 Total exparts .... 41,581,000
a drop of £14,483,000,
76,503,000
2,140,000
9.619,009
"HAVE A DRINK" Mrs. Buil and fainted was brought
becanic hysterical twice: When alic round site again
The police report that Word was out of work and that he had been recently released from an asylum.
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In considering the figures al- lowance has to be made for the fact that, owing to the Whitsun Bank Holiday, June this year had only 25 working days, us against 20 last year,
Compared with May, Imports for lart month were higher by £1,100,- 000. Exports were lower by £1,271,- 000, and re-exports down £2,190,000, making a decrease in total exports of
£3,AGLON
FIGURES DECEPTIVE
When reduced to a daily average basfs, however, on account of there! being one working day less, it is shown that British experts were fully maintained at the May level, the daily average fur June havingt been £1,475,700, against £1,467,800,
The daily average of re-exports Wes £190,500, compared with £270,000 in May, and that for total exports £1,075,000, against £1,733,- 000.
Details of the various industries are not given in the preliminary Bgures, but the totals of three main groups of British exports compared
DOCTORS URGED TO ADVERTISE
Group advertising by medical pro- fession was suggested by Dr. Colin D. Lindsay in his presidential address at the meeting of the British Medicni! Association at Plymouth.
He said there was a tendency for the family ductor to sink lower and Tower In the estimation buth of the publie and of the student body from which the profession Itself was re-i crulled.
"The practice of medicine itself has. been brought into disrepute by the in- discriminate administration of medl- cines," said Dr. Lindsay,
"The faith of the public in a bottle of medicine Is pathetic. I grant it) may be and on account of the psy- chological effect, but often it, is quite unnecessary and is only prescribed be- cause the public expect and insist on it."
Hitherto it had been a keystone of medical policy that publlelty or adver ticing was in direct antithesis to the best interests of the profession and of the public alike.
The truth of this in regard to ad- vertising by individuals was, he thought, stil undisputed. He consi- dered, however, that some of group advertising by the profession as a whole was seriously overdue.
Taken as individuals, and in times of sickness and stress, there could be nothing quite so touching us the al- most blind trust which the public re- posed in the science of medielne,
But the pubile, taken in the mass, and in health, did not trust either me- dicine or the medical profession. That attitude was an extraordinary blend of ignorance and superstition, In which they had unbounded confidence, He suggested that teaching in ele mentary biology, anatomy and physio- logy should be an essential part of all education, however elementary.
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