New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 13, 1928, Page 16

COL. THAW LANDS ‘ ON INDIANA FARM (Continued from First Page) fare in ar effort to locate a field for landing. The flare was extin- | guished before the plane reached | the ground and it struck a fence. | The plane was demolished. Further exaunination of Capt. Morris disclosed a ocated shoul- | der and a fracture of the pelvis. When the plene, owned by Col. Thaw, leit Roosevelt Ficld yester- others referred to it as a th trap.” The grcat monoplane | wus %0 constructed that Thaw hady no chance to jump in case of acci- dent. Capt. Morris was at the controls when the accident occurred. The two fliers took off from Roosevelt Ficld at § p. m., eastern daylight time last night. Weighs 200 Pounds Thaw was the biggest man in the | race, weighing more than 200 pounds, and his plane had the most powerful engine in the race. His ship was a Lockheed Vega similar | to the Yankce Doodle of Art Goe- bel, the favorite, but it had a Pratt| and Whitney 500 horsepower motor, 100 horsepower more than Goebel's Wasp. 5 Before the take-off some aviators expressed the opinion that Thaw's engine was too hcavy for the s | and considered it possible ghat the| vibration of so much power might | shake loosc gasoline or oil lines. | Thaw himself took littic heed of | the talk of danger, merely remark- ing when asked about his chances in case of accident, “Well, I'm fat| and ['ll bounce.” The Thaw ship had a black Lody with orange wings and was marked with race number 33, The fuselage was the cigar shape of ail Lockheed Vegas. Over Tulsa, Olda. Tulsa, Okla., Sept. 13 (I}—L)eul.‘ Commander Jack Iseman, flying Charles A. Levine'y transatlantic monoplane, the Columbia, in the New York to Los Angeles non-stop air race, passed over Tulsa at 11} a. m. today. Drops Message The navy flier circled Mclntyre airport at & height of about 409 | feet and dropped a message in a sack telling his identity and asking that the word be telegraphed tq/ New York. “Cqlumbia over Oklahoma City. To Los Angeles via Albuquerque,” the message read. Sight Plane Salina Kans., Sept. 13 P—An air- plane, believed to be one of the transcontinental non-stop racers, passed over Salina at 4:50 a. m. traveling southwestward at a high rate of speed. Darkness made its identification impossible. MAMER DOWN UNHURT Spokane, Wash., Sept. 13 (B — Nick Mamer, Spokane entrant in the non-stop transcontinental race trom New York to Los Angeles was torced down, hunhurt, at Roland, Wyo., at 9:38 o'clock this morning. Mamer, who was flying a Buhl St_‘n- qui plane, telegraphed to his wife | here. I Joe Oauses Landing Ice gathering on the carburetor of the Wright whirlwind motor of his orange “City of Bpokane” forced the Ianding, the message said. On the last part of the trip a “ter- rible storm” was encountered with extremely cold weather. The cold weather caused ice to gather about the carburetor, making two cylin- rs “go out.” 'L, flew for four hours with the cylinders missing,” Mamer tele- graphed his wife. It was necessary to do this because of the bad visi- bility which made a landing impos- sible. ‘At the end of four hours l. weather cleared and I landed. Ev- erything is all right.” i Escapes Accident Mamer took oft at Roosevelt Field, New York, yesterday, nearly having & fatal accident at the start when his plane failed to lift be- cause of the heavy load of fuel and the passenger carried. C. P. Paulsen, Spokane lpol‘l!-; man and capitalist, the passenger,| was left behind and then the ship got oft at the second attempt. Thaw, as he had promised, c|rclevd over the air ficld at Pittsburgh, his | home city, flying low enough so that his plane was recognized. That was at 10:35 last night. Another| plane, believed to be one of the long distance entrants, had passed over| the field at 9:30 but too high to be| recognized. Two planes flew over | the Columbus, O., field, one at 8 o'clock and the other at 10:50 but neither was recognized. The flood lights at the field were left burning all night to give the fliers a hc:flon‘ and a possible landing field. Still another plane passcd over Terre Haute, Ind. .at 10:30 but s too high to be definitely recognized. | The plancs still in the air the time of their takeoffs (eastern stand- ard time) and their race numbers follow: | i E The Planes 26—Orange Bubl Susquiplane mer, Spokane. pilot; 12:10 j—TacK and orange Bellanc: Emil (Hard Luck) Burgin, pilot; 119:46, | 199—2earlet Rellanca; George pilot; 3:35:35 Silver and yellow Viia; Lieut. Commander man, 1. 8. N pilot; 4:07:40. $4—White Lockheed Vega Yankes Doodle; Col. Art Gor pilot: 63010, 33—Black and orugne Lockheed Vega: John P. Morris, pilot; 65 The three planes forced out of the race were: | The Stinson piloted Clifford | McMillin of Syracnse, N. Y., which | was forced down near Wilkes-Barre i N Bellanca Jack by Pa._ by engine trouble, The Stinson Junior piloted by Randolph T )t Northville. Mich forced down at Allentown, Pa. by a clogged s line Mrs. James A. Stillman’s Bellanca North tar, piloted by Oliver Le Doutillicr. *vho sai1 he could not navigate with the emergeney com- pass which was installed after the reguiar corinaes had heen stalen nst hefore the start. He asked 1o he al- lowed to start today, but his request | tieve, field Hlieved was overruled. Thrills but no serious mishaps marked the start of the race, tribute to the experienced piiots who had to buck bad air and a cross wind to get their heavily loaded planes off the ground. Lieut. Commander Iseman averted what appeared to be a certain tragedy by jerking the Columbia sharply to one side when a photo- plier ran iuto its path as it was tuking oif. The right wheel eol. lapsed and the plane made a ground loop and scemed about to turn over but he righted it. A new wheel was quickly put on the plane and he made 2 second and successtul start.. McMillan and Mamer both nar- rowly averted crashes in taking off. the later being forced to return to the starting line and take a second run. Page found his fuel load too heavy and returned to the ficld. He had dumped his main tank and when he reloaded took 20 gallons less, A large crowd, mostly women, as at the field to watch the take- offs and taxed the tempers of the officials in attempting to keep them off the fleld. The crowd showed the most in- terest in the . planes of Col. Goebel and Col. Thaw. The Yankee Doodle was the one in which Goebel and | bis financial backer, Harry Tucker, recently sct a record of 18 hours and 58 minutes in flying from Los Angeles to New York. Suicide Ship Thaw's plane, powered with a 550 horscpower Hornet motor, is the most powerful in the race but is called the “suicide ship” because of the small passcnger's seat in which the huge colonel had to squeeze himself. Other fliers say that if the plane gets in trouble it will be al- most impossible for Thaw to free himselt in time to keep from going down with the plane. He laguhed off their fears, however. “I'm big and T'll bounce,” he sald. The colonel, one of the aces of the famous flying squadron of Americans which fought with the I'rench forces and whose ranks were sadly depleted by the fortunes of war, showed no concérn as he took his place and waved to Mor- ris to “give her the gun.” The winner of the race will have to make close to 18 hours, flicrs be- as Goebel has demonstrated that such a time is possible under good conditions. Los Angeles, Sept. 13 (A — The array of fliers assembled here for the 1928 national air races wWere keyed today for the show's climax —finish of the non-stop transconti- nental race from Roosevelt field, where nine planes hopped yester- day. The non-stop flight was the last of the five long derbies of the five-day program. Six of the starters presumably had passed the mid-way mark and were nearing the finish line at an carly hour today. Three others were forced out with motor trouble, two of the ships landing at intermediate points, and another returning to the starting fleld. A record crowd expected to be in the grandstands at Mines field this afternoon when the first of the non-stoppers was due. Hopes of the west were pinned on Art Goebel and his huge Lock- heed-Vega monoplane, “Yankee Doodle,” back-tracking on the trail he blazed to a new transcontinental non-stop record a few weeks ago. Goebel, favorite of the long derby, whirled over the course from Los Angeles to New York in 18 hours and 58 minutes with a healthy wind at his ship's tail. The short cut which he claimed he found on the eastern journey was kept to himselt for use in the return flight in which he hoped to claim first prize money of the $22,500 cash prizes posted. Four planes, if that many finish, will share in the prizes. Won Dole Derby The course record holder cap- tured the hearts of his native Cali- fornians in August, 1927, when he flew to victory in the Dole air race from Oakland to Honolulu. Other soft spots in the hearts of those watching the mountainous eastern skyline existed for the “northwestern hawks,” Nick Mamer, pilot and C. A. Pauisen, co-pilot of the Buhl sesquiplane “Spirit of Spo- kane,” named in honor of their home city in Washington. Although John P. Morris, pilot, and Col. William Thaw 11, are from Pittsburgh, Pa., their Los Angeles built plane, a Lockheed-Vega made them known to westerners, Other fliers less known to the Pa- cific coast were Emil Burgin of Mincola, N. Y. and Captain L. A. Yancy of New York, in a Bellanca Whirlwind, and Lieut. Jack Iseman. commandant of the Rockaway B . N. Y. naval air station, in the Bellanca Columbia George Haldeman of Detroit, piloting a Bellanca in the race, was watched because of his exploit as Ruth El- der's pilot in her attempted trans- atlantic hop Protests Are Filed With the Class B and C trans- continental flightss the international race from Windsor, Ont., and a short coast sprint ended at Mines vesterd protests filed by pilots competing cast doubts on who would be awarded the prizes in the hotly contested class B New York to Los Angeles derby. Not Stock Models pilots protested that flown were some Several Wace plan models and therefore John Livingston of Aurora, 1Il., con- ceded by most of the racers to have chalked up the best clapsed time tlew one of the protested models, did John H od of Wansau, Wis apparent winner of third pri nion First line of the four- feen finishers in B division was E. E. Ballough of Chicago, his finish rewarding the pluck and defermina tion displayed when he had a com plete new motor installed in hi Laird plane at Yuma, Ariz., Tuesda night's stopping place. He was b winner of sccond place on unofficial computation of apsed time. Wood was in second ind Livingston third. Official an- nouncement of the winners may made today. Only Finisher Twenty-two year old William Drury provided u feature of the day yringing n nis Waco as the only by b officially recorded finigher in the the not stock across the ineligible.d H.| NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1928, —_— e —————————————x3 Rubber Boat international race from Windsor, Ont, 8 T. Stanton, another con- testant, was forced down near Fon- tana, Cal, after having made two starts from Las Vegas, Nev. Officials said they had no .ecord of Kennedy Whyte's arrival if he had succeeded in reaching here. He was one of the three entries to start from Windsor. Robert W. Cantwell of Duncan, Okla., finished first of the Class C group and apvarently led in elapsed time. His Lockheed entry was fol- lowed in seven minutes later by Captain C. D. B. Collyer of New York In a Fairchild. Edward Brooks of Denver, Colo, the only other ccn- testant, arriyed a minute later. Both Clags B and Class C divi- sions started their final dash from ! Yuma, Ariz., with a fuel stop at San Diego. R. C. Lippiatt had a margin of seven minutes, unofficlal time over his opponents in the California Class 3 race from Oakland to Los Angeles. . Lindbergh On Hand Col, Charles A. Lindbergh stole some of the interest of the thous- ands of spectators from the air rac- es yesterday. The flying colonel vol- unteered to.*do what he could for the meet,” and was temporarily as- signed to the post left vacant hy the, death of Lieut. J. J. Willlams, lead- er of the army's ‘three flying mu: keteers,” a stunt trip. Willilams was Killed in a crash while stunting * ith his companions on one of the early days of the meet. With Col. Lind- bergh leading the way in an army plane, the reorganized trio went through intricate maneuvers, YEOMANS SCORES POLIGE METHODS (Continued from First Page) objected and the court ruled out the effort as immaterial. Again Harvey tréed to get in evidence and the court remarked: “It is imma- terial, Mr. Harvey, and 1 don’t care to hear anything about it.” | Rev. Felix J. O'Nell of Central Village, testified to passing a car on the road between East Longmeadow and Stafford Springs but could not fix the date. He told the court his memory was not reliable. I am over 70, he said, “and dates do not remain in my memory.” He thought the registration numbers began 104 and when Harvey suggested they were 401 all five defense coun- sel jumped up in protest. The court isustained objections. Robert T. Hurley, commissioner |of the atate police, produced a mup |of *a section of Massachusetts and | Connecticut but defense objected to it. Harvey asked permission to hang it up’but as the place was in front of the jury again there was objec- {tion. The map went in after Hurley had identified it and pointed out changes he had made in certain roads and towns. He had motored over the roads and he was excused from the stand to total up mileage made by a car similar to one used | by men who shot at Motorcycle Of- ficer Gallagher over roads taken by a car from which shots were fired The third day of the frial opened with Policeman Raymond Gallagher of Springfield, still on the stand. Gallagher was on the stand yes- ‘terday when court adjourned for the day. At that time he had testified to having engaged in & running gun battle with two men in Spring- Osleld early in the evening of April th. - The two men were Lalone and Raymond, he testified. Today he was questioned by John J. Moynihan, one of the five defense attorneys re- garding his .identification of Lalone and Raymond. He declared that he had been shown a large number of photographs’ in the Worcester de- tective bureau, two photographs of Roland Lalone, he said, he had] which he had followed from Spring- fleld to Long Meadow after the gun battle. Resembles Second Man Another photograph, he said, re- sembled the second man in the car. He 8aid he told the police to look for a man, a little lighter and not so tall as Lalone as the second man in the car. Asked by Mr. Moynihan if it was not true that he had been shown Lalone's photograph by Lieut. Fin- neran and could not identify it he sald “no.” Defense counsel then asked him how, if he had never scen Raymond prior to the time he claimed to have meen him riding with Lalone, he had secured his Information as to Ray- mond's height and weight. He said, from observation. He was also ask- ed if it was not true that he had had numerous conferences with Worces- ter detectives in the matter of the lldemmr-pnon of the men. He said he had had a number of confer- | ences. Picks Men Out Questioned regarding his picking |the two men out of a lineup of ten men in the Wor er detective ! bureau Gallagher said Lalone and Raymond were in the firs® three or four men in the lincup. State’'s Attorney Bradford at- tempted to bring out that Gallagher did not pick out Lalone and Ray- !'mond as the result of any instruc- tions he had received from the ‘Worcester police but defense coun- sel objected to Bradford's argument to the court and the court ruled out Bradford's statement. Officer Nagher was cused, and the next witness called. Puts Rock in Road to Stop Visit to His Girl Bridgeport, Sept. 13 (P — Placing a large roc in the middle of the road to pre nt a rival calling on his “girl nd” caused Harold ICogswell, ot Wilton, to be given |a suspended sentence of six months fter he pleaded guilly of breach of the peace. ACCIDENTAL DEATH | _ Bridgeport, Sept. 13 —(P—A find- 1g of accidental death was returned John J. Phelan today in Samuel Ellis Dunham, York who killed fn orwallc on Soptember 9, when | struck # car operat- d by Ray- mond Ing abam, also of | York. that killed Trooper Nelson. i identified as the driver of the carf then ex- In Legion’s Greatest Convantion When the American Legion assembles for its “greatest gonven- tion” in San Antonio, Tex., Octobe: allowed to see the boys but defense | women will be among the leaders. Spafford, national commander q:?\?e Bissell, Chef de Chem 1 €l i Walbridge, national president iliary; (5) Miss Emma Hadorn, iliary; (6) Mrs. Cecelia Wenz, iliary; (7) Charles W. Ardery, " “RED ARROW” WREGKED {Crack Pennsylvania Train Crashes Into Freight Cars But Nome 1s Reported Injured. Detroit, Mich., Sept. 13 (—Pas- sengers were shaken but no one was reported Injured when the Red Arrow, crack Pennsylvania passen- ger train from New York to Detroit, ran through an open switch and crashed into two freight cars on a siding in Lincoln Park, Detroit sub- urb, shortly before 9 a. m., today. The freight cars were derailed, but none of the coaches of the passenger train left the tracks. First reports were that the Red Arrow, due here at 8:45 a. m., had been wrecked and ambulafces and rescue squads of firemen were rush- ed to the scene from Detroit, Dear- born, Iordson and Melvindale. Hoover’s Scouts Assert New York Is With Him Washington, Sept. 13 (P—After a conference with Herbert Hoover to- day Senator George Moses of New {Hampshire, vice chairman of the eastern republican campaign com- mittee, expressed confidence that the New York state would be in the re- publican colum.) in November. “We are marking time in New York until after the state conven- tion when the state ticket will be- completed,” Senator Moses said. “Mr. Machold (newly chosen repub- lican state chairman) is taking hold jand has done a great deal of pre- liminary work upstate, “I came down to sce Mr. Hoover and Mr. Work and have gone over the entire situation with them. We have all kinds of trouble ahead of us in Massachusets, more than in New York. New Jersey is looking Do You r 8 to 12, these men and They are: (1) Edward E. of the legion; (2) Pelham St. in de Fer, of the “Forty-and- a social organization connected with the legion; (8) James F. Barton, national adjutant; (4) Mrs, Irene McIntyre of the American Legion Aux- , national secretary of the aux- national treasurer of the aux- national correspondent of the Forty-and-eight, SEVEN KILLED, ANOTHER INJURED AT CROSSING i West Dound Grand Trunk Train Hits Automobiic In Gary, In. diana, Early Today. Gary, Ind., Sept. 13 P — Beven persons were killed and another was injured, probably fatally, when a westbound Grand Trunk freight train struck their automobile at & grade crossing on the edge of Gary early today. D. 8. Pollock, 69, Lilbourn, Mo. C. Mainord, 37, Mathews, Mo., believed to have been the driver of the car. . A woman 335, believed to be Main- ord’'s wife, Mrs. Anna Jones, Mo. A boy, 20 months old. A girl, about four months old. Howard Smith, 38, Dearborn, Mich. A seven year old boy, unidentified, was near death in a hospital. | 25, Mathews, GETS TWO MONTHS IN JAIL Bridgeport, Sept. 13.—(M—Harry Hansen, 35, truckman, was sentenc- ed to two months in jail by Judge Fdwin C. Dickenson in superior court today after pleading guilty to transporting intoxicants. He was arrested on May 17 in Darien. Search of truck revealed 50 half barrels of beer which through analysis show- ed an alcoholic content of over four per cent. DEATHS REACH 23 Monza, Ttaly, Sept. 13 (UP)—Fa- talities from Sunday's accident at the auto races, when a car plunged into a crowd of spectators, reached 23 with the death in a hospital of Luigi Perego, 13. ) s Want to Buy or Sell New Britain “Real Estate Then, turn to the | Real Estate column [HE HERALD | In the Classified Section More listings than ever appear now because this is “home buying time.” | Capt. in a collapsible rubber canoe which he had sail ed from Portugal by way of the Frans Rfimer, German steamship officer, recently arrived at St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, Canary Islands, During the trip, which took him 59 days, he w as attacked by sharks which tried to ram and overturn his cance. He plans to reach New York late in the fall. DEDICATION DAY "SEATS ARRANGED Admission o Pool Reservations by Special Ticket The executive committee for the dedication of the World War Memo- rial on September 22 and 23 his completed seating arrangements. Admission to the improvised au- diterfum in the pool at the top of Walnut Hill park for the dedication exercises on Saturday afternoon, will be by ticket. Tickets for the 5,000 seats which have been pro- vided are now being diatributed. Gold Star Mothers and other nearest of kin, with their families, will be seated in the honor section directly in front of the pool. Tickets have also been sent to the invited guests—American Legion Women's Auxiliary, city officials, members of the various committees and the chorus, all of whom will oc- cupy special sections in the auditor- fum. Tickets for the families of the members of the American l.egion have also been distrit uted, bringing the total distribution up to 3,000. Two thousand more tickets are available to those of the general public who may be interested in the exercises. Application for not more than two to & family may be made by mail to E. W. Christ, chairman Invitation committee, Grove Hill, New Britain, and will be tilled in the order of their receipt. No seats except those for the nearest of kin and distinguished guests will be reserved after 3:50 p. m. the day of the exerclses, at which time any unfilled seats will be thrown open to the public. There will be no tickets for re- served seats issued for the memorial exercises at 3 p. m. Bunday after- noon, except for the gold star moth- ers and other nearest of kin. A sec- tion, however, will be reserved for the American Legion, who will march to the services in a body, and the American Legion Women's Auxiliary. AN other seats are avail- able to anyone. Holy: Cross Player Dies From Injuries ‘Worcester, Mass,, Sept. 13 (UP) —The first football fatality of the season in New England occured here with the death of James H. Fenton, 21, of Lawrence, from injuries re- ceived in practice. Fenton died at 8t. Vincent hos- pital yesterday afternoon from a fractured spine suffered Tuesday when he made a flying tackle while practicing with the Holy Cross team. SUIT ENTERED . Bridgeport, Bept. 12 P—A suit for $5,000 was entered in the su- perfor court today for loss of hair and scalp burns alleged to have been caused by negligence during a {permanent wave, Ethelinda Sander of Norwalk claims she was damaz- ed to that extent by Evangeline J. Mitchell, a beauty parlor operator of Norwalk. LNGI LEAVES RAILS Fitchburg, Mass, Sept. 13 (P — Traffic on the Boston & Maine railroad was tied up outside of North Leominster for nearly eight hours when a large Santa e type engine drawing a local freight left the rails while making a cross over switch. No one was injured. Trains were re-routed through Gardner, Ayer and Worcester. PRACTICE NOT LEGAL Haurtford, Sept. 13 (UP)—The | practice of some Connecticut con- |stables of fining alleged violators of |the automobile laws without court I hearing is illegal, according to an opinion by Attorney General 3enja- !min W. Alling. Alling investigated a complaint of the Boston Chamber of | Commerce regarding the constabie at Clinton. DEAN LORD DEAD Rumford, Me., Sept. 13 (A—Dean Lord. 32, of Dixfield. died at the Rumford community hospital here last night of injurles sustained at Coburn’s lumber mill. Floyd Chap- man, 18, was killed almost instant- ly and Lord's chest. was crushed |when a log weighing a ton broke away in the sluiceway and struck the workers. John F. McDermott in Office of Edward A, Mag John F. McDermott, graduate of the Fordham Law achool, 1938, and of the Suffield Preparatory school, has joined the law office of Attore | ney Edward A. Mag. Mr. McDermott was one of the six lawyers who have successfully passed the bar last | June. MISS PALMIERI SURPRISED Miss Rose Palmieri, secretary to Prosecuting Attorney Joseph @G, ‘Woods, was given an impromptu sur- prise birthday party this noon at the law offices in the Schupack building by a number of friends. Among those who staged the noon-hour surprise were Misses Ida Ravizza, Mary Satellino, Helen Gunning, Anna Brown, all law office secre- taries, and B. Alpert, A. Winkle, Constable Fred Winkle, Constable Stephen Roper and George Kelly. Miss Palmieri received a number of useful gifts. City ltems St. Joseph's parish unique card party tonight. Edson street grounds. —advt, SUIT OVER COMMISSION The action of J. Gross and others against Dominick Butera, continued from yesterday in the city court, was heard today by Judge Morry D. Saxe, who reserved decision n the matter. The plaintift secks damages of $600 as comnrwsion due him from the sale of a certain piece of real estate for the defend- ant. Attorney H. H. Milkowitz rep- resented the plaintiff and the fiw of Roche & Cabelus was counsel tor the detendant. Morris Koppell yesterday plaintift in an automobile accident damage suit, was defendant today In city court before Judge Henry P. Roche in an action brought against himm by John Ball tor alleged failure to pay a bill. Attorney J. F. Lacey represented the plaintiff and W. A, Seaton was counsel for the defend- ant. READ HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR RESULTS