The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-17
News Of Connecticut
(By United PreSs)

A hit-and-run driver was sought today for one of the two violent deaths occurring in Connecticut over the weekend.
 Thomas CarbinO, 81, patient at the Rocky Hill Veterans Hospital, was found dead at the side of the Silas Deane Highway, near the Rock Hill Town line. Police said he was the victim of skip driver.
 The capsizing of rowboat in Long Island Sound resulted in the drowning of Carl Swan, A, Fair field, while on fishing trip. A companion, Arthur Emanuelson, 54, Bridgeport. was rescued and taken to hospital where his condition was reported as fairly good"
 New Haven, Conn.,, May 17-(UP) Bruce Fenn, 86, a former vice president of Sargent & Co.,, died at his home here Sunday after short illness. A graduate of Yale univer- sity and Yale law school, he prac- ticed law in New York city for nine years before becoming associated with the Sargent firm.
 New Haven, Conn.,, May 17-CUP) The coroner today held Madison BOnesteel, A, BranfOrd, criminally responsible for the deaths of Miss Eleanor A. OBrien, g, and Edward J. Tatro, 38, of this city, in an auto mobile accident March IS.
 Coroner James J. Corrigan found BOnesteel was intoxicated and grossly negligent" when his dairy truck hit Miss O'Brien and Tatro as they were boarding a trolley car at East Haven.
 Greenwich, Conn, May 17-(UP) Mrs. Nora Stanton Barney, grand daughter of the Woman Suf- frage Pioneer, Elizabeth Cady Stan ton, announced today the forming of an Advisory Council to the National Woman's Party.
 Mrs. Barney will be chairman of the council. Other members will be Dr. Mary E. Wooley, president emeritus of MT. Holyoke College; Miss Annie w. Goodrich, former head of the Yale School of Nursing; Fannie Hurst, author; Mary Pick ford, actress and producer; Mrs. Joseph Whitney, New Haven, for mer state and national officer of the League of Women Voters; Mrs. Thomas N Hepburn, Hartford, for mre president of the Connecticut Woman suffrage Asociation noted birth control advocate and mother of movie actress, Katharine Hep burn; and Gladys Swarthout, the singer.
 Hartford, Conn.,. May 17-(UP)- Use of Connecticut schools as rec reation centers for war workers and the general public, was advocated today by Charles Lavista, recrea- ton director of United Aircraft Corp.
 "One of the prime needs today" said Lavista, lis for some recreation center which can be kept open 24 hours day ! place where dances could be held at any time and all hours and where facilities for such games as paddle tennis, ping-pong, basketball and other sports could be made available arOrmd-the-clOck."
 Lavista said public school build ings could be put to s,ch use, and that tire and gasoline ratiOning and crowded housing conditions make 1t necessary to locate recreation cen- ters near the homes.
 Iitchfield Conn, May 17-UP)- Robert D. White, 72, retired head of the R. D. White & .Co., New York City Municipal Bond firm, died Sunday at Charlotte Hungerford hospital, Torrington. He had been broker for 41 "ears.
 White, a native of New York City, served as a captain in the first World War. His widow and two sons, survive. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at Bantam.