Brownsville herald. [volume], July 02, 1929, Image 10

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Cross continent rail-air service between the Atlantic and Pacific
; coasts has been begun over route shown at top, the night parts
*■- shaded, being made by rail; the ether, by air. Type of plane is shown.
Below is another route to follow. Cel. Charles A. Lindbergh has been
in an advisory capacity for this latter rout?.
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m Lieut. Harold Bromley inspecting the powerful motor of the plane
jjj* in which he plans to attempt a non-stop flight from Tacoma. Wash.,
to Tokyo. The monoplane is nearing completion in California,
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DESERTER M.; gold plane near Morris Plains. N. J.. in which
rwVifl1? nN.,T7 (f°~ Qf >'ew York, wife of noted diamond expert,
riisimnMr*? iA'«-e narrowly escaped death. An aviation
wills Mid the courts'11** back from air races at Wilkes-Barre,
who jeets his estate. wtt * mecaaatc.
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’* Mrs. Benjamin E. Bogeaus. the former Ethelind Terry, musical com- Esko C. Burgess, Ansonia.
eay star, who was robbed of $30,000 in jewels in a hold-up at her Chi- Conn., mail messenger, arrested
cago apartment. After the robbery Bogeaus and his wife were ques- in connection with the theft of
ticr.ed, Bogeaus admitting, police say, insuring the gems just four a pouch containing $30,000 con
days prior to the hold-up. signed to the Federal Reserve
bank. Boston, tr ed to avoid the
camera. The pouch was found
in a clump of bushes.
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Rosemary Baur cf Illinois
was among the American girls
invited to attend the third court
of the season at Buckingham
palace.
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One of the outstanding iierots 1
cl the Cleveland clinic disaster, n
Fatrolman Ernest Staab, is 2
again under hospital care. ^
Staab. who collapsed at h:s
home, recently, carried out 21 <j£
persons from the gas - filled S
building before he was overcome. ~
Lemuel C. Kail. Wareham,
Mass., publisher, will preside
ever the National Editorial as
sociation convention an Chey
enne. July 13 to 23. and lead the
tour which will follow.
Frank Marlow’. New York
night club operator, was found
dying from* bullet wounds on
Long Island* where he had
■t u ' assail
ants. a friend of
Rothsteia.
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Associated Press Photo
Reger Q. Williams (left) and Lewis Yancey, crew of the plane Green
i Flash, which was wrecked in an attempt to take off on a flight to j
| Rome, are shewn beside their new plane. The Pathfinder which they *
| use in a second attempt. The plane formerly was the North 1
star, owned by Mrs, James A. Stillman. 1
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Lewis A. Yancey, Left, and Roger Q. Williams, of the ill-fated Green
Flash, come to Teterboro airfield. N. J., to obtain a new plane for a
flight attempt to Rome—Mrs. Anne U. Stillman’s plane, the North
Star, shown abc e. They will make a renewed start from Old Or
chard, Me., where the Green Flash cracked up.
Secretary Mellon inspecting new small size currency. With Assistant
S: retary Henry Harriclc Bond (seated?, ho is shown the new bills
by Director Had of the bureau of engraving and printing.
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President Portes Gil of Mexico (center) shewn with two members of
of his staff at the presidential palace in Mexico City after signing the
agreement which settled the religious controversy between his gov
ernment and the Catncnc church. ,
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Associated Press Tocc*.
Thurman EVans of Corsicana,
Texas, will represent his state
in the Edison scholarship con
test.
The coming campaign for the
U. S. senatorial seat cf Fred
H ericit H. Gillett cf Massachusetts
may see Mrs. Jessie Sayre,
daughter of Woodrow Wilson.
J in the field.
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Joseph B. Cotton. New York
lawyer and reorganizer of large
corporations, is new undersec
retary of state, succeeding J.
Reuben Clark.
To rescue a cat which fell
from a ship at New Orleans and
lived on a ledge beneath a
wharf 'for a month while
schemes for saving her were be
ing hatched, Paul Shva, above,
dock policeman who is only a
mediocre swimmer, and George
Charbcnnet, dock board clerk,
went down a manhole and
swam beneath a pier. Here's
Silva with Adele. the cat. A
rising river wouid have drown
h Adele in another few hours.
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Wanda Mae and Juanita Fae Lenz, nine-week-old Siamese twins,
joined together differently than any hitiforto known, are shown on
arrival in New York from Mattoon, 111., in company of Nurses Ger
trude Young, left, a-d Idella Creviston, on th»ir way to Irvington.
N. J.. to be cxhib .ed. The mother, of Mattoon. r*;s six other chil
dren perfectly normal, the eldest being 16 and the youngest 12
months. The twins weighed eight pounds at birth, and £ present
weigh slightly under.
Discounting the possibility that defense attorneys will ask for a
change of venue cn the ground that they cannot obtain a fair trial in
Franklin county. Prosecutor John J. Chester. Jr., is mapping out his
case against Dr. James H. Snook, confessed slayer of Miss Theora Hix.
25. Ohio State university medical student. A photo taken shortly
after his arraignment at which he pleaded “not guilty,” shows, left to
right. Sheriff Harry Paul; John Seidel, Snook's attorney; Dr. Snook,
seated; E. O. Ricketts, Snook's attorney, and Prosecutor Chester. The
trial is set for July 22.
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These tour men : e among the most powerful in German afiairs
today as sendmer.t grows against the Young reparations plan which
the Nationalists declare makes Germany a colony of r- gland ar.d
Prance. Upper left. President Hindenburg of Germany; upper right.
Gustave Stresemann. German foreign minister; below. Dr. Hjalmar
Schacht. left, who represented Germany at the Paris conference, and
Owen D. Young, agent general for reparations payments, who re
cently returned to the United States. Hindenburg is quoted as ex
pressing his dissatisfaction with the Treaty of Versailles in which.
Germany acknowledges sole guilt for the war. and Stresemann has
startled the world with bitter references to the United States in the
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Frankie Marlow. New York racketeer, “taken for a ride,'' and
murder has created a stir in the undercover Hie of Gotham, is
by police to have left his insurance to Dolores Farris, blonde toe
dancer, now in London. Above, last picture of Maziow. and dancing
BOea of Dolores.