New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 25, 1927, Page 15

4 - AVIATOR'S OWN . STORY OF ESCAPE . His Experience as Related in Official Report BY CHARL In An Offic A. LINDBERGH 1 Air Mail Service Report ¥ I took oft from Lambert-St. Louis Field at 4:25 p. m., September 16, and aftel uneventful trip arrived at Springfield, IlL, at 5:10 p. m., and Feoria, IIL, at p. m. Oft the Peoria Field at 6:10 p. m. There was a light ground haze, but the 8ky was practically clear with but scattered cumulous clouds. Darkness was encountered about 25 miles northeast of Peoria, and I took up a compass course, checking on the lights of the towns below until a low fog rolled in under me a few miles northeast of Marseilles and the Illinois river. Flare Fails Him The fog extended from the ground up to about 600 ‘feet, and, as I was unable to fly under it, I turned back and attempted to drop a flare and land. The flare did not function and N 1 again headed for Maywood (Chi- cago's air mail port) hoping to find & break in the fog over the field. Examination disclosed that the cause of the flare fallure was the short length of the release lever and that the flare might stiit pe used by pulling out the release cable. Glare of Towns I continued on a compass course ot 50 degrees until 7:15 p. m., when T saw a dull glow on the top of the fog, indicating a town below. There were several of these light patches on the fog, visible only when look- ing away from the moon, and I knew them to be towns bordering . Maywood. At no time, however, was I able to locate the exact position of the fleld, although I understand that the searchlights were directed upward and two barrels of gasoline burned in an endeavor to attract my atten- tion. Several times I descended to the top of the fog, which was 800 to 900 feet high, according to my alti- meter. The sky above was clear with the exception of scattered clouds, and the moon and stars were shin- ing bright. After circling around for 35 minutes I headed west to be sure of\ clearing Lake Michigan, and in an”attempt to pick up one of the [ lights on the Transcontinental. Engine Quits After flying west for fifteen min- utes and seeing no break I turned southwest hoping to strike the edge of the fog south of the Illinois river. My engine quit at 8:20 p. m, and I cut in the reserv: I was at that time only 1500 feet high, and as the engine did not pick up as soon as T expected I shoved the flashlight in my belt and was about to release the parachute flare and jump when the engine finally took hold again. A second trial showed the main tank to be dry, and”accordingly a maxi- mum of twenty minutes’ flying time left. There were no openings in the fog and 1 decided to leave the ship as soon as the reserve tank was ex- hausted. I tried to get the mail pit open with the idea of throwing out the mail sacks, and then jumping, bit was unable to open the front buckle. I knew that the risk of fire with no gasoline in the tanks was very slight, and began to climb for altitude, when I saw a light on the ground for several seconds. First Lights ‘This was the first light I had seen for nearly two hours, and as almost enough gasoline for fifteen minutes flying remained in the reserve, glided down to 1200 feet and pulled out the flare release cable and as nearly as I could judge over the #pot where ghe light had appeared. This time the flare functioned but only to flluminate the top of a solld bank of fog, into which it soon disappeared without showing any trace of the ground. Seven minutes’ gasoline remained fn the gravity tank. Seeing the glow of & town through the fog I turned towards the open country and ngsed the plane up. At 6,000 feet the en- gine sputtered and died. I stepped up on the cowling and out over the right side of the cockpit, pulling the rip cord after a 100-foot fall. The parachute, an Irving seat service type, functioned perfectly; I was falling head downward when the risers jerked me into an upright position and the ‘chute opened. This time I saved the rip cord. Plane Hovers Near I pulled the flashlight from my belt and was playing it down to- -wards the top of tife fog when I heard the plane's engine pick up. When I jumped it had practically stopped dead and I had neglected to cut the switches. Apparently when the ship nosed down an additional supply of gasoline drained to the carburetor. Soon she came into sight, about a quarter mile away headed in the general direction of my parachute. . b 1 puf the flashlight in a pocket of | my flying sult preparatory to slip- ping the parachute out of the way, 1f necessary. The plane was making a left spiral of about a mile diamcter, and passed approximately 800 yards away from my ’'chute, leaving me on the outside of the circle. 1 was undecided as to ‘Whether the plane or I was descend- ing more rapidly and glided my *chute away from the spiral path of the ship as rapidly as I could. The ship passed completly out of sight, byt reappeared again in a few seconds, its rate of descent being about the same as that of the para- chute, I counted five spirals, each one a little further away than the last, before reaching the top of the fog bank. Loses Flashlight ‘When I settled into knew that the ground was within 1,000 feet and reached for the * flashlight, but found it to be miss- 'n#. I could see neither earth nor and had no idea what kind of tory was below. I crossed my to keep from straddling a ch or wire, guarded my face my hands and waited. cesently I saw the outline of the nd and & moment later was 2 in a cornfield. The'corn was my head and the ‘chute was & on topiof the cornstalks. I the fog I ——— HOW LINDBERGH CHEATED DEATH NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1927. HYMN SINGING IS WHILE FLYING THE NIGHT MAIL| CHURCH PROBLEM Lindbergh, flying the nigh in dense fogs. His “ship’ t air mail, became lost ’ ran out of gasoline. Lindbergh leaped. His parachute opened nicely. Then, through the gloom, plane driving crazily towa: he saw the pilotless rd him. At the right Charles A. Lindbergh as he looked while an Army Air Service cadet at Kell Texas. hurrledly packed it and started down a corn row. The ground visi- bility was about 100 yards. In a few | minutes I came to a stubble field | y Field, San Antonio, for a searching party and telephone St. Louis and Chicago. I had just put in the long dis- tance calls when the phone rang Presbyterian Assembly Takes Up This Matter San Francisco, May 25 ()—How to put soul into congregational sing- ing and spirituality into choirs, is a Presbyterian gen begins its annual scssions Francisco tomorrow d by the bly which in Sun problem to be conside 13 Lack of worship in hymn sir prompted the general assembly Columbus, Ohio, in 1925 ,to « action which led to the appointment of a special commission on music and worship. This commission has drawn up preliminary present- ainst soulless church indifferent congregational singing. careless treatment of hymodic heri- tage and general negleet of the spiritual aspects of the ministry of music, to be studied further by a na- tional body of 100 specialists as a basis for a reformation of chureh music. Dr. William Chalmers Covert of Philadelphia, , gencral secretary of the board of Christian education, his annual report to be pr the assembly nest Monday. The commitice on music and wor- ship appointed three subcommit- tees to study, instruction in music and worship in theological semin- aries,” “instruction for leadership i music and worship now available, and “present program of worship in Presbyterian churches.” The following remedial measures are suggested by the commission: “Pastors should be led to sce that the order of worship is to creato and some wagon tracks which I fol- |and we were notified that the plane | lowed to a farmyard a mile away. Wouldn't Believe Him After reaching the farm yard I noticed auto headlights playing over the roadside. Thinking that some- | one might have located the wreck | of the plane I walked over to the | car. The occupants asked whether I| had heard an airplane crash and it | required some time to explain to them that I had been piloting the | plane, and yet was scarching for it myself. I had to display the para- chute as evidence before they were | thoroughly convinced. The farmer was sure, as were most others in a 3-mile radius, that the ship had just missed his house and crashed near- by. In fact, he could locate within a few rods the spot where he heard it | ‘it the ground, and we spent an un- successful quarter hour hunting for the wreck in that vicinity lwfere‘ going to the farmhouse to arrange | utes to reach the site of the crash, due to the necessity of slow driving through the fog, and a small crowd had already assembled when we ar- rived. : The plane was wound™up in a ballshaped mass. It had narrowly missed one farmhouse and had hooked its left wing in a grain shock a quarter mile beyond. The ship had landed on the left wing and wheel and skidded along the ground for 80 yards, going through one tence before coming to rest in the edge of a cornfleld about 100 yards | short of a barn. The mail pit was | laid open and one sack of mail was on the ground. The mail, however, was uninjured. The shdriff from Ottawa arrived, and we took the mail to the Ottaw post office to be entrained at 3:30 a. m. for Chicago. COLORIMETER I QUEER INVENTION Scientiicaly Matches Any Sort of Colors | Cambridge, Mass., May 25 (UP)— Qhe art of matching colors has been reduced to a science at Massachu- setts Institute of Technology. Hu- man judgment in the measurement of color has been eliminated by a new colorimeter, an instrument de- veloped at the institute for auto- matically measuring the color of any substance rapidly and with extreme precigion. % The new colorimeter was perfect- ed by Prof. Arthur C. Hardy and Frederick W. Cunningham of the | department of physics. Its import- ance, they said, lay in its value to industry in nearly every branch of which control of its products was necessary. Accurate measurement of tolors was the first concern of manufacturers of fabrics, particu- larly in the delicate shades which often deceived the eye. Color con-| trol also was of basic importance in the making of inks, paints, dyes and | paper, it was said. Not only does the new colorimeter measure color accurately, but makes | a record by which it is possible to match that shade at any time. The fact that the instrument records on paper means that a color sample can be examined in Cambridge, the record tramsmitted across the con- tinent by wire, and the original col- or accurately reproduced in San| Francisco within a few hours. | The instrument employs a fower- | ful optical system and electrical de- | vices in registering color. The spe-| cimen color placed in the holder is flluminated by a specfal tungsten filament lamp which gives an jllum- ination 50 times more intense than full sunlight. Water filters are used to prevent the light from setting fire to the sample. In making the measurement mag- nesium carbonate, the whitest sub- stance known, is used as the stand- ard of comparison. Light is alter- nately reflected from the specimen and the magnesium carbonate and acts upon a photoelectric cell in which is sets up an alternating cur- rent. This current is fed to a vacuum tubo amplifier which increases the power 10,000,000,000,000,000 times and automatically keeps the amount of light from the specimen and the magnesium carbonate balanced. The color of the specimen is analyzed at each wave length of the spectrum and the record is produced auto- matically by a pencil moving over a revolving drum. The result is a de- scription of the color by means. of which the {dentical shade may be reproduced as oftcn as desired, 3 CONTEST LOOMING UP IN CHURCH CONFERENCE Princeton Theological Seminary Mat- ter Is Coming Beforo the Presbytcrians, San Francisco, May 25 (A—The prospect of a battle in the general (assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States which opens here tomorrow, over the administra- | tion and doctrinal controversy in- volving Princeton Theological semin- ary loomed today with the announce- ment of Dr. Clarence E. Macartney, former moderator of the church, that his following would oppose adoption of a special committee report on the schogl. Dr. Macartney, a director of the seminary, declared that the contro- rsy was definitely one between the o-called liberal and conservative factions of the church.” “I and my associates here to carry our fight for Princeton to the floor he continued. “We will oppose adoption of the report, and the proposed reorganization.” The report of the speclal commit- tee which investigated conditibns at the school, recommends a single board of control in place of the ex- isting board of trustees and hoard of directors. The report further recommends that the appointment of Professor J. Cresham Machen to the chair of apologetics be not confirm- {ed, and that pending reorganization all nominations or elections to the faculty be not approved. Dr. Macartney warmly defended Machen as a man of great distinction | in his field. When the committee on marriage and divorce met vesterday to con- sider the proposed elimination of wiliful desertion as an approved ground for divorce, it was unable to come to an immediate agreement and action was postponed until next November. BOND IS APPROVED Los Angeles, Cal, May 25 (A— Rond of $5,000 for Adolfo De La Huerta, former provisional president of Mexico, accused of violating the neutrality law of the United States, was approved today by David Head, federal commissioner here. The United States attorney’s of- fice said De -La Huerta would not be taken into custody pending ac- tion at Tucson, Arizona, where com- plaint involving alleged attempts to send munitions of war into Mexico was filed against him and four others. LOWELL PASTOR DIES Lowell, Mass, May 25 (A—Rev Antonie A. Amyot, O. M. I, former pastor of St. Joseph's church in this city and more recently director of St. Mary's Mission in South Lowell, died yesterday, aged 83. He was ordained in Montreal in 1873 and later served in Hull and Tachine, Que,, and Plattshurgh, New York, quarter | had been found in a cornfleld over | | two miles away. It took several min- | — PLEADS FOR WORLD OF SPORTSMANSHIP i {Daniel Chase Suggests Nations Play the Game Squarely A plea that national and interna- tional relations be placed on a ortsmanship basis was made at & | dinner meeting of the Lions' club {at the Burritt hotel last cvening by | Daniel Chase, executive secretary of |the Sportsmanship Brotherhood. Mr, Chase, who had been in the city for the past two days speaking to students in the schools, spoke on ! world wide sportsmanship. He said it relationships across international | | boundaries were placed on the same | basis as athletic games, prejudice !and misunderstandings would disap- | pear. He gaid in part: | “Speaking of sports, T am not re- ferring to the type of a man who |wears flashy clothes, speaks in a {loud tone and flashes a roll when- ever he gets a chance—he's a sport all right but he's a tin horn sport. A true blue sport is a fellow like Lindbergh. There's a boy who has done more to bring about friendship with France than all the efforts of | Herrick and other ambassadors, “With a spirit of sportsmanship |the fighting instinet will be subli- mated by efforts to bring peace | throughout the world. Be a good loser, but don't be an easy loser. Play the game to win, but win honorably or not at all. “There 18 too much crying in our colleges today to ‘win at any ecost.’ Let’s cheer for the good plays made by our opponents. Don’t hiss or boo the officials, don't razz the other team. Your high school boys will play their games just as the specta- tors act.” An amusing incident occurred during the early part of the pro- |gram, in which the orchestra wWas very much embarrassed. A. J. De- Laurier, a member of the club, wa leading the group ainging. The or- | chestra boys were very efficlent and when a popular song was called, snapped into the melody without the slightest hesjtation. | Suddenly someone called the title | of a song. Several members laugh- ed. Dr. DeLaurfer started it and | the club members sang—but the orchestra boys stood with blank looks on their faces. It was noth- |ing they had ever heard before. | “Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie,” | was the song. Whether it was | becanse it has been raining so long the musicians could not remember a | sunny day, or the fact that the play- ers all scemed to be less than a | score of years old, was not explain- ed. Tt just happened timt the song was older than the orches | T = 'Somers Church Will Have Its Fourth Anniversary Somers, Conn.,, May 25 (®—The 1 200th anniversary of the foundinr of Somers Congregational church will be observed urday and Sun- day, June 2 and 26. While the actual was in March, | its s deferred until | more weather conditions | might favor the return of former ; 'nts for the occasion. Judge Erncst 8. Fuller is chairman of the | committ The pre is FEdwin Thomas | formerly of Harrington | Ne | ENGAG 2 ANNOUNCED | Mr. and ) 1. S. Koplowitz of 38 | Dewey street have announced the ! engagement of their daughter, Julie, | to Gerald Rifkin of Los Angeles, | [ Cal, formerly of New York City. ! give free expre 1 homiletical | refers especially to this matter in| ented to spiritual atmosphere, to deepen tie consciou of God's presence, to stimulate religious feeling, and to sion to the ador tion and p of the worshiper. For the most part this kind of ministry defeated through the prevailing custom of giving the service a im. this condition to continu in theological s must be re- vised in harmony with the tenets and practices of modern educational programs, 1 It not instruction is semi “Much needs to be done to make the churc ) bymnodic her cate that choir ihis point; hymns ed in terms of the produced them. ¢ is a great deal of singing which is indifferently done and thercfore lacking in spiritual power. More at- tention must be given by pastors, crganists, and dircctors of Christian cducation to the origin and history of hymns and the ’ of music. The church's salvation depends upon the trainipg which is given fn the church school. There the mira- cle must be wrought. For the most part, however, there seems to be no clearly defined vision of what is in- volved or who is to bear the respon- sibility for training children and I youth in the worship of God. ‘Open- ing exercises’ still hold the ficld in many schools, and these are in |charge of supcrintendents, who |often sacrifice them for other and semingly more important duties, its he facts Indi- rsals fail at re not interpret- xpericnces t wuently, ther mi fon feels that theo- golleges, and uni- ties have great responsibility in vitalizing, enriching and beautify- ing public worship by supplying a force of leaders, trained in the technique of worship, who shall dedicate themselves to the task of guiding churches and church schools ! lin their devotional life.” Announcement was made that the personnel committee has hbeen en- gaged In etudying the ficld and “is | about ready to present for nomina- ly 100 out- nen who a ed in the foster MEDICAL MEN MEET State Society is Holding 135th An- nual Session Today and To- morrow in Hartford, irtford ing & meeting of of delegates of the Co cut State Medical socie nual meeting met the Hunt memorial, to hear com- mittee reports, including that of the council which presented nomi tions for oflicers for the coming year, to confirmed tomorrow. The members of the society attend ing the convention opened th scientific program, with inform: clinics and ward rounds at both the Hartford hospital and §t. Francis’ voturning to the Hunt memorial in the afternoon, where the session was taken up with technical papers und discussion. In his report, given at the meet- ing of the housc of delegates, Dr. I'rank H. Wheeler of New Haven, the reliri president, pointed out the satisfactory functioning of the medical practice act of 1925, which he called “not perfect, but a very May —(®)—1"0llow- council, the ot s 135th an- house great improvement on any we have | had hefore.” In his report, Dr. tary ber of the society included mem- iip statistics for the past year, the total number of members now | Deing 1,265, Losses during the year were thirty-three, twenty-three of which were by death. JAPANESE RAISING BIRDS Osaka—Breeding of small birds uch as canarles and macaws s be- coming pooular in Japan. There are s in Sakal, near here. Lindbergh Wins! Air-Cooling Triumphs! this morning at | Charles W. | Comfort, Jr., of New Haven, secre- | . VATICAX SEES GREAT AID AS RESULT OF FLIGHT Delieves Lindbergh's Achievemnent | Mecans Much to Transmission of Thought Among Penples. Rome, May 25 (#)—Pope Pius con- siders the trans-Atlantic flight of | Captain Lindbergh has contributed | much to the transmission of thought between peoples and added greatly !to the modern world's tacilities of | communication. He made this known {in a speech at a vatican ceremony | vesterday commemorating the third entennial of the foundation of the | Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, in the course of which he | referred also to the religious situa- tion in Mexico and China. | As for Mexico, he sald, “its heroic suiference of persecution has earned the right to be cited in the order of | the glory of the church and civiliza- tion.” The agitation in China, the pontiff | declared, did not come from within, | as the people were *“good, profound- ly good.” In his opinion, it came from “a distant land,” menacing cvery aspect of civillzatios, especial- ly that of the church. Yesterday's ceremony was attend- ed by all the cardinals resident in Rome and bishops who came espe- lly from all parts of the worlds MANY WOUNDED SOLDIERS London, May 25 (M — A Reuter dispatch from Hankow says 2,000 | wounded soldiers from the fighting | front in Honan province have ar- ved at Hankow in the last two days. Stockholm, Sweden, May 25 (UR | —The Russian fleet in the Baltic, | which was en route to visit foreign | countries, has been recalled to Rus- sia by wireless, said Moscow reports to the newspaper Tidingen. | RUSSIAN FLEET RECALLED. | | Greatest Human Achievement of Century Focuses Attention on Air-Cooled Motors “I Had the Best Engine” | Captain Lindbergh Says “There’s one thing I wish to get straight about this flight,” Captain Lindbergh said in his own story of adventure in the New York Times. “They call me ‘Lucky’ but luck isn’ enough. As a matter of fact I had what I regarded the best existing and still regard as plane to make the flight from New York to Paris. And | had what I regard as the best engine.” | | | | | Statement by Mr. Franklin “Lindbergh has given the world its greatest thrill. He knew in. preparing for the flight, as do other American aviators, that success outside of the elements rested on cne vital thing—the absolute re- liability and staying powers of his And he motor. the air-cooled engine Lindbergh’s qualities. knew that only gives these dazzling performance, aviation’s own tri- umph, is likewise a triumph for air-cooling — a triumph of vast significance.” The 25th Anniversary FRANKLIN All prices are the most favorable in Franklin history. Ask about the 25th Anniversary Easy Ownership Plan. FRANKLIN MOTORS OF NEW BRITAIN 403 WEST MAIN ST. '