New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1928, Page 20

N. Y. T0 GREET ZEPPELIN CREW (Continued from First Page) | J., Oct. 16 M—The largest ship ever built, the 3,700,000 cubic feet of Ils’ silver envelope filled with inflam mable hydrogen, was berthed here today after completing the farthest | commercial flight from Europe, and | three other dirigibles, inflated with | non-inflammable helium, huddled in the hangar close Dbeside it, like frightened sheep. Teasion In Air There was a definite fecling of ten- sion in the air. Smoking was s ly prohibited and in certain places re ona was allowed in except with rubber soled ghoes lest so small a ! thing as a spark from a nailed hecl cause terrific disaster. | The dirigible from across the was the mighty Graf Zeppelin which floated up from the Zeppelin works at Friedrichshafen last Thurs- | day morning with a crew of 40 men | and a passenger list of 20 and | €d here at 5:3% o'clock yesterday afternoon after playing with the clements for 111 hoyrs and 3% min- utes over a zig zag course estimiaicd at 6.300 miles. Los Angeles There The other dirigibles in the han- gar were the Los Angeles und two comparatively tiny non-rigid blimps. The Graf Zeppelin arrived as day was dropping away into the dusk just tour years to a day after the ar- rival of the navy Los Angeles from the same starting point. Crowds had gathered for thres cays in hopes of witnessing the ar- rival, on Sunday at least 100,000 persons and perhaps as many 500,000 having flocked in from sev- cral states to witness the coming of the glant. seas |and ¥ fiying ficld. | from W hic Yesterday, however, there were not many more than 5,000 on hand when & gray smudge appeared on the darkening northern horizon and cxpanded to the proportions of a gi- gantic fish that swam the skies with a stupendous majesty. As the great dirigible, now in its infancy, the greatest in the world, et soon to be completeby eclipsed by three other far greater | ehips, crossed the boundary of the air station and dipped toward the the crowd broke into spontancous cheering. One Light Showing no lights showing but the pane of one cabin window, | the only woman passen- | er waved a greeting to the ground- hings below, the sky ship moved slowly and almost silently with mut- od maotors to a position almost above the towcring mooring mast Then with & roar like the tramp. ling of celestinl cavalry—and the strength of 2,700 horses represented in the five engines wung in gon- dolas beneath i silver hag-—the maotors cut wide open and tl was driven downward toward earth d With yellow enc cessarily they they would not talk about the flight | for publication for eight days after landing. o pelin company and ship) the nt by n 500 n deftly the smlors. v down unpy bumper und the control cabin vested on solid | ground after more than 111 hours in the air. The Graf Zeppelin had suc- Cosstully conipleted one of the most 5 in the history of sensational voy aviation. As the dirigible settlod upon Atherican soil the enthusiasm of the crowd broke all bounds and poli lines went down with a rush at the patient waiters threw pa- nd surged close crstw hile tience to the about the dirigible Patice Helpless Stata police momentarily lelpless bt they tied hard 1o g restore order. and many blow wa struck before the crowd was at last 1 back safely from the explos- wind: Jushe straggled away, home nearby points. E of the | server™ ment on the flight of the Graf Zep- pelin, Ickener after rather perfunctory remarks with the statement that what was fimited by | [ ment official ceuld be purcly commercial contract, NEW_ BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1928, nderer of the uncharted high- ways of the sky. It was only 5:35 when the ship touched earth and passengers and crew grinned excitedly from windows as they thought of restau- rant dinners and the pleasant foot- ing of solid ground. But they were the ue for disappointment. Customs inspectors had difficulty in handling [the crowds and resulted in the pas- {sengers being held comunicado for hours, their cabins and later in that part |of the hangar turned over'to their customs ser {vight was the last plece of baggage E in- in practically first ice. Not until late last and the health of the last certified. They then some to officers’ and others to New York or sed senger Replics Limitad They were eagerly questioned by s but their replies were ne- limited by an agreement had been forced to sign that This agreement was called in a contract between the Zep- an American syndicate which purchased the rights of the flight. ven Bieut. Commander Charles | Rosendahl, U. §. N., commander Los Angeles and “official oh- for the American govern- was muzzled by this contract. He met reporters with Dr. Hugo the Graf Zeppelin's pilot, landing, but prefaced his he could say the agreement he 1 he had been “required” to sign. ome of the reporters covering the landing protested to Assistant Secre- y for Aeronautics Ed- king How a govern- “gagged” by a but he isclaimed any power to alter con- ry of the Na d Warner. ditions. Invited Guest “Commander Rosendahl is an offi- | Air view of the G:of Zoppelin as it sailed over The Graf Zeppelm C-Yclmg Lcwur N lower Manhattan long 22 rial jaunt, 'w York Island nearing the end of its _ WIE GEHTS Ones nent participites in ing event: Hoe ppelin circlir like &pire npon its ington, 1), €., after the flight. Below is a close-up showirs the rent in the damuged “fin” whic cansed the rirship £o much treubls : e mors trangstlantic DODGING THE SKYSCRAPERS e giant Gormean iy low, NEA Servien, w York show Copyright poelin rival in st the Standard Oil building in lowe New York Customs Hflln."‘. is the Ine, cer of the United States mavy,” he said, “and was official observer for this government on the tight but his position on board was that of an in- vited guest and if he found it neces- sary to make any promises naturally he has to keep them.” Considerable irritation was eviden! among navy officers who felt that it was presumptuous on the part of any commercial organization to limit the speech of a navy officer. Many of them were extremely outspoken about the matter but none would pirmit his name to be vsed. Walked to Hangar After the Graf Zeppelin was ing crew to the open doors of the hangar but.a 12 mile cross wind was blowing and it was decided that un- der these conditions it would rot be safe to try to *'shoerhorn™ the | great ship in beside the other. After |the passengers were taken off and |escorted under guard to the customs room in the hangar the ship was walked out onto the field again and |attached to the stub mast near by [the high mast. There 1t swung. crew aboard, until th | morning, when the wind died. Then | a landing crew routed from its | bunks walked the ghip neatly into ! \lh(‘ hangar where it stretched from |end to end, a proud cock of the air with the Los Angeles for its hen and the two blimps for her ¢zgs. The officers and high nf[n'mh among the passengers slept long |after. their lengthy and stormy vo age, to rest for the arduous business of a New York welcome today. Leased For 3 Years Because of the “news maenopol |contract and the forced ‘ agreement” of the passengers the conversation of the air voyagers was limited, but | one important plece of information was forthcoming. It was definitely established that the Graf Zeppelin which was bullt as a commerci; |ship largely by popular subscripti had been leased for two years to a Spanish company planning transat- lantic passenger and mail service he- t\\ cen Spain and the Argenti ce o'clock this chase, but it was understood that the ! Spanish company only wanted the ship for use until it could build air [liners of its own Fin Visible As the Graf Zeppelin lay in the | hangar, its silver flanks rising al- most to the vaulted raof, persons on | the ground could plainly sce the | damaged portion, from which the tabric was torn by the storm while over mid-ocean. Prepurations wer made today for quick which probably will b: made while the Los Angeles is out of the hangar !on a projected training flight set to he;ln some time today or Lomorrow. Gets' Breaks Air Station, Lakehurst, N J., Oct. 16 (A—Rear admiral in the United States navy ranks all the “breaks” there are, of course, when a visiting Zeppelin is grounding at the navy air station. Rear Admiral W. A. Moffett, chief of the Navy Bureau of Acronautics, was getting them while the Graf Zeppelin was being moored last night. Being & rear admiral, he could walk right up under her, while (the ordinary folks had to stand about | a city block away. Lots of Water He was taking advantage of this particular prerogative when the Zeppelin's crew dumped the water ballast out of her tail. It was a lot of water. Admiral Moffctt gct most of it, Only the fact that he had on an overcoat enabled him to attend a | dinner given by the post com- mandant without making a complete change of attire. {Carlson Files Report Naval Carl A. Carlson, scaler of weights and measures, has completed his re- port for the third quarter of the vear. He inspected 724 weighing de- vices and found 18 to he defective. A total of 1,183 tons of coal con- grounded it was walked by the land- | ith a skeleton | ! Mr. lease carried with it option to pur- | repairs, | On Measures Bureau signed to city departments was re- | weighed. Loads of coal for domestic |use were taken to the scales and it | was tound that but two of the 15 rds were delivering less weight {than was being billed; five had ex- ct weight; and elght had excess weight ranging from 10 to 133 pounds. L0CAL PRODUCTS IN HANY CLINES {Carison and Vance Tell of Busi- ness Conditions Abroad American business is making apid inroads into Jurope, while at {the same time Kuropean labor con- ditions are a great deal worse: than lis possible in America, according to Adolph Carlson, president of the New Drita n Real Estate Board, and Ikobert C. Vance, of the Herald. who | have just returned from trips across the Atlantic. Messrs. Carlson and Vance were at the meeting of the ns club of which both are mem- today. President George A. Quigley presided. Entertainment was supplied by Mr. and Mrs. John A. Lindsay. Mr. Lindsay sang a group sccompanied by Mrs. Lind- n, who made a trip to | sweden this summer, drew a com. parison between traveling condi tions today and when he first cross- {ed the ocean as a young man. In those days steamers were equipped with steerage in which immigrants | traveled. The stecrage was on deck below that on which were kept the hor: he said. Now the modern | ocean liner is a floating hotel, he ex- plained. The best music he Mr. Carlson said, led in New York, a “greenhorn” [from Sweden and found an Irish |taxi driver who could talk Swedish. Real estate conditions are handled in a much more satisfactory manner {in Sweden, the speaker continued {1 buying farms or building small | homes, the owner mortgage by the gosernment cover- ing 100 per cent of the value of the | property. He pays this back at the rate of six per cent interest over & | | period of 38 years. Sweden has the best system of | regulating the liquor traffic in the | ! world, according to the local real | lostate dealer. He sald a man gets an allowance of two quarts of liquor L month, and if he gets drunk he loses his allowance. Liquor is serv- ed with meals in restaurants, but, one can only get two drinks with | meal. | Politics Is in Carls ever heard, when he land- is given a Lrst| more or less a chaotic state, he said, because of the | existence of so many parties. There is little harmony in labor circles be- {cause of too many unions. When {men work they must contribute so | much to their unions that finally | they get so much money in their | treasuries they must strike to use it {up- Wherever he saw a new building going up, the traveler found it being cquipped with New Brit Lardware. It was a tribute to the | salesmanship of Americans that pro- | ducts of New Britain factories scll | for more money in New Britain, ¢t 1\\ here they are made, than they do in Sweden, he added. his same | lmm;; applies to other American products, according 10 the speaker. |He saw Amcrican woolen produets | selling for less than they do in this country. “But it only takes a trip abroad to prove that this is the greutest country ip the world and the best city in 1t," he added in conclusion. Mr. Vance agreed with Mr. 1- son that American made goods can |be purchased anywhere in Europe |s her across @ #6fa as he reached to- |and American business is making {12an before, he sald there was question in his mind that it was he. | said and for a short time he worked | shooting affray on account of trou- great strides there. Everywhere he went in Germany, Belgium, France and Englané he found Woolworth stores, products of Landers, Frary and Clark, P. & F. Corbin, Corbin Cabinet Lock, Stanley Works and Russell and Erwin plants. Mr. Vance's talk was in a semi- humorous vein. He provoked a laugh by accusing President Quigley of arranging the program of travel- ogues for thie purpose of advertising the Quigley steamship agency. He made an indirect reference to the fact that his recent trip, which was one of many he made across the water, was his honeymoon jour- ney by saying: “Traveling with one's wife has a more stabilizing influence than traveling with a couple of old bachelors.” He was inclined to blame the cap- italistic class in lSurope for labor conditions. In America he explained even the poorest sweeper in the fac- tory may own stock and feel that he is part of the business. The only solution of the labor condition in Curope is the adoption of the American policy, in the opinion of | Mr. Vance. . The newspaperman referred changes on the battlefields of France since the V/orld War of which he is a veteran. He spoke of the monument raised by the state of Pennsylvania in the Argonne to Pennsylvania troops, which he said was fully twice rs large as the New \Brilaln war memorial. His recom- |mendation that New England raise IB similar monument in tribu‘~ to [the 26th division, brought forth en- thusiastic cpplause. GUN BRANDISHER GULTY, PAYS $50 Judge Believes Faiber and Son Are Temperamental to| Walter Hutengs, aged 23, of 23 Rockwell avenue, was found guilty of the charge of breach of the peace | and fined $50 and costs with a sus Judge M. D. Saxe in police court to- day, and his father, Henry Hutengs, aged 48, of the same address was | |given a suspended jail sentence of 30 days. Father and son were placed in charge of the probation officer, | Judge Saxe observing that they had the appearance of being tempera- |mental and probably of a nature which would cause them to think after they had ‘done something | rather than beforehand. | T. J. Vail of 1163 Broad street, Hartford, positively identified Walter as the man who jumped on to the running board of an automobile in which he was sitting about 11:30 Sunday night near the corner of Glen street and Rockwell avenue, and at the point of a revolver, or- dered him to drive on. “I would have driven him to Canada had he wanted to go.” Vail said. “I was never so scared in my lfe. Al- though he had never seen the young Setzod Mother By Throet Sergeant J. C. Stadler, Officers Otis Hopkins, John O'Brien and Wil- liam Grabeck took part in the in- vestigation which followed, and from helr festimony it appeared that Walter Hutengs denied having had a revolver. while his father could not exnlain the disappearance of a re- volver from a drawer in a dresser, where he put it three weeks ago Sunday after having removed five hullets for fear there would be a ble hetween himself and his wife. Sergeant Stadler testified ' that Henry's wife accused her son, Wal- | ter, of havine had the revolver in his hin pocket Sunday night, when he ized her by the throat and threw I the police about the gun. no | ago in wards his pocket. Henry, according to-Mrs. Hutengs' story to the police, took the revolver from the son's potket and removed the bullets, but she was net in court to testify and the conflicting stories could not be recenciled or disproved. James Collins of 10 Fairfield avi nue, Hartford, for whom Vail was waiting when the gunplay was made, festified that he saw a man on the running board of the car but he was not positive it was Walter. Vail =aid Hutengs told him he was look- ing for a man and a woman, pre- sumably his mother and her alleged paramour, a former boarder in the household. Attorney Thomas F. McDonough claimed father and son were entitled to a discharge, because it had not been proven that they had com ted the breach of the peace with which they were charged. Walter had an alibi in the testimony of a friend who was at his home during the evening, tha attorney claimed, and Sergeant Stadler might well | have been mistaken when he inter- lprflpd Walter's remarks in German, a warning to his father not to tell Walter came from Germany only five years g0 and certainly was better able to speak and wunderstand German than Sergeant Stadler could, the at- torney contended. Missing Gun Factor In Case Mr. Greenstein said the revolver which Henry Hutengs knew was in the drawer of the dresser had mys- terfously disappeared, and it was plain that Walter had taken it and rushed into the street, brandishing it. He had the means at his dis- posal to commit a very serious crime, and in fact was serious, for he had placed 1 in fear and danger for his life, and should be severe- ly puaished. As to Henry Mr. Greenstein said he admitted there had been a fracas in the house on account of the alleged indiscretions | between the woman and the former boarder. Judge Saxe said he might lean to- wards acquittal if there was no evi- dence other than the testimony of Vail and Collins, but in view of the other evidence, he was inclined to the belief that Walter Hutengs was the gunman. He said there is a bad | situation in | pended jail sentenice of 30 daya, bY | jckeq Mr. Greenstein for a recom- mendation as to penalty. Mr. Green- i stein said he thought a fine of §25 and costs and a suspended jail sen- | tence of six months would be suffi- cient in Walter's case, and suspend- ¢d judgment with probation ample in the father's case, but Judge Saxe changed the penalty somewhat, He agreed with Mr. Greenstein that father and son should be kept under surveillance of the court, through the probation officer. FAKE MUTE PENITENT, CONFESSES TO FRAUD (Continued from First Page) took the stand. He left Haverhill three search of employment, months he in Lynn, Mass., and Newark, N. J. Sitting in a park in the latter city one day he was tired, hungry and without funds. In desperation he appealed to a man, who bade hin accompany him and showed him the “racket.” Two days prior to his arrest he reached New Britain and was making farily good headway when he was arrested und trapped through bluffing about an address in Hartford, which Sergeant Ellinger checked up. After hearing his story, Judge Saxe asked him if the fraud had not shocked his better senses, and Wil- lett admitted his realization of the unfairness of the game he practiced on the people who were good enough to believe him. The only time he was arrested was a few the household and he | Inew prayers, which were approved years ago in Lowell, o the chai: : of larceny. He was not punish: -, he said, because he made reatitution. He in 20 years of age and the olde:( of five children. Judge Saxe continued the ecasze until Thursday, expressing a wish to look into the chse at greater length before passing judgment. A BLANKETS SAVE ZEPPELIN'S N (Centinued from First Page) of the base of the fin with the body of the ship was a hole in the silver envelope. Eight blankets were stripped from the nearest berths and rough- ly sewed together to make a tem- porary wall. And with this flimsy protection against the roaring ele- ments that had already driven the ship more than 1,000 miles from its chosen course, the journey was completetd. Slow Trip Explained A glance st the wound In the ship's side gave observers from the ground today full explanation of the reason for the dirigible’s slow pro- gress from the time of its accident, and furnished the basis for a men- tal picture of how cautiously the officers must have proceeded along the forbidding skies in their blanke! bandaged ship. Navy crews wheeled ladders alongside the dirigible to- day and preparations were made for immediate commencement of per. manent repairs to take the place of the improvised ones that served their temporary purpose so well, Bishops Approve New Set of Collects Washington, Oct. 16 (P—The House of Bishops of the Episcopal church today approved a set of. col- lects, episties and gospels for use in Independence Day services. Bishops Thomas I". Gailor, Ten- nessee; C. H. Brewster, Connecticut and William Manning, New York, led a fight against adoption of the at the general convention three years ago. Bishop Brewster said the:epistles,~ taken from the Old Testament, which referred to God as “mighty"” and “terrible” would tend to “per- petuate the animosities of the revo- lutionary war."” |Son Killed, Father Hurt in Auto Accident North Adams, Mass., Oct, 16 P— Raymond Cote, 15, of East Cheshire, lost his life and his father, Armand Cote, was seriously injured when their automobile plunged through a bridge railing down a 12-foot em- bankment at 8avoy near here. The boy drowned in a brook while his father lay pinned beneath the wrecked car for more than three hours. The accident happencd short- ly after midnight, PICK UP MESSAGE Hamilton, Bermuda, Oct. 16— —A message from a ' press corre- spondent addressed to the American consul at Bermuda and dropped trom the Graf Zeppelin as she passed lover the island Sunday evening, was picked up today on 8t. David's Is- land. The message told of the decision of Dr. Hugo Eckener to cross Ber- muda. The parcel contained 28 pages of manuscript descriptive of the pas. sage across from Germany to this point. MAY PUBLISH ACCORD london, Oct. 16 (UP)—A com- plete record of the Anglo-French naval proposals will be published Thursday or Friday in a 60-page white paper, it was reported umbly today. LEVIATHAN OF THE SKIES, NEAR JOURNEY’S END gerearrying “ifrd of passage” to cross the beginning her triumphal sky parade over the city that was the goal of her hazardous flight. Atlantic. This drama tic photograph is the result. < : ! 3 . (COPYRIGHT, Just as the Graf Zeppelin glided like some giant phantom out of the haze and fog enveloping lower Manhattan. an NEA aerial photographer circled over the first passen- Her silvered sides glistening against the dull sky. Below rises the famous skyline of downtown Gotham, 1928, NEA SERVICE, INC, the dirigible s show: