New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 16, 1928, Page 1

News of the World By Associated Press ESTABLISHED 1870 LEGION HAS ADDED 706 NEW MEMBERS DURING PAST YEAR sented at Middletown, Shows Two Posts Added ABOUT 400 MEMBERS AND Sessions of Woman's Auxiliary and Incidental Branches of Legion and Tonight Will Be Given Over to a B nquet and Other Enter- tainment Features. Middletown, A’ g. 16 (A — The American Legis 1 has added 705 new members and two new posts in Connecticut since the last annual meeting, State Commander Earle ¥. Richards of West Haven repor €d at the opening of the annu convention here today. Commander Richards’ report fol- by Mayor Frederick Bielefield and a respol by Vice Commander William E. Smith, Membership Is 10,561 The total ip of Legion mem posts in the department of Connec- | and there & commander is now 10,561 the state ticut 104 posts, £aid. The posts added since last year are in Groton and Saybrook. He also reported that the Stonington post had been revised. Approximately 400 members of the Legion and several hundred gu:sts were present as the conven- tion was called to order this morn- ing. Sessions of the women's au flliary and the incidental of the Legion were scheduled for later in the day. A banquet is on the program for tonight. PETTS IS MENTIONED AS STATE COMMANDER lowing at American Legion Convention \ (Special to the Herald) Middletown, Aug 16-—Four dele- gations to the American Legion state convention have announced their intention of supporting Arthur H. Petts of this city as state com- mander and although he does not appear very strong at present fol- lowers claim he is gaining in strength at the convention which is being held at.Masonic hall in Mid- dletown The boom for Petts started st ly after the opening of the conve tion this morning. Although the New Britain delegation had previ- ously planned to support Paige Sea- ton of Torrington it has swung its allegiance to the New Britain man. | The other three delega sup- | porting him are from Berlin, Plain ville and Farmington | Probab] the most important | committee choice was the legisla- | tive committee to which Nathan C Avery, commander of the Ediy- Glover post in this city, was named len P. Parker of Southington a member of the national committee will introduce to the conventior to- morrow the department commander of West Virginia. Several other dis- tinguished guests from other parts | of the country are expected to be in | ll his charge before the convention close: | The Legion Auxiliary is holding | ite convention in St Aloysius hall. MAY BRING COURT ACTION ON LUNGH CART MATTER | Mandamus Might Compel Ruther- ford to Issue Permit for Franklin Square Site A mandamus action to Q) Building Inspector Arthur Rutherford to issue a permit for a | lunch-cart at Franklin square and Pearl street, is being considered by Attorney Leo V. Gaffney, counsel for J. J. Dillon of Waterbury, appli- cant for the permit. Meanwhile the inspector has re- fered the question to Mortimer H. Camp, acting corporation counsel, a petition for a zone change in this district, having added a complica- tion to the case. This petition, re- fered to by the common council to the board of adjustment aims to make a residzntial zone out of the business district in which the plot of ground, which is owned by the Standard Oil Co. stands. No question has yet been raiw1 as to the legality of the lunch-cart business on the plot, but the own- ers of properties in the locality de- clare it is against public policy. ‘While the application was pending at the office of the inspector, the petition for zone change was recelv- ed. In some previous cases it has been ruled that the pendency of an application for zone change acts as a stay to the construction of any building which would not conform with the changed restrictions, if they are imposed, require N. Annual Convention Report, Pre- MANY GUESTS ATTENDING Are Scheduled for Later in Day | Jowed an address of welcome given | | branches | Local Man Has Some Fol-| rt- | gasoline supply was running low and when the Ligonier, which was bound for Port Arthur. Texas, from Tampa. was sighted, holes were cut in the | top of the cabin, life belts distribut- ed and a descent made. was submerged by the water and he was dragged out by the radio man. Ageton never was seen and no trace of his body was found despite a long search inside and outside the plane Norman Ageton, killed in the forced ———— Friend in Need, So Friend Indeed Is Helping Find Wife Berlin, Aug. 16 (UP)—What is believed to be the first matri- monial advertisement ever in- serted in a new: is re- printed by the “Vossische Zei- tung” from that journal's issue of October 5, 1833, he advertisement reads: “I am seeking a wife for a friend, without his knowledge. My friend has a fair-sized for- tune, with which he conducts his business and nourishes his children. Virtuous maidens and widows of good bourgeois fami- lies, between the ages of 24 and 36 and not entirely without fi- nancial means, are requested to leave their addr s under the cipher "“X-43". W pledge our || word of honor that the utmost | recy will be observed.” ‘:?\’:. Al Iy “l NE DEAD 4 SAVED AS PLANE CRASHES Passenger Craft Forced Down in Gull of Mexico \HITS WATER NEAR SHIP Survivors Picked Up But Body of Victim Is Not Recovered—Blown More Than 100 Miles Off Course by High Winds. §t. Petersburg. Fla, Aug 16 IA— The four survivors of a Pan-Ameri- P plane in which one ‘passenger was killed when it was forced down in the Gult ot Mexico off here last can Airways nger them off the tanker Ligonier. Two, who were said to be members of [the craft's crew of three, were | taken to a hospital The dead man was Charles N. Ageton of Flushing, N. Y. Details of how he met death, the nt of injuries of those taken to hospital and their names wera not revealed by officials of the coast | guard base here. Sank 120 Miles at Sea Tt was learned that the airplane, | which was said to have crashed on |the water some 120 miles west- | southwest of here. sank soon after s occupants had been taken off by the Ligonier, near which it struck the water, The plane was en route from Ha- vana to Key West and was some distance off its course. The men were taken aboard the tanker, bound from Tampa to Port ight | were landed here early today by a| coast guard patrol boat which took | sell (shown upper left), flying t (at right). The projected route to Cochrane, Canada and then t stop in Iceland if it is found a est water jump in this route is than any other across the Atlant Trying a New Aerial Road to Europe | | A new aerial route to Europe is being attempted by Bert R. J. Hassell, Rockferd, (Ill) NEW BRITAIN HERALD NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1928, —.TWENTY PAGES. aviator ured here, accompanied by Parker D. Cramer is shown on the map. The first leg of the flight will be over the route © Greenland; the next jump will be to Sockholm, Sweden, with a possible full fuel load cannot be taken over the Greenland mountains The long- only about 500 miles, and Hassell for this reason belicves the route gafer ic. The total distance to be spanned is approximately 4,200 miles, he monoplane Rockford, pict Damage Will Run In Terrific Floo Acres In Several Southern States| Into Millons ~ ITALYBRAZIL 1 d Which Sweeps | DIES FROM INJURIES AIRMAIL FLIER LOST | Forced Down Some- where in So. Carolina IN LOYDED DISTRICT 0 Word From John Kytle, Spartanburg, 8. C, Aug 16 P— |Hundreds of Homes De-| serted—Train Marooned | —Milledgeville, Ga., Iso- Rally After Amputa- tion of Leg ing Water — Tornado [GamE st renee Razes 50 Buildings in | !niries Bath, 8. C. morning from | Wwhich he cuffered in a | plane crash on Augus Del Prete yesterday underwent an Has- | R Major Del Prete Fails to | liant flight between Ttaly and Brazil Major |2nd former officials make their way STARTS TODAY AS RNCK GETS AWAY F. JORNSON DISAPPROVES [ “BADGES FOR OFFIGIALS ] 9IS JRINYIDUUO) Experienced Men Commissioners Should Buy Their Own airplana pilot fore the World war, and became an commissioned a second lieutenant in 1918 and served in the army air corps as a teacher throughout th war Hassell, who was Marinette, Wis., in 1893, is married and has three children. His family was i Rockford to bhid him fare. well. His home is in Rockford where he attended the grade and high schools. Parker “Shorty” Cramer, the husky co-pilot, navigator and radio operator of the Greater Rockford, was born at lafayette, Ind. the seat of Purdue university, He is 32 vears old. He took up flving as a livelihood in 1915 and during the war was an instructor at Kelly and Brooks ficlds in Texas and a test pilot at Scott field at Belleville, 11l After the war he sometime and later was a member of Mayor Hylan's aerial police force in New York. He met Hassell while both were in the employe of the |£d to explain. Johnson sees no rea- | Curtiss Airplane company in 18 |son why the city should be called (and their friendship continued until |upon to furnish gold badges to the it led to their The five members of the building |commission who purchased gold- filled badges of office and submitted | the bill to the commen counci! for approval will be required to foot the bill themselves if Alderman J.‘ Gustave Johnson has his way. The badges, carrying the inscrip- tion, “Buiding Commissioner, New | Britain, Conn.,” with a copy of the | e1y's seal in the center of the shield, | cost approximately $510 each. Simi- lar badges were purchased by the commission for Electrical Inspector C. J. Curtin, and Building Inspector A. N. Rutherford, but the alderman has no objection to payment for these two. Alderman Johnson has nad the | entire bill, totaling $35.61, held out | of tne council for investigation, in | which the commissioner, born in 4 ; association in the ko iDa Sianelrd, e slue 1A OB i i ssloners fand e e points | proposed flight to Stockholm, e o Major Carlo P. Del Prete, Ttalian |out that the practice is a dangerous | Crarzer is a bachelor, his mother, lated and Without Drink- | {7°7 €170 ¥ el Freie Tatlan jout that ihe practice Is a dar it will | Mrs. Fannie Cramer, lives at Clarion. | eventually reach proportions that | Pa. IEADBONES O GLANT groups of badge bedecked present within the fire lines to gain vantage ‘wuo) ‘pa0JyaEH “yda WPV ————————————— Both Fliers Are Rockford, Aug. 16 — (P —Since | H . a3 1913, Bert Hassell, pilot of the {Alderman Thinks Building .7, % Hassell pilot of the Stockholm, Sweden, has been an He took up flying be- | instructor at Chanute field. He was barnstormed for | Airport officials reported that John | Kytle, piloting the northbound mail | plane from Atlanta to Richmond was | forced down somewhere in the flood. | Hundreds of lowland homes in three southern states were deserted Kytle, air mail pilot on the New | crops ruined and lives endangered York-Atlanta route, has been miss- | in the western Carolinas and south ing since he left Atlania at 8 o'clock | 2nd central Georgia as rivers crept last night for Richmond, va., and is | higher from steady rains swept believed down between Anderson | rorthward by a tropical storm and Spartanburg, S. €., air mail of-| Damage will run well ficials reported millions—exceeding that of last week's storm—according to early es- ‘ imates Storms that have raged along the |t | Atlantic seaboard for several days| In western North Carolina, where Arthur, Texas, and the coast guard patrel boat No. 195, which was| summoned by distress messages | | from the plane, reached the Ligonier last night, | They were taken aboard the cut- | ter from the tanker Ligonier, near which the plane alighted and wmrh! ! picked them up just as their craft sank. Ensign M. Braswell of the | local coast guard.base, said Age- ton's body was not recovered William Mallon. the other passen- ger, and H. C. Leuteritz, radio operator of the plane, were taken 10 a hospital for first aid treatment. the former ing suffered a scalp wound and the latter boWly bruises The condition of neither was consid- ¢red serious Robert Fatt, pilot, and Anfonso, the mehcanic, were not Lurt Blown Off Course its fuel was almost exhausted. His body was believed to have been car- |ried away by the high geas With their bearings lost and fuel running low, the crew of the large plane sighted the Ligonier shortly after 8 p. m last night and decideq | to desccnd alongside her. 1In the| descent the craft struck the water | with a terrific crash and immediate- Iy began to ship water. Ageton was |s21d o have been killed by the im- | Lord ran to the end of the building |pact but the other occupants were {and hurried down the staircase but {akle to cituib: out of the plams ang |when he wss epoe again on the tanburg was without gas. Anderson remain afioat until the tanker could ick them up Fail (o Find Body After failing to find Ageton's hody | the Ligonier abandoned the sinking | plane and brought the air voyagers | to Tampa bar, off here, where the | coast guard cutter met it At the spot it came down, the| plane, the tri-motored Fokker “Gen- | eral Machado,” was some 120 miles south southwest of here and about 200 miles west northwest of Key West, its destination. It left Havana early yesterday afternoon Mallon, whose home is in Atlantic City, €aid the plane encountered strong head winds half an hour after leaving Havana. Visibility also was poor, he said, and when the plane failed to sight land by the time it was scheduled to land in Key West, the pilot continued on in the hope of reaching some landing spot. Three hours later, he related, ths | | Mallon said the cabin immediately ~New York, Aug. 16 (P —Charles anding of a passenger plane in the (Continued on Page 17) are believed to have forced Kytls | rivers were rampaging as never he. | down. Kytle is the pilot who crash- | fore, two dams already have gone ed into Stone Mountain near Atlan. out, the Clifton Textile Mill struc- | ta in a fog shortly after the route ture on the Pacolet river and a was opened minor dam on the Broad river. No | Several planes have been sent out lives have been reported lost. | from Atlanta to search for Kytle by Pitcairn, Aviation, Inc., contract op- erators of the route, it was satd here. Kytle was seen passing over Anderson at 915 last night, but he Overflowing Banks Atlanta, Ga. Aug. 16 (—Drain- ing a territory drenched by almost | ssant rains during the past two | Janeiro yesterday and according to | Present tire | word received here | was followed by a high temperature and a fast pulse into the | absent when the news of the air- man's death was received a ber of South American called at the Chigi palace to expres: their condolences to permanent offi- cials there, row the middle of the forenoon, cast spell which was still in a holiday mood, vesterday being the Feast of the As sumption such a magnificent have ended in tragedy so soon after | operation for amputation of his | POINts to watch the fire, he argued ‘nght leg. today, a1 | This is the first time the building the United Press. Rome. August, 16 (P—News was COMmissioners have had badges Del Prete who | first organized, this operation | €cOnomy adopted a | badge, purchasing all four for Although Premier Mussolint was num- diplomats WHILE HUNTING RAT Newington Young Man in Critical Condition at New Britain Hospital Many messages of sor- were received also. The news, which was received in of gloom over the nction There was general mourning that flight should | Wiliam Barrows, 22 years old, | reccived in Rome today of the death | Since the police and fire boards were | of Major Carlo P. members of those | : o |today as thousands fled menacing | was injured in Brazil after a non- |P03rds have had badges at the city's | ed arca last night and has not been s : heard from. & : |flood waters. {smp flight from Rome to South 1?*!"*“5".“3 standard plate cosm*x‘ = | Dams collapsed, bridges were America. Major Del Prete had hi |about $20 each having been pur- | Washington, Aug. 16 (UP)—John | washed away. highways flooded, |Tl8ht les amputated in Rio De |chased for each commissioner. The | board in 2 move for | less expensive 320, 'BARROWS YOUTH SHoT ! and Mrs. Clinton & |of the most intere Andrews Reports Animal Must Have Been Size of Woolworth Building ; | | Peking. Aug. 16 (P—The head- bones of a prehistoric monster un- |earthed by Roy Chapman Andrews | |at the southern edge of the Gobi |desert. Mongolia, were described by him today as indicating the exist- |ence of a colossal animal “about the | size of the Woolworth building if the | building were in a horizontal posi- |tion," (The Woolworth building in New | York city, is 792 feet high ) Dr. Andrews, who s the leader of | the fourth central Aslatic expedition, | said | “This was our bi sting nd. made. This entire area fossils. We found a mons ‘s!mrlly after leaving Rockford. |over water. Average Daily Circulation Per Week Ending 149672 Aug. 11th ... PRICE THREE CENTS ATTEMPTED AIR FLIGHT TO SWEDEN FORD PLANE N CANADA ‘Hassell and Cramer Expect to Spend Night There and Continue on to Greenland Base Tomorrow. Their Final Jump From Iceland to Stockholm Covers About 1,340 Miles, Most of It Over the Ocean. | Rockford, I, Aug. 16 UP—Bert Hassell, accompanied by Parker | Cramer, co-pilot and navigator teok off at 6.40 a. m. central standard fime, on the first leg of a propesed flight to Stockholm. The pilots made a perfect hop-oft from the Rockford airport, circling over the field until the big plane had made an altitude of about 1,- "0 feet when it was nosed north- castward toward Cochrane, On where Hassell planned to make h tirst stop and spend the night. On To Greenland The pilots were scheduled 14 jreach Cochrane in about eight hours, stopping over there to refusl and tune up the plane for a second | hep to Greenland tomorrow. | Both Hassell and Cramer express. |ed confidence of success as they the “Greater Rogk- WONSTER DISTOVERED - = climbed ford” and waved g00d-bye. They were not daunted by the accident which halted their first attempt three weeks ago when their plane, heavily loaded for one hop to Greenland was unable to make alti- tude and crashed in a corn field Big Crowd Watches A large crowd had gathered at the airport when the big plane was roled from its hangar shortly after 6 a. m. The pilots began warming up the motors and without any de- day took off at 6:40. Weather con- ditons for the flight across Canada were considered. ideal and the “Greater Rockford” crew was cer- tain it would make Cochrane on scheduled time. The hop from Cochrane te Green. nd is about 1,600 miles, much of it From Greenland the fliers plan another hop to Iceland la (and then a final jump to Stockholm, | their goal. Route of Fliers From Rockford, the course of the plane was northwest across Canad gzest strike—one |to Cochrane, Ont., and thence on te ever | Mt. Evans, Greenland, the total dis- rich in|tance from Rockford to Mt. Bvans ter in the |being 2.100. The pilots planned to same area in 19 T 'DERBY GARAGE MAN HELD Bandit Visits Place and Rifles Re- The survivors said that Ageton fster as Watchman Is Sent was killed when the plane struck Upstatrs the water with a terrific impact after it had been blown more than| Derby. Auz 16, (A—William |2 hundr:d miles off its course and [Lord, night man at the Central |Ga was confronted by an arm- |ed man whose features were hidden by a handkerchief as he returned to the main floor of the garage at 4:30 o'clock this morning after having gone upstairs for some tools After ordering him to hold wp his hands, the armed man forced Lord to enter the elevator and then commanded him fo run it up to the top floor. On reaching the top floor, €. main floor the armed man was gone and the cash register in the office was open Lord reached the door in time to see 2 small coupe rounding the next corner. 5 The contents of the cash register, amounting to $39.62, were taken. SMITH WILL REPLY | Democratic Nominee for President | Will Make an Arswer to Editor White's Attack on Him. Alban: Smith announced today that he was preparing a reply to the attack made on his record as an assemblyman by | William Allen White, Kansas editor, | but that the cablegram made public in New York yesterday denying that White had retracted any of his charges probably would necessitate some change in his rejoinder. “I was preparing a reply to | White,” the governor said, “but the situation took a new turn by the release of the cablegram by the re- publican national committee.” This cablegram, from the Emporia editor to Henry J. Allen, publicity director of the republican campaign. included a statement that White had not withdrawn his charges against Smith in connection with gambling and organized vice. Smith sald he had no idea when | UP AND ROBBED OF $99 Aug. 16.—(P—Governor | {last few weeks, one-third the nor-| failed to appear at Spartansburg, hit | weeks .the rivers of three southern | General Umberto Nobile's fatal ,0 Of,"hm.e first stop out of Atlanta. The dis- |states were flowing wide of their | POlar trip . | Barrows of Newington is in a criti- tance from Anderson to Spartans- banks today. The flood waters had Major Del Prete with Captain f_ul coudition at the New Britain | burg is 60 miles. | isolated cities and caused tremen- | Arturo Ferrarin hopped off from General hospital from gunshot | dous damage to crops, highways | Montecelio Field, Rome, on the |wounds and grave fears are entar- |and railroads. July 3 ; From Spartanburg, §. C | evening of and landed at As |ville and Tryon, N. C, and Macon Eaulyiion § e Borning Sof and Quitman, Ga. came reports of | July 6 They were credited with | 8001 “conditions equalling or sur. | Making a nonstop flight of 4,377 |passing any in the history of the at- | Miles breaking the distance flight fected sections. record of 3.909 miles set by Clar- Brazil All the menaced area of North |nce Chamberlin and Charles A Carolina was cut off from com. Levine in their flight from New | munication late last night, but be- | York to Germany |fore the tines went down Asheville| “hey were cald to have been in | reported hasty preparations to care | the air 5 s h""”“—"i their own for hundreds of refugees from the | Juration flight record of 58 hours French Broad river valley, where|30d 34 minutes et earlier in the Bee Tree dam was threatening to | Y®2r | coltapse % 501" Major Det Prete wus so-piioh and Many mill communities along me,;““'a"' ga;nr ot L":r';mahnd»:r Pacolet river were thretaened, with | De Pinedo’s plane in whic Tryon C. already feeling the | {1€W to South and North America. rush of flood waters unleashed when | 1° L linedored land | Clifton Textile Mill dam No. 2 went | !N€ of 2 ed States navy plane out last night after the fire which destroved De The suburban mill Pinedo's plane at Roosevelt Dam, {of Beaumont and Arkwright at|Arena T mas being carricd as Spartanburg were flooded for the |2 Passeng al base at San Diego at the time second time within a week and Spar- | "\ (P8GR0 e b e infured on August 7 when he and Captain Ferrarin crashed as they were about to make a flight at the Rio De Janeiro aviation school AMPUTATES OWN TOES Canadian Trapper, communities | | mill bridge on Tiger river was ewept ! away. 50 Houses Razed A freakish tornado tore up 50 | houses at Bath, S. C., yesterday and | injured one woman. A score of| houses were damager or destroyed | by a similar storm at Newberry, but | no casualties were reported. Charles- ton also reported heavy damage from the storm and high water. In Georgia, Quitman appeared the worst hit, having been isolated by flood water released by the collapse of two dams on Okapilco creek. | Brice dam, impounding a 17.000 |acre., lake and Melton dam, holding 1500 acres of impounded water, col- lapsed yesterday. No Drinking Water Milledgeville, Ga., was isolated and without drinking water. Macon had but one rail line open, and re- ported the Ocmulgee river two feet over flood stage, with another four foot risé expected today. More than 15 inches of rain fell there in the Marooned ¥n Northland, Uses Kitchen Rnife and Docs Perfect Job, Prince George, B C., Aug. 16 (P — A trapper who amputated four of his toes with a kitchen knife when they became frozen last winter, has arrived here for surgical attention but was told he had done the job so well, no further treatment was needed. While inspecting his trap line in the upper Finaly river, J. Omera suffered frost bite on his right foot Returning to his cabin, which is 50 miles from the nearest neighbor, he noticed after a few days that infec- tion had set in. A kitchen knife was the only instrument available mal annual precipitation. (Continued on Page 17) three days to perform the operation After the toes had been cut off he his reply will be ready for publica- tion, » 4 | washed the wounds with an antisep- | tic and bound them up. l THE WEATHER * % I New Britain and vicinity: Increasing cloudiness, follow- ! HIGH TIDE — AUG. 17 ' ed by showers late tonight or | Friday; not much change tn N. London 1 m.,11:46 pm. l temperature, New Haven 1:25 p. m. *. R e — .| Touros, fifty miles north of Natal, | for amputation and it took Omera | shaped headed ereaty scovered lon this expedition is believed per- haps to be the great grandfathr of the 1925 monster.” tained for his life. The young man was accidentally | shot last eve ing while hunting rats |in the barn at his Newington home | with Frank Clark an employee of his father | The two men were hunting rats culiar feature is that its nose nar- rows in the middle and gradually broadens toward the nostrils in the chicken houses and barns| Dr. Andrews said he was more about 9 o'clock last night. They |than satisfied with his discoveries | nad separated and approached each |He considered his finds vied with hix |other from opposite directions {n |finding of inosaur in 192 | {haiaaric The explorer said his discoveries In a manner not vet explained !Ncluded numerous baluchitherium Clark's gun was fired, the boy re. |f0SSils and also several splendid ceiving a full charge from a shot |SKulls of a new type of nasal horned | &un in his right lez above the knee. | it notheriidae, quite d from Clark's finger was badly lacerated |4"¥ of the North Am vl n his efforts to block the trigger on | 1he collection of fossils fills 80 | cases. It w the gun and he later received treat- s brought intact to Pek- ment at the hospital "The injured boy was taken to the Pedition encountered floods between hospital re he was found to be KAal€an and Peking against which it ; 3 ace e 20 s s |in a semi-conscious condition from | [N°Y battled for 20 hours to sav htemselves and their relies. The [shock and loss of blood. He has |Memeclves and thelr relios. The Ibeen in a critical eondition ever | 10NNV fror gan g re- | since quired four days Justice and Mrs. Barrows, parents of the injured hoy, were attending a session of the Newington Grang= at the time of the accident The voung man is a stu at |the University of North Carolina {and was working on his father' | farm during his vacation When it became known in Nerw- ington that a blood transfusion op- | eration might be nec. |ber of Newington prople | their services. This afternoon Dr. €. J Hart who | is 1ooking after the bov, called into | Hali of the expedition returned earlier than had been expected ow- inz to the intense heat of the desert which »xploded sveral cases of gaso- fuel The baluchitherium was a monster |auadruped of prehistoric times re- lated to the rhinoceros. Fossil re- mains of the animal were discovered in the Gobi desert, Baluchistan, in 1622 and indicate that it stood about 10 feet high and was 15 feet long. Titanotheriidae were a tertiary family of hoofed mammals sary, a num- offered ‘ronaullta'lon. Dr. Garvis, © Hartford specialist, | "Tater reports trom tne nospear| CATCH T00 MANY FISH |are to the effect that the boy's con- dition is very grave THOMAS ISSUES DENIAL | Says He Attended No Meeting With S0 Vice President Dawes Decides Put a Moral Limit on His Haul | Every Day. Wagon Wheel Gap, Col. Aug. 15 (A—Vice President Charles G. Dawes found trout so plentiful on an |eight day fishing expedition at the |Humphrey's estate here that he im- posed a “moral limit” on his daily catch. Morris and is Party to No Com- promise Plan. Waterbury, Aug. 16 (P—Attorney | William E. Thomas, democrat. today denied a Hartford newspaper story which said he attended a conference in West Havén last night with Charles G .Morris, another candi- date for governor, at which a com- promise was made that one run for governor and the other for senator. The story said neither would agree to the proposal. “Some one is having a night- mare,” said Mr. Thomas today. “I certainly attended no such affair,” and exaggeration of piscatorial nar- rative, I will state that I set a mora: limit on myself for an average of 12 trout, ten iInches or over, a day, and lived up to it,” said the vice president in summing up his vace- tion. The vice president, Mrs. Dawes and their party have left the Humphrey's estate by automobile for Taocs, N. M. The head is very broad and a pe- | |ing in automobiles although the ex. | line and thus caused a shortage of | “Avolding the usual indefiniteness | ¢ saddle make a shorter hop from Mt. Evans |to Revkfavik, Iceland, where where 2 base was ready for additional fuel {and oil. Between Reykjavik and the |Swedish coast, their last hop, lies a great expanse of open sea. The big plane was stocked with ample food supplies and other provi. sions for the northern flight. Be. sides food the pilots carried a col- lapsible rubber boat, an axe, a rifle, hiking outfits and first aid kits. Weighs Abont 5,000 The Greater Rockford, fully load- ed. weighs about 5,000 pounds and has a wing spread of 46 feet. It can carry three persons, although the flight was limited to a crew of two, Hassell, chief pilot; and Cramer, co- pilot and navigator. A radio was included among the plane’s equipment and the pilots planned to keep in communication with radio stations throughout their flight The Rockford Chamber of Com. cerce sponsored the fliers in their | plans for the Stockholm journey. The hop to Cochrane would take the fliers over about 800 miles of the route. From Cochrane to Mt. Evans the distance is roughly 1,600 miles and from Mt. Evans to their Iceland | base the mileage is about 884. Their {last hop to Stockholm covers about | 1,340 miles, most of it over the sea. Forgot Their Lunch Tt was reported at the airport that in the excitement the fliers forgot to ‘Put in their lunches they had pack- ed for today. However, no appre- hension was felt since they were dus to arrive in Cochane shortly after |noon and they had emergency ra- | tions if needed. | The radio on the Greater Rock- {tord was given the call letters of |KHAH and Operator Chamer said |he would endeavor to send out re- ports every hour. Radio station |KFLV at Rockford was prepared to ‘keep in constant touch if possible. | Fishermen Tell Story Of Swordfish Fight Glace Bay, N. S, Aug. 16 UP—A battle with a large swordfish that |pierced a dory and broke its sword. only to be captured later, was re- counted today by two fishermen. The encounter occurred of the harbor yesterday. The fish, harpoon. ed as it was drowsing on the surface, rushed the boat and thrust its sword |through the bottom. One eof the men lassooed the bony blade and held on firmly while their schooner raced to the rescue. The fish, fighting viclously, snap= ped off the sword and raced away, still carrying the harpesa, but was caught after an hour's hattie,