New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 31, 1929, Page 1

) W News of the World By Associated Press NEW BRITAIN HERALD Week Endmg July 27th Average Daily Circulation Fou 15,102 ESTABLISHED 1870 SHIP OVERLDADED, OFFICIALS BLAMED INVESTRIS PROBE English Inquiry Finighed—Mar-| gin of Stability Decided Too Small far Safety HEARING TAKES 40 DAYS, LONGEST EVER ORDERED Heavy Weather and High Wind and Sea Also Contributed to Disaster in Which 112 TLives Were Lost, Board of Trade Decides—Water Seeped Into Coal Bunkers to Cause List. London, July 31.—(P—The Lam- port and Holt liner Vestris, when she &t out on her fatal voyage from Hohoken last November was over- loaded and unfit to encounter the perils of -her winter trip, was the main finding of the board of trade’s inquiry into her sinking with a loss of 112 lives rendered today. The inquiry court also found that when peril did overtake the ship. her § O S. warning was too long de- layed. the court declaring that it should have been sent out six hours earlier. Answers 58 Questions The court answered a list of 58 questions bearing on the liner's loss which the board had prepared and decided that the main contributory causes were: (1) Loading the vessel beyond the load line. The tender condition of the &hip. (3) TInsufficient margin of stability and reserve of buoyancy. (4) Heavy weather and high wind and sea, causing the vessel to list to starboard. (5) Water finding its way into the lower bunkers saturating the coal, causing a list and probably prevent- Ing the pumps from working effi- ciently Hearing Took 40 Days The court which had sat for a record period of 40 days hearing evi- dence in the case which previously had been dealt with by two Ameri- can investigating bodies. went mi- nutely into all the circumstances of the ship's tragic end. Tt found that disaster overtook her sooner than ex- pected after trouble developed and that this probably was the reason for the failure of more lifeboats to get away with a further saving of life. ~ Considerable attention was paid to the questionof overloading and sev eral of those who had duties to per- form in connection with the vessels held NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1929. EIGHTEEN PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS ROOSEVELT PROBES PRISON REVOLT W[]RL[] ENDURANCE FLIERS BOWED AT BIER OF LAMBERT \End"Epic of Air to Pay Re-| spects 0 Dead “Aviator | Buddie” This Alternoon PLAUDITS OF NATION ARE | TURNED ON TWO AIRMEN| Chamber of Commerce l,um-hwnl Today Signal For Presentation of | Hundreds of Gifts to Pilots— | Parade and Acclaim, Such as| Only Lindbergh Got, Scheduled | For Tomorrow in St. Louis. I | st. Louis, July 31 (—Dale (Red) Jackson and Forest O'Brine, who S |came back to earth last night after Sensational revolls of convicts in two New York state prisons—at Danne- e e e s mora and Auburn—within a weck of each other, brought “a sweeping e and thorough investigation” from Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Here |SKY in their monoplane, St. Louis you see the Chief Executive of the Empire State, left, he arrived at | Robin, to score a new and histori- Clinton Prison in Danncmora to inspect the scene where three were killed | cal triumph for aviation. turned and a score wounded during a riot of 1500 prisoners. With the governor | from the plaudits of the nation today are Commissioner of Prissns R. 1. C. center, and Warden Harry |to humbly pay their respects to a Keiser, right fallen “air buddie.” i Quit to Attend Funeral | | They abandoned their amazing air feat while yet short of their goal in | ‘ |order that they might béw before H\- bier of George Lea Lambert, r friend and fellow airman, who | \\\.w killed Monday in an airplane | crash in St Louis county. The | funeral was set for this afternoon. The epic flight ended at 7:38:30 | oo . > 3 last night at Lamber Louis field. Hartford Omcers Say Conieder- First Uniavorabie Weather Re-|wne srouna niad heen made muaay by a downpour of rain an hour ates Took Car to Fonda | carlier, but Jackson brought the ‘ MAN HELD IN SYRACUSE SHIP TUNED FOR JOURNEY Many PFalse Reports Run Down In Search for Kscaped Auburn Men —Reported Seen In Three States Yesterday. Hartford, July 31 (A—Hartford police today expressed the beliet that the four men observed here yesterday in a sedan, believed to have been stolen in New York state after the convicts had made thelr scape, from Auburn prison Thurs. were met in this city confederates. A report that missing car had been recovered londa, N. Y. would also point the theory. police say It was not believed that the four men returned to New York state in day night, by in to the | ports Finally Ignored little orange-colored monoplane to safe landing while a crowd of 000 persons, which had stood in the rain, went wild Several persons were injured” but I none seriously. the cheering Additional Passengers Refused throng broke down a fence and surged through ropes to reach the Tickets to Enable Craft to CArey | fliers. There was another thunder- German Time, town hotel, escorted by a squad of motorcycle police Friedrichshaten, Germany, July 51 Up 420 Hours, 21 Minutes (P—The departire of the diriginle | The flisht began at 7:17 a. m . - s | July 3. and the fliers were up 420 Graf Zeppelin on her transatlantic hours, 21 minutes and 30 seconds. 1ir voyage to America was set today | exceeding by more than 173 ho for 3 a. m. tomorrow morning (9 P. for over & week the previous world's | m, Wednesday E. 8. T.) {endurance flight record. Unfavorable weather reports re- | Aw from the roar of their trusty eived at Friedrichshafen this after- | mos the Afli vested today in a| hoon at first made it likely that the LI start of {he Graf Zeppelin. scheduled (Continued on Page Two) for wn Thursday, would be post- poned The reports indicated that a heavy IFriedrich- storm was approa ing DEFENDS GOLLFAGUES cargo were blameworthy in shafen tonight which would make it f Mr. Woods. registered manager of | DY one of the confederates in Hart-1, . 1o girigible out of her hangar. | ! Lamport and Holt, as in some degree | f0rd or vicinity who ~drove it 0,70 nsuncement that the start | to blame for failing to take further | Fonda where it was abandoned. | (14 ho made followed later, how- » measures to prevent overloading | The convicts according to police | .. Alderman Johnson Says when he had been informed the ship | Vere probably —furnished with an- Pierces Cancel Trip # b 3 ? 5 bad previously sailed overloaded. [ Other car and continued on into| z¢ jeast one american couple| Ordinance Committee | Orders Payment Massachusetts seeking to throw PO-| g pequied to make the passage, Mr. % The court ordered the payment of | !ice off the tr [ind Mrs. Henry 4. Pierce of New | ¢ Has Worked Hard £500 costs by David Cook, vice pre: | York. will be unable to make the | dent of Sanderson & Son, New York Qxrest Suspicious sMan | trip. Mrs. Pierce who is now in | o agents of Lamport and Holt. who, it| Syracuse, N. Y., July 31 ®—Ar- | puggin with her husband. is ill and | The necessity of giving immediate held, had not taken adequate |T€St late vesterday by state 1roopers | onseqnently will be unable to make | attention to matters which are of measures to prevent the vessel from | Of @ man whose description fitS | pyjoqrichshafen in time great importance and the fact that being loaded below her load line ang | that of one of the escaped Auburn | Ajthough numerous applications | the persons interested in having the | it named Captain Harry Wheeler, | Prison convicts was reported frOm | for their places have been pouring leating ordinance enacted into law | marine superintendent and Captain | Fonda, N. Y.. foday. near where the |, jncjuding two from Americans, |have not furnished members of the William Heasicy, assistant marine’| automobile stolen from J. M. Hast- |ty Zappelin company for the pres. |committee with copics of the law superintendent, as blameable in less- | ings of Solway was abandoned som= |ant js declining to fill vacancies. were given as reasons for the deloy time yesterday “Itis a much better proposition work on the heating ordi- (Continued on Page Two) State Trooper ind Deputs | for us 1o take on more fuel and if nances by the ordinance committee i | Sherift Edward J. Sheenan rour1|any room is left gond paying freight |in a letter sent to the mayor today | the man about 11 miles from Fonda. | than to load the Zeppelin to capa- |by Alderman Gustave Johnson. | said as soon as he was apprehended. | von Schiller. sent to Alderman Johnson a few Later, however. it was said the| Discussing the weather question, |days ago in which the mayor called | BATH AUT" flEATH‘HLn) carried a scar on the index | Captain Von Schiller said that an- |the alderman’s attention to the de- finger of his left hand, a mole 01 |other weather report was expected |lay and the importance of having 5L his upper arm and several moles on |late today. {the laws adopted. This letter was | his hack.| These detalls were sall| The Zeppelin was preened in its| mailed after Deputy Building In- Sentenced to Five Months | to fit the description of Steven Paw- [nangar foday for its siart on its see. |Spector Thomas J. Fay informed the = A lak, a life term prisoner from Buf-|ond westward fransatlantic crossing. | mayor that the ordinance committee in Prison and [ falo who was one of the four m-| Its cargo, including several ba-|in existence since April has not | 5 . | . made prozress although everything Costs (Continucd on Page Two) ! (Continued on Page Two) was ready for its attention | | | Today Alderman Johnson said the = — |committee has worked hard on mat | % I.]nndnn. July" 8P =Richard E P | ters pertaining to Sunday movi oshua Reynolds. rich young Ameri q F A t -W dry cleaning establishments, gus today found guilty of mansianghter D | the meetings lasted until 11 o'clock S O o B i @mons rations of Communists Ot i S il 16 Involved and a motoreyetist | the members in for special meeting was | killed last May. | The old Buailey jury deliboratid | less than an hour after the dJefens: | had concluded its final ad.dress and the case had been piven :o it Arthur draham, the motereyeiist, | was killed on the Tiath road at night when Reynolds was driving bac London fromn an to | outing at Heurley. | The prosecution alleged thz dofer, - % at the time. | was sentenced to five | months in prison. without hard | labor. The voung American was | also ordered tn pay the whole (osts of the prosecution, which will be heavy. nl His iawyer, Norman Birket, | ading for nitigation of *he .«m\-‘ tence said Revnolds had nrovided for Graham's vidow for life. The death of Graham, Birk:tt | said. had been linked with the faet that it was caused by a rich Ameri- can who, lLecause of his resources, had been able to summon distin- guished lawyers to defend him | “If because of that there sho:ld | he imparted any eeling into the | natter, then there would he so.no | langer that an ininstice will he done.” e said. “The case for the in features yre- 1 have tricd prosccution in its n sents o strong case and to meet it." Today was the fourth d:y of the | present proceedings which is “he sec- | ond trial. The first having been halted when the foreman of the jury seen speaking to two deferst Wwitnesses, London, July 31 (A—All "Europe watched with increasing concern to- day the preparations for communist “anti-war” demonstrations tomor- | row. took measure trouble. Inception and conduct demonstrations generally wa ed here to the Mosccow third inter- national. Anti-Bolshevik source: took the view that the affair had less to do with “anti-war” than pro- Bolshevism Pre For day 31 to avert threatened of arations Made past reports from many European cities have told of vigor- ous preparations to combat th: movement on the ground that dis- orders were bound to result from them. Many communist leaders and numbers of their followers have sted and imprisoned. is was said here to have 20.- 000 armed troops and poilce organ- ized to repress attempts at meetings and processions, which have been forbidden. Berlin, Hamburg, Mun ich, and the Ruhr district have made elaborate preparations agains: possible disorders and have forbid den strect demonstrations. Vienna has forbidden communist gatherings and has taken strong steps to prevent them while the Bal- Kan capitals have been particutariv strenuous in efforts to hold down the communists. 1y have beea arrested. | Police in the various countries | . | tachments of troops were sent to all aserib- | | rests of Athens reports said hundreds o |21 at this time of the year he feels i it unjust to have me s spend communists had been arrested and | too many nights at work on the | that arrests continued throughout |problems. He said many of the the country. All embassies and con- | Members resented the implication sulates were guarded and the larger towns and tect public buildings. ( gatherifgs were Sofia, Zagreb, Bulgaria and Jugoslavia communists, and ordered all Be police y or to be punished. Czechoslavakio, and Bulgaria, were other cente ing such preparations. Igrade workmen port at their jobs on the designated | strong de- | | cities to pro- “ommunist fornidden. at to re Prague, Philippopolis, | ers report and all reported ar- Zagren | that they were not doing their work. In the near future the committee will have to take up the problem of extending the fire district lines to | " (Continued on Page Two) rick )ian;f;{ill'el' Dead in Middletown Middletown, July 31 (P—Lewis M. Tuttl president of the Tut- tle Brick company, died at his home here today after a,long illness. He {was the organizer of the brick com- pany bearing his name, starting the At Warsaw many communists jusiness 35 yvears ago. - Tuttle was were under ar and demonstra- |, tive in the affairs of the Nation-l |tions had been forbidden. Preven- | pyick association. He was associ- | tive measurse wee invoked also ated with his brother Wallace M. | Helsingfors, Finland. Three hundred |Tyttle in the brick making industry | communists were arrested in the |sinco its inception i | French concession at Shanghai. |~ He was a councilman in Middle- jOther Far East reports told of|oyn and always took an active preparations for communist activi- | part in civie cffairs. He is survived ties there August first also by his widow and five children | | While there has been no great stir | in Great strations the Britain about t police were he demon- > alert to prevent disorders in London ana HIGH TIDES—AUG. various industrial centers. It was said an attempt would be made to| | New London 6:32 a.m.,6:51 p.m. hold a demonstration in the neigh New Haven 7:10a.m.,8:02 p.m. borhood of the Boy Scouts’ at Arrowe Park. Jjamboree | | the | tions of (i oo ) WAHER ANPLIFIES - WHEELER DECLINES TO SAY WHETHER SINGLE VALIDATING BILL WOULD LEGALIZE LAWS Pliator by WALT neon & R STACHELEK SLIPS RO TUBE, Peterson YOUTH 1§ BR[]WNFIJ Walter Grove Su‘eet Perishes Swimming Student Sinks at voir No. 1 Park When “Life Pre- | state tuberculosis commission asked | Dr. O'Brien, the superintendent of server” Gets Beyond His Grasp— | geagide. who was on very friendly Graduste lof- N BIL. 5. terms with Justice McCook of New | York, the senior of the sons of th Slipping from an inflated rubber | McCook family, to sound Justice tube on which he had been foating |McCook as' to {.c family’s willing- - ness to sell to the state some or all at Batterson park and clutching | htotn e ioiming 1o 1 owned by the madly at a girl companion in an McCook family. fort to save himself from death, Told to Condemn 1t ot Sluchelak, 15 Tof 90/ Geovel ®“The moxt time Justicss McCaoki| visited Niantie, Dr. O'Brien met him reet, was drowned » yesterday |, g acked whether he wouldn't agree arternoon in view of hundreds of {0 AE0E WICEE e e people who had been driven to the |, 4750 ho state. Justice McCook park by the heat. Batterson park is| S00 0 M SEE St e fiife DR R S S ‘Why docsn't the state condemn it? " cently constructed by the city of | iy, \(ore surprised at this from Hartford. 1t is in the town of |y, iice McCook and we were loath Farmington. a short distance from | (15 SEFO0K the New Britain line, and is liberally | “we 1y many discussions during patronized by residents of this ¢lty. | o next few months concerning th GirisAbedyaScEatuhied Cesirability of securing the needed Defails. of the. = drowning land and on June 14, 1922, Mr. Allis meagre, but from the girl compan- | p, y,wyer member of the stat Ton AMenyiitonalosvic ST RSEHCI0LE reulosis commission, brought the street it was learned that Stachelek | o o officially to the attention of | had hecome entangled in the tube, Stachelek, 18, of 90 ¢ GRAPPLES WITH GIRL PAL 1o=2. - Reser- and while he was trying to extricate | himself the tube him and let He clutched slipped at the girl in a from under him down in the water. futile effort to save himself but was drowned before help could arrive The girl, who could not swim:well, managed to scramble to shallow water, where she called for help She is scratched in several places where Stachelek’s nails scraped her. | The body was taken to Hartford first but later was brought to this city (Continued on Page Two) MARSH WILL DIRECT REORGANIZING HOTEL : | sion to introduce such a bill. Heads Committee to Take office m January Over Cornish Arms, New York Steps towards the election rew board of directors of tI nish Arm hotel in New York were faken last evening when A. Marsh of this city w o Cor city P 1s etected unani- | | L TEMPLETON CASE STATEMENT TODAY Gwes Long Version of Alleged Facts o ex-Governor's - “Porced Agreement” (CITES APPOINTHMENT OF 'GOOK AS SIGNIFICANT Kimball Used Influence With Execu- | tive, Tuberculosis Commission of Plan to Take Last Lyme Prop- crty For Seaside Sanitarium Ad- dition, to No Azl cw Haven, July 31 (P)-—Clarify- H‘[: the report that the state tubercu losis commission had been forced into an agreement to take only 60 feet of the McCook estate for the aside sanitarium at East Lyme, Dr. Stephen J. Maher of this city \ of the commission, who nimselt is described as having signed the agreement under threat of re- moval from oftice, today issued the following statement “arly in the s alizing the for of the year asing need ansion of ring incr the ex more land ‘caside, the state’s famous institution | for curing children crippled with brne and glandular tuberculosis. the Justice McCook. Justice McCook replied to Com- missioner Allis by letter and defii- nitely refused to sell in whole or i part the land at Hast Lyme “Then it was that the matter was Lrought 1 the attention of the at- torney general, Mr. IFrank Healy. I'he attorney general advised that in view of the state’s great need of the sand, condemnation proceedings he brought by the state and a request nade to the gencral sssembly for a sufficiently large appropriation to ‘over the appraisal of the land by the superior court committee. Bill Was Introduced Such a bill was prepared by the itorney general and was introduced tc the general assembly in January, 19 . asking for a sum of $125,000 for the acquiring of the McCook | land of IS acr No secret was made of the purpose of the comm “Governor Templeton went into 1923. His home town is Waterbury. One of the members of the commission, Mr Arthur R. Kimball, )i Waterbury. friend and ‘Templeton vas anxious that should sympathi: also a resident had been a long supporter of Governor Like the rest of us the new governor > with our efferts it (Continued on Page Two) mously as chairman of a stockhold- | Prisoner Stabbed in crs’ committee to fake preliminary steps toward rcorganization Marsh, who waged fight ‘for (hree vears almost single handed ugainst Sid Blake, manager and presigent, and 18 of the 21 directors, for a strict accounting of financial transactions, was victorious Satur- aay night when the supreme court of New York ordered Blake and the entire board it ant ousted, on th majority of the Marsh as h an cont Sid Blake active ded that corporatio corporation formed Cornish Arms jeavoring to value so that could take over the hotel The Cornish Arms is suid fwo million dollar institution, ganized in 1926 with 340 stock of which mainly rembers of the Sons of St. George was chairm committee of the or three year: hotel, Blake force down tt he and his was sold American The alleged irr hotel management clected a dircctor. fight Blake through two years most of the time the unsupported by anyone led tc his against and as a battle (Continued on Page Two) THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Fair and somewbat warmer tonight; Thursday increasing cloudiness with probably lo- cal thunder showers in the afternoon. Cooled Thursday night. to be grounds directors were improvident and incompetent ad of in- while | Blake was under contract with the was en- e stock friends a or- rooms to Order | local an | an of the national finance | ganization almost ago when his investiga- gularities in the being He carricd on his his friends | director, | being | cxeept a di- A Feud Battle Today Boston, July 31 (P —Nicholas Galvine, 30, of Barnstable, a prison- er at the Charlestown State Prison was stabbed and critically wounded in one of the prison shoe shops to day by IFrancisco P. Luizza, 33, of Cambridge. a fellow prisoner. At the prison hospital, it was reported that Galvine had been stabbed twice, in the left shoulder and the abdo- men According to prison officials, the assault was the outcome of a feud of long standing between the two men. A knife nsed in the manufac- ture of shoes was the weapon used Luizza was immediately placed in solitary confinement. Luizza is serving a sentence of 10 to 15 years for manslaughter and Galvine three to five years for at- tempted criminal assault time | GIRL EVANGELIST'S HUSBAND 1§ HELD Suspicion of Murder Charged in Philadelphia Case Woman Leaves Note Addressed to Mate Explaining Act. But Police Arrest Man In Probe of Death In Park Yesterday *hilac July (UP)— George s arrested {today and charged with suspicion of | murder in connection with the death tof his wife, Gwendoiyn, 19, girl cvangelist, whose body was found with a bullet wound through her {temple in Fairmount park here last night. Mrs. Hester was a friend of Un- evangelist Pirst Thought Suicide | Police at first believed Mrs. Hes- ter's death was suicide. Beside her body was found lying a .32 calibre pistol from which the fatal bullet had been fired. In her hand was clasped a photograph of her hus band I'urther evidence tending to point to suicide was the finding of a note addressed 10 her husband an’ pinned to his pillow in their home. This note read: “Dear George “Forgive me if you can. 1 realiz our lives will never be happy to- r, and your happiness means to me than 1 hope you will find happiness and contentment after T am gone. Always remember that 1 have never stopped loving rou ind it is for you I am doing this Bids Children Goodbye to Grandma hat it is for the as 1 am tired of he- ing sick and suffering all time. Tell hier what the doctor Kiss he kiddies—Eleanor all goodbye. “Try let see best Naoli Also mother ana | Frank- and dad “Your loving wife, | PEGGY." body on where we my in FFourth MILLION DOLLAR DAY FOR TAX COLLECTOR Loomis Expects 81,200,000 | to Be Paid by | Tonight { At noon today all the large New Britain manufacturing concerns had paid their taxes and, according to an estimate of Taxx Collector Ber- nadotte Loomis, $1.200,000 in taxes will be paid today alone This is the last day taxes can he paid without a penalty and through- out the day there was a line of peo- ple waitin to pay. According to Police Officer Michael Massey. W:o is doing duty throughout the day in {city hall, there has not been a mo- 1ent when there was not at least person at the window. Mr Loomis and an assistant have been | receiving the money through two windows. The office will e open until 9 o'clock tonight and from the sup- per hour until that time Mr. Loomis expects a large crowd. Many people cmployed in local factories, house wives and business men were num- red among the group which came to city hall today. the 11th hour. The greater number of the local factories paid bil check and at each mail delivery large sums of received. Practically money were 1l the money to be collected now is from individuals and a few small factories, When the figures were totaled for yesterday's receipts approximately one-half of the entire tax due was paid. The total expected is $2.300.- 100, and up to 9 o'clock last night 31 036.36 was received Masher Plcks Athletnc Sweetle And Takes Count In Vicious Onslaught Chicago. July 31 (P—TFor subduing | mashers, Virginia Mercereau recom- mends a headlock, immediately pre- ceded by a right hook. And her ecommendation is backed by actual experience, as George Duffy, can and probably will, testify Miss Mercereau was gazing in a shop window yesterday wnen Dufiy came alongside and ventured “Waiting for a street car, bahy" This drew nething but a scowl, =0 he tried another “Where are you going?" “I'm going shopping,” was the re- ply “Can T go along?" he asked, en- couraged. “You not only can, but you will!" And then things started to happen to Duffy. A fist crashed into one eye. A strong left arm envircled his | neck and a vlow between the shonl- ders flattened him At the police station where he was hooked for disorderly conduct, Duffy vesumed his questioning, but in a | very respectful tone | “What" he asked, “is your oc- cupation?” “Why, I'm claimant to the title of world's middleweight woman cham- pion wrestler.” she answered. “Look | up my record.” | " “T wish T had," he sighed, as they {locked him up. Supreme Court Chief Justice Withholds Comment Until Ques- tion Comes Before Group Formally— Case Causes Mixup. Reply Might Disqualify Him From Passing on Point in Case of Appeal, He Declares — Leaders Discuss Possible Text of Bill. 31 (A—Chiet Wheeler. of the court of errors declined to- Bridgeport, July Just e George W, supreme day to publicly announce his opin- ion as to whether the state legisla- session, can in one 1497 laws in- the court’s recent dect- ture, in special bill validated by omnibus re-enact sion in the McCook case. The Bridgeport Post submitted three questions to the chief justice in an effort to gain his opinion and an- swers were declined in all of them. List of Questions The questions were as follows: “First—In your opinion is it ne- cossary for the legislature to re- enact ach of the invalidated bills separately ‘Second—Would in your opinion the passage of one bill re-enacting all of the affected laws properly re- them to validity? “Third—In your opinion is it ne- for the legislature to securs a ruling from the supreme court on the matter before proceeding?” In declining answers the chief justice declared he “was in no po- sition to answer He pointed to the claim that there is a possibility that the supreme court may be called upon for a ruling and that he did not wish to disqualify himself by of- fering an opinion at this time. He aiso declared that he felt he could not well speak for the ether mem- hers of the court in the matter. The chief justice declared however that he had not officially been asked store, cessary to rule upon the question. Method is Revealed Hartford, July 31 (P)—The first indication of how the blanket “heal- |ing” act to be adopted at the spe- cial session of the general assembly on Tuesday will read was revealed today following a conference of leg- islative leaders in the office of Depu- ty Attorney General Ernest L. Aver- il It was decided to proceed with the plan of drawing up a single bill by which it is hoped approximately 1,- 300 legislative acts invalidated by the supreme court hecause they were igned too late by governors will be made legal 3 However, instead of containing & list of all the bills or their numbers or titles, the master measure will merely State that all laws published and certified to by the secretary of states during the years affected by the McCook opinion, but not signed by the governors within the case (Continued on Page Two) BANKRUPTCY ASSET FOUND ENCUMBERED Listed at $55,000 of No Value to But Creditors A unique situation, one of tha first [: its kind to be applicabls to a New Britain bankruptey case, it is thought, has arisen in the bank- ruptey affairs of Joseph Melnyk of this city In his assets, he listed a store including merchandise and fix- tures and property Main street. The store was sold by United States Auctionesr William Howard Wakelee for $2,500 on July 19 Atto at 73-75 East ney 1s has filed ael Nair, trustes, how- a motion with Referee Saul Berman, asking permission to abandon the property named and. this brings in the unusual aspect of the case. The property has been appraised at between $50,000 and $55,000 but it has been found to be encumbered’ with mortgages and tax liens to an amount of from $4,000 to $9.000 in excess of its value. There is a tirst’ mortgage on the property of $25.- 1000 and a second of 0,000 with taxes amounting to $423.24 due on it. among other claims, A hearing on the motion will be eld in the office of the referee on | August 9 at 12 o’clock noon. In the case of the Lincoln Dry Cleaning Co. a motion of the trus- tee, Aftorney Martin Stempien, through his attorney, David L. Nair, | to dispose of the assets at a private’ | sale has seen granted. The sale will | take place on Monday, August §, at 2 p.om. | P g -