New Britain herald., 1930-08-19
COMMITTEE PLANS
 FAIR FOR GRANGE
Newington Group Will Hold
 Card Party at Meeting
Special to the Herald)

or the general committee on the Grange fair will be held tonight at the Grange hall at 8:30. Plans for this fair are progressing favorably and indications are for a bigger fair than has been held in several years. All Grange members are invited to attend tonight to discuss plans. An informal card party has been ar ranged after the committee meeting.
 Motorist Arrested
 Constable Raymond Halleron ar rested Harold J. White of 319 Collins street, Hartford, at 12:30 D. m. Mon- day on the charge of driving a mo- tor vehicle while under the influence of liquor. White was overtaken by He will be. arraigned in town court tonight
 Has Leg Broken
 Joseph kryszczynski Of Broad street, New Britain, was hit by a hit-and- run driver while fixing a tire Sunday night on Main street near Wilson avenue and suffered a broken leg. Kryszczynski's sister was riding with him and was not aware that he had been struck and injured.
 Constable Halleron and Olesen made an investigation but up to the present time no clue as to the identi- ty of the hit-and-run driver could be found.
 While driving on Atwood street Sunday. John OschaVinz of 2 Davis street, New Britain, blew out a tire on his car and the car was thrown over in a ditch.
 None of the occupants of the car were made.
 Driver Held
 John Maddic of IS Riverside ave- nue, South Pequabuck, was arrest charge of reckless driving Mad die had stopped at the Circle dance hall Sunday night at 12;3o. In the roadster with him were two girls and another man all in the same seat.
 It is thought that he lost control of the car, on account of the crowded condition, as he had pro- ceeded but a few hundred feet from the Circle when he crashed into a pole almost in front of Kinney gar- age.
 Pleads Guilty
 Charles kislowski of the Home Garden section, was arraigned i'll town court before Justice of the Peace E. Stanley Wells last night on two counts, one of stealing money and one of stealing a small portable Victrola from his foster sister, Miss Alice Kislowski.
 Miss kislowski also reported that her brother stole a s35 wrist watch from her.
 kiskowski had been in Detroit working for some time but on ac- count of the slack conditions there he came home about four weeks ago. His sister said he demanded money from her and when she re- fused to give him any he threat ened to take her clothes and sell them.
 On August 12 the machine was stolen and Constable Halleron learn ed from Mrs. Bessie Fiengold of 498 Main street, New Britain, that the man had attempted to pawn the instrument. Mrs. Fiengold tes tihed that the man had pawned ar ticles of clothing several times but usually redeemed them. Officer Halleron testified that the machine was stolen August 12 and the at tempt to pawn it was on August 13.
 kslowski was represented in court by Attorney Martin Stempien who asked the court to dismiss the case as no direct evidence was in- troduced proving that the articles described had been stolen by his client.
 This request, however. Judge Welles denied. Prosecutor Harold Lucas asked that the man be bound over to the next term of superior court and bonds be placed at s1,000.
 A short recess was taken and an agreement made whereby the charge of stealing money was nolled and Kislowski pleaded guilty to the theft of the victrola.
 This was considered by Judge Welles and he found kislowski gull ty and sentenced him to jail for 30 days.
 Meeting Called
 A meeting of the republican town committee has been called for We'd nesday, Aug. 20, at the town hall at 5 p. m.
 JOHNSON MUCH ARRESTED