New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 11, 1927, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 Y &N [3nb 5 BENJAMIN A.HAWLEY DIES AFTER 45 YEARS’ SERVICE WITH RUSSELL & ERWIN CO. American Hardware Corp. Vice-President Succumbs to Brief Ill- ness at Hart Street Home. Loaned $50,000 to City to Promote Park Exten-| sion, Making Present Development Possible. col- lapse caused the this morning of Benjamin A. Hawley, Iliness following a nervous death early BENJAMIN A. HAWLEY aged 60, ent of the American Hardware Corp. and gen- cral manager of the Russell & Er- win “division for many years. Mr. Hawley's death occurred at | his home at 312 Hart street where | had been undergoing treatment | since his discharge from the New | Britain General hospital two weeks | £o. At the hospital his condition | as not regarded as serious. Be-| cause of the nature of his illness, | it was determined that no wsllors‘ vice-pre: should be allowed to enter his room and this fac sioned rumor that nis case was regarded as eritical. Dr. Carl J. Hart had been attend- | ing him, Treatments continued at! the Hawley home on Hart street and from day to day indications of returning health were apparent, He relapsed and death came early this morn Favored Park Development Although nationally known as & hardware manufacturer, Mr. Haw- ley was periaps best known locall s a benefactor of children and champion of park extension. His interest in parks reached its peak in 1922-1924 when he was a mem- ber of the park commission. At the time of his entrance into t wor Stanley Quarter and Willow Brook vere in poor state of development. Mr. Hawley at once expressed deep concern at this fact and launched a movement to bring the two plots to ndition from which maximum and benefit might be derived. After mora than a ycar of planning he. with other members of the hoard, prepared a schedule of pro- posed improvements looking particu- larly to provision of attractions for small children and growing boys and Mr. Hawley brought his pro- fore the board of finance axation and made a sincere plea for its adoption. Several days later he was decply grieved to learn that grant of the money could not Le made because of financial condi- tions affecting the tax rate. Loancd $50,000 to City One month later, Mr. Hawley call- ed at the ofiice of A. M. Paonessa then mayor, and offercd to loan the City of New Britain money sufficient to cover the cntire program of m- provements suggested by him. The stimate of cost was $50,000. Mr. agreed to give the city the of that amount of money for five ars, repayment to be made at the rate 6f $10,000 a year. He declined to arcept inte t on the loan. As a result of Mr. Hawley’s benefaction, ninch of the improvement in Stanley Quarter and Willow Brook parks i past two years was made possi- | - | The objects for which the loan | was taken having been attained this | year, a balance of nearly $15,000 | was returned to Mr. Hawley recent- | Iy. Today in Stanley Quarter park a | memorial bridge stands as a re- membrance of Mr. Hawley, the gift | of the former commissioner and his (Continued on Page 13.) GRIPPLE SEEKS WORK, HURT BY 10 FOOT FALL Painfully Injured by Top- pling Off Beam at Railroad Station Losing his balance when a railing on which he was sitting gav dwick Kascouski, a one arm 1 years old, of Worcester, thrown backward into a hol leading to the basement .« N, H. & H. railfoad station thi; i T hortly before 10 o'clock. he dropped about 10 feet anded on a pile of beams he serious injury. According s reports at the New Britain Gen- vral hospital he suffered a deep cut i a small scalp wound, k. Joscph Brodeau, an employe of a which is reconstructing the d been loite the station sinc carly At one time h on a and when was told by an oificial of the concern that he was in danger of falling into the| ole behind him he moved to a cross | rail which overlooked the hole. He | 1l headfirst into the pit, Brodeau 1 Wi the a was of the N.| he rkers rushed to the dent and carried the in- jured man to the interior of the depot. Dr. John L. Kelley was | culied and the ambulance was sent | for, Actording to reports at the nospital his injurics are not serious. | Kasconski was in this city in search | it was said. I scene of | driving “in a gro | both injured but not seriously FINANCE BOARD WILL INSIST ON PAYMENTS, New State Organization Wants Standard Oil to Pay $23,000 Hartford, May 11 (A—The new state board of control and finance, | lolding the second meeting of it tence at the state ’Ci\pflol this noon, rcjected the compromise of: i fer of the Standard Oil company of New York to pay one-half of ap- proximately $23,000 which the state claims the company owes it fo taxes on gasoline used in this stat by automobiles owned by the com. pan e motor vehicle department was instructed to procced with col- | lection of the full amount claimed. The Standard Oil ‘company is ex- pected to put up a fight, going into the courts if necessary. In addition to the $23,000 claimed »w, the state will endeavor to col- leet two ecents for every gallon of gasoline used in this state by the company from now until June 1. On June 1 thé amendment to the law governing gasoline taxes, pro- viding that all gasoline “sold and used” in the state be taxed, will become effective. The Standard Ol company’s claim is that it pays a tax of two cents a gallon on all zusoline it sells in the state, but that the gasoline uscd by its own motor vehicles is not a sale. Governor Trumbull presided at the mecting this morning and those present were Comptroller Frederick M. Salmon, State Treasurer Lrnest . Rogers, Secretary of State Fran- cis Pallotti, Attorne General Benjamin W, Alling, Ta sioner William H. Blodgett, Edward Hall of New Britain, newly ap- pointed commissioner of finance and control, and, by invitation, John M. | Wadhams, member of the old board j of finance. The treasurer submitted a list of | uncollectable taxes amounting to §15,991.70, all in small amounts, which were ordered crossed off the books. AUTOIST IS BLAMED Branford Man Held Responsible for | Last Weck's Fatal Accldent New Haven. New Haven, May 11 (A}—Reginald C. Miller of Branford was held by Coroner Eli Mix today as criminal- ly responsible for the death on the night of May 6 of Miss Margaret E. Sullivan of this city in an automo- | bile crash on the viaduct over the BLelle Dock Tracks. Miss Sullivan was almost fnstant- Killed when she was hurled from lie car as it struck a trolley pole. “A dangerous rate of speed” was responsible for the crash, according to the finding handed down by the coroner who found that Miller was ly careless and reckless manaer, causing him to lose control of the vehicle.” Miller and Harry R. Averill were n the crash which resulted in one death. 1800 Marines Get Orders To'Sail for Nicaragua Washington, M: 11 (P—Sailing orders have been issued for the §00 marines recently selected to reinforce imiral Latimer's command in Nic- aragua, he aircraft tender Aroostook left Quantico, Va., today carrying six air- planes and aviation personnel, and will put in at Charleston, 8. C., to | take aboard 100 men from the Paris nd marine corps station. nother 400 men were ordered to sail from Quantico late today on the r ship, Medusa. They will go nama. An additional 300 men en ordered to ship on the ender Argonne from Port Haiti. via 1 have. b subm Au Prince, GOV. Springfield, 111, May timony in the h mine whether Gov. the s $1,000,000 in interest on funds turned in while he was sfate treas- urer, ended today. The case was continued to May 23 when closing arguments will be heard. MALI DS. it (UP)— wring to deter- Len Small owes Commis- | in | e of Illinois approximately | "BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1927 —EIGHTEEN PAGES SCANT HOPES REMAIN OF FINDING NUNGESSER AND GOLI AS SEARCH DEATH LIST GROWS Many Injured in Missouri and Arkansas Dying EMERGENCY RELIEF WORK Residents of Poplar Bluff and Sever- al Smaller Towns Are Reported Destitute, Without Food or Clothes, Kansas City, May 11 (#—Pros- pects of a steadily increasing death lst in the huge checkerboard scooped out of the middlewest by a series of tornadoes and storms, fin which at least 228 persons perished and more than 900 were injured, today added to the trials of relief workers. ¥ While casualty lists In Texas, Ii- linois, Kansas and Louisiana showed |little change, debris of razed com- "munlti!‘s in Missouri and Arkansas yielded more bodles last night and several injured died in hospitals. Many Injured Dying i Physicians reported that more Ithnn a score of injured in Missour! and Arkansas had little chance to live. This coupled with failure to establish communication with sever- lal villages since the tornadoes struck Monday, caused relief proximately 250. Casualty Reports Casualty reports for the three day | western storm period today showed: State Dead 1njured | Missourt & .95 400 Arkansas 68 350 Texas e 35 100 Tilinois .. 13 35 | Kapsas 10 40 | Louisiana — | Wyoming liFowaiiites s 925 | Relief was placed on an emer- cncy basis at Poplar Bluff, M where 80 of the 95 killed in Missouri met death. As few restaurants re- | mained, it was necessary to suppl {food as well as to solve hospital and alvage problems. Similar conditions prevailed 1n Inorthwestern Arkansas where resi- dents of several isolated villages {were reported destitute. Weather Observations Weather observers found little to connect the series of freak storms |that started in Kansas Saturday, | swooped down on northern Texas |carly Monday morning and then |skipped through Arkansas to Mis- | souri and finally appeared in Tilinols. | Tndications of the violence of the | storms was found in Arkansas where { small twisters branched off from the | central disturbance to flatten farm {buildings and isolate many com- | munities. | Casualties in Wyoming were {limited thus far to three persons |trozen to death in a blizzard that |sent cool winds over the tornado larea to aid in settling atmospheric conditions. Three negroes were the only persons known to have been | Kkilled tn high winds in Louisiana. 'RIVER STRAINING AT LEVEES IN LOUISANA {Further Collapses Likely Any Time—1,200 La- borers on Job New Orleans, La., May 11 (®— Loy at Bayou Des Glaises were pected to collapse at any time to- day, allowing a rush of muddy wa- ter across the “Sugar Bowl” of Louisiana, where most of the dom- estic cane is grown. Word from that section to Adjutant General L. A. Toombs at Baton Rouge said the levee appeared ready to collapse. The fight had not been given up, however, and at Big Bend where heroic efforts of citizens have been concentrated to bolster the weaken- | ing rampart, work continued. Should the crevasse occur today, it was believed that much of the strain on the levees along the Miss- issippi would be relieved, minimiz- ing the danger of an additional break along that line. A collapse {at Bayou De Glaises, would how- ever, inundate thousands of acres of the most fertile soil in the state. flooding many sugar houses and driving additional thousands from their homes to refugee camps. A rescue fleet has been mobilized in the danger zone and prospects of loss of life have been reduced. Vidalia, Ta., remained inundated by waters from a crevasse in the protection levee that held bankwa- ters from the four crevasses in Lower Concordia parish. Precau- tions had been taken at Vidalia and loss of property will not be great. Many citizens moved their house- hold goods to high ground more than two weeks ago when the levees along the river front seemed in danger of collapsing. The crests of two floods were | moving toward Old River today, one formed of the waters from breaks in the Arkansas levees and the other of the torrents pouring through the Cabin Teeles and winter quarter crevasses in northeast Louisiana. The latter is due at the mouth of 0ld River between May 11 and 15, Water in the Tensas Basin was decper today than at any time in |the history of the state, weather bureau officials reported. It still was rising at a rate of five inches in twenty-four hours. Herbert Hoover, secretary of (Continue on Page 13) INTORNADO AREAS agencies to | estimate the dead would total ap- | Standardization of Kitchens Now Urged Geneva, May 11 (UP)—Kitch- ens of the world should be stan- dardized, three women members told the league’s international economic conference today. - They said that the difference in sizes of stoves, stove lids, pots, pans, kettles and kitchen fixtures caused waste throughout the world. SEVEN GUNMEN IN PAYROLL ROBBERY (Make Away With $9,000 in Daring New York Holdup ESCAPE IN HAIL OF SHOT One Bandit Belleved Wounded— Robbers Had Two Cars and Wrecked Money Machine With One of Their Own. New York, May 11 (P—Seven ! gunmen, in two closed automobiles, held up an assistant paymaster of | the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. and two guards in an automobile at T1st street and Iirst avenue today, | robbed them of a $9,000 payroll, and escaped after wrecking the pay car |and one of their own. Nearly a score of shots were ex- {changed between guards and the | bandits and police believed one of the hold-up men was wounded. The | pay car was on its way to the com- pany's power house at T4th street and the East river. Two Cars Collided One of the bandit cars stopped abruptly in ront of the company's automobile and the two collided. Six men then leaped out of the second hold-up machine and, . with drawn revolvers, surrounded ,the L. R. T. machine. One of the gunmen seized the payroll bag from the rear of the company's car and ‘all six then jumped back into their automobile, | Meanwhile, the man at the wheel {of the other bandit automobile |abandoned his car and ran to join | his companions. { guards opened fire and saw the man stagger. His companions pulled him linto their machine and sped away ! firing back at the -company guards Police believed the two automo- | biles uset by the stolen. ‘A general alarm was sent out ,and all hospitals were notified to be | on the look-out for a man with gun- shot wounds. GETS LONG SENTENGE Bridgeport Chauffeur Who Attacked Girl Must Serve From Five to Eight Years. Bridgeport, Conn., May 11 (P— |A sentence of from five to eight {vears was imposed in supcrior court today upon Thomas Gaffney, & 22, less than 10 Gaffney took the young Miss Lillian Graze, days ago. {home and instead drove out Beardsley Park, in Nichols, made. Gaftney was bound over to the {superior court and state's attorney Comley brought up the case today and asked for sentence, which was imposed. Gaffney is married but had not been living with his wife. MRS. KATE M. WILCOX DEAD Resident of New Britain For Many where the assault was Ycars Passes Away At Age of 75 —Funcral Services Friday. Mrs. Kate M. Wilcox, 75 years old of 27 Grove Hill, a resident of this city for many years, died at Hart- ford hospital early this morning. She was the widow of Jason J. Wil- cox. She is survived by two daughters, Miss May Wilcox and Mrs, Andrew J. Sloper, both of this city. Funeral services will be held at the home on Grove Hill Friday aft- ernoon at 2 o'clock. Rev. Dr. George W. C. Hill, pastor of the South Congregational church, will officiate. BODY FOUND IN BRIDGEPORT Bridgeport, Conn., May 11 (® — The body of a man 45 or 50 years of age was found floating in the harbor here today. No marks of identification or violence were discovered. The clothing indicated that he may have been a laborer employed on the waterfront. Dr. De Luca, the medical examiner, said that the Lody had been in the water about a week. WOMAN DIES SUDDENLY Chester, May 11 (P)-—-Mrs. Mar- jorine Brothwell, 35, wife of State Senator Charles R. Brothwell of the 34th district, died suddenly today. . She leaves her father, husband, | three children and two brothers. THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Mostly cloudy and cooler to- | night; Thursday fair and cooler. machines | As he did so, the' bandits were | | woman in his machine to carry her | to| just over the line | PAGIFC 70 HISS. RIVER IN 14 HOURS Captain Lindbergh, Another Ocean Flier, Reaches St. Louis PLANS FLIGHT T0 PARIS | Aviator From Far West, On Way ml New York, Intends to Start Trans- Atlantic Attempt in Weck or So, | He Announces. ! | | St. Louis, May 11 (P—From the Pacific ocean to the Mississippi river overnight, Captain Charles Lind- | bergh, “hopped” in the monoplane he plans to fly from New York to Paris, reaching St. Louis today, 14 hours and five minutes after his start from San Diego, Cal, at 5:55 p. m., §t. Louis time, vester Makes Fast Time | The first 1,550 mile leg of his jour- ney to New York, whence he will itake off in a week or ten days on ilhe trans-Atlantic flight on a course imilar to that planned for the Coli- | Nungesser flight was completed in ithree hours less than Lindbergh had planned before leaving Rockwell fleld late yesterday. He expected to ar- rive in St. Louis at 11 a. m., today. | | Watchers at Lambert-St. Louis fleld saw the silvery monoplane ap. ! proaching from the southwest shortly ‘before $ a. m., and it was exactly |8 o'clock when the 25 year old for- | imer St. Louis-Chicago air mail pilot | {descended to a few hundred feet | labove the field. He did not land | immediatcly, but zoomed away and | flew over the city viewing the down- town district and the river. At §:18 he landed. Will Rest Day Or Two | Lindbergh plans to leave in a day ‘or two in his single-seater plane for | | New York. He is a flight comman- | der in the Missouri national guard |air servic | “I set a straight line for St. Louis and flew by the compass all the | way,” Captain Lindbergh said, when he landed. . “My flying time was bet- |ter than 100 miles an hour most of | the way and my altitude was 5,000 to 6,000 feet, except when crossing the i Rocky mountains, when I went up | ‘km 13,000. i Crossing the Rockles i “The crossing of the Rockies was | at a point north of Santa F M. | The line I took was such a straight one that I didn't see a city or a large town, until Jefferson Cit: this morning.” Jefferson City re- iplane at 7:18 a. m. | After breakfast, Captain Lindbergh | the only entrant in the Raymond vr- | telg $25,000 flight who plans to make | |the trans-Atlantic fiight alone, in- spected his plane, which is to be | christened “The Spirit of St. Louis™ | before it leaves on the cross-ocean flight. The lone pilot took about 230 gal- {1ons of gasoline in his 1,550 mile hop | |from California. He estimates his | {425 gallon gasoline capacity and 35 | 2allon ofl supply would take him 4,- {250 miles, more than double the ;Shflrll‘!l line across the Atlantic. The monoplane has a wing-spread | sponsors of the Mo., | ! ported the passing of the Lindbergh | |0f 42 feet and a fuselage 28 feet long | land is similar to western air mail | | planes. It has a cruising speed of | chauifeur, 25, who pleaded guilty to 1105 miles an hour with full load and |tower. an assault which is a felony, upon | a high speed of about 130 miles an | hour. - | Lindbergh 18 a “four star” mem- ber of the Caterpillar club, fraternity | of fliers who have made forced para chute leaps. “I am very sorry that Nunges- | ser and Coli scem to have failed in | their brave attempt to cross th i lantic in the wrong direction | Lindbergh today. “I hopa th. {be picked up. But their experience, whatever it proves to be, will not affect my plans.” “I didn’t see very much but my in- struments,” Captain Lindbergh said when asked for a detail>d descrip- | tion of his flight. “I circled about | over the Pacific ocean before head- | ing east. Darkness came while T was over Arizona and I didn't keep track | of state lines thereafter, but at day- | light 1 found I was over Kansas. “There was a lot of snow on the ! top of the mountains, but the cold | didn’t seem to get up where I was. 1 didn't get fatigued or si»epy at any (Continued on Page 15.) | AERIAL TRUCK GHOST | DISPOSED OF FOR §7.50 | Once Snappy Piece of Ap- paratus Dragged Off by Junkman The days of the |aeral truck which tive service of the | department from over. A junkman went into conference with Fire Chief Willlam J. Noble | and atter a splrited battle of wits, | the aerial, a skeleton of its former | self, passed out of the hands of the | |fire department for the handsome sum of $7.50, the compromise be- tween $10 asked by the chief and | $5 offered by the junkman. On one day in 1885 the city was treated to two great events, opening of the new Russwin hotel lir the building which now houses city hall and the purchase of a new | |fire department aerfal truck. The latter's coming was grected by New | Britainites with applause, but it passed from its proud position stripped of its adornment and with not a single admirer to cheer it. Tt horse-drawn was in the ac-| ¢ Britain fire 85 to 1418, are the new motor aerial at headquar- ters' company was purchascd. was retired from active sefvice when l {the weather bur Secretary BY SHIP AND RAD Chamberlin and Ber- taud Insist They Will Start Paris Trip Sat- urday, Despite Am- bassador’s Warning. “If They Don’t Want Us| We Won’t Stop at Parisj But Will Circle Tower and Continue to London,‘ Aviator Declares. i Nungesser’s Mother Now Critically Ill Paris, May 11 (UP)—Reali- zation that her son probabl has lost his life in a gallant tempt to fly from Paris to New York today was crushing the spirit of Mm cwspaper accounts of the ch for Nun r and Coli were read by the former's mother today and she learned that her boy was missing. Offi- cials of the government acro- nautic service had sent her home happy yesterday by say- ing that the airmen had been compelled to alight at Boston when their fuel was exhausted. Mme. Nungesser was critical- 1y il today. Her confidence that her son would be found was growing smaller every hour as lay in bed surrounded by her family. seq she M—Despite dor Herrick in New York, May 11 warning by Amba; Paris that the take-off of any American airplane on a Paris flight while the fate of Captains .\'mlg»-s-: ser and Coll remained in doubt| might stir misunderstanding in ‘rance, owners of ‘the Bellanca monoplane “Columbia” today planned their start for Paris early Saturday. | While the New England coast, | the north Atlantic and the English | channel were being scoured in a vain hunt for the missing airmen, | “olumbia” sealed | the plane's instruments and await- ed only favorable weather before tarting the 3,800 mile cruise in which Nungesser and Coli failed. . Ambassador’s * Warning As disappointment in France over the failure of the airmen to! achieve their New York goal deep ened into fears of tragedy, Ambas- | ador Herrick late yesterday noti- fled the state department that the start of any plane from Americ for Paris might be “misunderstood” and misinterpreted.” Following a conference of the Bellanca pilots and flight sponsors | on the suggestion of Ambassador Herrick, Charles A. Levine, head of the Columbia Aircraft corpora- tion, owners of the plane, said the | start, earlier in the day set for Thursday, would be deferred fo Saturday when Nungesser's fate | undoubtedly would be known. | The “Columbia” was scheduled to start at 1 o'clock this morning bhut unfavorable weather conditions forced postponement. Clear weather is expected by Saturday. “The finest tribute we could pay these brave men was to take up he attempt where circumstance had compelled them to lay it down, Mr. Levine declared in a statement. Bertaud Anxious to Go Lloyd Bertaud, navigator of the “Columbia,” said, “We won't go to Paris if they don’t want us. We'll fly over and around the Eiffel touch our wheels at Le Bourget and then go to London and land at Cobham field. “We know that Nungesser and Coli are wonderful flyers end if any wo In the world could svcceed un- der the conditions they could. But that is no reason why we should lie down now. They tried tr get tl |jump on us and we hoped for their uccess as much as anyone in France 1. Now is our chance. Let's go." ‘These are my sentiments,” said Clarence Chamberlin, the plane’s pilot, nodding in %agreement Out of the deep anxiety that suc- ceeded the disappointment in | France over the failure of the flight came reports of bittern against the United States. America was blamed misleading weather reports to ‘rance and for the despatches fn | French evening papers that had er- | roneously announced the success of | the expedition. Asked No Advice Charles F. Marvin, head of au in Washington, declared Nungesser had not request- ed advice from the weather burcau. | Dr. Marvin said the usual weath- | er reports were hroadcast by the United States navy wircless and ipted for by the French metcoro- 1 institute. He point=d out t! the weather burcau id not even know when Nungesser and Coli in- tended to start. Trans-Atlantic liners, navy and coast boats and French governm vessels meanwhile continued their search of the seas. Throuzh the com- bined orders of President Coolidg: of the Wilbur, Is and t ling mas- for sending Dr. extending from New ast went on. Search Continues. The navy tugs Wandaak and Mo- have searched the coast from Cape Ann, Mass,, to New Foundland, The suard cutter Ossip:c put out »m Portland, Me., to join the search and the coast guard destroye Shaw, just south of Sable Island, ) also was i sed into the hunt. | The coast guard cutter Modoc on | international ice patrol the north | Atlantic, radioed a warning of ice- | steamship lane. While the ship lane iy somewhat south of Nungesser's| planned course, the ice indicated | general conditions throughout the region. | Many authorities look to the re- | glon about the grand tanks as a |likely source for a message that the taken full charge of relief |airmen are alive, The poss:bility that the pair may have landed among the | (Continued on Page 15.) | through | early Sunday OEA GAPTAIN CERTAIN TWO FLIERS ARE LOST Skipper of S. S. Paris Tells of Terrific Ocean Storm New ‘Nunge: they York, May er and Coli could never the storm 1 (UP)— are lost for have gotten that we en- countered on Sunday,” Captain Yves Thomas, master of the Paris of the French line, said today when the ship arrived from Europe. The barometer began to and fell lower and throughout the day and right, he said. By midnight Sun- ay the storm even 500 miles south the course supposedly followed by the French aviators was so severe that no plane could ha mained in the air, Thomas said. The storm, if anything, was even worse further north, and it was through that area that the “White Bird” had te pass dring the height of the storm, the captain added. “Could they have survived {f forced down on the sea?” he was asked. “No plane could have remained afloat,” he replied. “To me they are lost.” “The bad weather hegan late on Saturday Captain Thomas said, “and continued until Monday. d at the time that it Nun- er and Coli got into that storm could not live through it.” The captain said the wind wasn't quite of gale force, “but it was bad €nough for this vessel, so you can imagine what it would do to a frail thing like an airplane.” “It was extremely cold at the time, and it must have been ve cold where they were. From our reports they were flying over ice fleld Roger Raulin, purser of the Paris and a personal friend of Nungesser, aid, “Nungesser is safe. Nungesser an not die. He has a lucky star.' Raulin met the French flyer during his trips across the Atlantic. Passengers on the boat received a thrill one night when they saw a blinking yellowish-red light which they believed was from the plane “White Bird.” The captain looked through his glass and announced that it was the planet Venus. FLEES HOME IN STORM WEARING SCANTY ATTIRE Boarder at Winter Strect Home Be- drop lower lieved Himself in Danger of Violent Treatment Michael Spitz. a boarder in the umily of Frank Maxin of 136% Winter street, left a sick bed and went out onto the strects in the storm last night, the police were no- titfied about 10:45 o'clock. He was scantily clad and it was feared his mind was affected. About 5 o'clock this morning, after a fruitle rch by Sergeant ynn and other oificers, Spitz was met on Hartford enue by Officer Otis Hopkins, who took him to his home. He said he had spent the night t the home of a friend name John, on Oak . because Maxin had threat- to kill him. Maxin de- ied that he had given the boarder ;ason to fear to stay under his roof. When found by Officer Hop- kins, Spitz was wearing trousers, but no coat, hat or shoes. Red Cross Relief Fund Over 10 Million Mark Washington, May 11 (UP) — The Red Cr §10,000,000 flood relief the | bergs and growlers not sar from the | fund exceeded its quota tod Contributions totaling $10,120,808 had been received up to noonm, with all chapters urged to continue their appeals for money as the scope of the mid-west disasters grew. The Red Cross, already feeding 300,000 flood refugees, today had vork in the four cyclone states and estimat- ed the tornado death toll was 300 in Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and in Texas, re- | Average Daily Circulation For | Week Ending May 7th .... 14,208 PRICE THREE CENTS Only Chance Seems - Possibility That They - Fell Into Sea and . Were Picked Up By Fishing Craft. Brother Refuses to Despair | and Is Confident That Both Men Will Be Found Somewhere in English Channel. | By the Assoclatcd Press The sex and land gave back no answer today to the incessant calls for word of t missing airmen— Captains Nungesser and Coli. The Radio Corporation, the independent | wireless and the navy swept the | wide Atlantic with radio queries— | and met a wall of silence. 1 Now Long Overdue. The “White Bird” was forty-four anxious hours overdue at New York | at eleven o'clock this morning on | her flight from Paris and was last js«:r‘n heading northwest off Kilrush, |Ireland, Sunday morning—just 85 | hours ago at 1 p. m. today. There was a report early today that the plane was found at Truro, N. S.. but this was quickly proved to be false, | Scarch Is Failure. | aval vessels are searching the seas off New England and the Nova Scotia waters while the French government has a fleet of destroye | ers heading southwest in hunt for the French aces. So far their efe forts to locate the plane have been fruitl Lookouts on the trans- Atlantic liners bound east and west scan the horizon for signs of the plane. Scant Hopes Remain., Scant hopes remain of the finde ing of the missing men, who many believe fell into the sea north of | the charted courses of steamships. Others suggest that the “White Bird” came down in the waters off Newfoundland, and unless the avia- tors were rescued by a fishing smack, they fell victims of the ice that crushed their fragile plane. Paris Again Gloomy. Paris was steeped in gloom and despair today. The bitterness exe pressed by some against Amerie cans hecause jof the reports that the | United States government hoal fail- d to provide adequate weather ree ports subsided when it was officlale ly announced that the failure to | receive wireless reports two days before the flight was due to statie, | The aviators had a food supply RS ‘ (Continue on Page 13) SOUTHERN SEAS ARE *BEING SEARGHED, 00 |Hope of Finding Captain ‘ Saint Roman Not Abandoned | f— | Pernambuco, Brazl, May 11 (P— Scarch for Captain Saint Roman and Commander Mouneyres,gfrench aviators now missing five d: on a South Atlantic trans-oceanic flighty has been extended from the Brazile ian coast to the waters off the coast of Afri their starting point, the I'rench consul here has been ine formed. News that the fliers were being sought in the vicinity of Cape Verds and French Guinea, south of their starting point, St. Louis. Senegal, was made public by the consul after a visit from a respo azilian 1 suggesting that the aviators ught near the African coasty This suggestion. the local press re- ports, v -d on a “splritu communication” rececived to ance in the Brazilian's home, The consul heard the suggestion but replied that thers no need to act on it as he had received ine nation that the French and Por- se®governments already had ordered a search off the African coust. | The be be a ses story of the ance 18 by Pernambuco newspapers. The accounts said that the “spirit” at the seance reported that Captain Saint Roman hud encountered heavy weather after hopping off Thursday morning from St. Louis, had de- cided to return to the African |coast and had landed upon a small \rocky island, breaking the planc's |landing gear. This island, called “Santa Maria,” oifered ne succor to the aviators who were threatened with death from hunger and expo- {sure. The wireless apparatus of the {plane, the “spirit” said, was broken |and the men could not communi- |cate with civilization. Aid from the !Alrlc.\n coast was imperative, to {save the fliers. The Brazilian population, already |deeply concerned over the fate of Saint Roman and Mouneyre& has |become doubly anxious with news lo( the disappearance of the North Atlantic aviators, Captains Nunges- ser and Major Frangois Coll. told |0 IS FRUITLESS