New Britain herald., 1927-12-08

according 10 tentative arrange ments. Interment will be in St. Jo- sephs cemetery.
 The condition of Mfr. Brock was reported to be unchanged this noon
 Gauthicr Basketball Captain
 Roland Gauthier, a sophomore. has been elected captain Of the Plainville High school basketball team, Gauthier entered the schoo, his fall and starred on the football team.
 Coach Myron Gallup has cut his court squad to r men. The follow ing arc the boys left after the pruh. ing Sebastian Arcari. Howard Mitchell. Laurence Gregory. An- thony Greene, Leonard Berry. Charles Buell. Earl McGibbon. Howard Choctham. Roland Gau- thier, John Wiley, Martin Bersan. George Backman, Martin Conlin, Edmund Tolli. William Weber, Nick Faniola and Edmund Gerke.
 Heavy Penalty Metel Out
 The heaviest penalty for reckless driving which has ever been meted out in the town of Plainville was given Dominick Cerritell of 2s Mount Pleasant street. Derby. last night by Justice NJ. o, Ryder. Ger gitelli was fined $50 and costs. Grand Juror Charles F. Conlon, who prosecuted. stated tha. the vio- lation was fragrant one in that Cerritelli deliberately tried to "beat out" a. truck at Blossoms corner and in doing 50 went onto the wrong side of the road and struck machine operated by Henry Long, dike of East Hartford. Longdike and John Wallenburg Of Pennington. who drove the truck. testified against Cerritelli,
 Alfred Olson Dies
 Alfred o. Olson, s3. Of 47 Farm ing'on avenue. died early this morning after q lingering illness. He had been in this country for 40 years. living in New Britain for 30 years. He leaves his wife: one son. Oscar; one daughter. Viola; a brother. Per Olson of Minnesota; two sisters, Mrs. D. Nylin Of Wis consin and Mrs. Olaf Swanson of New Britain, and one grandchild
 He was one Of the first members and organizers of the Swedish Bethany chruch of New Britain. of which he was a member. He also belonged to the Betcsta Benefit eo- cicty.
 The funeral will be held satur- day afternoon at 1 80 o'clock at tn, Swedish Bethany church of New Britain. Rev. C. J. Fredeen. the pastor. will offlciate. Burial will b. in Oak Hill cemetery, southington.
 School Committee Meets.
 The school committee held its regular December meeting last night. The committee having charge of the rental of the high school gymna- sium and auditorium sat in with the board and recommended that the l gym should not be rented to outside l teams. The school conn., 1 mittee voted to apply this restric- tion. 1
 superintendent Leon c. Staples spoke on having Christmas parties ! In the various grade rooms, and the . committee voted to allow these on | the last day Of the school term,
 Funeral of Mir. LeHart.
 The funeral of Benjamin LeHart : was held at 11:ao o'clock this morn ing from the undertaking parlors of 1 w. A. Bailey & Co. The services were private, only members of the 'amily and few friends being pres 1 ent, Rev. Leonard Melville, rector of the Church of our Saviour, offici- 'ted. The body was shipped to Mount Vernon. N. r., for burial.
 First High School Play.
 The first play to be offered by the Nasque and Gown. the dramatic society at the high school. will be presented tomorrow night at s o'clock in the school auditorium. It will be the three-act comedy, "Noth- ng but the Truth" The cast has 'een rehearsing under Vice Princi 'ail Douglas Macdonald for several weeks and a fine production is as- ured. The characters are as fol- ows:
 Robert Bennett .... Milton Kramer 7. M. Ralston ... Harlowc Smith )lck Donnelly ..... Martin Conlin larence Non Dusen H. Downham 'ishop Doran ..... James Simpson iwendolyn Ralston ... Emma Hills frs. E. M Ralston .... F. Brastow .thcl Clark ......... Dorothy Ives label Jackson :. Virginia Conforti able Jackson ..... Doris Spencer lartha ........... Lucy Rapacky
 Between the first and second acts here will be songs by Edmund Toln