New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 16, 1927, Page 1

ESTABLISHED 1870 Early Estimates Place Number of Killed From 12 to 40 While More Than' One Hun- dred Are Injured in Fierce Fighting. Police Forced to Turn Ma- chine Guns on Crowd— Factory Girls Join Howl- ing Mob Ransacking Public Buildings. Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, July 16 (8:30 a. m.—Reuters)—Latest messages from Vienna say that the authorities are masters of the situa- tion. The square in front of the parliament buildings and the palace of justice is occupied by troops. There has been no destruction of private property. Estimates place the dead at 12 and the injured ‘at 119, most of whom are policemen. General Strike Reported London, July 16 (® — Uncon- firmed reports regarding the Vie: nese situation, reaching, Reuter's by way of Berlin, Prague and Brati- slava, Czechoslovakia, state that practically all the workers of the Austrian capital have obeyed a general strike order which is said to have been issued by the socialist party and executives of the Austrian trades union. The reports say that the social- ists sent a deputation to Chancellor Seipel, demanding his resignation and also that of the chief of police of Vienna. One report said that the military had the situation well in hand, having cleared the atroety of ripters. Firemen Hhad extinguished the fire in thé palace_ of justice, which is badly damaged, as were other build- ings in the neighborhood. Trains en route to Vienna were held up in’ the suburbs, it is said. The Orient express was stopped at Bratislava, while trains from Ger- many to Austria were detained at the frontier. Reports regarding - the - casualties vary. One report said 50 people were killed and 700 were wounded. Order Is Restored & Parls, July 16 (P — Vienna, among the stateliest capitals of Eu- rope, was plunged into one of the worst riots of its chequered history yesterday, but latest reports reach- ing Paris both by way ot Berlin and the ‘Czechoslovak frontier town of Bratislava indicated that the police, after fighting all afternoon, suc- ceeded in restoring a semblance of order late in the evening. How many fell in the long battle it was impossible to determine this morning. the reports - were all so conflicting, but it appears certain that not less than 40 persons were killed and hundreds injured, many of them seriously. The law courts building, or pal- ace of justice, as it is known, was completely ruined by fire started by a mob, and there were reports that the ministry of ports was also set on fire, and parliament house, the opera house and perhaps other buildings were seriously damaged. General Strike Called All communication was suddenly cut off at seven o'clock last night, when in obedience to a general strike order, the telegraph and tele- phone ,operators left their posts like one man. The ostensible cause of the out- break was the acquittal Thursday night of three Austrian monarchists, charged with shooting to death a man and a boy during a socialist demonstration in a village near the Hungarian border last January. Tt is known, however, that the social- ists were bitterly disappointed at not having succeeded as well as ex- pected in the recent general elec- tion, which, while it gave them in- creased representation did not change the state of the parties ma- terlally and left the bourgeois groups in control of the adminis- tration. As a consequence there has been considerable tension in their relations with the government. Private advices received to the Havas News Agency stated that when the police tried to disperse a mob on the Maximilian Platz, 300 of the Platz_manifestants opened fire on them. The police are said to have returned the fire. Infuriated. the crowd swept them down like chaff and rushed for the palace of justice, bearing down all opposition. 1t stormed the buildings, cut the gas pipes. set fire to the escaping as. and in a few minutes the edi- fice was wrapped in flames. The Vienna correspondent of the Journal said the mapifestants beat and otherwise ill-used the judges in the courts. gathered all records and documents they could lay their Jiands on and fed them to the fiames. Other bands, he reports, at- tacked the university building, par- liament house and 'the city hall, and even began raising barricades Continued on Page F!ve) ord, NEW ...E‘x‘xt!u.‘, UUN LATEST REPORTS FROM VIENNA ARE THAT AUTHORITIES HAVE REGAINED |:v.5ecr e i CONTROL AFTER NIGHT OF RIOTING, \, German War Ace Dies In Fall While Doing Stunts Up in the Air Copenhagen, Denmark, July 16 (A—Paul Baeumer, German war ace and famous stunt fiier, was killed last night while giv- ing an exhibition of rolling at an altitude of 3,000 meters. The motor apparently failed to pick up and the machine dropped into the eight-meter deep waters of the Oresund with such ve- ‘locity that it bored itself far into the ground under the water, burying Baeumer underneath. DRIVERS FINED $80 IN POLICE CAMPAIGN Speeding and Defective Brakes Bring Five to Court In police court today, Judge Morris D. Saxe heard five cases 013 motor vehicle law violations and im- | posed fines aggregating $80 and costs. Prosecuting Attorney Joseph G. Woods presented the state's cases. | Joseph Winnik, aged 23, of 240 Chestnut street pleaded nolo-con- tendere to the charge of speeding. State Policeman Wadsworth testi- fied that he was driving westerly on Liast Main street between 12:30 and | 12:45 o'clock yesterday moon when | Winnik's car, going in the same | direction, ran against a standpipe in front of Landers, Frary & Clark's factory on East Main street, a short distance east of Center street. The officer went to the police station and in the meantime Officer Strolls reached the scene. Officer Strolls testified that Win- | nick's car struck the standpipe. No- body was injured. | Attorney Albert, A. Greenberg, representing Winnik, made the claim that another driver failed to give a signal as he was about to pull away from the curb. There is a possibility that Winnik can re- cover from the other driver, the at- torney said. Judge Saxe imposed a fine of $25 and costs, remarking that Winnik was driving too fast, considering the congestion on East Main street dur- ing the noon hour. The force of the impact also indicated that he was driving too fast, the judge believed. Attorney Greenberg doubted that Winnik’s speed was excessive. He pointed out that the state police- man testified he was going 22 miles an hour when Winnik passed him at Hartford avenue and East Main street. Judge Saxe said Winnik must have been going faster than 22 miles an’ hour in order to pass the officer, and therefore he was driving too fast, all things considered. James Lapore, age 20, of 47 East street, Plamville, was fined $20 and costs for speeding. Serg:ant Feeney testified that he followed a car driven by Lapore from Lincoln street to Wooster street on West Main street at 10:45 o'clock last night and observed that the speed was 45 miles an hour. After passing Wooster street he increased the speed to 50 miles an hour and passed several cars. When stopped and spoken to about the speed, Lapore told the sergeant he was “crazy.” He was very “fresh,” the sergeant testified. Lapore denied, on the witness stand, that he was driving faster than 35 miles an hour. Joseph Samojedny, aged 30, of 232 Curtis street, was charged with driving without a license in his pos- scssion and with imprope: brakes. Motoreycle Officer W. S. Strolls tes- tified that Samojedny was driving & truck on Franklin Square yesterday afternoon and while the toot brakes worked satisfactorily there was no emergency brake. The police were testing brakes when he pzssed. Samojedny said it was a spare truck and he felt that it was not absolutely necessary to have an cmergency brake as he always put the machine in gear to hold it. and costs for having improper Judge Saxe imposed a fine of $10 and costs for having improper brakes and suspended judgment on the other charge, as it was proven Samojedny had & license but did not | have it with him at the time he was arrested. Arthur Westman, aged 22, of 120 | Franklin street was charged with operating a car without havirg a license in his possession and with improper brakes. Officer Delbert Veley arrested him during the test- ing of brakes yesterday afternoon (Continued On Page Five) Tolland Youth Stricken While Swimming in Lake South Willington, Conn., July 16 (® — Leonard Metcalf, 18, of Toi- land, while swimming across Beauty lake here last night with a girl companion, sank when he reached the center after telling her to keep on crossing. The medical Advt. M HEAVY FOG CAUSE OF SEA DISASTER Gaptain of Liner Veendam Tells of Sinking Freighter PASSENGERS RELATE STORY | Fog Horn Had Been Blowing, They Leap Aboard and Five Others Are Rescued From Water. Hoboken, N. J., July 16 (P—Dense fog caused the collision five miles off Nantucket light yesterday be- tween Holland-America liner Veen- dam and frieighter Sagaland in which frelghter was sunk with loss of one of the crew, Captain Wil | Krol of the Veendam said today when his vessel docked. Captain Krol confirmed his earlier which he said that 20 of the Saga- {land’s crew leaped to the Veendam's deck when the vessel crashed, five were taken from the water by the Veendam men in lifeboats and one was lost. Fog Caused Crash fog"” Captain Krol's statement con- cerning the collision, which took place‘at 4:40 a. m. eastern daylight saving time. Hundreds were waiting at the pler i when the ship docked at $:10 a. m, Mrs. V. Anderson, 2007 Colden avenue, the Bronx, a passenger, said she saw one of the freighter's crew, the man who was drowned, she b lieves, leap shortdy after the col sion. falling. she said, and probably was injured. Mrs. Anderson collected $1,2 sald passengers 00 for the crew of the Sagaland, which was from Man- zanilla, Cuba, to Boston, sugar laden, and got: clothing for them. A “heavy lurch” and a tense moment, with the crew quickly re- assuring the passengers, marked the collision, according to Mrs. Ander- son. Heard Distress Call Waldo Gifford Leland of the his torical records department, Carnegie Institute, Washington, D. C. a passenger with Mre. Leland, said the Veendam's fog whistles had kept him awake. Suddenly he heard three short blasts—the distress call—and the scream of a woman in the cabin next to his. Partly dressed, he rushed on | deck, to see dimly the outlines of a smaller vessel sinking rapidly. She went down, he said, in five minutes. “Our crew was cool-headed and courageous in their rescue work,” said Mr. Leland, adCing that there was no panic aboard the Veendam. “The Veendam was handled won- derfully,” asserted another passen- delphia. The Veendam which Quarantine at 8:37 Rotterdam, Boulogne and South, ampton, Wwith 174 passengers, is a vessel of 13,000 tons. She left Rot- terdam July 5. The Sagaland, which was out of Manzanillo July 7, was ¢f 2,677 tons gross register and was built six years ago. Her captain, A. Peder- son, arrived with his crew on the Veendam. He 1is Swedish and speaks no English. She was a Nor- wegian steamship and chartered by the West India Steamship company. The Veendam was not seriously damaged, although there was a hole five feet by three ripped in her port- side aft. She struck the freighter amidships to starboard. MRS. SARAH TEVLIN DIES arrived at last night from Away At Home of Daugh- ter in This City Mrs. Sarah Tevlin, aged 77 years, for many years a resident of this city, died this morning at 5:15 o'clock at the home of her dau ter, Mrs. Thomas Lowe of 370 Washington street. She was the widow of the late William Tévlin, one of New Britain's prominent residents. band, she went to live with her son, James, in New York. She was born |in Troy, N. Y. About two months ago. she came to New Britain on a visit to her ago she was stricken with a shock. She had been unconscious since last Monday night. She is survived by the following children: James Tevlin and Joseph Tevlin of New York city, William Tevlin of New Haven, Raymond. Benjamin and Harold Tevlin of Hartford, Miss Trene, Tevlin of Hartford and Thomas Lowe of this city. leaves a s er, of N Mrs. She also ter, Mrs. Joseph Schuil- w York city. 12 grandchil- The funeral will be held Tuesday morning at 8:30 o'clock from her examiner her pronouncd death due to heart failure. A searching party recovered Metcalf’s body some time later. daughter's home at 370 Washington street, and at 9 o'clock from St. Mary's church. Burial will be in St Mary's cemetery. "R ommecticut State Libewty, Say—Twenty of Shipwrecked Crew | message to the Assoclated Press in | Jnavoidable, owing to the dense | He struck his own ship in | ger, William E. Celbermann, Phila-| WHILE ON VISIT HERE | Former New Britain Resident Passes | At the death of her hus-| daughter's home and a short time! Miss CeciliaY] dren and two great-grandchildren. | ITA uary 1 Up to 20. New Haven, Conn., July 16 UP— Three persons were fatally injured in an automobile crash on the Mil- ford turnpige today, marking the 18th, 19th and 20th deaths since January first on the same stretch of road. The dead are Thomas King Rochester, Mass., and Mrs. King, and Fred A. Ward, of Watertown, Mass., who died of burns at the New Haven hospital. Ray Engstrom, driver of the car escaped injury. In the machine with which the Eagstrom car collided in some man- ner as yet unaccounted for, | riding Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Finne- | |gan, Mrs. Anna Brown and Mrs. Margaret Shepherd, all of New Haven. Mrs. Sheperd and Mrs. Brown | were given medical treatment. The crash occurred near | road in Orange. The Finnegan party was returning from a fraternal convention in New York and had started the return journey at about 1 a. m., stopping of Meloy were | Third of Injuries Received When Two Cars Crash—Brings Total Killed Since Jan- to stretch after riding in a cramped position. Engstrom, in his Medical Examiner Victor A. Kow- the road, hoping to pass the sway- ing machine on the left, but other car swung at the same mo- ment and his machine struck }rlgm rear of the Finnegan car. the Finnegan car over and it slid side. The other machine broke into she could be extricated. rushed to the New Haven hospital (Continued on Page 11) PRESIDENT TO VISIT ' REAL ‘DIRT FARMERS' To Be Present This After- noon at Outing at Ardmore, S. D. Ardmore, S. D., July 16 (P—It was the farmers’ turn today to rub elbows with the president of the L'mted States. Great numbers of them from South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyom- | ing put up their corn hoes and | pitchforks and turned the milking 10{ cows over to the unfortunate chore boy while they put on their Sunday best and came to Ardmore to eat a picnic dinner under shade | | 1age. | “There is a world beater of a crowd going to be here before the day is over,” prophesied O. B. Wal- iace of Ardmore, who was sent in- to the neighboring country a short while ago to spread the news of the president’s coming. And it seemed as if his prediction had been ful tilled. Under a pair of giant shade trees, a long pine wood table was spread with white cloth and napkins. It might sit at the head and survey the merry crowd around him some at tables, others on the ground eat- ing their sandwiches and cold meat and pickles out of old fashioned | market baskets. In a kitchen nearby, seventy-five chickens sizzled in pans and then were laid out to cool next to bowls of potato salad, and red beets. These were for the president and his party. Several weeks ago the chickens were turned over to Joe McDonald, a farmer with the man- date that they be fed carefully on | milk and fin> grain so they would be just right for the distinguished sitors. Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge were to come on a special train from Cus- ter, 8. D,, after a fifteen mile auto- | mobile drive from the summer White House. While he was look- ing forward to this opportunity of seeing real dirt farmers close at hand, he also was interested in the Ardmore government station which | |is experimenting in dry farming, | | something he desires to inspect | | caretully. To the north of him at Belle | Fourche where he recently went for a rodeo show, was an irrigation pro- | jeet in which the government had | spent thousands to make the arid |green soil productive, Here in another | semi-arid section, the government was spending money in an ._\tl’u]pt to prove that the so-called dry crops could be grown at a profit. | The staticr’s barns had been cleaned and the horses and cattle had been curried and brushed in ex- pectatien of the presidential inspec- |tion, and In the fields beyond, alfal- fa, flax and other types of dry crops were yielding to man's care { and nature. In the absence of | dress the picknickers were to hear {a speech by Governor Bulow of South Dakota. When the speech making and in- spection trip were over, there was on program foot races, a Bowery dance, a baseball game and the rest | of the things that make up an old time picnic. REPORTERS TURNED BACK Berlin, July 16 (®—German jour- nalists today were being | from the outside world. THE WEATHER sunday fair, probably show-. ers in afternoon; not much change in temperature * | 1 | | | * |* ! | HIGH TIDE | July 17 (Daylight Time) ! New London 12.16 a.m. 12.! New Haven trees with President and Mrs. Cool- | was Mr. Coolidge’s table where he | a desire by | | President Coolidge to make an ad- | turned | _(back from Vienna, which is cut off LOS ANGELES WATER SUPPLY 1§ SHUT OFF Aqueduct Dynamited But Reserve System Prob- ably Will Be Sufficient dynamite explosions in close suc- i cession late last night and early today wrecked a section of the Los Angeles aqueduct and caused the shutting off of the flow which gives this city its main water supply. ‘Word of the blasting was received by the city water and power bureau here by telephone. The greatest damage was done |by the second blast, eight miles north of Independence, Cal. It de- stroyed a water gate.and tore out ln section of open trenching. scces- | sitating the closing of the duct. The first blast was, reported two miles south of Lone Pine, less than 15 miles from the scene of the sec- ond explosion. The Lone Pine explo- |sion was said to have done little damage. The city's reserve water supply | was thought sufficient to last until |repairs are made. | The latest explosions increase to |11' the number which has been re- ported in the last two years. Ranchers of Owens valley, through which the aqueduct runs, | maintain Los Angeles is taking |their water without sufficiently compensating them. STARTS RUNNING FROM 34 Year Old Athlete Hopes to Do It in 112 Hours | Detroit, July 16 (UP)—Hugh A. | Thompson, 34, a tattooed paper | hanger, set out from City hall at 7 a. m. today on a marathon run to | New York. |, He ran down to the river |nopped aboard a terry boat for ! | Windsor, the first city on his itiner- ‘ar\ Thompson had his ankles daged and wore elk hide shoes, a sun visor, green running |trunks and a white track Across the front of the shirt was | emblazoned, in green letters, ! American A. C. Detroit to York.” | He said he would make the run in 112 hours, stopping five minutes every hour to get a_rub-down from two companions, who accompanied Lim on bicycles, He will take his | meals “on the fly” he said. “I've got it all over the flag pole sitters.”” Thompson said. “They got lonely, but if I get bored, I can look |at these pretty pictures” and he | displayed his generously tattooed {arms and shoulders. He will run across Ontarlo and hopes to reach Niagara Falls, N. Y.. int 5:45 toniorrow. After passing New ' through Geneva, Auburn, Syracuse. Albany, Hudson, Poughkeepsie and Yonkers, hopes to meet Mayor Walker at the |New York City hall Thursday. | “Jimmie will just be getting down for Wednesday's work when I get there,” Thompson said confidently. Found Without License, Can’t Afford to Buy It John Zapp, aged 17. of 31 Star street, was taken into cus- tody this morning by Officer George Moffitt on the charge of operating an automobile without a license, and told Chief Hart the reason he has no license is that he cannot afford one. He bought a car for $75 and is pay- ing for it at the rate of $2 a week. He earns $20 a week. According to the police, Zapp was arrested about a year ago for the same offense. He will be arraigned in police court Mon- day morning. at Rye for lunch and at Bridgeport statement to alewski declared that the Finnegan car approached him in a zig-zag fashion on the left of the road and that when a crash appeared inevit- able, he swung to opposite side of the the The force of the impact tappled ‘m that fashion for 100 feet on its flames almost immediately and Mrs, King was burned to death before King was but was dead on arrival and Kow- alewskl stated that he probably had died before the trip to the hospital Los Angeles, July 16 (® — Two DETROIT TO NEW YORK' and | ban- | shirt. | “Irish- | he | NEGTICUT, SATURDAY, JULY 16, 1927. —SIXTEEN PAGES IDEATH CLAIMS THREE MORE ON MILFORD HIGHWAY TODAY Average Daily Circulation Fer Week Ending July Sth .... 14,085 PRICE THREE CENTS AVIATORS REACH MOLAKAI ON OWN POWER; UNABLE TO RADIO DETAILS PROPOSES, REFUSED HILL, 1S SUIGIDE Haverhill Man Murders Woman Who Would Not Marry Him ALSO0 CLUBS HER DAUGHTER Assaflant Batters Younger Woman With Gun Barrel When She At- tempts Mother's Life. to Interfere to Save Haverhill, Mass, July 16 (P— Edward Doyle, shoe factory fore- man, early today killed the woman who refused to marry him and then committed suicide. He clubbed the 21-year-old daughter of his former sweetheart over the head when she attempted to save her mother. Friend For Eight Years The shooting took place in the yard at the home of Mrs. Genevieve Barsiliere. Doyle, who was 45, was not married. He had kept company with the woman since her divorce eight years ago. Six months ago she told him she would not marry | him. Early today, while Mrs. Barsiliere and her daughters, Beatrice, 21, and Bertha, 26, were still in bed, he called at the house. Mrs. Barsiliere hastily dressed and met him in the Kitchen. Once more he urged mar- riage and she again Trefused. Batters Younger Woman Doyle was threatening the wom- an with a revolver when Beatrice ran into the room. Doyle struck her heavily on the head with the gun | herself between him and her mother. Beatrice fell to the floor with severo gushes in her scalp. Mrs. Barsiliere fled to the yard. Doyle fired two shots under her {heart and then turned the gun on himselt and fired once. Both were dead when aid reached them. Be- side the daughters, two sons living in Stamford, Conn., and another who is attending a citizens' military training camp, survive Mrs. Bar- siliere. CONTRACT NOT SIGNED French Paper Declares Levine Has Not Definitely Closed Agreement With Drouhin. Paris, July 16 (A—L’Auto makes the announcement today that Charles A. Levine's contract with | Maurice Drouhin under which the French airman is to pilct the trans {atlantic plane Columbia back to America, has never been signed. There may have been a promise or proposal, but there has been no signature, the paper says, adding: ‘“Yesterday afternoon the contract. had not yet been signed. Mr. | Levine put off that formality until postponement.” L'Auto a week ago said that Drouhin's contract with Mr. Levine ran for a year with compensation of $150,000. Immediately it was made known that Drouhin had \agreed to pilot the Columbia on a westward transatlantic vovage, the | French newspapers and some aero- | nautic circles let loose a storm of criticism against Drouhin for accept- ing the proposal, and against the | American for making it, because plans for his own transatlantic flight. The London Daily Express on Fri- day said Mr. Levine made a vague offer to Captain Lancaster of the British royal air forc: reserve to pilot the Columbia to the United ates, although no definite arrange- ment was made. AIR MAIL SERVICE ‘Winnipeg, Man., July 16 (#—Air mail service between Winnipeg and terday with the arrival of a plane piloted by Verne Roberts. Roberts carried with him the first United States. Starting at 6:30 yesterday morn- ing the plane after a two-hour de- lay at Pembina, N. D., for fuel, ar- rived at 12:30 p. m. MUSSOLINI WELCOMED Mussolini today motored to Fiumi- | | cine where he was welcomed by | fascist children spending the sum- barrel when jghe tried to mlgrpnue' later without giving reasons for the ! mail to | | year ,Drouhin had already gone far with | {a temperature of 92, | Ferienced a severe elez Flees Barber’s When Raiders Enter, Only Half of Hair Is Cut o Lynn, Mass, July 16 (P— Somewhere in this city today was a man with half a haircut. Fred Legerg, barber, was interrupted last night just as he had finished one side of a patron's head. He left the chair to procure a pint of whiskey for another kind of a customer, but when he started to resume work he faced a police raiding squad. The half clipped patron fled as police seized Legere and five gallons of con- traband. EASTERN AREA HAS BlG TOLL OF DEATH Yesterday Bring Total to 62 New York, July 16 (A —Fatalitles |resulting from the heat wave that | has blanketed the eastern states for four days stood at 62 today, 18 ad- ditional deaths occurring. Deaths by sections were: Greater New York, 11, New Jersey, 15. Connecticut, 4. Massachusetts, 5. New Hampshire, 1. Pennsylvania, 14. Upper New York, 12. Total, 62. Temperatures through)ut the east were slightly lower than on Thurs- day, but in only a few isolated sec- tions was there any appreciable re- lief from the torrid weatker. Pennsylvania again r:ported the highest temperatures, t1 rmometer readings ranging from 90 tc 97 de- grees. These figures werc slightly lower than on the third day of the heat wave, but the exccéffve “Hus nidity made conditions cven more uncomfortable. Philadelphia reported ith a humidity of $5. The temperature in lioston was 92 degrees, two lower than the day before. In New York the tempera- ture reached a maximum of 90 de- grecs, one point lower than the high mark for the previous day and four dcgrees lower than the record for July 15, which was established in 1500. In Portland, Maine, the tempera- ture dropped to 64 degre:s following a heavy rainstorm. Rome, N. Y., ex- al storm, accompanied by hail. Beaches and parks throughout the cast were zgain crowd=i and hun- dreds of thousands left tre centers of population for the co.ntry and shore to scek relief. In New York 1more than 100,000 children disport- ca under sprays set up by the fire department, while in Hell's Kitchen, west side tenement district, the oungsters considered sprinklers catirely inadequate and kept patrol- men armed with wrenches dashing about the district turning off fire hydrants. WEARY BUT GAME Youth On His Attempted Record Run to New York. Bridgeport, July 16 P—Foot sore and leg weary, W. H. Busch, 20 old Boston youth attempting to establish a record for a New York-Boston run, arrived in Bridge- port this morning at 10:25. The youth lost his way in Stratford and traveled five miles on the Water- bury road before being directed to the right road. His face haggard and drawn from the physical exertion and loss of sleep and with blisters on the soles of both feet as big as a halt dollar, the youth predicted he would be in Times Square, New York by 2 p. m. today. The trip from Boston to New York is something over 255 Boston Passes Through Bridgeport | miles and he had covered about 200 | arrive in Winnipeg by air from the | when he reached here. He left Pridgeport at 2 a. m. after stopping 1half an hour for lunch. Fargo, N. D., was inaugurated ves- | Kelly Is “Sitting Pretty” After 141 Hours on Pole Buffalo, N. Y., July 16 (UP)—Still on his 11-inch seat, Alvin “Ship- wreck” Kelly, champion flagpole sit- ter, went into his 141st hour at eight o'clock this morning in high spirits. He had passed successfully through a period of trying weather and in- dications were that fairly clear at- imospheric conditions would prevail | until Sunday night, when his engage- Rome, July 1§ (UP) — Premier ment will end. He is not attempting to set new record. a | mer on the seashore. They present- | Mys, Ince Also Is Suing ed him with flowers. The premier | then boarded a submarine chaser and was taken to Ostia where he re- viewed the fleet of 7 2units. | An immense crowd thronging the | beach gave him a rousing ovation and he was given the salute of hon- ‘ors due the minister of the navy. TO IMPROVE HARBOR Rome, July 16 (UP)—The minis- try of public works ha ssigned a contract providing for extending and | inproving the harbor Civitavecchia. » |Emma C. Movie Hubby for Divorce Los Angeles, July 16 (A — Mrs. Ince has husband, John charged the director in November, 1923, in Long Branch, N. J, in 1888 filed a cross complaint to the divorce suit of her Ince, film director, ,in which shc seeks separate main- tenanee. i The cross complaint of Mrs. Ince deserted her often came home drunk, struck her and caled her names. The Inces were marrisd BECAUSE ANTENNA WAS BROKEN OFF Smith and Bronte Ex- | plain Gas Pumps Fail- ed to Function at High Altitude, Making Them Think Supply Was Exhausted. Kept Forging Ahead, Not Knowing How Long hey Would Last—Plane Virtually Demolished i Landing on Island. Honoluly, July 16 (P—Having 118 More Heat Fatalities |completed their uncertain flight to Hawail by deliberately plunging inta |2 kaiwe tres on the Island o Molas kal, Ernest L. Smith and Emory By Bronte, explained as they rested fmy Honolulu, their goal, today, why their radio was silent for five hours after they sent out SOS. calls and why they continued on‘toward land without informing rescue ships that they still were in the air. Lost Their Antenna When still 500 miles or more from 1zhd, Bronte revealed tha failure of their gasoline pump led them te believe their fuel was running ex« tremely low and it caused the plane to lose so much altitude that theip trailing wireless antenna struck the sea and was torn away. The decrease in altituds had the effect of resuscitating tha gasoline pump and they shot up into the air again and headed for land without knowing how long they would last, without knowing whether their callg had been heard and uncertain of their bearings. vy filepssennounced they had $aTvAked the rmotor and instruments from the wrecked plane and had found her gasoline tanks absolutely dry. First Civillan Fliers When the initial excitement and confusion had disappzued Smith and Bronte had distinguished them- selves as being the first civilians te fly from California to Hawail. They had won a battle with unfaverable weather, preverse luck #nd all the natural odds that fliers face in cross« ing the sea with land pilanes. They had outsmarted fate by civing into the tree when their last crop of gase cline had been used, thus forestalle ing the possibility of being pinned beneath their plane in an upset. From the time they left the Gole den Gate at 11:08 a. m.. Thursday, until they were near their destina< aion, they saw neither iand nor seag Saw Many Mirages Several times Smith reported sees ing beautiful stretches of *land” tempting enough for the exhauated fliers to alight upon, but the sights were only illusions—miracles cast upon the clouds and fog ly the light of the moon. From the time they dived into the fog bank off the Golden Gate until they picked the tree as the softest available thing to land on their flight presented a series of difficulties. The climax of their trouble came about 5:15 a. m., Honolulu time (Honolulu time is 2 1-2 hours behind Pacific time and 6 ?-2 hours behind castern daylight saving time). At that moment they sent out their first SOS. after having concluded they had only enough gasoline to stay in the air another hour. They presumably were about 700 miles from Honolulw * and 500 miles from the ncarest lande “We are going to land in the sea, We have a rubber life boat, but send help,” several ships reported them au saying. Three steamers, the lirer Wilhels mwina, the army transport Kenowis ard the stcamer President Plerce, turned off their courses :imost im- mediately and rushed to their ald, the Wilhelmina appearitg to be the nearest of them—apparsertly about 200 miles away. . Less than 30 minutes later they sent out a new eall for help, esti- mating their gasoline <npply suffia |cient to last them four Lours. The rlea for assistance was cintinued. Later the Wilhelmina wirelessed that the plane had settled to the water and that the ship supposedly was about 90 miles from it. All radio stations were silenced {n the hope that further word would come from the monoplane’s radio. None came. Visions of possible disaster forced the ships toward the spot at full speed. Then there was a long silences Word Is Received Word. of their forced Ianding om Molakai at 9:46 a. n., Honolulu time, then was flashed int> Honolulu, Rescuers turned back on their courses and army plan:s left from Wheeler Field, near here, to take them off the leper island and bring them in triumph to Honolulu. The little monoplane City of Oak- land, which had been groomed for ‘weeks.in anticipation of her overseas flight, was virtually demolished. The plane was in the air 25 hours and 3¢ minutes, during which she traveled about 2340 miles. Smith hopes to salvage the engine, but no more. Still 60 miles from their destina- tion, Smith and Bronte wirelessed Captain Lowell H. Smith of nnfi(r i i