New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 14, 1923, Page 3

OEEKING TRACE OF * AMERICAN AVIATOR Sperry Believed to Have Been Lost in English Channel By The Associated Press, Hastings, England, Dec. 14.—Coast guardsmen this morning were con- tinuing their search for Lawrence B. Sperry the American aviator whose airplane was found ‘in the English channel three milks off Rye yester- day. Detective Inspector Milton, who was shooting game on the coast at the place where Spe fled seaward, says that the aviator's engine was running Ladly just before the plane disap- peared from vie Sperry, according to Milton, circled at a low altitude, apparently seeking a suitable landing place, but finally decided to venture occanward, “As 1 was on leave yesterday,” sald Milton, “I took the opportunity to have a day's shooting and went to w place between Fairlight and Pett, near Hastings, where the country is tween noon and 1 o'clock 1 no- ticed an airplane coming from inland which held my atfention because of the fact that the engine was running very badly, spitting and making a great noise, 1 was the only person within sight and my view must h better than anyone's. The plan was quite low and 1 could distinctly its number and colors. As the air- man came overhead he seemed to get into worse difficulties. Starts Out to Sea “It eircled round twice, and on the first circle was apparently about to land I was sure of this and started to run towards it when the plane rose and hegan a second circle. Obviously, the airman was looking for a place {o but afterwurds he decided to attempt the sen passage The spot was q suitabie e ercd with =short gra “The engine was still running in fits and starts when the airman turned bis machine towards the sea and dis- wiater into the ling, as the fic there were cov apveared over the rather thick mist I could hear the motor running nfter the plane had disappeared. It seemed vnwise for the aviator to cross alone under sneh circumstances,” ‘I know aery dittie of mechanics, ‘) had | NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALIi g‘flm most unsafe in the state in which the engine of the plane was running. "So convinced was 1,” continued Milton, “that when 1 reached home 1 mentioned the subject to my wife and said I should not be surprised to hear that the airman had fallen into the sea. By a curious concidence a few fields further on 1 met Con- stable Hoadley of the Hastings fo who was walking there. He had seen much the same as I did, although not quite, as he was not so near. His lirst words were; ‘Wasn't that engine running badly?' " The coast guards at Fairlight had their attention called to the airplane by the fact that its engine was mis- firing badly. The plane pass the Fairlight Vicarage at o'clock yesterday afternoon and was tree tops in the village. The ma- chine then turned in an easterly di- rection, and the coast guardsmen concluded that the pilot was making ing reached Rye, six miles to the custward, the machine turned almost to Jairlight and then swung out to sea, Plane is Found plane, identified as fact that his name was on the floating wreckage, was about 2:45 o'clock yesterduy The by the part of tound Sperry's dust before 7 o'clock last It apparently engire from a superficial examination seems to be in good running order, The surveyor of a bungulow estate near Fairlight and a coast guard Rye saw the plane strike the water about three and a half miles off shore, ® evening. First In Fly Chicago, Dec. 14.—Lawrence B. | Sperry, reported to have fallen into the English Channel with his mini ture airplane, born in Chica, [ December 21, 1593, and was the fir {man to join the American naval {ing gorps in 1917. He fiew to Chic go from St. Louis, two months ; on 11 gallons of gusoline, in the plane which he flying when was ast scen Mowmms 14, Garden City N. Y Garden City, Dec Th |town, where Lawrence B. Sperry, the | was stun- dispatches bave been annel, American aviator resided, ned this morning by cable indicating that he might drowned in the English ( Just hefore leaving for the Cherry Valley elub attended by Iscores of his friends in aviation cir- cley They all wished him good luck Y2 fiying so low that it just missed the | for the Lympne aerdrome, but hav- | afternoon and was brought to shore | not damaged and the | | but was perfectly convinced it was | on his trip to England to popularize | his Sperry messenger. Sperry kept his miniature plane in a little hanger daily used it to commute to work in Farmingdale and New York. KEach morning about § o'clock his motor | ould ‘be heard overhead and |neighbors almost could set their | watches by the time he took off. At night he would alight in a little field | hardly big enough to navigate a truck comfortably, Airplane K When he m ed Miss Winifred ‘Allt)n, he flew th her to the scene |of the ceremony and afterward start- ed on the wedding trip in his hydro- plane, He had made several flights in the miniature plane here and in other |cities of the middle west, | Last winter he initiated the sport of airplanc ng at the local coun- try clubs, towing several sportsmen behind his plane, as well as children | on sleds. Sperry has crashed nthusiast more raped with hardly a scratch, To his | friends he frequently insisted that fiy- |ing was not half as dangerous as an- | tomobiling and has said he would prefer any day to hit a house at 30 miles an hour in a plane than in a | motor car. | M | A. Sperry, |e | , who is & son of Himer the electrical engineer, be- | gan fiying while he was in his teens und has given many exhibitions. One | of his stunts was to land his plane on the steps of the national capitol March, 1922, Recently Sperry returned from §t. _ouis by way of Detroit with Mrs, | Sperry. He stopped at Dearborn where he discussed with Henry Ford {the possibility of turning éut flivver airplanes. MARRIAGE LIC ES The following marriage licenses [have been issued at the office of the town elerk: Thure Anderson of 30 Buell street, and Miss Helen Robin- of West street; Carlyle of 442 Staniey hel Petrucei o Stanley street; Wilbur H. Bailey of 175 Winthrop street, and Miss Wanda M. B son Miss Ma 3 City CARLSON IN SOUTH Chairman Thomas Linder of the zoning commission will not appoint a comimitteeman to serve in place of { Albin Carlson on the group to work {out a plan of procedure for zoning England | New Britain, until he is officially in- | party at her home. extremely | Mr, and Mrs, Sperry gave a dance at |tormed of Mr, Carlson's inability to|ternoon games were It has been brought to Chair- Linder's attention that his ap- is wintering in the south, serve, man pointer CHRISTMAS " ISN'T CHRISTMAS WITH- OUT MUSIC IN THE HOME In our wonderful showing of Pianos there are a wonderful assortment that w family’s Christmas. For the s ill bring great joy into your jal convenience of Christmas shoppers we have set aside a whole big section of our ain Floor to those wishinF to add this beautiful s leasure into their home during eason of Christmas. SPECIAL OFFER NEW PLAYER PIANO $247 A number of used Pianos $43, $125, §250. Have music in the home Christmas John A. 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