New Britain herald., 1930-11-04
ANT|.SPEED DRIVE ID BE WAGED HERE Prosecutor COnlOn to Seek Aid
 of State Police EARLY VOTE VERY LIGHT
MinstrcIs at Grange Hall Tomorrow Eyening-Funeral of Charles B. Hotchkiss-Woman Injured in Au- tomobiIe Accident-Other Items.

A strict campaign against speed ing on the new East street highway is to be started in the near future by Prosecutor Charles F. Conlon Of the town court. Mir. Conlon plans 10 seek tho help of the state police de- partment and will ask that two mo- torcycle officers be assigned 10 pa trol the highway during the cam paign. The officers will be instruct ed to conduct d close watch on cars travelling over the highway and 10 make arrests in all cases where there are violations of the motor vehicle ! laws.
 | The police have been trying for some time to stop the use of the 1 highway as a speedway and Prosecu- tor Conlon is taking this drastic step 10 convince motorists that the town officials mean business. The highway is used extensively daily by both business and pleasure cars and it is reported that a majority of them travel between 40 and 50 miles an hour and even faster in many instances. The street is very dan gerous because of the many inter sections and the presence of the high school and Linden street school.
 The boulevard system was estab- lished at the last town meeting, re- quiring every motorist to come to a, stop when coming out of a side street onto the main highway. He may continue on without fear of ar rest but does so at his own risk. On policed the highway without giving advance notice and many motorists have fallen into their hands.
 Lively Ballot Fight
 Although prediction predictions that record vote would be cast to- day in the state election appeared doomed to failure as the day went on, party leaders were well satis- fled with the voting up to noon. It appeared at 12 o'clock that some thing in the neighborhood of 1900 votes would be cast before the close of the polls this evening.
 At 9 clock 342 votes had been ago, the time of the combined state , and national election. At 12 o'clock ! 66S votes had been registered. While this vas great drop from the figures of 1928, when l4O3 had vot- cd at noon. it was a sizeable increase over the figures for the state cleo ton of 1926.
 Both parties were working hard 10 bring the voters to the polls and had large fleets of cars in opera ton. It was expected that over 200 votes would be cast bsSNeen the hour of and o'clock. Voting to- day was at a slightly higher aver age than at the past town election.
 Governor John H. Trumbull, as usual, was one of the carly voters. He cast his ballot at 3 o'clock. He was unaccompanied. but Mrs. Trum- bull arrived later in the day and voted. Practically all the candidates on both tickets were in evidence at the headquarters of the parties in the town hall, being kept busy checking up voters. answering phones, and attending to other tasks.
 Imperial Nlinstrcls
 The minstrcal entertainment which will be presented in Grange hall tomorrow evening by the Im- perial Minstreals of the Plainville M. E. Church will feature a quartet consisting of Messrs. Calkns, Blair, Platt and Wilson. who are well known about the state as the Im- perial Male quartet of Waterbury. They have previously appeared in concerts in Plainville 10 the delight