New Britain Herald Newspaper, January 4, 1929, Page 19

1 Iwnhl II!II { |||!ln m“m‘ Oulems otherwies indiraton I “‘I‘I SN l & CAMEN, BRISTOL Starting Monday ard Tuesday an every Monday and Tuesday ther |fl:~r. the Garrick Flayers, an excel company of dramatic stors Nx ers, will present a Broadway hir At the Cameo theater in Bristol Bob Stevens and George l\nmcan who former'y brought their Garrick Players to Tiristol last y hring a new company of Droadwa avor- ‘ ites in & series of New York hits. On Monday and Tuesday, the Gar- | rick Players offer George M. Co- | han's international hit. “So This “s | Londen” produced and presented exactly as shown on Rroadway over a year. To accommedate the large num- ber of New Britain stock fans, th | scription book te all patrons so-that they may rame seats roserved weekly ealling up. By telephoning 1860 reservations for the Plavers may he made The following week. an January | 14 and 15, the Garrick Plavers of- | | for John Golden's great Amcric |‘ out of tow: e the | witheut Rristos Garries ¥ree auto parking is another fea- ture of the Camen. “MIDNIGHT T\‘I' AT CAPITOL | Crowds at the Canite! theater are “The t turiller E Giregory Rogers did the story which was seenarized by Harvey Gates. | The all-star cast is headed by An- tanio Moreno and Helena (ostello. | Mrrna Loy, William Russell, Bob- hie Agnew. Pat TFlartigan, Tonmv‘ Trgan and Jack Santoro are also | on the roster of pleyers. JTohn Afolft directed. It is a Vitaphone Afeaction, The Vitaphene offer the Croan~dee~ in Along" and Hor T Conley in the playlet | “Tha Tank Waorm." | Berinning Sunday for four davs the, Canitel will nresent Georze M Covan’'s “The Home Towners™ a 100 per cent all talking Vitaphone | apecial with an all-star cast. | seen here this con. | acte “Crooning. NOTMA SHEARFR AT STRAN A man m~v look lke a million dallars and 41l not have a dime and Normna Shearer's latest Metro- Goaldwvn-Maver starring vehlelo, “A Lody of Chanee,” which is at the i Strand theater today and Satnrday 1s »1 entertaining nroof of the fact. The vaudeville show is excellent | and ofters Goorme Tibhv's Broadway dsnce track with the Sax-Peps, Gloria Ten and the Nash Sisters | with Ande Potter: the hit of the | 1ill ‘goes to Rome and Gant. a fun- nv pair of comedians in *“Just For Tnn:" the HWoward Girls offer an | “Artistic Novelty": Carey, Tong and Mare ging gell tozether and dance a littlo; and “Head Tines.” a come- dv sKit is offered by a very capable eat, Neginning Sundav the Strand will afftar “Droam of Tove" with Joan Crawford and Nila Acther and on Mondav Pay Marr's “Rainhow R-- vur” will be the hig attraction with | a cast of twent people. GIFT NIGHT TONIGHT AT THIE® Newington Grange IMPERIAL ORCH. Pattle of Music Nest Week DANCING at the RIALTO BALLROOM SATURDAY Il‘l - ot < 4\ Ik A Gorgrons Musical ( mnl- “YMKEE DOODLE” Under the Pervonal Mirection of Fortune Gallo Company of 125, Inctuding inging and Dancing Chorus of 80 Youthful Reaoties Special Nympliony Orehestra of 34 Vieces wie by Shaffer Hownrd hretto hy Juniws dones Original Bebe Barri and The Yankee Doodle Giris The Mot Stanning and Elabornte of the Sewson *: A .fiAsv or SO fom & BATARD VIILL& i) h“ theatrical soticer and reviows W thie SHWID. &r0 @260 by oress agencies for the eapertive amuesmes! compasy. FPTOTVFELCTLITTRODREITTVTIVTOCLTOVIIVVIVICTEOIPIY MEASLES CASES GO FAR PAST 200 MARK Abont 50 Children Under Quar- | antine by Heaith Deparlmem Measles cases passed the 200 mark vesterday and mounted upward as for ‘“ new patients’ names appeared on | i ‘Battle Australians/| the records at the office of the town ‘lerk. Today gave some indication of | another high report when 14 cases health department now bont 250 hag ildren under quarantine for measles. The cases are not local- izod in gny section of the city, but are widespread 3 ¢ chaes coming i are of m« wild type found throughout the cur- | rent peried of prevalence. Health department anthorities re- | o1t excellent cooperation from phy- ians in their _efforts to speedily les Hxl(flrflr King's Thild bon F alls Off Horse Melton-Moewbray, Eng. Jan. 4 (UP)--The Duke ot Gloucester, ‘third mson of King George, was thrown from his horse here teday whila hunting to the | Quorn hounds. He escaped with a shaking-up. Gloucester's horse fefl, pitching his rider into a nearby stream. He clambered out drenched. The Prince of Wales was riding in the hunt. | READ HERALD CLA \lIlLD ADS ‘The Wonder Show! TRAND TODAY and SAT. VAUDEVILLE George Libby's Broadway Dance Track With lhv Sax-| Pcpnl ROME and GAUT ust For Funt HOWARD GIRLS Artistic Novelty REY. LONG and MARR c Rathskellar Roys “Lnean Livese MONDAY and TUESDAY (Matineo and, Evening) NEW ENGLAND'S FINEST STOCK COMPANY Stevens & Dunigan Present Their GARRICK GEO. M. COHAN Yanker Doodle Comedy Hit “S0 THIS IS LONDON” actly as presented for over a year on Lroadway 1Tlm Garrick Players will present a new sow every | Monday and Tuesday. Sub- | scription books now opem [ for regular reservations, BRISTOL 1869 ALL OF PRICES Matin 5 Evening<: Orch., 66c; Bal., 33%c | in Hunting | I.eicestershire; | ROTARIANS WILL MEET AT GENERAL HOSPITAL Civic Clb Members to Have Lunch- oon in Numes' Dining Room and Inspect. Institution Members of the Rotary club of New Britain will. go to the hospital withiu the next two weeks. The in- vitation extended teday by Dr. T. Eben Reeks, superintendent of the New Britain General hospital, was accepted by Rey. Willlam H. Alder- son, premtdent of the Rotary club. The invitation was to have Rotary elub meet at the hespital for its regular woekly luncheon, January 17. Head nipses will es- cort groups of the ehib members {through the institution” after the | uncheon, which will he: served in | the nurses’ dining room. Rev. Mr. Alderson - was {he w»-nk-r at the Rotary meeting of the nurses and internes toda: British Cricketers Melboyine, Australia, Jan. 4.—(® the third | cricket téat-mateh against Australia. Bet the: difficalti task: of making 2 in a fourth inniprs fhe English- the | NEW' BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1929, England-.mads a- determined bid | Cameo theatsr has opencd ifs sun- l"-'-‘ reported during the morning for victgxy. ftedsy in men at the end of tefiay's play were !7] runs for one wicket. The Wonder Show! STRAND Begins SUNDAY For 4 Days The Sweet Mama You Liked in “Our Dancing Daughters” JOAN CRAWFCRD with Handsome NILSASTHER | | | | “DREAM OF LOVE” Passionate Love! Burning Love! They're the Screen's N Love Couple! On the Stage Beginning MONDAY For 3 Days Only! RAY MARR'S Rainbow Revue 18 Pretty Rainbow Girls Funny Comedians , 26 Entertainers 26 of Finance Edward I”. Hall today. feels that he has not overlooked any item, however and that if the existing taxes are left alone we can meet the situation for the next two years and perhaps 10 years with our pay-as-you-go policy, without bond issues, and at the same time SEE NO NEED OF - "INCREASEINTAX Normal Expensos Will Be Taken 'c2e over sa0t Care of Tor Several Years nium.” | {Owen J. Roberts Is Hartford, Conn., Jan. 4 (®--Un- less mome unforeseen and 'N"I‘ia\ll‘ Reappointed Prosecutor cmergeney arises, no hond issues, no | Roberts was nominated 1 Washington, Jan. 4 (F—Owen Presi- new state taxes or increase in ex- dent Coolidge today for reappoint- isting state tax rat. will be neces- ment as one of special government sary to meet Cobnecticut's normally 'counsel in charge of prosecution of increasing expenses in the next few |the naval eil cases years and at the same time allow | - $15.000.000 a year for highway de- | Penns\l\amn 8 ru('c rt it m: t o 4 opera- Bartmeliiiainichanie e A Up 25 Cents a Barrel tion. This I8 the opinion of the state | Vandergrift. Penn. Jan. 4 board of finance and control in Samucl K. Hill, 35, shot and killed making up the budget of $73.800,600 his wife early today and then com for the biennium ending June 36, [mitted Three children 1931, after a3 careful “survey of hearing the found the hodies. financial resources and an estimate | - - of the cost of meeting reasonabie | very seidom hrag. but haie requirements in the next two years. Herald Classiied Ad The board, declared Commissioner during the bien- We von seen the ection lately TODAY and SATURDAY Perfect Vitaphone House! HEAR! SEE A" VITAPHONE ATTRACTION HE MIDKIGHT TAXI" with HULEAE CONTELLO WILLIAM RUSSELL ACTS THE CROONADERS —in— “Crooning Along™ "ANTONIO MORENO MVRNA 1OV VITAPHONE HARRV J. CONLEY —in— “The Book Worm” New Chapter of “THE (‘%LEGI:\NS" BEGINS DAY FOR 4 DAY ‘| ALL-AMERICAN, ALLLAUGHING, ALL-TALKING PICTURE! SEE Avo HEAR THE HOME TOWN!RS manso BENNETT - - oons KENYON ROBERT MWADE - - CLADYS BROCKWELL ROBERT EDESON 72yt inon swacro or BRIANFOY THE THINGS THEY SAY! 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There was no Indication to ground .nhservers that any of ity three Wright motors was wearing out. | While the great black plane pass- ied the 72nd consecutive heur of fisht, a_ pursuit plane hovered ! ahove it and dropped breakfast to lits erew. Through a contact hose gallons of oil was supplied. ial Airport, Imperial Valley n. 4 P—Refuelng ship No. 1. piloted by Captain R. Hoyt, landed here shortly befare 10 o'clock this morning after making a sne cossful gasoline contact with the sestion Mark, Captain Hoyt said that 150 gallons of gasoline were | delivered. The Question Mark had been in the air more than 7¢ hours. The limit of man's m; skies in heavier-than-air mained undetermined today as the Question Mark, mastering adierse elements and minor mechanical im- parfections, droned onward toward a distant aerial goal after having broken all existing world's ehdur- ance records. Nearing the end of i day aloft the army’'s tri-motored lenigma, which ascended at 7:26 a m. January 1. steadlly advanced to- ward lighter-than-alr records this "morning after having returned to America one of the two principal {airplane endurance flight records held abroad. The second Euronean record. a8 | continuous flight without refueling, was surpassed at 1:51 a. m. today, coast time, at which hour the re- sourceful five-man crew had held the ship aloft for &6 hours, 25 min- | utes, a full hour longer {han the !record set six months ago by the Germans. Johann Ricticz and Wil- helm Zimmerman, The monoplane, groping its way ! over a wide rection of Southern Cali- fornfa in an effort to aveid creeping fog blankets and cloud banks, need only land at this several days or a week distant. to get oficial credit for eclipsing that record as well o8 the refueling en- durance record of 60 hours, 7 min- | utes, held by last night. | Acronantical regulations specify endurance plancs, in order (o set a new record, must remain up an hour tonger than the previous record- holder, and land at the samc ficld |used for the takeoff. Even should the plane in the clos- ing hours of its unprecedented flight be so crippled that it could not re- Belgians, which fell turn here it will nevertheless have | jearrfed human brings to a new record of aerlal residence in air- planes. Two dawns hence if the plane re- mains up, and its army sponsors now vision the ship as still in the air possibly a week distant, it will be near tg the existing endurance rec- ord of a man-made contrivance which now is held abroad. That record of 111 hours, 46 min- | utes of continuous flight was made by the German built Graf Zeppelin in its lumping voyage from Fricdrickshafen to Lakchurst, N. J. last fall. A half hour before the monoplane equaled the Ricticz-Zimmerman record last night it took on 170 gal- lons of gasoline in the third success- | ful night refueling which was the 16th refueling contact successfully made by the two attendant ships, The contact was made over the { Imperial airport near Centro to | which point refucling ehip No. 1. previously operating at San Diego. was moved yesterday when fog drove flight away from the cogst line, and emergen measures were ordered by Major Carl Spatz. in command aboard the Question Mark, to mect the adverse weather conditions. After the transfer, which required nine minutes, the plane swung away from the port and cireled about the valley, its crew resting casier in the knowledge that enough fuel was aboard to koep aloft at least until daylight facilitates supply opera- tions. Contacts at 70 M. I Majority of the first 13 made were at a speed of § hour, and ouly mi trouble experienced in the operations. Tt was —— - " ontacts o miles an STILL IN THE AIR | Imperial Valley, where #t was fore- | delivered 170 g tery of the | craft re- | | third fun | airport. possibly | lestimated that the {flown ncarly 5.000 miles, which if in a straight line would have earrled it to another record for non-stop dis- tance fiving. The three 225-horsepower Wright whirlwind motors of the Fekker, any one of which can keep it going, h. ve thus far functioned perfeetly, the only trouble experienced eame | Wednesday night when suddenly-ris- ing fog off San Dicgo nearly caused a crisis. As the shades of night fell with only a little more than two hours gasoline supply aboard Major Spatz brought the plane over this airport and dropped a note ordering refuei- ing plane No. 1 up at once with a new supply. His first note could not he found on the big. dark field, and another was sent down. That note was found and shortly afterward ! Licutenant Odas Moon took off and lons of gasoline. At midnight the ship returned to the field askinz more gasoline Lieutenant Moon failed fo establish contact in his first uscent and upon more dropped orders went up a xeeend time to deliver 100 gallons of fuel. Bumpy tery airand a dead storage hat- which plunged the ship-into darkness eanse heetic night aboard. Major Spatz repogted in a note dropped yesterday which said | all his crew well. The battery was replaced during the d and the ship headed inte the San Fer- nando Valley to wscape rough air. Jt was forced to change s conrse f quently to avoid adyerse aerial con- dition: wr Consumed Siv Tons of Gas | Army reports showed that the plane had consnmed close to ix tons of gasoline and a half ton of oil. refucling air contacts had qnired a total of 110 minutes. H. 1. Adamson, representing the war department, said the three | Wright whirlwind metors “sounded great” as the ship roared over Im- perial airport. The crew of refusling plane No. 1 which made the 16th contact report- ed that Majm Carl Spatz was emiling and looked very happy. | Captain Ira C. Eaker, chief pilot and Lieut. Harry Halverson, relicf pilot of the Question Marl both stood in the cockpit and waved, | “grinning from ear to ear,” the re- port added. | e (The following dispatch was written for the Associated Press . J. Adamson, assistant to siant Sccretary of War Tru- bee Davidson, and the war de- partments’ official observer of the flight of the Question Mark) | Metropolitan Airport, Los Angeles, Jan, 4 (@—Driven from point 1o point over Southern California by heavy fogs, buieted by choppy aer- ial currenis, flying blind in dense and low hanging clouds, the armv |air corps endurance ship Question Mark still soared its way through | space today, blazing its way to a| |new acrial conquest. Tha Question Mark at o'clock last night equated the record for refueling endurance flying. and five | and a half hours later passed the non-refueling fiight record of heav- ier-than-air craft. At 7:33 the ship equalled the record of arhlevcmmu reached last June by the two Bel- Igian army aviators, ‘Adjutant Louis Crooy and Scrgeant Vicior Gronen. {who stayed up 60 hours, T minutes. Continuing its flight the ship at 112:31 o'clock today swept aside the {magnificent recotd of the two Cer-| man aviators—Risticz and Zimme man. who G months ago flew for {hours and 25 minutes. The p'n moved over into the fogless Imperiil Valley yesterday afternoon. and ¢h» entire bzee ot 8an Dicgo. headed by Captain Timendorf, who is actinz as airdrome ofticer for the fight. was transforred to the volley unti) further notice from Major Curl Snatz, commanding officer aboard | the Question Mark. | There was every indication today that the motors of the monoplare and the morale of its erew were 73 sturdy as they were at 7:26 & m.| | | | 1 | Hartford's Laugh TODAY and TOMORROW Frivolit’ Burlesques Knockout? spretaitics By — INMA POWELL & CO. 1 Red Hot Musiciane Formerly § ship now has !Question Mark depended upon jability ! Angeles. | of his mission |gasoline were to lonee. [the silvery | rents, ‘came back but hardly had |terday morning the Question ithe fog blank $6.0 on New Year's day when Captain Faker, chief pilo!, opened the throt- tles and started the flight. The last 30 hours have been hec- !tic ones aboard the Question Mark, hours of toil loaded with uncertain- ity. First there was fog at San Diego © | which compelled Major Spatz to end change his plans which called for irefueling contact over the army air corps station, Rockwell field on iNorth Island. He realized that the success of the his gt gasoline at Los Having reached this im- portant decision as dusk drew its curtains Wednesday over the moun- tains and valleys heneath him. Ma- jor Spatz was neat confronted by the Problem of getting a message to the ground personnel at L.os Ang-les With his heavy laden ship M Spatz did not dare take the r going lower than 2 000 feet and fr this position he had to dgop a m-- sage of vital importance and wpon the finding of which in the . the night on the 4n6 are the Los Angeles Metropolita port depended the continued suce. The gasoline gaug: = showed that there was fuel for on! two more hours and unless a pew sunply could be had the flight wonld " pom circled further to was piteh dark when ahout 7 Wednesday, the Question Mark the Metropulitan field. To 1ggravate the problem. the battery ahoard the ship went dead thus leaving the ship in darkness. Vlashlights were resorted to but (conld not bLe seen from the ground. The red flare from a Very pis tald Lirut. Moon, ol pilot of the refuet- ing ship No. 2. and Lieut. Stowell, airdrome officer. as well ak their respective crews that a messag was being dropped. Afrer 15 minutes of frantic search flares were sent up telling the circling Question Mark that the messge had not heen found. Onece more the Question Mark fired a flare and dropped a mesage. This latter foll on the fringe of the powerful flood HKght of the ficld and was found. Tt an- nounced in ferse ferms that ona hundred and seventy-five gallons of be delivered at A few minutes and his crew took afterward, Maon off and delivere] the fuel, after midnight the OQuese tion came b fired throe green flares which meant more gas Onee more Moon and his men went aloft, located the Question Mark, in path of the rising moon —a path full of whirling air cur. No contact was made. Moon landed before three additional green flares ordered him to come back. ‘This time, after difficult maneuve ering and extremely expert fiving on the part of the pilots of both ships, !one hundred gallons of fyel wers ! delivered. From then until 10 o'clock ves Mark flew in monotonous circles broken only by two contacts for fuel, o food and water. Meanwhile fog wes |closing in on Soughern Califor |For a time Major Spatz considr- ithe advisability of transferring him- |self and refueling crew No. 1e {Tmperfal. Finally on learning thu Rockwell Field had been freed from t. Major 8patz hont cd south pushing through the fox zones that sepurated him from his new destination. He cireled Rockwell Ficld for the rest of the morning and until mid- fternoon taking on more fuel anl 57 a much-needed battery. About 0 he headed into the Imperial ley followed by refueling plane 0. 1 piloted by Captain Hoyt. and escorted by other planes. 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