The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-12
News Of Connecticut

Bridgeport, Conn, June l2. (UP) Mario J. Maggi, Is, went to states prison today for three to five years after a 30-minute conviction by a superior court jury on a charge of assault with intent to rape IT, year-old Miss i,nn Galperin.
 Miss Galperin claimed Maggi fol- lowed her off a bus early in the morning of May 2, grappled with her and threw her to the ground. She succeeded in opening a button knife a friend had gwen her, and stabbed him severely before he was compelled to release her.
 Maggi spent F days in hospital towering from the knife wounds. He testified he made no advances toward the girl, and that she sud- denly stabbed him as he passed her on the sidewalk.
 States Attorney Lorin w. Willis asked Judge John H. King to i'm pose substantial sentence, mot only as means of punishment but as a deterrent to others of this type who are at large in this com- munity."
 New Haven, Conn, June 12- (UP)-Predicting a "tremenodus in- crease in psychoneuroses among both soldiers and civilians" after the war, Dr. William B. Terhune, re- elected president of the Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene submit- ted today five-point program de- signed to meet the situation.
 l. "A reorganization of our state hospital facilities, supervised by a strong controlling body. A state de- partment of mental hygiene. Our hospitals are good, but they are not good enough"
 9. Extension of community psy- chiatric clinical facilities, both public and private. Rehabilitation clinics"
 3. Make provisions for psychi- atric study and research"
 4. "Increased training of medical and social personnel"
 5. "Intensive education of the pub- lie along mental hygiene lines"
 If we are to recover from the effects of this present disorder and if future wars are to be prevented" Dr. Terhune said, the people must De taught to live by the principles of mental hygiene - tolerance, un- derstanding, unself1shness, working for the common good and conStruc- tive use of the emotions.
 Hartford, Conn.,, June 12-(UP)- Only six out of 81 motorists ar- raigned before OPA hearing com- missionerS throughout the state for violating the pleasure driving ban were cleared of charges today. while penalties against violators ranged from nine days to nine months suspnsins of heir gasoline ration privileges.
 One Hartford motorist who won a dismissal, Elwood Goodwin, claimed he was using cleaning fluid in his car instead of gasoline.
 The stiffest penalty was imposed on Oscar Dorsman, New York, at nearing in Bridgeport Dorsman drew a nine-months suspension for non- essential driving to his summer home at Milford.
 Three fishermen were brought before Commissioner Richard T. Steele at Hartford. One told the commissioner that fishing for food was not exactly a pleasure"
 Don't tell me that snapped Judge Steele. I'm fisherman my self"
 He gave them suspensions from two to four months.
 New Haven, Conn.,, June 12 (UP) Merton Gavette, Jr., 15, was dead today, and Edmund Ricketts, Jr., critically injured, as result of 75- foot fall while attempting to scale the face of West Rock, a mountain ous formation on the outskirts of the city.
 Gavette died five hours after he was brought to Grace Hospital The name of young Ricketts was placed on the danger list.