New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1921, Page 13

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NYNH&H Norf & West North Pacific Pure Oil A % , |age and keen STORY OF 7R-2 T0LD- BY WALKER (Continued from irst Page) The brea the k occur where she in the part of girder was first brought r had been nd the ship airworthy, it w rirship rained when Howden. The reinforced, howev found to be perfect said. None of the authorities here would venture any opinion regarding the of the break. Divers Workin, Hull, England, Aug. 25.—(By ciatede Press)—Divers began at dawn this morning to explore the fire twist- ed wreck of the dirigible ZR-2 which last evening exploded above this cit and tell into the Humber, carryin with hier more than 40 of her crew. Only one Ame 1, Norman O. Wal- ker, a rigger, and four British, Flight Lieut. A. H. Wann, Ernest Davies man; S. H. Bateman, scientific ant and Walter Potter, mechanic, sur- vived the disaster that ir a twinklins, changsed the trial cruise of the airship irto stly tragedy. During the hours of darkness that tollowed the collapse and destruction of the ZR-2 tu stood by the wr 25 scanned the water for any bodies that might have heen dislodged by the tide that flowed over all that remained of what was yester. day, Great Britain's mightiest dirig- ible, which officials expected to turn over to the United States ) today it was believed that the ruins of the aetial Areadnought held the bodi of 15 American and 26 British officers and enlisted men who were engaged in the final test of the machine. cause as: All Hope Lost. All hope that there might be other survivors of the disaster diss pated durinz the night. The wreck- agé fell only 200 yvards from tha saore, and the six gondolay in which 1ost of the airship’s personnel was riding sank immediately to the hot- tom of the Humber. The men in the gendolas, it was believed, would h: little chance to escape after the dir- gible struck the water, as the weight of the engines and machinery quick Iy carried the ruined structure be- h the water. fixperts here were at a loss to count for this greatest of peace time ir disasters. Residents of Hull who were watch- ing the ZR-2" when her cruise came 10 its sudden and tragic end, declared that it scemed when the crafft attemm d girder. t~ make sharp turn uckled and broke, probably hecausc was during Pan Am P T Penn R R Pierce Arrow . Pittsburgh Coal Pressed Steel Car Ray Con Cop .. Reading Rep I S ... Royal D, NY . Sinclair Oil Refin South Pacific South Railway Studebaker, Co Texas Co Texas Pacific Tobacco Prod Transcont Oil Union Pacific United Fruit .. United Retail St U S Food Prod U S Indus Alco U S Rubber Co U S Steel . U S Steel pfd Utah Copper Va Car Chemical Willys Overland . 57% 6% 1193 103% 497 15% 451 43% 733 109% 42% 223% 6% LOCAL STOCR MARKET TOD Furnished by Putnam & Co., Bid Asked .125 130 ...106 109 .162 168 .125 130 24 28 12 15 31 50 47 15 52 45 40 110 310 Y Hfd Elec Light South N. E. Tel . Am Brass .. Am Hardware .. Billings & Spencer Bristol Brass Colt's Arms Eagle Lock Landers o N B Machine .... Niles-Be-Pond com North and Judd Peck, Stow and Wilcox Russell Mfg Co ovill Mfg Co Stanffard Screw Traut & Hine Union Mfg. Co. Stanley Works 15 hanges ances 162.1 DISCOVER ATTEMPT OF ASSASSINATION B . Gen. Jesus Lopez Arrested in Mexico With Others for Plotting to Kill President Obregon Mexico City., Aug. Press)—The discovery plot to assassinate President Obre- Zon resulted last evening in the ar- rest of Gen. Jesus Salas Lopez, com- mander of a small body of troops in the state of Moreles, Ana acio S vedra and Fernando Gonzales Gomez, according to announceme by the chief of police of Mexico City. A man named I Perez, who, ac- cording to reports, was to have per- formed the act for which he was to receive 50,000 pesos, is believed to be in the United States. It was Perez, says the police chivf's-‘ announcement who suddenly became afraid, after gaining the confidence of | the alleged plotters and warned the officials here of the plot in an anon mous letter, which led to the arrest of the three men. The plans called | for a revolt in the state of Moreles after the president’s death, the chief said. 2 (By Ass'd of an alleged ELKS DAY AT RACES. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Aug. 25.—This is Elk¢’ day at the Grand Circuit races here. Members of the order from all over the Hudson river val- ley are to attend. to make some of <f a strain too heavy for the struc- ture to bear. Some members of the rew appear to have this same idea of the cause of the accident. Charles Harrison Brown, of the United States-army flyinz force, was an eyewitness of the disaster. Brown’s Story. “I rwticed,” he sald today, “that the ZR-2 was moving in a peculiar man- ner, the nose,of the dirigible showing an' unusual tendency to drop down I knew at once that something w wronz and watched the machine car fully. In less than two minutes the huge envelope broke in two and fell in flames. I ran to the riverside where [ secured a tug and went to the place where the wreck had fallen. I put out a small boat and went into the gun cockpit in the aft section of the airship and then swam along the k I secured ‘the body of one man turned it over to the boatman, but could find nothing else.” Licutenant Little Dies. The body of Lieut. Charles G. Lit- tle, one of the American officers, was today at the Hull infirmary, where he died after being removed from the wreckage of the ZR The body of Lieut. Mlarcus H. Rasterly, another American‘victim was at a mortua and both being held, pending an in- quest, which probably will not be held until attempts to e other bodies from the ruins have een made. Lieut. Little was identified by a fellow offi- cer who arrived from Howden, while identifcation of Lieut Esterly's body was effected through a wallet found in the clothing. Harbor officials today expressed doubt that many bodied would ‘be re- coverad unless they were held fast in the wreckage or were imprisoned in the gondolas. They said they feared the tide and the swift current of the HumPer would carry them away Larze quantities of wreckaze were found this morning to have been float- ed up the river by the ude and little was visibie outside of the hull of the airship. A diver who went down early this morning failed to locate anything material. May Be Maxfield's Body. Men engaged in the work of vage reported at the Ameérican con- sulate here this morning that they had found a body believed to be that of Commander Louis H. Maxfield in charge of the American contingent aboard the ZR-2, several miles be- low the city. Immediately after the dis H. Grout, the Ameri Pennoyer, Who becomes senior officer of the American detachment, and Naval Physician Taylor assumed con- trol of the tuation for the Am can government. They - are co-operating in the work of recovering and iden- tifying the bodies and are preparing an o 1 list of the missin Licut. Pennover today wired Lon- don that the mext of kin of the vie- ms of the a ident had been ad- vised. &o far as has been ertained, M Maxfield 11 at Ambrougzh, Howden, where she and her husband lived durin sheir stay ther All sal- ter John 1 consul; Lieut. is near Most Killed. Hull, England, Aug. 25. .~—Most of the British and of the crew of the iii- fated dirigible ZR-2 were kilted by the explo 1 which followed the buckling and of girders amidships, deel H. Wann, in com craft as navigat- officer at the time of the disaster, in a statement to the Associated Press today. Lieut. Wann said the ship had run beautifully at 60 knots and that ne had reduced the speed to 50 Kknots when there came a violent crackinz sound. He thought several of the (Associated NEW BRUIAL girders brok pened in five here was no wrong when we passed over Hull™ he added, “but everything happencd afterward. I was in sole command at the time. The whole thing hao- econ ign of ‘anything Licut. Wann's Sto “Before the moment of dent,” said .Lieut. \Wann, juries are not serious, “the craft, had been sailing perfectly. She had been passing through various dglicult tests, and the speed had been feduced when suddenly, while crossing the broad es- jtuary i the Humber, I 8heard the i grinding and cracking of girders, and | the airship pitched forward, mnosed down from an even keel. - ““As soon ay humanly possible, ) empticd the water vailast to enable the craft to resume its normal posi- tion but at this instant a tremendous explosion occurred. The great ship seemed to halt for a moment and then it dropped like a rock. The concus- sion threw me down in the nav f car where I was pinned by the w age. The section of the craft in which I was riding remained above the water after the ship plunged into the Hum- ber, and I was rescued after being im- prisoned for 15 minutes. That is all Lam able to say.” Lieut. Wann denied local reports that he had heroically plunged the ZR-2 into the river rather than on the shcre, which was crowded by thousands of spectators. The disaster occurred so quickly he said that any such action was impossible. the . acci- whose in- TLarge Public Funeral. London, Aus. 25.—(By Associated ess.)—The American and British | \{1otims ¢f the disaster to the ZR-2 at Hull last evening will be accorded a sreat public funeral, probably in Lon- 4on, it is considered certain. The air ministry today had the project under dvisement and an annoucement re- rding it was expected at any time. Meanwhile all England, profoundly red by the destruction of the dir- isible—the greatest of all air disasters —is givinz expression to its deep feel- ing of mourning for the victims and mpathy for those bereaved. In iondon the atmosphere today was somewhat akin to that which followed thie receipt of news of a serious dis asier during the war days. At the air ménistry, which yesterday was hee hive of activity with elaborate preparations for the trans-Atlantic fight, there was today a sensible de- pression on all sides, Sut seldom wa = reference made to the great calam- ity a It was at Howden, Hull, Leeds and neighboring towns, however, where iived the wives and relatives of man: ¢ the men whose lives were snuffed out by the disaster, that the loss v most keenly felt. In these places, too, were the English brides of nine of the American enlisted men who came to ngland fov the trans-ocean flight. These young "women had been eager- awaiting the time of the ZR-2 start for America and had expected soon to follow on board a government {ransport to their new homes. Two Members of American Legion. The American dead in the disaster include two members of the Ameri- can Legion, Licut. Little, was one of these and Lloyd 1. Crowell, me-= chanic was thtwother. Several of the Liritish vietims were members of the British legion of former service men. Both these organizations will he represented at the funeral serv- ices. As the dirigible was still British property, not having yet been turned over to the American authorities, all investigations of the calamity will be supervised by the British air min- istry. King's Telegram. Foremost among the expressions of condolence over the disaster was onc from King ; George. His majesty, telegraphing from Belmoral to Al Marshal Trenchard at the air min- stry said: - *I am shocked and grieved to hear the terrible disaster which has airship R-38 (the , British of tht big dirigible), sult- ng in the lo of many lives of Afmericans and British the relatives of whom I sympathize. (Signed) ; “GEORGE R. L “Chief of Royal Air Force: of befallen number NEW MINISTEE ARRIVES. Shanzhai, Aug. . —- Jacob Gould Schurman, the new American minister to China, arrived here yesterday en- route to Peking. Deaths and Funerals Arthur N. Fowler. Arthur N. Fowler, aged 54, died last night in the Hartford hospital follow- ing a recent operation. He resided at 4 Garden street this city and leaves a widow and son, Arthur S., of New Britain; a father, Joseph W., a brother A. W., and a sister, Mrs. Howard Benjamin, all of Milford. He resided in this city seven years and was em- ployed at the plant of the Stanley Rule and Tevel company. Funeril arrangement{ will be announced later. Private O'Brien’s Funeral. . The funeral of Private O’Brien will be held at 9 o’clock Saturday morning at St. Mary's church. The Walter J. Smith Post, erans of Foreign Wars will have of the military -servicemen are requested to meet at 8 o’clock Saturday morning at the State armory. Joseph D. COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT VACATION CLUB INSURANCE DEPARTM SAFE DEPOSIT BOXE:! ngements. | DAILY s e e e €ITY ITEMS Herman Erling Ofi 11 Barnett street, and Miss Amalia A. Parsons of 29 Cedar street, have taken a mars riage license. out Stephen Kaminski of th Miss Katherine .0zog of W were . married at W f Rev. Nalewazk " city, and allinzford, llingford, May offiiated. Robert, and Bridseport, are uncle, BEdward Hova:d Ry of visiting with their Ryan of this city. Judge and Mrs. George have returned from where they spent weeks. w. Minot, the = past Klett Ma three A daughter was born today at the New Britain General hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gensberg of Carlton street. GIVEN JOBS, MANY" REFUSE CITY WORK Employment Burcau Oflicials Have Figures to Indicate That Appli- cants Are Not Serious in Appeal. That many of the applicants who present themselves at the municipal employment bureau -ostensibly for the purpose of securing work have desire whatséever to take -a job the belief of the agents of the bureau, whose records show that 142 men hate failed to show up for work after given jobs in the no is they were city’ gansgs. In a great many instances the men who failed to appear-at the employ- ment office on the morning that they were supposed to receive the cards were among those whose stories were the most pathetic and whose tales of privation indicated the most suf- fering. . Of the 130 men who were sent out this week 42 were substituted for imilar number that were picked la week, but who failed to show up. EARNINGS DECREASE Average Weekly Wages of Factory Workers in New York State De- clined 45 Cents from June to July. Albany, N Y., Aug. —Average weekly earnings of factory in New York state declined 45 cents from June to July according to a statement issued today by Industrial Commisioner Henry Sayer of the state department of labor. The average earnings of factory workers in Ju was $25,26 or $3,67 less than October, 1920. A considerable part of the decrease of average earnings in July was due to reduced wages, and reduction in working time also was an important factor. worke: in Grant G. Oakman May Be Head of Swindle Ring Boston, Aug. 25.—With the arrest today of Grant G. Oakman, former trustee of the United States housing trust, charged with larceny, three men were in custody in connection with what the police believe to have been a swindle of middle class persons seek- ng to own their own houses. BROTHER IN HOSPITAL. Former Mayor George A. Quigley has received a telegram telling him that his brother, Thomas H. Quigley, »f Gainsville, Florida, has undergone an operation in the Garfield Memorial hospital in Washington. Mr. Quigley has charge of the government trade schools south of Washingtou and his district takes him as far as Texas and the Mississippi valley. He is reported to be recovering satisfactorily s CROCODILE CLUB OUTING. The 45th annual barbecue and sheep bake of the Connecticut Croco- lile club is being held at Lake Com- pounce this afternoon. This club has been holding barbacues since 1876. wo grandsons of Isaac Pierce and two grandsons of Gad Norton, ori nal owners of Compounce, are harge of the outing. e e T e — i @ LAST GROUP T0 Two Youngfi;n Break Rules and. Are Sent Home Thirty-eight last group to go to the New EBritain Air Burlington this summer, afternoon for' a children, Fresh camp at left this stay of less than two weeks in the| The for great outdoors. school 6, return time on the morning of Septembtr which will cut down the usual two weeks which other groups have had. Efforts being made to keep them there until of the fifth, 'The sleeping . quarters to accommodate 10 more year. in are the evening has had its larged so as camnp en- hoys ntxt Those who furnished cars to trans- port the children this afternoon were: Carl Horace Tuttle, Edward Krause, James North, George Dyson, Carl Chamberlain, P. Upson and T. T. McAuiiffe. Break the Rules. Last week two boys strayed from the paths of good behavior and so violated the rules of the camp that discipline required their vacations to be cut short and’ they were sent home. One youns man had a bad habit of singing, velling and making other sorts of vocal noises during !what the rules of respectability con- sider the still small hours of the morning. Another yvoung man, man- aged, before being discovered, to con- ime 10 cigarettes. Both boys are sadder and wiser today May Take More Next Year. The children were accompanied this afternoon by Miss K. P. Duelle, one of the city hoard fo health nurses, who have had charge of sending the children to camp during the summer. It is expected to be able to handle at least 50 more children next year than this. One of ®he large barns which has not been used very much his summer has been altered so as to form sleeping quarters for 10 more bo; This probably will per- mit a class of 10 or more on each ptriod next summer. Nueman, England and France Would Join U. 8. in Conference Washington, Aug. 25.—The presi- dent would be requested to invite Great Britain and France to join the United States in a conference at which means for stabilizing interna- tional exchange would be discussed under a bl introduced last night by | Chairman McFadden of the house banking and currency committee. ZR-2 Victim Well . Known in New Lendon| New London, Aug. 25.—One of the American victims of the ZR-2 was well knowh here. Chief Petty Officer Wm. Y. Steele of Bainbridge, Ind., served at the navy experimental tion for two vears dufing the war. He lived at the home of W. H. Fa rell. Mrs. Farrell says he leaves a wife and two sons, eight and six years of age. French Economist Sees Inevitable Reductions Williamstown, Mass., Aug. —*In4 evitable reduction for all nations of their standard of livinz, perhaps even below pre-war standards” was fore- told here today by Prof. Achille Vial- late, French economist, in his final institute of politics lecture. The re- duction must come he said, as an inevitable consequence of the fact that “we are now under the nece sity of making savings out of our | present production in order to com- pensate for the assets consumed with- out replacement during the war.” ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED. Mrs._Alice Hall announces the en- | gagement of her daughter, Edith, to Leon N. Bacon of 70 Monroe street Miss Hall is employed in the advertis- | ing department at Landers, Frary and Clark. Mr. Bacon is employed as a plumber by W. R. Fenn. No dat has | Leen set for the wedding. 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