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NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1927, 'tute of Technology, comprise the ad- \ r ! {visory comumittec. ! They will sit independently of the governor, who for the past sev- eral weeks has devoted a large part | Bar Harbor, Matne. Edward J. Hinl, | ! pilot of the Detroiter III, Detroit |Flying club entry, won second | honors with a flight of 665 miles, TAMPAIS QUIET icoming down at Skowhegan, Maine. Captain W. E. Kepner, pilot of United States army No. 3, covered | Death Toll Is Four Score; Younded Tampa, Fla, June 2 (P—Tampa was quiet this morning. Apparently the eige of the Hillsborough county jail” was at an end. After three nights of rioting dur- ing which four persons were killed and more than a score wounded as mobs of infuriated civillans sought to enter the jail to take a confessed murderer, one thousand special deputies enforced a nine o'clock curfew throughout the city last night und there was peace. Thirty alleged members of the mobs were under arrest this morn- ing awaiting action by the grand jury. Throughout the rioting, the object of the mob's wrath, B. F. Levins, who had confessed he killed Herman Merrell, his wife and three children thinking they were another family who had done him a “dirty trick,” was safe from their fury, imprisoned in another county, officers an- nounced. Arrest of J. R, " Hu a sign painter, implicated 1 in the slayings, was announced terday. VAN ORMAN'S WIN FOURTH STRAIGHT Pilots Goodyear Balloon to State of Maine Akron, 0. June 2 (P'—An alr line route from Akron to the state of Maine was drifted over by a trio of pilots who captured the first three places in th national balioon race which was completed yester- he event was wop by W. T. Van Orman, Akron, piloting the Good- vear entry. It wos Van Orman's fourth consecutive vietory in the na- tional balloor aide was W, W. Morton, Ak Of the fifteen huge gas bags en- tered in the contest, only three reached Maine, and that successful trio thereby won the right to par- ticipate in the International Bennett Cup balloon race at Denver next September 10. The state of Maine was not a set qualifying point. It just so happen- ed that all the winners brou the's balloons down to earth ther, no other contestant reached Maine. “an Orman, according to official headquarters figures released h. floated over a direct distance of 602 miles, ballasting his way to Bid- deford, Maine. While three pilots have been lared winners at officlal head- quarters here, their mileage figures remain to be passed upon at Wash- ington by the National Aeronautic association. Of the seven army and navy crews entered in the event the A®my No. § was the only one to place within the first three. Not a single acicdent marred the entire event, all fifteen b ing off and landing sa: was the biggest and most vet staged, officials said. A public reception has beep plan- ned here Friday when W ©Orman and Morton retur E£ Mrs. St. Roman Has Faith in Medium Rio Janeiro, Ju 2 (P —Because L medium told her that 501 as at Bona Vista, one of the Cape “erde islands, the mother of Cap- tain Saint Roman., French aviator said to have requested that w search be made for him Saint Roman took off from louis, I, May 5, for a flight 0SS ne Sou rn Atlantic to P'ernambuco., Brazil, and nothing h since been heard of him, or his flight companion, Commander Mounecyres. A search was made in the vieir the Cape Verde is- lands, v ‘Lona Vista, but not a fliers was found. siles driven by John Car- bo of Kensington and Arthur L. Marko of 127 Homestead avenue, this city, collided at the corner of Ellis and Bassctt strects about 3:40 vesterday afternoon, damaging both according to report of Motor- cycle Policoman Clarhence Kumm. Mr. Carbo was.driving north on sett street and Mr. Marko was iving east on Ellis street. Mr. bo told the officer he was watch- ing school children and ¢id not see the other car. His car struck it in the rear on the left side and forced it against a pole on the southeast corne; smashing the right rear heel, springing the axle and caus- ing a slight rip in the top. G Carbo car was damaged about the front bumper, left front fender and ht front tire. Oificer Kumm reported that cars were traveling at speed at the time of the collision and thers was no cause for police “ction, MONUMENT TO UNCLE JOE Springfield, Til, June 2 @ — A monument to “Uncle Joe" Cannon. to be built at Danville, Tl former home of the statesman., was pro- posed in a bill introduced in the state senate yester The cost of « fionally celebrated case FLOOD VICTIM 800 Persons Foudles or Two Days Reached New Orleans, June 2 (®—Supplies were being rushed today to between : 300 and 400 people in the Woodside ,and Odenburg sections 140 miles northwest of New Orleans on the west bank of the Atchafalaya river ;‘;\Hng to a report received at Baton "Rouge flood rellef headquarters that they have been without food for two days. The engineer’s corps boat Chocta: was dispatched to the scene last night with food for the refugees and cnough feed and forage for 1,000 head of llvestock. Additional sup- plies will be sent from Baton Rouge today. Flood waters, falling more rapidiy in the upper Atchafalaya basin to- day, were rising at the mouth of the river at Morgan City, A naval avia- tor reported that only two blocks in the clty were above water. The water was dropping sharply at other places. however, and he reported that Breaux Bridge and St. Martin- ville were almost free of the flood and that New Siberla was emerging rapidly With the greatest part of the struggle to save lives over, a slow demobilization of relief forces has been started. Colonel Spalding estimated that his rescue fleet of 850 boats, not in- cluding the hundreds of small row- boats and skiffs had evacuated 100,- 000 refugees and moved between 30,000 and 40,000 tons of foodstuffs. | The situation on the lower M 1ssippi was unchanged. The gauge |at New Orleans showed a further {drop of .2, now reading 18.6. G0V. FULLER NAMES BOARD OF REVIEW Trio Will Make Study of Sacco- Vanzetti Claims Boston, June 2 P—The interna- of Nicol Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti swung onto new ground today with the appointment by Gov. Alvan T. Iuller of a commission to aid htm in his review of the long litigation surrounding the trial and condemna- tion of the admitted radicals con- victed slayers. President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University, Judge Robert rant, formerly on the probate Lench, and President Samuel W. of his time to his own review of the | proceedings. - | | Gov. Fuller's announcement was | his first intimation of his method of | handling the case since he first un | dertook consideration of the evi- dence on the plea of Vanzettl who, | {in a 10,000 word petition on behalf | ‘of himself and Sacco, called for | “justice” and exoneration. Both are under sentence of death in the week of July 10 for the mur- i der of a South Braintree paymaster |and his guard more than seven years ago. | Since thelr conviction in 1921 untl | {they were sentenced to death last| April, after the supreme court had | | twice dismissed appeals for a new trial, a defense committee which | raised hundreds of thousands of dol- | |lars, has kept their case before the | world. ! Gov. Fuller has been deluged with | thousands of communications repre- senting all shades of opinfon and | gratuitous advice has poured in upon the executive from many parts of | the globe since the case was placed | before him. i ! The defense has consistently main- | tained that because of their ad- mittedly radical affiliations, the con- vieted men did not receive a fair trial and Judge Webster Thayer, trial judge, was made the subject of charges of bias in slx affidavits from | newspaper reporters and others at | the time of the Vanzettl petition. Tt was forecast that because of the | shortness of time between the ap- pointment of the advisory commit- | tee, which must consider a moun- fainous mass of evidence, and the! |date set for the exccutions that a respite will be forthcoming before | July 10. | {Ten Thousand Frogs Are : Shipped to Far Japan | Boston, June 2 (P—Ten thousand frogs sailed from Boston yesterday for Japan. Occupying moss lined |crates and paired as to male and | [female they were placed aboard the | Hamburg-American liner Thuringia just before she left her pler. Ex- | cept for a daily farm bath they will | inot be fed until arrival at Hamburg, where they will be treated to a feast. of African beeties before departure | on another ship for Japan. 1 | The frogs, Louisiana gathered in the flood zone, shipped by John T. Benson of Hagen- | bach’s American branch at Nashua, N. H. To what use they arc to he | {put in Japan, he was unable to say, a except for possible propagation of [the flier proceeds to the Memphis| |the species to combat insect pests. |aboard a cutter. |The frogs have scven sea lions. an }Ameri(‘an timber wolf and a half |dozen woodchucks as traveling com- | | panions. TO INVITE ROYALTY | Chicago, June 2 (M — The kings | of Norway. Sweden and Denmark land the president of Tinland are | to recelve persona! invitations to !seaplanes, as the Memphis steams |the day a memorable one. AGAIN PRAISING Papers Continue Lauding Cap- tain Lindbergh Paris, June 2 UP—Captain Lind- bergh, or “Lanbear” as the French pronounce his name, again took the center of tho Parisian stage this norning. The newspapers were full of his return to France from Eng- land, scheduled for this evening, and the arrangements for his departure for home on the crulser Memphis Saturday. ‘They had two new kindly cari- catures of him and a number of old photos, including one of a wrecked plane from which he escaped by means of a parachute at Blooming- ton, Il Lindy's farewell visit to Paris may be incognito, but if the French have their way he is not going to succeed in hiding his light under a bushel. Twao engagements have already been | arranged for him. ‘Tonight he will attend a gala festival organized by | the Legion of Honor society of the | fashionable eighth, sixteenth and| seventeenth precincts of Paris, and | tomorrow the International League of Aviators has arranged a luncheon in his honor at the clubhouse to which only avlators will be admit- | ted. The city council of Le Mans 1/ pressing Ambassador Herrick to | have Lindbergh come and unveil a monument at_Auvours field, com- memorating Wilbur Wright's first flight over Europe, but it is not likely he will find time, as he will have all he can do to attend to bus- iness matters before sailing. Cherbourg s thrilled over the prospect of saying farewell to the aviator on behalf of France. There | will be an air escort of French naval out of the harbor Saturday and nothing is being neglected to make Captain Lindbergh is expected to | fly from Paris to Cherbourg. When he arrives he will be taken through the beflagged streets to a municipal reception at the city hall Then there will be & procession to the docks, where, after being greeted by the chamber of commerce, he will be | made the “patron” of the local air- field. 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