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SERVICES FOR CATTARIN1CH i Remains of Canadian Sportsman Shipped From New Orleans to Montreal for Burial. NEW ORLEANS, La., Dec. 8. The body of Joseph Cattarinich, Canadian sportsman and part owner of the Louisiana Jockey Club, who died here Wednesday morning, was shipped today to Montreal, Canada, for burial following a service at the Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church. Cattarinich died at the Baptist Hospital of a heart attack, following an operation for the removal of cataracts from one of his eyes. Hundreds of friends paid final tribute to the popular thoroughbred breeder and racetrack operator last night and this morning his widow received countless messages of grief from all over the United States and Canada. The body was shipped to Chicago on the Panama Limited and from there it will proceed on to Montreal where final rites will be conducted. Members of his family and several of Cattarinichs closest friends accompanied his remains. Cattarinich is survived by his widow, the former Miss Blanche Vermette; two nieces, Mrs. Frank Seremba and Miss Yvette Vermette; and a nephew, Edgar Vermette, all of Montreal. Pallbearers at the church services this morning were Robert S. Eddy, Jr., Robert S. Eddy III., Whitfield Brooks, R. A. Leigh, Sr., Albert Briau, Roy Irvine, Romeo Vau-tran and C. V. Abbo.
