New Britain Herald Newspaper, June 29, 1929, Page 1

AT ROOSEYELT FIELD uselage Damaged but Pilot Is Un- hurt—Hawks' Clothes Unsolled— Weariness Causes Reaction Which Forces Aviator to Sock Sleep— Average Speed Computed at 183 Miles an Hour for 5,600 Mles. Roosevelt Field, N. Y., June 29| M—His weariness forgotten in the ipy of success, Captain Frank M. Hawks completed a non-stop flight roms Los Angeles at 1:16:03 a. m., 2. d. t, today, establishing a one- stop round trip coast-to-coast rec- ard ef 36 hours, 46 minutes and 48 seconds flying time. Spectators of his arrival were momentarily alarmed when, in landing his plane darted across the field and struck a fence, damaging s undercarriage and fuselage. Hawks was uninjured and climbed aut of the plane'to be cheered by a erowd of admirers. He was greet- ed with a kiss by his wife. He made the flight to the Pa- cific coast in 19 hours, 10 minutes and. 32 seconds, breaking the rec- ord of 24 hours and 51 minutes, established last year by the late Captain C. B. D. Collyer and Harry Tucker. i Detained by Repairs Although he had planned to re- main in Los Angeles only long enough to refuel, he was detained seven hours and 14 minutes by needed repairs to the plane’s sta- biliser and carburetor. Taking off from Los Angeles at 3:37:47 a. m., Pacific time, yester- hday morning, he brought his plane down again on Roosevelt fleld 17 hours, $8 minutes and 16 seconds later to break the record of 18 hours, 21 minutes and 59 seconds he established last year. He had hoped to make the round (Continued ‘on. Page Two.) ERICAN EMBASSIES AT THREE CITIES DRY 43 erlin, Copenhagen and t Oslo Diplomats Serve ' No Liqyor London, June 29 ~The Ameri ean embassy at London, made “dry’ by a recent decision of Ambassador Dawes, is not the only “dry” Ameri- ean territory in Europe. The embassies at Berlin,® Copen- hagen, and Oslo also have the status. In the other European cap- ftals, guests at official dinners may indulge in the usual wine courses. Only tea and coffee were served at the “housc warming tea” in April at the Berlin embassy, the only ofti- cial entertainment yet held there. Ambassador Schurmann himself lives in private quarters at his own expense and in official dinners of the past, prior to opening of the new Luilding, served the usual wine course. The American minister at Oslo is a fotal abstainer and the question of serving alcoholic liquors has never arisen there. No spirits have been served at Copenhagen, Denmark, for the last two years. The embassy at Paris has been closed since the death of Ambassu- dor Herrick. No liquor is served in the diplomatic chancellery which i the only part of the embassy now functioning. At Madrid and the smaller capitals of southeastern Eu- rope there apparently has been no disposition to dry up the officlal functions. The embassy at Rome had no comment to make on Am- bassador Dawes’ action. ALL FIREMEN ON CALL OYER FOURTH OF JULY Mcmbers of Off Platoon Expected ' to Remain in City on Indopendence Day. Although he said that no general warning as to fire prevention was fecessary for the Fourth of July becausz the public knows that fire- works of all kinds are dangerous, Fire Chief Wililam J. Noble told of the measures which will be taken by the department over the national holiday. “Since New Britain has had the two-platoon system fire hazards on the Fourth of July have been very easy to control,” the fire chief do- l,'llred “This system has been in eftect for the last five or six yeara. Thoss firemen who are off on the ‘ourth are cautioned to remain in e city and to respond to alarms #0 that on the day of the celebration the city has twice as many fire fighters on duty as it has on other days. The present system has work- od out so well in the past that few precautionary warnings are neces- sary bhecaude the department can Bandle the fires if they are started.” - |ferred with Viola Gentry and Jack Ashcrafé had christened t heir endurance plane “The Answer.” as a bit of flip. pancy ahned at the fligh: of “The Questien Mark,” p revious holder of the refueling endurance record, Death was the “answer,” however. when their plane r an out of fuel and Ashcraft was killed in a forced landing in New Jersey yesterday, while Miss Gentry was dangerously.injured. Incidentally the accident revealed an unsuepecte] romance—for Bill Ulbrich, w ho is aloft in the “Three Musketeers,” Martin Jensen's endurance plane, was the lover of flight in quest of a record. “Three Musketeers’ Attempt at Record While Woman Fller In Wreck Battles For Life Real News Kept From Ulbrich, Whose Romance With Viola Gentry Was Only Discovered After Crash of Plane—“Flying Cashier’s” Chances Regarded as Uncertain Today. Roosevelt Field, N. Y, June 29 (M—Sorow and anxiety were unwel- come stowaways in the monoplane, Three Musketeers, as it circled over Long Island today striving for a new endurance flight record. Snatches of radio conversation between the plane and the fieldl station indicated that Martin Jen- sen and his wife, Marguerite, were in & conspiracy of kindness to kecp remeWilliam Ulbrich, third mem- ber of the crew, details of the trag- edy -which befell .their friendly ri- vals, Viela Gentry, *The Flying Cashier,” and Jack Ashcratt, Calls for Ulibrich Miss Gentry, in Nassau Coun‘y hospital, with her chances for re- covery . doubtful, frequently called for Ulbrich, as she did when she Mies Gentry. Ulb rich, Drones On In was lifted from the wreck of her plane yesterday. Ulbrich, knowing that Miss Gea- try had been injured, but not how | seriously, Kkept grimly on with the grind upon which he and the Jen- sens embarked at 7:32:02 Wednes- @ay night In their effort to better| the record of 172 1-2 hours set by the Forth, Worth in May. The crash of Miss Gentry's planc, The Answer, in which her co-pilot Ashcraft was killed, near Old West- bury, N, Y., yesterday revealed that # stronger sentiment than the com- radeship of the air existed between | Ulbrich and Miss Gentry. | As she was lifted out of wreckage she murmured: the | (Continued on Page Two.) FIRENEN TO RESCUE OF BREAKFAST COFFEE Cows Burned Out, Enter Another Barn on Ladders * Herald) 29 — A spa- (Bpecial to the Southington, June cious dairy barn, equipped with the most modern machinery for milking and other dairy work, and containing several tons of newly cut Phaw and a 50-foot «ilo, were ‘destroy- ed this morning at 4 o'clock by fire. The buildings were on West streep outside the water district, and were owned by Joseph Dukas. The dam- age is estimated at about $15,000. ‘The Southington fire companies tesponded to £n alarm but = the firemen were helpless because of the lack ‘of water. Efforts were devot- ed to saving the livestock which was in the-barn and through quick work, 33 head of cattle and a prize bull, were saved from the flames. Mr. Dukas serves hundreds of ps trons with milk in Bristol and in or- der to supply his trade, it was ne- cessary for him to take his cows into another barn where they could be milked. The firemen stripped their trucks of ladders and formed -an impromptu ‘runway through which the cattle were driven into a barn some distance away. There the farm hands sped along on their milking duties and Dukas completed his milk route on schedule this morning. It is thought that the fire was caused by a gasoline engine used to cperate the gutomatic milking ma- chine which was in the barn. - Lindberghs Guests At St. Louis Homes 8t. Louls, Mo., June 29 UP—En- tertained by 4he backers who. first believed the obscure national guard captain could fly from New York to Paris, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his bride toduy faced a program of business and of informal pleasure. They intended taking oft for Kansas City on their leisurely western flight late this afternoon or Sunday mern- ing. While Lihdbergh yesterday con- transcontinental cir transport officials and inspected the facilities of the line, Mrs. Lindbergh was entertained privately by Mrs. Harry Hall Knight. Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh were guests at a small dinner party given by Major William B. Robertson, a backer of the New - York-to-Paris flight and the colonel’s old air inail boes. Southern Cross Hops f Off Toward England | Singapore, Straits Settlement, June 29 (M—The airplane Southern Cross, with Captatn Charles Kings- ford Smith and three .companions aboard, left here today in continua- tion of its flight from Sydney, N. E. W.. to England. The next stop prob- ably will’be at Singora (Muang Sawing Kla) Siam, on the eastern coast of the Malay peninsula, suspecting the worst, This plcluu shows Ash craft, inset, on left and Miss Gentry, inset, on right is grimly continuing his WEATHER POOR AS 67 GOLFERS START Espinosa and Sarazen Leading as Third Round Opess MORE RAIN THREATENED Armour Early Starter and Possible Menac: Leaders—LEspinosa One Over Par on First Three to Holes, Winged Foot Club, Mamaroneck, [N. Y., June 29 (®—With Al Espi- nosa and Gene Sarazen tied for the lead, the field of 67 still in the run- ning for the pational qpen golf championship got away on the third round of play today. Weather conditions hardly were ideal. ‘There was a, stiff cross wind 2nd heavy clouds carried more than a hint of rain to come. It was much cooler than it had been on the first two days of play. Armour Starts A blustery wind swept the course as Tommy Armour started off on his third round, accompanied by Bobby Cruickshank, with 145. Ar- mour was a distant menace to the leaders. Bobby Jones, two strokes behind the leaders at the start of his third (Continued on Page 15) HIGH TIDES—JUNE 30 New London 3:55 a.m.,4:37 p.m. 5 FAL TURNS DOV QUIZ INVTATION Alderman Will Not Attend Pub- lic Works Board Meeting 10 REPLY THROUGH PRESS Declines Opportunity to Support Charges City Laborers Are Re- celving Higher Wages Than Forc- men and Money is Being Wasted. Alderman Walter F. Falk has de- clined the invitation of the board of public works to meet with that com- mission and amplify his charges of extravagance in the hiring of auto- mobile trucks and excavating equip- ment. acting mayor, said today: “It is not only the board of public works that is to be, considered, it is the general public. The public wants the in-| formation ayd since Chairman Dob- son of the board of public works so graciously caused to be published the letter he sent to me, T will an- swer through the medium of the press.” Alderman Falk promised a reply early next week. The public works board is meeting Tuesday night, and it was at this session that the alder- man was to be queationed as to the accuracy of his public statement that commen libor is being paid more than foremen in the city's employ and that money is being wasted »y engaging privately owned trucks in- stead of purchasing equipment. [ The department of public works questions the judgment of buying trucks and tying up money in equip- ment which can be used for only part of each year when trucks and | steam shovels can be rented, the cost extending only over the period of actual use. His statement that laborers are being paid more than foremen is incorrect, City Engineer P. A. Merar says. Baby Falls Two Sfories; Suffers Fractured Leg Norwalk, June 29 (® — Two year old Michael Russo fell two stories to a concrete pavement— and lives, slightly hurt, to tell the taje. The child fell out of a window head foremost but turned a somersault in the air and landed on his feet. He suffered a fracture of the right leg and is being treated at Norwalk hospital. e — THE WEATHER New Britain and vicinity: Fair tonight and Sunday; | slightly cooler tonight, some- what warmer Sunday. | | | | * | | * THIS WEEK'S AFFAIRS fosTmasTq t«une' G u“‘smlf‘z"x‘m‘ i woml. GEING MUSH Oy PoSTOPYICE ADDIY qu Y g'mluuv' SUGGEST 10 MOSFTT . "}5“- The alderman, who at present 15 Army Aviator Dead After Crash of Plane Mireola, N. Y., June 29 UP— Corporal Elmer Barry died today in the Nassau county hospital from injuries and burns received yesterday when the army ebser- vation plane in which he was riding with Lieut. Maxwell Bal- four burst, into flames and fell 2,000 feet to the ground, His condition had originally been re- ported as fair, but he suffered a relapse after midnight. Lieut. Balfour will recover. 22 INJURED 5 BUS - OVERTURNS OV ROAD |Wet, Oily Road Blamed in Youngstown, Ohio, Crash Youngstown, O., June 29 (UP)— | Twenty-two persons were injurel. |seven of them meriously, when a large Pittsburgh-Detroit bus of the Nevin Lines aKidded on a wet pave- ment and overturned early today. There were 27. pagsengers on the bus, which was driven by Jack Ir- vine, Pittsburgh. Irvine, an attend- ant at the Pittsburgh station of the Nevlin Lines, was substituting for the regular driver, Eugene Pasqual- ia, also of Pittshurgh, when the ac- cident occurred. RBoth men were \amonk those injured. F. E. Volter. division superinten- jdm( of the company, said no blame could be attached to Trvine. A wet pavement and ofl on the road caus- ed the bus to skid. he declared. | Passengers, interviewed at the | hospitai. declared the bus driver at- | tempted to pass a car and failed to observe another one coming in an opposite direction. He applied his brakes, causing the machine to skil. The rear wheels caught in a stone culvert, turning the bus entirelv around. The bus then toppled into a ditch, pinning most of the passen- gers under it Among thosa injured were: FEu- mene Pasqualia, 30, S8harpsburg, P: 8am Schuman, New York city; Mrs. Szrah B. Potter , 24, Pittsburgh; Jack Irvine, Youngstown; Leo Man- gold, 25, Bwissville, Pa.; James Katz, Pittsburgh; John 8heehy, Pittsburgh; Donald Goldman. 28. Pittsburgh: Yale Cohen, 20, Pitts- burgh; Robert Schuman, 19, Pitts- burgh; Andrew Gulydan, 20, East Cannonsburg. Pa.; Mrs. Theress Gulydan and six persons from Cleveland. SCALDS KILL WOMAN Waterbury, June 29 (P—Mrs. Nellie Virbisky, 45, of Scott road, Naugatuck, died in the Waterbury hospital at 8:15 o’clock this morning from a scalding received at 9:45 o'clock last night when she tripped {and fell while carrying a pan of hot | water. ey K(DS ON NGTON IMD PAULT Wit 173 CONDITION~— RESIDEATS CAN'T FTAND IT MECH ET'EN wnun./ e 3 OTHER RESCUES AT SEA ARE RECALLED Ruth Elder's Plane Saved—Two ~ More Ships Escaped HAWKER LUCKY ON HOP Commander Rodgers’ Aircraft and Companions Found Off Hawaii i One of Most spectacular Cases on Records of Aviation. New York, June 29 (P—The Azores has been the scene of other fortunate rescues since man with his air machines first detied the ele- ments in efforts to span the Atlantic. Ruth Elder and George Halde- man, American transatlantic fliers | and Commander Pinedo of Italy were saved from al- most certain death by the timely | rescue by steamships. Others Rescued Other notable sea rescues of avia- tors elsewhere, after hope almost had been abandoned, were those of Harry G. Hawker, English darc- devil in 1919, and the late Comw- | mander John Rodgers and his crew of naval aviators were found floating on the wreckage of their plane off the Hawalian Islands in 1925, Francesco De |, France, Dornier Amnllihhn' Bob- bing on Waves—Hunt Practically Discontinued When Successful. Madrid, June 29 UM — Al but given up for dead, 'Major Ramen famous Spanish aviater, and three companions who started {a transatiantic flight to the United States by way of the Azores mere than a week sgo and have simnce been missing, today were en réute Miss Elder and Haldeman were rescued off the Azores when a broken air line forced them do‘n\ Sept. 13. 1927, as they were flying to ‘ Europe. They were picked up hy the Dutch tanker Barendrecht near where the fliers made a fortunate landing. Commander De Pinedo was flying home after a tour of four continents. Forced down cn his flight from Trespassey, N. I°., to the Azores, hie was towed safel} Into Fayal. Probably the most notable durlnl the past decade was that of Com- mander Rodgers and his crew in the (Conunued on Pn‘e 15) SLAYERS OF MARLOW. SOUGHT IN BOSTON Police Net Tightening— Racketeering Disclosures Boston, June 29 (M—The killers {of Frank Marlow were being sought |in Boston's north end today The police net seemed to he closing in on at least one of the three men who rode with Marlow in the death car last Monday night and, with the arrest of that one, ]ommeri here were of the opinion that the other two would be pick- led up in short order. 8ix New York detectives and a squad from the bureau of criminal investigation here made an early morning trip to the north end. They returned to police headquar- ters without having made hn arrest but were convinced that the “tip” that took them on their early morn- | ing search was “straight.” A second squad of men, made up | entirely of New York officers and “playing alone,” were said to be (Continued on Page 15) MISSING GEMS IN TOE OF OLD SHOE $4,000 Worth -of Jewels Turn Up at Rummage | Sale ‘Westport, things find places. Eight years ago, Mrs. Charles 1. De Bevise, wife of General De Bevise, but then the wife of Fred- erdick E. Lewis, 2nd, wealthy South- ern California rancher, lost $4,000 worth of jewelry. She reported the loas to police blaming her maid’s carelessness bat though a search was made and con. tinued for several months the gems were never found. Last night a woman whose name the police refuse to divulge went into a jewelry shop in Westport and exhibited two wrist watches and three rings. “Who owns thete?” she asked. The jeweler did not know, but he notified Sergeant Albert Frazer of Norwalk polic:. Frazer and .Captain John A. Dolan of Westport police looked at the initials and at the June 29 their way UP—Little into little to Gibraltar aboard the British airplane-carrier Eagle. Snatched from the waters of the ! Atlantic at a point barely 100 miles southeast of the island of Santa Maria on the tip of the Aseres |archipelago, the airmen were re- ported all well by the British res . cue ship. Even their plane, &' huge two-motored Dornier-Wal, was sal- v\n‘ed, although slightly damaged.’ News Reaches Spain First news of the rescue was given out at the Spavish ministry of state which announced- it |received the. word from. the Bpam- |ish- consul" at - Gibraltar. The oaf- | sul's message read:- “Franco and compeniens W up alive. by ‘Eagle neer. Aseres Coming Gibraltar.” which received a mesage frolm Eagle stating = that the miming plane had been found h m (Continued on Pul ll) : Arouse Public 3"““ B“m l:m Middle Welt Ruion Ex- pected to Get Best Representation Washington, June 29 UM — The designation by President Hoover of three of the eight men he will name for membership on the fed. eral farm board left agricultural leaders speculating today. on the question who will be appeinted from the great middle westarn farming region to represent prin. cipally the wheat interests. 5 Announcement of the member, or members, to represent this com- modity has been awaited with the keenest interest, mainly becauss wheat is regarded as the commodity in greatest need of immediate ap- | plication of the stabilization cene templated by the act under which the board will function. From Border States # The first three membérs aa- nounced come from the “border states” — agriculturally speaking —' (Continued on Page 18) BURGLARS WAKE WOMAN, at the house owned by Mre. Williams, located close to the ‘ Monroe school. Miss: l“- a light sleeper; theught that heard someone downstairs Westport files and discovered Mrs. De Bevise. then Mrs. Lewis. had re- ported the fewelry missing. She immediately identified them. The woman who found them saii. “I bought some old. shoes and other clothing at a rummage sale. In the tip of one of the shoes was the jewelcg” S dtgd s s Fliers Unreported Hm Than Week — Airship.