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City Refinancing In Air
After Auditor Is Ousted
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The status of the proposition for
refunding the city indebtedness
Friday was in doubt as a result df
the action of the city commission
Thursday in abolishing the office
of city auditor and purchasing
agent, of which J. S. Ford was
head.
Mayor A. B. Cole at the regular
meeting a week ago asked Ford to
lx prepared to submit a concrete
proposal at the next regular meet
ing, which will be July 19.
■ Ford, appearing before the com
'mission, said:
“You will have to increase assess
ed valuations, increase the tax rate
or vote refunding bonds, and the
economical thing to do would be to
issue low interest bonds to retire
high interest warrants.”
Finance Commissioner J. A.
Cobolini said the commission had
been informed that the city should
refund its indebtedness by leading
bond buyers and bond attorneys.
Every member of the court at the
July 5 meeting appeared to ne
ready to call an election as soon
as a concrete proposal could be
presented.
British Navy Holds
Last Honors for 20
Submarine Victims
PEMBROKE, Wales, July 12.—W”)
—The British navy has said its
goodbye to the 20 men who went to
death in the sunken submarine,
H-47.
At sunset last night the battle
ship Rodney led six destroyers and
fiv? submarines over the spot where
the submersible went down Tues
day, after collision with the L-12,
and rendered impressive last honors
to the men 330 feet below them.
A short memorial service was con
ducted aboard the Rodney, wreaths
were cast into the sea. and the big
guns of the battleship and her aux
iliaries boomed in final salute to
the gallant dead.
The admiralty announced that in
view of the certainty all the men
were dead further salvage efforts
would be abandoned,
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Annulment Asked For
Marriage of Heiress
To Real Estate Man
WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., July 12.
—{jP)—Action to annul the marriage
of Mrs .Natalia Guggenheim Gor
man, one of the heiresses to the
Guggenheim copper fortune, to
Thomas M. Gorman, son of a Long
Island railway stationmaster, has
been started in Westchester county
court.
John M. Holeworth, former as
sistant district attorney, who has
been appointed guardian at law for
the 18-year-old bride, said today
Gorman had been served with a
summons in the proceedings more
than two months ago, and a notice
of appearance as defendant had
jieen filed by his attorney,
w No complaint has yet been filed
and grounds io~ the action were not
disclosed. Edward A Guggenheim,
father of the bride, however, is
uudsrstccd to be strongly opposed
to the marriage. The Guggenheims
are Jewish. Gorman is a Catholic.
Gorman a young real estate op
erator, and the heiress were married
secretly last April 6 at Great Neck,
. Long Island. Mrs. Gorman, on May
25 sailed with her parents for Eu
rope.
$29,000 Will Be
Used to Purchase
Land For Indians
BEAUMONT, Tex., July 12—(JF)—
Expenditure of $29,000 by the fed
eral government for land for Ala
bama and Coushatta Indians in
Polk county has been approved*by
the attorney general, according to
information reaching Judge Thom
as A. Baten, one of the land own
ers from whom the tract was pur
chased. That approval fulfills re
quirements of law and warrants on
the U. S. treasury department are
to be issued at once by the com
missioner of Indian affairs.
The land was purchased for ap
proximately $9.50 per acre, about
two-thirds of it being in timber and
suitable for grazing.
The entire appropriation was
$40,000, the expenditure for land
leaving a balance of $11,003 for the
purchase of equipment. That is in
addition to an appropriation of
$37,000 recently made by the Texas
legislature.
WATCH LOST 30 YEARS
CHIPPENHAM. Eng. — George
Hathaway hooked in a fishing
stream near here a watch he lost
at that spot 30 years ago.
lUUgat VV1U1 XVXaiiL/iiUl l£til I
police in many parts of the wealthy
province, and there were reports
here that soviet troops in Eastern
Siberia were ready to move east into
Manchuria at a moment’s notice.
Thirty expelled Russian officials
of the left at 6 p. m., yesterday for
Eastern Siberia, and nearly 300 oth
ers with orders to move in twelve
hours were leaving the province to
day.
Passports Given
Chang Ching-Hui, governor of the
Harbin district, handed O. N. Mel
nikov, soviet consul general, pass
ports for the expelled Russians. M.
Emshanov, manager of the railway,
was confined to his residence under
heavy guard after being forced to
give up his post.
Fan Chih-Kuang, a Chinese was
appointed to replace him, the new
manager issued a statement in
^rhich he said the expelled Russians
would be replaced by Russians nat
uralized as Chinese or by white
Russians.
Soviet Blamed
Lu Yung-Huang, president of the
Chinese eastern directorate, issued
a statement alleging soviet Russia
had been responsible for the expul
sion of the Russian railroad officials
and employes and the rupture it
represented. He concluded with the
statement China was prepared to
combat Russian retaliatory meas
ures.
Actual seizure of the Chinese east
ern followed seizure first of its tele
phone and telegraph agencies and
arrest of certain Russian officials
and employes. M. Melnikov im
mediately demanded release of the
imprisoned men by noon yesterday.
The Chinese seized the remainder
of the road forthwith. All soviet
agencies in northern Manchuria
were closed and the labor unions
disbanded.
The Chinese eastern railway was
constructed by the Russian imperial
regime at a cost of 350,000,000 rubles
(about $180,000,000) and was a con
tributing factor to the Russo-Jap
anese war. Hitherto under two
agreements, dated 1920 and 1924. its
directorate has been a board of ten,
half Russian and half. Chinese.
RUSSIAN CITY
HIGHLY EXCITED
TOKYO. July 12.—(VP)—Rengo dis
patches from Harbin, Manchuria,
say the Soviet Russian community
is highly excited because of devel
opment in the Chinese eastern rail
way controversy and many are flee
ing the city in an effort to reach
the border.
Advices from Changchun state the
Chinese have completed taking over
the railway works there and have
arrested several soviet officials,
sending them to Harbin.
Soviet reservists in the Chinese
eastern railway zone are reported
to have received orders to join the
forces in Siberia.
A Manchuli dispatch, describing
the crossing of the border by the
first Russians deported, quotes lead
ing officials as threatening: “We
are leaving empty handed, but will
return with rifles.”
According to Japanese military in
telligence Soviet Russia has an
equivalent of six divisions along
thp Siberian railway betwen Lake
"Baikal and Vladivostok, including
cavalry, artillery, tanks, aircraft and
railway engineers. Chinese troops
in Manchuria are estimated to be
an equivalent of 15 divisions.
CREW UNINJURED IN
BRITISH SUB BLOW-UP
VALETTA. Malta, July 12.—fVP>—
The X-l, largest British submarine
afloat, today reported an explosion
aboard during naval exercises in
the Mediterranean. No lives were
lost, one one was injured, and the
vessel was stated to be only slight
ly damaged.
The submarine which is attached
to the Mediterranean flotilla, is re
turning to Malta under her own
power escorted by the cruiser Ceres
and is expected tomorrow.
REBEL CHIEF AND 11
MEN REPORTED DEAD
MEXICO CITY, July 12.—(VP)—A
war department announcement to
day said Faustino Gonzales. “Cris
tero” chieftain and 11 of his men,
were killed in a battle with federals
at the village of Tiquistlan, Jalisco.
CREW SAVED AS SHIP
COLLIDES AND SINKS
LONDON, July 12.—(VP)—Lloyds
Landsend wireless station received
a message from the Spanish steam
er Cristina today stating that she
collided with and sank the British
t steamer Seaforth. 349 tons, during
a fog near t.h» Bristol channel.
J The Seaforth's crew was saved.
$25,000 Fund Will
Aid Fight Against
Valley Fruit Fly
(Special to The Herald)
AUSTIN, July 12.—Appropriations
of $25,000 annually for the control
of citrus cancer and the Medite—
ranean fruit fly in Texas are in
cluded in the new departmental ap
propriation bill passed Thursday by
the house.
An additional appropriation of
$5,000 per year for date experiments
at the Weslaco experiment station
was contained in the new bill.
The $25,000 appropriation was re
tained in the departmental bill due
to the efforts of interested legisla
tors. despite the fact that it was re
turned to Governor Moody for
further trimming.
BODY OF SAN BENITO
MAN REACHES HOME
(Special to The Herald)
SAN BENITO, July 12.—The body
of Pablo Noyola, 22, who was killed
in a carnival fire at Sonora, Texas,
arrived here Friday. Funeral serv
ices will be held Saturday.
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Water Blanket
From Mountain
Falls In City
EL PASO, Texas, July 12.—OP)—
El Paso today surveyed wreckage
and ruin in the wake of one of the
most disastrous cloudbursts in its
history that hit an exclusive resi
dential district yesterday. Dam
age was estimated at a quarter of a ;
million dollars.
'Tithout warning, a solid blanket
of water was released from clouds
over the Franklin mountains on
the edge of town. A wall of water
swept into the streets, carrying
boulders as large si office desks.
The stone foundation of one j
house was swept from under the
building. Parked wagons and auto
mobiles were picked up and smash
ed into poles and buildings. Chunks
of asphalt pavement were torn up
and carried away.
Adobe homes of Mexicans in the
lowlands were washed away by the
water which stood three feet deep
until late last night.
Southern Pacific trains were de
layed, but service today was nor
mal and clearing away of debris
was under way.
DEVILS LAKE, N. D. July 12.—
UP)—Eighteen persons were injured
thousands of dollars in property
damaged and telephone and tele
graph communications interrupted
in a tornado which struck this city,
Crary and Ardoch last night.
John and Frank Vanderlyn,
farmers living near Crary, were se
verely injured when a barn on their
farm was demolished, and George
Jacobson, hired hand on a farm
near Crary, received a broken leg
Fifteen laborers were injured,
none seriously when eight cars of a
Great Northern railway work train
were blown from the rails, near
here.
Buildings were damaged at Devilr
Lake, Crary and Ardoch. while a
number of farm structures were
razed in the vicinity of those towns.
Hail leveled crops in some sections.
HARLINGEN WOMAN
DIES AT HOSPITAL
especial to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. July 12.—Mrs. Em
ma Albers, 56. wife of H. J. Albers,
died Friday morning at the Valley
Baptist hospital after a long illness.
The Albers have lived at the Har
din ranch near here for some years
The body is being held at the
Thompson mortuary awaiting the
arrival of relatives from North
Texas.
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Bilious Fever and Malaria.
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HOW HAWKS SPED ACROSS NATION
Map shows how Capt. Frank Hawks in a solo flight made a round trip
from New York to Los Angeles in less than 37 hours flying time, and
44 hours, 8 minutes elapsed time.
Panic Grips Chinese
Cities As Russians
Expelled; War Looms
HARBIN, Manchuria, July 12.—(JFh-Northeastern China boiled today
in a ferment of Sino-Russian antagonism, which admittedly may have
the gravest consequences.
Harbin itself spent a night with near riots on the Eastern railway,
seized yesterday by the Chinese authorities.
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