New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 11, 1925, Page 6

NAVY SEAPLANE SAFE N PORT i (Con'tnued from Page Two) search started It had seen a whit flare and $wo red rocket Rodgers a Vetoran The “g torced ¢ flight of tained by veteran flyer “ler navy plane, which wa n wbea within an hour' s Jestiuation, of the Unite was cap- Ill\Arh\l‘ Cominander John Rodg- No. 1 had been designated as the flag plane of the three crafts orig- |inally intended to hop oft together from San Franciseo to Hawall, Under Commander Rodgers' rection were Lieutenant Connell of Pittsburgh, Pa,, pllot; | Tenn,, as aviation pllot; Bowlin of Richmond, Byron 1 Willlam H. Indiana, 0 ‘f' Stants of T chief radio man. re Haute, Indiana, s | s| crew, heading for land on the sub- lington mandant B. McComb, junlor com- d of Pearl Huarbor alr sta- di- assistant 8kiles N. Pope of Jackson, avia- | tion chlef machinist's mate and Otis To the members of the alrplane's Lieutenant Commander Mil- P 1 | NEW BRI'I‘AN DAILY HER ALD, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1925, b caused a pcene of rejolcing among the people of Honolulu and the and officers of the flect Ity visit to Australia Zealand comparable only with the | calebration at the time of the sig Ing of the World War armistice ¢ | cked At a hotel whera numerous din- plane, but it could not put mes. { ner parties were being attended by “ages on the air in responee, This officers of the visiting fieet the news [\Was dua to the fact that its drooping was announced, Silence fell and Autenna was under water then some one broke intor “Praisoe | |God, trom whom all blessings flow" jand | and a hundred or more guests joln- her ed in the paean of thanksgiving. i Wouldn't Leave Plane they said, a successful 15t question by th men here and N . s radlocast and sur up by the by the shiy » forced to land the sec t a8 yon know,” a mem- wosald. “We sighted a merchant vessol five miles oft, sent up repeatedly and effort was made to attract at- \ but the steamer passed on “Our | waa able to plck wup The rescued aviators | @ thelr plane, | ter and food from the rescuing sub- refused {0 avery but obtained “.-«v, tenti downed | have lasted long." | The P-N 9 No, 1 was forced down t north of the point where the de- |strayer Aroostook was stationed less than 400 miles from shore, The fliers experienced no trouble in land- ing, they satd, Then begun their de- {termined fight with the elements, Just nine days later they werg |tice. rescued, acclaimed by an awalting| Already plans are under way here world as apgonauts of aviation, as |for appropriate mass meelings to heroes by the residents of the give thanks for the rescue, Hawallan Tslands, | Hundreds of sailors of the | When Commander Rodgers of rejoleing were enacted In each of |the communities, and the quest for newspapers giving the glad tidings resulted fn near panics in Honolulu, The populace here swarmed to the reets shrieking with joy and en- thusiasm ran higher than at any time since the signing of the armis- fleet way from Honolulu to take him and |the Joyous demonstration, his crew back to Pearl Harbor, he | Governor W. H Farrington of | replied: “Holl, T like this place and I am |Fiavall sald he was heartily in sym. was |crews just returned from the Anti- | {Informed that a destroyer was on 1ts [podes mingled with the threngs in | o RN R, Vs Britain Seeks to Grow More Cotton in Empire London, Sept. 11 (A — Lanca- shire's members of parliament are not satisfied with the government's work in connection with empire cot- ton growing, and urge more speed in this direction, At a mesting re- cently they passed a resolution which asserted the cotton Industry In Lancashire was in grave danger of a permanent shortage of the raw materlal, and urged the govern- ment to take prompt and vigorous action by stimulating In every pos- sible way a rapid extension of em- T pire eotton produetion. The resolution drew special at< tention to the prime necessity of improved transport faellities In East Africa, where lack of trans« port {s Jmpeding cotton produetions NOT MANY CURIOUS Hartford, Sopt. 11 (M=Bince pub- licity was given the income tax re« turns ten days ago only two peopls besides reporters have called at the oftice of the United Burau of Inter- nal Revenue here to learn how much in taxes others paid to the govern- ment, Fred L. Appleton, deputy chief of the office said today. B e ] v h in no hurry to get away." AT ey Mg 20 {sire to hold a great community serv. Commander Rodgers came ashore joe to give thanks for finding the with Lieutenant Osborn, the skipper ‘mmrn allve, on the submarine which rescued | !wn States rnavel for ‘who learned to | tion, sent the jubilant and reassur-|,.iine as they were being towed fly as a_pupl! of tha Wilght broth- | ing word: "The whole navy is re-|,aiove by small boats ers #t Dayton, Ohiz, 14 ¥ears ago. | jolcing. Your famllies notified.” route to Liuhue, the island port ed to the northwest, After that Because of his ski!! and oxperience | Recelpt of the news of the satety | o¢ Kaual, the plane was reported as |no scarching planes he had heen sssignd from his post of the plane which had carrled 118 | having parted from its tow last (sizhted, until last Tuesday, when wo in Washington, D. . and ngamed as! burden of five men safely more than | ni 80 P00 1700 T8 P saw a plane off the const of Oahu.’ the fllght commender. Th* IN-9 nine days on an alien element | pia to get under way fn a smooth| Affer Commander Rodgers landed, | sea and at 11:25 last night the joy sald | ous message of the arrlval in port “We expericnced rough weather | was Intercepted: [for just one day at,sea. That was | Safe on Shore |the third after we were forced down. | “Arrived safely on shore, Rain ond henvy seas m mattors and his crew in good condition, Well Uncomfortalle, but tha plane appy. [Entire population of S€aworthy stood the | the island of Kauel were waiting on (weather v the beach to-greet the fiyers I | To the commander of the One am | marine Admiral Robison radiocast | “Heartiest congratulations. Pleasc report condition of personnel, Give Rodgers and crew our congr | tions. What 1s condition of and can it be salvaged?" The island communities on point of despair yesterday were celebrating the arrival of the avia- tors with a joy that went in an im- promptus celebration at Honolulu in which the island residents foined | with the fleet erews just returned from the antipodes. One native at Liuhue couldn't wait for the arrival of the plane. He swam out and told the seaplane crew they were approaching a dan- gerous spot. “All right,” replied Rodgers, “tow us to the beach.” There was some uncertalnty as to | the procedure to be followed after | the landing was ascomplished at Kaual, as soon as news of the covery was received here the U. 8. 8. MacDonough and several other vessels were dispatched with a squad of naval surgeons, i Tt is posibla that the MacDonough will bring the rescued alrmen to | Pearl Harbor, if their physical con- dition permits. Otherwise they will remain at Kauai until late today when they will be started for Pearl Harbor. The seaplane at 11 p. m., three hours after it was towed into the harbor by the submarine, the air- eraft dropped anchor and small /M poats went to her assistance. mesgages from the steamer which |refused to divulge its name, but MRS. McCORMACK IS ONLY ONE OF THOUSANDS WHO PRAISE THE GREAT NOX-RI-TIS TREATMENT ships or were “T can think of nothing more ap- 8 ropriate than a mass meeting at Before Commander Rodgers would | Ny o' llow Lientenant Osborn to return 1:”‘“, r“;vvlr‘;'(?r:i'l,"fl;:: ]“'h;‘ hyrein e vary [to hls submarine, he wanted to make | ur'a veady to meet with the peo |arrangements for the submarine to [tow him back to Oahu, Plesan g {hev deeieslo; auen; The plucky aviator asked as to the hereabouts of the tender Pelican, | was |Which has sufficlent goar to lift the rough |Dig seaplane out of the water ke the necessary repairs. It was [then suggested that a destroyer could tow the plane to Pearl Harbor 18 it would be moving with the wind “I will never|others how wenderful it ls. You get tired telling [cannot fmagine how happy 1 am, the public what|after suffering for years with mus- 'la wonderful med- |cular rheumalism, to be free from ieine NOX-RI-T1S pain and uble to sleep af night. T is for rhcuma- jam thoroughly convinced that there tism,” says Mrs. |ls not a medicine that will do what Annio L(‘Cnrm.uklN RI-TIS whl. Several of my 654 South Main |friends have used it with wonderful | g *land a real Hawailan Aloha St, Waterbury, |results, and they too, say (hat it has SRl TG i, Conn. “When [no equal in treating rheumatism.” LRl caniyie ama)l Sl it o e other so-called| Call at Miller-Hanson Drug Co., 30 him and when the crew ran short| Whitaker's Almanack divides rheumatic oures (Church §t, and get the booklet, of water the still was put into op- | mankind into six great races, Mon- tafled to do me|“Forms of Nheumatism." A labora- eration | golian, Caucasian, Negro, Semitic, [any good, NOX-RI-TIS came to my |tory expert is here to explain NOX- A8 the wild scenes | Malayan and the Red or Indlan race. |rescue, and T feel that T should fell |RI-TIS. Admiral McDonald has suggested [that we await the arrival of the fliers on Oahu and are assured that they are well and happy. If they are here by Saturday noen I think |that would be an appropriate time for a welcome home praise service HATS FOR BOBBED HEADS WE SPECIALIZE IN LARGE HEAD SIZES Rodgers 1 h Comes Aboard ing Incident crew and Sibs occurred was heing in a small boat, A | umped fnto the boat |n Operator Sttntz picked it when the plane hrought ashore hig mullet fish lane v ! £ ¥ i y you only days 20 yon had done would nr\!‘ New Fall Hats JUST ARRIVED FOR TOMORROW’S SELLING It you desire millinery of chic and originality visit our shop tomor- row. There one’s flair for subtlety and charm of style may be ex- ercised on entrancing models that combine all the smartness and style supremacy of Paris, Large droop models, small, tight-fitting hats, the off-the- tace flares, the tailored velours, felts and hatters' plushes now so popular are presented In the new collection. 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