New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1930, Page 3

EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1930. Prohibition Referendum Upsets Bar Assn. Convention; Proposal to Withdraw It Firmly Defeated Fight on Floor Looms‘ When Executive Com-| mittee Declines Action | —President Sims Opensé Meeting With Address | y on Law Reform. [ | Chicago, Aug. 20 (A—Prohibition | has tossed a bombshell into the an- nual meeting of the American Bar | association. The executive committee's action | in refusing to withdraw a member- | &hip ferendum on the wet-dry question portended serious debate as | Henry Upson Sims, the president, formally opened the fifty-third con- | vention today Leaders of the opposition, or- ganized yesterday, were prepared to take their fight on the referendum | to the convention floor. Their argu- m it was disclosed, was that pro- Fibition is now a question of tional policy and not a legal matter that should come before the Bar as- | sociation Two Separate Questions The referendum, authorized by the executive committee last Janu- ary consisting of two questions, went to the 30,000 members through the mails. They were “Do you favor a referendum on the repeal of the cighteenth amend- ment? “Should the American Bar asso- ciation go on record as favoring the repeal of the cighteenth amend- ment?” There are separate envelopes for the replies. If the first question £hows a majority unfavorable to the referendum, the second set of en- velopes will be burned unopened. If favorable, the executive committee will open the second set some time | this fall «nd announce the result. 1 Believed Unanimous Tt was understood that the action of the exccutive committee yester- day in refusing to withdraw the ref- erindum was unanimous Some of tRe leaders of the dele- gates opposed to the poll are Judge Andrew A. Bruce, of Northwestern university; Judge John Weston Al- len, of Boston; Judge Frederick F. Faville, of Des Moines, Ja.; and Grorge Wilson, of Quincy, TIL, prominent Anti-Saloon league leader A discussion of the work of Presi- dent Hoover's law observance and enforcement commission by George W. Wickersham, the chairman, was on the afternoon program Sims Discusses Law Reform | The convention was opened by the presidential address of Henry Up- Sims of Birmingham, Ala.. who discussed technically the relation of censtitutional limitations to the reform of the law The reform of judicial adminis- tration, he said. might be termed the dominant problem before the Ameri- can people. Tt is not. however, the gocial impu but the social need that must be put into law, he added “Any legislation,” he said, “with- in the appropriation sphere of its action is constitutionzl if reasonable the conditions of time and ace to which it is made applicable, and conceivably directed to advance the public good “A good deai has been said and written to the effect {hat during the last years there is a constant econfiic in the courts of the nation between proponents of what are re- ferred to as human rights and pro- ponents of what are referred to as property rights.” The supposed ohstacles of in ort- Jant constitutional limitations found in legal decision: said, may real- flv be regarded as rantees of the oundness of future legislative ela- boration of the system of rights and he organized bar may proceed with- put hesitation to the systematic re- erm of the law. ANDY FIRM FILES BANKRUPTCY PLEA Page & Shaw Admits Liabilities Exceed Its Assets Boston & P—Page & Bhaw, Inc., candy manufacturers, to- | hay filed a voluntary petition n | bankruptey in the federal court here. Ptis E. Dunham, president of the irm. with 17 other persons, was in- icted last May by a Middlesex ounty grand jury on charges grow- o out of alleged irregularities in he sale of stock in the company porth $2.000,000 The bankruptcy petition showed e tirm's liabilities would exceed 300,000 and that its assets totalled hout $200,000 The action today was in accord- nce with a vote of stockholders yes- rday. Voting in the meeting were rik unham 1 Henr w, treas- rer. Dunham held 2,000 shares and jhaw, 4,000 shares of capital stock; e only shares in the company with pting power. The directors of the pmpany are Alice Dunham, Otis E. unham and Shaw Hugh D. Lennan, a lawyer, was pointed receiver for the firm by a ate court last June after James R urdock, a minority stock holder, Raynham, brought an action to cover for the benefit of the cor- bration, $75.000 alleged to have ben paid Raymond D. Holland as | ‘bonus in the sale of class A stock. Murdock also sought to recover r the firm, $975,000 alleged to ve been paid as a bonus to Isaac art and Joseph Pollay, brokers, for bck sales promotion Among the 17 persons indicted th Dunham were Hart, Pollay and ED plland. They are now at liberty in Vak 5,000 bail each. Their arrests fol- ouy wed investigation of the sales by | strict Attorney Robert T. Bush- 1l of Middlesex county. Most 0(‘ Six Policemen Hope They Killed Bandit | New York, Aug. (P—Six po- || licemen today were awaiting the | | result of tests by hallistics experts to find out to which one of them beiongs the credit for killing a bandit. William E. Drake, who while off duty started a chase for the man when he recognized him as Angelo Pessalano, an ex-convict, | | has been promoted The other | policemen all fired at the car in |1 which the man was fleeing. One of their bullets killing iim. The policcmen were taken fo the headquarters pistol ruange where they fired their revolvers into wads of cotton. The bullets wére then taken for coniparison with the one found in Pessalano’s body. —_— the stock involved was sold in Mas- sachusetts and Connecticut. ESTRANGED WIFE'S HONOR DEFENDED Men Fight When One Rellcts on Woman's Character Mecting at the corner of Queen street and Corbin avenue the night of August 9, Peter I'Andrea, 42, of 1692 Main street, Hartford, and Sebastiano Commaratta of 1622 Cor- bin avenue, engaged in a comver- sation which led to a two-fisted at- tack by D'Andrea, who knocked the local man into the road several times with punches about the face and head Exactly what led up to the fight was not entirely clear in police court today but Judge M. D. Saxe took the view that Commaratta brought on the trouble and while D'Andrea had no right to take the law in his hands. he was provoked and at least partiaily justified in what he did Also taking into consideration the fact that it was D'Andrea’s first of- fense, Judge Saxe suspended judg- ment. Comaratta. who was not arrested, told the co he and D'Andrea were friends and when they met on the street he invivted the Hartford man, who formerly lived at 49 Queen street near Com ratta’s former home, to join him in a few drinks. He had already had some wine but he was not intoxicated, he explained D’Andrea, instead of accepting his invitation, accused him of contrib- uting to the delinquency of Mrs. D’Andrea. who left home some time ago but later returned. This Com- maratta denied and in an angry outburst applied an unprintable name to Mrs. D'Andrea. To his sur- prise, in view of D'Andrea’s own statements about her to Commaratta in the past. D'Andrea struck out with his fists and scored three or four knockdowns with six punches Commaratta begged for mercy and did not so much as lift his hands in defense or attack, yet the assault continued until a 13 vear old girl threatened to “call a cop” and took Commaratta to his home D'Andrea’s version was different He said that after he had declined the invitation to drink with Comar- atta. the latter wanted to know if he and his wife were living together He replied that it was none of Com- maratia’s business, but the latter in- sisted that their friendship was suf- ficient ground on which to base the inquiry and he repeated it. When D'Andrea retorted that he did not consider himself Commaratta's friend, the latter passed the remark about Mrs. D'Andrea, who was not present, and, in D'Andrea’s own words: I socked him.” D'Andrea’s story was substantiat- o4 by a relative who was with him on the night in question, and Judge Saxe took the view that Comma ta actually invited the assault. At- torney Harry Na D'Andrea, admitted that although the latter should not have committed the assault, it was probably nothing but what the average red-blooded man would have done especially when he had only recently ironed out the domestic difficulties which Commaratta’ referred to when the met Personals Mrs. William A. Morrill of Lexing- ton, Mass.. is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bradbury at 17 Wallace street Misses Gertrude and Ethel Benz have returned after a trip to Yel- lowstone park Joseph Tynan of Black Rock ave- nue is spending his vacation at Lake Windsor in the Berkshires as the Suest of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cran- ley of Parkmore street. Miss Anne Gill of Washington street and Miss Mae Samoricyk of 2 Allen street have returned home from a two weeks stay at the White Mountains, New Hampshire Mr. and Mrs, Harry W. Mack, for- mer residents of this city, have re- turned to their home in Binghamton N. Y. after spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Albrecht of Maple street Rev. and Mrs. H. L. Maltman of Big Run, Pa. are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Maltman and family of the Westminster apartments Mrs. Raymond Fuller of Glen street, Miss Mary Smedley of Com- monwealth avenue, and Miss Mona Bayer of Sexton street are vacation- ing at Crescent beach, Niantic. Miss C bury, daughter of former Policeman and Mrs. William F. Murphy, is the guest of Fire Chief and Mrs. Wil- liam J. Noble of Harrison street. | They reach the person you wish— Herald Classified Ad dept. CAREY TOPS FIELD | service commission president tman, appointed by Governor F . who represented | re Murphy of Water-| BANK CELEBRATING IN'WYOMING VOTE 70TH ANNIVERSARY Ex-Governor Seems Likely G. 0. New Britain - National Began“ | | i | P. Choice for Semator Cheyenne. Wyo., Aug. 20 (A Robert D. Carey, former governor, led the field of republica aspirants both for the short and long term nominations with the tabul tion of scattered returns in yest day's primary Figures from 189 of the state's 650 precincts gave, for long term Carey, 4.508; Charles E. Winter, former congressman from Casper, 3.407; W. C. Deming, Cheyenne pub- lisher and former United and W. L. Walls, Cheyenne a | 502. Short term figures are relative- |1y the same. Walls was running on a ‘“wet platform, advocating repeal of the 18th amendment. Among the others there was no issue. but personality played the leading Sullivan Not Candidate Senator Patrick J. Sullivan, Cas- per. republican national committee- C. Emerson to fill the va ed by the death of . Warren, dean of th not a candidate in the primary. His appointment expires W e No- vember election ancy caus- neis was The short term nomination was to fill the unexpired term of Senator Warren, with the expiration of Sen- | ator Sullivan's appointment Democrats went into the rimary with a single candidate for each of- fice and without contests. vernor Emerson Leads Governor Emerson the republican ticket for natorial nomination with in the precincts reporte ent, W. H. Edelman er, had polled 1,992 Incumbent republicans were lead- ing by wide margins in other state contests. Vincent Carter leading for con by about o0 to one over his nearest oppon- ent, Harry B. Henderson, Jr, w FRONTIER RAIDERS Infan Emissares Negotatng With Alridi ports Indian British Bara Valley n effort to Afridis their hostilities the Kurrzm border. Activities of the Haji of angzai today were reported m with some success among the Baszai Kwhaezai Mo! iendly M con- he hostile forces would gather at o to- territory:. Utsar region is still occupied by Ghilzai w Autho trict of effort their side of the congre hoveott com today. The co member of any fi participate in anti-congress activities. Any who her of an auxiliar must sever all connectio s also ber of a fi volnnteers The other demands ten Iluropeans from the cor cotton mills. FEDERAL JURY ACOUITS DOYLE ON TWO COUNTS Judge Declares Mistrial Because of Evasion Count On Which Jury Failed to Agree New York, Aug. 20 (F)—A federal court jury acquitted Dr. William F Doyle today on two counts of per jury in connection with his incol tax returns for 19227 and failed to agree as to his gu nocence on a third cou evasion in his 1029 re judge declared a mistrial o sion count, and U Att Charles H. Tuttle said that Doyl would be brought to trial again that count, The jur This morning it r reach a verdict to the jury room. An pour acquittal on two counts nounced. The jury had t 19 hours and had spent almo hours in actual deliberation Doyle, a former veterinary for the city fire department, was charged with failing to report all of a large come derived from pear- ances for applicants before the city board of standards and appe Ziegler Transportation Bill of $40 Sanctioned The bill of Register W. J. Z for $40 for the se of his bile in connectign with the 2 oved gler enumeration has been 2 payment by the common coun Mayor Quigiey’s economy prog eliminated transportation payments but it was found that the amou recommended was contracted for be- .rore the mayor imposed his ban. n senatorial | dz HOPE TO DISSUADE eting | Ne | breakdown. Business Aug. 20, 1860 The New Britain National Bank | i3 celebratin its 70th birthday to- v. Established in 1860, when the community was just recovering ec of the disasirous Britain bank, charter, had | of $100.000 ted not only lo- oughout all this from stockholders 50, elected (o) rwin, George ers, O. B. North, T. W. S Darius Miller, Lu ANDREW J. SLOPER Chairman Board of Directors Woodruff, Philip Corbin, William Buckley o w Britain and Lot Van Sand of Middietown. Four d later the direct el Mr C | proot offi A. S Parsons, a e ant cashier; H. W. Hatsing, assist- elos ol 'th E. N J. B. Minor | City Items 76, of 235 Lasalle itted to New Britain t night for treat- about 5 sustained was un- two days 31 Horace at New for an i to his umb su; ed while at work on a machine at the d factory late yesterday v. Martin W. Gaudian. pastor John's German Lutheran will observe his 68th birth- niversary Monday. August 25 i friends of Unity wing circle will meet afternoon Stanley park. A basket nch will r lodge, O. § of B lay evening at § 0. U. A: M. hall vere notified today of th sion of the operator's li- ¢ f Sczepan Nokiec of 11 Beatty street, Anthony Dobrowski of 173 Beaver street, and William Robison F. D. No. 2. New Britain Dr. George H. Bodley is convales- cing at his home where he has been confined as the result of a nervous A DAY OF GRATITUDE New Britain National Bank has completed 70 years of service to the community. Es- tablished August 20, 1860, this institution has witnessed the growth of New Britain from a small rural community to an indus- trial metropolis, ““The Hardware City of the World.”" It has been privileged to aid and share in this phenomenal progress. The directors and officers of the bank feel that its 70th Birthday should not be allowed to pass without a sincere expression of their appreciation for the ]oya] support of a“ pa- trons and other friends. New Britain's Old- sst Bank will continue to observe the for- ward thinking policies which have charac- tenized its service throughout its long history. OFFICERS A. ]. Sloper, Chairman of the Board F. S. Chamberlain, President E. N. Stanley, Vice President W. H. Judd, Cashier C. L. Sheldon, Asst. Cashier and Trust Officer A. S. Parsons, Asst. Cashier H. W. Hatsing, Asst. Cashier DIRECTORS Walter H. Hart F. M. Holmes George P. Spear A. J. Sloper E. N. Stanley H. S. Walter J. B. Minor F. S. Chamberlain A. F. Corbin “ E. A. Moore Arthur G. Kimball " George T. Kimball Maurice Stanley Harold L. Judd Charles F. Chase William H. Judd R. E. Pritchard R. L. White ] New Britain National Ban New Britain’s Oldest Bank