New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 7, 1927, Page 3

|wide still and of treacherous swift- ness but with megaphones the plight | of the residents of the little com munities, largely the fam | workers in the talc mine | learned. FLORENCE MILLS of was over 10 louse on > canoe was being used in an- er section but Squire could not t. Making his way to a higher I part of town, he hitched up a team of ho nd drove them into the flood. The horses swam and Squire lswam behind them, guiding them th the reins. Up to house where his mother was t drove his red tk dow shutte upper window Sauire ¢ mother the ses er the 7 through an rried out his lashed her on one horse’s backs. Then off he in swimming behind the horses ind Janded the elderly woman safely on high ground near the schoolhouse which had been turned over for the shelter of Jundreds of refugees. So well did the | this rescue assistant editor of the Waterbury | charined two continents, was buried I DusEus Hots, ascartalned b aotadl More than 5,000 persons jammed | foreLung in pails o 1estore order. ¢ head the funeral procession to the the procession was the hearse and 15! of heroes in the Winooski Val- Negro spirituals sung by a vested | _ OB the day of the flood eame the /limax was added when Juanita |1€¢P In Main street and the was carried, moaning, from the |UPPer story of a Main English producer, Lady Cook of One floral tribute was said to be that was a replica of tudolph of ’”m d M 10 ooo‘w:m floated across the river, a usands Mourn as 10,000 reavicr one puliea over ana- win v . | that a steel cable was stretched from Gomn Pflsses t(] Geme[e[‘y ide to the other. Lloyd Squire, | Record volunteered to make the | Neéw York, Nov. 7 (UP)—Florence | perilous crossing, and hand over | i whose singing and dancing | hand/he swung himself above th virling waters. Squire reached th vestérday in a $10,000 bronze coffin, | conditions amd need R after one of the wildest scenes of [coiC QIR T TRAAS And then | emotionalism ever experlenced In | ang of a Iight rope, Provisions wore Harlem. sectired from Red Cross headquar, the Mother Zion A, M. E. church oouic'and nuiled across to Duxhurs where the service was held and | (it ® 10, TRHeC thousands of others stormed outside e Tawy until police reserves were called to Overhead a movie airplane added SWIMMINE H"RSES the last touch of sensationalism to the scene. i Inside, Red Cross nurses minister- groes. The four hour ceremony began at 2 n men e wouy ot ine et | Neyspaper Editor Saves Mother s taken from the mortu e e e Trapped in Flood the procession was two hours in - reaching there after a winding E BRI Iy march through Harlem. Heading _‘vaterbury, Vt, Nov. 7 - The close behind walked 30 flower girls. "‘:';" (’3(‘;\:";!:;14:‘,1 !‘r:y,_:f:v 1nm chind them were ten automobiles elagihers oot ine o laden with flowers. | Waterbury Record. The service started at 2 o'clock. | ' ¢ S A "o | Record machinery was at once put cholr brought walls of grief from | TS0l machinery was at once put the congregation and many women | (it OF O1dck and Sauiro turs fainted. o 0 LEE There were many solols hut the possible. The water was 15 i L a e coilapsible nnetfe of the vaudeville team of | P04t In town was one coilapsibl : ine | CANVAS canoe. Many had nnglie and Craprelipinoss to Hng‘]n»n saved when Squire learned her own composition. She had hard- | Pien Siwed when Sauire learned Iy started when she collapsed and ! as trag ! church. Telograms of condalence from | and and Anierica included mes- sages from Charles B. Cochran, th London, Paul W Mayor rames J. Walker. former Mayor Hy lan, David Belasco and a score of others. from the Prince of Wales who wit- | nessed several of the singer's per- formances in London Florence was buried in a cas} ntino's. Her burial gown was of silver metal cloth and silver wire esh stockings encased her legs. Her hands clasped ap'ivory rosary. horses perform work that more werc kept in d swam from | house to house almost continuously { with short rest for 20 lours. Then, THIN TOWNSHPS Critical Need But that time a flat bottomed boat had drifted down the roaring flood and been captn e { his rescue a4 so Squire carried on work with that and the canoe. well when flood first 1y he was still at work | swinging hand over hand across a steel cable over the Winooski river to succor the starving residents of I Duxbury and North Dusbury, row- cause of their isolation they had|in= across Little River to - been overlooked in the rescue work. | | quinine to persons too weak to stand Separated from this village, Which | the rigorous journey to the hospital, itself had the largest death list of | helping trucks through town, work. any in the Winooski valley 50 far|ing in a Red Cross headquarters, as is now known, only by the Win- | cyerywhere there was work to be ooski river, all means of reaching|dona he was to he found, the outside world was cut off when| And with .1t all he carrled a the bridge across the river was car- | laughing face, a joke for the down- ricd away on the first day of the hearted, encouragement for all, a flood. 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CARMODY. “I's a lot easier than driving an the flying enthusiast fast traveling ed to motor cars. like =0 many gen lacks conviction in 99 cause the hearer s not know much about the oper- of airplanes while, on the her h 1 may understand all tricks of pilotin niotor car. \ comparison of operating the two helpful to the person who has not quife caught up with airplanc n is meteoric deve ome ways zations, out of 100 cases tion hicles might be the pment. riving an automo- is no ohliga- to keep itudinally bal- is concerned only with oving forward or ife speed and in a safe iator not only must moving ahead but he that it does not tilt forward backward on its tail or over on a wing—except when he de- liberatel ¢s to fly it in onc of bile is simpler, tion upon the car laterally and lon inced. He ceping it k- ward at lane. keep a plane must sec on its no u Various Controls. hieve his purpose, the motor- rmed with but four con- —~the steering wheel the gear-shift and flyer, on his pa throttle to forward, th m side must o he keer plans to t 1o side, the . to make it ascend or and the ailerons, of “flip- * 1o keep it balanced laterally. need to discusa the or lescenid > is no tions and operations of automo- steering wheels, aceelerato s or brakes. re is much e wity with the control devices n airplane, however. How operated and what do they plane to do? Starting A Plane. When the airplane pilot e kpit of a modern plane, with an Lol If the y makes, howcver, ers the he starts electric stater used in the is one of the en- > engir simila niotor ca the olde oy ¥ methods of | rudder | tarted by whirling the propeller. Unlike the motorist, he cannot start into the air immediate- Iy after the engine is spinning, but must wait until it has had a to become thoroughly warm. army and navy standards require one-half an hour for this process. There is nothing in the cockpit corresponds to the gear shift over of an automobile in its func- tions. In the aircraft. the engine's in transmitted to the propel- ler without any manual operation on the part of the pilot beyond control ling the amount of it by opening o closing the throftle. ere is the “stick” for instance Tt probably is the best known of the control devices. The “stick” control to which elevator and connected—the former, is its name denotes, to send the plane up or down and the latter to Keep it flying on an even keel. If the stick is moved forward, the ele- vators are inclined downward and the nose of the plane drops toward the car The opposite motion of the stick has the reverse effeet A movement of the stick to the icft raises the aileron on the right wing lowers that on the let, the suction on top of wing and decreasing it on is th thus raisin 1ds to pull the right side of the ue higher than the left. Movir 1o stick to the right, obviously h directly opposite result. Wheel Being Used. ntally, the stick s passing out of the picture in many types of P . It is being rep ed by wheel mueh li el of an automob that it may be moved backward or forward a well as turned from side to side, This is true in 1 where ter leyer the higher pr The throttle, hand-ope airplane pilot's cockpit same function that the accelerator in the driver's compartment docs in the case of the automobile. Consid- cred from the angle of safety, it is simpler to operate the gasoline con- trol device of a airplane than t a motor car. 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T clde dder 1 aillerous trols mear Thus, no or mobile lerutor meet conditio . elevator a cted with the con- pilot’s cockpit by s resembling thosc 1sed to link mo the pedal compartment motor world a ars and find the bout the same in form opera- do same gone in 1 more nds with control their tion Plar of the r car makers, who r in reaching that Wheel Brakes v today are being ped with whe rakes on the land- r ilar to those used on in the case of devices are ntally, one of braking t sends of the motorist < in the airplane field. The moto ually swerves r skids when the wheel is locked. he plane turns— usually just where s operator int t to turn. No old that a skid where he nes equip- stopipr more eff idr b e ctive, of ark e is put to v ends in a pl er wanted to go. description of the vices of an airplane re the quite the omobils gether the operation trols that the flying mind when he a plane is easier tomobile. control de- Is that they on an uly it not al- the same But it us as those of husiast has in it piloting g an au- latter proce as simple as could 1 open highway whe hont on the are no from this intersection or that. v situation is One must drive in con- formity to conditions that involve thousands of other vehicles and are changing cons 4 Now, plane compared with motoring on the open con- | is to be | highway. There usually is no neces- sity for caring in the slightest what “other fellow 1s going to do. n, even if there was such a need, there ar vays of avoiding trouble regardless of what the other pilot does. In addition to being able 1o from the side or to cross in of or behind him, the aviator or below, although the regulations of the United States Lar ainst these gestures ex- emergency of these are important factors aviation backer's conviction that it is loss of a task to pilot a plane than ta maneuver an |ai Kentucky race tracks. | Judge Felm D. Sampson, of . the appellate bench, the republican can- didate has selected as his issue frec |text books for public schools, and has remained silent on the race track questions. His supporters |among the race track interests, how- cver, have said that racing in Ken- tucky will be destroyed unless Samp- son is elected, Judge Sampson him- self has spoken against the “power- ful lobby” maintained by racing and other interests and has pledged his efforts to destroy the lobby. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR YOUR WANTS EAD COLDS Meltin spoon; inhale vapors) apply freely up nostrils. 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