New Britain herald., 1924-09-24
PlcinviM Meu's


 TOWN PLAN COMMISSION Began -Trumbull Suit Scttled--Mrs.
 Elizabeth Donahue - Episcopal
 Church Notes-Town Plan Com-
 mission Mcets-Plainyille Briefs. County. Detective Edward Hickey | and members of his staff, accom- panied by Deputy Sheriff E. w. Fur rey of Plainville, paid a visit yes- terday afternoon about 5:3o o'clock | to the establishment of Neal Mccall on Neal Court. The affair was raid and the officers were In search Of l liquor. A search of the place re- suited in samples of cider being taken, the total amount carried away l by the county detective being a gal lon and half. Mir. Mccall was not paced under arrest and 1t is thought that the county detective will have the cider analysed to determine the alcoholic contents of 1t before action is taken.
 Town Plan Commission Meets
 The Plainville town plan commis- sion held meeting in the town hal Monday evening and discussed the street lines of New Britain avenue The commission voted to hold pre- liminary hearing on this matter ir the near future at which property owners on the street and townspeo pie will be invited to express thei sentiments regarding the width 0 the street. The question will bt whether they want the street 66 fee
 wide or. less. No street lines re
 garding the width of the street hav'
 been adopted and members of th' commission wilt conduct a research ] through the records in Pennington in an effort to discover any mention of the proposed width of New Britain
 avenue. At the present time, tn
 records show blank width here ant : the present commission in it's line o work will set street line in the nea future.
 Began -Trumbull Suit Settled
 The suit of Joseph C. Regan 0
 New Britain against the Trumbul
 Electric Mfg. Co. of Plainville whicl was to have been heard on appea by the supreme court next month has been settled.
 The suit was over a contract en ,. tered into in 1917 by Began and tn : company by whom Began was em ployed as general manager at an an nual salary of s5,000 and an addi : tional 20 per cent on the first $25, 100 of net operating earnings and 1 per cent on the balance.
 The main issue in the controvers was the amount of net earnings c , the company. During the trial developed that the federal incom taxes of the Trumbull Co. wer tentatively arrived at in Washing ton by algebraic computation. Re gan on one side and the compan
 on the other had altogether differ ent methods of arriving at tn , bonus and curiously enough thi was complicated by the face tha ! s. s. Gwilim was employed by tn
 company at the same time as Re gan under an identical contrac Began claimed the company owe him s41,00o for the years 1917 { !. 1920. On the other hand, the com pany claimed it had overpaid Re gan S58S.65 in paying him fou years salary and s30.000 in bonus eS.
 Judge Newell Jennings who sa on the case found two main ques tions to deal with. In computin
 the amount of the fund on whic = the bonus was to be calculated ' should the federal taxes first be dc '' dueted and should Gwillim's bonr = first be deducted? Judge Jennine
 concluded that operating earning 2 from which taxes have not bee u deducted, cannot be said to be n' sa V and he also came to the conclusio H that the company could not logfca @ ly deduct Gwillim's bonus befol
 computing Regans bonus.
 John A. Walsh of Stamford ar
 Harrison Hewitt of New Haven al
 attorneys for Began and Kirkhar
 Cooper, Hungerford" and Camp
 New Britain represent the Trun
 bull company.
 Mrs. Elizabeth Donahue H The funeral of Mrs. Elizabet # Donahue of Pine street, Forestvill M was held this morning at o'cfoc M from St. Matthew's church, Pores V vile. Rev. William P. LaHin, pa. 3 tor of the church officiated at th N requiem high mass. William Hayt of PlsinvilIe sang Ava Maria duI ing the offertory and as the bod ,A was being borne from the churc s he rendered They Will Re Done. \ Selections were also rendered b 2 the Hayes brothers quartet of Bris