New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1929, Page 17

FORGED FACTORY | CHECHS PASSED Three Cases at Least Being Fol- lowed by Police A forger of checks used by a local manufacturing concern 10 pay off its employes, is being sought by the police today. Three instances have come 1o light in this city wherein & payroll check, one of them reported to be of a Hartford concern, have | been cashed by local merchants and it is thought that the three have ben passed Ly the same man. According to one of the merchants mulcted by the forgery, the man who possessed the check addressed him by name and asked 10 have the | check cashed. Because it is the usual custom of manufacturing con- to pay their employes by | cck, there was little hesitancy in | cashing the paper. | ent descriptions of the man | who appeared in the three places | have been furnished the police and | members of the detective depart- ment, learning of the acts this| morning, have been working on the | case all day. The checks were held at the bank when presented by the merchants. AUTOMOBILE CRUSHED IN TROLLEY-BUS JAM (Continued from Page 1) | Governor Trambull and his family ar yesterday at Washingtow. With the police report. No arrests were made. A Donnelly Brick company truck, | driven by John Smoske of Kensing- | ton skidded and struck a telephone pole on South Main street near the Suburban Filling station about 8:30 this morning, smashing the body of the truck and damaging the right Frn i) LD BY DEATH " Gifee Thomas woous, who mves-. (58000 AVENUE WOman Stricken With Fatal Iliness Sunday tigated the report to headquarte learned that an automobile which | was preceeding the truck, stopped short, and Smosko was obliged to —_— put on the brakes to avoid a col- lision. There was no cause for po- lice action. Mrs | 82 years old tain for (West) a resident of 60 years, | evening at home, 28 enuc. She was stricken with a | | cerebral hemorrhage Sunday mor: ing and romained unconscious until her death. She was the wife of Her- PHYSICIAN AND TEACHER UNITED IN MARRIAGE 1 i s .70 i D. schupack and Miss | Mrg. Fleischer was born in the | Harlem section of New York city on | October 1, 1547. While living there | she met Mr. Fleischer. He joincd thed | northern forces durlnz the C'ivil War and saw service throughout the en- tire period of the conflict He left Fleisclier New Bri- died Jast Osgood Catherine nearly Dr. Samu Dorothy Ircne Zimman Mar- ried in Hartford, Miss Dorothy Irene Zimman, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hyman Zimman of 20 Hawkins street, be- the service in 1565 and two years came the bride of Dr. Samuel D. later the couple were married in Schupack, son of Mrs. Lena Schu-|New York. pack, this morning at 11 o'clock at| On October 30, 1569, approximate- the home of Rabbi Hurewitz in |!V two years after they were married, Hartford, Rabbi Hurewitz perform- |they came to New Britain and Mrs. | ed the ceremony. Fleischer entered the employ of the The couple was attended by Mr. | Stanicy Works. He established the | Zimman and Mrs Schupack, parents | Plating department and later be- of the principals. The bride has|came a superintendent. He wa re- been @ teacher in the Valentine |Cently pensioned from the company’s | Chamberlain school, and the bride- | 7urtie ,m;, 5 il U\nn'n'p\nr‘_ ently ret d to the prac- o vead AnRniVE fioe ot his. profession here afier & | Mould have been celebrated on April e 10 tour of European clinical centers. b Mrs. Fleischer was a member of w;:r): ::1 i’or:;h:‘r:"t‘:;ir‘,“ul “8Y€ | the First Congregationul church, | Surviving her besides her hushand | ot are three daughters, Mrs. Maory kK. Oklahoma Bankers’ Conviction U gfield Higgins of Plainville, widow ef Louis Higgins who died a short time Mrs. George McCleary of Springficld, Wastingtor. = MAINER The | \oss; and Mrs. Arthur H. Bush- convictions of Allie E. and Willlam | 0.\ "o "goriin: threc sons, Joseph L. Lewis in the federal district court | g®%%, 0 Befine (Aree Sotie, 0SeRl for eastern Oklahoma on the charg&e |\, cher all of whom hold promin- of falsifying the records of the Lib-| .. "y ogitions in the Stanley Works, erty National bank ef Tulsa, today o WoF 0% B LT T were sustained as valid by the su- | yypepa) services will be held to- preme court. They were president|y,orow afternoon at 2 o'clock at the and vice president of the bank, re- home on Osgood avenue. spectively. | Rev. Henry W. Maier The men were convicted In 1926 | Cod, Masw, pasior emeriins of end they appealed on the contention | irst Congregational church, will that their trial had becn held in the officiate. B 3t s A0 Bl wrong judicial district. The govern- | cemetc ment insisted that under a law cre- | ating the new federal northern dis- ' trict in which the trial was held, their indictment and conviction was valid. The new district was cretated after the offense wac committed. Lions Club Mem—b_e—rs Talk on “What Is Life?” | An address on “What 1y Life was delivered by Samuel C. IXone OL| “qng corporation, which Hartford at the regular Juncheon of | ropreceniatives of several larg the Lions' club at the Burritt hotel |y stoamehip and hanlking today. Mr#Kone spoke on coopera- | pinine will be a holdin tion and initiative, showing that |,ng R e man is not of Mmuch cONSCAUENCE |agialished manufaituring without the cooprration of Others. transportation companies, A group of songs was rendered | F. W. Latham and daughter, Miss GIRL HANGS HERSELEF Dorothy, with Mrs. Lathan at the Holyoke, M March (L P)Y— piano. | Using a piece of radio wire for rope, Charies Gaa of the Harry. Miller {gtela 1tvdo 15, committed sui- Co., who had charge of the last sev- | cide by ha at her home here eral Lions frolics, was among those |(oday. present. of Cape $200,000,000 A\'latlon | Corporation Is Formed w York, M h P 1rorma- tion of a new 0,060,000 company {to be known as the Aviation Corpor- {ation was announced today by Gra- ham B. Grosvenor, president of the Fairchild Aviation company, who will head the new concer includos - r Sy st oin an I 1ging T The first steamboat built at Cin- Armstrong Administrator ati was launched in 1516, Sh Of John Weiss’ Estate """ el Bert F. Armstrong has heen ap- | pointed administrator of the estate | S-4 sa ty Devnje | of John Weiss, by Judge B. F. Gaff- ney in probate court, and has quit clu d property on CuFtis street to Michael and Sadie Neubauer, Weiss was one of three victims of poisoned beer, the case resnlting in the life imprisonment of his brother a few months ago. ciny FORECLOSUR 1T BROUGH According to a notice filed in the town clerk's office, the property of Benjamin Kaplan and Sebastiano Vinci located on Greenwood street, was attached yesterday pending = | civil action brought by Nicolo Baler- no through Attorney Angela M. La- cava. The plaintiff seeks to fore- > s \ close a mortgage on the property in 1 4 the amount of $3.500. There is also another mortgige on the property in the amount of $6,500. ort, March 882 was left by James % Conlin, Bridgeport merchant who dicd November 21, acocrding to an | appraisement filed with the probate court foday. Except for & bequest of $500 1o the Catholic charitable bureay, the estate is left to celatives. | I'hoto shows man fin atop the submarine Jung” used 1o . submarine off escape loc! 8.4 wearin trom sunl W Fla. “t Koy MRS FLEISCHER, 82, ,make the the |, ithe Ukrainian church. e shown here as th Executive and Mrs, appeared at the inaugura Trambull are thelr danghts of President Hoove Florence and Jeanne. TRAFFIC BUREAU TAKES UP RATES g3 in New England Sub- | u-eJ o X Ray Scrutin regular monthly mecting of 1 tragtic bureau of the local Cham- ber of Commerce was held this noon at the Burritt hotel. Many important questions were discussed pertaining to the traffic rates in New England and the payment of frelght charges. In this respect the length of time given by the railroads to pay for the freight was widely argued. The meoting of the New England Traffic gue at Springfeld on March 12th was brought to the at- ¥ tention of members, as having a 00, rdied dastinight ay "" home OF 4 vy bearing on the freight situa- ner daughter, Mrs. Gordon 1. Hoten- | g, QiR B v o i kiss of 43 Foxon place where she oo Sosolution will be presented liad been living - for the past four . "ypis conference, which is of vital vears. She was a native of Hartford jin portance to local shippers. nd was the widow ot William (. P, LaGell spring me Resides her daughter she leaves ST son, Gerald W. LaCells of Cedar Hill| 1" ver has by farm and four grandchildren. oAt was a member of the Order of East-| (pich widely ern Star and Christ Church Cathe- gacrurers, were dral of Hartford. annkir i tine Iruneral services will be held t0- {han two hours. morrow afternoon at 2 o'clock at th S home. Rev, B. B. Styring, assistant rector of Mark's Episcopal church, will offici Burial will be in Cedar Hill cem Hartford. Cuy ltems mecting was held yesterday ihe office of Referee in Bankrupiey | saul Berman, of creditors of 1.oui Persky, rupt. but no agreenicn vuas reached as to whom might be trustee, in bar 1 J.. )\I'HIZ"\ « l I n \II ETING The New Britain Teacher will hold a meeting Thuwrsday at 4:15 o'clock at the Walr Hill school auditorium. The spea Mrs. Clarence IF, Bennett, will tal on Current nts. b noon Deaths Mrs. Mary Nott I.«lll ‘ells Mrs. Mary No°t 8 vears ing of the traffic men but no definite date 'n set. Many of the of transportation, concern local manu- minutely discussed, lasted for Concealing Assets in €Iy New Haven, March 5 (R—Conceal- ment of sets will be charged in three hankruptey cases it was made lknown today, when their appearance is made tomorrow before Judge Warrcn B. Burrows in the United States district court. Ershter Bros., Inc., grocers of Waterbury, are churges with concealing of asscts to- talling £16,958.21. Walter W. Le- land, proprictor of a woman's we shop in Hartfo is alleged to have oncealed a lowing certain goods to be taken away. The New Novelty company of New Haven, of which Morris G. Steinbuch and Samucl Levison are named as owners, are charged wit concealing over $23,000 worth of Michael Splitz Michacl Splitz, 44 years old, a for- resident of New Britain, died yvesterday at Hartford Isolation hos- pital of erysipelas which deveolped only a short time ago His only relatives live in Holyoke, Mass. 1t is expected that they will fun 1 arr ments soon as they arrive in New Britain, Until then funeral arrangements, in charge of Frank P. Dufty, are in- complet Joseph danuszewski I Januszewski, 30 years old Washington strect, died yes- tternoon at his home. leaves his wife, Mrs. Rose Januszewski: two sons, Bdward and Frank pwski and two dangh- rs, and Genofef He the Stanley Works Praternally he John the Baptist «d Heart church. rvices will be held to- 30 o'clock at Rurial will ry. Supreme Court Will Hear Guilioyle Plea March 5 (P—"The appeal N. Guilfoyle trom a life for murder will be heard by the supreme court of errors herc ‘omorrow. I'he March term of th court opened at 10:20 o'clock E morning, Chief Justice George W. Wheeler of Bridgeport, and the four sxociate justices sitting. Ther« eight ready, and wers d six for and two for Harold Gmifovie Janus Leokadya was employed for many years A member of society of Funeral morrow morning at red Heart chure in Sacred Heart e at Haurtford of Harold sentence wis 5 h b ssi tody was convicted in superior conrt of the murder of . Claire J7 Gaudet at_his home Maple avenue one night in Jan- 1428, and was sentenced to lite imprisonment. He is now servi Wethersfield sta the M on Mrs. Funeral August Casperson Mrs, of Au street, nary 4 services for sricka A on, wife Casperson of 189 Hart held tomorrow afiernoon at at the First Lutheran Rev. Dr. Abel A. Ahlquist will officiate. Burial will be iew ce hie sente prison. Caspe nee at be o'clock church astor, Fairy Root Has Pn posal for World Court Adhesion Geneva, March 5 (®—IKlibhu Root. noted American jurist who is sery- i a special committee for re- vision of the world court statutes, conferred with Foreign Minister Briand of France 1oday concerning a tormula which Mr. Root has pre- pared as the basis of an agreement or American adhesion to the world court, Twins’ >Birth Follows Caesarian Operation 1etery. Stephen Hadley Tmeral services for Stephen Had- ley of 145 held this it the Frank P. Duiry, tev. Samuel Sut- fark's Episcopal Burial was in crnoon at funeral parlors of €48 Main stree cliffe, rector of St. church, offic Fairview ceme Helen Kopy Funeral services for Helen Kopy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Kopy of 51 Putnam street, were held this morning at 9 o'clock at Rev. P. J. Paszkiewicz officiated at the serv- ices. The pall bearers were Andrew | Polinski, John Manive, Adam Sieck- woski and Andrew Walek. Burial was in Ukrainian Tiritain General March 2, to Mr. Knight of 551 announced today, operation. attending. EGAN PLEADS TOMORROW Hartford, March 5§ (UP)—Attor- ceme- ney William J. Egan will be put to |p|€l tomorrow morning .in superior A" VQW Bl’l“lfl C.m court on a charge of fraud. He was \counlel for Roger W. Watkins, now |-nr\|n¢ a term In state prison tor | “blue sky” stock deals. FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS BOLLERER'S PUSY SHOP Bollerer's Posy Shop 83 West Main St. The Telegraph Florist of New Brituin Visit Our Gréen JAPANESI Tokyo, Murch Iap day. njt Yama of the prolet se diet to assassinat | highly satisfactory, | February . Wall Street Briefs | i\ 4, )| New York, March § P — Wall street atiributes the supply of money available for speculation in part to & great increase in riches of corpor- ations. One compilation based on the statements of the first 83 industrial companies reporting for 1928 shows a total of $1,176,799,000 in cash, call loans and marketable securities an increase of $462,97¢,000 over th 1525 total of these corporation. Their call loans increased $85,787 000 and cash assets rose $87,527,000, An increasc of 27 per cent. In contracts awarded in the week ended March 1 on new building anden- gineering work in the 37 states east | of the Rocky mountaing over the previous week is reported by F. W. Dodge corporation. The total was $114.236,700, bringing the new con- | struction started since Jan. 1 to $785,534,800. The daily average now | is $16,031,300 compared with $18,-| 3,800 in the first two months of | 1928, 8even chain store systems have | shown an increase of 10.6 per cent | in February sales and an increase of 11.6 per cent in sales for the | first two months this year over their salcs in the corresponding 1928 ! periods. February sales were below the January totals. Prospects in machine tool and machine; industry are the best #ince war tinies and the outlook for JilLS AND COPPER SHARES ARE ACTIVE Heavy Bnmg Tarns Course ol Stock Prices Upward New York, March § UP—Heavy | Luying of the railroad and copper | shares turned the general course ot stock prices upward today after an early period of irregularity. Early losses, which ran points in more than a score issues were substantialy cut down, or wiped out, and a long list of issues sold 1 to 9 points sbove yesterday's final | quotations, Trading was only mmx- | erately heavy in volume. Call money renewed at 8 per cenl and held firm at that figure. Other | monetary accommodations showed | 1o change. Bankers hold out little | hope of any marked relaxation in money rates before the March 15 income tax paymentg and govern- ment financing are out of the way. No official comment was forthcom. | ing on rumors that New York Fed- eral Reserve bank directors veted to | raise the rediscoumt rate to ¢ per cent at their long meeting last | month, byt failed to receive the ap- ' proval of the federal yeserve | board. Rails “Out of Line” | Except for recent publication of a | business in the current month fs says American | The rate of activity for | held at the seme high | level as in the first month of the | year, Active trading in March is cxpecied. EARLY CURB SLUMP machinist, | OVERCOME AT NOON paratory plans for the regular more Bankruptcy Charged hllicting Price Movements Mark Trend of Trading New York., March 5 (®—Conflict- ing price movements today marked the trading in the curb market, with many of the early losses wiped out on rallics at mid-day. Some of the “hig board’s” nervousness over the Mexican revolt was reflected in the swing of prices. Call money was unchanged at 8 per cent. Aviation Corporation of America dropped 15 points to 70 and after recovering ity loss declined again Alexanler industries was the :trong teature of the aviation group, con- tinuing ita advance to 23%. Fok- ker had a 2-point gain and Fairchild | was strong. | Motors were heavy fn the early | dcalings, 1"'ord of Canadu, advanced 4 points. Firestone rallicd 3 points after a 2 point decline. Utilities were mixed, American Superpower beng under pressure. lectric Bond & Share new recover- d from a 4 point decline. Fox Theater was again under pressure, yielding more than a point Stewart-Warner (new) rose a point to T4 a new high. Mining stocks were strong. Dewey Says Poland Has Prosperous Year Warsaw, Poland, March b () — Charles 8. Dewey, financial adviser 1o the Polish gavernment and di- rector of the Bank of Poland, re- ports that “in no other yrar since the war had Poland enjoyed the de- gree of prosperity that the country | experienced in 1928, “Begining with fairly satisfactory conditions, the year has shown steady improvement, thanks to fundamental stability derived from a balanced national budget. a firm currency, and to the absence of dis- turbing political issues,” his report stated, BIG STORES TO COMBINE liew York, March & () —Negotia- tions for a merger of William Fi- lene's Sons company, large Boston department store, and Abraham & Straus, Brooklyn department store, were announced today by Vice President Louis F. Kirstein of Fi- lene’s. “We hope to be able to an- something definite within : next few days,” he said REAL ESTATE NEWS Warrantee W. M. Ward to F. W. or street. Hariton Nikitena to Vasloy tonik, Sexton street. Carmela Gulemi to Antonio Sca- rozzo, South street. Mortgage Wincenty Strong to Charles Wolf. $1.000, Church street. Stanislaw Kundra to John Kunz $6.100, Wilcox street. Masha Lipman to lsadore Levin. $1.240, Linwood street. Stanialaw Kundra te Savings Bank of New Britain, $4,500. Wilcox street. C. M. Dickinson to ®avings Bank of New Britain, $500, Wooster street. nounce o Radil, Woos. An- Woman (;‘.ets Property; Must Support Husband An unusual provision was made in a transfer of property by Christian | Trudel to his wife, Marie Trudel, as Twin daughters were born at New | h hospital Saturday, |subject to a provision, however, that | and Mrs. John the woman must Main street, {t Wwas| with the grantor as his wife; must | by Caesarian beard and feed him Dr. W. W. O'Connell is | lives l recorded in a deed filed with the | !town clerk. According to the deed, certain property on Church street | been transferred to Mrs. Trudel, continue living | long as he and must also pay him $10 a week for his own uses and pur- poses. Trudel also reserves the life | use of the property, according to the | deed. To Be Called Wednesday Hartford, March § (UP)—State's Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn an- nounced this afternoon that all New Britain cases on the criminal docket ot superior court would be called te- meorrow. He offered no explanation. |of line” with the general list. | Al Che & Dye : |Am Underwriters Finan e D HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS | series of unusually favorable traffic and earnings statements, there was nothing to explain the sudden reviv- al of interest in the rail shares Brokers pointed out that they had | failed to keep pace with the ad- | vance in industrisla and were “out | New | high records for the year were es. tablished by Missourt Pacific com- mon and preferred, Beaboard Air Line common and peferred, Chica 0 & Great Western preferred, West. clifc, Baltimore & Ohfo, Colo- rado & Bouthern and Erie common. Calling of a special meeting of Anaconda Copper directors for late today was accompanied by reports that plans were under way to retire part of the funied debt through the issuance of additional common stock. Anaconda ran up nearly 6 points to 4 new high at 1573 and Kennecort moved up 3 points to & new top at 95 . Western Union ran up 9 points to within a point of the year's high. General Gas & Electric A jumped 8 1-4 points and Purity Baking, Ros- !sta Insurance, General Electric, Al- |lied Chemical, Spicer Manufactur- ing, Goodyear Rubber, Packard Mo- tors and Victor Talking Machine sold ¥ to & points higher. Radio ! broke 8% points to 385 1-4 and then rallied to 398. THE MARKET AT 2:30 P. M. (Furnished by Putnam & Co.) High Low Close ¢ 8T 204 1201, 118% 1187% 0% 110 110% 181, An Ag Che pd American Can Am Joco .... Am Sumatra Am 8m & Re Am Sugar ... Am Tobacco . Woolen Anaconda Cop Atchizon Balt & Ohio. Beth Steel Brook Man Cer De Pasco Ches & Ohio CR1& Pac Chrysler Corp Colo 1uel .. Congolenm Consol Gas Corn Pro. Davison Chem Erie R R schmann eeport Tex Genl Asphalt Genl Elec Genl Metors Glidden LN Hudson Motors 92 Hersheys 69 Int Comb, Eng 42 Int Cement Int Nickel . Int Harves Ken Cop 963, Mack Truck ..1087; Marland Oil 40 Mo Kan & Tex 537 Mont Ward ..1357, N Y Central ..1883 NYNHG&H My, *North Amer 1047 North Pacific 1143 Pack Mot Car 1471, Pan Am Pet B 411, Phillips Pet. .. ’(i’ Pullman Radio Corp .. Remington Reading 9% . 633, 1687, Sinclair Oil Southern F sed Ol Std Oil N Y . 33% Stewart Warn 1397, Studebaker 893y Texas Co ..... boly Tex Gulf Sulph 747 Tim Rol Bear . 843 Underwood 10714 Union Pac .. 230 Union Carzide 2147 nited Fruit . 144 U 8 Ind Al . 145 U S Rubber 613 U 8 Steel 1873 Wabash Ry West Elec Willys Over Woolworth Wright Aero . 2 % 303 |HARTFORD STOCK EXCHANGE (Furnished by ®ady Bros & (o) Nailrond ke Hfd & Conn West R X guar Uanke and Trus Compunics Bankers Trust “apitol Natl Bank & Tvun Ln . City Bank and Trust Co Commercial Trust Co of N B .. Cosn River Banking Co . First National Hfd Natl Bank & 'rum ‘Co Hfd-Conn Trust Co .. Morris Plan Bank of Hfd New Britain Trust Co . Park St Trust Co . Phoenix 8t Bank & Trust Co & Riverside Trust Co ..... ‘West Hartford Trust Co ..... Finance (ompani First Bond & Mige Co ... Hfd Aetna fealty Co Land Mige & Underwriters ¥ o Fire Insurance (ompunt Aetns (Fire) Ins Co from 2 to 8 | PUTNAM & CO. Mambors Now York & Harford Steck Exshanges 31 WEST MAIN S§T., NEW BRITAIN TEL. 2040 WARTIORD OFVICE, 6 CENTRAL ROW. THL. 31348 We Offer: H-:tford Gas Company Common At the Market EDDY BROTHERS & & Members Hartford Stock Exchange W AN HARTFORD BurritHotel 8idg. Hartford Comn. Trust Bldg. MERIDEN Colony Bidg We Offer: 50 Shares Bristol Brass 50 Shares Landers, Frary & Clark Automobile Tne Cq . 815 & | Futter Brugh com €} 05 | Fuller Brush con L1310 1340 | Hart & C . 89011010 | Hartman Tobacco, 0/ 285 Hartman 1 Invurance | Tnternati International fJacohs M " Other Aetna Camualty & Aetna Life Ins Co . t'onn_Gen Life Ins Co itd Bteam Boil Iney & Ins Co.. Lincoln Natl Life Ins Co .. Travelers Ins (o Publi Light & Power (o, Light & Power U Coun Power Co, com onn Power Co. pfd ... Greenwich Water & Gas, pfd lfd City 1 Hfd ¢ Hrd }td Elec Light Co V T ( Holyoke Water Power Co Nortiiern Conn Power Co, S N E Telephom Munefacturing (nmpuuu Acme Wire Co, com Acnie Wire Co, pid ... American Hardware Corp American Hosery Co American Biiver Co ... American Thread Co, pfd ...... Automatic Refrigerating Co .... Balf, (The Edward) (o Beaton & Cadwell Mfg Co Bigelow-Hfd Carpet Co. com Bigelow-Hfd Carpet Co, pfd .. Bristol Brass Corp . o Bristol Brass Corp, pf Lockwood & Braina o 3 Patent Fite Aims Lo e Lock Co Bearing Co hergh Undaunted, Flies Again With Anne 1850] 1280 1300 21002150 530| 860 <. 140] 150 <arivien sl 1BS0/1BED Utilities pid .. Con nent-Poud_ Ce 14 3t Co ned . 193] T20¢ 180 1004 50 Terry Steam Torringten (n 8 d Co £74.018.800, Copyright, NEA Service, Inc. | The “mishap” in which Colonel Lindbergh and his fiancee nar rowly escaped serious injury, did not keep them on the ground very long, as these NEA and New Britain Humd pictures show. Here vou see the couple on Valbuena Field, Mexico City, next morning and in the two-seated, open biplan they started for a flight. Note how Colonel Lindbergh's right shculder and arm are encased in bandages and a sling; yvet with his left hand he handled the control stick of the strange plane with perfect ease during the three short flights they made that day.