New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 11, 1926, Page 12

DR, GATTELL GONES AS ROTARY GUEST Philadelphian Has Addressed Mor¢ Than 30,000,000 | “Ladies’ Night” will be observed at the Burritt hotel next Thursday evening by members of the New Britain Rotary club, their wives and friends. Dinner will be served in the banquet hall at 7 p. m. The speaker of the evening will be Dr. Edward J. Cattell of Philadel- | phia. Dr. Cattell is an inspirational | atter dinner speaker of international | prominence. A speech recently de- | livered by him in Canada was pub- | lished in almost every civilized | country in the world. | Dr. Cattell has dellvered more | than 25,000 addresses, reaching | more than 30 million people, exclu- sive of his radio hearers. He has been personally acquainted with every United States president since | Lincoln. For 20 years he was city | statisticlan of Philadelphia and has developed the unusual knack of be- | | | letic equipment and $1,740,000,000 ! FLASHES OF LIFE: HURLEY WRITES BOOK WHICH WILL EXPOSE GOVT. New York—Edward N. Hurley, princess has decided not to make the formerly head of the shipping board | trip with him. is publishing a novel which he says will bare “the super-government'” | now ruling the United States. He Washington — There are fairly good prospects that a $10,000,000 art explains: Some of our laws of late | gallery will be given to the United years have been dictated by a fi- States. The information comes from nancial crowd that terrorizes our | Senator Smoot. Three of the great- lawmakers and trles to make the | egt collections in the country have American people act and llve ac- | been offered it such a gallery is es- cording to a code which has no basls | tapjished. in either justice or American ideals.” | He is using fiction in order to “soft- | en the blows.” New York—Here's an Anglo- ! American romance of Oxford uni- il ’ versity. Miss Dorothy Alexander Washington—From Wayne B. | goiniein of Bridgeport, Ohlo, gradu- ‘Wheeler comes a diagnosis of the | .. o0 Vassar, has been married to case of Congressman Gallivan of Sooan H Cecll Desmond Bernard Harmsworth B“"““;,"“{"‘,;‘Y T etiomsvy | Of London, nephew of Lord Rother- }"“i:’“-" e conation. means | mere and Lord Northeliffe, news- O el movemont between | Paper publishers. They first met g R | when she was a student at St. Hil- L | s Hall, Oxtord, and he at Christ | church. New York—Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler is a humorist as well as | foe of prohibitlon. Speaking at a Lanquet of the Ohio society of New Princeton, . J—A great chess problem at the university remains JERRY 15 STIIL AHAN OF YSTERY (Continued from First Page) to find out who he is by consulting the records of those years. Rev. Fr. Oates has been much in- terested in his case, ever since “Jerry,” some time ago, recognized his picture in a book, calling the teacher by name. “Jerry” was able to identify many of his classmates, | also, through pictures. While the | priest has a recollection of “Jerry,” | he is not sure as to his identity, and | he has taken it upon himself to send | messages all over the world to the families of boys in several of the | classes of the period mentioned, in |an effort to find out whether any |of them have relatives reported missing in action. | Last night “Jerry” exhibited a | sealed letter which he was about to | mail to Rev. Fr. Oates, whom he | characterized as his best friend. A | short time later a gentleman enter- JAMES VAN ALLEN York he remarked that the capital unsolved. ‘The authorities disagreed | cd and it later developed that he whether chess s a sport and its ex- | was a relative of “Jerry's” friend. | York city many vears ago—"before ‘nited States was in New obihe ¥ penses should be paid from sporting vas moved to Westerville, 0.” e == by an alumnae and the puzzling will Monmouth, Tll.—Too much money | be over the moves of knights instead spent on athletics? Why Americans |of ducats. spend $40,000,000 annually on ath- | Albany, N. Y.—Here's a on smokes. The figures come from | pionship that was retained in a year | Commissioner Griffith of the West- | featured by the loss of titles. New {ern Conference, DR. EDWARD J. CATTELL ing able to quote figures in an inter- esting manner, It was from Dr. Cattell that Philadelphia people learned that one person, ringing a door bell every two minutes night and day could not ring every bell in the city in 100 years. He was the man who first told the residents of the Quaker City that the year's out- put of carpet in that city would girdle the earth 11 times. He is the author of several novels, many monographs and a collection of short stories. He is a traveler, statistician, economist, humorist and pronounced optimist. his reputation as a speaker on his ability to deliver interesting, instruc- tive, emusing and inspiring ad- dresses, and he has a personalit ‘which once known is seldom forgot- | ten. He never announces a subject in advance, never uses notes, and adapts every speech to the audience he faces. He has built| who thinks that | York continues to raise more cab- the country bage than any other ear's total was 305,100 tons, an in- | crease of 16,700. athletically speaking, has just started. New York—Miss Ethyl Weiss is back from Europe after what she | regards as a novel experfence. Not | for its depa one man abroad asked her to drink | maly opened. or smoke while dancing or dining. | At home she has found she cannot | paniury—Morgan Seymour, 20, Is be in & man’s company five minutes | ;oo T phaten” hoxing bout without recelving such invitations. | hor™) o opnonent fall through | ropes onto spectators. New Haven—Yale's own theater ent of drama is for- Oxford, England—The worst e, | in the opinion of Gilbert K. C]\Cs-} Naw Haven-vont Di *Roietels terton, is that an American worships 7 S |ler's grandson, John Rockefeller money. “An Amerlcan,” he says |, o T T ond prize in Ten “never talks of money in the hushed | Prentice, wins second b | ana awe-struck tone an Englishman | e won by Arthur Clendenin Robert- employs. | sons of Cambridge, Mass. New York—In order to retain glrl- {sh figures women should have chil- dren, in the opinion of Marla There- sa (Mrs. Stephen Bourgeolse), for 18 years & dancer with Isadora Duncan. | Motherhood, she says enables a | Woman to retain suppleness and in | agdition gives her distinctiveness and character. | | Bridgeport—Mrs, Alice Gregory, | 65, and her cousin, Charles Ander- |son, €9, are found dead in their aston home; death due to natural | causes. Waterbury—Jack Delane; de- | fending world's light heavy weight title for first time, knocks out Ja- London—Lloyd George has just | maica Kid of New York. | motion picture for the first | —— r;:: tt:asee o rur The only | Waterbury—Grocery store propri- | films he has witnessed besides this etor routs {wo would be holdup men were in his own home. }wmx Kknife. New York—As for reports that he | Hartford—Peter J. Cascio of West and Brinces Xenia are to be divorced | Hariford s elected president of the William B, Leeds comment: “What a | Connecticut horticultural society. | lot of gruel! The minute anybody | | steps on a Paris bound boat nowa- | Haven—Wo {ays they have him down as divorce | death in California ot hunting.” Instead of going to Paris, | E. Verrill, professor [Leeds 1s going to Nassau. His | Zoology at Yale. | —e New Haven—Word s received of Dr. Addison emeritus of cham- | | Eyck oratorial contest at Yale which | ¢ In view of the outstanding char-| acter of the speaker, the meeting will be an open one and guests and thelr wives will be admitted to the capacity of the hotel accommoda- tions. DEFENSE ENDS ITS 0 PUT LIVE TREE - ATWEST END SPOT | This gentleman, whose name could| James Van Allen and Freeman | Hartford avenue, are awaiting trial i i i jor court on the charge of [tion given by “Jerry” tallied with | o, EDUECR IOV B8 GO LA o [{EhiatinosaEenn gy, 18 aeiaion | bound over in Berlin town court un- Servicemen Are Interested | ;.. ¢5000 bonds Thursday evening following their arrest early that morning in Meriden. Ernest Barth of 123 Commonwealth avenue, this | in conversation regarding the pre | paratory school and the informa- | The servicemen took a great in- terest in his case and several mem- bers of the 102nd regiment, a ur of the 26th division, in which Con- necticut men were enlisted, engag- | | ¢d him in conversatlon when he ex-| pressed the beliet that the 102nd | was in the field with his outfit. It was later ascertained that he is looking for the 103rd and 104th regiments, these outfits having been in the territory mentioned by him at the time stated. These two regi- ments are composed of men from Massachusetts, Vermont and New | Hampshire. He was questioned by several men who took part in engagements he tioned and he was able to de- pe the localitles in detail, to- gether with the movements of the various bodies of men. Of one thing he was sure. He was positive that he carried a Lee Enfleld rifle in the marines. And here the group met a snag, because everyone pres- | ent was positive that the marines did not carry Enfield rifles. In cases like that those who try to aid him are thrown off. Just a small [itews, but one that changes the en- tire working plan. Nathan Berson of the firm of Berson Brothers, this city, called to see “Jerry” and he brought with | him a group picture in which was | his brother, Harry, killed in action near the place described by “Jerry.” | fIrst 0 | “Jerry” ala not recognize any of| “Tarbot” was asked what farm- the men in tho picture. house was meant and he started in 1 {to describe the place. His descrip- | Mm\’:‘r Bxl;l:n'r::? him ofr |tlon was vivid and as there was only 2 | in the locality in + iva ad- |One farmhor on a new trail, giving him an a4 !which the headquarters of the 1023 Nicholson, 247 Park avenue, swho |Inf. Was station, his word picture of had a brother listed as missing in|the place showed conclusively that action from the Canadian army, |1® Was there in 1918 to see the Mr. Berson stated that the resem. |Place as it was then. |blance between Mr. Nicholson and| The farmhouse was and probably |“Jerry Tarbot” is striking and that | is situated about a quarter of a mil the clue is worth running down.|west from the “Jerry” sald he wants clues be- | Paris road, just before the town of cause there is always the hope that|Vaux is reached about three miles they may lead him out of his pres- |from Chateau-Thierry. Travelling ate. say they confessed to being the pair who engaged Barth to drive them to Berlin late Wednesday night, striking him on the head with a plece of pipe covered with rags and taking his automobile. when his bill comes up for action, |a bill which, if passed, Wwill insure |him of government compensation. | He has been the guest of the | Herald during the time he has been |in New Britain and he is grateful to | the residents of the city for the sin- cere interest they have shown in him, i — speed! Surprises Company T Men Convincing evidence to men who served in the 26th Division in the | World war that the man known as | “Jerry Tarbot” served in France during the war, was given yesterday by “Tarbot” when, upon talking | with men who were in Co. 1, 102nd |Int., he asked if any of them knew the headquarters of a unit of the division that was stationed at & |farmhouse near Bouresches fn the first week of July, 1918, will carry on. God- | How {on a new tr: en city, identified them and the police| 1 Chateau-Thierry- | He intends to call upon west, one passes through the south-|$ CASE EARLY TODAY The committee in charge is head- ed by Representative Fred O. Rack- liffe, chairman; Peter Crona, Her- man S. Hall and Gustay Torell. This meeting is expected to sur- pass anything the New Britain Ro- tary club has heretofore attempted. The prominence and reputation of the speaker is such that for a long time it was doubted that it would | be possible to bring him to this city. RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FOR 9TH GRADE OPPOSED ¢ Parc.ts Make Unfavor- | committee. In response to Kelly's request for information 28 to the navy's ofl leasing policy, Robison wrote that he was committed to the policy of leasing land only where drainage of naval oil through priv- ate wells made ‘“‘offset” operations desirable. Roberts said in his opening state- ment three weeks ago he would show that Dobison refused informa- tion to members of congress con- cerning the progress of the leasing negotiations. S . In the Teapot Dome and Elk Hiils i reserves, The Teapot Wyoming re- able Reply to School Department serve was leased to Harry F. Sin- clair's Mammoth Oil Company on iRcoanAlre) | April 5, 1922, and the Elk Hills Cal continued trom First Pagey May Be Forerunner of General| ‘ Policy in This City | What may be the forerunner of, permanent Christmas trees in this clty is seen in the decision of the community Christmas tree commit- tee, with the cooperation of the |board of park commissioners, to |plant a live tree on the triangle at [the corner of Vine and West Main Istreets, This may be followed later {by other permanent trees. 1t i [known that residents of Belvidere last year favored the placing of a live tree on the triangle at Stanley |strect and Hillerest avenue. | Park Superintendent Ralph B, | Mr. Nicholson within a few days. |ernmost point of the Belleau Woods, One sérviceman remembered a made famous by the bloody stand of French youth who was in a bed [the Fifth and Sixth Marines against Inear him in one of the base hospi- |the hordes of the German army as als in France. He said that this|they swept down through Soissons, man was out of his mind most of |Chateau-Thierry on their great drive the time and that he finally d or Parie in the last week of May peared, no one knew where, * and the entire month of June, 1918, ry" immediately became interested | The 26th Division, with the 103rd until the serviceman described sev- |Infantry occupying the town of eral of the Frenchman's wounds. Bouresches and having a lialson with {“Jerry” said they did not corre {spond with those he received. {lieved the units of the Second “Jerry's” body ls covered With|vision on this sector on the night |wounds, There is a bullet hole in|of July 3rd. Regimental headquar- ight cheek, the missile having ters were set up in the farmhouse d through part of his jaw and lin question and Tarbot's description |through his tongue. Thus he 1s|of {he eccne is so realistic that it | prevented from speaking clearly at|could be given by no one except times. A bayonet took away part of |one who was there at that time, the left side of his face, but the| «marhot” deseribed the place as lart of reconstruction has practical- |heing located several hundreds of | nis v the 102d in the Belleau Woods, re- | Di- | fornia, reserve went to Doheny in Wainright, who will have charge of ||y erased any marks of the wound. |yards behind the front line of the i placing the trees, said this morning | Sought Missing Nephew terests December 11, 1922, the Vine street tree may be| Another caller who thought that | | that American fore He told how the machine guns were clustered in the Mother of Fiv; S;s On Grounds of Cruelty Actlon for divorce has been brought by Mrs. Nellie Karmilo- wiez, mother five children, agalnst Tony Karmilowicz, on grounds of intolerable cruelty, At- torney B. J. Monklewicz represents the plaintiff. They were married | October 8, 1905, and have five children, ranging in from 20 to eight years The plaintift divorce, perm! her malden as- of on the part Tombs outhrea conrt w vidence g Reports from a census taken among parents of pupils in the ninth grade of the tv » junior high schools | rolative to the cxtension of religious | PR[SON REFORM NEEDED education 11 that grade has proven that the vote :gainst t. was over- o whelming. vew York Grand Jury Finds Condi- In the Central Junior High school }"'“ Tonc Grandl Jurs the authorities received 51 favorable | tions Bad and Advises Immediate wnswers fro; parents of 333 puplls | Aol Meantres, in the grade. In the Nathan Hale| o woo®0 0 Sa oo Junfor Hizh school, ents out et Wiy orisins Dur of 317 were In favor of the move, | L10n3 In New Tork clty prisons, bat 1 the glen had been adopted py- |Hicwaxly tn the Tombe, ere alavm. i vt i ing and a menace to public safety, pils would be dismissed an hour a |P§ and @ mena sl week for religious education. the Nover.ber graad jury investigating the recent tombs out- b k in which five persons we Xilled. Tmmediate remedial m ures are imperative, the jury urged. The prese.tment (o Judg sky charged that conditions are due | primarily to inadequate and under- | pald custodial forces and recommen- dation made that the number and compe: ‘ion of prison guards be promptly incrc Laxity and ¢ cliction of fous keepers of the | prison contributed to the the fury found, and the urged to Investigate th nitted to the grand ace heavy penalties upon the and guilty to re Nellle Grynie wiez, custody of children and alimony of $1,000. writ is re- turnable in the superior court first Tuesday of January papers were served by Sheriff Matthew Papelak. on me, t1 the Letter Carrier Officers and Delegates Branch No. 192, N. A. I of « P and Deputy R. 0. C. M. A. ELECTS OFFICERS conventior Ru an Orthodox Saint Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood of Jt. 0. C M. A. society, N held a meeting yesterday at which new of for the coming year were electod G. Hamilla was elected pre John Stetfick, vice ident; Petrisko, recordir financial sceretary chan, treasurer; D! | and Nicholas Hamise ORTED TO POLICE 46 Gilbert street cers wms The de! Everett E RE) Tony Pulosso of reported to the polic lock on his chicken coop has hroken. At 10 o'clock last night Licuten- ant Bamforth w there was a prowler Richard H ud Professional Women's club tor o but Ofdesr Hellberg, who Investigat- | Clark received 1 | 1o trace of him, lector of M. B The hn P ing. first, ates consis ) M. Matodinski; fourt ifth, Quincey N second John ewiez; third Frank J Hariwing. ckin was appointed sick benefits and George the position of col- A |the beginning of permanent trees lon the smaller parks, although he | was sceptical of any possibility of |success in raising a permanent tree on Central park. The park board has tried to raise live Christma tre re before and has found v will not grow, he said. nright does not approve permanent Christmas — tre y8 the trecs which peo- all the year around, and are standing in the one place do not have the same a ise of the idea. 1l the time, effect. Something new thing green, fr better mas spirit. e Belvidere year financed who had plans tree, have donated all their ment to the community ( tree committer y decorations will be used on the anley street and Hilleres and . glol Louis Holtzhaus Cormack, Bely C red to donat seetion. some- wood true who last and equip- tmas this Thess ree t ave- additi>nal electric light s will be r and merchants, } 0| ADDED rticipants in the Vil AR Mrs, Hert Mauri th S Mr 0 CIRCUS CAST lis namy circus A r lition to the of riorm for chil- rnoon at AUTO Meriden, ACCIDENT FATAL P Wes d 49, 3 Meriden, died spital this mornir ived Saturday e skidde T Merid injuries rec his autome turned on Besides his wife he leaves children and three brothers, Frank of thig city, Stephen of New Haven, and Vincent of New Rochelle. wvhen three corner windows in the building and lin emplacerients before the house; {how the one-pounders were set up |to ward oft :ny impending attac on he might recognize in “Jerry” a lost | relative, was J. B. Callahan of Chest- I nut street, conductor on the Berlin- |New Britain dinky. Mr. Callahan stated that a nephew of his ha | never been heard from since he left home after his last furlough. | not even definitely know whether or |from shell fire. ~ He described the [Tt he got to Franco. He stated |¥ard with its stone cobbles and its R 4id not resemble his|Small pond where members of the [ nephew, however, |¥French cavalry watered their horses s Up? on their advince in back of the i “Will Not G 3 a | Characteristic of the man’s set- Ammerican troops. rem ness of purpose, is the he | made several times last night, when one clue after another was ground- | “I will not give up hope,” he s ‘Somewhere someone is wait- Someone will recognize No doughboy has and T won't be the f looked. He told of the east by stunted b ‘ies which led to the woods and into the town of Bour- esches in front of which w the first of the / .erican graves in France, started by men of the 26th division in the burial of 18 of the fallen in the first drive on July 18. His narrative carricd him out to the lines where the wheat grew to a height of four and a half to five feet; how ground sloped up- ward ; how the German lines laid [in the fringc of another woods just a few hundreds of yards aw miniature | memory contains only this picture, which must be vivid to anyone - ho had seen it during those stirring and bloody days in the first week in July, 1918, It remains with him that the headquarters of an outfit of the 26th division was lo- cated in this farmhouse, but what went before or after is gone, sometime. yet, me ever quit first on The interest New Britaln has taken in this man of mystery is cidedly unusual. The entire city in sympathy with his case, this act having been brought home at armory. 1f there is anything a nt crowd dislike s to have battles interrupted and. as a 11 rule, anyone who interrupts t to step into the ring for the wirpose of talking, no matter on what subject it may be, 1s aseured ¢ being howled down Last night things were different. 1 that their at- gt to “Jer 1 that a man was suffer- | ¢ from one of the greatest ad- 10wn to mankind, loss of y knew that “Jerry” is nd t knew that a man stood hefore them. They lim their attention and every idual Ie forward as the trying to him was a stirring minutes it was a to Am Liv- group realiz nt every They reali them, w Consider Transfusion To Save Miss Murray Miss Adele Murray, High school ntion me ties 1ory. T s " s Berlin, who lies at the St. Raphael's al in New Haven in a condition, was reported as slightly improved today. Miss Mur- regained consciousness last evening and temperature and pulse are encouraging at- A blood trans- . carrying on y hos: being tood ving, Tt eniz g improvement tending physicians. fusion Is being considered in an fort to save the popular Kensing- impressive stril tribut s own Soldier, Will Go to Washington “Jerry" will leave New ain to- lay and he will stop next at New Haven stay with member American Leglon From 1 will go to New York and then on to Washington to be present at the session of congrees | ing Unk 1ds besides immediate left for her bedside Wed y evening upon recelpt of the news that Miss Murray was sinking and since the rumor of her relapse the hospital has been be- sleged with querfes on her condition. ) wives where of t ¥ olty B will he position and how the houséd it- | It fs [scction of the roof being caved in | Held for Slugging Taxicab Driver FREEMAN CLARK funds. Now the expenses have becn | not be ascertained, engaged “Jerry” ! Clark, 19 year old negroes, of 99 the young men admitted they had intended to rob Barth and steal the taxicab, preparatory to going to New York, from which city they were | to go to Virginia to spend the win- |ter. Their arrest came about | through the quick action of Con- stable Orville Ventres of Berlin, | who gave the alarm to the New Britain and Meriden police, and the cooperation of the latter, who pick- ed up the pair on the streets and finding a revolver in Van Allen's pocket, started an investigation which cleaned up the case within three hours after the offense was In their statement to the police, | committed. WOULD CLOSE STREETS T0 PROTECT CHILDREN | | | (Continued from First Page) {able of the matter and said that |the radio would be a help to the cducation of the boys. ! the question that all the schools in | the city would want a radio set if the Nathan Hale school got one, he said that only the Centra] Junior High school would be the only one | which could request equal recogni- | tion. | Supt. Burr said he could not |radio and it was his opinion that |the radlo would not ald the boys |in any way. Committeeman LeWitt was of the opinion that the greatest education would be in the construc- |tion of a radio and that the boys ould not get much out of looking |at a finished object in front of them. | Mrs. “Effie G. Kimbai] lauded Mr. | Wessels as an efficient science |teacher who should be given a vote | of confidence since it is hard to hold a good teacher in the city. “He {must have a good reason, one that | will be beneficlal to boys,” she con- luded. The matter was left to th finance committee. Followi were the recommenda- tions of the finance committee: Bills, 64.94; authority to install a new water supply vipe fr Central Junior |High school at cost of $160; author- ity to contract for printing of school report be awarded to State Trade school; thority to improve light- ling in Nor’ nd, Rockwell, Israel {Putnam and Academic building of |senior high school. | A recommendati 1 that the ques- Ition of terms of the contract be- |tween the Siate of Connecticut and |the Consolidated School district for |the maintenance of practice schools for the State Nornal school be sub- mitted to a : ‘cial committee for {review and consideration was made |by the flnance committee and ap- | proved by the board. BEWITCHING EYES VERY POPULAR (Continued .from First Page) must cultivate most today ahead.” to get Thinks Legs Best Beryl Halley, pretty professional model, however, partly agrees that | shapely legs constitutes a woman's | greatest charm. “For the flapper type, legs count she said. *“All men love a | most, He recalled the paths, camouflaged | pretty ankle. A girl who isn’t good- | looking otherwise can have lots of | admirers by wearing dainty pumps as located | gyer silk stockinged legs and show-| | ing them.” | Aldw's Views Madame Frances Alda, famous prima donna, also a reputed p | essor of beautiful legs, acknowledg- |ed that “all women are a bit vain | about showing pretty legs,” but | pointed out that in the olden days the most fascinating beauties held | their admirers by mystery and sub- | tle charm. | “Have we any woman today show- [ing legs to her knees who is more lovely than they were?” she asked. ’Aud answering the question her- | self, she said, "I don’t think so.” | Dr. Mary Halton, physician, also fails to agree with her sister in the same profession. That Sweet Smile “A sweet smile, a mouth, a pair of soft veiled eyes, these are greater feminine attributes | than legs,” she sald. “With them a girl gets farther along in the | teacher and prominent resident of, world, even it her legs are like bar-| rels. BEGGAR 1S WEALTHY | Philadelphia, Dec. 11 (A—Kind- hearted Quakers will no longer add to an affluent whecl chair beggar wealth. Found to have a bank ac- count of $15,000, an automobile and real estate, and to be paying $4 a ay at a hotel, he was ordered out of the town by a maglstrate, TEN DEER KILLED | Worcester, Mass,, Dec. 11 (A —Ten deer were killed in Worcester county and vicinity yesterday, ac- cording to reports recelved here last | night, Answering see | any great amount of education in a | City Items A few good seats for “Maytime in Erin,” 75c to $1.50 at the Boston Store.—advt. Miss Mary J. Templeton of 25 Dwight street underwent an opera- tion for appendicitis at the New Britain General hospital yesterday. Dr. D. W. O’'Connell performed the operation and Miss Templeton was reported as resting comfortably last night. Hot Waffles, 25c, in Crowell's.— advt. Mrs. John J. Curtin of 38 Web. ster street, Hartford, formerly Miss Anna Carroll of Sexton street, New Britain, underwent an operation for appendicitis at the New Britain Gen- eral hospital yesterday morning. The operation was performed by Dr. D. W. O'Connell and Dr. Arthur J. Savard. Tasty Sandwiches at Packard Drug —advt. ‘Willlam B. Christ, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Christ of 42 Hamilton street, underwent a successful operation for appendicitis at the New Britain General hospital last night. Toasted Sandwiches at Crowell’s. —advt. The police were notifled today of the return of the operator's license of Giacoma Facca of 1010 West Main stree* Cynthia Sweets Chocolate, Salted Nuts, Soda Shoppe. Raphael Bldg. | —Adv. Charles D. Ellis of Fairview street, one of the city's best known old res idents, is critically ill with pneu- monia at his home. Dance and entertainment tonight at Odd Fellows hall. Fonandern and ‘Walter Carlson’s orchestra.—advt. A few good seats for “Maytime in Erin,” T5c to $1.50 at the Boston Store.—advt. Added Attraction—Palace Thea- ter, Monday night—Bathing Beauty Contest.—advt. POLICE DEPT. LOCATES 480 TAX DELINQUENTS HORE INTEREST N EVENING SCHOOLS J. E. ’Brien Files Report Wit Dept. of Education An increase in the enrollment of the evening school is 63 and the av- erage increase in attendance is 57, according to figures released by Americanization Director James E. O'Brien. The total number of adults attending the foreign adult class in 1925 was 6-4 with an average ate tendance of 447.6-, This year the ave erage attendance is 614 with 474.89 as an average attendance, In the elementary grades the total was 140, and 107.21 as an average last year. This year the enrollment is 807 with 611.64 as average at- tendance. The following report was made to the school board yesterday by James O'Brien, Americanization director: “I respectfully submit the report of the Amerlcanization department and the evening schools for the months of September and October. “The evening schools opened Mon= day, September 20, at the following schols: For adult foreign classes, the Washington, Nathan Hale and Cen- tral Junior high schools; for ele« mentary grades or continuation schools, the Central Junlor high school. Thirty teachers and three (principals are employad three nights each week. “The total enroliment for Septem- ber in the foreign adult classes was 614, and the average attendance was 475. The total enrollment for the continuation classes was 193 and the average attendance was 137. This is somewhat in excess of the enroll- ment and average attendance of 1925 as will be noted by the follow- ing comparative figures. “The usual methods employed in the past for recruiting pupils wers again used this year, with very few !changes. The Nathan Hale Junior High school was .ied as an evening Collector Toomis Writes Letter of 5Chool for the first time. The en- |rollment in this school is somewhat disappointing in comparison with that of the Elihu Burritt in former vears; howevc the average attend- ance of those enrolled compares very 1f;\vorably with that of former years. |The Washington school shows an in- crease in enrollment, also in average |chict and members of the depart- e et ment in the drive against delinquent | 1o in the foreign adult and ele- personal tax payers. Results this | mntars i entary classe 5 year were better {han ever, i ¥ dlaseey fo tpled L the Cen were | Mr. |tral Juni High school. Loomis writes. Social evenings are held every A total of 1119 names was turned {two weeks in each evening school. | over to the pol and payment Was |The attendance and enthusiasm and | made in 432 of these cases. Inability |gencral good results this year are !m locate 481 was reported; 9 were \very encouraging. Each evening found to be exempt because of age; school is organized on a democratic 66 were duplicates; 10 were in the |basis to co-operats with the prin- |army or navy; 60 were abates by the [cipal in charge. A ‘student council imayor and aldermen; 61 are being on activities, comprising one dele- | held with the promise to pay at a |gate from each class, meets with |later date. Thirty-two warrantseach principal to formulate and de- were served in cases where the de- |vise cntertainment features for so- linquents did not heed the warning. |cial nights. In this way much real _— |talent is discovered and the pupils :|fecl that +:ey have a real part in the program. In the Central Junior Evening school, a musician of note, Appreciation to Chief Hart For Cooperation Tax Collector Bernadotte Loomis, in a letter to Chief W. C. Hart of the police department, expresses thanks for the cooperation of the | h For the second time in succession, | there was no sesslon of police court this morning, no arrests having been { made during the night, and no cases | having: been continued. o e of a violinist, could easily grace the oncert stag as an artistic perform- r. He is a university graduate from Europe and lacks only a knowledge f the Englis = language and the cus- provocative | toms of our country. Several fine singers have also been found who freely and enthusfastically lend their talents in making these socials a success. At the Washington school an or- chestra, organized from present and former students furnishes music at their social evenings. The Nathan Hale school also has its quota of talent, talken from the student body. This school features community singing. Supervised dancing and |Woman Falls Down Stairs, Unconscious at Hospital A Mrs. Johnson living in a build- ing at the corner of Hartford avenue and Winter streets fell down stairs | while going for a hod of coal short- ‘; ly betore noon today and injured her ! head. She was taken to New Brit- { ain_General hospital in care of Dr. { N. B. Jaffe. She has a possible frac- | ture of the skull and s unconscious. Her husband is employed by the { public works department removing | sames are held in all achools, but | snow from the streets. at the Washington school in addi- | e tion to dancing and games, musical | May Really Be Hiding |cntértainment, ete.. moving pictures | S | London, Dec. 11—The mystery of | *% ShOWD, |the disappearance of the American | “During September, 41 men and | I novelist Agatha Clarissa Christie, | YOmen were given aid in filling out | was deeper today than a week ago, the necessary forms for first and sec- | when she vanished from her home in (0nd papers. In many cases letters I Sinningdals were written to steamship agencies | The police, having failed to find [to discover facts which applicants |her after an exhaustive search of |Would not recall. With the new the Surrey Downs and dragging [and varying forms now used by the {"sncm Pool” near which her motor |department, it requires from 45 |car was discovered have begun minutes to one hour to fill out com- | working on the theory that she de- |pletely, a first or second paper form, liberately staged the disappearance |depending upon the intelligence of and is hiding for reasons of her |the applicant and the availability of facts. Twenty-nine persons were given aid in immigration matters. The new immigration laws produce many complications which require advice and aid. Possibly one hun- dred persons called at the burcau secking the advice on immigration matters, of whom no record is kept, and to whom the advice may be timely and valuable, saving the ex- penditure of money in futile at- tempts to evade the laws. Prepara- tion of affidavits, letters to various departments of the government, y 3 consuls abroad, etc., are all daily oc- A great crowd hailed Major De ‘n.-x-nfmi as “on% r\f‘l‘.\n h:ro:s of ;"m'"v“ 2usther omes ot g | mericanization department. Sov- [Berctaly e '2p eral young foreigners were assisted cEREr in securing employment, and one 101!;5:}&”(0“ (_LK:"(‘I‘?‘I“F Rfi“{;\_ was given advice on a legal matter. | The. Tiew: Dr. 3. Chaunoey Tinsley, | The total registration in ail I rcctor of Trinity Episcopal church |VRINE schools, including the | here tor (he past 81 years, at a |clementary grade classes for the | mitted his resignation, effective Jan- |* |uary 1, 1027, ;fiqs!lg))tly in excess of the record of i TREATY 1S READY “In the Amerlcanization burean, | Geneva, Switzerland, Dec. 11 (#— | 46 Were given ald in naturalization, | German and Italian jurists here put |19 On immigration matters, 2 were the final touches today on the draft &lven assistance in gaining employ- of a treaty of arbitration between |Ment. and 2 were given legal advice, Germany and Ttaly. It is similar in “Respectfully submitted, form to the TItalo-Swiss treaty. JAMES E. O'BRIEN." though it does not provide for arbi tration of all possible causes of con- | filct, as does the latter pact. The questions treated in the Locarno sccurity pact, of which Ttaly like Great Britain is a guar- antor, are not embraced in the pro- posed convention, which the Ttalians characterize as a link in the length- cning chain of arbitration treaties, own. 1t this theory is correct, sho has ‘h(‘(‘l’l as successful in staging a {mystery as in the works of fiction | which brousht her tame. | RECEPTION FOR TLIER | _ Naples, Ttaly, Dec. 11 (P—Major Marlo De Bernardi, winner of the recent Schneider cup race at New- | port News, Va., and other members | of the Italian Schneider cup team, arrived here today aboard the steam ship Dullio and were given an en- thusiastic reception. MILLION DOLLAR FIRE Paterson, N. J., Dec. 11 (P—Rudy Uhlmeyer, a silk weaver, who was | pelieved lost in a million dollar silk plant fire last night, escaped from | the conflagration uninjured, it was | learned today. Uhlmeyer was one of five men employed by the Wellwood Silk Company whose plant was one of those d $75,000 FIRE IN HAVERHILL Haverhill, Mass., Dee. 11 (P—A fire of undetermined origin destroy ed the Chesley and Rugg Box f The 1o estimated at $75,000. The blaze | started on the second floor of the building fn a room where a large number of paper boxes were stored. BAR DIVORCE DETAILS London, Dec. are forbidden to publish the detalls ot divorce cases under a bill which passed its third reading in the house of commons last night and goes to | the house of lords next Monday. | tory here last night.