The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-23
News OF Connecticut

Bridgeport, Conn, June % - (U.
PD - John Henry Sacksell, jack
sonville, Fla, appealed to superior
court today to break the will of his
wife, the late Vivien Maxwell of
Greenwich, so that he might share
in her 100000 estate.
Sacksell, divorced by Naz decree
from former wife in Austria and
expelled from Vienna in 1899, mar
ried Miss Maxwell May 26, 1941. She
and her father, Robert, died in a
double tragedy at their home last
October.
Her will made no provision for
Sacksell
Attorney Orson L. ST. John, now
serving in the army, testified that
both Sacksel and Miss Maxwell
signed a pre-nuptial agreement in
his office whereby each renowned
rights in the property of the other
According to the attorney, Sack
sell, who met Miss Maxwell while
operating a bridge-whist studio at
st. Petersburg, Fla, said he was not
marrying her for her money, and
that he would rely upon her re-
gard for him should the question
of disposition of her estate ever
arise.
Sacksell testified he left his wife
in September 1941 upon the advice
of her physician after she had suf-
fered an attack of melancholic de-
preston.
Middletown, Conn, June 30 - ~
PD - What OPA field liaison off.
Ger Frank C. Dwyer thought was SO
bounded today because of the enter.
prise of 12-years- old boy who hat
his heart set on buying a pony.
Dryer said the lad telephonet
him saying she had bicycled 81
miles from Middletown to Southing
ton to buy pony, and wanted tt
know if it would be all right for tn,
seller to deliver it by automobile be
cause he feared the trip would b,
too long a walk for the animal.
Naturally, 1 thought it was
gag, said Dwyer, "but keeping il
the spirit of the thing, told tn
yOungster it was perfectly okay TO
a pony, or horse for that matter
to take trip by car If it was for {
legitimate change of residence ant
ii there were no other means O
transportation available.
Il added, however, that wee
have to be sure it was a pony h,
was transporting and suggested tina
he drive by our office on his wa,
home"
Sure enough, an hour later a cal
drove up.
AT the Wheel" said Dwyer, "wa.
a grinning man. Beside him was 9
happily smiling boy, and in tn,
back seat, was a small pony which
and I'm sure Of it - was actually
laughing"
Hartford, Conn, June 23.-TP)-
A special committee of the Connec.
tlcut War Council declared toda,
that drunkenness in the three larg.
est cities of the state-Hartford
Bridgeport and New Haven-cost
$4,000 working days a year ano
recommended that "the possibilities
OF work camps, Jail farms, contract
work from jails and so on" be con-
sidered to combat the condition.
Few cases." said the commit
tees survey, "can be held response
BILE for an equal loss of manpower
in these cities for one year. If
10000 men were to go out on strike
for two weeks, 1t would be held a
national scandal. From the point
OF view of lost working days, that
situation is existing right now"
The committee estimated 10000
would be arrested and 440O sent to
jail this year for drunkenness, 90
per cent of them between the ages
of 10 and so and obviously poten~
tial workers."
A correctional program, instituted
by special board, was proposed by
the committee which noted that