New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 10, 1929, Page 16

- 4 When Away With Rebels’ Air Force Currency Offered Pay in _Worthlus Rehel Gencral Escobar. upper right, owed $6,000 for the flying services of Captain Edward D, Barber, left. But when Escobar tried to pay his ttle Eagle” in p aper money negotinble only when the revoluticn was successful, Barber took Escobar's airplane and escaped to the United States. The general's private plane is pictured belpw, with wings detached, as it appeared while being transported on a flat car attached to 5 his train, By EDWARD D. BARBER (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.} “Chickens today and feathers. to- morrow”—that's the old saw a sol- | ourscives up, dier of fortune must live by. If|to do that. things break your way, you may live | Laughed at Paper Money in a pulace; and if they don't you| At any rate. whatever might have sneak out the back door—and go on |becn done, General Escobar reap- your way. peared. Then came one of those Which is another way of saying amusing scencs such as are staged that when General Esc who | in musical comedy revolutions. Es- led the Mexican re: had | cobar had no money, but he still dreams of victory, we all built hopes | claimed to have lots of hope. 1 of fame, fortune and high position. | didn’t. He owed me $6,000 in flying And when the house of cards top- |time. I asked him for it. We had an pled over, I ducked out under cover argument and he pulled a wad of of night. | paper money from his wallet. Called Him “Little Fagle” | “What is that?” T asked. Escobar would &pin some of the | “Oh, this.” said he, “is paper ne- dreams to me as I piloted him about | gotiable at the —for he had made me his personai | when T am president.” pilot from the beginning. He call-| T had to laugh. ed me his “Little Eagle” (I only| “Negotiable ¥hen you are presi weigh about 200 pounds) and would |dent! Pardon me, general, if T tell me all he would do for me when |starve in the meanwhile.” he became president. I was to be| That settled all matters for me, ‘head of the air force and would get ‘ Then and there I figured to get away a fine salary, high rank and I don’t |in the airplane | had been using— know how many dozen medals. | and under cover of night. T figured And while he was flush with vic- | that if I took the main part of his tory we made a lot of money. A |force with me, there was litle dan- nce flier of fortune fares very | ger of pursuit. I knew that three at in, while he fares. T was| other fliers were over Juarez way paid $250 per flight, and often I was |—that Polk and Murphy were called upon to make four and five through, and so I got the two native flights a day. A nice little income— | fliers at Chihuahua to hop off wih $1250 a fay. And for a while T got | me. it, and so did the other fellows. Sometimes, when he had made a #ood raid, we were paid in advance | crept out to the field. We didn't —and always were paid in gold. |dare start the motors there for a But things soon begun to go from | take-oif since we would have been had to worse with the Mexican rebei | grabbed by the soldiers. Stealthily afmy. The filances were particulan- | and by casy stages, we wheeled the Iy bad. There came a time when planes for a couple of miles. Then, n@ one in the air force had heen paid | about three o'clock, we hopped. Tt for days. General Escobar had gone | had been my intention to fly straight to_Juares to see what he could do.|to Washington and settle all matters | Murphy—two other Americans who walked over the border and given but we didn’'t want Fopped OF at Night flew with the rebels—we could have | claimed I government banks | | sible We waited until midnight and then | Well, I've heard that Calles has jumped out in a plane purchased with money stolen from the Mexican national banks. I as- sume that is the way Escobar bought the plane, as well as the others— though T had nothing to do with the bank raids. The fact is that Calles should give me a vote of thanks— I completely disrupted the rebel air force, and took most of it with me. Plane Still Sought Then there's & little argument as to whether or no customs regulations were violated by not landing at the first airport réached. At Philadel- phia the customs men found nothing and cleared the plane. It may be only a matter of making some ex- planations which would involve pos- court proceedings—but | haven't the money to retain a good or. T didn’t get any money from cobar, and 1 had lost the plane I went in with—so my conscience doesn’t hother me about the planc I cloped with. As a matter of fact, T haven't got it now, although T may have an idea where it is. I'm sure this will all blow over after a while, |and in the meantime I'm counting Venczuela. FILES SUIT FOR $8% Claiming that the defendant failed to pay for material furnished in th- | construction of buildings at 30 anc 34 Day strect, Louis Nair hrough action yesterday against Nichola Scapellati through the firm of Nai & Nair seeking $800 damages. Th | plaintifis claims $222.62 due on eac i house. Papers were served by (‘on | stable John 8. * DOG ATTACKS BOY Peter lashenka, 15, of 352 Nort) Esch day our bill for flying ume}uwmuuy But in the morning my mounted higher. And no word came |two companions abandoned , from the commander. His status|They dropped down at the first air- ! restless. Three of the pilots—myself | pened. T saw the soldiers and cus- | his trousers and ! and twe native fliers—began to talk |toms men grew weaker hourly. | port we passed—Ft. Bliss, in Texas Stationed In Chihuahua, we grew | From the air, 1T watched what hap- rush out and surround me. iiurritt strect, complained to Offices | William O'Mara yesterday that he vas attacked on Iiroad street, ncar |Grove street, by a dog which tore bit his leg. The cwner, whose name and addre , mbout getting out. But how were we | their planes. 8o 1 zoomed and kept | hoy did not learn, took the to do 1t? Of course, like Polk ani|right on going. More than |away | accordng to the compl; on attending a little party down in NEW STREET NAME HEARING DELAYED | Brady Ave. Residents May Not Insist on Action While it is not likely that the pe- tition for a change in the name oi Brady avenue, {0 Tyler street, will be withdrawn, it was indicated today that the petitioners will not make 2 hard fight to have -their recom- mendation adopted. The hearing before the city plan commission, scheduled for 8 o'clock tonight, has been postponed for one week, former Mayor George A. Quigley, chairman of the board, said today. Francis C, Kelly, cashier of the City National bank and member of the board of finance and taxation, who is one of the signers of the pe- tition for a change in name, said to- day proponents of th2 measure care tittle whether it is approved or not, but that they believe it would be a matter of convenience both for the residents of the street and for strangers, who could easily be di- vected. The reason for selecting the rame Tyler is the fact that other streets in the district are named after former presidents of the Unit- ed States, and if Brady avenue is changed, a *Presidential District” will be created. Strong opposition to the proposed change had been built up. The strect was named in honor of the late Thomas H. Brady, one of those responsible for the municipal water works, a former alderman, police commissioner and representative in the general assembly. One® advertisement for a husband brought a Massachusetts woman 19 replies. She still is unmarried, NEW BRITAIN DATLY HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 10, e —— e e 1 CLASS DAY ATN. B. H. §. — Pupil; to Wear Favorite Colors om May St—Resiricted ' Obscrvance Because of Comstruction Work. 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