The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
News Of Connecticut

New York, Feb. 16. (UP)-Lieut. Ormsby M. Mitchell, Jr., USNR, 46, (of Brook Hollow Farm, Westover roaO Stamford, Conn.,, has been awarded the Navy Cross for extra ordinary heroism, the third naval district announced today.
 Mitchell, commanding officer of the U. s. s. Plymouth, which was torpedoed and sunk Aug. 5, 1943, is now convalescing at the Philadel- phia Naval hospital from burns and injuries received in the action.
 "Disregarding his own serious con- dition," his citation read, "he in- sisted on being supported while he directed abandon ship operations, remaining aboard himself until the Plymouth sank. Subsequently picked up after he had gone under with his ship, It. Mitchell was concerned only for the rescue and care of the ships company"
 Mitchell, native of Montclair, N. J., and graduate of Yale univer- sity, was in peace time a member of the New York firm of Mitchell, Whitmer, Watts and Go.
 Hartford, Conn.,, Feb. 16.-(UP)- Vincent J. Todaro, Newark, N. J., was on trial in federal court today as one of five persons accused of conSpiring to defraud the govern ment through issuance of counterfeit ration coupons for sugar, gasoline and shoes.
 Todaro was the only one of the group to plead innocence in the case, and three of his alleged CO., conspirators were government wit nesses. They were Frank Rowe, New Haven, operator of a printing plant, Angelo Orlo, and John Acquillare, who were arrested last fall by fed eral agents after a FBI agent in vestigated reports of plot to have New Haven printer turn out hun- dreds of thousands of the bogus coupons.
 Peter Kennedy, former chairman of the New Haven War Price and Rationing Board, Orlo, Acquillare and Rowe pleaded guilty to the &C., cusations in superior court
 New Haven, Con, Feb. 16.-(UP) The chief of the British joint mis- sion to the United States, Field Marshal Sir John Greer Dill. will receive the Yale Rowland Memorial prize late today from President Charles Seymour at Woolsey Hall.
 Accompanying the field marshal to Yale were Gen. George c. Mar shall. chief of staff of the U. S. Army; Vice Admiral Herbert Fair fax Leary; Brigadier General Thomas E. Troland, representing Mai. Gen. Sherman Miles of the First Service Command, and Har- vey H. Bundy. special assistant to the Secretary of War.
 The Rowland prize was establish ed in 1905 as memorial to Judge Elias Rowland of the Yale class of 1854, and is awarded each year to a citizen of any country 'for dis tinguished achievement in the field of literature, the fine arts, the theory of government or politics"
 The award is being made to Field Marshal Dill because of his part in establishing cordial and effective CO., operation between the military es- tablishments of this country and Great Britain.
 Hartford, Conn, Feb. i6.-(UP)-A decision of the supreme court ol errors today upheld the superior court in declaring 0 church building and school building of the Russian Greek Catholic church of Saint John the Baptist in Bridgeport Q; being held in trust for the purposes of a Greek Catholic church of the Ruthenian Rite, united with Rome and not transferable by vote of tht congregation to an Independent Or thodox Greek Catholic group.
 A dispute over the ownership oi the two pieces of property aros' when the pastor, Rev. Orestes P Chornock, became Orthodox ana carreid Q great majority of the con gregation with him. According t' l tho court summary, in 1888. Rev