New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 8, 1929, Page 3

FUEL SHORTAGE IS BLAMED IN CRASH Empty Gas Tank As Plane Dives and Kills Two Fliers New Preston, Conn., July § (B— An empty gasoline tank was blamed today for a 200-foot nose dive which vesterday carried an air mail pilot and & 19-year-old boy to their deaths. The plane was an ol one that Gordon Spencer Whittley, 19, of Kearny, N. J,, had bought for $500 and reconditioned himself. He had rebuilt the motor and relined and re- coated the fuselage. Started on Visit Yesterday, Gordon and Martin F. Brown, 34, of New Brunswick, N. J., who recently married Gordon's sis- ter, Eleanor, took off from Metro- politan airport, Newark, N. J., to visit Gordon’s brother, Philip, and his aunt, Mrs. Oscar Swanson. Philip Whittley saw the plane come into view and cruise about as if in search of the Lake Waramaug field here, he said. He signalled the wind direction and the location of the field. The plane banked to the left. The fuel supply gave out then, it is thought by Clarence M. Knox, state aviation commissioner, and George D. Pranitis, state aviation inspector, who in their inquiry noted the empty tani. The ship went into a nose dive, with no power to right its course. It | buried its nose in the ground. Brown and Whittley were dead when they wero removed. The plane had double controls and Philip Whittley said he could not tell whether his brother or Brown | was at the stick. i Star of School Team | Gordon Whittley was a star on the Kearny high school football team in 1926 and 1927. Despite the protests'| of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nils | Whittley, of 676 Bélgrove drive, | Kearny, he left school to become an aviator. Brown as a mail _pilot headquarters at Hadley South Plainfield, N. J. had his airport, | Personals Ralph H. Benson, sccretary of | the Chamber of Commerce, has re- | turned after a week's vacation in Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Dechant of Reading, Pa. who motored here July 4th to yisit relatives on Park street, returned home yesterday. Mrs. A. Malmgren and daughter, Lois, of 65 Sefton drive, have re- turned from a short vacation spent at their cottage at Rogers Lake, Old | Lyme. They had as their guests Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Olson of 6 Belden street. Mrs. Russe 8. Chaloner and daughter, Natalie, of Chicago are spending the summer with the for, mer’'s father, D. H. Davis. of 473 | West Main street. Mr. Chaloner will spend the month of August with| Sinski, assistant manager of Proctor’s 55th street theate is spending a few days at > in this city. He will leave for Atlantic City later in the week. CANOE FOUND ADRIFT West Haven, July 8 (P)—A canoe containing a man’s trousers and sev- eral articles of clothing was found drifting in Long Island Sound near Stratford Sunday by T. J. Bennet of New Haven. Bennet was returning | from a motorboat cruise when he | saw the canoe, a black hull with gray trimmings, bobbing along. He took the canoe in tow and returned here. 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For that matter, he ought | to be, for tariff is his favorite bit of legislation believing it the only thing for New Britain. One of the most | Herculean tasks ever taken over by | a private citizen is credited to Mr. | Bennett who headed the drive for | funds for a bigger, better hospital and that beautiful Luilding on the hill will stard as a monument to his | memory, even if he didn’t vote for | Al Smith whom. we suspect he se- cretly admires (they were both self- made men, you know). Of course just a syvmposium, but even | editors think once in a while a trait | is hard for lots of folks to | understand. That sounds like a bit of a lecture for Mr. Bennett, but it isn't at all t a little ramble on the public the freedom of thought exercised in these columns. Well, an the prize goes to . B. Coltury 151 Washingion street for the following letter:— Today's silhouette is that of C. F. Bennett, president of the Stanley New | Britain General hospital. | He was one of the outstanding | figures in connection with the build ing of the addition to that institu- | tion and is naturally, a friend of | Superintendent Reeks | The silhouette editor’s pun about | his making it a rule to be on the | level is a good Stanley quip but those who know lr. Bennett know that | the jest is founded on fact. Mr. Bennett rose from a poor boy | be president of a world famous | hardware manufacturing concern, t and those who know him acknowl- edge the success Socially he is prominent and be- | iongs to the Shuttle Meadow club as | well as a host of others. 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He handles a popular make of automo- ible, one which the editor hopes to buy when his ship comes in. The kind of car was one of the earliest makes surviving the competition which has been so marked in the automotive world for the past 20 vears. He sells other cars which are classified as non-competitive to the higher priced ones. He is a busi ness man of rare foresight and uses the Herald to make known his wares: You don’t have to tell him that the Herald's circulation is over 15,000—he knows it by the re- sults he gets. He has a place ot business on East Main street, and T e g | hours of Sunday morning, June 30 |the sch:duled hearing on those be. DELAY COURT HEARING ON DANIEL FAY'S DEATH |ofisr™in"cne " Souirington voice T Dhas gained an enviable reputation of | square dealing by making the words | “Where Fairness Is Featured” mean | something when selling a used car as | well as a new one. His ads are| often in the Heraldi—have been for years, so surely you should know him now. Who is he? There's a dollar waiting for you, maybe, at| our business office. |court, has been postponed. Prose- | cuting Attorney Harry C. Camp stat- Proceedings in Southington Postpon- ed today that the deputy coroner ed Pendiag Report From had expected to reach his finding Deputy Coroner. over the week-end but further evi- | (ERTE (5 St dence has been brou atten- | tion and he is unable at the present WOMAN REPORTED MISSING Southington, July $—Owing to the | ;" come th a decision. Anton P. Szezepanski of 62 North |fact that Deputy Coroner Walter M. street reported to Sergeant J King at police headquarters today|ment of his decision on the fatal ac that his wife left home July 4 and |cident at the foot of the Waterbury has not returned. Mountain highway in the «carly Thomas Loughlin of Waterbury, nd Robert Logan of Plantsville are all being held under bonds of $1,.- | 000. The victim of the accident was | Daniel Fay of New Britain. ———— Week’s Activities in Catholic Churches |orclock, first anniversary | Morando; Holy morning a Conr s follows Chufrch turday J.|Smyth has held up the announce- |pr John M. O'Neil of New Britain |Mind for James G The men of tk parish will r ion next the 8§ o'clock mass. Mary's nnounced yes- | Monday at 7 | for Mario | month's | |George Swain Leaves | Estate to Children The will of George Swain was ad- | mitted to probate today. The will, | after requiring that all just debts | and funeral expenses be paid, makes the following hequests: diamond stick pin to a son, William G. Swain of Har:ford: watch and chain to a son, Dr. Charles E. Swain; to a daughter. Grace M. Swain, a house and lot, furniture and automobile at 25 Forest street. The balance of the estate is divided equally among the three children and another daugh- ter, Ethel P. 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