New Britain Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1928, Page 10

Pictures Tell Story of Adventurous Career of Commander Richard E. Byrd NEW BRITAI DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1928 NEW YORK SUBWAY (Continued from First Page) er to get home. Times Square TRAIN 15 WRECKED rush hour of the evening was under- way with thousands of New York's workers thronging the subways eag- | | The train had been halted at the | tation for 5 minutes, Emergency electric light lines were strung from street connections and big searchlights played over thé smashed cars. The big lights pick- ed out several terrified passengers clinging to the sides of the ‘wo overturned ca’s, too paralyzed by fright to move or make a sound. Acetylene torches were brought inte play and the work of cutting away the tangled steel of the shat- tered ninth car began. All of the dead and critically injured were cither in this car or the eighth car. Hamperzd by the smoke and dust which swirled about them, the res- cue workers entered the cars and the delay caused. it was learned, by were questioned several hours. Bald- win later was arrested ‘on s charge of homicide. 13% Police Commissioner Warren took charge of police forces and started his own investigation. The mayer said he would not carry on his in- vestigation unmtil he had received all the reports from.police and . fire de- partment offictals. The mayor, said he. found seme consolation, terrible as the wreck was, in the fact that the structural construction of the subway stood the test, despite the battering it wassub- jected to by the crusihng impact of the wreck. . carried out those who, either killed or rendered unconscious, still lay there. % |work on the switch which caused Daring FExplorer Now Headed For Ant- arctic ‘Has Visited North Pole and mee s s T venout o the station. Flown. Atlantic. To avpid a possible cave in, how- ever, new braces were placed near where the accident occurred: s Find Baby's Body Full service on the west side line In one end of the ninth car they | was resumed at. six o'clock 'this found the body of a baby, decapi- morning. Beth north :=nd south tated, and that of a woman, almost bound express tracks were cleared all the clothing stripped from her |of wreckage at 5:20 o'clock. Dull Room Heard Pulling slowly away from the plat- form 1t quickly gained speed. As it {neared 40th street, about 200 yards | from the station, there came a dull boom as the steel car left the rails These pictures tell the thrilling life story of Commander Richard and crashed into the wall which E. Byrd. now rcady for his grcatest of all adventvres—his trip to the South Pole. 1. As a navigation exy Byrd planned the navigation features of the succ flicht of the NC-3 ccross the Atlantic in 1919, glihough he did not make the tr 2. The Josephine Ford which Commander Byrd and Floyd Bennett flew over the Norih Pole in 1926, photographed at Spitz- n bergen, decorates Byrd with thie first—airplane the Congressional flight over the pole. 3. President Coo Medal of Honor for his 4 5 dge A closc-up of the daring adventurer, The quartet that crossed the Atlantic in The America in 1927 —Lieut. George Noville, Commander Byrd, Pilot Bert Acosta and Pilot Bernt Balchen. 6-7. The America in the air, and the end of the flight when the plane came down in the water off the coast of France in a storm. Tyrd in the outfit ) 1 Pole. §. Commnon flight over the plans to wear on his South Lody by the rush of injured and uninjured passengers seeking to es- R m . s S ARGUES WITH CYCLE GOP, 3 3 Above one the street the police Then followed a shriek, rising 10| from other precincts fought with a pitch of terror which made those the rapidly increasing crowds to who heard 1t shudder, came out of | clcar the streets to let the ambu- (Unable to Produce License Whea the darkness. A cloud of smoke|jances, loaded with their burdens ‘rnllnd back into the station, throw-|of dead and dying through to the Halted After Dash Through ing those on the crowded platform | hospitals. Police lines were ect - & 2 2 ;m'o a panic and out of the smoke hsh[;d and all traffic cleared from Spring Street |cloud staggered blackened and | the streets for several bocks. It cost Charles Heckman, aged 24, blecding victims of the disaster. Other police were rushed t0lof s11 East street, $3 for being A detective on a northbound train | other subway stations where the [“fresh” towards Motorcycle Officer which had just passed the scene of | home-going crowds fought to get|Davig Doty yesterday when the of- {the wreck sprang from the car and |into stations already crowded 1O |ficer spoke to him about the alleged | dashed up the steps to pull the lev-| suffocation, not knowing what was|eyxcessive speed of a truck he was or on both the fire and police alarm | causing the delay. All stations|griving on Spring street. Pleading bhox were cleared and thousands forced | guilty in police court today to the Policemen stationed along Broad- | to take elevated lines, street €ars| nargze of operating an automobile way and Seventh avenue also had|and cabs home. Some walked. The | ithout having a license in his pos. {heard that dull, far away boom. and | extra burdens placed on the OtRer| osion, Heckman was. fined by Judge | deserting their posts rushed into the | lines taxed them to capacity and for (g, y. ang warned by Prosecuting At- |crowded station and 'started herding | hours after the accident street cars | o noy \Woods against defying police- passengers out. and elevateds were still crawling | Jon€0 T LR In the di mlight of the overhead |along, delaved at every station by | ™ icer Doty tu§lned that he fol- venis, the :parks from the third |the pushing, shoving crowds. Towl o s iRte A Der LR S rail and the sickly gleaming emer-| Emergency crews were sent into | o= o5 B0 Toce "0 the curb, | zeney lights, the police and firemen | the subway to clear away the|' . % spoke to him about "“f who were quickly thronging the tun- | wreckage, They were forced literal- | F70T8 B8 (HEG (0 00t S truck nel saw the enormity of the task|ly to cut the crushed cars away| e 4 ahead of them | phece By uleos and. push theds etk | 3cPoss the intersection BF Epring 49 | Moans of the Injured i | Winter streets. Heckman chose to | 5 ; argue and the officer asked him for | " There on the floor of the tunnel| Trafic is Resumed R s | #arn the. twe crushed cars, from| At 1:10 ollock. tnis morning, {hI2 dlcense, which he conld et pptc { whose windows came the moans of |eight hours after the accident, traf- 1"““"‘1“"""“"‘ he has been ‘h"; | the desperately injured while those | fic was resumed on the local tracks, [CCPS€d driver for st yeyrs Ang [ sfif) atilo fo rone soneamsd asithey | shich mun narallell o' the express | JoR0ae AR coULs He had noth- LNt fo ge todtina ugh khe ahattersdl| fa ol on' Whish! ithe mooldintions [JAK $0/ 8% Eaap that he had | windows, sl raftic ever . iexpras | Lckiscieduta teanster dHe L lietEE it nam <4y from one suit to another, and with In the upright cars of the {rainirack was not expected to be re- |pogarg {o speed, he was not driving men. women and children \ere | sumed for some hours. [ faster than 18 miles an hour. struggling 1o hreak out the windows | Njavor James J. Walker was one | "5 e McCormack, sged. 30, of and escape from a peril they only | of the city officials to arrive at | 000 Roxbury Road was “'d"," 4 acneed, many of them ‘hatf: atunned len = L0 it oh Hatting up |- APy ioad Ag.Ane a by heing thrown to the floor of the fy8 Frelit B the nearby 30th | o5 on the charge of speeding, on I b AR ST e el °d PO- | torney Woods. McCormack was ar- “h[_o':‘“”:m“fld" e i aafi} | lice and fire department officials in | rested yesterday on Stanley strest ble fire and ambulance equipment | C*Pediting the care of the injured. [vy Motorcycle Officer Styolls,, Hy He was plainly unnerved after | of the .city came rushing to the i el | pleaded guilt ceone | viewing the wreck. from which many Nur and doctors uped | ©f the bodics had not yet been ve- | RED MFN TO CONVENE | themselves about the kiosks as the |moved when he arrived. | Following the meeting of Matta. | police and firemen and many vol- Probe ix Ordered | besett tribe, 1. O. R. M., at its hal) unteer helpers carried ot the dead| The mayor ordered an immediate jat 277 Main street Monday evening and injured, many of the bodies|investigation. When the motorman | at 7:30 o'clock, there will be # Tiangled almost heyond 1ecognition. | Of the train which was wrecked was | meeting of the Central Connecticy | Thore who could walk were led S1oW in appearing he threatened | Red Men's assoclation to elect ¢ from the stalled frain fo the near- | Irank Hedley. president of the In- |ficers and prepare a program fer © st oxits and helpad to the street. | terborough Rapid Transit, with ar-|coming winter. There will be P= Il the power on the west side line 1est unless the man was produced. | resentatives from the foligin® | was shut off and many other trains W. Paldwin, maintenance man |tribes: Wonk, Montowese, Arrfan. were stalled hetween stations, their |and Switchman King, who had been | Oivenoco, Compounce, Arrow,€3d. xcited passengers adding fo the | working on the damazed switch | Ticaog and Mattabesett. A larke confusion which extended up and and had pronounced it working. [attendance is expected. Rresh- down the lonz tuunels for miles. | were fi found and taken to fl\t‘mcntn will be served after thmeet- Emarzoney Lights | 20th precinet station where 'hr‘)"lmg. | |however, if it will bring fi the face of a watch and {from the 97 years of ruthless exploi- the whole picture is about the size tation by the Indian Bureau.' |of large wateh face. The ¢an prints | {on the photo as a dark, round ob- ject, the artificial horizon as a [ straight grey line, and the angle is a numeral, which is a photo of the ! point on a revolving scale on which the interior light shines at the mo- | ment of snapping the shutter. | The nera s capable of being (§ loaded to make one hundred separ- | ate pictures on one roll of film, through operation of a lever it rolis | out, euts and deposits the film in a outs when snch present themselves. “Campus activities and studies | busy for all and experience proves | | that the working students freque m|v“ | cannot carry the extra burden s c{ | cessfully.” | NDIANS DEMAND THEIR FREEDOM SEXTANT CAMERA Tinks Woring Inteires SPRINGFIELD BOXER pox Trbe Determined 1o Wage LOANED T0 BYRD With Studies FAILS T0 RECOVER Legal War e {Photographs Own Position on itzs f Ring, Edwl : Urbana, 1N, Aug. 25 (UP)—The ‘r.mm- Fitzsimmons of Rinz, Edwlu| o 1.ng aug. 25 (UP)—The mul arth s 4,] student who attempts to work his | | dians—or at least a part of '“h:r;:::' Earth's Surface I‘develop the pictures right in a plane. way through college is at a decided | {of redmen—are on the disadvantage and should not at-| |again and are demanding their inde- | tempt it unless it is absolutely | | pendence. Rochester, N. Y., Aug. 25 (F— necessary in the opinion of Dean of ‘Women Maria Leonard and Dean of Men Thomas Merkle Clark, of the University of Tllinois. According to Dean Leonard it is generally conceded that if. by wait Ing a year or two before coming to the university, a girl “can earn suf- ficeint money to relieve the neces sity of earning her way while here ghe would find her college life mu more atisfactory Tur four years in college life “It is foolich a work his way through t} unless it Dean Clark are students at any advantss ‘A things in through can never he training Monday, Aug. 28th to Saturday, Sept. 1st Wunsch in Private Life, N BECOMING VOTERS Soringfield, Mass. Auvg. 25 (UP) | — Registration of nuns as voters is reported general throughout the Springfield diocese here. | ighty-two nuns registered here yesterday, while in Holyoke 40 nuns of the order of Sisters of Providence were registered. The nuns registered under their secular names, Dies at Hospital, 25 A new kind of camera, which will record in a small. snap shot picture, its own position on the ecarth’s sur- ace, nas teen perfected here for the United States navy. It was loaned |on Aug. 23 to Commender Byrd for | use during his Antarctic expedition The camera fs the idea of Com | mander M. it. Pierce of the U. & naval air station’ at Lakehurst, N J. who collaborated with the East- man Kodak company in perfecting and building it. Commander Pierce loaned it 1o Byrd. Its name is the Pierce sextant camera. A very important possibility of | fhis comera in the Byrd expedition, Commander Pierce said, would be to | establish definitely Tocation of | spote on the Antarctic continent | | photographed from the air in the | process of may Whenever | the airman makes a picture with a | mapping camera, he may also ma an exposure with the sextant cam- . and thus the exact position of the points photozraphed will ba de- We propose fo demand of the yof RO T 0T '\‘:r'r*r-es of putting mment to show cause why it |ipem together into a map will = should not respect provisio 0" the | atly facilitated LAY E: Yy ratie with our people Aot After a test made here this weck F Culture of Rlnfvhc' iy hich guarantee absolute independ-| commander Pierce said he had es- aeva D for the red man tablished the accuracy of the cam Tndian cra to within half a second. Apart that is not a subject of | from Commander Byrd's nse of it of other gov- | the camera will be available in or- crnment. In this country, the gov-|dinary navigation because an ob has forced a meaningless | servation with it is more rapid than tizenship 1 us and yet con-|ene with an ordinary sextant, and is finned to herd 240 000 of our people | casier to read by those less expert | as tirtual prisoners. in faking signts. =i not want that| Operation of the camera requires wants his rights |only the taking of a picture of the promised Springfield. Mass., Aug 25 (UP) % gy g gor 4 Jogal battle have been | Injuries received in a hoxing bout Tl oE I e e e 2 oa ih tne |made by Chief Thunderwater, heri- 4 el ditary chieftain of the Sauk and | 4 o SRA v Wunsch, 240150 and titular head of the Su IpRnOELN o Tis at Wesson prome Council of the Indfan tribes ol toshy of the United States and Canada. WELER A Delegates from many tribes met IRy underwater's home here. fol- action of - the Six Nations tford, Ont., severing all con- nections with the Canadian govern- and proclaiming themselves | an ndependent and antonomous nas | | o hospital early with | at West the six-round Athol show staged in by to further Dwyer of American Le pringfield the pini Assisted ipsed the on The Biggest Renting Week of the Year! These are the days that because it's renting time. MUST DRY DOCK BOAT Hartford. Aug (UP)—Mr. and Mrs Robert G. Neese must draw iheir housebnat onto dry land if they | wish to vote, Corporation Counsel Cole ruled yesterday. Their boat is nnder the jurisdiction of the city, | which extends to the east bank of | the Connecticut, but the two river yards only extend to the west bank. | topped final round fighter in Greenfield save hoth rom bot? from ment ment to his He was tak little hops corner, Wunsch to the was held for tion for a student to co pita hos o But Thunderwater would not say | vhat his immediate plans were, ex- cept that he would go to Chicago, to enlist the services of Clarence | noted attorney “Virtual Prisoners" The time has passed,” Thunder-- za1d. “when we can deal with hureaus of the or American govern- We shall ignore them and them in all future activities i ersy is ary ry Physicians i reported red a hemorrhage with resultant paraly- ni leg performed t to s the \ew Britair practically closes up, 1& right arm student aperation cssful HIT AND RU Andrew Andrulewicz of Langdon Court. 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