New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1927, Page 12

SOUNEY PRAISES FIRE DEPARTMENT Tells Kiwanis Club of Routine Work of “Smoke Eaters” New Britain is second to nonc the United States and Canada in ef- ficiency of its fire fightin and in fire prevention uty Chief Michael T, chief of the bureau of fire tion, who spoke to the members of the anis ciub today at the noon Juncheon He denied 15 a lazy m many details o & fireman mus fircmen required rumber and location of vach of 137 boxes in the city and also the lo- tion of the fire hydrants. 1t 1s consid in tire fight- in wpparatus ording to ney, that a fireman's job and expla the and thin; He to know work know. s are the DEPUTY CHIEF SOUNEY ing circles anywhere for a piece of apparatus to go past a hydrant and hiave to turn back. . Firemen also are required to know the type of construction of buildings in the different neighborhoods, and often map out their plan of battle while on the way to answer an alarm. He told of the drill tower which is practically completed at the new No. 7 engine house, and said drills will begin within two weeks. Fire- men are taught how to handle lad- ders and how to handle themselves and those they are rescuing on lad- ders. He said in putting up lad- ders the proper way to make sure they are safe is to divide the length of the ladder by five and add two, this indicating the distance from the wall to the base of the ladder. Thus the safe distance for a £0 foot lad- der would be 14 feet from the bot- tom to the wall. Jumping from third stories into a life net is part of the drill, and men are taught to jump so as to land on their shoulders and back. To show what a strain it i on the men hold- ing the net he said a 150 pound man | Jjumping 300 feet into a net strikes a 2200 pound blow. Firemen are called upon for ser fee other than fires, sometimes, ac ‘eording to the chi A few weeks ago the department was called on the telephone at 1:30 a. m., by a woman who asked if a certain lodge had met that night. She said her husband went to the lod nd had not vet returned home. A few days later a traveling man from Vermont stopped and asked the way to Pitts- burgh. Souney spoke on end told how serious accidents -times occur through the careless handling of oil heater: Indiana Klansmen Now Threaten to “Talk” Tndianapolis, Ind., June 29 (UF) ~almness today greeted the state- ment of D. C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan that he is ready to ‘“talk freely aboit Indiana politics. Prosscutor William H. Remy of Marion county, to whom the offer was conveyed by specific request of Stephenson, was ired by the open- ress with which the announcement He gave no indica the promise is honafi Stephenson g ment froni his Ktate prison it he was testify into an board of charities sharges that prison treating him cruelly, roport on the inquiry is o public Friday, prison officia out tha state- 1 in the Tndiana Michigan City., FFrom a few weeks ago to vestigation by the of his Collision Yesterday, $500 Suit Filed Today As a resuit of an mobile cident yesterday at 11 m., at the intersection of Newington and M 1 dams DeWolfe, LeWitt, against #ki. The writ city court July and served the avenue H Tolin & ket stre suit for n bro G inley returr third es has bec by through is enbers Klawke in Monday \ble the of ipers THE DOG w. 8 detailed to invest t a dog owned yon of Jeror Steven 1 ome str v that the boy was one who were in Dr. terday and they the dog might persisted in teasing the cording to Dr. Lyon, and th boy was caught by the trou not bitten, Lyon's A chase were w 1 DIVIDE in of pany today was creased annual $2.40 a share, with a quarterly bursement of na August 15 to holders August 1. The former ratp was 50 cents a sl dividen1 basis of record quarterly preven- | o firz prevention | d by tin Kelly ! City_ltems s were turned over to Miss oll, woman probation of- | ficer, by Sergeant P. J. O'Mara yes- | terday, for breaking several panes of window glass in the Washington school. Sorgeant P. A. McAvay arrested 3enjamin Zablocki, 250 High street, today on a warrant charging non support. He-was locked up in de- fault of a bond, for trial tomorrow morning wt P. J. O'Mara tcol td of Oak on Main Inoon. a request having been received Captain Kelly from the State hool for Boys, at Meriden, to turn him in for violation of yarole. An r of the school will take the | boy back today or tomorrow. A number of employes of the Ni itain district of the Southern Ni elephone Co., attended & 1t Savin Rock last evening. AT license has been s sued by Town Clerk A. L. Thompson |to Alectonr Arhour, truck driver. of 154 Allen street d Leo Pouliet of 174 East Main str AMERICA LEAVES FOR OGEAN HOP (Continued from First Page) 18, street by ay and when he was not seen to tuning believed that descend from the up the motors it the had a | Arriving at the hangar about | half an hour after the America left 'the ground, Kinkade said a five I pound tin of tea belonging to Com- ‘mander Byrd, made him decide to Iremain behind, Byrd and his crew, | he said, checked over various sup- plies to see if room could be made |for Kinkade. They discarded first ‘the mud guards on the landing gear, then a pair of moccasins and two cans of oil, “Then,” said Kinkade, “they were about to throw off the commander's five-pound tin of tea, That decided I figured they would need to save all the weight they could in order to buck the headwinds that are awaiting them off Newfound- land. I immediately came off the ship. Kinkade Disappointed Kinkade appeared disappointed. aid a friend to him, “maybe you'll fly back from Paris to this country “That'’s what I'm going to do,”” he answered. He added that he will !sail for France today uboard the President Harding, taking with him spare parts for the America's motors. A few minutes after the take-oft the America appeared once more returning out of the west and fiy- ing dircctly over the ficld on its vay to France, It was flying low but in the misty half tight it could !vot be told whether or not any of the crew leaned from the cabin to wave a last farewell. Wives Left Behind Left behind on the fleld were the wives of Byrd, Acosta and Noville. Balchen is not married. The wives 1all expressed supreme confidence in | their hnsbands' ability to achieve | their purpose and no tears were in fevidence at the moment of parting. The fliers themselves were jubilant lat getting away at last after the ilong delay, but their smiles were !replaced with expressions of stern | determination as they climbed to their place and the signal was given tor the start. Because of the late hour of the announccment concerning the take- oif, there was no such crowd at the had gathered on previous: occasions when there had been newspaper notices that a flight might be expected. Barograph Installed When the sealed barograph was alled in the “America” at 3:30 a. m. by Porter Adams, president of the National Aeronautical associa- tion, only one of the four men of the crew was at the fleld. That ] George Noville, the flight en- ginecer. Commander Richard Byrd, aviator; Bert Ac pilot, and Bernt Lalchen, relief man, were still resting at Garden C Decision to fly was that early spectators w Iy line, field a: | wa “made so late few, bare- Mrs. Noville Thrilled Mrs. Noville, seated in an auto- mobile in the hangar during prepa rations for the take-off, said she w Lappy and thrilled about the flight. | “My no, I'm not a bit scared,” she 1 {saia. ighted that they're going w they'll hayv: 2 ful flight. e every conti woull not varis by await | Noville said she her husband n but that she would 0 nander Byrd it 4 o'clock, M { follow steamer arrived at the | hangar his face set in father of 4 4. m up by police- front the ad 1.0 official explained r. He| 5o, | ¢ roached shortly before 4 of 1 rms around on the lips, and | ro off this time." | Noville, | his im said Mrs. arri was the still looking ther Not ryiew “n not Comman conditioy Lin W 1S they not anything imd Chamber- to take the W have it will take alt fin had vinds wind longer He rgh n come, haxs . will I resistance to get 1 the 1 turned and shook hands |t with some of the reporters, thank- | first ng them for their co-operation “Goodi:ye, boys,” he said. Then tained his final citizenship about ten da 200 being lined along the police |se taken. thrilling flight. the quests for speculating Commander Byrd's glant triple-motored plane, “America” on its speci ially constructed runway ready for the start of Byrd’s round trip flight to Europe. In the group are Commander Byrd, George Noville and Bert Acosta, assembling their supplies and equipment, and inset, lis the latest picture of the North Pole flyer in his flying headgear. Route of Byrd Flight as Charted by Navigator W (N FOUNDLAND 1 1500 72 NOVA 5OTIa FRHALIFAX A 7 Crput | Commander'Byrd on his trans-. lieved sufficient to keep him in the ai: 100 miles per hour. Map shows the course and distances the America will co 30, ) [1s) <) Atlantic flight expected to cover about 3,600 miles on 1,324 gallons of fuel, which he be- upwards of 45 hours. His three-motored plane was expected to travel between 90 and i he-added, as an after thought, *I|that has already been twice biazed. uo:(‘_'t zl-n-':ullvr ::\3"'50;11111»3' e Began on May 12 urning to T. H. Kinkade, ht| o motor expert, the Commander i"-:I,o’l“]::r“((:t'“i‘;‘h]::l ey ,l,'f.""fi?tm.(.o quired, “How's everything at the|fc/ell (O0 0N the - Tokker s L RS {before Charles Lindbergh left for Fine,” replied Kinkade. |‘ nce. It still here when first Good,” said Byrd. “When YOu Lindbergh left for France. It was start the engines, give them a g00d | till here when first Lindberg and warming up. |then Clarence Chamberlin and Byrd Without Sleep |Charles Levine made the trip to Byrd prepared fo take off with- | France. out having had any sleep at all. In explaining the many Bernt Balchen, former lieutenant | Byrd repeatedly said that if he had in the Norwegian navy, who ob-|been flying alone he would have papers | goue long bef did, but that 's ago, was.all smiles |[he felt his responsibility toward the about the hangar. |three men flying with him and Balchen, who searched the arctic |¥ould = not go until the weather vastes in an airplane when Amund-Ilf(‘:x"'l“"‘:():‘:l'l“ r‘:"‘m‘o“;“ If““:‘:fp"mf lost in his polar expediiti g SR Ce SHend caid the fight to Darls was|however, he left without definite longest he has ever under. | fssurance that he would have good He would not say, however, | Veather all the way and with the that he expected it to be his most |information from the weather bu- {reau that he might expect to strike | |rain and fog with possibly adverse {winds off Newfoundland. The America started on its jour- ey against a head wind but it was | light as hardly to stir the flag delays as he strollec “I'm sure we will make it” he ald. “T think it will take us more han 33 hours, though, because of head-on winds that we'll run into. T should say it would nearer 40 hours to get acr | Pilot Bert Acosta reached the i field at 420 in company with his| € stadlyfthroughs wife, who is about two fect shorter [OUF the L ogstaruthati) speed was not of prime importance | than her stalwart husband. jnee . 5 | M e i . Acosta, |8 he not trying for any prize | smiling. “Do I look it2 I'm tickled "OF tr¥ing to beat any ‘record. fo pleees hes going, Of course helt | “LAndbereh was-an entrant for | pehe the Orteig prize,” he said, 3 “and Acosta o Prize Chamberlin and Levine were trying for a distance record. But this| flight is for purely scientific condi- tions and it would be foolish to! lussen our chances of finding out | | what we want to know by rushing ¥ to a hurried start.” { Byrd hopes to learn many facts concerning the general rules by lieved winds over the | rned for the use of ! anic aviators. Goaded Into Start | his repeated assertions | was in no hurry, however, | belicved that a4 today hesicged with re- As he moved Mrs. was itographs. through the asked a reporter, ¥ now?" Children Were Asleep Acosta said her twa children cp at a hotel in Garden said her hoys knew their as going to fly to Paris not know he was | oiih dawn she did not | Acosta ing aw v ity S “daddy” but 1 caving want did trans-oc ' and to awaken them of Despite that he it was generally left when he Iy because e felt that he was losing prestige. It beeame public that he was receiving in reeent hany |sarcastic lciters and criticising the delays of it iknown need him to tak ther hecame fairly nes the mono- | were started at in preparation for flight. < of the great Imost 1 plane half an though g incline, 1y th . short 1s th v from a t dows his flight missives off when tavorable, and these was length ob into the 1 Aisappeared in the | STATE (P—Charles | prominent attorney, | whose death occurred May 6, loft an estate of according to in- | ventory filed here today. The estate | consists principally of stocks, mort- | . and notes, and is left to his . Margaret F. Canfield. A son, Wooster Canfield of Waterbury, plane ever to fly over the|and a daughter, Julia Stuart Wallace north " pole wonld have no ereat | of West Haven, joined in acceptance difficulty in following an air trair|of the will, had left graph with and vires nts of th roups on op-off and chances Stuart Can June wspaper w attering off in the 1 discussing the the: flier was generally agreed who commanded the ar, pectate he field rs thont or suceess. It hat the man ver in terms of mileage, as chartered by the Commander. at Le Bourget, leading to the belief i here that he intends to return to the WEATHER CONDITIONS 373525 | Bridgeport, Conn., June 29 (A— | William J. Shields, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. driver of a circus wagon, met !death accidentally according to the i iy | finding of Coroner J. J. Phelan, to- way, but conditions are pretty fair. day. The wind will not be much help to|seat on the wagon, receiving injuries them, but they will not find much|from which he died here, June 24. head wind.” | (Continued from First Page) REPORT AUTO STOLEN Sergeant P. A. McAvay is investi- gating a report by the Superior Auto Pai rfom June 29 (A—Instructions ommander Richard E. Byrd have been received by the air union | Sales Co. of 51 Main street that a chief of the French commercial air-|car was taken from the salesrooms line to have 4,400 litres (about 960 jyesterday about noon. Entrance gallons) of gasoline waiting for hlmlw.’u gained through a rear window. - Wives They Left Behind THE WIVES WHO STAY BEHIND—Mrs. Richard E. | Byrd (left) Mrs. Bert Acosta (upper right) and Mrs. George Novillg are pictured here. Their husbands are commander,.pilot and flicht engineer, respectively, of the “America” on its journey to Europe, LG OF AMERICA ON WAY T0 PARIS (Continued from First Page) 10:0° a. m. (E. D. T.)—High over Meteghan, Nova Scotia, pointed for Halifax, 10:65 a. m. (E. D. T.)—Cook’fall, Nova Scotla, very high. 11:10 a. m. (B. D. T.)—Martin's River, Nova Scotla. Dodging fog banks. 11:35 a. m. (E. D. T.)—Bedford, Nova Scotia, 6 hours and 11 minutes out of New York and approximately 530 miles of airline distance. 12:15 p. m. (E. D. T.)—Sher- brooke, Nova Scotia, approximately 630 miles out on flight in 6 hours and 51 minutes. Sherbrook is a little more than 100 miles east of Bedford, the place previously re- porting Byrd, 40 minutes earller. Whether this indicated that Byrd had made the hundred miles in so much less than an hour or whether th: unofficial reports from Bedford had a mixup as to timing was not ascertainable. 1:30 p. m. (E. D. T.)—Scatari, making 100 miles an hour. Those Making Trip Personnel: Commander Richard E. Byrd, U. 8. N, who commanded first plane to fly over North Pole, on leave from navy for present flight; Bert Acosta, flight pilot, hold- er with Clarence Chamberlin of the world record for endurance flying; George Noville, flight engineer, army wartime pilot and former head of the air mail; Bernt Balchen, pas- senger and relief man, associated with Roald Amundsen in prepara- tion for Norge flight over North Pole. Shields was jolted from his! Route They T Route: Roosevelt field up New England coast, across Nova Scotia to. Newfoundland, then slightly south of great circle course across ocean to Ireland and thence to Pgris. Dis- tance roughly 3,600 miles. Time about 40 hours. Purpose: The study of winds at various altitudes in an effort to chart general rules which may aid future trans-Atlantic fliers. Type of Airplane Plane: The America is a three motored Fokker monoplane similar to the Miss Josephine Ford in which Byrd flew over the North Pole, but has greater wing spread. Thirteen hundred gallons of gasoline are carried and 54 gallons of oil. The engines are air-cooled Wright whirlwinds, the same as those used in the Ryan and Bellanca mono- planes that preceded Byrd to Eu- rope. Instruments Carried Instruments: All the instruments carried by the Ryan and Bellanca planes and more. Commander Byrd will be able to take accurate reck- onings such as are used on ships and will carry three compasses. He will have the magnetic compass and earth Inductor compass such as the other planes had and will also be equipped with a sun compass, a re- cent invention which he used on his Polar flight. Food: Two roast chickens, 10 cheese and 10 turkey sandwiches. Also emergency rations of hard tack and Pemmican to last 30 days in case of emergency. Communication: Whereas the Ryan and Bellanca planes carried no radio set the America has two. The large set will send continuous “all's well” signals and in case of a forced land- ing at sea a small set in the tail may be used for distress calls. Sponsors: The flight is backed by the America Transoceanic company, which was formed for the purpose. Tts head is Rodman Wanamaker, de- partment store owner. Planes Are Comparcd New York, June 29 (A—Follow- |ing are some comparative facts about | Byrd's “America,” Lindbergh’s “Spir- it of St. Louis,” and the Chamber- lin-Levine “Columbia.” The “America” has three engines, | cach one identical with the single | Wright whirlwind that propelled each of the other planes. The “America” has wing spread of 171 feet, 25 feet more than the “Co- |lumbia” or the “Spirit.” It weighs, | tuelled, 14,500 pounds, 9,082 more | than the “Columbla” and 9,370 more than the “Spirit.” The “America” carries 1,300 gal- lons of gasoline, 845 more than the “Columbia” and 848 more than the “gpirit.” The “Spirit” carried but one man, the “Columbia” two, and the “Am- erica” four. All three planes are monoplanes of |the same general design and all are cquipped with the same type and make of air cooled engines, but the “Spirit” was designed at the Ryan {factory in California, the “America™ | was designed by Anthony Fokker in i New Jersey and the “Columbia” by Gluseppe M. Bellanca, also in New Jersey. GOMPLETE PAGIFIC OCEAN FLIGHT (Continued from First Page.) path for the automobile carrying the flight heroes. Police lines were unable to hold back the cheering, gesticulating, almost hysterical thousands who witnessed the end of the flight. Mounted police elrcled | the plane protecting it from the crowd that swept toward it. The fliers were presented to Gov- ernor Wallace R. Farrington, Rear Admiral John D. McDondld and other dignitaries who loaded them with beautiful Hawalan flowers and leis, the native emblems of greet- ing. As Maitland entered the automo- bile he rubbed his hands across cyes that were slightly bloodshot. Hegenberger's eyes also looked tired and worn. Both appeared stiff from sitting long hours in their plane. Wife Overjoyed. Washington. June 29 (P—Mrs. Lester J. Maitland received the news of her husband's succeas in | the Hawaiian tlight from the Asso- "clated Press with the enthusiastic declaration that the filght “was wonderful.” - 3 | * 8he was corsiderably wearfed by by an all-night vigll waiting for re- Borts on the progress of the ven- | ture, and said she would hasten to get some rest before deciding def- initely when she would g0 to the Pacitic coast to meet her husband. “I was very confident from the first,” she said. “But the news that Lieutenant Maitland has accom- plished his task is wonderful news.” Mrs. Maitland is visiting at the home of her father, Dr. Willlam A. ‘White. One Day’s Trip. It fell to the lot of the army to bring the Hawaiian Islands, outpost of America’s defenses within one day of the country’s mainland. The fastest steamer traverses the broad waters of the Paclifc, in which no land intervenes, in from five and one-half to six days. Maitland and Hegenberger by their successful flight, supplement- ed the pioneer work begun August 31, 1925 by their brothers of the navy. On that date three giant planes of the navy made the first t attempt to cross the Pacific from 8an Francisco to Hawail. One plane failed to rise, another fell into the sea 300 miles offshire, and the third, montaining the heroic Commander John Rodgers and three other men. came down 300 miles short of their destination. For nine days they drifted with their seaplane and were picked up when hope had been al- most abandoned. The flight ended today exempli- fied the advance which aviatian has taken. Whereas, the navy had found it essential to place a line of war- ships reaching from California’s shore to the Hawaiian Islands, at 200 mile intervals, the army flyers flew without such support, and in a landing plane that would have floated two to three hours. They had a pneumatic liferaft. Congratulations Aeceived Brooklyn, N. Y., June 29 (UP)— Alphonse F. Hegenberger, father of Lieut. Albert Hegenberger, U. 8. A., navigator of the army’s California- Hawail flight, and Albert Hegenber- ger, brother of the aviator, were jubilant when the United Press told them the news of the flight's suc- cessful end. The two relatives had been kept informed of the fliers by the United Press. The father gave the United Press a message to his son. It was rushed to the flier by United Press leased wires and by cable, The mes- sage said: “We were all confident of you on your remarkable flight. Wonderful feat of navigation. God speed you in the service you love for unlimited Success.” It was signed, “Father, Family and AL" Washington Jubilant Washington, June 29 (UP)—Gov- ernment chiefs today hailed, in con- gratulatory cables and press state- ments, the achievement of Lieu- tenants Maitland and Hegenherger in flying from the Golden Gate to Hawaii us epochal and courageous, and beneficial to aviation. From the army went warm con- gratulations which were echoed by ity sister service, the navy, by the air chief of the commerce depart- ment and by the head of the state department, Secretary Davis cabled the fliers: “The war department rejoices in the eminently successful outcome of your flight. We are justifiably proud that the perils of another great span of the air have becn met and con- quered by the skill, courage and daring of officers of the air corps. The whole of the army unites in hearty congratulations for your flight, which is a valuable contribu- tion to the development of avia- tion.” Assistant Seeretary of War Trubee Davison, aviation chief, cabled Mait- land: “Congratulations. You certainly Jjustified our confidence in your skill and judgment. We are pfoud of you."” Davison's message to Hegenberger ngratulations. Tt was a won- derful piece of work and I am de- lighted beyond words.” Wilbur's Statement Secretar yof Navy Wilbur said: “We are delighted with the success: of the army plane carrying out the plans of a sister service. “The flight, following those of' Lindbergh and Chamberlin, demon- strates further the reliability of the air-cooled motor which the navy helped to develop.” Wilbur instructed Rear Admiral John McDonald, commandant at Honoluly, to extend congratulations of the navy to the army fliers on their arrival. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Mcgyacken said: “The successful flight of Lieuts. { Maitland and Hegenbergis another great achievement in American aero- nautics and the department extends its congratulations to these pilots and to the service they represent. “Their accomplishment is not only of the utmost importance to the na- {tional defense but to commercial aeronautics as well, “I am delighted to learn of the successful flight to Hawall from Cal- ifornia of the intrepid aviators, Lieuts. Lester J. Maitland and Al- bert Hegenberger . In an army plane these courageous officers have added to the glory and many achievements of the men in the service and have played a noteworthy part in the ad- vancement of aviation.” "Stormy Weather Near Irish Coast Likely Paris, June 29 #—Commander Byrd may find stormy weather as ho nears the Irish coast, it was indi- | cated by forecasts today. The fore-: cast for France itself is more favor- able, with fairly good weather ex- pected at the time set for his ar- rival. Weuther observers said this after- noon that a storm current, due to atmospheric depressions over the Baltic Sea, Scandinavia and Ireland, was headed southwest and might cross the path of the plane late to- morrow. BAR TO DINE JUDGES Practically every member of the j\'cw Britain Bar Association will be in attendance at the banquet to- night at the Shuttle Meadow club, it' is expected, in honor of the retiring and incoming judges of the city and and police courts. Judge B. F. Gaf(- ney will preside and an informal program will be carried out.