The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-20
Neus Of Connecticut

Hartford, March 2O-UP)-
 Reggi Gardiner. 70, New York,
 held ag . suspected bank rObber,
 asked federal court today to
 quash his indictment. claiming his
 arrest six years after the crime
 violated the statute of Limitations.
 Gardiner was charged with be-
 ing one of four men who robbed
 the First National bank of Suf-
 field of $11,5O i'm 1888. Arrested i'm
 February, 1914, Gardiner pleaded
 innocent and was released in &S.-
 900 bond last May.
 Opposing the motion to quaala
 was special assistant U. s. AttOr-
 new General Thomas J. Dodd, IT,,
 who said the three-year statute
 of limitation did not apply in
 Gardiner's case because he had
 been a fugitive from justice.
 Hartford, Conn, March 9O-WP) The danger Of serious flooding along the Connecticut River Valley was disappearing today.
 Weatherman Roy E. LundquiSt said the river would crest at 18.5 feet at noon adn there will be no appreciable snow melting in the northern river region right away due to the cooler weather"
 While there was minor flooding of low areas, he said, this condition was not unusual.
 Hartford, Conn.,, March 2O-(UP) Forester Raymond Keinholz said today . plan was being cOnsid- cred to bring prisoners of war to Connecticut to help clear woodlands and produce pulpwood supplies for the paper industry.
 Former eco Camp Toomey at Warren, he said, could accOmmO- date about 25O prisoners and from 30 to 50 guards.
 KeinhOlz estimated 25, 900 cords of half state-0wned and half on private property, could be cut without harming forest growtl. This pulpwood, he said, was urgently needed by paper manufacturers.
 Hartford, Conn.,, March 20.-(UP) The state tax commissioner will sell 66 cartons of confiScated cig- arettes March 28 if, as he under stated the case today. anyone is interested.
 The cigarettes, were confiscated when imported into Connecticut and offered for public sale without tax stmaps.
 The commissioners sale will take place in the state office buildnig at 10 a. m. and OPA ceiling prices will prevail.
 Hartford, Conn, March 2O.-(UP) Crippled and scared from burns sustained in last July's circus fire, 5-years old Patricia Murphy, Plain- ville, brought suit from $15O, 900 to- day against Ringing Brothers-Bar mum & Bailey Combined Shows, and the City of Hartford.
 Patricia still is hospitalized, and doctors said she would be under treatment for another year and . half. Her suit was the largest of the hundreds filed against the cir GUS and city.
 Hartford, Conn.,, March 29-(UP) Plans should be made now for postwar employment of returning war veterans, Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin said in a radio talk last night.
 The governor urged the continual tion of the Connecticut reemploy- ment commission for directing this work, but added "it is not matter that concerns government alone or industry alone or agriculture or bus mess alone.It cannot be provided and stimulated by single group or } single agency. It will take the combined efforts of all of us and we Ill must bear a hand to the task"
 About 100000 men and women rom Connecticut have gone into the armed forces, the governor said, and ,f these, about 10000 already have returned to civil life.'
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