New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 27, 1928, Page 1

o ESTABLISHED 1870 NEW 4 BROOKS' PLANE TOWED TO IFIVEOF THE SEVEN SHORE BUT SEARCHERS FAIL T0 LOCATE MISSING AVIATOR Was Flying From Titus- | ville to Miami, Florida, When He Dropped From Sight Into Ocean Late Saturday Night. Examination of “Flivver” Which Established a World’s Record for Ships ; Under 40 Horse Power | ows It Was Badly Wrecked. . | | | Schastlan, Fla., Feb. 27 (P—The | Ford fliver plane which disappeared | into the Atlantlc occan Saturday night off Melbourne was towed | ashore near here this morning. No trace was found of the body of Har- ry Brooks, who was piloting plane when it disappeared. Badly Damaged The plane was badly damaged. | One wing had been entirely torn oft /Hendershot Says Force That Makes | by the waves, and the fabric of the | other wing was stripped. The pro- | veller was also broken and the fuselage wrecked. The plane was loaded on a truck and brought into Sebastian. Ford officials said it would be sent to Jacksonville. The search for Brooks' body continyed with airplanes look- ing over the sea coast and beaches and boats searched the sea. Motor- cycle officers patrolled the beaches. The sea, which prevented boats from zoing to the wrecked plane yester- day, continued rough this morning. Examination of the strap by which Brooks was said to have rastened himself into the plane when he left Titusville Saturday offered no clue as to whether he disengaged himself before the crash. The bat- tered condition of the fuselage mude this means of determining the pilot's cxact fate impossible. Almost total demolition of the body of the plane obliterated any other indication which might have heen found of Brooks' actions before or_after the drop. | ‘While search for Brooks' body went forward with vigor, fishermen familiar with such matters, ventured the opinion that if the body did not wagh ashore by high tide at 3 o'clock this afternoon It probably never would be found. On Last Leg of Trip Brooks started from Titusville in the little plane Saturday to com- plete the flight from Detroit which had been interrupted when he was forced down by a leaking gas line 12 miles north of Titusville. The propel- ler was brokenin the landing and it was necessary to send to Detroit for a replacement. The aviator had planned to fly from Miami to Fort Myers to report to Henry Ford at his winter home. Brooks had said at Titusville that the small plane was a practical suc cess, He estimated his distance (Continued on Page 12) IN PRIMARY GONTESTS Aspirants for Office to! Match Blades for Nominations | cratic party as the date for filing pe- titions of candidacy for office and | March 30 the date for the selection | of candidates, contests are looming. In the constabulary the usual| scramble {8 expected with the three present constables in the race and at | least two new aspirants. The sixth | ward aldermanic nomination is al- most certain to be contested for and | rumors of a contest for the school committee nominations are being heard. George Paris and Michael J. O'Brien are the new entrants into the contest for constables, which wil also have Francis Cly James W Manning and John E ] ent constables, as candidates. Steph- en Roper, who failed of re-election last year, may again be a candidate, but has not yet made definite an- nouncement. Roper was one of the four democrats sclected at a prim- ary but he was the one dropped at | the polls, the republicans party elect- ing four while the democrats filled | only three places, | The announcement of John J O'Brien that he will seck the alder- manic nomination in the sixth ward | virtually assures a contest. Alder- man John K. M, may be a can- didate to succeed himself, but it he is not, the sixth ward delegation in | the council wiil urge that one of its| members be promoted. Their seled tion is expecied 1o be Councilman Thomas B. Fay v democratic councilman man of the commitice on railroads, In preparation for (he 2emocr: day sclected the tee on finance: Luctan Macora John J. OLeary, Mangan and Dr. X L | lection, 1 yestor- mit- enberg. folld s Policeman Puts Bullet Through Chest of Boy Stoneham, Mass., Feb. 27 (UP —James McGill, 15-year-old Wakefield youth, had been drinking. Officer Dennis L. Me- Kinnon endeavored to arrest him for drunken driving early today. “You keep away or Il blow your head off!” shouted the boy. McGill put his hand in his pocket as if to use a revolver. ‘The patrolman fired and the boy dropped to the ground with a bullet through his chest. He was taken to a Winchester hos- pital where his condition was reported serious. FUELLESS MOTOR 15 NOT “HUMBUG Taventor Describes Engine Test- ¢d by Col. Lindbergh " IS FREE FROM RADIO It Go “Is Same Force That Pulls Compass Needle Around” — Not Mysterious. Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 27 (A —Les- ter J. Hendershot, 29 year old West Elizabeth, Pa., inventor, whose fuel- | less motor has gained the iInterest of and aviation world, wants the “humbug” elimin- ated from reports on his invention, | while experi- menting on an effort to produce an ' Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh others prominent in the which he developed improved compass, “Make it clear to the world,” h sald, in commenting on storles gi ing various descriptions to his crea. WAL BANDITS ARE NOW UNDER ARREST ‘Ghicago Police Announce They | Have Solved Mystery and | Recovered Part of Loot \GET INFORMATION ON TWO OTHER ROBBERIES Counect Evergreen Park Holdup With That of a Year Ago and Also ‘With Ravenswood National Bank $80,000 Job and the Stickup of Joscph Fekete, Wealthy Mortgage Banker, Chicago, Feb, 27 (®—Police today |announced the solution of the $123 1000 mail train robbery at Evergreen >ark Saturday morning, the arrest of five of the seven bandits and the | recovery of a large part of the stolen mone; William O'Connor, deputy comm /sioner of police, after spending mos of the night on the case, sald he |would turn over to the postal in- spectors for prosecution these men: “Limpy Charlie” Cleaver, at whose home was found $17,125 and $600 in say plotted the robbery with Clea er; Willlam Carmody, Angelo Fr: jcisco and Joseph Lamm, the latt | proprietor of a pool room where |members of the gang were said to have gathered. { Has Confessions n- had detailed confessions from Cleav- er and Donovan, together with addi- tlenal information involving them in two other recent robberies—the Rav- lenswood National bank holdup in {which $50,000 was taken, and the holdup of Joseph Fekete, mortgage banker. Fekete partly identified Cleaver, armody and Irancisco as men who robbed him February 3. Bonds found at Cleaver's home were identified as having been taken from the Feke bank, The deputy police who has been in active charge of the “that radio and its allied phe- | investigation from the moment word nomen motor.” “The force that turns my motor is | Harvey, Ill, banks had been held up. | get to Colorado. the same force that pulls the needle |did not reveal the exact amount of |er been in trouble hefore. havenothing to do with tay | was recei »d that the grand trunk train carrying payroll money to two of a compass around—and there is |moncy recovered. nothing mysterious about that."” Hendershot revealed that when he | took up aviation three years ago he . discovered that the “ultimate devel- | opment of aviation depended largely | upon the discovery or fnvention of an | and that his first experiments were to develop absolutely true compass’ such an instrument. “The ordinary magnetic compass does not point to the true north—it points to the magnetic north, and varies from the true north to a dif- ferent extent at almost every point on the earth's surface. Another Compass “There is another compass, al and last fall T began to see that was headed toward my goal. i “I found that with a pre-magnetiz- | d core I could set up a magnetized | true field that would indicate the north, but I didn’t know just how ou tind t to tind. “In continuing my experiments, {learned that by cutting the same line | | of magnetic force north and south I | thad an indicator of the true north, and that by cutting the field cast and west I could develop rotary motion. T now have a motor built on that principle that will rotate at a con- | rmined n bhe desired speed, und al With March 24 set by the demo- |rellable constant speed motor is one stant speed, a speed pre-det when the motor 1s built. It ¢ built for of the greatest needs of aviation. 1,800 Revolutions ““The motor I demonstrated at De- ' revolu- | troit has a speed of tions per minute and horsepower on a block, is now in New York." Asked what he intended 1,500 develops 4 Th (Continued on Page 12.) the magnetic induction compass, that in- | dicates the true north. But it must be | set before each flight and it is not s reliable. I really got down to | work on the idea about a year ago, magneti motor | mail car door and safe. doing ,With his motor, Hendershot said he | made in a car driven, the polic “It is a great deal more than the $17.125 we found in Cleaver's home,” he said, “but the exact sum will not be announced until we have com- vleted our work.” Police Reticent He would not discuss the police repoit that a raid on the far south side early today, in which three wo- men were arrested, had led to the finding of $18,000 of the stolen money. No robbery in police records was { than this, O'Connor said. ting, execution and es constructed by detectives this way The first step was to obtain i formation as to how and when the money would be shipped. This was followed by daily trips over the grand trunk to Evergreen park by one of the plotters—Donovan, the police say. Thus the plotters famil- iarized themselves with the routine of train crew. A toy train, having the same num- her of cars as the train that was to he robbed, was used by members of the gang, to perfect every detall. With the aid of the toy train each 1| man was drilled in the part he would take in the holdup. On Saturday morning the left Chicago with the consignment lof $133,000 by two Chicago banks for two banks in Harvey. Among the passengers, according to the po- lice reconstruction of the robbery. was Donovan. It was Donovan, they say, who pulled the emergenc which brought the train to a stop. So foresighted were the robbers that they had planted a cache of dynamite under the platform of the lonely St. Maria station in Ever- green Park, to be used if the cx- plosives carried by the men proved open the The cache night by members squad. Escape was pe were re- 1 5 |inadequate for hlowing was found last of the bomb - I (Continued from page 12.) lnve&igation of City Streets Is Begun With Check on Storeyard Council Committee Expects to Report in March and | Will Inquire Into All Factors Bearing on Highway Conditions, Meeting Weekly. The special committee of the com- | order to do so, it will be mon counci of Councilman W. G. Gibney look into the conditions of reets and recommend action wards improvements in them, vi th cit ard on noon und inspected ides obtaining method. the equipm the mentin general smposed of hairman; Councilmen 1. vk and A. J. Olson. Councilman Gi that the commiftee with Samora ey sald will make port, inite v At the appointed on resolution to ¥ according 1o to- ited piblic works department store- Harvard street this after. 1t m information as 10 employed m handling material and conducting the depirt committee is Gibney today March council meeting and in to meet weekly at lea mittee plans to list the 3 their state of repair, also to compile an inventory of th cquipment and man power in 1 street department, in order fo | - |4 position to 1 ndatic work 1 in ke intelligent recom- as to the amount of ssary to improve the streets, proportion to the hility of the department 1o op caquipped and manned. Another council pointed to investi money had been ex and that material ha 1o private in committer ap charges that ‘nded unwis been diverts by the board of pub cduled to have its ht. g lic works, first mectin bonds; William Donovan, who police | e | In appealing to the judge for a| commissioner | wore carefully planned or exccuted | The plot- | train Hterday In Boston When Two Bandits Club Messenger With Revolvers Jump From Automobile on Commonwealth Pier and Escape After Robbery as Guard Sends Fusillade of Shots After Fleeing Machine. Boston, ¥eb. 27 (®—Two armed| The payroll was to have been \0ldup men jumped from a fish pier uscd to pay off employes at the Bos- colonnade today and tore an $11,- ton fish cxchange. 012 payroll away from James F.| Eye witnesses of the holdup sup- Barry, bank messenger for the Com- plicd police with the registration onwealth Pier branch of the Fed-|number of the robbers’ automobile. eral National bank, after clubbing One of them, George Madden, & him with revolver butts. The hold- truck driver, said that Fitzpatrick {up men escaped in an automobile, showed great courage in his struggle driven by an accomplice, as Edmond | with the robber, during which he Fitzpatrick, Barry's guard, emptied |succeeded in disarming him. his pistol at them. The holdup was 300 yards from Barry and Fitzpatrick were carry-!the bank. Fifteen minutes after ing the funds from the branch bank | the robbery Edward Lynch, manag- to the Boston fish exchange and|er of the branch bank, made up an- were passing under the colonnade |other payroll for the New England when the holdup men jumped fn'|fish exchange, enabling it to pay front of them and in the struggle |its employes at the usual hour. the robber's gun was discharged.| Police investigators learned that a The bullet went wide. Meanwhile | fourth man was implicated in the [the other siruck Barry over the payroll robbery. He was said to head with his gun and seized the|have stood on guard at the entrance bag containing the funds. {of the fish pler during the robbery Both fled to an automobile, theland to have jumped on the rob- jmotor of which had becn kept run-|bers’ car as it sped away. The po- ning by an accomplice. The car,lice said that a checkup of the reg- sped away as Fitzpatrick fired six | istration number supplied by an eye shots. | witness revealed it was incorreet, ILLNESS, NEED OF CASH LACASIO WILL FIGHT EXCUSE FOR ROBBERY |New Britain Youths Held:Held in New Haven as in $5,000 for Superior Suspected Murderer of Court Mrs. Rose Licata The deputy commissioner said he | | Milford, Conn., Feb. 27 M—Ben-| New Haven, Conn., Feb. 27 (P — jamin Alpert and Vincent Mond- | Frank Casio, known also as Francis- 1, both 20, of New Britain, who co Lacasio, of Wallingford, taken were arrcsted Saturday night on the | off a railroad train yesterday and charge of beating and robbing Jos- | held as a suspect in the murder of eph Defranco, who had given the' Mrs, Rose Licata, two boys a lift on their way, entered January 12, today decided he would |a plea of guilty when arraigned be- | fight fore Judge Robert C. Stoddard to- | This made it necessary for two New . Both boys were defended by | York officers to return to their home v Bernard Alpert of New | city to obtaln extradition papers for | Casio. The accused man, whose identifl- | Attorn | Britain, {light sentence Attorney Alpert stat od that to send Mondzeska to faft {would be a death sentence for him s he has recently been discharge. from a sanitarfum with tuberculosis He was desperate and was trying te Benjamin has nev- The two | boys met in New Britain where thev {lald plans to get money for the two of them to go west, the lawyer sn'd | It was stated that the two boys g- a ride to New Haven whoen 1t held technically on an {dleness charge which ie a covering one and enables the police to hold him for several days. Necessary papers are expected however by Wednead Local and Wallingford police are understood to have checked —up Casio’s movements on January 12 on which day he left Wallingford at noon going to New York and thence to the home of Mrs. Licata. ! The police have learned that Ca- purchased two automatic pistols and i, was regarded as slightly unbal- ammunition and a clothesline. Theanoed on religlous matters, and first man to give them a ride Waslgnee tried to start a church in Wal- not molested as their nerve falled!ynorord. He is known to residents them. Defranco was the sccond man | o past Wallingford as he had lived ‘0‘:{:;'::“39" ‘l"’]‘-l for lenjency, | there most of the time since com- Tudge Stoddard declared that the of. | "%, fT0m MAlY 15 years ako. fense was too serious for him te " el the April term of the superior court | poor ang unfortunate. Hger bonde el 38/000. | " "Mrs. Rose Lombardo, a visitor at Mondzeska was remanded to the |y, 'y icata's rooms on the day the county jail but Alpert was released | "% O8I S MO O (08 C the on bail furnished by his uncle, Inaac | L0 Y Sal8 MO 8 00 e pOrsCol New: Priatrl timc. There was an argument, Mrs. = |Lombardo ran into the kitchen, two GIFT SHOWER AWAITING shots were fired and Mrs. Lombardo ! found Mrs. Licata on the floor and | » 84U ofticers went to Wallingford the | i rext day and since then they had {New Arrival to Receive Many Pres- m{! “,it.‘.".i“. for‘ nh'-\,:;}";'-o-rk‘l‘?;f;: {ed that Casio had taken a train to return to Wallingford. The New | Haven railroad police were asked to Lots of x0od things are in store for | ©0-0Perate. When the train arrived the first baby born In this city after |here Officer Patrick Dridgett, IT', | midnight tomorrow night. Bankers | Wallingford, with Capt. Connolly and merchants are making ready to |2nd Sergeant McCarthy seized Casio, {receive the little stranger with 2 | handcuffed him and landed him in {shower of gifts as a sujtable wel- the lpckup. He made no cffort to come, Miss or Master Leap Year resist capture. nay not be born with a silver spoon 7 | n its mouth but it will start life with | ESGAPE FROH SI“KING | prese nts which should n the | I8 nts’ hearts glad 1 The New Britain Herald will con-| tribute §10 in gold to the youngest citizen, Burritt Savings bunk will give avings ount of the Commercial Trust Co., will give a |85 Christmas club cheek. i | Gifts from merchants will include the following: Porter & Dyson, nking cup; the Be Rystem, shoes and rompers; Raphael's de- partment store, silk christening coat; | B. C. Porter Sons, bassinet and mat- t Himberg & Horn, locket and chain: Brodrib & Blair, choice of $5 in records, $10 discount on a Vic- trola or radio or $25 discount on a piano. Two Savings i ents as Well Bank Accounts, i Tair Avoid Death By Smashing Jlass of Car When Crossing Lake Watcrville, Me., Feb, 27 69 — Smashing the glass in a coach win- dow, Byron Leighton, 18, of aWter- ville, jumped to safety and pulled out his companion, Albert Clifford, 530, also of Waterville, just as t automobile went through the ice n Messalonskee lake today. This happened 200 yards from the spot where three Waterville women were drowned on February 5, in a imilar accident. The coach sank in 0 fect of water. The two men started for Clifford’s camps, several miles down the lake from Oakland. When the ice bej to crack and sag. Leighton shouted to Clifford to “Step on it!" which Clifford did. The car almost cleared the place where the ice was only an form an autopsy. Licut. Johnson had juch thick, slipped back and leaning been on duty sinee 7:45 0'clock Yes- on the driver's side started to sink. morning Liad responded Clifford tried to open a door, but failed. Leighton did not stop to open one, but emashed the glass and dove into the water, then turned and pulled Clifford in with him as the car sank. Both men are good swim- mers. They broke the thin ice awa: crawled onto firm ice, walked nearly a2 mile, &nd took a trolley to Water- Waterbury Fireman Drops Dead in Headquarters Waterbury, Conn,, Feb., 27 (P — Licut. Elmer Johnson, for 19 years a member of the Waterbury fire de- partment, dropped dead early this morning in the corridor of fire head- quarters, The acting medical am- iner viewed the body and will per- and 0 4 fire vesterday He was taken suddenly ill this morning and arose to call the watch. 1 dead when his comrades reached him in answer to call & mo- ment later, Born in Toledo, Ohio, in Johnson was appointed ta the manent force in 1409 pointed Licutenant in 16 commanded truck 1 at headguarters ince he was commissioned. A wife and one daughter, a teacher in one the local schools, survive. Full teparimental honors will be accord- ©1 him at his funeral, the date of which has no* yet heon announced, was and was * i :l'Ii E fi IJATI(-I';“ BT of New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight and Twesday, not much change in tcmpersture. RETURN T0 BROOKLYN| in Brooklyn, on | extradition into New York. | cation has been made by several, s AUTO AS ICE CRACKS' ITAIN HERALD NECTICUT, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1928 —EIGHTEEN PAGES Bank Payroll of $11,012 Stolen WILL ASK JURYTO ' INDICT GUILFOYLE ONMURDER CHARGE 'Will Request Similar Indictment . in Gase of John Gayuor of ' Southington {LATTER IS ALLEGED T0 HAVE KILLED HIS SON !Stuart Florian Also of Southington | Will bo Retried a1 Term of Su- perior Court Which | Over Into April — Cases of | ber May Run and Hoppe May Come Up. Hartford, Feb. 27 ®—The grand | jury, to be called at the March term |of the superior criminal court, will | be asked to return first degree mur- | der indictments in two casck, the ac- i cused being Dr. Harold N. Guilfoyle of Hartford and John Gaynor of | Southington. i The date for the calling of the grand jury will be determined large- ly by the progress of business in the term. It is expected the term may | continue through April. | Dr. Guiltoyle, still a patient at the | Hartford hospital, is charged by the | |state with having shot and killed | Maximin J. Gaudet of New Haven, on January 18. | John Gaynor, of Southington, is charged with shooting his son, Mat- | thew Gaynor, 30, at Southington, on | February 6. | Florian Up Again ‘ Stuart (lorian, Southington youth, will be retried at this term on charges of robbery with violence and | | With theft, as a result of the looting t the Southington National bank at ’lantsville on June 22, last. The jury disagreed when Florian was tried here at the December term. Mike Bhick, William Posnick and | Rocco Defamia, alleged “stick up” | men, arrested by Policeman Shea on | Asylum street, Hartford, piclous characters and found to bel ments, will be presented at this term. Dan Nash and Arlington Mc the cracking of a safe-in the Meyers | West Hartford, will also be put on trial, Lorenzo Desmarals, Hartford's “phantom stabber,” will be in the police court on Wednesday with! three Hartford women complainants against him. He may waive examina- | |tion and be bound over to the March term of the superior court. Stephen Hoppe, allas George T. Bersig, is at Bt. Francis' hospital, a patient because of being shot by a Hartford policeman when he at- tempted a getaway. He is claimed | to have escaped from state prisons | at Thomaston, Maine, and Windsor. Vt., and Quincy, Mass. Police are | endeavoring to connect the man| N. Hollis, of that place. | Coast Guard Hunts For Missing Plane New London, Feb, 27 (P—Section base four, coast guard, this city to- day recelved word from Curtiss ficld of the plane number 3573, which took off from there Saturday to meet an incoming liner off Fire Is- {land and which has not heen secn | since. The local base sent out destroyers several 100 footers and some patrol boats to search for the plane. which was sald to be maroon in color, To Mass. From Plainville Boston, Feb. 27 (UP)—John H ¢+ Trumbull, the lying Governor of Connecticut,”” arrived at the | Boston airport today in a national guard plane. | The governor was here on busi- | ness. Previous to the hop here, Trumbull flew to Plainville, Con to attend a directors meeting of t Trumbull Jlectrie Manufacturing Company. Later today, he w Hartford for a dinner eng to return to rement, with the killing of Policeman Alfred | ( Av Week Feb. 25th Daily Circulation for s 15,002 PRICE THREE CENTS LOS ANGELES NEARING GOAL ON NON-STOP EW JERSEY Mid-Air Plane Crash Kills One, Injures Two Cambray, N. M., Feb. 27 (UP) —Oue aviator was killed and two other fliers injured near here to- day when two airplanes en route from Wichita, Kansas, to Los An- seles, collided in mid-air. Joscph Green, pilot of one plane, was killed. One of the in- jured was said to be Frank W. Wighter. The two planes were in a group of five Leing flown to Los An- geles from the Wichita factory for delivery, ‘Witnesses to the crash said one planc was attempting to fly be- neath another when they locked wings. REPORTS OBJECTION TONEW H.. BONDS Sablotsky Says He Has Found Opposition to Allowance 'WOULD CUT CAFETERIA {Clare Cavanaugh Gaudet, wife of Large Auditorium to Be Used By ! took the air at Public Calied Non-Essential—Ad- vocates Adoption of Two-Session Plan Once More, Councilman S8amuel Sablotsky the sixth ward announced today that there is opposition in the com- mon council and about the city to the proposal that bonds to the amount of approximately $500,000 be issued to build and equip an ad- dition to the Senior high school, such as is planned by the school committee, He predicted that the council will a8 sus- | refuse to vote the bond Issue in the | event that the board of finance and ,provided with revolvers and imple- | taxation approves the plans, which | approval it was also indicated may not be forthcoming unless material Crohan, clnimed to Wave ‘attempted | changes are made in the sketches, - | Councilman Sabiotsky said “that drug store in Hartford, and who are he has been assured support in nnv‘ also credited with cracking a safe in | movement he may launch to fore- | stall any further school bond issues and increases in the costs of educa- | tion, provided it can be shown that such an economy program will not result in seriously hampering the conduct of the system. The sixth warder is confident, he said, today, this can be done. “From what information I have been able to get,” Sablotsky declared today, “it appears that more of the £350,000 building fund is to be given over to purposes other than classrooms than is to be devoted to the providing of desks and chairs for the actual teaching ef children. Q@bjection to Cafeteria “The plan, I am told, includes a afeterfa several times as large a the largest restaurant or dining room in the city. This is a useless ex- penditure. It isn't connected with the educational system. While ft n have fts good features, we mustn't forget the tax rate now is! near the breaking point and it we build this cafeteria we are taking no 4 permanent addition to our ex. penses, A large staff must be main tained to prepare and serve the food and the cost of food, cooking, etc.. must also he considered. ““Then, too, there is a huge audi- torinm—a public auditorium. It's all right to buill a public auditorium when we have plenty of bonding lee- but everyone knows that isn't ihe case now. We have school audi- toriums and theaters that can fill the d for many ¥ s to come and we shouldn’t issue bonds now for such « purpose. It has been called to my iitention that this is not intended for regular assembly work, as a smaller auditorium is also contained n the plan, so it seems that this, can be dispensed with and no loss to the educational system will rosult. t00, Ofices and Librarics “A large portion of the remainder (Continued on Page 15) Massachusetts Legislature Asks | Inquiry Into Reading’s Affairs {Rules Committee of State Senate Unanimously Adopts | Resolution Calling for Investigation — Speaker 1 Boston, Feb. committee of the 5 resentatives t nimously {adopted an order calling for the in- vestigation of Attorney General Arthur K. Reading and his conduct in office since he took over the de- | partment. The action can tive session which an hour. Speaker John € announced the committer's He said the order would be reported to the house this afternoon. Tt was expected it wouid foliow the usual course of procedure and be placed on the house calendar for action to- morrow. The com: it asted only half Hull of the housc Lction, last week held a | Hill Announces Decision After Session. hearing on the order introduced by Representative Roland D. Sawvyer of W torney : for an investigation of the at- general's office as a result of mention of Reading’s name in an ac- tion brought in the New York su- preme court in connection with the activities of the Decimo Club, Inc. At the bearing Reading having received a $25,000 retainer from the club, Asked if there would be any charges from the Sawyer order in that to be reported to the house, Speaker Hull said the order would have to bewredrafted and there would > some changes, he could not say «t this time just what they would of | admitted | FLIGHT FROM TOCANAL ZONE 1 Left Lakehurst Yester- | day Morning and is | Proceeding South- ward at Rate of Approximately Fifty Miles an Hour. Reports to Navy Depart- | ment by Commander Rosendahl Say Trip So Far Has Been Unevent- ful—Hope to Arrive To- | night. | Washington, Feb. 27 (P—Sailing lover southern waters in her none stop flight frow Lakehurst, N. J., to the Panama Canal Zone, the air- |ship Los Angeles reported to the |navy department at 10:07 o'clock, |eastern standard time, today, that she was three miles of South Negril Point, Jamaica. | This would place the Lig ship 613 {miles from her destination. She Lakehurst at 6:18 |o'clock yesterday morning and so | far as reports given out by the navy {have shown, the trip has been un- | eventful. | 50 Miles An Hour | From the south of Cuba to the Is- |land of Jamaica the Los Angeles made an average of 50 statute miles per hour. | Having 612 miles to go, she would arrive at her destination about 10 jo'clock tonight at the same rate of | speed. It was pointed out however, |that she might.be alded by trade | winds, | The flight is the first attempted {non-stop voyage of a craft of its {kind to the Canal Zone, although | two years ago, the 658-foot German- |bullt dirigible flew to Porto Rico. | The craft is in charge of Lieutenant |Commander Charies E. Rosendahl and has a full crew aboard. Most of the trip is being made over water to demonstrate the ship’s fitness for the equivalent of a transoceanic voy- { | age. While the trip has been contem- ! plated for some time, news of her | departure from Lakehurst was kept [ secret until after the ship was ac- | tually under way. It first was an- {nounced that she soon would cruise to Guacanayaba Bay, Cuba, there to |anchor to the mast of the aircraft tender Patoka, but it later was de- |cided to send her farther into the | south to visit one of the scenes of | Lindbergh's triumphs on his good 1 will tour. Stationed in Cuba | The Patoka, however, is stationed in Cuban waters about 1,500 miles from Lakehurst, and will be used te moor the big airship in event her commander decides it best not te buck the tricky weather in the Carih- | bean. Should Commander Rosendahl, (Continued on Page Fifteen) PRINCE HENRY THROWN HEAVILY FROM HORSE {King George’s Third Son Injures Leg and Collar- bone But Not Seriously | Melton Mowbra —Prince Henry, son of |King George, was heavily thrown {from his horse while hunting with {the Quorn hounds today. He injured his leg and collarbone, but made light of the accident. The prince’s horse fell at an awkward hedge ol stacle near Ragdale, throwing him from the saddle. The prince, mak- ng light of the incident. wanted to ride again, but was persuaded not to {do so. He was taken to Ragdale hall, the home of Major W. P. Can- trell-Hubbersty and later to Cravem Lodge club at Melton Nowbray, | "On his arrival at the latter place, the prince was given medical atten |tion Tt was stated in official quar- |ters, after the pri had received medical attention, tha* his injury {was to the left leg and that it was {not of a serious nature. Prince Henry, who is omewhat of a “daredevil” when it comes to rid- ing mettlesonmie hunters or taking jumps, is also an enthusiastic motor- ist and 18 reputed fo have a penchant for getting something near the limit of speed from his motor when a tavorable opportunity off The Prince of Wales was not on the field when the ident took {place, but had intended to join the {hunt during the afternoon. {Levine and Stultz Nearly ‘ Freeze on Zero Flight Mitchel Field. Feb, 27 P~ Charles {A Levine in his transatlantic mono- !plane Columbia, with Elmer Stultz ‘as pilot, landed at 3:10 o'clock thix |morning from Boston. The flieps were almost frozen in the not far above zero temperature. They sald they had to fight head-winds of 40- | miles an hour for almost the entire trip. The plane tock off from Boston |t 12:08 this moruing.