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» Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and
H other famous fliers who assembled
jy ffc the Brownsville airport Saturday
■?. Participate in the inauguration
s|,flve 111165 of air mail.
^ ^>Vownsville had expected and
preparations for a large
but not a crowd of such
proportions as assembled at the air
field.
It was impossible for the cordons
of border officers, troops and the
lines of rope to restrain the en
thusiasm of that crowd.
They wanted to see Lindbergh,
to cheer the famous “Lone Eagle”
Breaking through the lines they
hemmed in the huge tri-motor as
he landed.
That rush demonstrated the
friendship of Valley people for the
famous flier.
Barriers could not restrain their
Enthusiasm, and no man ever re
ceived a more friendly and enthu
siastic welcome than was tendered
the intrepid colonel.
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BROWNSVILLE takes consider
able pride in the celebration now
being staged at the municipal air
port.
The fact that each event on the
program Saturday was carried out
as scheduled Is in itself a tribute
to the almost perfect organization
effected by the celebration com
* mittee.
There was no lack of entertain
ment and thrills. With such fliers
as Captain Frank Hawks, Captain
Ira C. Eaker, Captain Paul Baer,
and a score of other noted airmen
present, Valley residents had the
opportunity to witness an air cir
cus such as has never been sur
passed.
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THE ENTIRE contingent will re
f main in Brownsville for the Sun
day program, which promises to be
as replete with thrills as was that
of Saturday.
That faring birdman. “Shorty”
Radack, whose plane feats and
parachute Jumps were distinctive
features of the program, will re
main over for the Sunday events.
, The army and commercial planes
t md seven huge tri-motors, also
f ill be featured in the Sunday cel
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■BROWNSVILLE airport re
ceived a full measure of praise
from the visiting airmen.
No one among them who did
not pronounce it one of the best, if
not the best, in the South.
And while they were enthusias
^ tic in praise of the facilities pro
vided, they looked upon it with a
prophetic eye, predicting that it is
destined to become the most im
j ■' portant international port in the
United States.
Its geographical location, the
fact it is on the low altitude route
between the United States and
Latin-America, were factors which
formed the foundation for their op
timistic prophecies.
( THE ONLY UNFORTUNATE
feature of the program was the
order of the war department pre
venting Captain Eaker’s flight to
the Panama canal.
The people of the Valley were
as keenly disappointed as was
Captain Eaker.
They had made preparations to
start him on his flight with the
ring of good will cheers to inspire
him. Several thousand persons
would have been at the airport to
■ witness the “hopoff.”
Captain Eaker’s plane was tuned
to the finest pitch of perfection.
Every preparation had been made
for the epochal flight.
The plane w-ill remain at the
t Brownsville airport until permis
sion Is granted. Captain Eaker
s stated, and the war department is
being urged not to delay.
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ANOTHER FEATURE of the
Celebration Saturday was the close
co-operation between the border
patrol, sheriff’s department and
city police.
Perfect order was maintained;
* traffic was handled expeditiously,
and no arrests were made, which
* In itself is something of a record
* in viflt of the size of the crowd,
i * In city the police depart
£ment anri firemen directed the
f traffic; deputy sheriffs were in
' charge along the highway, and the
border patrol policed the air field.
1 Traffic flowed almost without a
halt. At times serious congestion
was threatened, but the officers
(untangled it without delay.
* * *
THERE WAS AMPLE parking
< apace at the air field, and the flow
of traffic to the various parking
sites was handled without interrup
tion.
Entrances and exits had been
( provided, and at no time did the
, lines of traffic flowing in opposite
directions “tangle up.”
The same system will be util
lzed Sunday, officers stated, assur
ing rapid handling of the large
(crowds expected for the last day
of the celebration.
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Federals Mass Soldiers For Powerful Drive
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BIG GAINS IN
NORTH STATES,
Government Troops
Remain in Control in
South; Plan Strike
At Insurgent Center
{By The Associated Press.)
The Mexican government launch
ed a powerful drive under the per
sonal'command of former President
Calles Saturday against revolution
ary forces, advancing southward
steadily for the past week.
At the end of the first week of
the rebel outbreak, the government
was entrenched in southern Mexico,
having crushed the revolt at Vera
Cruz, while insurgents had made
important gains in the north.
Revolutionary armies were clus-'
tered in Central Mexico from Culi-j
acan on the west coast to Saltillo
in Coahuila and as far south as Ca
nitas, Zacatecas.
Facing them in a wide half moon
were strong federal forces, their
right flank at Monterrey, their cen
ter at the city of Zacatecas and
their left flank at Mazatlan.
A picked federal army estimated
at 18.000 and described as the most
powerful Mexican force put into the
field since the days of the Pancho
Villa revolt in 1915 wras proceeding
toward Zacatecas to strike the rebel
center.
Advance columns of this army
reached Zacatecas this afternoon.
Rebel forces were fifty miles to the I
i north at Canitas.
General Escobar, commander in
chief of the rebels, in Chihuahua re
ported an insurgent victory along
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DOCTOR DEAD;
I PAL GIVES DP
Physician Treated Son Of
Farmer Friend Who
Died Recently
GAINESVILLE, Tex., March 9.—
(IP)—H. M. Dawson, wealthy farmer
near here for 20 years, was in jail
today, and Dr. W. C. Cunningham,
64, pioneer physician of the Dexter
community was dead from rifle
bullets. The shooting occured near
Dr. Cunningham’s home.
For years the two men have been
friends and neighbors. Six months
ago, Dawson’s young son became ill
and died. The doctor had treated
the boy and given him serums.
A short time ago the two men had
a heated discussion over it, accord
ing to townsmen.
Today. Wylie Butt, son of Sheriff
Matt Butt, saw Dawson driving his
automobile toward Dr. Cunning
ham's house in the Dexter com
munity. A short time later. Ed Mc
Cormick saw a man get out of a
car at the top of a hill near Dexter,
take a rifle from his car and fire
it once, he told Sheriff Butt. He
said he did not recognize the man.
McCormick said he ran up the hill
toward the car as the man disap
peared down the other side of it,
and heard several more shots.
Dawson later met the sheriff’s
son. He caled to the boy: “Tell
your father to come home and get
me.” he said. “I am ready to sur
render.”
TEXANS WOULD BAN
INFESTED POTATOES
AUSTIN, March 9.—(IP)—Means
of stopping illegal importations of
weevil-infested sweet potatoes into
Texas were discussed in a confer
ence between F. Parnell and other
representatives of the Louisiana de
partment of agriculture and immi
gration and J. M. Del Curto and
Tom O’Neill of the Texas depart
ment of agriculture, held at Or
ange, Del Curto announced today.
Cooperation of the authorities of
Orange county was obtained and
the infested shipments into Texas
will be stopped immediately, Del
Curto said.
MANN DENIES AMBITION
WASHINGTON, March 9.—(JP)—
Horace A. Mann, southern man
ager for Herbert Hoover during the
presidential campaign, issue da
statement tonight denying that he
wished to control distribution of
southern patronage and asserting
that he had told the Republican
national committee that he in
tended “to have nothing to do with
political atronage.”
CORPUS LOSES
HOUSTON, Mar. 9.—<;P)—The
Morning Glory Creamery five of
Houston won the South Texas Rec
reation basketball championship
with a 50 to 24 victory over Corpus
Christi here tonight.
POLICE GRAB
MAN THROUGH
SOCIETY ITEM
CHICAGO. March 9.—(A5)—
Detectives, it appears, read ev
erything in the newspapers, mar
ket reports, sports and society
pages. So when they saw a
piece in the society column that
Mr. R. C. Jerome, 32, had acted
as best man at the wedding of
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Schwartz,
they were interested.
They called at the boarding
house wehre the bride and groom
and best man were staying and
cold the landlady they wanted to
play a little joke on the trio.
The landlady entered into the
spirit of the occasion and admit
ted them to Jerome’s room.
Jerome was arrested on a
charge of fleecing Allen Hender
son of San Angelo, Tex., out of
bonds valued at $150,000. The
bride and groom were arrested
for disorderly conduct when they
objected to the detention of
their erstwhile best man.
SIX DROWN AS
CABLEBREAKS
Human Content of Bucket
Dumped Into Swirling
Waters In W. Va.
CHARLESTON, W. Va., March 9.
—(/P)—Six men at work on a new
bridge across the Kanawha river
here drowned today While crossing
the stream in a cable bucket. A
post to which the cable was at
tached broke, and the six occu
pants were thrown into the swift
ly running water.
The bucket was near midstream
when the cable collapsed. One of
the men struck out for the river
bank but went dowm before he
could reach it. The others sank
almost immediately.
The men were employed by a
construction company building the
Patrick street bridge.
The dead:
H. A. SQUIRER, Danville, Va.
CHARLES ANDERSON, Dan
ville, Va.
M. T. ROOCKER. Henderson,
N. C.
R. E. BALYARD, Gauley Bridge.
W. Va.
GEORGE NICHOLSON, West
Union. W. Va.
E. C. LACY. High Point, N. S.
All five victims were employed as
riggers.
W. F. Morrison, supervising en
gineer, and George Hunter, super
intendent of the construction, were
held pending investigation by the
coroner.
Lindbergh’s Plane
For Return Flight
To Mexico Arrives
The huge tri-motored Ford plane
of the Mexican Aviation Company
which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
will fly back to Mexico today with
the mails arrived at the Brownsville
airport shortly after 4 p. m. Satur
day. The plane is just out of the
factory at Detroit, having left there
Friday.
It was piloted by D. W. Taylor
and D. L. Thorne of Detroit. Allan
Scott of Pine Bluff, Ark., and K. L.
Johnstone were pasengers.
As the ship scared on the trip
here copies of the morning issue of
the Pine Bluff Graphic and a pam
phlet on Toney Field. Pine Bluff’s
airport, were scattered. The pas
sengers spent Friday night in Pine
Bluff.
The plane 5s the latest product of
the Ford factory. It has seats for
14 passengers and two pilots, is lav
ishly finished with expensive up
holstering and accessories .and has
a wing spread of 76 feet. It is
powered with three 410 horsepower
Wasp motors.
Two Tri-Motors
To Be Added To
Mexican Fleet
The Mexican Aviation Co. will
have five tri-motor planes in serv
ice on its Mexican lines in a few
weeks, was the announcement Sat
urday by George Rihl, president.
The company now has three tri
motors, the third arriving today,
and two additional machines have
been ordered.
All the new planes are equipped
with Wasp engines, Rihl said, add
ing that they would be used in serv
ice to the border and to link up
lines throughout Mexico.
McNUTT TO VISIT TEXAS
PARIS. Tex., Mar. 9.—(JP)—Paul
V. McNutt, of Indianapolis, nation
al commander of the American Le
gion. will be entertained at Deni
son, Paris and Dallas during a two
day visit to the state April 12 and
13, Colonel Rufus F. Scott of Par
is. Texas Legion commander, an
nounced today.
ACCUSED MAN
TRIES SUICIDE
IN ANSON JAIL
Bill Fritz Slashes His
Wrists And Drinks
Potion As Jury De
liberates On Case
ABILENE. Tex. .March 9.—(/P)—
i Bill Fritz attempted to commit sui
' cide tonight while waiting in the
jail cell at Anson for a verdict in
his trial for the slaying of Earl
Hamilton near Rochester last Octo
ber, the Abilene Reporter-News was
informed tonight by District Attor
ney Clem Calhoun.
Prisoners in Fritz’s cell said that
he threatened them with death if
they called aid and then slashed his
wrist with a razor blade and drank
a potion, believed to have been
poison.
After bleeding profusely for some
time, howeevr, Fritz told his cell
mates that he wanted to see his
1 mother. Officers were called and
tonight physicians were trying to
save Fritz’s life. His condition was
believed to be serious.
Arguments in the trial of Fritz
were completed late this afternoon
and the case went to the jury.
The defendant pleaded guilty and
members of his family testified
that he had been, at times, irre
sponsible and had “acted insanely.”
Fritz is alleged to have shot Earl
! and his father, D. W. Hamilton,
' after the son had testified against
Fritz before a gTand jury investl
1 gating liquor raids.
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JAIL BREAKER
IS RECAPTURED
Cuban Slayer of Sweetheart
Shoots Corporal Before
Being Retaken
POTTSVILLE, Pa., March 9.—(/P)
—Elverez Miguel, 28-year-old slayer
of his sweetheart, who escaped from
the Schuylkill county jail early to
day, was captured tonight in a barn
at Cressona. three miles from here
by state police. In resisting arrest,
Miguel shot Corporal Floeming in
the head, but the wound was not re
garded as serious. The slayer was
taken to the jail.
His escape was by a clever plan.
Miguel, said to be a Cuban, fired
at a prison guard after holding two
of them at bay with a pistol smug
gled into his cell in a Bible, and
then forced one to open the prison
doors.
He was under sentence to be elec
trocuted March 25 for killing Louise
Jacks, 19, his sweetheart a year ago.
A woman alleged to have placed
the pistol in the Bible was held for
questioning. She is Mrs. Clara Fess
Ier, of Summitt Station, near here.
Dallas Groups That
Begun Hoover-Dems
Fights Bolter Bill
DALLAS. March 9.—CP)—The
first crystallization of “anti” senti
ments against the party Bolters’ bill
now on Governor Moody's desk came
today fro mthe same source which
started the Hoover-democratic club
movement in the state when 100
voters of precinct 88, Dallas county
banded together as the first “Tom
Love for governor club.”
It was in this precinct immedi
ately after the radio announcement
of Hoover’s nomination in Kansas
City that the first Hoover-demo
cratic club was started by J. V.
Hardy, present chairman of the
anti-Tammany democrats of Dallas
county and chairman of the finance
committee of the state organization.
It was said that other clubs will
be formed in the state, that head
quarters already are open in a hotel
here and that a statewide confer
ence will be held here April 1.
The Anti-Tammany organization
grew out of the Hoover-democratic
and anti-Al Smith groups active in
the recent national election.
PYLE GIVES SELF UP
TO URBANA, ILL., COURT
URBANA, His., March 9.—(JF)—
Charles C. Pyle, sports promoter,
today sauntered Into the court
house here and surrendered to au
thorities seeking him on charges of
conspiracy in the collapse of the
Illinois Savings and Trust bank of
Champaign.
Pyle gave bond of $25,000 and
continued to make plans for his an
nual “bunion derby” in April.
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Lindy to Fly Mail Over
Return Route to Mexico
HERO ACE TO
FURNISH BIG
EVENT OF DAY
Homeward Flight Set
For IQ A. M.; Great
Reception Is Given
Lone Eagle Here
Out of the land of revolution
Saturday came a messenger of
peace, inaugurating a new era in
the history of Brownsville as the
greatest flyer of them all, brought
his huge metal bird to rest at
' the Brownsville airport, completing
the first mail trip from Mexico.
The arrival of Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh, bringing the first air
mail over the new route between
the United States and Mexico
through Brownsville, was the high
spot in a day of momentous events
in the history of Brownsville, and
20,000 persons looked on as the
Lone Eagle brought his huge tri
motor plane to the ground.
Col. Lindbergh will leave Sun
day morning at 10 o'clock, flying
a similar plane on the return trig
to Mexico. There were some re
ports of a possible change in the
program, but it was verified by of
ficials here this afternoon, the re
turn flight being inauguration of
the mail line south.
Crowd Goes Wild
The reception of Colonel Lind
bergh was one of the wildest dem
onstrations ever seen in this sec
tion of the country, as the thou
sands who stood behind the ropes
waiting for him broke over the
lines and swarmed onto the field
when the plane came to a stop.
The tri-motor Ford came in
sight over Brownsville just at 1:30
Saturday afternoon, and reached
the field at 1:32. There was an
other plane landing at the time,
and Lindbergh circled the field,
coming in again from the south,
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Report Shows State
Lost $5,133,517 On
Land Reappraisement
AUSTIN, March 9.—(IP)—There
was a lass in principal of $5,133,517
on the 6,866,860 acres of state lands
reappraised under the 1925-26 re
valuations, said a report of Ernst
and Ernst submitted today to mem
bers of the joint legislative commit
tee investigating the general land
office.
The figures, taken from records in
the land office, show that the orig
inal value of the land aggregated
$15,206,348 and that the reappraised
value was $10,072,831.
Rep. Petsch, presenting proponents
of the investigation in preventing
testimony said he believed the in
vestigation would be completed in
time for the committee to file its
report with both houses before sine
die adjournment Thursday.
Several members of the commit
tee have expressed themselves as
having heard enough of the testi
mony to be able to subscribe to a
report without having to read over
the record.
PLANES HANDLE OVER
1,000 POUNDS OF MAIL
Over 1,000 pounds of air mail was
handled here Saturday, postal of
ficials announced Saturday night.
The plane coming in from the
north brought 170 pounds, and 295
pounds were cleared for Tampico
and Mexico City. The plane from
Mexico City brought 148 pounds,
and the planes starting south Sun
day will carry 400 pounds.
Thousands of letters from all
narts of the United States and also
from foreign countries were mailed
to secure the first flight cachet.
Colonel Charles Lindbergh mailed
a package here which will go South
Sunday morning on the plane he
will pilot. It was quite heavy, the
air mail postage totaling $38.95.
NEELY nEADS Y. M. C. A.
CHILDRESS. Tex.. Mar. 9.—f>P)—
R. C. Neely, Amarillo high school
student, was elected president of
the Older Boys’ conference of the
Texas Y. M. C. A. at a business ses
sion of the convention here today.
Murrell Freels, Denison, was named
vice-president, and Roy Baker, Den
ison, secretary-treasurer.
Celebration Sidelights
Miss Amelia Earhart, America’s
premier woman flyer, was the first
nationally known aviator to appear
cn the airport. She took a morning
ride in the Fairchild monoplane of
file Mexican Aviation Company, the
same plane which brought Mexico
City’s first mail to Brownsville
Thursday.
Later, she inspected the hangar
and other buildings on the field in
l company with Maj. Bernard Law.
She was asked many times to pose
for snap shots, and she always con
descended, smilingly.
Miss Earhart wore a blue en
semble of deep-blue color, and a
I small, close-fitting hat of the same
hue. At one time during her walk
1 over the grounds, she evidenced
J grave concern over a child who had,
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lost its parents. The child soon
found them.
A young man rushed up to her,
and awkwardly sought her auto
graph. She was glad to give it to
him, and he went away apparently
very happy, probably considering
her' autograph the greatest treas
ure of his young life.
Capt. Eaker has a weakness for
very brown cigars. The intrepid
pilot of the Question Mark and the
Pan-American began to puff on one
shortly after his arrival and was
smoking another when he came
back to the field for the christening.
And the Captain always dons the
jacket and helmet bearing the in
terrogation point before taking the
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Ovation Tendered
Famous Flier At
Banquet Saturday
Colonel Charles Lindbergh, Captain Ira C. Eaker, Miss Amelia Ear
j hart and other distinguished guests who are in Brownsville to participate
in the dedication of the municipal airport and inauguration of interna
tional air mail service, were tendered a series of ovations at a banquet at
Hotel El Jar din Saturday night.
MARY FECHET
IN CEREMONY
Air Corps Chief’s Pretty
Daughter Christens Eak
er’s ‘Pan-American*
As thousands surged and pushed
against the ropes on the edge of the
landing field, Miss Mary Fechet,
daughter of Maj. Gen. John C.
Fechet, chief of the United States
Air Corps, very composedly stepped
up to the propellor of the Pan
American, Capt. Eaker's dawn-to
duck plane, and smashed a bottle
of Valley grapefruit juice squarely
over the nose of the tiny Boering
craft, Saturday afternoon.
The christening, scheduled for
2:30 p. m., took place at 3 o'clock.
The Pan-American, freshly painted
in black and red, and having all
the appearances of a speedy ship,
was towed to within a few feet of
the official stand where W. S. West,
Brownsville attorney, presented
Miss Fechet, who then stepped upon
the table to the propellor and very
gracefully concluded the ceremony.
With Miss Fechet during Mr. West’s
short talk were her mother, Capt.
Eaker. and Lieut, Jack Upton, Gen.
Fetchet’s side.
After the ceremony. Miss Amelia
Earhart, who had been a spectator
from the stand, joined the group, in
front of the plane, who then posed
for the newsreel cameramen.
Capt. Eaker then gave a demon
stration flight in the Pan-American
which proved to be the most thrill
ing performance of the afternoon
up to that time. Eaker was off the
ground at once and up into the air
in what seemed to an almost per
pendicular ascent.
The crowd marvelled at his low
flying as he came back over the
field at terrific speed, just off the
ground. It was announced just be
fore Eaker took off that army of
ficials had requested him to do no
stunt flying, and to fly the ship as
little as posible before the attemnt
to reach Panama in a day. Accord
ingly, Capt. Eaker after circling the
field two or three times, brought his
nlare to the ground with a perfect
landing.
The crowd gave him a great hand
as he walked to the administration
bu’lding.
Captain Eaker had received no
further orders from Washington,
following cancellation of the dawn
to-dusk flight on account of the
Mexican revolution.
JEWELERS MEET PLANNED
DALLAS, Mar. 9.—(JP)—Plans for
a three-day convention of Texas
Louisiana Retail Jewelers associa
tion here April 15, 16 and 17 will
be made at a meeting of the board
of directors here Monday. The con
vention is expected to bring 200
jewelers here. CTiase Holland. San
Angelo, is president of the organi
zation.
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s, ecores oi cusunguisnea guests,
representing all parts of the Unit
ed States and Mexico, and nearly
300 representatives of the lower
Rio Grande Valley filled the large
dining room to capacity.
In every respect the banquet
was an international affair. Ameri
can and Mexican speakers repeat
edly referred to the international
feature of the new airport, predict
ing it would prove a potent factor
in cementing better relations be
tween the two republics.
“We are dedicating the Browns
ville municipal airport to the serv
ice of two nations,” Harbert Da
venport of Brownsville stated in
the dedication address, asserting “it
wrill prove the tie that will bind
Mexico and the United States in
stronger bonds of commerce and
mutual understanding.”
Juan F. Villasano, chief of the
civic aviation department of Mex
ico; Jose Chavez, chief of the aero
nautical department, Mexico City,
personal representative of the Mex
ican postmaster general, and Er
nesto Urtusastegui of Matamoros,
each speaking on behalf of the
Mexican government, stated that
the international port would prove
of incalculable value to both na
tions, and adding that the Mexican
government would extend full co
operation in its development.
“We regard this port as ti.e hand
of great friendship extended by
the United States, and we are
eager to grasp it,” Villasono said.
Eaker Lauds Airport
Capt. Ira C. Eaker. whose
dawn-to-dusk flight has been de
layed by orders of the war depart
ment, spoke briefly, expressing his
appreciation of the reception ac
corded by the people of the lower
Rio Grande Valley.
“I consider this one of the most
blessed sections of the country’,” he
said, after stating he had been
here in 1926 with the pan-American
flight.
“There was no place here for
planes to land at that time; today
Brownsville has one of the finest
airports in the South. I admire the
progressive spirit of this city and
predict this will become a great in
ternational port, carrying heavy
traffic between the United States
and Latin-America.
A. Wayne Wood, who presided as
toastmaster, read telegrams from
Wm. P. McCracken, Jr., assistant
secretary for aeronautics; W. Irv
ing Glover, second assistant post
master general, and F. Trubee Da
vision, assistant secretary of war,
congratulating Brownsville upon
the international airport and ex
pressing regrets that they could
not be present.
Reads Senate Resolution
Tumultous applause followed
reading by the toastmaster of a
resolution passed Friday by the
state senate, a copy of which was
presented to A. P. Barrett, former
state senator, now president of the
Texas Air- Transport, Inc.
The resolution extended the good
wishes of the state senate as fol
lows: “Now therefore, be it resolv
ed, that the good wishes and felic
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BROWNSVILLE
PROVESROYAL
HOSTJN FETE
Good-Willer’s Second
Flight to Climax
Busy Program Set
For Sunday Throngs
Brownsville Sunday brings to a
close the greatest celebration and
the most significant two-day pe
riod in the history of the city. Aer
ial festivities never before equalled
in Texas or the south have spoken
of the success of the event.
Monday the migration of visitors
back to their homes throughout
this broad state and to other parts
of the country will begin. And
they will take with them the story
of Brownsville and its wonderful
airpor. The new era of growth
and expansion for Brownsville be
gins wih the close of this celebra
tion.
The climax of festivities at the
airport today will come with the
takeoff of Col. Charles A. Lind
bergh on his reum flight to Mex
ico City carrying the U. S. mails.
The flight will be made in the tri
motored Ford plane of the Mexi
can Aviation company just arrived
from Detroit, and is scheduled for
10 a. m. Thus, Brownsville will bid
goodbye to America’s hero, who
yesterday landed on the local field
for the first time.
Busy Program Scheduled
Aerial performances that offer a
rare spectacle are in store for vis
itors during the remainder of the
day. Chief among them is the
stunt flying of Shorty Radeck, pre
mier stunt flyer, who Saturday
thrilled the crowd with his wing
walking and parachute jumps.
Inauguration of mail service Sat
urday will enable spectators to see j
the arrival of these planes fronj#*r a
the north as a part of the pro
gram. ,
Other features include formation
flying by picked squadrons from
the army.
The memorable day in the his
tory of Brownsville was started on
its way early the first arrival in
the way of notables being Miss
trans-Atlantic flyer, who came in
on the Missouri Pacific early this
morning.
Notables Cheered
Miss Earhart went out to the
field, where she was taken on a
short flight by Major Law, and la
ter she greeted the other notables
who arrived. /
Army planes and private planes
began arriving early, and then
Capt. Ira Eaker sped across the
field in his little pursuit plane, ac
companied by Lieuts. Nelson and
Dunton.
The Fechet plane arrived next,
bringing Miss Mary Fechet and
party from San Antonio. It was a
huge tri-motor plane, similar to
the one in which Lindbergh flew
the first mail.
Captain Frank Hawks came
buzzing over the field shortly aft
erward in his red monoplane in
which he established a record for
crossing the continent.
Army planes continued to arrive
in groups of five and 10 during
most of the day. lining up at the
south end of the field as they came
in. There were more than 70 of
them on hand before the day was
over, swelling the number of planes
on the field to around 150.
Crowd Well Handled
The famous flyers as they came
in posed for pictures, and were
greeted by the crowds, but the
receptions were all mild, compared
to that of Lindbergh.
Commercial planes did a rushing
business all day. ss hundreds of
those who came in took rides over
the city and surounding territory.
The huge crowd was handied
with considerable facility, a stream
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j TI-IE WEATHER i
West Texas—Partly cloudy,
warmer Sunday; Monday, partly
cloudy.
Oklahoma—Fair, wanner Sun
day, Monday, increasing cloudiness
warmer in eas tportion.
East Texas—G e n e r a 11 y fair
warmer in north and west por
tions Sunday: Monday, increasing
cloudiness. Moderate northeast to
southeast winds on the coast.