New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 6, 1926, Page 15

THO RESIGN AS C. OF C. DRIECTORS C. F. Smith and Marcus White Retire From Board Three changes in the personnel of the community Christmas tree com- mittee were made at the appoint- ment of the committee by the direc- tors of the Chamber of Commerce at noon today. In place of Walter O. Cook, who was chairman last year but who left | recently for New Bedford, Mass,, | where he has accepted a position as Boy Scout executive, Oscar Erickson the new local Scout executive will | be chairman this year. In place of Eben T. Putnam, who last year was superintendent of the Connecticut, Light and Power Co., and who resigned to accept the . presidency of the Greenwich Gas and Water Co., B. H. McElhone, the new superintendent, was appointed. Ralph H. Benson, the new secre- tary of the Chamber of Commerce, is 2 member ex-officlo in place of his predecessor, Ralph L. Gould. Other members of the committee in- clude Representative Fred O. Rack lifte, Charles W. Hawkins, Play- ground Commissioner Harry C. Jackson, Mrs. F. W. Scheldler, Park Superintendent Ralph B. Wainright, and B. F. Armstrong. The committee will hold a meeting | within a few days to discuss and for- mulate plans. It is likely the plan of last year, that of having one central tree and a number of small- er trees in the outlying parks, will be followed. The directors of the chamber ac- cepted the resignation of Charles F. Smith and Marcus White and | elected in their places John Contaras and Willlam J. Farley. Elijah Rogers, who is a member of the Connecticut Council of the New England conference, was elected a delegate to the New England farm marketing conference, to be held by the agricultural committee of the New England council at the state house at Boston, December 9 and 10. The chamber went on record as be- img opposed to articles 3 and 9 in na- BIBLE TEACHER FOUND 10 BE STICK-UP MAN Newark Youth Taught Sunday School on Sunday and Robbed on Saturday Nights Newark, N. J, Dec. 6 (P—How a 19 year old Sunday school teacher became “The Ace,” a lone wolf bandit, was told by police today after they investigated the story of Thomas Stephenson, self-confessed holdup man, who has been terroriz- ing chain store managers for five weeks. Stephenson who taught every Sun- day at the school of the First Meth- odist Episcopal church, Arlington, was captured Saturday night while | fleeing with $100 he took at pistol | point from the manager of-the Star | Luggage company. came to me,” he told police, “when the moonbeams glistened on an old revolver that hung on my bedroom wall. T admired myself in the role of a bandit as I stood before the mir- ror holding the gun and repeating ‘stick ’em up.’ It was the psycholo- gy of the ugly gun that did it."” He confessed to flve robberies, all perpetrated on Saturday night. He would hand a card to the store man- ager which read:— “I'm The Ace, money."” ANOTHER “POOL” ARREST Samuel L. Blakeman of Rochester Agrees to Surrender and Stand hand over the Trial on Charges. Boston, Dec. 6 (A—The name of another defendant in the govern- Hudson gambling pools was made “Thoughts of being a holdup man ment’s drive against tho Albany and | NEW BRITAI MRS. HALLNOT 50 PROUD OF AMERICA (Continued from First Page) acquitted with her. Henry Stevens is still in Somerville, but plans to leave for his home in Lavallette, N. J., tomorrow. Henry De La Bruyere Carpender, freed indict- | ments of killing Mrs. Mills and the Rev. Edward W. Hall when all in- dictments were quashed after the acquittal verdict remained at his home here, preparing for his start south today on a hunting trip. Tight Over Costs A fight over the payment of costs of the trial is alrecady under way, the Somerset county freeholders mecting tomorrow to discuss the problem. A delegation of tax payers will be present. The cost of the ' county will be somewhere between $75,000 and $125,000. State Senator Alexander Simpson terday he would urge a legislative | investigation of not only the trial; just ended but of the investigation | four years ago. He will have Senator | | Willilam H. Bright, a republican of | ‘Wildwood, introduce such a resolu- | tion, he said. Simpson Gets Nothing Simpson, |lieved ds special prosecutor immedi- | ately after the verdict was reached | was granted, said he had not heard from Governor Moore. He said he { would not put in a personal expense {account, not even for meals. No Il Feelings Mr. Carpender apparently has no | ill feeling toward Simpson personal- ly. He says: “It is hard to account for the ta |tles of Simpson and, anyway, let's not go into that now. blameworthy is the tabloid paper which sicked him on. news- | Blakeman of Rochester, N. agreed to surrender. More than a score of those in-! dicted by the federal grand jury here last week, residents of Boston, Springfleld, Albany and other citics jend towns, have already agreed to appear in court and the assignment of some of them was expected here late this afternoon. The charges tional referendum No. 49 on state, cntTor lottery tickets, and local taxation. The articies op- posed here were approved by the United States chamber. Article 3 provides ttat an inheritance tax im- posed on the transfer of property at the owner's death should be a state tax. Article 9 provides that each state shall have an agency Wwith power over local governments to prevent unwise expenditures by local govern- ments, JR. ACHIEVEMENT NOTES The annual mecting of two Junior Achievement clubs were held dur- ing the past week and the follow- ing officers were clected: Trinity club, Miss Ruth Duntz, leader; pres- ident, Lucille Fengler; vice-presi- dent, Mary Horton; secretary, Helen Hornkohl; treasurer, Lillian Duntz; reporter, Ruth Duntz and assistants, Eleanor Doherty and Muriel No- deen. The Belvedere club: Mrs. H. C. Warner, leader; president, Avis Pascoe; vice-president, Margaret Mae Lachlin; secretary, Helen Don- ahue; treasurer, Dorothy Leavitt; reporter, Myrtle Barry and mascot, | Dorothy Blues. The Belvidere club will hold a so- cial at the home of Mrs. H. C. War- ner at 22 Eton Place on December 14. The New Britain Gas Light Co. has loaned the local foundation its display window on West Main strect for the Junior Achievement Christ- mas exhibit. The See-More Junior Achievement club has given the P. & F. Corbin Girls’ club a bedspread embroidered by Betty Burns in return for past| favors. The spread is to be put up| for sale. Masonic Temple Corp. Decision Tuesday Night West Haven Salesman Sentenced to Jail New Haven, Dec. 6 (P—George H. Peckham, West Haven salesman, was sentenced to slx months in jail on before Judge Walter M. Pickett criminal common pleas court today tence imposed in police court last Wednesday. Fred Oberman, sen- tenced to nine minths in jail at the same time in police court, had hear- ing in his case deferred until Friday in order that Public Defender Sam- uel E. Hoyt might bave time to learn the facts in the case. Both men were charged with the | theft of numerous hand bags con- taining personal effects from students and out of town residents who came to New Haven to see the various football games. Peckham pleaded gulity today and | Judge Pickett sustained the sentence | of six months imposed in the lower | court. | Action for $10,000 i Dismissed by Court New Haven, Dec. 6—Ruling that {tho size of an estate within the juris- diction of a court of probate in no way affects actions brought against [non-residents, Judge Isaac Wolfe in |superior court today sustained the plaintiff's demurrer to a plea of jur- | {1sdiction and a motion to erase from | {the docket filed by the defendant in [the suit of William H. Barnes, ad- |ministrator of the estate of Helen S. Barnes, against Maurice C. Rein- |ccke, administrator of the estate of |Jack M. Grifin, or Fort Wayne, Ind. | | Barnes, in a writ filed & year ago |in superfor court, secks damages of 1$10,000 for the death of his daugh- ter, Helen, who was killed with Grif- !fen when the speeding machine in| re riding failed to take | {which they public here today when Samuel L.| against them are of interstate ship- | three counts of theft when arraigned | in| upon his appeal from a similar sen- | Decision in the application of the|a turn on the shore road at James| Masonic Temple Corporation, for Point, crashed through a guard rail special exception to zoning regula- and overturned, on May 31, 1925. tions affecting Russell street pro-| The defendant, Reinecke, claimed perties, will be reached at a meet-|that the writ had not been properly ing of the, board of adjustment returned by the deputy sherifl who Wednesday night, and unofficial re-|made the arrest and based his plea | ports of the sentiment held by |to jurisdiction on the fact that Grif- “But tho tablold paper handed him a lemon. He shall sue for dam- |ages from this and certain other newspapers in due time. Simpson himself squeezed the lemon. His tallure appears to have been an in- ability to gauge details. His acro- batic mind grabbed at big things: the hig things were wrecked by the details. “For Instance, he brought in Dick- man, who said he had interviewed Henry Stevens at Lavallette on the fishing pier. There was no such pier. ! | Dickman set a certain time for this linterview. Henry Stevens was at | that time in Florida. | Mr. Carpender says his Wall street brokerage firm lost thousands of dollars because of his imprisonment. WCLEAN HAS BREAKFAST AS PRESIDENT'S GUEST| Drops in at White House For Buck- wheat Cakes and Sausage ‘With Other Leaders i BY GEORGE H. M | (Washington Bureau o Washington, D. C., Dee. of the presidential sausage and buckwheats at the White House this morning when he and seven other members of the senate and house were guests of President Coolidge at |on of the so-called harmony break |fasts during the breakfast confer- {ence. The White Dill to give the |federal government power to regu- late radio broadeasting was dis- { cussed but the conversation, it was said was devoted mainly to fishing. Other guests at the White House | breakfast were Senators Oddie, Edge {and Wadsworth, and Representa- {tives White, French, Strong and | Gibson. TWO SUITS FILED Action for $275 damages has been brought by the M |& Tullock company | bert L. Treat, through Nai Deputy Sheriff Martin H. served the papers and the writ is returnable in the city court the second Monday of December. |, Treat has beon mamed defendant | in another action, for $100, \\mu: |has been brought by H. Chesky| land Son, through Irving Rachlin. Deputy Sheriff Horwitz served the | papers and the writ is returnable ‘u;\y of December. MARRIAG LICENSES | who prosecuted the case, sald yes- | whose request to be re-! Even more | Itor McLean of Connecticut partook | l‘.r.vll in the ecity court the second l|01|-; J. DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1926. City Items The Daughters of Jsabella will hold a regular meeting this even- | ing at 8 o'clock in the club rooms. A son was born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Stephen J. Mahoney at their home at 102 Winthrop street. Mother and son are doing well. Acorn street property owners are preparing a petition to the common council to have their street graded | next year, The case of the New Britain Fi- nance corporation against J. Na- dolny and A. Nowak has been set- tled out of court. Nair & Nair rep- resented the plaintiff and Hunger- ford & Saxe the defendant. [ A son was born at New Britain General hospital today to Mr. and | Mrs. George Dagnian of 72 Spring| street, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kroll of 479 Park street celebrated the 30th an-| niversary of their wedding Friday. | ! A daughter, Margaret Catherine, | has been born to Mr. and M | George Stumpf of New Haven. Mfs. | | Stumpt was formerly Miss Margaret | Kerin of 623 Main street, this t‘lty’ | A regular meeting of the Royal| | Arcanum will be held Tuesday ev | ning at 8 o'clock. Nomination of | | officers will take place. | The annual meeting for the elec- tion of officers of Martha Chapter, No. 21, O. E. S, will be held to- morrow evening at 7:30 o'clock in | Masonic hall instead of Thursday | | Astrid Nygren street has rturned to her home | following an operation for ap- | | pendicitis at New Britaln General | | nospital. Miss Alice Johnson of Maple Hill | left New Britaln General hospital vesterday after recovering from an | | operation for appendicitis. Camp Clara, R. N. of A., will hold a meeting tonight at 8 o’clock at St. | Jean's hall. | Stanley Women's Reliet corps will | hold its regular meeting and annual | election of officers in Judd’s hall on | Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock. | of Stanley | MRS. MARY O'BRIEN Mrs. Mary O'Brien, 75 years old, died Sunday afternoon at St. Franci hospital, Hartford. She was a nativ jof this city and lived here many | |year. She leaves two sisters, Mr: Eliza Burns and Mrs. Sarah Mec- Guinness, both of this city; and two brothers, Patrick and Joseph | |0'Brien of Holyoke, Mass. The funeral will be held at the funeral parlors of Joseph A. Haffey jon Main street tomorrow at 8:45 lo'clock and at St. Mary's church at {9 o'clock. Interment will be in St. |Mary's cemetery. Mrs. Fva Czapla | Mrs. X zapla, aged died this morning at her home, Slm street. She is survived by her | husband and one daughter. The| neral arrangements, In charge of | | Laraia &'Sagarino, are tncomplete. | Adolph Szymanowsk{ Adolph Szymanowski, 64 years | old, a resident of this city for the past 82 years and an employe of Frary & Clarlk for the past | ears died this morning at 17 o'clock at his home, 71 Oak street. | He was a member of the Sacred Heart church and the societies of | St. Anne and St. Anthony of All | Saints church. Surviving him are | his wife, Mrs. Mary Szymanowski: | two sons, Thaddeus and Peter of | this city city; a daughter, Mrs. Florence Grondek of New Bri |and three sisters. Mrs. Anna Zaw |istowska of Providence and - Mrs. Valeria Curniewska |setts and “Mrs. Ursula Slizenska of | Greenfleld, N. J. Funeral as Thursday morning at 7 Sacrod Heart church. be in Sacred Heart cemetery. will be held :45 o'clock at —_— ] Funerals ;;_ { Miss Hildur J. E. Torell Funeral services for Miss Hildur Torell, daughter of Mrs. Jose- \p)nnr Torell of 320 Chestnut street, {were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at her home, Interment was in worth for any montl year ! per cent owing to a sharp drop | say s | the office of Massachu. | 1% Burial will | |Marino President of members of the hoard indlcates th:\t the desired exceptions will be al-! lowed. The corporation i3 unable to place its proposed building on the lot now owned If the lot-line restrictions are to be adhercd to, and opponents have raised the objection ‘that a lodge room cannot be placed in a residence district, making it necet sary for a special exception to be ed {n that matter also. Family of Five Killed By Fatal Gas Fumes Jamestown, N. Y., Dec. 6 (F—A family of five persons was asphys- iated by gas in their home tod The dead were Mr. and Ernest Dahlberg, their two children and a woman belic Mrs. Dahlberg's sister, The bodies were found by neigh- bore who smelled escaping gas and broke into tho house. Mrs. infant ed to be CA A continuation until Thursday morming was granted in the Hart- ford police court this morning, when John Dagata and Joseph Sar- ra, both of this city, appeared, the former to answer to a charge of driving while under the influence of liquor, and the latter to plead to a charge of breach of the peace. They were arrested last evening in Hartford. It is claimed that Sarra | gave the police officer considerable trouble when he was questioning Dagata. is counsel for the men. 60 MILE GALE BLOWS Highland Light, Mass., Dec. 6 (P | —The gale and snow storm that blew in from the north Atlantic ocean last night attalned a velocity | of 60 miles an hour here. At the Long Point lighthouse, in Province- town harbor, a fog horn bell was Attorney Harry Ginsburg | ‘fen was a non-resident. | Fire Dept. Helns Doctor | In Race With the Sterk Methuen, s5s., Dec. 6 (Rr--The Methuen fire department was called upon in the face of a blizzard early | |today to help a doctor beat the storls |at a Methuen home. Dr. H. B. Kazanjian of Lawrence, {who in this case was to be the {stork's chief assistant, Ithe drifts unsuccessfully for three |hours and had abandoned two auto- | mobiles whe 1 he finally called upon lhl‘ fire department. | The chief's powerful car at last negotiated the rather perilous jour- ney with the doctor and he arrived | |at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sar Danielian in time to help add one to |the population of Methuen. |Coast Guard Cook Held | . . . { Following Fatal Fight | New London, |on temporary charges |seph Washington, 25 gro coast guard cook, |the brig at the submarine awalting the completion of the in- vestigation that a coast guard board {of inquiry is making into the circum- {stances surrounding the death of {Gorman Wilson, negro cook of the trol hoat 129, attached to the local se, who died at the |hospital in New York from injuries received during an altercation with Washington rnd several other |groes in this city on November 8. of assault, Jo- years old ne: is confined to WATERBURY WINS ACTION ‘Waterbury, Conn., The U. 8. Supreme court today up- held the city of Waterbury in con- demning the Macken property in Waterville for park purposes. In dismissing the appeal, the court also rules that the Waterbury board of park commissioners in whose name the proccedings were had bucked | Dec. 6 (P-—Booked | base, | Marine | ne- | long walk through the snow. Kul- | akowskl, Dec. 6 A — | | Marriage licenses issued today lare: Jean B. Gosselin of Wash- | Ington street and Miss Alice Bois- |soncault of 45 Hartford avenue; Herbert E. Kearsley of 12 Maple ¢ street, and Miss Hazeline Guerin of the same address; Charles J. Bader of 214 Main street and M | tler of the same address. The last named bride-to-be is a divorcee, 21 | years of age. Fairview cemetery. Jghn L. Rock | Funeral services for John L. of 54 Pleasant street, veteran Dloye of the Stanley Rule and I, Co., who died while visiting relatives in Springfield Friday afternoon, wera held at B. C. Porter Sons funeral | parlors on Court street this after- noon. Rev. Warren L. Blodgelt, as- sistant pastor of the First Congre gational church, officiated. MUTE HELD FOR THEIT !ment was in Fai John Tijalek, aged 19, a vlr‘.\f[ mute, of 7 Elton street, was arres Alonso Bernal {ed this afternoon by Officer Thom The fungral of Alonso Bernal, six | |J. Feency on a warrant charging|months ol son of Mr. and Mrs. | |theft of an automobile rim and ‘\'dmuul Bernal of 72 High street was |tube valued at $28, the proper of | held this afternoon from the child's Albert Sherman. He was released | late home. Burial was in St. Mary's lon $50 bonds for his appearance in | cemetery. | police court tomorrow morning. Rock em- 1 SKIDS, BUMPS, DRIVES ON One of the lar; John F. Meehan of 86 Wallace street notified the police today that | as he was driving north on Main | street, a truck going south skidded after catching in the trolley tracks. & e {and seraped his car, damaging the | heIF desire to pav tribute i?m'l'r"w‘il fender. The driver did not stop, Mr. | i - it i | Mechan suid. The number of tho TRt o p | truck is 4530. L s city yester- | day for Isaac Swarsky of 35 I'rancls | rect. The heavy storm of yester- y falled to stop his many friends ceme- DROPS DEAD AFTER WALK Hartford, Dec. 6 (®—Ignat Kula- kowski, 56, of 401 Ridgewood road, West Hartford, dropped dead this morning on South Main street, after BOLLERER’S POSY SHOP vergreen hlanket coverings for graves made of spruce, hemlock, laurel, hoxwood, with red berries jand ruscus. A3 W. Main §t., Prof. Bldg. Tel, 836 The Telegraph Florist of New Britain left his home at 5:30 this |morning and an hour later was found dead on the sidewalk after he had walked a distance of over two iiles. Joseph A. Haffey UNDERTAKER Phone 1625-2. Opposite St. Mary's Church. McDERMOTT ON TRIAL TODAY Courtroom, Canton, Ohio, Dec. 6 (A—Patrick Eugene McDermott, | charged with the murder of Don R. Mellett, Canton publisher, July 186, blown from its connections. undertaken, 18 legal. went on trial for his life here today, Judge Edwin W. Diehl presided, el R Dt oA irevisers; M. Marino, —— e Wall Street Brr’e/s | November sales of F. W. Wool- | Co. showed the larg: galn‘ this year except May, reaching $22,532,801, a gain of 8.59 per cent and for the 11 months this $212,285,545 against $199,689 378 in the same period of 1925, an increasc of 6.31 per cent. | October receipts of ore by lead| smelters of the United States, which are members of the American Bu- reau of Metal statistics, were 52,876 | tons against 52,313 in September, | 48,881 tons of the total being in United States ore. Deliveries to smelters not members of the bureau were 8,958 tons against 8,342 the! month before. The United States Light & Heat Corporation declared an initfal divi- dent of $2 a share on the common stock, payable in quarterly install- of 50 cents each, starting January 3 to holders of record De- cember 15, Operating schedules of Youngs- {town Sheet and Tube and Republica Iron and Steel this week are at 60 per cent of capacity, a decrease of 5 in activity of bar mills, | Western Dairy Products company, nized about a year ago to ac- 11 ice cream compantes {erating in the state of Oregon Washington, will acquire the Christopher Co. of Los Angele: financing for which is being | ranged by a syndicate headed by Spencer Trask and Co. or, qu op- Reports have reached Wall strect {from Youngstown that efforts are being made to consolidate midwest fabricating steel comp whose earnings have been | by severe competition. | POLICENEN COMPLAIN OF | DRIVER OF FIRE TRUCK | [ Operator of Hook and Ladder | Went to Right of Bus, Causing Traffic Jam. Officers Cyrus Schoonmaker and Fred Jones left reports when going | off duty this morning that the dri- | ver of Hook and Ladder No. 2 re- | sponding to an alarm shortly before 7:30 last evening, went to the right of a bus and caused a traffic jam, | despite the fact that there were 25 or 30 feet of space on the le o officers stopped t ; cording to their reports, on Main strect, near Chestnut, when the alarm sounded, and a Connecticut Co. bus came to a stop beside anoth- er automobile. It was necessary to move other cars and a trolley car| to make room for the fire truck, |C rs' report states, and if pas- | sengers had been leaving bus they would have been struck. Chief W. J. Noble of the fire de- partment said this afternoon he had heard nothing of the incident. So as he knew, the truck was not de- layed on the trip and no report had | been made to him. BOY OF 9 MISSING Richard Miller of Seymour St. Dis- ‘ ac- | appears After Leaving School at Recess Last Friday. the T, The police are puzzled by disappearance of Richard MMil aged 9, of 72 Seymour street, had not returned to his home since broadeast from WTIC at Hartford, in an cffort to locate him. The boy attended the Smalley school and is reported to have | The police do not believe he is far from home, but cannot understand tho pro- | longed absence, in view of his youth. General Ameglio Society The New Britain Society Generale {Ameglio at a special meetir th vesterday afternoon in Dudjacl |hall, elected its officers for 14 follows: G. Marino, pres first vice-president; ond vice-president; asurer; P. Secalo: retary; F. Genov financ secretary; A. Valente, recording se retary; G. Lombardo, vice recording secretary; Philip Japa, censor Rinella, Passamano, G. Latina allettd, P. Gallo, V.| Carrubb counselors; . A. L. Avitabile, i dent; G. Ger vice A. Bucchier Motta, L. Salerno, P. Coco, and 8. Coco, Latina, janitor; Dr. medical officer. Lanza, 000 6 (B—More by three in Schu- | s depart- The robbers YEGGME St. Paul, Minn,, than $55.000 wa men who blew thri enemann and Mann! ment store last night. worked for four hours, guarding two | Dee. gotten eime | s sky | watchmen and foreing one of them to make his regular hourly rounds ito “pull bells.” The loot included 00 in cash bhond of 5,000 is negotiable and of jewelry Cocktails, cigarettes and cakes are being served to customers by a | dressmaker of Paris. | Warm Clothes and Coal If you need warm clothes, coal or repairs to your home to enjoy a Happy and Prosperous New Year,come inand secus. 'WE LEND UP TO $300 TO HOUSEKEEPERS | 34-Hour Service, Eary Repayment Terms. Fair, friencly treatment. | Beneficial Loan Society | 87 West Main St., Cor. Washington | | Room 104, Phone 1-9-4-3. ?rm 9108.30 Saturdays9tof | )i | ket | of unusu | Al Che | Ameri |Gt North pfa . v\\'!m" Motor | Phoenix | Travelers Ins Co. | GALL MONEY HOPS UPTO FIVE Tl]l]AYJ Banks Call in Thirty Mllll()l] in Loans w York, Dec. 6 (P)—Speculators for the advance regained control of | the price movement in today's mar- er an early period of irregu- larity. Call money renewed at 4 1 per cent but advanced to 5 as banks | called about $39,000,000 in loans to repair the deficit in reserve shown in the weekly clearing house stz 1e Lambert Co. dividend to $5 had a bullish effect ment. Year-end forccasts of I men, which are their appe generally constr helping to allay fears er few weeks ago that a While the opening variably arouses fe ters of advers present session is not pected to produce would be harmful to b erally ex- ing that ess, Pros- | pects of speclal dividend action con- tinue to influence the buying of many stocks, Otis Elevator jumping over § points to a record high in ax tion of a dividend this | month. Railroad equipment and sugar | shar i cre bid up briskly on reports lly good trade conditions. | | Heavy accumulatton of American | woolen also was construed as a turn | for the better in the textile trade. In- ternational Harvester rallied from 145 to a new record high at 151 1-2, and a similar recovery was register- ed by South Porto Rican Sugar. U. 8 Cast Iron Pipe, United Drug, Gen- eral Gas and Electric B, Loose | Wiles common and second preferred also were marked up 4 to 6 poi while Continental Baking A dropped nearly 6 points. THE MARKET AT 2:30 P. M. Furnished by Putnam & Co. High Low Am Car & Fdy Am Loco . Am Sm & Ref Am Sugar Am Tel & 1 Am Tobacco . Am Woolen Anaconda Cop Atchison Bald Loco alt & Ohio. th Stecl Calit Pot Can Pac Cer De Pasco Ches & Ohio 16 G M &GP I H T Pac \h'.lr\ Chr Coca Colo Consol Corn Cru Steel ... Dodge Bros A Du Pont De 1063 313 | Cop Tuel Gas Prod RR 1st pfd Players .12 Rubber Genl Asphalt tenl Elec Genl Motors .. 854 8635 145 % 80 Hudson Motors 4 | Mack Truc X | Marland Oil Mid Cont Mo Kan Mo . Mont Ward .. N Y Central 154% H & H 433% so1g | 673 13434 Pack Mot Car | Pan Am Pet B 63 Pennsylvania, I ierce Arrov Sears Roebuck inc Con Oil .. Southern Pac . Southern Ry . dard Oil Stewart Warner Studebaker Texas Co .. Texas & Pac Tobaceo Prod Union Pac United Fruit . U S Ct Ir Pipe S Ind Al S Rubber r £ Steel .. | ward Bak B . | West Elee 543 108 17Y% 5614 1213 Willys Over Woolworth Asked Aetna Casuaity Actna Life Ins Co, .. Hartford Fire National Fire Fire Conn Genn Manufacturing Stocks. Am Hardware . $6 Am Hosiery 25 on & Caldwell 1tfd Cpt Co com Billings & Spencer cora — Spencer pfd IFatnir Be:rinn (‘D . Hart & Cooley ... Landers, N B Machine N B Machine pfd Niles-Be-Pond com North & Judd .. Peck Stowe & Wil ... Russell Mfg Co. | | Scovill Mfg Co. 5 | Standard Serew Stanley Works .. Stanley Works pfd . Torrington Co com yums, 70 6 2 i | Conn Eie | Conn Lt & Pow pfd —.1 PUTNAM & CO, Members New York & Hartford Stock Exchanges 31 WEST MAIN ST. NEW BRITAIN TEL. 2040 HARTFORD OFFICE, 6 CENTRAL ROW TELEPHONE 2-1141 We Offer: New Britain Machine Co. Common and Preferred Burritt Hote) Bldz. New Britain MEMB Telephone 2580 S NEW YORK AND HARTFORD STOCK EXCHANGES Donald R. Hart. Mgr. We Offer: Farmers Loan and Trust Co. ¥ Price on Application. We do not accept Margin Accounts. IEDDY BROTHERS & & NEW BRITAIN Burritt Hotel Bidg, Tel. 3&20 HARTFORD BHartford Conn. Trust Bldg. Tel.2-7186 We Offer: 50 SHARES INTERNATIONAL SILVER COMMO! 50 SHARES LANDERS, FRARY & CLARK. 50 SHARES NEW BRITAIN GAS LIGHT. EURA We offer: 100 shs. New Britain Machine Com. 100 shs. Colts Patent Fire Ams Mfg Co 100 shs. Stanley Works Com. Fuller, Richter, Aldr'ch & Co. 81 W. MAIN ST. NEW BRITAIN MEMBERS HARTFORD STOCK EXCHANGE Hartford Tel. 2-9161 New Britain Office Tel. 1253 New London Office Tel. 3786 CHURCH ON FIRE DAMAGE 1S LIGHT ’Honse of Worship on Washing- ton Street Threatened Damage estimated at several hundred dollars was caused by fire and smoke in the Russian Ortho- TUnion M - WAL € Public Utilities Stocks. Service ., fd Elec Light ......323 328 | N B ORE s v i sms bY | Southern N B Tel 156 | TREASURY BALANCE Treasury balance $142,401,5 hanges 0,0 Boston—E: $64,000,000; | New York—Clearing House, changes $456,000,000; balanc 000,000, Rev. George Henry Smith Dies at Maple Hill Rev. George Henry Smith, sterday at the home of his son, Merritt H. Smith of Maple Hill. He was born in Middletown, April 6, ved by two sons, Merritt H. f Maple Hill and 1 C. Smith of Nev John Schle children and three dren. Prayers will be said of his son at 35 Walnut street, Hill, and service Mark's ch 1:30 o'clock. will offi Miner ¢ Never Missed Weekly Meeting in 55 Years Hartford, Conn., Dec. 6 (A —Leo- cld Hubert, 9, who did not mist single & ting of the Ararat lodge, mb 13, Independ- nt Order of B'Nai Brith in 55 yea lied early this morning of a shock. He was one of the oldest Jewish residents of the city, having come re from Germany 59 ye . He former pr rat and as a ]\M.\h Free S for 46 ad never missed a meet of at the home Maple Puesday 1 be conducted at St in New Britain 1 will be in lent of member of was a Todge WIFE FROM BED On complaint of two children to Probation Officer Connolly that their father was making a d turbance at their home, Captain Kelly detailed Officer Veley to 200 Beaver street this afternoon to ar- Stanley Smolenski for viola- on of probation. According to the |children, their father pulled their | mother, who is ill, out of bed, and police court tomorrow morning. dox church, 206 Washington street, last evening, the timely discovery of the blaze in a room in the rear of the building undoubtedly pre- cluding a serious fire, in the opin- ion of Chiet W. J. Noble. The woodwork about the switch box was badly burned, causing the belief that the wiring ignited the panel. The fire department was called shortly before 7:30 o’clock by an alarm from Box 46 and prevent- ed a spread of the blaze, but the entive building was filled with smoke Children playing with matchesin fhe attic of A, Gagazzi's home at 14 Kel street caused a fire yes- t ernoon. An alarm from Box brought the fire depart- ment. Two large holes were burned and other damage resulted from smoke and water. An alarm from” Box 22 brought firemen to the home of Anton Brown, § TFairview street, yesterday afternoon, but there was practically no damage. A furnace pipe dropped, ausing smoke. 22 09 YEARS OLD TODAY Stanhope, N. J., Dec. 6 (A—Nrs. Clarissa Case, who today observed her 99 birthday, predicts a short life for the girls who smoke and drink. “Do I smoke? I did once. T smoked a clay pipe for a toothache and got so sick I forgot about the Mrs. Case was the youngest of 10 Udren and is the only survivor. ] ‘; Special Notice | PRSP, | Annual charity whist and 48 | given by the Ladies’ Auxiliary to the A. O. H. at Judd's Hall, Mailn St. I'riday evening, Dec. 10, 1926. $2.50 |in gold for the highest sacore, |otherwise abused her. He will be in |lady or gent, also door prize. Tickets 35c. FPublic invited.—Advt.