Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent

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The.  Only   Funday   Newspaper I'overlnc the W>amLng Valicy
WiLKES-BARRE, PA., Sl NDAY, MAY 22, 1927
Rnterrd   at   Wilkas-narrt.   Pa.. aa   Stcond   Class   Mai>   Matter
PRK E EIGHT CENTS
PARIS GOES WILD AS AMERICAN FLYER WINS; y COULD HAVE GONE FARTHER SAYS DARE DEVIL P      AT CLOSE OF DASH ACROSS ATLANTIC OCEAN
.       ..   .   ... .      ]LINDBERGH IN A ONE MAN AIRPLANE
DOER OF FEA T THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE
PUNCTURE ALL TIRES   |l S   ON BOULEVARD ROUTE
The Flyer Who Made Good
Motorists Using New Bear Creel< Pave Are Subjected To A Costly Experience
PRACTICAL JOKE BLAMED
Aji unknown miscreant who Bpread n virtual carpet of tacks along the Bear Crock boulevard lust night crip¬ pled moro than onc hundred automo¬ bllea and caused unlimited traffic troublo to scores of motor parties. Practically every machine traveling: between Eaat End nnd Shade's Creek •was disabled. For hours the sides of the highway were lined with cars of all Bizes and makes as tires went sud¬ denly flat as a reault of the ambus¬ cade. State police are at work on the caiie.
The widespread effect of the prac¬ tical Joke became known laat nipht at 6   o'clock   when   more   than   a  dozen automobiles  arrived  In the city with urgent  orders   for  tires  to  be  carried back to machines stalled on the moun¬ tain  road.    Some of tho drivers wpr»* L forced   to   remain   there  until  late   In [ the   night  before    necessary    repairs llpould bo made.
It was lato in the afternoon when the work of the mL=icreant wai dis¬ covered. Drivers traveling toward the city noticed an unusually large num¬ ber of machines Jacked up alon^ the hlffbway aoon after Shade's Creek waa pnased. On the Bear Creek boulevard the number of "crlppleH" continued to prow while further on tho Jam became BO tangled that it wa.s necessary to work In and out of paralyzftl cars. In¬ vestigation revealed fhat the road for znllea waa dotted wilh thousands of new carpet lacks. The condition ex¬ tended almo.<it to the East End bouad- Rry   line  of  the  city.
One driver who was forced to pull Up for two hours until a companion came to the city for two new tires, pave a description of the scene. H« anw one man guuniing a car that had three flat tires. A looal dealer who was bring:lng ten new ni.ichinea to Wilkes- Itarre waa forced to halt his entire taravan, every ono. of tho machines having- flat tires. Tho same driver who made the report declared that in one Bt retch of t he road he counted over elxty  automobiles  stalled.
The case was reported to tho author¬ ities and the Stato Highway Patrol waa assigned to make an Investigation. No arrests had been made late in the sight.
NUNGESSER AND COLI ARE REPORTED SAVED
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St. John, N. F.. May 21.—An unveri¬ fied report reached here tonight that tho missing French trans-Atlantic fliers. Nungesser and Coll, had I»een picked up by a Grand Banks fishing ftchooncr and brought to a south coast port.
The report was entirely unconfirm¬ ed.
Three persons were Injured seriously and a dor.en others shaken up and bruised last night when a pa-ssenger coach of I,<ehtgh Valley train No. 8, due In Wilkes-Barrc at 11:30 p. m.. was derailed at Rockdale, two miles ea-M of Slatlngton. After the car lefl the tracks, It.sldeswlped a coal train. Twenly passengers in the disabled coach were thrown 'nto panic aa the car bumped drunkenl> over the ties for a distance of approximately half j^^ a mile.
The Injured, al! of whom are in Palmerton hospital, are:
Angelo Marlow. pa.ssenger, Wtlkes- Barre. Fractured leg, lacerations on head.    Condition fair.
A. R. Budd. i>a.MsenKer. a native of India.    Broken t>uck.  May dlo.
IjOuIs Whi.stler, brakeman. Weiss- port. Fractured skull. Internal in¬ ternal  Injuries.    May die.
The do»n other passengers who were cut by flying glass and .splinters, ¦were treated nt the scene of tho wreck by 8UI goons hurried to Rockdale tiy Lehigh Valley offlcials. Several others who wore reported severely hurt, were treated on the train and were not taken to uny hospital, it was reported.
The derailment occurred at 10 o'clock as train No. 3, bound from New York to Buffalo, was passing Rockdale. Although the exact cauae of the wreck wus not determined early today, it is belirved a front truck worked looso causing the third day coach from the locomotive to swerve out of line. The car left the rails and for a half mile bumped over the tips. It finally lurched again.st a coal train, cauaing heavy damage fo rail¬ road property and injury to the pass- en gens.
Marlow, thc only Wilkes-Barro pas- .senger taken to the Palmerton hos- pltal. was showored with glass. He was nlso wedged bet ween two ^eats. Budd. the other pa.sengcr. had arrived in New York only yesterday from In¬ dia. He was on his way to Detroit. 12 hours after reaching the Cnited Htates he was in the hospital In a dying con¬ dition, due to a hroken back. Whi.stler. the third man In the ho.spital, wns a member of the crew of the coal train.
After the wreck, train N9. 3 was put together again and taken buck to Allentown. In the meantime, train No. 5. due m Witkos-Bari*o at 1:30 a. m., was held ui>. Both trains were later routed over the Jersey Central track"* and arrived here after 2 o'clock this morning.
.\tlorney Andrew Hourlgan, who was returning from New York, had intended traveling on train No, 3 but mis.sed It. Hc later saw It disabled after  his own  ti-nin  had  been  delayed
(Continuf*d  on   pac   11,   sf»ct ton l)
HAPPY OVER JOURNLY      Cutg Tivo And One mif Hours Frotn BUT  HAS NO DESIRES        Time He Believed Necessary  To
FOR RETURN ATTEMPT     ^'^^^ ^'^^ Flight From Neiv York     I    To Paris And Averages lOT'A Miles
Lindbergh    Went    Through Flew As Low As Ten Feet And 	
^'FRENCH ACCEPT HIM AS HERO
1000 Miles Of  Rain  And Sleet While Crossing Ocean
Oftentimes   As   High Ten Thousand Feet
NEVER FELT TIRED
BARRED STIMULANTS
Captain Charles Lindbergh And Hia Mother
PLUCK AND LUCK
—An Editorial
SUICIDE SUSPECTED IN CASE OF MINER
Plymouth police are inclined to the the man, who told her ho was lookins
belief that Emil Para&hef.skl of Ply¬ mouth, who disappeared from hts home May 2. with a razor, is a victim of Bulclde. AJthough a conai.stent search has been maintained no trace of the man can be found. Authorities think the man went into the nearby forest and   probably  did   away   with   himself.
Parashefski was boarding with Benny Stradom.ski of 356 Harris street Plymouth. He had boarded at this titmee intermittently during the past two years. On April 29. Parashefski returned lo his boarding house under the influence of liquor. He told Mrs. Stradomski 1 ; had been in a flght. The woman applied first aid treatment to m. deep cut on the man's right wrist. ]>ater the boarding mistress summoned Dr. Casimlr Clroblewski and he (ires.scd the wound. Parashefski told the doc¬ tor he waa hit with a flower pot in a flght. Police have no record of the fight. The following three days the man did not work, owing to the idle¬ ness of Hudson Coal company, with »hich company he had been employed.
On the moming of May 2, Mrs. ^tradomski aroused the man together with other boarders at the place. Para¬ shefski ate a hearty br-;akfast after which he began to look for something around the house. The boiinling mi.s- trc..^   obM:rvinc   the   search,    q-:'';'"'
for hLs razor. The previoua day the woman had l>eeii cleunlng and among the things moved wero the razor. She told him he wuuld ftnd it in the sum¬ mer kitchen, and a moment later the woman looted il and handed it to i Para.shefski.  He then ieft the home.
Parashefski failed to return to the boarding house for three days and one of thc other tioarders at the place re¬ ported his disappearance to Ilymouth police. When thc man left home he was dressed in a blue suit, brown hat. brown slippers.' He Is forty-one years otd. Mrs. Stradomski said the man had been drinking rather excessively of late.
The belief held by Plymouth police that the man intended to commit sui¬ cide is strengthened by the tact that Parashefski did not claim two weeks pay coming to him from the Hudson Coal company. Ho also left several good suits of clothes in the boarding house.
Several daya before the man left Plymouth, he remarkeil to a friend working  with   him  In  the  mines,   that
Resting this morning* at tho home of the American Am¬ bassador to France, a young naiionai guardsman and former pilot of the air mail, Captain Charle.s A. Lindbergh, lives in denial of the doubts of men. More than that, his accomplish¬ ment of a non-stop airplane flight from New York City over thirty-six hundrotl miles of mist-hiddon land and untracked water is the answer to a prayer that was in the hearts of all the' understanding people of the world and found voice in places and among conditions that never before had been con¬ ducive to the spiritual urge.
Two weeks ago, the fogs into which Lindbergh plunged, swallowed the famous aces of the air, Nungesser and ('oli. Knowledge of that did not defer the daring young American. Months bofore, a heavily loaded airship planneil for the at¬ tempt of Rene Fonck to do what Lindbergh has finally done, dipped its nose back to earth, crashed and caught fire, de¬ stroying the life of the navigator who hoped to send it on to the goal of Paris. That and othe-r mishaps that have cost the lives of daring adventurers along the new frontier of the skies failed to impress the handicap of fear upon thc determina¬ tion of the young man who came out of tho Wost to prove the theory of Napoleon, that "those thing.s, which are possible, have already been done and that which is impossible must bc done."
It is soul-gripping that Lindbergh dared make his journey alone. He was called "lucky", but "plucky" would better describe hini. Dispatches credit him with the instinct^ of the homing pigeon, but he was outward bound from home,' not returning, and there is no instinct for that which has never been known. Lindbergh's feat is tho materialization of undaunted courage, cool confidence and faith. The winds, that caressed the wings of his precious bird pulsated from | the prayers of the multitu.des and th? call that beckoned him ' on and on might well have been the consignment of hope and 1 salvation within the grasp of Him who doeth all things well.i
VERY TIRED MOTHER MODEST IN SUCCESS OF HEROIC SON
Detroit. Milh. May II—l'P<—The calm reserve with v.hlch (.'harlle Uiit]- benth'!! mother has conaldered hor iKin'B attempt to iipan the Atlantic max broken when Rhe learned of hla nuc¬ cesa.
"Tm so Bl4d." ahe .said simply, all the bravado f^one from her voice. "I knew it would com* out this way. but
iiuwd  of re-
bravely f..i ¦ <i <i  - ui porter-..
"But. »hy. oh why." she asked, her nerves very uppurently k'vIhk way under th" tfrrifl<' ^trai^ of the pa.st 30 hours, "do you all want to s^e me? It's not I who dtd this; It's Charlie. "He's just an ordinary aviator boy,"
 nuted  to explain.    "He '
fnit of door.s and did ' ;  for >e«rf.    Ue cot hi- cUu<..aln-':i  in  14  ^tates by  hUnielf. He did Ihts     I didn't have a sinsle
a niin  in Sone.ntovvn. ne.ir I>itt«burKh. ^ .f, ru, h a relief to he certain.   Noth
owed   him   a   sum   of   tui.ney   and   he j infr mui h .seems to matter now.
thought he would bo tt.er.; ani collect       With   tears   wellInK   in    her   brown I thlnir to do with thl
it. riymouth polica have .-int tclPBrams I eyes but bravely fought back, and her ¦     "I'm  Just   his  tlrwl  mother anxious
to .Soncstown but I^nishefaki hiis not   hair dlsarranite.1 from hours of strain. ' to see her son.    And 1 wanl to set a
'—¦   !^- !¦   ! Mrs.    KvancaUne    L.odca    Lindbersli
Parla.   May  It.—UP.-Charlea   l.lnd-
i bergh.   nicknamed   "Kucky."   told   to-
¦ night    how    he    had    made    hln    way
through a thousand  miles of rain nnd
nleet   over   tho   va^t   stretches   of   the
I Atlantic ocean to be the flrst to mak
non-stop   flight   from   New   York   to
Paris.
l^lndbergh. sitting in borrowed jiight
I rlothing on the edge of a bed In United
I Slates Ambassador iMyron T. llorrlck'n
' home,     told     newspaperman     of     the
! lonely   flight    he   made   In   hts   sin.;te
motor Uyan ^lrptane. nevrr sighting a
ship except onre at night when he aaw
Ihr  lights of one.
He told of how he flew at times only ten feet a)>ove the tosalng wavaft that meant death to htm If hts plane faltered and at time* imperilling his engine l>y foning the plane to climb as high as 10.000 feel.
Tho modciit >oung man. who became In a day a world's hero, told his ntory and seemed to find little drama in his exploit.
•'X could have continued the flight aa far as half again the distance I traveI«Hi," eald the audacious young American.
The aviator   who   had  accompliahed
one of the greatest feata in thn history
iof aviation,  lookpd  freabcr than  aome
of the newspapermen who Interviewed
him.
Juat out of a refreahing bath he resemble<l nothing ao much as a col¬ lege student ahout to dreas for a prom Mis Imylsh face lighted up an he talked, willingly, but aomewhat boah- fully.
His modesty and dislike of notorietly manlfrsted Itself almost at the atart of the interview( whrn hf opened one of the cables which had l»^en thruat into hta hand conatantly since his ar¬ rival. He qutcklv slil'pf^d tt Ix-neath the covf-r of Ihp !>« siirrari.
Almost simultaneously nomeone aaked him tf he had heard from his mother.
"Tliat's from mother", he replied simply and turned the talk to aome¬ thlng else.
Admits   IlimHFtf  l.urky Undbergh,   ^^ lio  Imrl  mude  the  long flight   wtth   a   wlahbopo     tn     hta   hip pocket,  admitted  nulvftly   hU belief   tn hln  lucky  atar.
"Yes. I maile the whole flight close¬ ly to the schedule I planndl", he aald when aom'-one commented on the re¬ markable fidelity with which he fol¬ loweil the great i Irrlo course. "In fact I made It even closer to the s( hedulo thnn I hnd planned andwhf^n you come as closo aa thatr—well there's a  lol  of  luck.
(.Indl>ergh, whoae modesty la real and not a.ssumrd, was genuinely amazed at the rlutoua welcome given him at  I.^ Itourget.
"It waa aome welcome" he com¬ mented. "It came pretty near to be¬ ing a rough one. I sort of feared for my ^hip and my compa.sa, tho great partner of an  H\iator."
When the Paris correapondenta of , the newspapera entered I«indl>ergh*s ; l>ed chaml*er with Ambassador Herrick j thr young man aro.s« rollteiy from his j U'd to receive them. There wefo good nutured shouts of "alt down, you're I tired enough."
(¦lad to Stand l'p But hind^tergh, evin as they flocke^l about to congratulate him, grinned and aald:
"Well Ifa mora painful for me to sil than to stand," referring to the I'.Mif   hours   he   spent   aitting   In. hia
ph.K V
Mor*? cablegrams of congratulations including those of Preilitpnt (*oolidg« and olher government onietalM waited for his perusal, but thr young avlutof' did not seem to bothi-r alK>ut them
After eating home broth und <lr ing  a   gla^M   of   rich   milk.   I.inir told  the  atory  of  bls   flight   mo-!-      ,. apeakmg  almo.st   monosyllables.
"We had reietved word of favorabla
-^     ther    over    the    Atlantic,    but    I
k  ratn and slee} over .1 thouKand
of ocean.    That was not so good.
' i was flymif at timrs at an altitude of orily ten feet over the ocean; at other times ten thousand feet
"I never naw a nhlp tn the day time. J ^aw the Itghts of one at night. There was so much fog, you know.
I.C noiMKct, France. May 21.—I P—.\n American EbrIc (lescendinR on tireless whirs out of an inky sky here (oniRht. and man's mosl defiant achievement in thc perilous conquest of the air was completed.
Captain Charles LindherRh landed on thc air field at 10:21 p. m.. completinR a non-stop fliRht fmm .New
"I wns never sleepy and did not f mrt lo stimulnnts. I Just diiitk wkte. but I was pretty thirsty whtD 1 ar¬ rived here"
C'ould Have Oone On
tho^nrt mlie..'''\\;nd'i:c';Bh"."dd';7«''tf York to i'aris in a sinRle motored R>an monoplane in
33A hours.
admit tinn    soma
renretfully duty.
"Whera did you net that thouffht  you \\<Te alone."
•We'
unfilled We
The EaRle had «on URainst overwhelminR   odd8
the^s°*i"heX't«ner and all'?"". Thi I ^^^ ^^c Roldco ciKk of 1 Mancc Rrceted jiim «ith a paean
cn)« of triumph HO sp<»ntanc<JH8 and sincere as lo warm French and American hearts as they have not been warmed in thc nine years since poilu and douRhlxiy foURht side hy side.
LindberRh, the "lucky" dare devil of the air who left New York in his one-man plane at 6:51 a. m. Fridayl as nonchalantly as thouRh hc were Roing for a walk, ac- complished what the world's Rreatest aviation experts said no man could do sinRle-handed.
He sat alone and unafraid in thc liny cabin of the monoplane for thc space of two days and a niRht, relax- inR never a second his unblinkiuR viRilance, and piloted his ship as true as a hominR piRcon over the ,'t,(i()0 miles of the "xreat circle" that comprises a direct air lino from New York to Paris.
And France, still mourniuR for its Rallant war cap* lains, NuHRCsser and (oli, who failed where LinrllterRh succeeded, went almost insane in its heartfelt tribute to the couraRc indomitable will power and skill of the tray- ish American. Fully .'lO.OOO men and women, wilh chil¬ dren scattered here and there despite the late hour. surRcd oul on the field and acted like mad men in their eaRcrness to saluc LindberRh. to see his face, louch hia flyinR coat, or even lay a hand on thc w iuR of his plane.
An hour later in Paris, scenes of joyful demonstra¬ tion occurred which excelled even those lhat l(M>k placo when .NunRCHser and (oli were falsely reported to have reached America.
A SCENE OF TRII MPk
Thc emotional tribute lo bravery, however, reached Us heiRht when Myron T. Herrick, American Amba.ssa- dor to France, appeared on a balcony of the adminislra* tion buildiuR of thc air field here shortly afler Lind* berRh's arrival, ^\avinR the flyer's helmet. The crowdl went wild.    Hcrrick's lips moved, but hc couldn't lie
old ship could hnvc jione nnother tli sand miles and I could httvc done tt if ] hiul made the necessary calrulntlons.
"Vrs I nm niii« there Is enough itas In Ihs ahlp to Ro another bOO miles.
"I have nevrr lieni In Paris 1m»- forr." the youiiR flyer s/tld. Ha «ib- vloualy la unused to belnv Intorvlawad nnd was at a Ioaa to find aomrthlna to say.
"You know I snw the RifTai tower from thc plane nnd T saw the flares on Hourffct field when 1 was SO nitlcs away. I cnuld see the revotvliifc srnrchllKhta lo»,"
The Interview waa wandering •Ame- what?
"What luiRKaite did you brine with you'."' an Interviewer prompted hop«- fully.
"I illdn't hrlnit any." snld Lindbergh "I ditl brItiK a passport hut 1 did nut have uny visa."
He looked rather shwpllshly nt Herrick. w ho amlle,!.
Askoil huw lone he Intended to stay In Paris, Lindbergh said:
"Well. I'll like to stay aa Ions aa ) can, but I'd Iwtter not do that, aa I t>eltrr get back home aa soon aa poasl¬ ble,"
No Itelurn  l-Ufht
*'No," he leiiUed to another queation. I am not goinv to try a return lllfht. It  would  not   hnvo  any  iiractlcal   re¬ sult."
Herrick then ende«l the Interview, bellevinu that I.indlieigh should h« put to bed tu get   his mueh needed  rest.
'When I took Lindbergh tin<Ier my wing and brought him heie." the Am- liassador commented, "he satd he was rather worriP<l atiout the windows of hla plane, referring, I sup|K>se to his (lerlsi'opes, anrl sfter he had his Imth 1 had to (llsHuudo him from returning to lys Houriret tu aae that the wlndowa »oro unbroken."
Then   Herrick   said   to   Lindt>ergh 'Now   you   get   to  bed.   young  man.   If you wnnt nnything. ring these buttons. Vou probnbly will want lo stny In b«<l a couple  of flays."
Lindbergh, looking at Ihe snowy pillows, said: 'N<i, I l^ess I Wlll get up Ijeforc  noon."
It  was then ten niinules after two.    , .     , ii_     j* -.i ¦ . i- ¦ ¦
Herlck, after the news|»pcrmen d.-    tlCard atXJVC thc dm, W llh OUC UuiR UOtC SOUUduig clcarly parted, aald:   "I am most  happy over the   way   Lindbergh's accomplishment
above all other shouts:
was rocelved here. It was snother link "VivC L'AmCriqUC"; "vIvC L'Ameri(|UC".
l^ireTe^rrrj"::;!,:''."'"ml'tst "ot \        The scene «hen the aviator landed here was unfor-
l#f«et the fiorow caused by the fate Of    ^cttablc.      FoS'   ncailv   21   htUII'S.   whctl   hc   had   Icft   (hC
Nungesser nni^i^^^^  ^^,^^j ^^f ^^^^, Fouiidland ut sun.sct hist Ilitht. little def.
KNIGHTS 10 DECORATE        «n>te wa.s known of hiK proKiess.   DurinR thc late after- GRAVE OF MOUGHAN "^"' reports bcf^an trickling in that hc had crossed the , ocean, was over Ireland,   over   England,   approaching France.
F*eoplc were incredulous, but several thousand came out to the field, hopinfc against hope.
Ah time wore on and thc reports became more and more definite, thc crowd wrrew by additional thousands (Continued on Vage A-li)
In  a-cotiian'e  wuh   it-^  annuHl torn,    Wdkes-Marre   (ouncll.    No.    402. Knlffhti nf Cohimhus.  will pay tribute to tl "f HciKt. John Mougli-
an, of    the     Knights    of
*•'.!';' ilanre   t:nit.   who   dle*l
W'.ll'! War. aa s^rvkea on Ouy  morning  tn   Kt.  Mary's
I'll* [luKritm will Iw a.** followa: In- viM-atloti by tbr- rounrll chaplain. Rev. J. M. Pusknr; tf>nor nolo. <*. A. Iielgh- lon; address. Hon. O. I*. Hurt; ad- dri'NS. Atty K K. McCIovrm; solo. Mrs. Nora I<i( w: address, Hon. John J. Caiwy; a sjitule nf three volkys by a firing s'luad from Wilkes-llartt I'r.. I Vt, It V m.l:. un ly'glon ; taps, ¦ buglers: pray - V. ,1. J. Curran
•• ."     a ..I-J    V. .it   be  maater  of
ceremonies.
A mepting af the memortal com- miette wlll b<» held at 11 ociock thl.s morning In tbf K. of t*. Home to make final urtangements, Tlu; iommittee Ib aa foWov-t*: Jamen J Devaney, Wil¬ liam K. Karr*'ll, Jnmes J. Kn'-e, I'Htrlck K. Citnley. I>r Krsink K. I>ougherty, rharles J   t: t nl K. McUovern.
Ut.   W.   J arn   J.   Conwell,
Wllltam   I; -..Aurd  J. gulnn,
J. K. Uaaii.
LOG OF THE FLIGHT THAT AMAZED WORLD
Tims   given   la  eaalern   daylight. Kriday T:5I a. m.-<JaptRtn Lindbergh
leaves  Rooaevelt  field.  New   York.
for f*aria. Kriday   7:15   p.   m.-~l.«eavea   coaat   of
Ne w   KoundlaniL t^uturdu y     8  10     h .     m — Sighted     by
steamer      Hilversum      about      100
mllea off  Irish   coast. Haturday   12:70   p.   m.    Started  acroaa
Ireland at  Hmrr-M-k  Iftrbor. Saturday   13: &0   . '^*'^»
(*oken and started acroaa aea for Kngland.
Saturday 3 p. m. T.eft Rngtnnd at Htar I'olnl. Devonshire, and head¬ ed arro.>«s KTtcb**k chsnii'"! for Kia nci".
Haturday    3::o Cherbourg.
Haturday o:2l p m M :i K-i^'- n Htandard and 10;2t p. ni. I'arls daylight-saving time>—Arrivea at Lm Bourget fluid.
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