The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-24
Only Three
 ''SunShine'' HOnnesMade
Simon Lake So Admits New York District At torney A II d Grand. Jury May Find Out The Reason Why.

Unless the Sunshine Homes- and Concrete Products Co.,, sup-| posed by many buyers to be feverishly busy in these days of depression making unit homes for April 1 delivery, can step lively at their plant, supposed to be the location of the Housatonic Shipbuilding Eo.. Stratford, the concern will find itself in serious difficulties with the District Attorney and Grand Jury of the Bronx Sec ton of New York, and probably with the Postal authorities.
 Accepting Payments.
 Selling an immense amount of stock through the General Financing com 1921, was BIO Liberty building. this city, but which concern is no longer listed in the local telephone direc- tory, it is maintained that the com pany further accepted and is still accepting through the mail and oth- erwise, payments on houses that were to be delivered April 1 next: Simon Lake, inventor of the submarine4 bearing his name, is sand to have ad mitted in New York that but three small units were ever made by the
 
 One of these is standing deserted apparently, and lonesome in the cem- etery like plant of the company in Strata3ra N1edia seooaq 4q is in sfhe fba S9 ford section, while the third, and the prize package, said to have been tho 'come on,' is Up on sti1ts in the Avon Park section of Stamford. unoccupied and according to rumor, there because the purchaser of "one of the houses being turned out at the rate of two a statement of a representative of the firm; raised such a rumpus that he was presented with the prize package to quiet him down.
 New York's first woman District attorney. Julia Alice Gainey, of the Bronx, has given the company 10 days to show action. or the entire working of the company and it's com nections will be the subject of an in vestigation by the Grand jury of the Bronx.
 Simon Lake was said to be out of the city, and due in Bridgeport to- ert M. Keys, could not be located this morning. He had previously endeav- ored to give the impression that the only cause of misunderstanding was that the houses did not conform with the New York building code. Rum blings have been under the surface ton already conducted shows that certain matters in relation to stock selling have been conducted in such a manner, that with inforarntion at hand It the time of the tigation, E there was nothing wrong with the methods and technicaiities of the con- cern.
 This investigation swept from Maine to West Virginia, where some of the questionable methods of stock sales men were said by the company to be the work of unautho orized agents, who were holding out money on the Z 1ny A nF7 fc probable and may already be under way. The company is incorporated under the laws of Maine.
 Fire Lieutenant James Brennan, of Brooklyn. was the first to complain. The second was David Boss. BIS E. 18th street Manhattan. Witb pub Lcity given to these complaints a steady stream followed, some present. ing themselves and claiming that their houses were to have been delivered last October, but that they were Stalled" by statements of a. change in the construction of the houses, and the staff of the company