New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 3, 1928, Page 12

DRUNKEN DRIVER GIVEN JAIL TERM Tips Over Gar in Collision at NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1928, COURTNEY LANDS IN BURNING PLANE (Continued From First Page) POLISH FLIERS ON WAY OVER OCEAN (Continued From Page Saven) lessly in a strong current which was carry them back toward England. Sent Out pared the plan of the present flight on the basis of his own research. Is a Sesqul Plane |fiying toward America is a sesqui plane of the 8. E. C. M. Amiot type. The wings, the fuselage up to the| pilots’ seats and the tail are painted | cream color. From the pilots’ seats lage is painted blue. The nose and hood of the motor are shiny steel. quares. Le Bourget, France, Aug. 3 (P— |used u The Marszalek Pilsudski in which |Brade crossings. The propeller is a - metal one. | Majors Iddkowuki and Kubala are Lorraine-Dietrich motor on | Minister Stanley Baldwin celebrated which the lives of the fiiers depend | P8 61st birthday by is similar to that with which Pel.|house of commons to gdjourn itself and Vigroux |for the summer recess while he went made their circuit of the Mediter. |!0 his Worcestershire home. letier-Doisy, Ito the front of the wings, the fuse. [Tanean in 1927, a fiight of 6,500 miles, in six days. the same Baldwin Celebrates French railways at His 61st Birthday London, Aug. 3 (UP)—Prime leaving the Though he puffed placidly at his pipe, as usual, Baldwin had every reason to look forward with joy to the rest he is to get. try and the rapidly growing number of unemployed persons—now well over 1,200,000 and increasing weekly. Vaudevillian Kills His Wife; Attempts Suicide Hollywood, Cal. Aug. 3, (P—A fifteen year vaudeville partnership between husband and wife was broken here today in a tragedy which police called a case of mur- because of the depression in indus. ‘Wood, with the rifie he used so long on the stage. He then turn- ed the gun on himself. Physicians said he probably would not recover. A daughter of Mrs. Wood by a for- mer marriage witnessed the shoot- ing. Police were told that dissension arose between the partnership after the Woods had left the vaudeville circuits and attained moderate suc- cess in motion pictures. West End Corner ‘When they landed on the water Apolinary Maskaitis, aged 33. of|and sent out their SOS. calls they Collinsville, driver of an automo-|8ave their position as 42 north lat- bile which struck another machine |itude, 41 west longitude. The Min- operated by Harold B. Reld of 111 |newaska found them, however, at Stearns street, Bristol, at the inter-|42:27 north, 39:05 west, almost a section of West Main street and|hundred miles from their original | Corbin avenue, about 8:45 last position and approximately 1,500 night, was fined $100 and costs and | miles from New York. sentenced to jail for five days on| It was shortly after 6 o'clock. the charge of driving while under| It was shortly after 6 o'clock yes- the influence of liquor, in police terday morning at the first messag court today. He pleaded guilty and came telling o fthe fliers’ plight. had nothing to say in defense of | “Need immediate help but in no his act. He admitted that he was|immediate danger,” it said. convicted in Collinsville of the same Land Near Lane | charge once and in Waterbury on They had landed near the south- another occasion on another count|ern steamship lane and many ships | of violation of the motor vehicle|hearing their calls for aid turned | Both aviators are unmarried and Under the wings and on the tail arc equals in their fanatical deve- [are squares, each containing tion to aviation. General Chang has ordered 4,500 ‘The session has been a tiring one, | der and attempted suicide, 3 = = S two | Bibles and 6,000 New Testaments and he has been the target for snip-| Jack A. Wood, trick shot artist,| READ HERALD LL\§&!FIED AD! smaller red and two smaller white ers of the labor and liberal parties|shot and killed his wife, Mrs. Nellie FOR BEST RESULTS Store Open Friday Night Until 9 0'Clock and Close Saturday at 6 P. 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