New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 19, 1927, Page 14

FAMILY OF SEVEN - DEAD IN TRAGEDY Utica Man, Poor and Penniless, Kills All ‘ UNNAMED WOMAN BROUGHT | INTO BIG MAIL ROBBERY |Slhl to Have Aided “Black Bear In Sensational Alaskan Fairbank Theft. , Alaska, F eb. 19 IM_ An unnamed woman, accused of hav- NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1927. HINGS HENGHHAN IN COSTLY OPERA Outlay of $13,000 for Every Performance <' | | | ling been involved with Nellie Bates eb, 19 (A—Music | squalid neighbors stood | Utica, N. Y. was stilled in a today while awed outs ment and trled to account for tragedy that snuffed out seven live In death inside the doors lay the | bodies of Guy M. Taylor, out of work, his wife and five chil- dren, vietims of a razor and bowic knife that slashed their throats. As police pieced together the mea- details of the tra the eviden and a cr g ercd from little sugar three beds, a kitchen table, down chair and a battered ben that the teamster killed his wi tamily rather than see them starve, and then took his own life. All apparently gave up without siruggle except Owen, a boy of 14. His body was found propped against one of the beds and police assumed | he s d until the knife| The other bodies a broken 1 a Police forced their way into the darkened rooms sterday after neighbors reported they missed the singing voices and the accordion to | which they had been nightly. the evenings over the keys of his ac and William tenement | Alaska inn k I robbery near Flat, de the door of a mean apart- | years ago, added another element to the American opera which had its althe trial of Miss Bates and Scher- |premiere at the Metropolitan Opera | meyer in federal court here to: m Miss Bate a teamster and Scherm taking the mail sled. ye ha terday the declared been involve Schermeye meyer, eper, in the better a follower of the gold camps for a quarter of a century, charged eyer are 000 in gold, s 1l confess against ur d. a well-known Alaska who federal ed, figure since the days of dicted with charge, | brought to t bery He testifi December 3 government at S with the m Iditarod d “Black Bear" but rial. ed th 0, 19 dog t h onthly istrict and the other guests cher- cordion while his children sang in|woman, he told the chorus to the muslc. The slayings occurred on February 11, the day the music ceased, the| coroner declded. He said that the | deed was deliberately planned. | STATE DRUM CORPS MEET Organtations From All Over State Coming To Engage in Contests Tonight At Tabs' New Hall The Y. M. T.,A. and B. soclety Drum Corps of this city will be host tonight to corps from varfous parts| ot the state in a competitive meet to be held at the new home of the| society on Main street. ¥Prizes will | be awarded for various events among which will be two for the best baton swinging and one for thy best appearing drum major. This is the first big indoor meet to be held in this state this year. "Among the corps expected to be present to take part are: Fathe Matthews, Hartford; Father M thews, Thompsonville; St. Paul’s XKensington; T. M. Russell, Middle- town; w Departure, Bristol; | Plainville Fife and Drum Corps, Plainville; Royal Typewriter, Hart- ford; Middletown Fife and Drum Corps, Middletown; St. Francis, Torrington; St. Francis, Naugatuck; Lancraft, New Haves Farmington Fife and Drum Corps, Farmington; Veterans of Foreign Wars, Bridg port; Torrington Fife and Drum Corps, Torrington; Shanley's. South- ington; Aziz Grotto, New Britain; | Silk City, South Manchester; Center! Flute Corps, South Manchester, | | | | France About to }—¥_egin | Payments on Her Debt Paris, Feb. 19 (P—Although care- fully avoiding reopening the settlement question with W ington through diplomatic channels, Pre-| mier Poincare is understood to be disposed to begin payments to the | United States under the schedule | contained in the settlement. The premier, it is said, thought that the best means of conveying an \ intimation of this intention to the American government was through | France's finaricial representative in | the United States, Rebert Lacour Gayet, rather than through the more formal channels of the forcign of- | fice. | Therefors, any arrangements of this nature to be made will handled as purely a treasury matter. | This explanation came today afl(‘r‘ the foreign office had OXPF("!‘BPIX\ surprose over a published report that a debt payment move was un- der way and had denied knowledge | of any negotiations along that line. Harvard Students Will Cambridge, Mass, Feb. 19 (UP) —Harvard students must wait un-! til Friday to tell their stories about the riot. After the prosecution had virtu- ally concluded its case lat: y District Judge Arthur P. Stone ad- journed court for one weck. Before | this action was taken, however, 13 of the 37 defendants had been iden- tified by police as participants in last Saturday's Harvard Square riot, which sent nine persons to the hos- pital. Under a court ruling. will be possible only in the defendants identified as rioters, the students are charged with turbing the peace and one, Oliver D. Ferguson of Paducah, Ky, 14 charged with assaulting twe po- licemen. convictions es of All dis- Sleeps in Jail But Works Daily; Family Gets Money Zanesville, Ohio, Feb. 19 (UF) Julius Johnson, 38, father of ter children, is carrying out an unusual sentence for non-support With the Musking is abode for t} Johnson daily trud coal company on @ m ec il 1ext sixty for ob s a Clarened ate by Sherift His lunch is pre . McFarland e collect pared Women's ve of th 1 and clo n nt society anc ociety for food 1d childre Ly ed the details of the Bennett Molor Co. Men Have Dinner at Burritt The sales force and org of the Bennett Motor a dinner ar Gy night at the in a series of m ture. Preside acted as master of c &peaches were made Horwitz and Louis W. rsonally meeting remonies by Martin Vogel. and H | ve the mail pounches, 000. FIRST DEGREE MURDER John Winters, Father of Three Chil- dren, is Jury. ‘Woodstoc | Unless the ts in his k r-old | tric chair for Cecilia Gul Whitman, After tion, a Wi yesterday Convicted By Vermont Vt., -convict m livan, 44, Mass, rly three ndsor returned ‘Black Bear as on the am driver hermeyer’s road hous accustomed | sat around the roadhouse fir The teamster usually spent |meyer went to the rear of the inn | with “Zlack Bear" hours' county a known in test Miss amed woman 8 was on the not and the unnamed ry, and containing father ler of formerly jury guilty of first degree murde tence was d to the state's highest court, automatic death crime penalty in carr| ies an Vermont. Winters was little verdiet w that town. employed b: arrested a company, was slain a& she lay on lon a sleeping porch at her home in |No date has been set for the fourth who had been Winters, v the few m will days later. been on trial more than a month. but oved by send urer ompany, He Beach Patrols Off New Jersey Asbu —Beach for I day wint mnssen, ed his m from the May The stor: northeast, of 5 Reports quarters m: ed near ing of the be | railroad ties today. Providence Lawyer Gives Himself Up to Police Philadelphia, | T. Cooney, who said he was a lawyer ‘of North Providence, R. { wanted by the last night. Leen given Hogan, 4 for investme it all excep whether for his police searchi Cooney the money ments and 1 him to b vestigat im pa th shore >ar N atrols we e worst en m, to ndicated Maine, d aw two seas, Fe Uhnm t $2 assertoc by t J. ot Superintendent M. of the fifth district, to follow all as they dtm\.\nd down the coast betw Beach Haven and from which nine men | rescued, was a tot were carrie was broken in loss. and by the Her de; was wi re Doubled | 19 () Feh, doubled orm of w. plied broke the St P The n the ed 0-year- $33, Alaska, four with trom a ! authori- Bate had been night of William Duffey, stopped near Flat | mail for |s'01'uu‘ minin, s. Was a passenger on the delibe Sen- ved pending an appeal of a couch orde vessels :n Cape and New York harbor. which |night when the wind shifted to the attained a wind miles an hour today. coastguard that asted schooner Cecil {of Rocklan velocity ves pound- ok load of |future grievances of employes will ashore old 000 New York, Feb. 19 (A — Pro- duction of “The King's Henchman,” House Monday, involved an initial as outlay of $75,000 and entails’a run- ning expense of $15,000 a perform- ance, the New York Times says to- day. While neither the Metropolitan nor Deems Taylor, writer of the score, gave out any figures, says the Times those on Broadway con- versant with such undertakings say | that the staging of a mnew work with historic scenes and costumes could not be donme for less than $30,000, and perhaps not for $50,- Two weeks of paid orchestra rehearsals would add $15,000 and the premiere another $15,000. is d that it “The King's {Henchman” rounds out the opera ibscription during at least two sons its gross receipts will not ly exceed $150,000 for ten houses sold out. The Metropolitan management said the premiere topped previous first nights at $15,604, e estimate on what the Metro- politan Opera company paid Mr. Taylor and Edna St. Vincent Mil- lay, writer of the libretto, is placed paper at $15,000 share and alike. One Broadway music publisher said that Mr. Ta lor's royalties here and in Great Britain would be greater if he had provided and sold separate for concert. BRISTOL BEATS ATLAS ify in- ob- tole 19 (UP) Vermont. supreme court alf, John Winters, § and three children, must die in the ¢ Endees Score 10 Yoint Victory Over New Haven Team In Torrid Game Played There. Miss il )w- Bristol last night ory over the New Haven for h straight win. 8 ain tonight, with the New Haven team meeting the Bristol guintet in Bristol. The Bristol quintet will claim to the it defeats the Atlas tonight regard- ss of the fact that the New Brit- n National Guards hold two victor- s out of three games played over the team. A series of five games was Lndees make a the e the him a ning of the se to be played if Bristol wins the next. meeting between the two quintets, The next contest is scheduled to be played in this city. First Gold Star Mother had Dies in Her Indiana Home | Evansville, lice Gres] Id star mother, e last night. mother of James F | first soldier in the American expedi- tionary forces killed in action in the World War. WILL Ind., Ieb. 19 CP)—-Mrs. m Dodd, Aierica's first died at her home to- Dodd was the he the up REOPEN MILLS , Feb, 19 (UP)—The Elm Textile Mills, clos- ed Jan. 26 when 172 employes went on strike, will be reopened 1 head- four- wart, which strand- ‘Thursda; were e controversy :nce vas settled at a between State Senator O. owner of the mills, n of Lowell, Mass., Textil Union, and president of the lo- nizer of th Barber, cal union. Under terms of the asts el agreement, be acted upon by a mill employes. The cause of the walkout was the refusal of a worker to pay his union dues. committee of songs te championship if s scheduled with Bristol at the begin- | n, leaving two more | ednes- | FEMININE CLOTHES ARE FOUND IN NEGRO’S TRUNK Police Still Think Coyner, Giant Grave Robber, May Also Be Murderer | ‘ Chicago, Feb. 19 UP—Discovery of | trunk laden with women's clothing | in contrast with the four human ulls found in the negro convict's | trunk in a Detroit suburb, led to re- | newed efforts today to determine | whether James M. Coyner murdered as well as robbed graves. : The second trunk was seized at| ! Boyle, Miss., where officials became | suspicious when a woman supposed to be the mother of Coyner, who is in the Indiana state prison, declined to identify herself to get the lug- gage. Inve igation disclosed an assort- ment of women’s apparel in the trunk, which had been forwarded by Coyne's sister in Chicago. It was to {her the giant convict sent a letter from the prison, telling her to get the Michigan trunk or it would be “all up with me Coyner is In prison for robbing a | grave, in Hammond, Ind, last Oc- tober, but the authorities have not satisfied themselves that he got the gruesom terics. | were women' which silence ownership of the WEST HAVEN HIGH BOYS STAGE MINIATURE RIOT As Result Their Basketball Activi- With the trunk in Michigan found numerous notations of names and address ner has maintained ¥ although acknowledging trunk tles Are Suspended For the Year FEBRUARY KEEPS TRUE T0 RECORD ESudden Snow Storm Breaks Up| Mild Spring Weather A breezy snow flurry, which had all the indlcations of a threatened blizzard struck New Britain = last | night after everybody but newspaper- | men and milkmen had gone to bed. City Items Miss Mae Lester of the Stanley | Works office, is confined to her home with an attack of grip. Indianola Council 19, 8. of P., will meet at Red Men's hall, 277 Main street, on Tuesday evening. The annual roll call will be held and a soclal period has been arranged with refreshments following the regular business meeting. Matiabese‘t Tribe, 14, I. O. R. M., {will confer the degree of adoption at its regular mecting on Monday | | evening, February 21. The Catholic Daughters Kitchen LEGISLATURE ENDS IS SEVENTH WEEK Numerous Measures Already Have Been Killed Hartford, Feb. 19 (P — The | iseventh week of the 1927 gession of this general assembly—a period of | much committee work and well at- |tended hearings—saw rejection of The fact that the snow was light, | Cabinet Revue will hold a rth(’arsullne\eral bills drawn to bring about probably is the one factor which pre- vented the usual storm blew, causing the snow to drift in places and sweeping long stretches entirely clear. A light rain had fal- len before turning to snow, and freezing on the ground, left side- s which were swept clear by the wind, in a dangerous condition. No storm damage was reported any of the public utilities compan- All New Haven trains were re- ported on time except one which was seven minutes late. The Connecti- cut Co., reported cars and busses on schedule. Telephone and electric light companies stated that they were not affected. The board of public works had no | plows out as late at 10 o'clock this morning, although it was intimated that if the storm continued it mi:]‘( be necessary to send out one or plows. § The Connecticut Co. had no plows out during the night, but sent out a ifew sweepers early this morning to keep the tracks open. The wind was not strong enough to cause any uneasiness in the office |of the Connecticut Light Co., it was | reported. | A drop in temperature caused {household stokers to put more en- | |thusiasm into the family furnaces this morning. ies. New Haven, Feb. 19 (UP) [hoys at Wost Haven High school, emulating their big brothers at Har- vard, staged a riot yesterday and to- day found themselves the remainder of the scason’s ball schedule and one student sus- pended. | How it started could not be learn- ed definitely but it was assumed the freshmen *“dared” the older boys to “come down to the lower floor and we it out” once > often. Anyway, by the time Principal Seth G. Haley was aware something wrong, 200 members of the shman and senior classes were ged in a battle royal in the hool building. Chairs, plaster and heads were dama to an unde- terniined extent. Haley, not long out of college and no mean athlete, plunged into the melee with his associates and suc- ceeded in bringing about order. The remainder of the schedule, including a g Milford last night, was summarily | cancelled and one boy suspended pending an investigation by school authorities. {Former Arizona Cattle Rancher Weds in Paris Paris, Ieb. 19 (P—Frederi Almy, former Arizona cattleman, quietly married in Paris yester- day to June Katbleen Helen Dibble ot London, who is understood to have been employed in Paris as a mannequin. ! M Almy's first wife, the Dowager | | Baroness Michalham of Ingland, (hml in Paris, January 1. She was | the widow of the first Baron Mi rh‘,M‘ ham, who left an estate imated at ! $100,000,000, She was m Mr. Almy at Clearwater, Fl; ruary ny, who is 3 is the son of | the late Frederick Almy of Cedar- | hurs Y. His bride is 23. They | left immediately for a honeymoon | trip, the itinerary of which was kept sceret, i MRS. LORCH GIVEN DIVORCE A divorce on grounds of desertion | was granted by Judge Newell Jen- | nings in the superior court yesterday | to Elizabeth Shook Lorch of this jcity from Fred Lorch. James A. Currey was counsel for the petition- ler. | | The | {the contr Agreement Reached in | Suit for Compensation ! An award by stipulation has been made by Compensation Commissioner Leo L. Noonan in the action of jMichael Goggin of Philadelphia against the Standard Steel and Bear- ings Co., of Plainville. The claim- ant and the defendant agreed to such an award, this motion being carried out by the commission in | view of the medlcal and technical questions involved in the case, The claimant set forth that he be- | gan work for the Plainville concern | in 1924, when a group of workmen from the Philadelphia plant was brought to Plainville, As a result of | his employment he claimed that he received grinders' tuberculosis, which later developed into pulmonary tu- berculos He further claimed th: ct for his employment was made in this state. The defendant ciaimed that mno | contract was made in Connecticut, but that it wa «d into in Penn- | sylvania and the defendant further | med that his incapacity did not it from his employment and he had oniy the latter disease mentioned above. Israel iir presented the case for claimant, who is In an institution in Philadelphia, S. P. Waskowitz rep- resenting the American Mutual Lia- bility Campton, Co., Danigl inconven- | iences. At times a fairly strong wind | {tomorrow afternoon at: 2 St. Peter's church. A son was born yesterday to Mr, and o'clock at | Mrs. Herman Alder of street, at Mt. ford. A delegation of New Britain Dar mouth graduates attended the m ing of the Hartford Dartmouth club last evening. The monthly mne!lng lin this city was dispensed with. Miss Rose Sw secretary in the office of Nair & Nair, local at-| torneys, is spending the week-end | in New York city. A son was born last night at the| Hartford hospital to Mr. amuel N. Kennedy of 131 et. Miss Sophia Maple street end in New Yol Sinal hospital, Maple st Koplowitz of 156 spending the week- | (‘H)' MARRIED WOMEN ARE MORE NERVOUS Suiier More From This Tha ‘ Single Sisters | Denver, Col, Feh. 19 (UP)— Single women have much steadi nerves than their married sisters, if the case records of the occupational therapy department at the Colorado sychopathic hospital are any ecri- terion, | The married man, however, has | little more mental trouble than the | bachelor, the records further reveal. | Hospital attendance figures show ithat only $6 single women are treat- ed for “nerves” for every 13§ mar- |ried women sufering from similar | malaates. ax> enrolled, 1o the hospital with like complaints. The notion that the farmer fis I more liable to mental trouble than | city folk is given a blow by the di covery that 208 of the men and only 6 men and 57 women | from the countr came ' Automobile Collision Case Settled 50-50 | Finding that an accident in which they were involved was unavoidable, Judge Arthur L. Howard of the court of common pleas has awarded | ski, both of this city. The accident occurred on Mareh | H1 when a milk wagon owned 40 Talcott ! Hart- | and Mrs. | uj And where 110 single men | 135 married men come |vantage gained by a Friday sesston | | radical changes in present laws. On | three bills to amend marriage laws, each being rejected on untavorable reports, the shatpest criticism came from Representative Epaphroditus | Peck of Bristol who is an authority ! on eccleslastical law in the congres- sional denomination. Last session Mr. Peck himselt submitted a proposed revision of the [marriage law of the state aimed | chiefly to eliminate any possible | Gretna Green conditions but his bill 1} was not accepted. The bills rejected | | this week aimed in the opinion of | I M rather than to strengthen them. He ig supporting a bill which would re- ; | quire an elapse of five days between the application and the granting of a marriage license. No advocate could be found to up- [hold the idea of Mayor Phillips of ! stamtord that restoration of a whip- ping post would provide a means of | punishment ot wife beaters. Ho him- | self failed to appear for the bill in |its committee state and when the unfavorable report was in the house, ‘onc male member was brave enough | to suggest that under equal right | theory the measure should have been | drawn to cope with “husband beat- ers.” In the old days of New Haven 'cclony the whipping post and stocks |for punishment of malefactors of | those days were on New Haven green | close by the church over which John {Davenport was the minister. Senate Lead : Shaw, seconded by House Leader Averill again had a Friday session in support of the Itheory advanced by them that more work can be accomplished by Fri- day sessions early in the year than when the farmer members are busy with their spring work. | Friday sesslon days in February jand March have rarely been main- tained and the only way business was |done was through tacit understand- ing that only non-controversial mat- ters should be acted upon. The ad- |15 in procedure for a day is gained on | the calendar on which committee re- ports are entered. Some times best laid plans for e riday session go astray. Yesterday | at | Of the women were city cases where | the legislative train from the eouthl was 45 minutes late and Senator Shaw and Speaker Hill were on it, 80 | nelther branch could be opened on |time. Both chaplains were in the |group of belated members. Of all committee reports acted up- | ithat sponsored by Mr. Durant, Guil- ford, to revoke charter rights given {to the New Haven Water company air of the firm of Nalr & | costs to cach party in the case of [to build a huge reservoir in North the Harry Karp against Frank Grabow- Branford and Guilford. Mr. Durant | | lost his fight, but many members Te- called the contest last se \Llle bill granting the company rights | repre- by the rl"f\ ndant and an automobile | to build its reservoir and could not senting the Actna Life Insurance Co., 'owned by the plaintiff were in col- \clcarly understand what was behind and Attorney Maercklin, represent- ing the New Yotk Indemnity Co. surers of the defendant, for the Standard Steel Co. appeared |Bankers Return From New York Convention Harry H. Howard and ¥. W. Ma comb of the New Britain Trust Co., C. L. Sheldon and Hatsing of the New Britain National bank and J. C. Loomis of the Com- mercial Trust Co. have returned from attending the mid-winter con- | ference of the trust division of the American Bankers' association held at the Waldorf Astoria, New York [ on Wednesday, Thursday and ¥ ay. F. S. Chamberlain also at- tended the dinner Thursday night which was held in the baill room of the Waldorf Astoria with 1,600 bankers present. Harry W. | lision at the intersection | plaintift sued for $200 damages. In 'his findings, Judge Howard stated that the defendant was negligent in | cutting the corner, but he set forth that it did not contribute to the col- lision. The plaintiff was represented by Hungerford & Saxe, while Cyril Gaft- iney appeared for the defendant. SORORITY HOLDS TEA The Sigma Pi Epsilon Sorority | held a tea at the Manor Inn last |Sunday in honor of Miss Lilllan | Brown and Miss Kate Finklesteln. | Both girls recently became full |fledged members of the afoiresaid sorority, The committee in charge consisted lof the Misses Julia Levin, Carol | Prushonsky, and Jean Gourson. 19 (®—John I, and police of that ¢ Te“ Tllell‘ Tale Fl‘lda) :wxrrr’ndrrv d to the authoritics here Wi , told | and that he did not know | een jssued Two Night Burglar Two by was Boston in Grip of Bad Storm 'lhh ETAI PRICES the On Main Ht I{el)ulted Morning VOLINT Storm-swollen rivers, which spread death and disaster throu gh many sections of California, caused this spectacular wreck | Treasury Balance when flood waters swept away the| of the erack Los Angeles limit bridge, crashing the train into the river. ed to Chicago It was crossing Several lives were (Copy a bridge near Pico, Cal., lost and many were mJured Train Wreck in California Flood Disaster! right, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) in- Main and North Burritt streets. The | except a claim that promises had not been kept. The senate accepted the ladverse report without waste of | time in discussion. For the week the house led tho nate in adoption of bills, 34 to 20. Favorable reports were between 25 and 30, the house rejected 21 and the senate seven bills. i In committee hearings on |bills to validate licenses of eclectic physicians who had been stopped from practicing by the state de-| {partment of health brought a fore- lcast that this session will not be| any more favorably disposed to- ward giving these particular phy- |sicians relief than did the last |sesston. The committee indicated {that unfavorable reports might be {ejected. Action on the entire situa- |tion affecting eclectics, however, is not expected until later in the ses- sion. Next Wednesday tom Goévernor and Mrs. Trumbull | will receive members and their |wives and families at the state li- brary. The legislature will meet on Washington's birthday. No Further Clean-Up in New York Within 48 Hus. New York, Feb. 19 (UP) — The theatrical “clean-up” situation in | New York today had reached the un- usual phase wherein no court action of any kind was scheduled for 48 hours. “Sex” and “The Virgin Man” two lof the plays frowned upon by the district attorney's office, were con- tinuing their performances under temporary Injunctions and the other, The Captive,” was to be resumed hen and if” it reaches a clean bill of health in the courts. Arguments on motions to transfer [trial of “Sex” and “The Virgin Man" from special sessions to general ses |sions, where a jury may be had in case indlctments are handed up, will be heard Monday. Trial of Percy Shostac, stage man- ager of “The Captive” will be held on Feb. 28 to test the defense's con- | tention that the play does not “tend [to corrupt the morals of youth or | others.” Arthur Garfield Hays, attorney for |*“The Captive,” called it “the Scopes case of New York.” “We laugh at the people of Ten- following cus- in ignorance, yet we are doing the same thing in this affair,” he sald. ARRESTED AT DANCE Stamford, Feb. 19 (A — Ercole | Tamburri, 25, was arrested at a dance hall last night on a charge lof burglary. It is alleged he broke |into an apartment occupied by Mrs. Jumes Lawrence yesterday after- noon. Jewelry and other goods |sald to have been stolen were found in his possession |READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR YOUR WANTS TREASURY BALANCE $160,004,469 Boston $59,000,000; Balances $44,000,000, r. Peck,"to weaken existing laws, | on the interest was most keen in| ion oxer | 18| nessee for trying to keep the public| MEN'S CLUB T0 HEAR ABOUT “THE GOSPEL IN INDIA” Rev. Dr. Rockwell Harmon Potter 'Will Speak at First Church * Supper Wednesday. The Men's club of the First Con- gregational church will have as their speaker at their supper meeting, February 23, Rev. Rockwell Harmon Potter, D. D., of Hartford, who will speak on “The Gospel in India.” The supper begins at 6:30. Dr. Potter is president of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Dr. Potter is the pastor of the | Center Congregational church of Hartford, and president of the Con- necticut Bible society. He is also a director of Hartford Seminary Foun- dation, and a trustee of Mt. Holyoke college. From 1923 to 1925 he acted as moderator of the National Coun- cil of Congregational churches. As an author Dr. Potter is Lest known by his book, ‘“The Common Faith of Common Men.” Last year, in his of- ficial capacity as president of the American Board of Foreign Missions, Dr. Potter was a member of a depu- tation which visited India and Cey- i lon. This commission made a thor- ough study of these two countries and the work of the board conduct- jed in them. The American Board of Foreign Missions is the oldest for- eign missionary society in America, and carries on educational, social and religlous work in Africa, India, Ceylon, Japan, the Philippines, Mex- ico, Spain, Micronesia, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia. 'NINTH ANNIVERSERY OF INDEPENDENT LITHUANIA Program in Observance of Event to Be Held in This City Tomorrow. | The Lithuanians will celebrate the ninth anniversary of Lithuanian In- dependence in Lithuanian hall, 354 Park street, tomorrow afternoon. Speakers will be Dr. M. J. Vinikis, of New York; Rev. E. V. Grikis and several others. John J. Gerdis will | preside. The Republic of Lithuania proclaimed its independence on Feb- iruary 16, 1918, and established a democratic form of government. {Japan’s Acceptance of Coolidge Plan Cabled Tokyo, Feb. 19 (A—Japan's ac- ceptance of President Coolidge’s arms limitation conference propo- sal was cabled to .Ambassador Matsudiara in Washington tonight for transmission to Secretary Kel- logg. The message may be sub- mitted to the American state de- partment today although the for- cign office announced it would not be made public here until tomor- |row evening. It was understood the randum covers approximately two | typewritten pages, accepting the invitation unconditionally, leaving ratio and other technical details for the conference itself, and ex- pressing hope for a successful out- come in line with comment in of- |ficial circles here since the pro- memo- ot West |the effort to withdraw those righ(swpoml was made public. The memorandum was handed to American Ambassador MacVeagh just before transmission to Wash- | ington. Bold Mail Bandits Rob Train on Italian Road Milan, Feb. 19 (UP) — Search { through all Italy was under way to- day for a band of thieves who sacked a mail car on the Turin-to-Milan |tr1!n just outside of Brindisi, in one of the boldest train robberies of re- H‘t'm times, and escaped with money and valuables estimated at several million lire. Forcing their way into the mail car, the thieves ripped open 27 sacks piled there, stripping them clean of their contents, chiefly money and valuables. The robbers worked quiet- ly and skillfully, but in their haste overlooked a sack containing $10,000 shipped to the Orfent by a London bank. California Train Bandit Gets Away With $7 Loot San ‘Francisco, Feb. 19 UP) — A masked robber last night held up passengers in the tourist sleeper of the Ocean Shore express which left here at 9 o'clock for Los Angeles, and robbed two men of a total of $7. He forced a brakeman to signal for a stop and leaped from the train an:! escaped as the train neared Bay Shore. FORECLOSURE ACTION An action in foreclosure has becu brought by Alcide J. Dery and Jos- eph Parys, through Attorney Donald vy, against Simon and Ros: | Koplowitz. The plaintiffs claim that a sum of money is due them for work done on a house owned by the defendants. They claim a foreclos- ure of property on Stratford road and damages of $1,000. The writ is returnable in the city court the first Monday of March and Con- | stable Frank Clynes served the pa- pers. TENTIMONIAL DINNER New Haven, Feb. 19 (@ — A testimonial dinner was given lasi, night by the officers of the Second company, Governor's Footguard, to thelr new commandant, Major Pierrepont B. Foster, Major Foster was elected last summer to succeed Major Edwin A. Judge. Captain Robert O. Eaton, princi- pal speaker at the dinner, declared that it “ministers gave more atten- tion to matters directly concerning them and less to advocating pacl- fism they would be the bencfit to society they are intended to be. Among the other speakers wel Captain Samuel E. Hoyt, C(\p(mn George E. Woodruft of Litchfiel Captain Daniel Strickland, Major Judge, Major J. B. Kennedy, Major Bdwin M. Clark and Major Foster. ALD., JUDD TO OPEN FAIR Alderman Willlam H. Judd will officiate at the opening of the Tabs Fair tonight in the absence of Mayor Gardner C. Weld, whose illness wil! keep him from attending the event.