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Ver-Sur-M- Forced Down er, CAPTAIN NICHOLS HERE THEY ARE, WITH SMILES OF SUCCESS FISHERMEN FIRST at About 175 Miles From Paris-Fli- ers Float Ashore on Pneumat- CHOSEN AS SUFT. TO GREET FLIERS ic Raft-- All Four Exhausted-Estimat-es Place OF STATC POLICE AFTER THEY LAND Flight at 4,200 Miles-Comp- ass Went Wrong.

They Saw America Come Down Commissioner Hurley Promotes Byrd That Before Bad Weather Encountered and Assisted oar Survivors Says to Position His Former Aide Plane Landed They Had All Way Across Ocean to Safety He Himself Held Been Turning Around Giant Aircraft Wrecked and Around in Fog, Ab- About 200 Yards From ALL SCIENTIFIC DATA LIEUT. STILES ALSO IS solutely Lost. Shore. SALYAGED FROM PLANE GIVEN HIGHER POSITION France, July 1 UP) r, France, July 1 OrV-- e Machine Itself An account of how the America Is Badly Damaged Out of gasoline and groping Become Captain Within Short came down and how Commander blindly Bnt Does Not Sink Byrd Himself through fog and rain to find a saffl , Ser- Byrd and his three companions got Time Eight lieutenants, Nine the trans-Atlant- Exhausted ashore was given by the command- haven, planf Appears Absolutely er to Max America geant and ! Policemen and AIM himself Mathey, a French descended safely in th After Three Days and Nights aviator and journalist who brought sea early this near thl4 Will Be an morning Several State Inspectors reporter here town on the coast of Without Sleep Men Floated from Paris in an Normandy. to airplane. ere Floated To I Appointed by Captain Stiles was of Shore Ashore On Pneumatic Raft. It the arrival the airplane Successful in brave which awoke Commander he their achieve Veteran PoUoe OnVsef. Left to Commander Richard E. Noville, Pilot Bert Acosta, and Mechanician . Byrd, ment against great difficulties 14 right: Byrd, Flight Engineer Courseulles-Sur-Me- r, told when met France, July Mathey, Byrd crossing the Atlantic, and Hartford." 1 ( Frank M. Byrd and Noville are naval officers. Acosta and Balchen belong to civilian aviation. 1 VP) Two fishermen named Martin in the kitchen of the home only 17f July Mathey miles west of their goal, Paris, - state deputy-may- th Nichols, captain of the police and Marius, witnesses of the descent of the of this village. American aviators headed Com since. 1922. was named of the trans-Atlant- America "Commander said by department plane Byrd," Mathey, mander Richard E. Byrd made tM superintendent of the department to- into the sea just off er 'on being awakened, met me in the sea FIREWORKS DISPLAY were way through the 200 yards ttf day by State Police Commissioner Commander and Clairton, Pa., Boy Wins this morning the first to greet kitchen where we had a meal. He shore with the aid of Byrd Companions Commander Richard E. a pneumatic Bobert T. Hurley. World's Marble Byrd and said the arrival of the plane awoke raft which had been able Mr. as com- Title his three and to con He was about sack they ta Hurley's appointment companions him. uneasy the Inflate just before their atrucH missioner became effective today,' duct them to safety. of United States mail which he plane Will Leave For Paris This Evening BIG JULY 4 FEATURE Atlantic N. 10T me waier. of Nich- City, J., July The fishermen, who were prepar carried in the America' and which and the promotion Captain Little Joe Medvldovich, All Were Exhausted ols was his first official act In his ing to put to sea for their day's had been left at the lighthouse Clairton. Pa., lad, is the saw Tired by their long air voyage thai new; capacity. Superintendent Nich- work, said that they the plane after having been taken from the had carried across world's marble champion today. down in the mist and them the Atlantic ols at once named Lieut Walter F. Due There About Midnight OFFICERS SILENT ON to Be Shown slowly coming plane." and in a vain cruise in Pyrotechnics He won the title by capturing then plunge into the sea at what the fog and Stiles, captain. five tilts two In Were Lost In Fog rain above France to find the ' and losing only seemed a distance of about 200 or flying Nichols was ap- in Which "Byrd told me that before Superintendent Village They at Stanley Quarter a series with Thadues Walag, of. 300 from shore. just neia at Le Bourget, the exhausted to the state in 1917, Mass. yards the America came down he and his men went to pointed police STANLEY WORKS STOCK .Ludlow, Little Joe The fishermen saw a raft-lik- e ob bed almost as soon as while serving as a constable in Landed Was Far From Park climbed on the mythical throne companions had been turning they had made their way to shore He was ject coming to shore and said that around and around in the Westpbrt. born in Weston, before an audience of 10,000, ran to the water's where fog with the help of fishermen and the they edge were. -- this state; in 188 and is a graduate Ideal One for Airplane, young and old, on the beach without knowing where they keeper of the lighthouse here. , in Eastoa. The the aviators landed and declared no oil was left and no of the1 Eastern Academy Decline to Whether Independence Day fireworks and boardwalk at South Caro- their The two French Virtually It was 2:20 a. m. French time that ' Say - ' identity. --- - He became a constable in m fatter Dotted With celebration of the eitjt to be held. lina avenue.- fishermen then took the American gasoline. the American fliers, seeking land '1 some time In Being " "We had no choice .but to seek bavins: pent agricul- Preferred Issue. WiD v this year at fliers to the house of M. Crolffier, and safety after their long voyage Sup-erf- ti' tin Stanley Quarter we ture andS a the building trade. Rocks assistant of a lahging,' Byrd said. 'When through the air, dropped into the and Reefs. park on Monday, July 4th, promises mayor water tail of air- end'snt Nichols has been very Be Retired which was about a mile and a quar- struck the the sea about 200 yards from shore and of crime mys- to be one of the most successful In was torn off with as. in the solution ter from the place at which the plane together were quickly Into the water to their has re- We immediate- teries In Connecticut since he years. If plans of the municipal AIRDROMES IN OCEAN landing was made. the landing wheels. elbows. it 1 VP) Commander out our row-boa-t been with the state police, and Paris, July Officers of the Stanley Works to- creation commission materialize. M. Croiffier received the aviators ly began to get rubber Manning their rubbed was. due to evidence offered Richard E, Byrd and his compan- the of boat. We were up to our breasts in raft, which was of the mainly day declined to anticipate what the Preceding display pyro- most cordially and Commander part equip- by him that the grand jury returned ions will leave for technics there will be a concert was as water. We got ashore but had no ment of the made sev. board of directors will recommend by WILL BE GIVEN TESTS Byrd quoted telling him that plane, they true bills against Emil Schutte. of Paris this evening and will arrive the Philharmonic band of this city the oil and gasoline of the America Idea where we were.' eral trips to shore, saved all tha Haddam on two murder charges. In here about midnight, H. A. Gib- to the stockholders at the board and after dark, the fireworks will was almost exhausted and that they " 'Do you think you'll go to most important equipment of their 1921 he became lieutenant and in bons, personal representative of meeting called for Wednesday, July begin. They will be shot off in the had been on the lookout for land. Paris?' I asked. ship and then went to sleep at tha 1922 was named Rodman of area east of the lake the don't homes of captain. Wanamaker, sponsor 6, at 11 o'clock a. ra. Rumors that sloping just Govt, to Out Two of the American airmen went ".'To tell you truth, I their French hosts wha of the flight, telegraphed to Mrs. Gib- in the park and the plot will be Try Gigantic to of M.. know what we will do,' he took them in with Captain Stiles; a native Friend' a recommendation the sleep at home Croiffier, replied. gracious hospital' Y.', has been with the de- bons here late today. regarding roped off to prevent curious spec- 500 while the other two were given beds "Commander Byrd, reverting ity. shlp.'N. In tators Landing Places partment fourteen years, and has calling of the balance of pre- from er broaching too near. at the home of the lighthouse keep again to his landing, said: Only the top edge of the plane' won many since he first Not Ideal Place ferred stock now outstanding would Police will patrol the park and as Miles Off Coast er. Sat Down on Beach wing was above the surface of tha promotions was the case no automo- entered as a state policeman. 1 VP) be made met with no last year, M. Croiffier said this afternoon: " 'We sat on the beach until 4 sea, but the filers, their minds one Washington, July Byrd's .confirmation, biles will be allowed Inside the more The only appointment made by landing place was far from a good gates. "Martin and Marius waked me up a. m., and waited until the deputy-may- easy after their long battle although they, were not denied. There is a vast amount of news with Nichols today Was one, dotted with rocks and parking 1 (UP)--Move- d with the that an airplane had and the fisherman Marius fog and rain, slept Superintendent being the matters still to be act- on the streets Washington, July peacefully Stiles, but within a Among space newly developed recent record-breakin- g fallen into the sea and that the arrived.' until called at i o'clock this that ot'Captajn reefs a short distance from the to the west by oceanic after week he is to name a first com- ed on by the stockholders is ratify- of the highway where aviators had come ashore. I dressed "Then while the commander and noon at their request. expected shore, with a rough beach, will be allowed. flights by American airmen, the gov- lieutenant, a lieutenant Inspector, an of mixture of and ing amendments to the parking ernment soon will undertake exten- and went down to the beach with I were talking M. Nayeux, the assi- Was Very Tired posed a pebbles corporation's The fireworks have been purchas- son. men of weights and measures, the National sive tests in the Atlantic ocean with my We found two much stant-prefect, came in, and with Commander Byrd, who had adde4 Inspector sand, Geographic charter made necessary by the pur- ed from the New Fireworks Com- lieutenants, nine sergeants and said in a England a the United Press exhausted. One of them was great seriousness and formality to his laurels of being the first maOJ eight society today descriptive chase of the Tube and Co., of Hartford and include besides floating airdrome, I seventy-nin- e state Bridgeport mander Byrd. brought them to the of to fly across the North Pole, the new policemen. bulletin of that section of the some 15 set learned today. presented congratulations Stamping Co. When the Stanley pieces, several hundred my house and gave them something President Prime Min- distinction of the Atlantic French coast. bombs. Of this are The tests will be held in coopera- Doumergue, spanning con- number, there to eat and they are now asleep." through unfavorable The aviator might well have Works bought the Bridgeport 75 tion with engineers of the DuPont ister Poincare and the French gov- unusually atorng special display bombs which, "The other two aviators," said conditions, was but was LAKE GEORGE VESSEL cern it also acquired certain rights Il- company at Del., who ernment." , very tired, paraphrased another famous greet- when exploded create brilliantly Wilmington, "are some distance not too he and said, in Bridgeport, such as the privilege are ready to launch the seadrome. Croiffier, along tired to write up his log afl ing when landed, luminated effects In the sky while the beach. were taken in by the we are here," the so- of running freight trains through the Work on the ocean airport has been They flight. "Champlaln, there are in the finals, which will be the lighthouse keeper. KILLED IN WALLINGFORD He chatted with his hosts said, because it was from rublic streets. The Stanley Works a of a scene going on for three years and It is an SUNK, NO ONE INJURED ciety to reproduction battle in drank a of milk on this coast, that Cham-plai- n went the . legislature and had an epected to be ready for anchorage glass before retbja Honfleur, the world war, more than 400 bombs Wanted to In the home of In 1807 set out for his famous act passed validating these rights alone. in about two months. The device Sleep ing Joseph Crolffie ' but the change In the corporation's is 400 feet square. France, July 1 VP) Connecticut Quarries Company Em- deputy mayor of voyage to North America. ' The Niagara Falls, reproduced In charter, while the di- A house influential In "Don't wake me up until four," was Commander Byrd declared on . of , approved by fireworks this will be member, Is Crashed to ai Steamer Strikes History Vicinity not year, unusual, Commander Richard E. Byrd's re- ploye Death While riving in this little rae Sagamore "Ver-Sur-M- on rectors, has been ratified by the in will be more than 100 naval affairs, predicted the govern- picturesque la a tiny village that It feet as he went to bed this the America 30 miles due stockholders. Under the law it is and when the falls start flow- ment will build one 1,200 feet long quest early at Work This Morning. sort, that had encouaa Reef Near Glcnburnie the Norman ciast long in this little town on the tered bad weather all the west of Deauville. and about the necessary for the stockholders to act In balls of fire, will be and 300 feet wide If the tests prove morning way froog ing they Conn., 1 VP) the United States and same distance southwest of Havre," within two months of tha time the transformed into three different col- successful. Walllngford, July that fog h4 Today act (Continued on Page 24.) Salvatore 40, was crushed him and his associates Early said the bulletin. is signed by the governor. ors red, white and blue and will Navy air officials, It was learned, Venture, kept from' the in of the have examined of the de- to death between a pullsy belt and finding the air lane to Paris an4 "The department of Normandy in Concerning calling then change to a natural silver color, blueprints preferred stock, officers of the board the whole vice and were highly enthusiastic the wheel of a stone crjsher in the,! had forced them to grope blindly la Lake N.Y.. 1 VP) lighting up park. AUTHOR OF "WAR BRIDES" s Georga, July had nothing to say, explaining that unusual feature of the over its success. worKings or ine Connecticut yuar-rie- the air until they had no choice bat The Bake George steamer (Continued on Page 26.) Another passenger It would not be proper to in- DuPont have asked the company at Reed's Gap, East to make a descent as best the a craft with a licensed anticipate celebration this year will be the engineers FAMILY Sagamore, recommendation which the dis- to two mine GIYES FUND TO Walllngford, today. could when their gasoline ran out. struck any troduction of a Roman candle navy place sweepers at capacity of 1,200 passengers, board might make to tho stockhold- some 200 their to haul the seadrome Venture and others were repair- Make Things Shipshape ' on on the east ride of the WRECK IN SPRINGFIELD play, with a flight of disposal a reef, ers. The reports circulated about the simultan- 500 miles out Into the Atlantic for ing the belt. Medical Examiner J. F. With things made as near in thick candles, shot into the air shipshapgj lake, Qlenburnie, a fog included the rumor that nov- the tests. When anchored It will Major Elliott White Springs Con- Buffum found that the engine stop- aboard their plane as possible, the) was beached a half corporation eously. There has not been a today and after when the stock was re- of In float 90 feet below the water and ped on dead center. When the men American aviators divided, to mile Fourteen Persons Hurt, Two Per- preferred elty this kind shown before. tributes 12.000 to Wife going dash for shore. tired, more common stock would be will be numerous 60 feet above. f of tried to turn over the wheel to different houses, to obtain muck The steamer to reach the addition, there pin managed. Car issued. wheel of colors, It Is to the seadrome move the belt there was enough needed rest wharf of. Glenburnie where haps Fatality, When, Trolley aetpieces. varigated planned put Wartime Buddy. the, club, The Works issued $6,000,-00- 0 as as some fan-lik- e test steam left in the cylinder to turn Commander Byrd and Lieutenant were dis- Stanley well through a vigorous passengers and freight and Truck Collide. air- 1 VP) the wheel once and in over O. ' - in preferred stock in 1920 to that are closed when they are light- period. It is possible the navy Memphis, Tenn., July The going George Noville, radio engineer , before- the vessel- was charged finance the of the ed but out, fan-lik- e craft carrier will be sent to Commercial Venture was caught. and alternate pilot, went to tha stranded with feet cf water In Springfield, Mass., July 1 (UP) purchase Stanley spread typically Langley Memphis Appeal today eight Rule and Level Co. at 325 par, guar- fashion when they are in full glow. the vicinity of the seadrome so says that Major Elliott White Death was instantaneous. The home of the deputy mayor, while her hold. Fourteen persons were Injured, two no rela- to retire it 327.50. . Ac- man whose man, so far as known, had Bert and In col- anteeing at Humorous pieces, with a riding navy airmen may test Its landing Springs, aviator, stor, "War Acosta, pilot Lieutenant The steamer carried only about 20 perhaps fatally, here today. a to records in stock brokers' on and was tives here. Bernt fourth one-ma- cording a tricycle and going forward possibilities. Birds" published and Balchen, member of in addition to her crew lision between a n Chlcopee-Springfle- ld serially passengers, office, although they are said not to backward will also be shown. First tests were conducted with a later in book visitel the crew, went to the home of the of 35. John Washburn. of car and a five-to- n form, Memphis Captain- trolley be exactly up to date, 33.854,500 of As usual, there will be seats pro- miniature seadrome in a small tank. and left 312,000 for the wilow of the McKenzie lichthouse keeper, Lercop. They .. was' In command and motor truck. Gunn, Parker, Ticonderoga the preferred stock is still outstand- vided for the members of the city After had two children of John were sound asleep In a few minutes was John McCabe of Bur- Michael 84, and Michael engineers perfected every Macdougal the' pilot Sweeney, ing. government, boards and commis- work was started on the one Grider whose wartime was the And Haviland Winners and their hosts set up a guard to Vt. were- on detail, diary 1 VP) lington, Morlarty, 30, who riding sions and families. These seats will which will be used In the basis of Garden City, N. T., July keep them from being disturbed. on which the were to hos- coming Major Springs' story. The reef Sagamore the truck, taken Mercy be in a roped area on the west side Grider, who In the British Watts Gunn, of Georgia Tech., Compass Wont Wrong. struck extends from Nose where their condition was re- experiments. fought Lewis Roland Antnony's pital, JULIA SANDERSON WEDS of the pond, near the water bank. Success In the new venture will Corps, Parker of Yale, Commander Byrd, explaining the which is on the southern Royal Flying distinguished Mackenzie of Brown and mountain, ported critical. There will be ample room for thou- Increase the chances of pas- himself as an aviator before he was university wandering of the America In the fog entrance to Glenburnie and Twelve of airplane of Yale reached the Bay passengers the trolley sands of people to congregate on the service across the Atlantic. killed. Springs, Grider's com- Paul Haviland over France for many hours and his Glen-- senger Major semi-fina- ls about half a mile from the J car were hurt. John S. in Ver-Sur- -. slightly Noted Musical Star Becomes west side of the ppnd, all along the With such a device the hazards en- panion, got the diary after Grider's golf final landing in the sea at burnie club wharf. There was no ex- motorman. was hurled Comedy dis- here by Bowden, park where the best view of the countered In flying over tho ocean death. championship today winning Mer, said that his compass had gone citement the passengers and seri- their third round matches. among from his vestibule but escaped Bride of Her Leading Man. In play will be available. would be materially reduced. The Commercial Appeal says that wrong shortly after the America no one was hurt. ous Injury. came here from to Gunn defeated Emerson Carey of had reached the coast of vFrance In is believed that to the Springs Chicago 3 and 2: Parker beat Ells It repairs Frank Rossemelsl, 28, driver of Springfield Today. Monoxide Gas confer with the attorney for the Cornell, the vicinity of Brest. Then the thick steamer can be completed within 10 the truck, was arrested and held un- Poisoning Romance Dating From worth Giles of Princeton, 2 and 1; held the and did not ' Springfield, Mass., July 1 VP) Grider estate concerning sharing Charles Grace fog plane they days. der 3800 bond for hearing July 28, Kills Danielson Man 1918 to End in with the Gride? Mackenzie eliminated know where they were. Julia Sanderson, musical comedy 1 VP) Wedding royalties family. of 2 and 1, and Haviland on reckless Danlelson, Conn., A 1 ro- Princeton, said , driving charges. star, was married at noon to July New Haven, July (UP) A He that they might have SUICIDE IX HARTFORD today victim of monoxide gas poisoning, mance between an American soldier put out Charles D. Hunter of the been near Paris at one time but that 1 Frank who forseveral sea- of 3 2. Hartford. Conn., July (UP) Crumit, William John 24. was in- Senator Bingham's Son University Washington, and could sure. sons man. Hamilton, and a French girl that had Its they not be When their ."Here I go." as she wad- Aviation Tourists Are has been her leading found dead in his garage today by oil was run Muttering rec- ception In the days of the world Is Working at Asylum gas and nearly out. . Mrs. The ceremony took place in the LINDY HOPS OFF ed into the Connecticut river, Now at Philadelphia his father, C. A. Hamilton. The Ig- war will come to a culmination with Conn., 1 VP) Commander Byrd said, the America to- tory of the First Middletown, July St. 1 (PI Colonel Isadore Glaubmah, was drowned 1 OP) Thirteen Congregational nition on his automobile was turn- a In the French T. son of Louis, July was .headed in the direction where Philadelphia. July church in where Miss military wedding Charles Bingham, United A. off in day. Her body was recovered In airplanes entered in the third an- Longmeadow, ed down and the motor appeared to capital when the former soldier re- States Senator Hiram has hopped the sea was thought to He In the Sanderson's Mr. and Mrs. Bingham, trans-Atlant- four feet of Wkter a short time later. nual national air tour, landed on parents; have run until It stalled. The gar- turns to France with the American a career in medicine and his monoplane Spirit that a safer landing could be Albert make ' elected a. m. on hope Mrs. Giaubman left her home last the Pitcalrn field at Horsham Sackett, their home, age door was closed. Hamilton had convention this fall. next fall he will enter Yale medical of St. Louis at 9:03 today made there than on unseen land. flying the of the actress the Legion an to night about 10 p. m. She had been 1? miles north of Philadelphia, parents being left the house about an hour before The soldier is Lieut. Anthony R. school for his post graudate work. unaccompanied flight Ottawa, The commander avowed that th under the care of a doctor. this afternoon. The of only witnesses. Immediately after his body was found. Teta. He has not seen his bride to He was from Tale Canada, where he will participate America was driven until the fuel early stop the' to graduated college the pilots and passengers, sixty In the ceremony couple went a be since 1918. last week. tomorrow in the Jubilee celebration was virtualy used up. He sent down . new MOVIE ACTOR HURT all, was made for luncheon after home which Mr. Crumit . had BUS HITS POLE Mr. Bingham who was active in of the confederation of Canada. a flare and then followed with th 1 VP) in an 1 UP) to " ' I.os Angeles, July Paul which it was planned to resume to purchased exclusive residential Hartford, July Winsted his undergraduate life, especially re- plane. p.; Vincents, Hungarian aotor brought flight to Baltimore. district of Longmeadow, where they Hartford bus filled nearly to capac- cently when he championed the FIREWORKS FATALITY Commander Byrd said that tha to the United States a few months One plane was missing. It is the will remain until st when ity on Its trip to this city today, loft THE WEATHER cause of Edward M. Woolley, Fltchburg. Mass., July 1 VP) plane struck shallow water and tM ago by film producers to take fea- Eagle Rock, of the Alexander Air- they will begin rehearsals for the the road a few hundred yards this resigned undergraduate dramatic Burns resulting from a premature landing gear was torn off. Th ture parts In plctudes, was Injured craft Corporation of , piloted season. . side of the top of Avon mountain y jew ana vicmuy: coach, is attached to the staff of the Fourth of July celebration today plane quickly submerged te tha If critically yesterday when his auto- by Paul Branttt. The plane took off This was Miss SandersonT y third and crashed Into a telegraph pole Mostly cloudy tonight ana Connecticut State Hospital for the caused the death of ld wlngfs where the filers clung somtf mobile plunged over a 300 foot em- No. 4, and Is believed to have been marriage. Her first In 19' ".' was to and a tree, throwing more than 20 Saturday; slowly rising Insane and during the summer he Irene Lowe, of Fltchburg. Explosion time until they succeeded la launctf. bankment at Laurel. Canyon near forced down between Tod Sloan, jockey, and J.er second persons from their seats and injur- will study especially physiological of a firecracker set fire to her cloth 1 here. and Philadelphia. .was to Bradford Barbette" in 1917. ing several of them slightly. chemistry. ing. (Continued en Fag Itfc ' OCT , 31 1S7 171433 M