New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 16, 1928, Page 4

WILBUR DOES NOT ATTEND DINNER Not Presoat at Admiral Plunk- olt’s Testimonial New York, Feb. 16 GP—Failure | of Becretary of the Navy Curtis D. | Wilbur to attend a testimonial din- | ner given Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett was viewed as a public re- | buke by Colonel E. A. Simmons, chairman of the banquet committee, The occasion for the dinner was the admiral's retirement from active service on his 64th birthday. Colonel 8immons read a letter from Secretary Wilbur in which the latter expressed regret at his inabili- ty to attend. But later in a state-! ment to reporters he expressed the opinion that the letter was “but a smoke screen.” “The real reason why he did not come and which he made known to me over the telephone,” said the statement, “was fear that his pres- ence at any dinner in honor of Ad- miral Plunkett, so soon after the world-wide publicity in connection with the admiral's speech at the National Republican club on Janu- ary 21 would be misunderstood.” Simmons said Secretary Wilbur had accepted an invitation to the dinner on January 16. The letter of regret came on February 7. He| told reporters he regarded Secretary Wilbur's absence as ‘*public re- buke” to the admiral. In his speech of January 21 Ad- miral Plunkett in urging a large and well-equipped navy, sald: “If T read history correctly, and what we are doing today, we are nearer war to- day than we have ever been in our history because we are too damned efficient. “I don't care whether it is with Great Britain, or some other nation, you are going to have war just as surely as you are sitting in this room with me, if you dare to contest the control of the sea with your goods, not with your guns.” | Secretary Wilbur's letter of regret zave as his excuse the requirement of this presence before the house | naval committee, Admiral Plunkett, when reporters approached him on the subject waved his hand and said, “Oh, go away, g0 away, go away.’ | In his speech at the dinner, Ad- miral Plunkett devoted himself reiteration of the need for a I merchant marine and a more power- ful navy. He did not refer to the absence of the navy secretary. He mid the problem of a mer- Big n | being made at the t‘me of the crash S chant marine was closely connected | with the freedom of the seas and that “International freedom of the seas is insurance for international Ppeace.” istory,” he added, “shows that no nation is lastingly great without sea power. Let American return to the sea.” The only formal exercises mark-| ing Admiral Plunkett's ret:rement as commandant of the third naval dis- trict was the firing of 13 guna and | the lowering of his flag on the re- ceiving ship Seattle in the Brooklyn navy yard. Admiral Plunkett today will be- | come associated with the firm of | Josephthal and company, members | of the New York stock exchange. FAULTY ENGINE CAUSE | OF AIRPLANE CRASH Only One of Passengers Hurt When | Plane Falls Into Biscayne Miami, Fla, Feb. 16 (UP)—Lack | of proper engine maintenance today | was blamed for the crash of the air-! plane k. Sewell of the Cuban- American airline into Biscayne Bay With 19 passengers late Wednesday. Only one of the passengers was in- jured. Ray Jackson of Miami, leap- ed from the aplane and came up | into the whirling propeller. One hand almost evered and his body was badly ated. Hospital tendants said he might not re- cover. | The airplane was just completing | its trip here from V: ving at about a 200 foot altitude when it suddenly nosed over and dropped into the water. Boats went out immediately and brought the 19| passengers ashore, including Jack- son. A load test of the plane—which was the fl hip of the airline—was and Leo C. Wilson of the department of commerce was conducting the test. He exonerated Charles C. Rowe, the pilot. “The accident was not the fault of the pilot, Charles C. Rowe, but was | due to lack of proper maintenance of the motor. The mechanics who the engine | statement ! uthorization from | irline company. was unable to con- officials of th Rowe said |slowly slipping into the valleys sur- | Prescott. |was noticed. ‘Pl_ans to Make a Number of Jerome, Ariz, Feb. 16 UM—Built over a giant earth fault, this Arizona town of some 5,000 inhabitants is rounding the world's richest copper mine. Jerome is perched on the .side of a huge ore-laden hill, 35 miles from The business buildings and the workers houses cling ten- aciously to the slope. Main street is a mountain road circling the hill. Some time ago a pronounced slip Crevices appeared in office buildings; streets buckled and rose. Then a church toppled down. The roof fell iu, the walls tumbled and the floor caved in. Fortunately no worshippers were caught in the crash, as services Lad been discon- tinued when the slow working men- ace first appeared. The Verde Copper company, whose copper catacombs make the town possible, brought in geologists and engineers to study the problem. They found a huge earth fault cut diagon- ally acroes the town. The fault stretched below a num- | ber of important buildings, includ- ing the church which had collapsed. The town hospital, it was discovered, war partly over the fault, endanger- | ing the lives of patients in that sec- tion of the building, MAYOR WALKER 13 TOTOUR THE SOUTH Speeches Thee | New York, Teb. 16 UP—Mayor | James J. Walker will leave Satur day on a speaking tour of the south which will take him te New Or- leans for the mardi gras and into three and perhaps five other cities. The mayor said there is no poli- tical significance to the tour. He will address a meecting of the trol the planc in landing owing to a | misfire in th | left motor. XM AYED | Flectwood, Eng., Feb. 16 (@ — . Kilda Islanders in the Outer ebrides haven't got their Christ- | mas mail yet. Bad weather has, prevented shipment, |also is to be a speaker Saturday lelty he is to speak in Mobile, Ala., Advertising club of Baltimore at ich Governor Albert C. Ritchie night, arriving at New Orleans Mon- day, he is to participate in the balls and review the parades of the last two days of the carnival season. T ing New Orleans Wednesday after a trip around the harbor and history 587% increase | in actual retail deliveries over same last year Studebaker fine cars and you \\1“ lllld these four great ) I;il d W}H' month lines of A The reason back of this record is the championship per- formance of Studebaker motor cars—demonstrated by a suc- cession of spectacular feats of endurance and speed—culmi- TUAL retail deliveries of Studebaker dealers for January, 1928,exceeded those of January, 1927, by 58 per cent. They were the largest in the history of the Corporation for that month, which so often sounds the sales keynote for the year. ‘The copper company ordered the menaced portion of the bhospital wrecked, the remainder was left whole and was used for other pur- poses. A new hospital was bullt. Ten or more downtown buildings and residences have been officially condemned. Others are menaced. Visitors plainly see the jagged ir- regular cracks in the brick and con- crete office structures, and the omi- nous bulge in walls and street. The natives themseslves, however, like the happy-hearted Itallan vil- lagers living near Vesuvius, give scarcely a thought to the ever. present peril. Nevertheless, Jerome eventually must move. It may be & year, it may be five, but sooner or later the yawning hole beneath will swallow up the town. Publicly geologists minimize the danger. They are unwilling to alarm the residents needieasly. Se- cretly, however, they admit that the town site is hopeless and that some day the workers and busineas men must move to another hillside or down into the sheltered security of Deception Gulch. Meanwhile, a slight earth tremor or a heavy fall of rain may bring on a catastrophe that would rock the world. | that night. Thursday he is to speak in Win. ston-Salem, N. C., at a meeting which Governor Angus W. McLean of North Carolina and Governor John G. Richards of Bouth Carolina are expected to attend. He also hopes to make stops for speeches at Birmingham, and Mont- gomery, Ala., he said. This will be the mayar's second trip south, the first being made soon l.'m(-r his election in 1926. Helene Costello Sues For Divorce Decree Los Angeles, Feb. 16 (M—Helene Costella, film actress, filed sult in superior court yesterday for a di- vorce from John W. Regan. The screen star is the youngest daughter of Maurice Costello, veteran movie actor, Miss Costello alleged her husband drank to an exceas, used harsh lan- guage and that he has worked only about four weeks during their mar- ried life of six months. Regan is the son of a wealthy New York family, The marriage was said to be the result of a childhood ro- mance, est January tudebaker sales Hartford, Feb. 16 UP—Captain A. O'Nelll, U. 8. army reserve, a world war veteran of this city, and an or- saniser of the Mexican military alr service, plans to demomstrate three types of airplanes K made in this country to South and Central Amer- foa and Mexioo. Captain O'Nelll will sail o about & week for Rip Janeiro to start his trip from that point. The planes shipped ahead, oquipped with Pratt and Whitney “Wasp” motors, are Boeing types; navy fighting or scout; “Flamingo,” & scaplane with five passenger capacity, 80 named be- cause of its red, white and goid fin- ish; and & standard mail plane, capable of carrying 3,000 pounds of mall. Flying the navy “scout” plane, Captain O'Neill will head south from Rio to Argentina, west to Chile, south to Cape Horn, north along the western coastal countries of South America and thence to Central American countries and Mexico, The other two planes will be shipped ahead to poimts on his route for demonstration to governments, indi- widusls and commercial air service companies. Mrs. O'Neill announced that she plans to accompany her husband in his flights. It was aleo said Captain O'Neill might attempt the difficult flight from Rio up the Amason river into Peru. YOUNG SINGER WED§ WOMAN NUCH OLDER Miss Martha Codmas, Aged 60, is Wife of 37 Year Ol Russian Tenor. New York. Feb. 1& M—The mar- riage of Miss Martha C. Codman, wealthy resident of Washington, D. C., and Newport, R. I, to Maxim Karolik, formerly leading tenor of the Petrograd Grand Opera company has just been made known. Karo- lik is about 27 years old and his bride about 60, The wedding took place February 8 on the French Riviera and was made known here in an announce- nating in Studebaker’s ynique position of holding all the high- est endurance and spesd records for fully equipped stock cars, regardless of power or price. See the four great lines of Studebaker cars which are sweeping the country today. But do more than simply see them —ride in them and drive them! Then you will know that they embody the most advanced engineering of 1928 combinedwith Studebaker’s 76~ year-old traditions of quality. Values in Four Price Fields The New President Straight Eight— 100-horsepower, 80-miles-an-hour, 131-inch wheelbase—imposing besuty and luxury—$1985 to $2450. The Commander—the World Cham- pion car which holds all the highest speed and endurance records for fully equipped stock cars, regardless of power or price. 25,000 miles in less than 23,000 consecutive minutes. Nothing clse on earthor in the air ever traveled so far so fast. $1495 to $169S. The New ment by John R. Lasenby, attorney =l s for the former Miss Codman. ‘The bride is & daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Amory Codman, of Boston, and has been identified with musical and charitable movements in Washington and Newport. Mr. Karolik made his American debut in New York in December, 1924, and bas been a resident of Washington. Miss Codmay introduced Mr. Kar- olik in concerts in her Washington home last winter and he also appear- ed last summer at musicales at her Newport residence. 'She left for KEurope early in the fall. CLOSE GAMBLING PLACES Mexico City, Feb. 16 )—Gambling | with State Treasurer A. J. Moodie by places in Naica, state of Chihuahua, about 120 miles from the Texas bor- der-have been ordered closed by the governor of Chihuahua. energetic campaign against gambling | tion in the industrial centers, ly in the northern states, initiated by the department of industry and com- merce, Government Pays Sta For Coolidge’s Vacation Pierre, 8. D, Feb. 6§ UP—A war- rant for $10,000 received from the federal government to reimburse the state of South Dakota for expsenses incurred incident to President Cool. idge's occupancy of the te game lodge last summer was deposited| Darwen, England, Feb. 16 U — Five worshippers at the local church C. M. Robertson, superintendent of |Were taken to court when, by sing- Custer State park. The warrant was |ing lustily, they prevented the vicar sent him by Senator Peter Norbeck, |from reading the prayer for the Mr, Robertson said, “who reports|“Church Militant.” Read this E. 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