New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 14, 1923, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press I‘ISTABLISHED 1870 ALLIED AMBASSADORS GIVE VILNA DISTRICT TO POLES, SETTLING FRONTIER ISSUE Poland Also Gets Eastern Galicia, Satisfying Her . Territorial Aspirations “Not Already Passed Upon New Lithuanian Govern- ment Is Expected to Raise Objections to Decision Affecting Frontiers Be- tween Two Nations. Paris, March 14.-—(By Assoclated Press.)-—By decision of the allled council of ambassadors, rendered to- day, fixing finally .the froptier be- tween Poland, Russia, the Vilna dis- trict s attached to Puland. This decision comes as the culmina- | tion of the long dispite between Po- land and Lithuania with dramatic in- cidents, beginning with the raid on Vilna by the Polish general, Zellgou- ski, in 1920, Is Given Galicia. Besides Vilna, Poland gets eastern Galicia, which practically’ satisfies all her remaining territorial aspirations that had not already been passed up- on. by M. Galvanauskas, who has just re- slgned the Lithuanian premiership, is on his way to Paris to sign the settle- ment giving Lithuania the port of Memel on the Baltie, but it is antici- pated the succeeding government at Kovno will raise objevtions to the at- tributing of Vilna to Poland. The declaration made By M. Sikor- £ki, the Polish premier, to the Polish Diet yesterday to the effect that the frontiers established by the treaty of Itiga, between Poland and Soviet Rus- | sia, are inviolate and can be brought into question by no one, is taken as an assurance that the Polish govern- -ment will be entircly satisfied with the council's deécision, since’ this is entirely in line with the treaty of Riga. Count Skrzynski, the Polish for- eign minister, arrived in Paris today to discusy general questions in eonnec- tion with Poland's eoxternal policies with high officials of the Freuch gov- ernment. LORE OF REWARD MAY GIVE CLUE IN BAFPLING MURD. Mysterious Blonde Woman Mentioned in’ Anonymous T(‘l(‘phune Conversa- tion on Schneider Killing, New York, March 14, — Hope of solving the mystery in the murder oi Frederick Schneider, Bronx. contractor ‘was revived today by a telephone call from a woman lured by an offer of $3,000 reward for information as to the slayqr's identity. Detectives were given the name of a young blonde woman with whom Schneider had been on intimate terms and who was declared to have been with him a few minutes before the murder. The informant said this woman had said to.her on the tele- phone: “I was with I'red Schneider a few minutes before the murder and be- lieve me he got what was coming to him.” ! The hlonde woman who was said to be married and the daughter of a po-| lice' otficial, is declared to have been absent from her home since the mur- der investigation started, Y. W, C. A FUND $10,400 Mrs. Philip B, Stanley Reports Goal Almost Attained Through Sub- seriptions From 887 People. A total of $10,400 has been sub- scribed to date in the Y. W. C. A, drive, according to a report made by Mrs, Philip B. Stanley, director this afternoon. There were 887 subscrib- ers. About half of the $10,400 was received In cash, according to Mrs. Stanley. Barnes Still Unconscious at St. Francis’ Hospital Frederick Barnes of 80 Dwight street, is in a critical condition at St. Francis’ hospital in Hartford with » fractured skull, as the result of a trolley accident on Farmington avenue in Hartford on Monday night. He has been unconscious since the time of the accident and an X-ray was taken yes- terday to determine the extent of the injuries. At the hospital this after- noon it was stated that his condition remains the same. Cal'etak;; Is Bume&i in Fire on Boston Yacht Boston, March 14.—Jackson Good- win, caretaker of the yacht Rowena, owned *by Morrill Goddard of New York, was burned to death in a fire which damaged the boat at an anch- orage off South Boston today. Good- win had apparently knocked over an oll stove. McCUE GOES AFTER HALL Detective Sergeant Willlam P. Mc- Cue this morning left for Brattieboro, Vt., to bring back Tee Hall of this city wanted on a non-support charge. lLee was arrested by the Brattieboro ofticials at the request of the police department here. -| considered an accomplished musician W _BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, 1 PNBUMONIA 1S FATAL T0 GBORGE ., LYNCE, WUSICAN Well Known Orchestra Leader and . ,Composer Had Been l'llm in Public Since Age of 16, George H. Ly ngh. 43 ypars of a and a life long ‘dm.&';‘:l}t?m tain, died at his street last night Hartford, Conn, had been ill of penumonia for one| week following ‘an attack of the grip. He was born in this city, the son oY Mr. and Mrs, Edward Lynch, and at an early age developed a taste for music. At the time of his death he was one of the most prominent figures not only in New Britain musical cir- cles but throughout the state. At the age of 16 years he played regularly in public orchestra and was e for a boy that age. Later he or- ganized Tynch's orchestra which for more than 25 years has played at dances, concerts and other entertain- ments in New Britain, Mr. Lynch also played with many other orches- tras here and in Hartford. During the year 1921 he played the saxophone in the Palace theater orchestra. He was a popular member of New Bt ain.lodge of Elks. Mr. Lyneh composed several pieces of music which he played at dances | where his orchestra appgared. A few days previous to his dcath® Mr. Lynch composed a new_fox-trot which he intended to have published. He is survived by his wife, two brothers, Edward Lynch and James Lynch; three sisters, Mrs. Margaret Dunn, Miss Annie Lynch and Mrs. Michael Butler of this city and one daughter, Alice Lynch 16 years old. The funeral will be held Friday ! morning at 8:30 o'clock from the { house and at 9 o'clock from St. Mary's church, Interment will be in St ! HING GUSTAY HONORS EAST BERLIN RESIDENT {Adolph B. Benson Made i Member of Order of orth Star PRI, | Adolph. B. Renson of East Lerlin, assistant professor of German an | Scandinavian at Yale University, ha | been decorated by King Gustav of | Sweden, having been made a member | of the Order of the North Star. | News of the decoration was re- | ceived today by cablegram by Repre- séntative Arthur W. Benson of Ber- lin, & brother of the man honored. Adolph B. Benson is well known as the author of Swedish romances and a lecturer and writer on Sweden and Scandinavia. He was official lecturer’ of the Scan- dinavian group of the International Rtudents’ Tour, that made a trip for the purpose of study in Sweden, Nor- way, Denmark and Germany last summer. p Mr. Benson is a comparatively young man and is one of the few Americans who have received decor- ations from the crown of Sweden. \CLAYTON CROSSING T0 BE BLIMINATED WITH BRIDGE Chairman Higgins of Public Utilities Commission Makes Announce- ment This Afternoon (Special to The Herald). Hartford, March 14.—Richard T. Higgins, chairman of the public utili- ties commission this afternoon stated that although this board has not reached a final decision as to what plan will be adopted for the elimina- tion of Clayton crossing near New Britain, it is quite pogsible that the highway will be maintained’ and an overhead bridge will be erected as in plans 1 of 3 submitted at the public hearings some time ago. The commission is now working on these plans, altering them somewhat and will make them public shortly, Mr. Higgins said. ELECT MRS. HORTON New Britain Woman is Named Grand « I'relate of United Order of the Golden Cross. New London, March 14.—At the closing session of the 35th annual meeting of the grand commandery of the United Order of the Golden Cross of Connecticut in thia city late yesterday afternoon the following officers were chosen to serve for the ensuing year: Grand commander, C. H. Otis, Hartford: grand prelate, Mrs. B. 1. Morton, New Britain; grand vice-com- mander, Mrs, Ella 8. Miller, Bristol; grand keeper of records, H. W. Adams, Hartford, grapd treasurer, C.| H. Morse, Thomaston; grand herald, M. J. Munsch, New London; warden of the inner gate, Mra. A. 8. Snavely, New Haven; warden of the outer gate, Mrs. Henrietta M. Payne, New Lon- don; past grand commander, Mrs Iened to result in the flooding of this| 'Use of Chestnut Street For New Spur Track Called Confiscatory; ‘New' Britain Asks For Rehearing| Attorney Donald Gaffney Tel of Public' Should Be Considered First Opening the appeal of the city of New Britain against the ruling of the public utilitieg commission which has made a ruling to allow the Connecti- cut Co, to lay a new spur track on Chestnut street, Attorney Donald Gaff- ney, who s aseociated with Corpora- Lawssii, sel John H, Kirkham in the + 4o, charged Dbefore Judge | superior court yesterday aft- hat the public utilities com- missionabused its discretion in this matter; that its ruling is confiscatory; and that the Connecticut Co., has ad- vanced as its reasons for claiming the benefit allowed only the arguments of personal profit and convenience, as against the city’'s arguments for its defeat of the safety of thousands of school children, relief of traffic and relief of interested property owners. Asks For New Hearing Attorney Gaffney's request for a hearing de novo, which would provide for an entire new hearing rather than @ continuation of the matter as left off by the public utilities commission, was ohjected to by Attorney Joseph Berry of the trolley company. Judge Haines declined to pass on the qyes- tion offhand and the case will cOme up for reassignment next Friday. In the meantime the court will rule.as to whether a hearing de novo will be granted. Judge Kirkham spoke after Attor- ney Gaffney. . He asserted that there is great objection to the use of the street by the ‘Connecticut company for its spur tracks and that it is the city's plan to appeal shortly for the removal of the now existing spur INDIAN MUMMY 1,000 YEARS OR MORE 0LD Prehistoric Find in Missouri of Great Interest to Archaeologists | Noel, Mo.,, March 14, — (By Asso- clated Press)—The partly mummified body of a prehistoric Indian found here by archaeologists is ten centuries old, M. R. Harringtén, director of ex- cavations estimated today. The archacologists who represents the museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation of New, York, found the ,body in a bed of grass covered with $labs of limestone under a. great overhanging cliff. The rock shelter, according to Harrington, probably had been occupied as a dwelling for many generations by an ancient race of In- dians. That was attested he said by great beds of ashes four or five feet deep containing thousands of bones of deer, elk and buffalo, the animals probably eaten by the Aborigines, as well as many flint spear points with which such game had been hunted. Behind some large rocks at the back of a stone shelter the soil was found to be perfectly dry. The lime- stone slabs covering the skeloton lay in dust. Probing beneath these the archaeologists first uncovered the en- tire frame, swathed in tattered deer skin and covered with a piece of grass matting. It was observed that the body lay on its left side, in'a crouch- ing position with knees drawn up. MAN STARVES T0 DEATH Houseckeeper Boston Resident’s in Danger List as Result of Not Hav- ing Enough to Eat Boston, March 14,—George W.| Ryner is dead of starvation and his housekeeper, Anna Walker, on the danger list at the city hospital due to exhaustion from lack of food. They occupied a tenement in the Roxbury district, where neighbors reported their non-appearance to the police. Miss Walker at the hospital today had recovered sufficiently to say that neither she nor her employer had anything to eat for a week. They were both over 60 years. | SRR | Army Aviators Drop Bombs But Can’t Break Ice Jam Port Jervis, N. Y., March 14 (By Associated Press)-—Army aviators to- day bombed the five mile ice jam on the Delaware river which has threat- town, but were unable to move the! floe. Two large Martin bombers were | used. The airmen dropped seven 300- | pound bombs three of which hit land but injured no one. The others crack- ed great holes in the ice hut failed to move the jam. Sacco Continues His Prison Hunger Strike | Dedham, Mass, Maroh 14—Nicola| Sacco, convicted murderer, today completed the fourth week of his fast. Refusing the breakfast tendered him in his cell at the Norfolk county jail, Sacco reiterated his intention to. con- tinue his hunger strike untii death or freedom came to him. He was visibly weaker but officials and the jail physi- cian said he would be able to attend the hearing set for Friday. Four More Irishmen Are London, March 14 (By the Asso- Isabel M. Hanson, Hartford; repre- sentatives C. H. Otis, Hartford and George H. King, Ansonia; Alternate Mrs. Jennies L. Barbour, New Lon- don. clated Press)—Four men were exe- ¢uted this morning at Drumboe cas-| tle, Stronorlar, County Donegal, says a Central News dispatch from Dublin this afternoon. | & survey of ex-service men in, federal Put to Death in Dublin || WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1923, -SIXTEEN PAGES 300 SIGN PETITION _ FOR SOLDIER BONUS Plea Is Presente to Gommittee on Military Affairs at Capitol Is Judge Haines That Safety | tracks, requiring that. they be recon- structed on the company's land, Attorney Berry sald a proper hear- ing had been held before the public utilities commission with witnesses summoned and heard. He failed to see where the use of a highway for a spur track was any more a confisca- tion of that highway than in the case of an automobillst driving over the highway and making use of it there- by. REPORT ON GREENBERG CASE, | Committee Decides On Restoring Civil Rights of Former New Brit- ain Prosecutor—~New Tax On Busi- ness Proposed. (Bpecial to The Herald), Hartford, March petition containing the names of some 500 residents of New Britain was turned over to the committee on military af- fairs during the course of a hearing on the new bonus bill in the house chamber of the state capitol today. The petition, which had been circulat- ed in the Hardware City by members of Private Walter J, Smith post, Vet- erans of Ioreign wars, was brought| to the capitol by the following dele- gation of New Britain ex-servicemen, who. represented the post in its ap- peal for a favorable report on the bill: Raymond I'rost, Edward lLong, Edward Johnson, Peter Cook, Frank Schroeder, Stuart Hellberg, Mason Andrews, Carl Anderson, Nathan Avery and James McKenna, The bonus bill provides a payment of $10 a month to all servicemen during the period that they were on active duty. This afternoon, about 25 senators and representatives appeared before the committee and expressed them-| selves as in favor of the matter. | John H. Williams, of Bridgeport, department commander of the Vet- erans of Foreign Wars for Connecti- cut, then introduced Lieut. Col. Rob- ert Star Allen, natlonal judge advo- vate of the veterans’ organization. He characterized highself as a resident of New York and a taxpayer of Connec- ticut. He spoke in favor of the bill. Néw Tax On Business After an explanation of the purport of the measure by Representative E. W. Christ of New Britain, chairman of the finance committée, house bill 168, providing for a tax on mercan- tile ahd manufacturing interests other than corporations was passed today by the house. ., Representative Christ explained that corporations are now required to pay two per cent of annual net earn- ings as a tax, The new bill, which clarifies a somewhat similar measure passed in 1921, provides a tax of $1 on every $1,000 gross business handled by interests not incorporated. Last vear 31,000 taxpayers pald the state $430,000. Report On Greenberg's Rights A favorable report of the commm®- tee on forfeited rights on the applica- tion of A. A. Greenberg of New Brit- ain, for the restoration of his civil rights will go before the senate either late tomorrow or Iriday. Suisman and Senator Kenealy of that committee said this afternoon. Bristol Man Opposed ‘When Representative Christ pre- sented a favorable report today on the application of the city of Norwalk for the right to issue school bonds on a school district plan, Representa- tive Robert Stack of Bristol, ques- tioned him. Stack's request on be- half of the city of Bristol for the privilege of issuing bonds was turned down a short time ago. Representa- tive Stack was not entirely satisfied with the explanation, he asserted aft- erward, Hearing On Charter Changes. The committee on cities and bur- oughs was cxpected to meet this af-| ternoon to take up the charter| changes for New Britain. A large delegation of citizens from New Brit- ain were here. Among those present were Mayor A, M. Paonessa, Ex- Mayor O. I, Curtis, Senator Richard Covert, Representative Benjamin Alling, George W. Klett, Corporation Counsel J. H. Kirkham, Judge Bern- ard F. Gaffney, Attorney Stanley Traceski, Attorney David L. Nair,| Alderman J. Gustave Johnson, ex-Po- | lice Chief William J. Rawlings, E. M. Fratt, and E. W. Kilbourne, | On next Tuesday a hearing before | the judiciary committee will be held | on the question of taxing the pipe| lines through towns. A large db‘lr-g;l-| tion is expected to be present from New Britain to oppose the measure. This bill is introduced every year by | the rural towns and is always opposed | by the cities. It generally passes the house and is killed in the senate, HOLD-UP IN NEW HAVEN Two Men Rob Clerk At Hotel Dun- Judge May View Layout Judge Halnes intimated that before the case is finally decided he will come to New DBritain to look over the territory affécted. Attorney Gaffney said, in part:— “These are the facts. Chestnut street {8 one of the most important and most traveled streets in the city of New Britaip. Tt joins Main street at its wesg end, It is quite narrow so that the car track which runs through the stréet is laid not in the middle, but on the sputh side of the street. The Connecticut company has a car barn on the north side of Chestnut street about three hundred feet east) of Main street and there are eight spur tracks running into that car barn. At the southecast corner of Main and Chestnut streets is the Cen- tral Grammar school, perhaps the largest school in the city. “The Connecticut company pro- posed to lay the additional spur track directly opposite that school. The city of New Britain opposed the con- (Continued on Fourteenth Page) WISCONSIN GOVERNOR HITS 0UT AT ATTORNE_Y GENERAL » Scores Daugherty for Evident Lack of Interest in Condition of FEx- servicemen in Prisons Madison, Wis., March 1{.—Refusal of Attorney Gen. Daugherty to make prisons to determine their physical and mental condition as suggested by Governor Blaine of Wisconsin, brought an attack from the gover- nor. 2 “You decline to make the survey on the grounds that the work as out- lined, if attemited 4o our federal penitentiaries, would ‘require mdre time and assistance than is at the command of the department and for this reason regret to state that it is impracticable,” Governor Blaine said in a letter to the Attornecy General. “This is most astounding. I am unwilling to believe that you are will- ing to rest your refusal upon any such ground. “I am sending a summary of facts found in Wisconsin penal institutions which shows that a large number of these men are mentally and physically deficient, requiring hospitalization in- stead of prison bars. WOMAN BLUEBEARD GUILTY Mrs. Tillie Klimek, Alleged Agent in Poisoning of Fourteen Persons, Sentenced to Life in Prison, 14.—Convicted for the alleged poisoning of her third husband, Mrs, Tillie Klimek today held the unique position of being the first woman ever sentenced to life im- prisonment in Cook county courts. Fourteen persons, 13 of whom are dead have been listed by county au- thorities as victims of an alleged poi- son conspiracy between Mrs, Klimek and her cousin, Mrs. Nellie Koulik who is uwaiting trial on a murder| charge. Frank Kuposyk her third husband was the “corpus delicti" named in Mrs. Klimek’s trial, which ended with her conviction last night. Her fourth husband is in a hospital here suffer- ing according to physicians from the effects of a rat poison. Mrs, Klimek is 45 years old. Boston Man Kills Wife as She Leaves Hospital Boston, March 14—8hot by her hus- | band, Michael cusa, as she left the city hospital where she was visit- ing their 11 year old son last night, Mrs. Mary Saratusa died at the hospi- tal today. Her husband was charged with murder. They had been separ. ated for some time. Chicago, March ! can At Point of Gun—Get $200 DA - | ¥From Oash Register. { PASS BLUE-SKY LAWS, Albany, March 14—The state sen- ate carly today passed two "bluc-sky’’ laws, one to provide for incorpora- tion of stock exchanges and the other| for regulation of brokerage houses| under the state banking department. The bills now go to the assembly. KEATING TRINITY CAPTAIN i("'l to the police. Hartford, March 14.-—John .| Keating of New Britain today was| elected captain of the Trinity college basketball team for next season. Be- sides playing basketball he has been a member of the track and. football teams. Theodore W. Jones of Perth Amboy, N. J.,, was named basketball manager. New Haven, March 14.—Two men held up the clerk in the Hotel Dun- can here early today, going through the cash register while they had the clerk covered with a revelver, They| obtained $200 and a revolver from the cash register and also took $17 from Charles C. Ross, the clerk, he report- BRITISH REASSURED, London, March 14. (By ociated Press)—In the face of speeches in the house of commons characterizing the Rhineland situation as most serious, the British commercial world today took fresh encouragement from the receipt by the foreign office of Irench assurances that every effort will be made to protect British firms and re- move the difficulties hindering com- mercial activities in the occupied dis- jtrict. | PO, * THE WEATHER gk Hartford, Mar, 14 —Forecast | for New Britain and vicinity: | Fair and colder tonight. Thurs- | day increasing cloudiness with STEAMER IN TROUBL Boston, March 14—A radio message picked up here today from the steams Chairman | | Amota and Edwin Lewis, who were in lof the steamship STORRS DEFENDS ONGMAN . GAR AS MUCH MORE SAFE President of Comn. Company M.\\v There Are Fewer Accidents an With Two Man Cars | Waterbury, March 14.—Addressing | the Kiwanis club of this city today, | Lucius 8, Storrs president of the Con- | necticut Co, quoted statistics to show | there are fewer accidents with one-man | cars than with two man cars, Cons| cerning recent serious accidents - 1In this city he said: ol “We believe that reports clearly | shew that one-man car operation had ncething to do with any one of these accidents,” Mr. Storrs also said: | “The Connecticut Co, is anxious to| give the city of Waterbury efficient | and safe service but at the same time it feels called upon to effect all econ- mies in operation that are possible, commensurate with - safe operation. Lower operating costs tend toward| lower rates of fare, President Storrs while in Waterbury announced that the company woula erect in the near future, a new car barn and office building in this city, on West Main street. PROTESTANTS AID IN HUNTING FOR PRIEST Still No 'Trace as to Where- abouts of Missing Virdin, Ill.,, Catholic Clergyman ALt RN | Virden, Ill, March 14 (By Associat- ed Press)—Clues found on his auto- mobile today deepened the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the| Rev. John A. Vraniak, rector of the| Sacred Heart Catholic church here,| who has been missing nine days. The| automobile found in St, Louis last Saturday was turned over by the po-1 lice there to the priest's brother, Adolph M. Vraniak of Chicago, who drove it to Virden. Local autherities announced that an examination of the car revealed that the seat in letters six inches high, were the words, “we won.” Further exawination disclosed corn stalks and wheat stubbles attached to the ma- chinery under the body of the car in- dicating that it had been driven through fields, 1 A medal of St. Christopher, the pat- | ron saint of travelers,. which the| clergyman had fastened on the side of the automebile, was missing, and marks on the door indicated that it had been pried off. A meeting of Pather Vraniak's par ishioners was held last night and hun-, dre®s of non:Catholics as well as| well as Catholics were organized to search between Sf. Louis and Virden today for trace of the missing priest. The churchman's mother, Mrs. Jo- hanna Vraniak, made an impassioned plea to members of the searching par- ties to bring back her son, dead or alive, but told them to refrain from violence and remain within the law. | Rewards totalling 0 have been | offered for information leading to his return, Stirred to action by inability of au- thorities to bring them word of their | pastor, 60 members of the Catholic| church of Virden left for Venice today | port that Father Vraniak had stopped | at a Venice garage on his way back | to Virden from St. Louis early last| week. BANK CLERK A SUIGIDE New York Man Shoots in | Cloak Room—Accounts Said to be Himselt Entirely Straight. New York, March 14.—A Russell | Kastor, a glerk in the Shoe and Leather branch of the Chase National Bank, shot and killed himself today in the cloak room of the bank. “We know of no reason for the sui- ‘ cide,” a statement isued by the| bank said. “His accounts were ex- amined and found correct and we have every confidence in his char- | acter.” He had been in the employ of the bank for 13 years. FEDERAL MEN ACT Carmine Amato and Edwin Lewis, Fined in Police Court Today, Taken | Into Custody by Govt. Agents, I"ederal prohibition agents this aft ernoon took into custody, Carmine | police court this morning, in connec- | tion with a case of transportation of liquor. The accused were en to Hartford late this afternoon, where they will be arraigned before Com- missioner Frederic J. Corbett in the | ‘nited States court. Amato was fined 200 for transporting liquor, and Lewis, who was with him on last Sat- urday night, when the arrest occur- red, was fined $25, ! T ~Captain Zar Presidente Wilson which arrived today from Italian ports, announced he would make for- | mal complaint fo the federal authori CON NS OF RUM F1L New York, March 14 wmow by night, northwest shift- ing to east winds, er West Helix said that she had de- veloped hoiler trouble and was in C————————-—-—-J need of assistance, ties against the rum running fleet New York harbor which he said was a menace to navigation. scratched in the paint on the back of| It to undertake an investigation of a re- @ that |ter Water Co,, Average Daily Circulation Week Ending 9,251 March 10th PRICE THREE CENTS SALARY OF JUDGE HERE IS FIXED AT $4,000 PER ANNUM; TOLL BRIDGE BILL ADOPTED Senate Adopts Measure Which Will Eliminate Such Fees on Trunk Lines After January 1 Bill to Return License Money to Former Saloon- keepers Is Reported Un- favorably in House. Hartford, March 14.—The senate today adopted the bill which on January 1 next will make all bridges in the state free from tolls, The senate also adopted, in concursence, a nieasure to set the salary of the New Britain judge at $4,000, Senator DePeyster said the day of toll bridges has gone by. He said there is a bridge over the Housatonie river which cost a million dollars and on which no toll is charged. It was unfair to take toll on the bridge over the Connectigut river at Saybrook and { it will be unfair to take tolls on a new bridge which is going over Little river en the Middlesex turnpike. Senator Rogers said that a similar bill went through the senate in 1921 and was lost only by a small margin in the house. He was heartily in favor of abolishing tolls, Senator MacDonald who regards himself as “father of free toll bridges" also spoke for the bill which had | been reported out of the finance com- mittee which had considered it. Senator McGrath said the bill was heartily approved by the democrats. He wanted the vote te be unanimous. Senator Brooks who opposed a free toll bridge two years ago said he would not oppose it this year. The adoption was without dissent. The senate adopted this bilt: “It shall be presumed that the deaths of husband and wife were simultaneous where there is no evid- ence to indicate the priority of death of either. “This act shall not affect estates in process of settlement August 1, 1923.” Senator Ells just before adjourn- ment said that it had been the as- | sumption in the past that woman was the “weaker vessel” and suecumbed |easier than men but this presumption is now being abandoned in view of the Itrend of the times. Withdraws 8 Hour Bill. Senator Gibbs has withdrawn the bill providing for an eight hour day for railroad employes who perform any of the duties of telegraph or tele- phone operator in the movement of trains. The bill was aimed at the practice of dispatching trains by tele- phone from sidings between stations. | Tt was not entirely satisfactory to the conductors and telegraph operators who had it introduced and they were unable to get togethsr on a substi- ute. The bill amending the miscellan- eous mercantile and manufacturing tax law so as to reach a large num- [ber of itinerant merchants and others not heretofore reached for taxes, was adopted by the house. The bill to provide a bureau of for- eign and domestic commerce on the state pier at New London was re- | jected. tary committee reported on the proposed $25,000 for an armory for the Putpam Phalanx and for organization of an aviation squadron in the Connecticut National 3 and $15,000 for "hangar on the ipal aviation field in Hartford. Senator Rudd said these were bills the’committee regretted that it was necessary to report unfavorably. The federal governmient is not ready with its aviation plans for the militia, and it would not approve of a station on land owned by a municipality. The same committee was against the bilt to give the second company Governor's I'oot Guard $5,000 for its one hundred and fiftieth anniversary" celebration nekxt year. Senator Rudd gain expressed regret that this action ad to be taken. Pavorable Reports I‘avorable reports were these: Amending the Quinnipiac elub char« for permitting it to hold property up to $500,000 Incorporating Co. Extending time imendment to the charter of People's Light and FPower Co., Danielson and Plainfield Gas Electric Co. Authorizing the Guilford and C‘hes- to issue $1,000,000 in the Thomaston Gas of the and and for acceptance er bonds, Amending charter of New Canaan Country club Extending the charter rights of the Waterbury and Milldale Tramway Co. Reported Adversely An unfavorable report was on tha bill which called for repeal of all laws relieving towns, cities and horoughs from liability for defects in highways consisting of snow and iee Trom the senate calendar adopted in concurrence these ures wi woere meas. dge Gets $4,000 Making the salary of the judge at New Britain $4,000. Authorizing Ansonia to issue muni- cipal improvement bonds and Dur- ham $25,000 in bonds. Apportioning expense of highway bridges between towns which are con- nected by them, Penalizing trespass upon land of reformatory institutions, this applying Hirectly to the state farm for women it Lyme where there has been much (Continued on Thirteenth Rage