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1 BANKS SHOW INCREASE OF SHARE VALUATION Tax Commissioner Corbin 4n Issues State Banking Statement. Three of Hartford's national banks have increased in their share valuation this year. The First National Bank has increased from $190 to $200, Hartford- Aetna National from $205 to $210, and the National Exchange Bank from $220 to $225. These figures appear in the statement the values for the purpose of taxation as of October 1, 1917, of the capital stock of banks, banking associations, trust, Insurance and investment companies fixed by the board of equalization, made public yesterday by Tax Commissioner William H. Corbin.

Most of the insurance companies of the state, however, show a falling off of the share valuation. A notable exception is the Hartford Life Insurance Company, which shows en increase of $15. Last year it was $100, and this year it was $115. Five companies remain the same, the Aetna Accident Liability Company, the Aetna Indemnity Company, the Connecticut Fire Insurance Company, Orient Insurance Company and the Travelers Indemnity Company. The full statement of the share valuation for all the towns of the state, with the figures for this year and last, as prepared by the tax commissioner are as Banking Associations, Ansonia.

1916. 1917. Ansonia National Bank $85 90 Bethel. Bethel National 105 Bridgeport. City National Bank.

230 230 Conn. National 225 230 First- Bridgeport Nat. 192 195 Bristol. Bristol National Bank .....215 225 Canaan. National Bank ....100 100 Clinton.

Clinton National Bank ....115 Danbury. City National Bank ..118 118 Danbury National Bank ...150 145 Danielson. Windham County Nat. 180 Deep River. Deep River Bank.

118 118 National, Birmingham Nat. Bank ...170 175 East Haddam, National Bk. of New 105 Essex. Essex National Bank ......100 105 Falls Village. National Iron Bank ......100 102 Greenwich.

Greenwich Nat. Bank .....150 140 Hartford. Colonial National Bank ...110 110 First National Bank .90 200 Hartford-Aetna Nat. Bank. 205 210 National Exchange Bank 87 Phoenix National Bank ...220 225 Litchfeld.

First National Bank ......120 120 Meriden. First National 255 250 Home National Bank ..125 125 Meriden National 1 Bank ..117 120 Middletown. Central National Bank 85 85 First National Bank 92 92 Middlesex County Nat. 30 10 Middletown Nat. Bank 105 105 Mystic, Mystic River Nat.

Bank 85 87 Naugatuck. Naugatuck National 260 New Britain, New Britain National Bank. 180 195 New Canaan. First National 103 New Haven. First National Bank ..182 185 Merchants National 15 National Tradesmen 205 New Haven Bank (N.

B. 208 208 Second National 195 Yale National ...165 180 New London. National Bank of ...195 195 National Whaling 82 82 New London City Nat. 148 New Milford. First National Bank ......122 122 Norwalk.

Central National Bank ....105 95 Fairfield Co. Nat. Bank. .125 125 National Bank of Norwalk. 113 113 Norwich.

First National Bank (In hands of 5 Merchants National 110 Thames National Bank. ..160 153 Uncas National Bank .105 103 Plainfield. First National Bank .......105 103 Portland. First National Bank ......110 120 Putnam. First National Bank ......150 160 Ridgefleld.

First National Bank .......200 210 Rockville. First National Bank ..105 107 Rockville National Bank ...117 117 South Norwalk, City National Bank ...183 183 Stafford Springs, -First National Bank ......203 210 Stamford. First National Bank ...190 185 Stamford National Bank ..135 135 Stonington. First National Bank ......105 105 Suffield. First National Bank, .......200 200 Thomaston.

Thomaston National 113 Torrington. Brooks National Bank ....192 Torrington National 150. Wallingford. First National Bank ......133 133 Waterbury. Citizens National Bank ....145 145 Manufacturers Nat.

180 Waterbury National Bank. 80 80 Willimantic. Windham National Bank. 200 210 Winsted. First National Bank ...105 105 Hurlburt National 175 Trust and Investment Companies.

Branford. Branford Trust Co. .......110 125 3 Bridgeport. American Bank Trust Co. 120 130 Bridgeport Land Title Co.

125 130 Bridgeport Morris Plan Co. 100 100 Bridgeport Trust Co. 165 180 Watson Tr. Co. (part paid).

15 15 Bristol. Bristol Trust Co. ..172 185 Chester. Chester Trust Co. .105 115 Collinsville.

Canton Trust Co. (in hands of receiver) 25 Danielson, Danielson Trust. Co. .115 120 Killingly Trust Co. 105 Darien.

Home Bank Trust Co. 65 65 Derby, Home Trust Co. ..140 145 East Hampton. East Hampton Bk. Tr.

Co. 95 95 Greenwich, Greenwich Trust Co. ......140 125 Guilford. Guilford Trust Co. 135 135 Hartford.

Amer. Ind. Bk. Tr. 195 City Bank Trust Co.

..130 135 Conn. Tr. Safe Dep. 430 Fidelity Trust Co. 300 Hartford Exchange (part paid) 10 10 Hartford Morris Plan 100 Hartford Trust Co.

Riverside Trust Co. Security Tru-t Co. 300 340 State Bank Trust Co. ...310 365 Travelers Bk. Trust 120 Lakeville.

Robbing Burrall Tr. Co. ..133 130 Meriden, Meriden Tr. S. Dep.

165 Puritan Trust Co. 83 85 Middletown. Jackson Company 50 50 Middlesex Banking Co. tin hands of receiver) Middletown Trust Co. iii Milford.

Milford Trust Co. .......150 175 Naugatuck. Salem Trust Co. ....110 110 New Britain. Commercial Trust Co.

....130 130 New Britain 25 20 New Britain Trust Co. 230 240 New Haven. American Bk. Trust 100 Broadway Bank Tr. 115 Citizens Trust Co.

(part paid) 5 5 New Haven Banking Co. (part paid) N. Haven Morris Plan 110 Peoples Bank Trust 120 Union New Haven T. 220 New London, Connecticut Securities 100 Union Bank Trust Co. ..130 130 Norwalk.

Peoples Trust Co. ....100 102, Norwich. Thames Loan Trust Co. (in hands of receiver) Plainville. Plainville Trust Co.

70 70 Putnam. Jefferson Trust Co. .......120 120 Seymour. Seymour Trust Co. .......125 135 Shelton, Shelton Bank Trust 120 Simsbury.

Simsbury Bank Trust Co. 60 60 Southington. Southington Bk. Tr. 115 South Manchester.

Manchester Trust Co. .....135 140 South Norwalk. South Norwalk Trust Co. 80 85 Southport. Southport Trust Co.

......117 115 Stamford. Fidelity Title Trust 160 Stamford Trust Co. 195 1 190 Stamford Morris Plan 110 Stratford. Stratford Trust Co. .......120 120 Thompsonville.

Thompsonville Trust Co. ..110 110 Wallingford, Wallingford Trust 95 951 Waterbury. Colonial Trust Co. ..210 220 Merchant Trust Co. ...120 150 Waterbury Morris Plan Co.

(part paid) 50 100 Waterbury Trust Co. .....108 115 Watertown, Watertown Trust Co. .....108 108 West Haven. Orange Bank Trust 115 Westport Bk. 150 Willimantie.

Willimantic Trust Co. .....112 116 Windsor, Windsor Tr. Safe Dep. Co. 35 40 Windsor Locks.

Windsor Locks T. S. D. Co. 35 35 Winsted.

Winsted Trust Co. (part, paid) 20 20 Insurance Companies. Hartford. Aetna Acc. Liability 450 Aetna Ind.

Co. (part 0 Insurance Co. .385 360 Aetna Life Insurance 625 Automobile Ins. Co. ...200 200 Conn.

Fire Insur. Co. .250 250 Conn. Gen. Life Insur.

600 First Re-Insurance Co. ...180 170 Hartford Acc. Ind. 140 Hartford Fire Insur. Co.

..783 670 Hartford Life Insur. Co. ..100 115 Hartford Steam Boiler Insp. Insurance 375 360 National Fire Insur. Co.

..375 315 Orient Insur. Co. .200 200 Phoenix Insur. Co. 385 57 350 40 Standard Fire Insur.

Co. Travelers Indemnity Co. ..175 175 Travelers Insur. Co. 790 640 New linven.

Security Insur. Co. 35 35 WOOD-CHOPPERS HAVE BULLY TIME Old Lyme Has Novel Way of Saving Fuel- Other Towns to Follow. (Special to The Courant.) Old Lyme, Dec. 27.

Fifty cords of wood was chopped, sawed into stove lengths and pi.ed up today by clergymen, town officials, schoolmasters, doctors, laborers and mill workers in the first official town wood-chopping day ever held in the state. Nearly 100 men swung axes and pulled on cross-cut saws, and many a tired back is aching here tonight as a result. The stunt was tried on the wood lot of Samuel W. Tooker at Stone House ledge. Each cutter will receive $2.50 for his work, and hot coffee was provided spur the men on to earning their money, The wood will be sold at cost to the townspeople.

The stunt was tried for the purpose of combatting the fuel cost. Governor Marcus H. Holcomb was invited to attend, but could not. do so, and deputized Judge Walter Noyes as his representative. It is expected that other chopping days will be held in other towns in the state.

State Forester Walter O. Filey New Haven superintended the cutting. WILLING TO NEGOTIATE WITH ALL ENEMIES London, Dec. Amsterdam correspondent says that Count Czernin, in concluding his address dealing with economic questions, are ready to enter into negotiations with all our enemies, but, in order to avoid unnecessary loss of time, the allies (teutonic) are ready to enter into the consideration of those specific points the examination of which seems in any case necessary for both the Russian government and the allies (teutonic)." British Ship Wrecked. London, Dec.

-The British steamer City of Nagpur has been wrecked in Delagoa Bay, Portuguese East Africa, according to a dispatch to the Times from Lisbon. The passengers, numbering 259, were saved, as was the cargo. Bulgaria for Annexations. Amsterdam, Dec. ideas of King Ferdinand of Bulgaria about annexations are very different from those exponded by Count Czernin, the A Austro-Hungarian foreign minister, at Brest Litovsk.

The "Neue Freie Presse" (Vienna) quotes him as saying that Bulgaria would hold what she had won. THE HARTFORD DAILY COURANT: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1917. BERLIN PAPERS CONSIDER PEACE TERMS IMPORTANT Point Out That Central Powers Are Free of All Lust of Conquest. Amsterdam, Dec. 27.

-The Berlin papers dilate on the importance of the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations. The "Vossische Zeitung" result so far is an agreement in principle on those questions calculated to form the outlines of a future peace. It is of the greatest importance that this fact be noted by the Russian negotiators themselves. The most democratic government in the world has thereby given testimony that the central powers' peace policy is entirely free of all lust of conquest, all striving after violence." The "Tageblatt" says: "Even now it is a question whether those who are ready for peace will overthrow the wall erected and continually strengthened by Chauvinists. Meanwhile, nothing can so contribute to shake the wall of arms as this new public diplomacy." The "Vorwaerts" says: "The German government will have seriously to consider whether further negotiations are possible on the basis of the Russia program, with due regard to the preservation of the vital interests of the people.

The Russian peace program is framed in such theoretical and abstract terms that a number of concrete points in the contention cannot at once be decided." Austrians Profess Sincerity. Amsterdam, Dec. tenor of the Austrian comment on the Brest-Litovsk negotiations is that the entente powers have no longer any excuse for the continued flourishing of the sword and that nobody can deny the sincerity of the central powers' desire for peace. The (Vienna) says that it now depends entirely upon the western powers whether humanity is freed from the evils of the world war. The "Neue Freie Presse" (Vienna) declares that all pretexts for prolonging the war have become untenable, adding: outline of peace by agreement formulated at BrestLitovsk constitutes a golden bridge for the entente." Generalities, Says "Paris Temps." Paris, Dec.

"Temps" appends to the text of reply of the central powers to the maximalist delegates this conditions formulated by the central powers are the domain of generalities and one is somewhat surprised that the maximalists have not sought to obtain immediately more or less exact declarations upon the points which touch Prussian interests closely. How does the German government and its allies intend to treat Poland, Lithuania and Courland, countries which have not 'lost their political independence during this but which have, nevertheless. the right to independence? "How is renunciation of all 'appropriation by force' to be reconciled with the ambitions distinctly affirmed by Bulgaria to Serbian. Greek and Rumanian territories? How will the restoration of Armen a to the Turks be compatible with the rights of the Armenians? "It would be all the more interesting to know these points, as thereby the sincerity of Germany's intention to restore Belgium's independence could be AIR BATTLE ON ITALIAN FRONT (Continued from Page 1) made officially today by the Italian war office. The statement the whole front there were only artillery actions, which were more intense on the Asiago plateau, where our batteries made effective concentrations of fire and kept under their barrage several sections of the enemy lines.

"A big aerial battle, in which British and Italian chasing squadrons and anti-aircraft artillery participated, was fought yesterday over Treviso. In the morning twenty-five enemy machines under cover of the haze arrived over our aviation camp to the west of the city and began to bombard it. The hostile aircraft were received with a violent antiaircraft fire and, attacked impetuously by airplanes which ascended from the camp, were forced to retire before having carried out operation. Eight of the enemy machines were brought down. "Later, another hostile squadron of eight machines made an attempt again, but was driven over Monte Belluno and forced to retire, losing machines.

three, the eleven enemy airplanes brought down, eight fell inside our lines and three within the enemy lines. All- our machines returned to their base. The damage caused by the bombardment was insignificant." RED CROSS FUND MOUNTING DAILY Expected to Touch 57,000 Mark By Tonight--Gained More Than 1,000 Yesterday. The Red Cross membership drive has not abated, as proven by the addition of more than 1,000 members yesterday, bringing the grand total last evening to 56,663 members, and $41,419 turned in. It is expected by Colonel Louis R.

Cheney, chairman of the local district committee the membership campaign, that the 000 mark will be touched by tonight, and he would not be greatly surprised if Hartford's final mark is 60,000 members. Mrs. E. W. Stickie turned in seventy subscriptions that she alone got from members of the Order of the Eastern Star.

Dr. W. N. Thompsuperintendent of the Hartford Retreat, turned in more tore fifty memberships. New towns that reported yesterday Brook 500 Windsor 1,200 Windsor Locks 1,200 Rocky Hill 172 East Granby 133 COAL INQUIRY TO BE LIMITED (Continued from Page 1) fall when operators turned to their contracts there were no facilities for delivery.

Prices set by President were high, the commissioner testified, but not nearly so high as those in most contracts and much lower than that sold without contract. Existing contracts in most instances have been allowed to stand, hence much coal being sold at prices higher than those fixed by the President, The committee will take up sugar again tomogrow morning with Food Administrator Hoover testifying. The statement which he tried to get before the committee last week already has been made public at the White House, but it is expected he will be questioned during the entire day. Other sugar witnesses may be called for Saturday, but the committee has no definite plans beyond Friday." PROMINENT JEWS EXECUTED BY TURKS Atrocities Committed By Army Driven Out of Jerusalem. New York, Dec.

Jewish men and women executed by the Turkish army surrendered were, Jerusalem to General Allenby, December 10, according to an announcement made here today by the provisional executive committee for general Zionist affairs Included in the number massacred were some of the most prominent residents of the Holy City and its suburbs, it was stated. A father and sister of Aaron Aaronsohn, head of the Palestine agricultural experiment station. which is subsidized Ly the Cuite I States department of agriculture. were among the victims of the atrocity, according to the annonncement. Mr.

Aaronsohn is now in Washington. The retreat of the Turks through Galilee drove 12,000 Jewish survivors northward where they in dire need. The cominittee has undertaken to furnish a minimum of 000 monthly for their rel ct, it was stated. GERMAN PLOTTERS ARRESTED IN BRAZIL Alleged Attempt to Overthrow Authority in South. Buenos Aires, Dec.

-Dispatches received here from Florianopolis, Brazil, say that a large number of German conspirators have been arrested following the discovery of a plot to overthrow the local authorities. All the Germans were armed. They had been meeting at various times under the pretext that they were members of a German society. Florianopolis is on the coast of southern Brazil in the state of Santa Catharina. The town has a population of 20.000.

WEST HARTFORD. D. A. R. Meeting Today -Spencer in Motor Truck Regiment.

The regular monthly meeting of the Sarah Whitman Hooker Chapter, D. A. will be held in Webster Hall this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The ladies in charge. of the program are Mrs.

I Charles A. Griswold. Mrs. Clarence F. Catlin, Mrs.

Frank Strong, Miss Mary Ellsworth and Miss Lucy Marsh. Miss Ruth Williams will play the violin, accompanied by Mrs. Harold Moulton. Word has been received from Captain Walter B. Spencer that he has been assigned to the new motor truck company attached to the signal corps and that he has been transferred from Leon Springs to Camp Hancock, Augusta, Ga.

This contingent has received orders to for foreign service. Walter Fuller Spencer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis H. Spencer of Springfield, Mass, and grandson of Mrs.

George F. Spencer of No. 1.043 Farmington avenue, leaves New Year's Day for Toronto, Canada, where he will join the Royal Aviation Corps. He left Colgate College before the last term closed, but will receive his diploma and degree. He on lacked ten hours of work as far as completing his schooling was concerned.

The Christmas cantata en-! titled Strike of the Toymakers" will be, held at the Congregational Church tonight at 7:30 Those who are to take part in the performance are as W. E. Shaffner L'eutenant H. Woodward Grumbler H. Barrows Jumping Jack.

Johnson Noah's Ernest Brigham Tin Wolcott Bissell Picture Book. Emily Case Wax Katherine Marvel Little Vaughn Houston, Littie Red Riding Hood. Virginia Thomson Babes in the Wood, Pomeroy Thomson, Shirley Brigham The Father and Mother. Mabel and Raymond Ellsworth Toy Makers Beatrice Darling, Edith Darling, Helen Evans, Barbara Forbes. Eleanor Johnson, Raymond Wright and John Wright, jr.

Strikers--Katherine Barker, Mar on Gridley, Esther Hitch, Alice Janes, Joseph Marvel, Francis Nearing, Margaret Wright. Food Committee Meeting. An important meeting of the full committee of food supply will be held Thursday, January 3. at 2 o'clock in the afternoon at the rooms of the State Council of Defense in the Capitol. Reports on a number of subjects will' be read and plans will be made for next year respecting all the activities of the committee.

It is probable that vegetable and fruit growers and others will be represented and that reports by subcommittees of rye, wheat, military and agricultural camps, livestock and 1 other departments will be submitted. Man With Revolver Held. Paul Michael, an Austrian, was arrested late last night by Sergeant Albert Thomas and Policeman J. M. Downey, charged with carrying concealed weapons, after the policemen found the man on the East Side with a loaded revolver in his possession.

The man nad on the street since late in the afternoon and the police believe that he was waiting for someone. He had trouble with another man Wednesday evening, the police say. MOSTLY SCENERY TO 'MARY'S ANKLE' Play Rather Good In Spots But Absence of Original Players Is Felt. "Mary's Ankle," which was first seen in New Haven--where many, many have been seen, attached to members of the merry, merry chorus whose visits to that important university burg mark, in some cases, the only bright spots in the long ucational years that some youths are doomed spend there--well, "Mary's Ankle," May Tully's threeact farce, which first saw the light in New Haven some months ago, is now playing an engagement at the Parsons's Theater. The "original New York production" has been mentioned in connection with the play's visit bere, and it is true that the original New York scenery is used; but of the players who made the New York run of the piece possible not one remains for "the provinces" of which, gentle reader, Hartford is one.

No. Not one of those clever original people is left. And the play needs their services. The present company is made up of players who do their best in their respective characters but somehow do not seem to carry distinction in their work and the performance of the play aN 3 whole is forced rather than forceful. And some of the comic situations are not done with the sure touch-and-9o methods of skilled players Winifred St, Clair in her portrayal of Mary with the ankle is at her best in the scene where she believes the young doctor's uncle is crazy, and Roxanne Lands plays the whitehaired but charming aunt very pleasantly indeed.

The three young men play fairly well together and Emma Weale's picture of the landlady who is blessed with all the diseases one of the doctor's medical books has some comic values. three chums who had but no "Mary's Ankle' tells braille about money, and one of their plans to get some money from the young doctor's scandalously rich relatives was to send out. wedding invitations so that presents might be sent in. Presents. in the the young men, being perfectly good property to pawn.

The invitations bring in some presents-but most of them are in the form of uffy things for the bride, which do not seem very valuable for pawning purposes. Then the young woman named Smith, was named in the invitations, shows up at the doctor's office. and the doctor's uncle comes to take newlymarried couple Bermuda--and you have the farce situation. The story is pleasantly worked out but is no more convincing than are the stories of most farces: possibly it is a little less convincing than most, matter of fact. There some funny lines--and there are some others that might as well not be introduced.

Last evening's seemed only fairly interested in the play as a whole. This evening and twict tomorrow "Mary's Ankle" will be seen at the Parsons Theater. MEXICAN RAIDERS KILLED BY CAVALRY (Continued from Page 1) by the Brite's ranch raiders about seven miles from El omodor at 11 a. m. Wednesday.

This trail led across Los Fresnos ford. Four horses were found abandoned on the trail before we We followed the raiders around a point of the Sierra de lac Ventanas Mountain range and toward the Sierra de la Hilares. At 1 o'clock Wed neg day afternoon we engaged about tifteen of the bandits at a point foug miles south of the Rio Grande. We kept up a running fight for ten miles, killing ten of the fifteen bandits. The remaining five escaped into a canyon of the Sierro de la Hilares.

ordered ten of my men to strip to their saddles and sent them in pursuit through the box canyon. 3ut our horses were so exhausted that the men were unable to overtak: the bandits. who scattered into the mountains like quail. The detachment returned after dark Inst night and doubled back to the river. brought considerable property that had been stolen from the Brite store, consisting of food.

clothing and ammunition. One horse bearing the Brite brand was found shot and another had been ahandoned. We had one man wounded. Private John F. Kelly and two pack mules were killed." Report Germans Inspire Raids.

El Paso. Dee. officials tonight began an investigation of reports that the Mexican bandit raids into the Big Bend district of Texas were being inspired by mans now operating south of the border in conjunction with American draft evaders. RED SOX ANNOUNCE TRAINING PLANS Frazee Willing to Play Braves in City Series. Boston, Dec.

H. Frazee, president of the Boston American League baseball club, today announced his willingness to stage a city series here with the Boston Nationals before the opening of the season on April 16. The Red Sox will start South for spring, training on March 15, arriving at Hot Springs, two days later, and will move North after a fortnight's stay there. Referring to the trade by which the Boston club obtained Bush, Schang and Strunk, Mr. Frazee said he had been offered $50,000 by 1 Charles Comiskey, owner of the Chicago club, for Bush alone.

He added that the Cleveland club had also made him an alluring offer for Bush. HOKE SMITH, FAILS TO GET COMMISSION Washington, Dee. provisional appointment of Hoke Smith, a son of Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, as second lieutenant in the' Fifth Infantry, regular army, has been terminated on the report a board of officers who reported "that he has not the suitability and fitness required for permanent appointment in the The order was made December 19. i WINDSOR GIRLS SELL 5700 IN THRIFT STAMPS Home Guardsmen Plan to Erect Indoor Rifle Range. (Special to The Courant.) WINDSOR, Friday, Dec.

28. What is believed to be a record for the state has been made by the girls of the Delta Alpha Club who were named by the committee of the Windsor war bureau on war thrift savings stamps, to conduct the sale of stamps locally. In less than one week the girls have soid more than $700 worth of these stamps. These do not represent the large sales at the various places in town. In order to settle a dispute among the commuters who waited thirty-five minutes in the local depot for the 7:30 o'clock southbound train vesterday that there was really a furnace of some kind in the building, although fails to give out any heat, the correspondent of Courant" ventured down into the dark cellar of the depot and there found a furnace large enough to heat two buildings the size of the depot, and a fine fire going.

However, from its appearance, it has long since served its days of usefulness. At the drill of the Windsor Company of the Connecticut Home Guard last evening, the new recruits who have been drilling for several weeks were formed into a squad in charge of Corporal William B. Cornish. Corporal E. J.

F. Kernan's crack squad, known as the "Pony Squad." which was formerly Squad No. 6. now comes Squad No. 7.

The drill cons'sted of maneuvers by platoons and guard work, special attention being given to general orders. At the conclusion of the drill Captain Henry A. Grimm called for valunteers to assist in building the indoor rifle range in the basement of the town hall. This will be fitted up within a few days. The funeral of Mrs.

Julia Yeomans was held yesterday afternoon in Grace Church, Rev. Dr. F. W. Harriman, rector, officiating.

The body will be taken today to Mount Morris, N. Y. for burial. The funeral of Mrs. Charles Burhans was held yesterday afternoon in the parish house of the First Congregational Church.

Rev. Roscoe Nelson, pastor, officiated. The Willing Workers will meet with Mrs. Daniel O. Harrison this afternoon at her home in Pleasant street to sew for the Red Cross.

Poquonock. The annual Christmas festival of the Sunday school of the Poquonock Congregational Church will be held this evening in the vestry at 7:30 o'clock. The "Christmas Story" will be told, with songs and verses, and there will be singing of Christmas carols by the Sunday school. Stereopticon views of the "Birth Christ" will be shown. The money usually spent for Christmas presents will this year be given to the SyrianArmenian relief fund.

'KNITTING NOT TO BE RECOGNIZED Western Women Too Busy to Accept New Malady, Chicago, Dec. new 1918 style in maladies for women labelled "knitting nerves" will not be accepted in Chicago, it was stated today by women in position to know. The style originated in New York, where Dr. Louis R. Welzmiller of the Young Men's Christian Association was quoted as having discovered the disease, due to overwork on war knitting, and Dr.

C. P. Christienson, quoted as predicting an epidemic of "knitt.ng nerves." Dr. Julia Strawn said, "Nonsense; we give certain cases knitting in the hospitals to quiet their nerves." Miss Ima Taft, director of women's division, Red Cross, remarked: women are too busy to get 'knitting Most of them are now so proficient that they can read and knit at the same time." Other women in the work talked in a similar strain, from which it appeared that style of nerves would remain unchanged in this section of the Subscriptions for Halifax. "The Courant" today will send to Mayor Frank A.

Hagarty a check for $228.96, to add to those previously sent to apply on the Halifax relief fund being raised in this city. A contribution of $3 came to "The Courant" brought the total subscribed through this pa paper to 271.16. Checks covering all but $228,96 of the total have already been sent to the mayor. The city total to date is $16,923.37. Runaway Boy Held.

John Attianecce, 15 years old, of No. 5 Brown street, New Haven, who ran away a few days ago, and came to Hartford in search of work, was arrested last night by Policeman M. J. Burke, who found the boy wonder4 ing about the streets. will be held for the New Haven police.

Alleged Deserter Held. Pedro Masot, a Spaniard, 28 years old, was arrested last night by Specdal Agent J. Stewart White of the department of justice, charged with desertion, and lodged in the Hartford police station for the night. It is alleged that he was called by the draft board in 1 Springfield, and failed to report. Woman's Alliance.

Mrs. F. B. Waters of Rocky Hill will read a paper on "Women of Today" at a meeting of the Woman's Alliance of the First Unitarian Church at 3 c'elock this afternoon in the social room of the church. The members are asked to bring their knitting with them.

German Alien Held. Otto Crouser, a German alien, 28 years old, was arrested yesterday by United States Marshal C. C. Middlebrooks charged violation of his alien enemy permit. He lives In Glastonbury.

Arrested For Theft. Bernard Larose was arrested by Policeman C. M. Fistler last night, charged with the theft of an overcoat belonging to William Higgins of Seymour street. The coat, it is alleged, was taken from an Asylum street pool room.

at GRADUATE MANAGERS MEET IN NEW YORK Date of Track Meet Changed Boxing May Become Recognized Sport. New York, Dec. from Secretary of War Baker and Secretary of the Navy Daniels, commending activity in athletics in connection with the regular army and navy training army, were received tonight at the meeting of the execuI tive committee of the National Atht letic Collegiate Athletic Association at which Colonel Palmer Pierce, U. S. presided.

The messages wili be read at the meeting of the association tomorrow. All districts in the country and all the conferences were represented at tonight's session. The New Hampshire State College and Texas Mechanical and Agricultural College were elected us members, making a total of 164 universities and colleges in the association, which have a student membership of about 300,000. It was decided to recommend at tomorrow's meeting that intercollegiate rifle shooting competitions should be instituted and a new standing appointed for this purpose and also a committee on rules governing wrestling and possibly boxing as a recognized college sport. Graduate Managers.

The regular half yearly meeting of graduate managers also was held here tonight. There was an informal discussion of many important matters regard to intercollegiate athletics and the majority of those present favored economy in training expenses. All were enthusiastically in favor of encouraging athletics in every form and they promised to lay meet and these teams or individsend teams to Pennsylvania reuals from most the colleges to meet to May. the intercollegiate, championship Date of Meet Changed. As some of the colleges will close earlier than usual next year, it was deemed desirable to advance the date of the intercollegiate track and field athletic championships from the last week to the second week of May, 1918.

This change will make it necessary to revise the I. C. A. A. A.

A. rules governing the date of this annual fixture. If the meeting is advanced two weeks, it will enable Cornell and Swarthmore, as well as some other colleges which are closing early in May, to have their athletes compete. The following institutions were represented at the meeting: Chicago, Pittsburgh, Columbia, Pennsylvania, Swarthmore, Harvard, Princeton, Michigan, Holy Cross, Brown and Lee, Carnegie Penn. Stare, West Virginia, Cornell, Dartmouth.

Colgate, Syracuse and Maryland State. POLI'S PROGRAM WELL BALANCED Everything From Boomerang Throwers to Family of Tumblers. The vaudeville bill at Poli's Theater for the latter half of the week is a good show, taken as a whole. It compares favorably with the entertainment preceding it. People who sit in the audience tonight will not find it dull, by any manner of means.

There are one or two acts that stand out from the rest, and the background is also pleasing. As boomerang throwers, Burton Jones are clever, performing many an apparent miracle. But they couldn't seem to make the alldience laugh outright, provoking merely a modulated titter now and then. The Dayton Family and Arthur Whitelaw absorbed most of the light of popular approval. The "family" are tumblers and acrobats, with originality in their "stunts." Mr.

Whitelaw, after impressing upon his audience the unquestioned veracity and efficiency of the Irish as a nation. confines his conversation to local streets and personages, provoking much applause by his wit. And he sang a song--verse after verse of it--until he pleaded exhaustion of intellect and a sore throat. Lerner. Ward Wells give an excellent exhibition of ventriloquism.

The voice is thrown into the mouths of inanimate dummies, who and converse with vivacity. "The pelin's Last Raid," carefully explained as "a work of the shows the Teutonic conception of glory--the bombing of defenseless villages and other acts of But the people are soon tired of war and oppression, and revolution works its own miracle. U. S. AIRMAN FALLS BEHIND GERMAN LINES Washington, Dec.

Walcott of the Smithsonian Institution, whose son, Stuart Walcott, flying with the American army in France, fell behind the German lines after a fight, today received the following cable from fallen enemy lines December 12, fighting three single-senters after demolishing enemy two-seater. Fate uncertain." Fire From Christmas Tree. Fire apparatus was called out shortly before 11 o'clock last night by an alarm from Box 731 at the corner of Garden and Sargeant streets, to a fire in a house occupied by W. J. Penders at No.

217 Garden street, where a light from a Christmas tree set a rug on fire. The damage was slight. Engine Company No. 5 was called out on a still alarm at 9:24 p. to the home of Dr.

J. W. Harper of No. 10 Sumner street, where an overheated fireplace caused a small blaze. The furnace in a building at No.

194 Westland street by J. D. Parker started the partition of the building afire at 8:27 and Engine Company No. 7 was called on still alarm to put out the blaze. The firemen stopped the fire on the second floor, before much damage had been done.

At 4:41 p. Engine Company No. 1 was called out to extinguish a fire in a trolley car at the corner or Main and Park streets. The floor of the car caught fire. WOODEN SHIP PROGRAM FAILURE.

BOWLES DECLARES Was Launched on Scale Entirely Beyond Country's Production. Washington, Dec. shipping board's wooden ship progrant was flatly called a failure today by F. A. Bowles, former naval constructor and now assistant to the general manager of the board's emergency fleet corporation.

Summoned before the Senate committee to explain the causes of delays in building ships, Mr. Bowles said the wooden construction venture was a mistake and never should have been attempted. The program cannot be completed on time, he told the committee, cause the country cannot furnish enough ship timber, the 458 awardLed contracts calling for more lumber than is represented in the entire output of southern pine producers a year. Most of them were placed in the east and south and specify pine timbers. "The wooden program," said Admiral Bowles, "was launched on a scale entirely beyond the country's production.

Mills in the South have not delivered lumber as fast as was necessary and western mills one have been almost as slow. Even if the timber supply had been plentiful wooden ships could not have been built as fast as steel." Mr. Bowles took entire responsibility for changes in timber specifications and changes in the design of wooden ships. He said it was to make the vessel more seawortny and had brought about little actual delay in construction. Ninety per cent.

of the labor put into the construction of wooden vesseis, he declared, could be used in steel, just.ce yards. to myself," he added, "I want to say that I nothing to do with letting the wooden, ship contracts." Members of the committee displayed keen interest in the terms of fabricated steel ship contracts and indicated that they thought too high a profit was allowed the builders. Questions brought from Admiral Bowles that the American International Corporation Camden, N. will profit $6,000,000 on the construction of 120 steel vessels. The government furnishes all the capital and pays all the bills.

Asked what the corporation furnished, Admiral Bowles put up the 'know how' and the organization." If it becomes advisable for the government to build and operate ships after the war the investment in the fabricating yards, Admiral Bowles said, will be found to have been a profitable venture for the government. OBITUARY: Karl Mann. Karl Mann, 37 years old, died Wednesday at the Hartford Hospital. He was a cook. He leaves his mother, Mrs.

Wilhelmina Mann, of Collinsville, and two sisters in New Haven. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at undertaking rooms of J. F. O'Brien, No. 45 Mulberry street.

Charles D. Nichols. Charles D. Nichols, 44 years old, assistant janitor of the Strand Theater Building, died yesterday at his home, No, 1127 Main street, of pneumonia. He leaves a sister, Mrs.

John Barrett of this city, and a brother. William Schultz of Providence, R. I. Mr. Nichols was a son of the late George and Henrietta Nichols.

The funeral will be held at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the funeral chapel of J. J. F. Ahern, No. 11 Chapel street.

Peter J. Cullen. Peter J. Cullen, 68 years old, of No. 67 Washington street, died yesterday afternoon at St.

Francis's Hospital. He formerly worked in a local department store and about nine years ago had a fall that made him an invalid for life. He was born in Bloomfield, a son of the late Lawrence and Mary Cullen. He leaves a wife and a sister-in-law, Miss Catherine Ahern, living at No. 67 Washington street.

The funeral will be held at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning at his home, followed by solemn requiem high mas sat 9:30 o'clock at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. The burial will be in Mt. St. Benedict Cemetery, George D. Howe.

George D. Howe, 64 years old, died yesterday afternoon at his home, No. 5 Columbia street, after a long illness. He was born in Maine and came to this city about twelve years ago. He wa's employed for a few years at the Pope Manufacturing Company factory.

He leaves his wife and one daughter, Miss Lena E. Howe, both of Hartford. The funeral will be held 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon his home. The burial will be in Oakland, Me. Mrs.

John M. K. Davis, Mrs. Fannie (Sanger, Davis, wife of Brigadier-General John M. Davis, retired, and mother of Captain J.

H. Kelso Davis of this city, died Wednesday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Andrew Hero, of Annapolis, while on a visit there Her home was at New London, N. H. She leaves.

besides Captain Davis and Mrs. Hero, the latter being the wife of Brigadier-General Andrew Hero. a brother, eral Joseph Sanger, U. S. retired.

The burial will be in the Arlington National Cemetery today. Funeral of Michael J. Burgie Today, The funeral of Michael J. Burgie of No. 422 Garden street, who died of neumonia Wednesday afternoon at St.

Francis's Hospital, will be held at 8:30 o'clock this morning at his home, with requiem high mass at 9 o'clock at St. Patrick's Church. The burial will be in Mt. St. Benedict Cemetery.

Mr. Burgie was 45 yeare was a brass filer, employed by the Conway Foundry Company He leaves his wife, Catherine (Dib Ion) Burgie: three sons, Bernard, Ed. ward and William Burgie, and one daughter, Miss Elizabeth Burgie, all of Hartford..