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Famous English Poet
o. SeUenth Century

The earliest English poet of whom
there is any record was st. Caedmon,
whose festival is celebrated in both
the Roman and Anglican calendars.
He lived in the Seventh century in
Rorthumbria, the son of a farmer, and
his poetic gifts were said TO be Of mi
raculous origin.
At drinking parties each person
present was supposed to compose and
sing a verse. Caedmon was unable to
compose a line, and when the harp
was brought out he always fed from
the festive party.
On one such occasion when he was
lamenting his lack Of poetic ability, a
vision appeared to him and inspired
him to write a poetic version of the
Creation. The manuscript Of this
work, supposed to have been composed
by Caedmon, Is preserved at Oxford.
Caedmon translated into Anglo-Saxon
the whole Of sacred history. He be
came a monk in the convent Of which
the famous Hilda was abbess.
There he lived and sang and died. In
the odor of sanetity, and was after
ward canonized.-Chicag Journal.
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ford, chairman, H. G. Taylor, H. Nc
Sherry, B. Simmons, ]. G. Wickes,
]. F. Allee,Jr., William Kickline, Miss
Nan Bostic, Miss Helen L. Jones.
Entertainment: Mrs. r. E. Lewis,
chairman; w. w. Macks, DIR. I. H.
Boyd, Mrs. G. "A. Merritt, Mrs. Char
les Wilson, w. w. Sylvester, Nolan
Steele, Mrs. H. C. Taylor, Mrs. J. C.
Hopkins, Mrs. Annie Massey.
Registration and Badges: Grover
G. Frear, chairman; H. B. King, Miss
Evelyn Heite, Mrs. Cove Ennis, Percy
Colt, Miss Ida McGonigal, Mrs. E. C.
DAILY, Miss Ella Downes, Walter Car
row.
Reception: John Shilling, chairman;
J. E. Jett, ]. L. B. Hutchison, J. w.
Jones, Mrs. Harry Vane, Mrs. J. A.
Frear, Mrs. Joseph Hos1ins, Mrs.
Louise Hartnett, Miss Pearl Smith,
Nelson J. Forney.
Music: r. E. Lewis, Mrs. Nelson
Forney, E. E. Benson, Mrs. H. Mayer,
G. Austin Merritt, Mrs. Elmer Gray.
Decoration: Lynford Outten, chair
man; T. V. Keith, Henry Roscoe, Mrs.
J. d. Clark, Mrs. Edgar Short, Mrs.
Brady Shahan, Mrs. J. A. Frear, Mrs.
j. d. Satterfield.
Finance: L. M. Price, chairman; w.
7. Massey, J. S. Burton, H. K. Nc
Daniel, Henry Roscoe, Mrs. Cora Far
low.
Ushers: J. d. Satterfeld, w. M.
Hinkle, Willzie Case, ]. L. Scottons
Ben Johnson, E. Herman Dill, Harry
Knots, Walter Rash; for afternoon
sessions, Misses Genevieve Jacobs,
Hazel Helm, Cornelia Taylor, Mar
garet Boyd, Ketura Wharton, Mary
Louie Burton.
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by Religious Education specialists,
dealing with the most modern and
most efficient methods in the various
departments Of the Sunday School.
The Delaware Sunday School AS
sociation is made up Of all the Pro-
testant Sunday Schools in the State.
Following are the committees, rep
resenting the various churches of Do
yer, which will have complete charge
Of arrangements: Mr.. John B. Hutton,
General Chairman.
Press and Publicity: J. w. Wood
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: RELIGIOUS GATHERING

R,s |',,s. 70 Be Host - CO, .
Es''taut DsaOmI,u,ttS;o.G y Gathering Of
||Rsm :. liilasiOns on May 6-7
osasion completed for this
Il aisrraso,.,D speakers of national
/ o tis oaal S,oa. reputation are TO
] b Protssssanaan ostvsran. Delegates from
4 saa 1I'aat vIlI sat denominations in
y issJ n = attend. The sessions
On Msa T., PEOPLES Christian
a viii y ON and 7th. Con-
/ y conducted each day
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STATE AND PENINSULA NEWS
TOLD IN BRIEF SPICY ITEMS
NEWSY ITEMS GATHERED FROM
OUR STATE EXCHANGES
Brief News Items of People We Know
In and Around the Larger PENN
sula Towns and Communities


Charles S. Hirons and Miss Carrie
Lee, both of Dover, were united in
marriage at Dover, on March 30th, by
Rev. C. M. Adams, pastor of the Do
yer M. P. Church.
Vestrymen for Christ P. E. Church,
Dover, have been elected as follows:
Senior Warden Henry Ridgely; Junior
Warden, Hon. William H. Boyce;
Vestrymen, Henry /. Beers, William
d. Denney, William Pennewill, S.
Warren Hall, H. V.Holloway, J. Frank
Startling, William P. Richardson.
At the adjourned session of the
plead guilty court Monday from Sat
urday, Ralph S. Wilson, of Frederick,
pleaded guilty to exhibiting a slot
machine at his place of business and
was fined $50 which he paid and was
released with an admonition from
Judge Harrington not to continue such
violation of the law.
Announcement was received Mon
day Of the marriage in Wilmington on
Saturday afternoon of H. Presley
Stout, of Oaklyn, N. J., and Mrs.Mary
Zearfoss, of Dover, by the Rev.
George w. Bounds, of Wilmington.
They will be at home in Oaklyn, NJ,
after May 1. Mrs. Zearfoss has held
clerical position in the Office of the
Secretary of State at Dover for sew
eral years.
Smyrna times., 1926-02-10
Many Calls During Storm

j. H. Christen-
sen, District Su-
perintendent of
Traffic for the
Diamond State
Telephone Com
pany, reports a
close relationship
between storms
and telephone
calls.
During q storm
thenumber Of calls
increases, he said
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BELL SYSTEM SPENDS
$35O,OOO, 900 ANNUALLY
Vast Sum Used for Construc-
ton, Says A. T. & T. Co.
President

According to w. S. Clifford, Presi.
dent of the American Telephone and
Telegraph Company, in recent speech
before the Investment Bankers AS
sociatiOn at st. Petersburg, Florida,
the construction program of the Bell
System is over $350,OO0,O0O a year.
More than 100000 Bell tele-
phones are now in use in the country.
In order to make ntercommunication
among them possible the Bell System
owns property and other assets, such
as switchbOards, pole lines, cOnduits,
etc, that have cost over $2,SO0,0O0,00O.
But the public themselves are part
owners of this great enterprise. Ac-
cOrding to Mr.. Clifford, the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company has
more than 100000 stockholders. If
owners of preferred stocks and bonds
were also included, the number of
partners in the Bell System would be
close to 100000 people-a city the size
Of Cleveland or Pittsburgh.
This stock is now selling around
$142 on the New York exchange. It
pays 50 per year per share and can
be purchased at any Bell Telephone
Business Office either outright or on
a partial-payment plan of $40 per
share per month.
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ed was the reported determination of
Congress to maintain the present tax
on capital stock and also to retain
the tax on corporation incomes as at
present. 1t was argued that this was
indefensible in view of the fact that
it is proposed to raise the exemptions
in the case of individual incomes and
also to reduce the normal tax. 1t
was felt that the capital stock tax
should be dropped and the tax on cor
poration incomes lowered so as to ap-
proximate the individual income.
State Bank Commissioner Harold
w. Horsey was accorded the privil-
ege of the floor to discuss the McF'ad-
den bill now pending before Congress,
under which certain banks in Della
ware would be prevented from join
ing the Federal Reserve System if the
bill should pass in its original form,
the bill making it impossible for
banks in the State having branches
elsewhere in the State, from joining
the Federal Reserve System.
Code of Ethics for Bankers Discussed
The subject of a code of ethics
among bankers was presented and
copies of a code now in operation in
a western state being distributed to
those present. After a full discus
sion in which all agreed that such a
thing would be most advantageous to
bankers, the president was authorized
to appoint a committee to consider
the copy of the code of ethics present
ed from the western state and report
at the March meeting in Wilmington.
President Stout appointed the follow
ing committee: Thomas R. Ingram, of
Lewes; Charles DUPONT Ridgely, of
Camden; George L. Medill, of Will
mington.
After G. S. Williams, of MillsbOro,
had explained the plan for the Del
Mar-Va Eastern Shore Association to
boost the peninsula the members
present adopted a resolution endors-
ing the enterprise and urging that
banks and bankers give it their moral
and financial support.
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A committee consisting of Mayor
Collins, Robert ]. Walton, Jr, and
Thomas R. Ingram has been appoint
ed by the Lewes Chamber of Com
merce to confer with the Levy Court
and State Highway Commission and
arrange, if possible for an improved
secondary road from Lewes Canal to
Lewes Beach. The State Highway
Commission has raised the point of
the safety of the canal bridge and in
sists that responsibility for its main
tenance must be assured by the Levy
Court. This bridge built at a cost of
about $4,000 to the county never
gave satisfaction, having poor lifting
arrangement.
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BANK RESOURCES IN STATE
SHOW INCREASE DURING YEAR
REPORT HAS BEEN COMPILED
BY COMMISSIONER HORSEY
Bankers Plan Credit Bureau to Put
Stop to Persons Pyramiding Loans
! in Different Banks of the State

IN Dl1erent Banks OF the State
According to a statement compiled
by Harold w. Horsey, state bank
commissioner, showing a comparison
of the banking resources of the state
banking Institutions in Delaware as
of December 81, 1924 and December
81, 1925, there was a growth which
almost equaled that of the best pre-
viOus year in the history of these in
stitution, viz. 1924 During 1925 these
resources increased $7,17O,523 against
the increase for 1924 of $8,664,44
making an increase for the past two
years of $15,834,966. Other signifi-
can't indications of the prosperous and
sound condition of Delaware banks
are found in the following changes
since December 81, 1924: Saving de-
posits have increased, SO, 150,705; de-
mand deposits have increased, $685.
TIA; loans have increased, $8,241 ,651;
capital, surplus and undivided profits
have increased, $2,O59,587; reserve
with reserve agents has increased,
$3,470,277; number of deposit ac-
counts has increased from 1856 to
158,999. 1t will be observed that the
large increase in deposits is almost
exactly offset by the increase in loans
and, also, that the amount of liquida-
tion of investment securities is re
flected in the increase in the bank s
reserve accounts. Adding the re-
sOuces of Nationl banks as of Decem-
Der 81, 1924, to those of state banks
gives the state of Delaware banking
resources of $135, ,97O,41O, which is
$8,2O2,312 more than a year ago.
Creation of Credit Bureau Discussed
Creation of a Credit Bureau among
the banks of Delaware with branches
probably in Wilmington, Dover anC
Georgetown to prevent persons from
pyramiding loans in different banks
without the knowledge of these banks
was discussed at a meeting last
Thursday afternoon of the Executive
and Advisory Committees of the Del
aware State Bankers Association. Il
was argued that such a system wOulC
not do injury to the man with gooC
credit, but it would prevent a mar
with poor credit placing notes in var
ious banks. The plan talked owe
was to have such a branch in vii
mington and probably in Dover ant
Georgetown or wherever there is ;
considerable group of banks doing
business.
Federal Capital Stock Tax Opposed
Another important subject discuss
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SUMMONS AID IN
AUTO ACCIDENT
NEAR HOCKESSIN

Mrs. Sadie Writ, telephone operator
at HOckessin, recently took heroic
measures to save the life of woman
injured in an automobile accident on
the Lancaster Pike near Hockessin.
A telephone call to the Diamond
State Telephone Company's Central
Office in Hockessin from some one
who saw the accident resulted in Mrs.
Writ relaying the information imme-
diately to the State Police She then
called a telephone subscriber living
near the scene of the crash and asked
if the injured woman could be moved
to the house until some conveyance to
the hospital might be procured.
In spite of these measures, however,
the woman died shortly after being
admitted to the Homeopathic Hospi-
tai in Wilmington.
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eral laws of health, rules of first aid
and the care of the sick. Forty min
utes of the hourly classes are devoted
to lectures on the above subjects. Ten
minutes are given over to practical
demonstrations in first aid and the re-
naming ten minutes to calisthenics.
No attempt is being made to turn
out accomplished nurses in as short a
time as the course covers, says Miss
Wharry, but rather the need for a
professional nurse or physician is en-
phasized in case of sickness. The in
struction merely attempts to formu-
late the general rules of hygiene, the
danger of colds from exposure and the
elementary care of the sick.
The popularity of the movement is
attested to by the fact that so many of
the young women operators vOlun-
tarily give up their spare time to take
| these courses.
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Most homes ought to
have two telephones. An ex-
tension on the second floor is
a time saver and costs but a
few cents a day.
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PROWING POPULATION
HERE, SAYS REPORT
glamond State Telephone Co.
Engineers Complete State
Survey

Delaware will have a population ap-
oodalmating 100000 by the end of
lhl' is the conclusion of the Engi-
sn Of the Diamond State Telephone
npaany, who have completed a sur
Of the State.
ilg estimate takes into considera-
= 'ne Increases of population due to
@pahdlng manufacturing activi-
'suIa. around Wilmington, the growing
1n- -aIity Gy Of the watering places
S DelaEare's coasts and the prob
y. growth in the agricultural sec
as !, Of lower Delaware.
.1i,..;i 11e the other public utility or,
,s,r.r9 ,,-.lO9S, the Telephone Company
Ivy n.'... iuIure trends in order to be
,plat pIalllon to furnish equipment for
~. pm-'pnones that will be required.
eia.. AZURE trends are not a matter of
prv;ae Inc number of telephones
n y''ISe ne. for several years back are
h y, a,li ne increase each year is noted.
n " oslef a factors, such as the exnan.
,sDs.. y, industrial activities. the aftrac.
bTtv ~ III watering places, the desir.
se, : s,o y. ,ocations for residential pur-
4 n ,5al ale considered. Future estimates
f.e..m ;1si made with due consideration
betr,o5 r,.5is : such as those indicated and
\ t'5u Of aa.I lnally with a plentiful sun.
A VI good judgment. - u sup
b v;G 1SGn a basis it is figured that
one' Slll u see Sc about 1000 more teIe tell,
e SIM. n the he State than are now viz n
naecta5 sase $4,000 telephones are roT now y,
oDe ''sa eat to the Diamond State tl TeIe %T~
IN S.,. ,s.TlttchbOards, this increase ,s a'iv Il
oe1t oe1' four years represents e"Jp y I: +
oae nj nI,ss expansion of the entire teIe
pant IN the State
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Everybody has friends in
nearby towns. Why not keep in
touch with them by telephone2
PROMPT ACTION
PUTS OUT FIRE
Holly Oak Telephone Opera
tors Direct Fire-Fighting
Efforts

Fire in the
dwelling of Mrs.
Frye, Philadelphia
Pike and Silver
side Road, Holly
Oak, was prompt
~ extinguished re-
Gently through the
aid of the opera
tors in the Holly
Oak Central Of
flee Of the Dia-
mond State Tele-
phone Company.
n n
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Miss =. l.. AlOUSLEl
Mrs. REBA TAFT
(Right)

to the telephone Office. While Mrs.
Reba TAFT, one of the operators, called
the Brandywine Hundred Fire De-
partment and the State Police, Mary
O'Connell, another operator, notified
the neighbors in the vicinity.
Selling buckets and axes, the volun-
tary fire fighters thus summoned rushed
to Mrs. Frye's dwelling, which is
across the street from the central Of
fee. When the fire engines arrived,
the confagration was under control.
C. G. Reynolds, Superintendent Of
the State Highway Department, com
mended the Holly Oak operators
highly for their prompt assistance.
Miss P. l.. Mousley is the operator
in charge of the Holly Oak Office for
the Telephone Company.
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aibse W. T. IL l. be surprised
tgby teIs6Jbuounca Juu can n travel for a quar-
- telephone directory. ''S''
.,OABlNATIoN DINNER

4 birthday oaIo5 pI farewell dinner party
\ Traffic beIsr celebration was given BY
apsag5'.s 155's telephone Company Dp ag' at pla t5e
receptIv Sg'' 9th and shipley
y. Sia Senple ~, in . honor Of Miss
De TtPIPIe, TeIePpIse:,.,y Visiting s Supervisor
'ig birthday conn Company, was re-
Moore, fo;mecOn congratulations, and
sanstensen y n Assistant to ].
= Delaware Traffic superintend. te
asat' w I duties in ttiha'iTg the Tyaf5. to take ak
aal'terred redu'ng' where he has
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10000 local calls that are normally
handled in Wilmington from nine to
ten o'clock in the moSling, the recent
snowstorm that enveloped this region
caused Wilmington local calls to
jump to 13,Ss0--a 80 per cent in
crease. He added that there was a cor
responding increase in the number Of
out-of-town calls during the storm.
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w. Virden Marshall and Henry w.
Conant, of the RehObOth Heights De-
velopment Company, are on an OBJ
sevation trip to Florida. They sail
ed from Baltimore Tuesday.
Smyrna times., 1926-02-10
HEALTH-A-HABIT
MOVEMENT GROWS
New Class Recently Formed
Has Twenty-Seven
Members
The Health-a

The Health a
Habit movement
in Delaware spon-
sOred by the Dia-
mOnd State Tele-
phone Company,
now has twenty
seven Of the young
women operators
enrolled in a class
recently formed,
according to Miss
Mary Wharry, the
instructressin in Will
mingtOn.
w eekly meet
ings are held in
W h c h are ex.
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FOR THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 81, 1925
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FARMERS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE C(
OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
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Mrs. Frye, who
discovered the
blaze. renOrted IL
New Britain herald., 1926-05-15
BACKIEL RESIGNS AS
 OFFICER OF INFANTRY
letires From LicutenanCy in Com pany IT, 168th Rcgt.. to Join
 State Police Force,

First Lieutenant Albin Backiel of Co. II, 169th Inf, C. \. G., has re- signed his commission in the Ma tional Guard and has taken a place on the state police force. He will leave Monday for Ridgefield where he will be assigned to the state po- lice barracks on immediate duty.
 Lieutenant Ezekiel is a veteran of the World War and served in all the campaigns of the 26th division in France. He was a member of Co. l, 162nd Inf. [. S. and was elevated to a. sergeantcy because of his cx- cellent work in the ranks.
 lie attended the bayonct school at Gondrecourt in the training days of was so proficient in this work that he received a personal cOmmendation from General John J. Pershing and was made instructor of officers for several weeks. He refused to take a permanent assignment at the school. however, preferring to serve with his company in the front lines. As a soldier. he had an exceptional record
New Britain herald., 1926-05-15
JEWISH RELIEF DRIVE OPENING HERE MONDAY
Committees Selected to
 Canvass for S15,00O Fund

The opening shot Of the local campaign for $l5,000, New Britain's S quota in the national drive for $15,- 00o,00O to aid in the relief of starv- ing Jews Ot Russia and Poland will be fired at q gathering of about 10D workers in the Burritt hotel Monday noon. The drive will be conducted during the week of May r to May 24.
 The Racus club will act as host at the luncheon. Rabbi Morris Sil- verman Of Hartford and Max Han over of Norwich will be speakers. The local drive chairman. Attorney Edward A. Mag, has announced the following team generals; Attorney George Levitt, Attorney David L. Nair, Harry evin and George Ber- son. The community will be divid- led according to occupations.
 Following are representatives Of the various occupations:
 Lawyers William Greonstein; den lists, Benjamin Protass; Furniture, U. Eiscnberg. Sidney SimOns and NJ. Fucker; coal dealers, George Ser son and s. Shurberg; druggists, Sam Kolodney and Nathan NOveck; mems $ .clothiers, Nathan E. Mag, David s. Segall and l. Levin; butchers, Meyer Dunn; builders, F. Stein; credit mcr- chants. NJ. Ginsberg and F.. Feld- man; insurance, George Cans; shoe stores, Samuel ". Menus; automo- biles-acCeSsories, Harry Alex and Martin Horwitz; dry goods, M Ad. { Ter NJ. Birnbaum and NJ. Goldsmith doctors, David Waskowitz; dept stores, J. Birnbaum, g Davidson ant Louis Raphael; plumbers, Loui: i Croll; jewellers, NJ. C. Levitt; gro. Cerics and meats, B. Myerson and I Roth; miscellaneous stores. Dr. A. Pinkus: real estate Max Kennedy and Bernard Miller; general, George Levitt and Louis Raphael; Hart ford avenue stores, Sam Greenberg; Lafayette street stores, Saul Hanin There have also been selected 10 team captains, who will canvass the Jewish citizens of the community according to their geographical resi- dence in the city, these captains to be named before the meeting on Monday.
 The local officers Of the campaign are: Edward A. Mag, chairman; 
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New Britain herald., 1926-05-15
AUTOPSY SHOWS BABE
 DIED OF STARVATION
No Trace of Drugs or Indication of Violence
 Discovered

That the infant child whose body was found yesterday morning in the Landers, Frary X Clark factory yard had been born normal in every respect and had been allowed to die of starvation, was the ind ing of Medical Examiner John Purney and Pathologist Edward r, Lane. who conducted an autopsy yesterday afternoon.
 The autopsy was performed at the undertaking parlors of Nj. J. Krnney Co.
 Examination of the infant re- vealed no indication of violence or the use of poisous or drugs. The body was discolored indicating that the child had been dead for several days.
 The police are still working on the case in an effort to determine the child's parentage and who was responsible for it's death. When the body was found it was covered only by light sheeting.
New Britain herald., 1926-05-15
FREE LOAN FUND IN
 WILL OF ELIAS WOHLL
Charitable and Welfare Institutions Also Re-
 membered

Sixteen charitable and welfare in- stitutions are benefciarics, a free loan fund is created and a free bed in Mt, Sinai hospital, Hartford, es- abolished, in the will of Elias WohH, approved today in probate court.
 The testator declares his son, Isidore Wohll, 10 be his partner in all financial ventures although no papers of partnership exist, and it is his wish that the son be given his half share of all realty, bonds and mortgages held in the name of Elias Wohll.
 Mrs. Wohll, the widow, is left household furnishings; Lazar Czer- nak, A. Kessler, Joseph and Hymau Greenberg, are given $50 each.
 To his son he leaves $LO00 in trust to create what will be known as The Zechran Eliohu free loan fund" for the purpose of granting small loans, without interest charges, to needy persons. The res idue of the estate is left to Isadorc Wohll in trust, 40 per cent of the income to be paid annually to the widow, together with such part of the principal as is required for her comfort. At the death of the widow and son, distribution in the estate is provided for as follows: The eX- ecutor is to hold the estate for ten years, paying interest during that period. and at it's conclusion the principal to: Mt. Sinai hospital, Hartford, for an 'Elias Wohll free bed fund" two-sevenths; 10 the He brew free loan fund of New York, one seventh; New Britain General hospital two-thirty-ifths: Jewish Tuberculosis hospital, Denver, Colo, one-thirty-fft Talmud Torah, New Britain. one-thirty- fifth; Hartford hospital, one-thirty- Rabbi Eichmann Theological seminary, New York, one-thirty- Jewish National foundation at Palestine, six-thirty- I. NJ. II. A. Hart ford, one-seventieth Y. W. II. A., Hartford. one-seventieth; Congrega- ton Tehereth Israel, New Britain, one -seventieth; Congregation Acha- na Bnei Israel New Britain, one- seventieth; Hebrew Orphan. asylum, Hartford, one-thtrty- fifth: Jewish Old Peoples home, Hartford, one thirty fifth: Hebrew Shelter and I'm migrant Aid association. New York, one-thirty- Palestine founda- ton, New York. onc-thirty-tlfth Hebrew university, Palestine, one- thirty-ffth.