New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 6, 1930, Page 10

Mother Says Her Son Is Bad Boy And He Is Sent to Reformatory | “He is a bad boy and T don't want him around,” was the story of | the mother of William Michlowski, | when she went on the witness stand | at this morning's session of police court at which the youth, who is @ly 16 years of age was arraigned eharged with breach of the peace and theft. Officer O'Day arrested the boy | last night in the neighborhood of | 174 Broad street, following his in- | vestigation of his mother plaint that he had struck he a result of the officer’s inquiries into the boy's habits he was further charged with the theft of veral | shirts from the store of Michael| Radzewich. The boy admitted the | theft charge when questioned later | by the officer. | Refusing to say anything in his | own behalf and maintaining an at- | titude of bravado at the entire pro- ceedings the youth smilingly lis- icned to the judge sentence him to the Connecticut State Reformatory for an indefinite period. In passing judgent Judge Saxe remarked that there was no other course open to him in view of the fact that the boy had appeared be- fore the court many times prev ously and he felt that severe di cipline was the only thing that might swerve him from his course | of wrongdoing. | TWO STOWAWAYS ABOARD R-101 ON [LL-FATED FLIGHT | {Continucd From Page Three) | craft as it passed low over (hmr; heads, perhaps 400 or so feet high. | Many remarked that the pilot did| not seem in absolute control of the | ship, that it wobbled unnecessari Y| and did not secem to respond to his | handling. The shock of the explosion which | followed the impact of the dirigible | shook the country for miles around | and the peasants of the neighbor- hood, unmindful of the torrential rain and the wind, ran across“mud- | dy flelds or through woods to the| spot, where pillars of fire rose and illuminated a vast area. Halted By Heat The heat stopped them dead considerable distance away, hov ever. Those nearest the flames said they could see men running about, frantically attempting o br through the walls of the where their comrades of the flight were imprisoned, 'one man was seen | at a window with a spanner in his | hand attempting to break through and out. The right hand of one of the bodies recovered afterward, and | unidentified, held a spanner tightly. | By daybreak the fire had burned out sufficiently to allow rescue meas- | ures to proceed, but there no | hope of finding anyone alive on the | ship. Metal girders had to be saw- ed through to get at some of the bodies which were taken out and| 1aid in a dell not far away and cov- ered with sheets furnished by the | peasants. The bodies were tagged | according to position they werc| found in the dirigible with the hope that this would aid in identification. It was noon before all the 45 bodies were recovered. Some of thern | were not whole. Doctors said that | there were arms and legs enough o | indicate that two, perhaps three | other persons lost their lives in the | disaster. There were eight surviv-| ors, and since the air ministry m.] i | | sists that only 54 persons were aboard this does not seem likely. The bodies later in the day were | taken to Allonne, a village near | here, and placed in an impromptu mortuary chapel there. The peas- | ants came with flowers and kindly | Frenchmen found several Union | Jacks to adorn the walls and make a fitting temporary resting place for the remains. They may be taken | back to England today on a war- | ship sailing from a channel port. The accident, one of the worst in the history of the air, and the worst in Europe since the Dixmude, French dirigible, sailed out over the Mediterranean in December 1927, | with 52 persons aboard, and failed | to return, shocked France as much as_Great Britain. M. Laurant French air immediately | by automo. he took sh and came s, where charge of the situation Planes Rush Relatives Lord Percy, Tyrrell, British bassador at Paris, also came immediately. A throng of planes | arrived from Croydon from early | Sunday bringing friends and rela- | thves of the victims to the scene. Le Bourget, French airdrome, had a graphic account of its own of the ill-fated trip to tell. K rom the start of the voyage at 7:30 p. m. (1:30| p. m. E. 8. T.) Saturday the radio | statfon there was in contact with the dirigible. At 1:50 a. m., Sunday the dirigible asked its position and ascertained it was about half a mile south of Beauvais. | A message was then sent that at | that moment the passengers, after | having enjoyed an excellent dinner | and having smoked many cigars, | were preparing to go to bed. The R-101, due to extensive fire proofing was the first lighter than air craft on which smoking was permitted. it was a few minutes after this mes- sage that the cnd came. An eye-witness of the airship dis. aster follows: her 05 SSRREN | cident were cabins | 2 | him unshaken in confidence that ar- | construction. | more i “The first intimation of the dis- | aster was a fortmidable report which | 1 first todk for a thunderclap. A few minutes later I and®some neigh- bors were on the scene. The air- ship had fallen into an orchard on top of some apple trees. Oh, what a terrible sight met our eyes. The flames were rising skyward and in vain firemen played hoses on the blazing ship. “We could see boldlies in the cabins which seemed to be twisted like chunks of burned cheese. We were able to save one man who was alone in the forward cabin. At the | present moment he is walking about | Beauvais with three others all of whom were slightly injured. Later ! we drew frightfully burned bodies out of the wreckage. It was an appalling sight.” Dies of Burns H. G. Radcliffe, rigger in the crew of the R-101, died today in Beauvais hospital, bringing the to- tal dead in the disaster to 47, end leaving but seven survivors. Rad- cliffe was reported yesterday as having died from injuries received when the dirigible crashed and burn- ed but later was said to have been in a coma. Radcliffe, who despite a broken hip and very bad burns found strength to drag himself from the flaming airship and crawl a hundred feet to safety succumbed painlessly at dawn today after administrations of morphine during the night. Con- | ditions of others injured in the ac- reported satisfactory with the exception of Engineers Cook and &Lavory whose hurns me’ still grave. | Finds Two Causes Washington, Oct. 6.—#)—Re- constructing the disaster to the R-101, on the statements of sur- vivors, Lieutenant Commander C. Rosendahl, who was aboard the American navy dirigible Shenan- doah when the elements destroyed | her, today placed his finger on two contributory causes—neither of the inherent faults of the airship. The two things which he believes may have caused the destruction of the British airship are barometric altimeters which measure the ship's altitude only in relation to condi- tions at the point of departure and the inflammable hydrogen which | filled the bag. | “The flying art,” he said, “has a most urgent need for a practical non-barometric aititude measuring device. It does seem possible that flying at an altitudes in reality ma- terially below the bellef of the | ship’s officers, the vertical currents of the squall might have forced the hip down onto the hilltop. With sufficient altitude at the start, air- ships often have been carried up | and down safely in squalls, | “That fre high speed crash of a hydrogen | filled ship into a hill seems almost | unavoidable,” he continued. “The | loss of life and the complete loss of | the ship must be charged primari- | ly to hydrogen whatever led to the crash. Such a crash to a helium fill- ed ship might not have been fatal to a single soul.” Rosendahl, who now commands | the navys lighter than air school at | Lakehurst where officers and crews are being trained for the great air- ships now under construction, placed little store in the reports of ob- | servers on the ground that the ship | was(in trouble before striking. He | recalled many similar reports in and explosion followed |si NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, OCTOBER. '6,\ 1930, _ Plainville Constable Mistakes Visitor at Banker’s Residence had eight cylinders esch arranged upright and in line, the bore being 8 1-2 inches and the strokes 12 inches. The fuel oil, it was found, would not give off any inflammable vapor at all unless it became heated to the temperature of boiling water. As originally designed the R-101 was 732 feet long.with un estimated lift of 150 tons. An extra later inserted to take care of the oil engines decided upon. This brought her length up to 775 feet. tubes and steel wire bracings. Many Theorles Held Theories as to the cause of the way from structural defects to in- ability to meneuver in a storm. As related here the dirigible, which this year was enlarged with the addition of an extra bay in the center, crossed the channel and headed into_ the French interior without incident but after six or seven hours of Cardington began to respond sluggishly to control and to wobble some in the storm. The rain poured in torrents and gathering on the sides of the dirig- ible added weight to it, and necessi- about Beauvais saw it pass over- head at about 400 feet altitude and in at least some cases gathered the impression it was having engine trouble, although the pilot, H. J. Leach, has denied this. South of Beauvais the dirigible slumped down into a valley, bumped once or twice slightly against ground and then failing to rise above the encircling rim of the valley, crashed into a hillside. The explosion, all ac- counts agree, followed immediately and fire soon consumed the ship. Leach believes that the crash may have snapped an electric connection and caused a spark which ignited the highly inflammable hydrogen litting ‘gas, or that friction of some of the metal girders as they render- ed apart might have brought a-spark which set off the gas. Absolve Smokers Practically none in authority lays any significance to the fact that smoking was permitted aboard the R-101, the first lighter than air craft n which this has been a privilege. soline, and fire proofing &f a room in one section of the ship were con- sidered to have made this possible. It was not believed that precautions taken against accident through smoking could have failed The dirigibldys lack of buoyancy Mmay have been due to rain gather- | ing o obserVers recalled that at departure from Cardington the ship rose only 20 feet or so above the mooring mast when it was released, whereas it should have risen about 200 feet. It flew so low over London on its way east that dogs came out and barked at it. Some held to the theory of a defect brought on pos- ) the recent enlarging. A frifnd of Major G. H. Scott, one of the noted air experts aboard -who lost their lives and the man who brought the R-34 to America, said that he tacitly expressed his mis- givings prior to the dirigible’s start. “Though naturally very guarded in his remarks,” the friend said, “he scemed to have some doubts on the all-important question of the ship’s lift. I formed the impression that he was 'not altogether happy over the enforced insertion of an ex- tra bay in the middle ot the ship after such great care had bten taken in the original designing, a step ne- cessitated by later introducton of heavier engines for heavier fuel. His connection with aircraft, all errone= ous, and pointed out that a dirigible was no more out of control than an ocean liner when pitching and roll- ing heavily in a storm. While indicating the fatal quali- ties ot hydrogen the airman recalled the many successful flights through dangerous storms of other ships | filled with the same gas. They have even been struck by lightning, he said, without suffering. The disaster, like the terrible catastrophe in this country which he and a few others survived, left emarks about a patched or mended hoe being never quite as sound as a new one seems to reveal some | element of doubt in his mind.” Inability of the dirigible to man- cuver in the last few minutes of its flight may have been due, some thought, ,to damage by the storm, such as loss of a fin, which made the ships are practical will be perfected. | “Ships can be replaced,” he add- | and that they‘ | ed, “but the great loss is that of the larger part of an already too small | nucleus of trained and experienced airship personnel.” Was World’s Largest London, Oct., 6 () —The great dirigible R-101 which salled proudly away from Cardington Saturday eve- ning on an experimental flight to Indla, only to meet disaster a few hours later, embodied the most ad- vanced ideas’bearing British airship She was the largest dirigible in the world with a bulk of 5,000,000 cubic feet and a length of 775 feet. A radical step forward in her con- struction was the introduction of crude oil burning engines in place | of gasoline engines heretofore in general use, a reform which greatly | reduced the fire ri On gasoline driven airships smoking is not per- | missible because of the danger of | fire causing an explosion but there | was no order against smoking on the | R-101. | There were five motors on the | R-101, as compared with six on the R-100. Four of the units were in pairs located: some distance behind the passenger accommodation while | the fifth hung from the center line near the rear end of the ship so sit- uated that it would give a good flow of air to the rudder. | 1 engines were of the Beard- | type with a continuous rating | 585 horsepower and a maximum | | rating of 650 horsepower each. They | of will annourcement The Plainville Strand Theater make an important soon. Watch for it. bay was | extra lift-required for the heavier | Her main girders were of stainless steel with duralumin webs or cross R-101 disaster ranged Yoday. all the | tated dropping of ballast. Residents | e of crude oil for fuel instead of | the sides of the envelope, but? tail of the ship unwieldy. Figures Differ Beauvais, France, Ott. 6§ (P— | Beauvais police here today declared |that at least 4§ persons died in the !crash and destruction of the British | dirigible, R-101, near herc Sunday morning. Forty-seven bodies were re- covered, they said, and one of the original survivors died today. The police figures do not agree with the figures of the air minjstry at London which has insisted that there were only 54 persons aboard, of whom 46 died in the crash, one other died later, and of whom seven are still alive. From the police figures it would appear that there were 55 persons |aboard. Discovery of a woman's shoe with a buckle still attached made it appear possible that thi 55th person was a woman. Survivors have insisted throughout that there were 58 persons aboard. At the Allonne town hall five of the bodies have been segregated from the remainder, leading to re- ports that they have been identified. Authorities, however, said that this implied no identification and that officially yio bodies had been identi- fled. The British-Erench commission of inquiry into the disaster met at |the town hall but in strict privacy. Gendarmes refused entrance all per- sons. The commission included J. | Cooper, specialist in air accidents | attached to the British government; | Major Booth, second i command of |the R-100, and Captain Neville, air |attache at the British embassy in Paris. On behalf of France there was Commander Renvoise, who for years was' director of the French airport at Le Bourget. One of the sad activities today was drawing up of the death cer- tificates of the victims in accordance with Frencl laws A solemn funeral ceremony will be held tomorrow in the historic Catheiral of Beauvais. H. Laurent Eynac, French air min- ister, will be present and Monsignor Lesenne, bishop of Beauvais, Will read the service. g Eckener Puzzled Leipsic, Germany, Oct. 6(P—Dr. Hugo Eckener, master of the Graf Zeppelin, told the paper Neue Leip- ziger Zeitung here yesterday that he must admit that he was puzzled by reports of the rainstorm which forced the R-101 down and was sup- posed to have cause the disaster. The dynamic lift of the R-101, he |said, is about the same as that of the Graf Zeppelin and the Graf dur- ing her South Agerican cruise had to fight rain with a load of as high |as 7,000 pounds, which, however, it {overcame dynamically without cast- |ing off ballast. | “On my return from the world | flight,” Dr. Eckener said, “the Graf | encountered a rain and hail storm | worse than anything I have ever seen. But we got through that | weather without having to release a single drop of water ballast.” Tittle Technical News Dr. Eckener stressed that infor- mation available so far was insuffi- cient to base a conclusion on and that the real cause was still a mys- tery to him, but, he said, he could not conceive of a rain storm alone {being responsible. | ®We have demonstrated clearly that |an airship can be navigated through | worse rainstorms. It would be fool- |ish therefore to generalize on the |R-101 disaster as proving that air- 'ships are unmanageable in such weather. We have shown that air. | ships are really a safe means of pas- | senger transport.” ¥ Paper Exposes Escape Tgndon, Oct. 6 P—The Daily Ex- {press today related an “alarming | experience which overtook the R-101 |during the air pageant last July |which casts a mysterious shadow across yesterday's terrible disaster.” The story as told the Express air correspondent {s that immediately after leaving Hendon and after hav- ing been in the air about four hours officers discovered that she contin- uously lost height. Members of the crew who exam- ined her gas bags found the small balloons, which are made of gold- | beater's skin, were chafiing against !the metal framework. The ship returned safely and was moored, but was saved only by the swift action of her captain, Flight Lieutenant Irwin, who dumped the entire water ballast and two tons of heavy fuel and employed every oth- er means of reducing weight. After she was taken from the mast and put in her shed it was discovered that more than 60 small holes were worn in the balloons. | When the new bay was inserted it | was asserted that a new method was introduceéd for arrangement of these gas balloons but_the paper adds: “The theory of yesterday’s disaster points to recurrence of the same trouble encountered in July.” EDUCATION SUNDAY AT FIRST CHURCH Certificates Presented fo Teach- ers at Special Service Religious education Sunday was observed at the First Church of Christ on Sunday morning with a | special service at the hour of morn- | ing worship. For the first time, the Internation- [ al Council of Religions Education | 1ias promoted the observance of re- ligious education week throughout !the 42 denominations which cooper- ate in religious education. The week from September 28 to October 5 was observed throughout the country as religious education Week. The pur- pose of this observance was to pre- sent to the church membership the tull significance of modern religious education, not only for children and young people, but for the -adult membership of the church. Miss Dorothy Page and Frederick Schmalz represented the young peo- ple of the church in presenting im- | pressions of the Congregational Young Pgople’s conference held at Storrs, Conn., and the Northfield conference of religlous education, to which they were sent as delegates. In all approximately 30 members of the church, chiefly young people, attended summer conferences or camps during the past summer, Fol- lowing the reports of these two dele- agtes, Rev. Alfred D. Heininger spoke on the subject “What Does Religious Education Seek to Do?"” At the close of the address the officers of the Sunday church school, the newly appointed teachers and the parents in the Congregation par- ticipated in a responsive service of consécration in recognition of the responsibilities and opportunities resting upon them for the religious training of the children and young peoplerof the church. At the close of the service certificates of appoint- ment.were presented to the members of the teaching staff. City Items Certificate of incorporation for $50,000, of which $10,000 has been paid in, has been filed with the sec- retary of state and the city clerk by the Willow Brook Golf Range, Inc. The incorporators are Arthur L., Peter and Frank Suzio. The local course operated by the concern is on South Main street. Have you played the Indoor Lit- tle Meadow Golf Course at 147 Main St., next to Strand theater. Daily prizes.—advt. Mrs. Annie L. Schrey, clerk in the building department, resumed her duties today after a vacation, Fora very brief period, new Pierce-Arrows _ are going to be remarkably easy to own. This is an intense period of stock re- adjustments —widespread throughout the industry—and today’s Pierce-Arrow values are a conspicuous consequence. From $2695 at Buffalo DEALER’S NAME (NOT MORE THAN TWO LINES OF ADDRESS) HERE And at Pierce-Arrow Showrooms Everywhere ALBRO MOTOR SALES CO. 225 ARCH STREET TELEPHONE 260 | the public ignorant Murglar James Quinn of Rockville Wounded by-Schubert — Neighbor’s Report of a “Prowler” Brings Posse to Home of A. A- Mac- Leod. (Special to the Flkald) Plainville, Oct. 6.—Efforts to keep of a shooting which occurred last Friday night at the home of A. MacLeod, treasurer of the Plainville Trust Co., have failed as the result of an in- vestigation pursued by newspaper- men. James R. Quinn, aged 58, of Rockville is in the Bristol hospital with 2 bujlet wound in his abdomen contrary to an announcement made at his home that his injuries con- sisted of a broken eg and two fractured hips sustaine® in an auto- mobile accident. Two bullets were shot from the 3% calibre service pistol of Officer George Schubert, who found Quinn alone in MacLeod’s darkened home on Red Stone hill and. opened fire | in the belief that he was a burglar. Prosecutor Charles F. Conlon de- clined to discuss the case when questioned by a Herald reporter last night. “No report of any-shooting has been made to me,” he said. Reports Burglars in House According to the version given by Schubert to friends, he was notified about 10 o'clock Friday night that burglars were in the MacLeod home. His information came from Miss Lucy Rogers of 128 Broad street who reported that she saw mysterious lights flashing in the house. Recruiting Charles Diggle and several others, Schubert went to the MacLeod house. The bdilding was surrounded. Peering in a window of a solarium, Schubert is said to have seen Quinn sitting on a couch snap- ping a hand flashlight on and off. “Hold up your hands and sur- render!” Schubert is reported to have shouted. Thinking the gang outside was composed of highwaymen, Quinn dropped down on his knees beside the couch. Schubert fired two shots through the window and one found its mark. “I guess you've got me boys,” Quinn is sald to have remarked weakly when the posse entered the house. / Dr. Lawrence H. Frost of Plain- ville and Dr. P. A. Nestor of Bristol were called to attend Quinn. They found him weak from loss of blood and had him removed in an am- bulance to the Bristol Thospital, where the bullet was extracted. Shoots Him In Leg Curtain of Secrecy Fails Then the authorities hu: up a curtain of secrécy which was not pierced until newspapermen got on the trail of the story yesterday. The explamation of ‘Quinn’s presence in the hospital given out at Rockville was that Quinn, who is a district deputy of the Knights of“ Pythias, was returning home from a meeting in Bristol and wasgun down by an- {a(her automobile when he stepped out of his car. | | Quinn is said to have been a fre- | quent visitor at the MacLeod home. | When he went there Friday night | the family was absent, Mr. MacLeod being in Cleveland at the national convention of the Anferican Bank- ers’ convention and Mrs. MacLeod and her daughter being in Hartford, where they attended a-theater. Admitted By Sister-in-Law According to one version of the affair, Quinn drove to the MacLeod residence, parked his automobile in the highway and walked to the front door. The lower part of ghe house was in darkness but he rang the beil ang Mrs. Estelle MacLeod, sister-in- law of A. A. MacLeod, answered and recognizing Quinn, let him in. Why he sat in the dark and turned his flashlight off and on is not explained. Miss Rogers, whose father owns property near by, saw the flashes and sent in the alarm to Officer Schubert. The rush to the MacLeod | home and the shooting quickly fol- | lowed. It is not clear whether Schubert ifired both bullets. Bullet holes in | separate but adjeining panes of | glass in the~window through which the pellets sped are evidence -that the shots were fired while the posse was outside, and the position of the holes is said to indicate that anoth- er member of the party used a pis- ‘tol. One bullet smashed Quinn’s ‘watch. Mr. MacLeod returned Saturday from the Cleveland convention and was informed of the affair. State’s Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn of Hartford county is reported to have been informed of the shooting. Whether he will take any officjal cognizance of the wounding of Quinn or will prefer to have the case handled by the local authori- GRAPE v | Hickey. ties is not known. Mr. Quinn conducts a furniture and undertaking establishment in Rockville. Tt was learned today at the county building in Hartford that the case kad been reported to the state’s ate torney’s office and was in the hands of County Detective Edward J. State’s Attorney Hugh Al- corn stated that the case had not been reported personally to him. The board of selectmen of Plainville stated that no action would be taken in the case by the town unless it ‘was requested by the state’s attorney, TEST GASE LOOMS FORLOCAL COURT State Awaits Outcome of Murtha Suit With Interest A case that is being watched with interest through the state will ba tried soop when the scire facias ace tion of Louis Marchinek, landlord, against Mrs. Cfra Murtha, wjdow of Thomas Murtha, will_be heard. Judgment was given in city court in favor of the plaintiff, Marchinek, in his suit for renf, but it is claimed that because there is a facility of payment clause the John Hancock Life Insurance Co. is holding up payment until it receives a cour order to do so. Accordingto members of the legal fraternity in this city, this will' ba the first time this clause will ba tested legally. At present the opin< ion is that it is‘impossible to gars nishee the insurance premiumg which are due Mrs, Murtha on tha death of her husband last Febru< ary but this will be contested if it is necessary to go to supreme court, " Attorney Andrew S. Aharonian said togay. Since that time three suits have been brought, one by Marchineky another by the grocer, Harry Na< jarian, and a third by Mrs. Deborah Murtha, mother of Thomas Murtha, against her daughter-in-law. Judge Traceski gave judgment for all three plaintiffs in city court. The scire facias will be heard in the same court. Attorney William F. Hagearty is representing the defendant, Mrs, Murtha, and Kirkham, Cooper, Hune gerford & Camp represent the ine surance company. 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