PROFESSOR RIPLEY LEAVES TO CONFER WITH HOOVER

William Z. Ripley, professor of economics at Harvard, emeritus, and author of the preliminary plan for consolidation of the nation's railroad systems, has left Cambridge to confer with President Hoover. Professor Ripley, in an article published in World's Work today, states that consolidation in trunk-line territory is necessary if railroads are to continue to operate. It is understood that his conference with President Hoover had to do with his railroad merger plan.