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ZEP READY FOR
WORLD’S TOUR
PaMengers Leave At Mid
night On Hiatory-Making
Graf Voyage
fiAKEHURST, N. J.. Aug. 7.—(A*
A company of adventurous souls
prepared to embii- today .upon ar
history-making voyage, circum-nav
igation of the earth in the German
dirigible, Graf Zeppelin.
Dr. Hugo Eckener. commander o!
the airship, ordered passengers tc
be at the hangar at 4 p. m. today,
although actual start on the first
leg of the Journey was not expected
to be made before midnight.
Some of those who have booked
passage from * will not make
the flight around the world, but
will disembark at the first stop.
Priedrichshafen, Germany, the
Graf's home t ort.
Among those who expect to re
main aboard the airship until she
arrives here again a month hence,
flying out of the west, arc Com
mander Charles Rosendahl, U. S. N
Lieut. J. C. Richardson, U. S. N..
William B. I teds, son of the late
tin plate king; Sir George Hubert
Wilkins, explorer; Lady Grace
Drummond Hay, Karl von Weigand,
newspaper correspondent, and Jo
achim D. Rickard, writer. Com
mander Rosendahl. survivor of the
dirigible Los Angeles, and Lieuten
ant Richardson are going as ob
servers for the navy.
C. P. Burge.*, a civilian engineer
attached to the avy, will be a pas
senger as far as Priedrichshafen.
Other Americans who will leave
the airship at Friedrichshafen are
Nathan Wexler and William Weber
of New York; Jehn E. Larney of
Brooklyn, and Moris Shumosky of
New Rochelle, IY.
The passenger list of 18 includes
several Germans who arrived on
the Graf for k . flight from Ger
many.
Hans von Schiller, one of the pi
lots of the Graf, said he expected
the airship would reach Friedrich
shafen early Sunday. The ship
will be grounded there for four or
five days then set out for Tokyo
and to Los Angeles. The trip east
ward across the United States is
estimated to consume two or three
days, which will bring the airship
to her star ug place here about
September 3.
THREE MEN FINED
IN COURT TUESDAY
Justice of the Peace B. L. Cain
Tuesday fined three men in his
court and dismissed a charge
against another.
Justo Garcia, charged with being
Intoxicated, was fined $1 and costs,
but 8imon Contreras and Feliz
Urballo, each charged with vag
rancy. drew fines of $5 and costs.
▲ charge against a man named
Lalla was dismissed.
FLIERS TURNED BACK
ON TRIP TO TEXAS
BT. LOUIS, Aug. 7.—(A*)—Miguel
Garcia Granados and Carlos Mer
ten, Guatemalan fliers, took off here
at 5:30 a. m. today for San An
tonio. Tex., but returned at 8 a. m.
They came back to the field here
after striking rain and bad wea
ther near Springfield, Mo., more
than a hundred miles on the way.
When they landed they expressed
hope of leaving again atxmt noon
and reaching Dallas tonight.
AUTO CRASH FATAL
BRYAN. Aug. 6—(A*—Coleman
E. Casey. 23, son of J. E. Casey
of Tuscola. Texas, died last night of
injuries received in an automobile
accident near here. The car was
driven by J. H Smith of Weather
ford. Both were students of A &
M. college.
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AS GRAF ZEPPELIN VISITED U. S. SECOND TIME .
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Pictured above is the Graf Zeppelin as she appeared above the hang
ar at Lakehurst late Sunday. Below is a photograph taken at dusk
as the huge bag passed over the Woolworth tower in New York City,
giving the citizens a thrill.
Commission to Study
Boundary Extension
Extension of the bounaory lines of Brownsville is to be the special
subject of a city commission meeting at some time during the present
week, but officials were unable to say Just when the meeting would be
held.
H. L. Yates, member cf the chamber of commerce committee work
tug Kjn tur (iiauri iuiu uic cny coni
mission last Friday it Is a project
which must be considered “carefully
and painstakingly” and the com
mission thereupon decided to give it
a whole meeting. It is possible
that still more meetings may be
required before the final plans are
agreed upon.
G. C. Richardson, manager of the
chamber of commerce declared that
"should our proposed extensions be
agreed upon, it will mean that the
population of the rity will be in
creased from 1.500 to 2.000. There
is no reason why Brownsville should
not Include all of her people in the
federal census, and unless the lim
its are extended, our total will suf
fer as a result.”
Must Studv Angles
Mayor A. B. Cole said he be
lieved the proposition should be con
sidered from all angles before any
action Is taken. “The chamber of
commerce in bringing up the mat
ter of extension is acting solely on
the idea of increased population.
We must study other phases.
Hearings will have to be held for
those who would be brought in. The
section in West Brownsville has the
greatest number of inhabitants.
Some of these have expressed a de
sire to become city tax payers as
they benefit from most of the city
conveniences and do not wish to be
classified as tax dodgers.
"On the other hand. I'm not sure
that the income from taxes would
offset the expense of extending city
limits. A separate sewer line for
West Brownsville will be necessary.
I have been told by engineers. The
expense in the first five years may
exceed the income for the next 25
years. And any number of other
questions must be gone o- er/* Cole
said.
Extension Plans
The proposed extensions. as
drawn by City Engineer George
Rogers, follow:
On the south the limits mould
follow the middle of the Rio
Grande from the Jesus Villareal
tract below Fort Brown to a point
opposite Estero de Sen Pablo;
thence northerly along the western
side of the Trevino-Canales banco
No. 5 to an intersection with the
present limits at Riverside Drive;
thence along the present limits
around the north bank of tha river
and back northeast to the Missouri
Pacific railroad; thence along the
railroad northwest to include all of
West Brownsville; along the boun
dary of water district 7 to include
all of Los Ebanos; thence back
K——
along the present boundary to the
Agnes A. Browne tract; thence
down the main ditch of Camercn
county drainage district No. 2 and
south to the St. Louis Brownsville
and Mexico railroad; thence to take
in the E. P. Combe tract to the mid
dle of the town resaca. which is
followed back to the present boun
dary; thence down the present
boundary to East 26th street;
thence south to the Jesus Villareal
tract and the starting point.
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TREATY SIGNED
IN TONG FIGHT
Peace Reign* Technically
After Slayings Reach
Total of Six
NEW YORK. Aug. 7.—4JP)—Peace
reigned at least technically—
throughout the United States again
today between the On Leong and
Hip Sing tongs after three days of
warfare in which five Chinese were
killed and teveral wounded.
A new treaty vas signed here to
day by national leaders of the rival
tongs after they had been served
with an ultimatum by U. S. Attor
ney Charles H. T. Tuttle 'to make
peace or pack up."
Word of :igning of the treaty
was telegraphed to tong leaders in
Chicago and Boston, where killings
. had occurred, and also to Phila
dephia and San ’"'rancisco and other
cities having large Chinese settle
ments.
Before word of the signing of thr
peace had been sent out and while
negotiations were pending another
shooting occurred in Chicago where
Joe Wal, a Hip Sing tongrnan, was
severely wounded.
George J. Mitnzer. an assistant
U. S. attorney, said that the war
fare which broke out in Chicage
last Sunday and resulted in the
killing of one Chinese there, two ir
Boston, one in Newark. N. J.. and
the one here, was the result of
poaching on commercial territory
claimed by each < * the rival tongs
Three Killed When
Rebuilt Plane Falls
CAMPBELLSVILLE. Ky., Aug. 7
—(/PI—A rebuilt plane piloted by a
youthful unlicensed student pilot
and powered with a motor of a type
declared obsolete by the war de
partment fell into an alley in the
center of the town late yesterdav.
and the pilot and his two passen
gers met death as the wreckage
was consumed by flames.
Hundreds of persons saw the
plane go into a spin at an altitude
of about 500 feet and careen to the
earth, but were helpless to rescue
the three from the flames.
The pilot was Francis Mitchell. 25.
of Louisville, and his passenger*
Carl E Carter, 23, drug store own
er, and Flave Courts, 23, a clerk
in the store.
FEDERAL EMPLOYES
TO NAME DELEGATE
A delegate to the national con
vention of the organization will be
selected Wednesday when the local
union No. 35 of the National Fed
eration of Federal Employes holds
its regular meeting at 8 p. m. in
the immigration office at the Gate
way bridge
1 Edmimrt Levy is president of the
I local union. ••
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FOREST BLAZES
SET BY FIREBUG
Conflagrations In Washing*
ton Reported About To
Be Controlled
LOS ANGELE8. Cal.. Aug. 7.—OP)
A pyrotnaniac, said to have used
Improvised flrepots made of candles
oil soaked rags and tir cans, was
blamed by forest service officials
here today for nine fires in the
Sierra national rests in Mariposa
county. Cal.
Rangers declared the candles had
been of arying lengths so the fires
would break out stm Ua. eously aft
er the flrepots had been planted
miles apart. A hunt for suspicious
characters was started.
SPOKANE. Wash.. Aug. 7.—
The fire demon which for two weeks
had resisted an army of fighters In
the northwest seemed to ue facing
defeat today on fronts that extend
ed through part: of three states
after having ravaged thousands of
acres In Moi -ana. Idaho and Wash
ington, severr 1 hundred fires In thr
national forests of those states were
being subdued by a combination of
weather and efforts of forest de
partment crew~. timber protective
association i :n and volunteers.
While the total area of these
fires was unknown, reports Indicat
ed that it would be considerably
more than 35.000 acres, with losser
running into millions of dollars
Many ranches and mu valuable
timber has been destroyed.
The stubborn Pack river fire
which for a time menaced t’ wa
ter supply of Sandpoint, Idaho
whli eit was ur Ing over more han
8.000 acres, was reported still de
fiant but les lanr erous. The cen-1
tral Idaho region, embracing the
Selway, Clearwater and Nez Percr
national forests, still had one major
blaze out of control. That was thr
the Bald mountain fire, which war
roaring; 170 fighters being powerles
to stop it. A lai j number of small
er fires, some started by llghtninr
and others by campers, were quiet
with small forces fighting them.
A fresh contingent of recruit
moved today from Montana to thr
Salmon river f're in Idaho, which
was reported to have broken ou'
anew.
WINNIPEG. Aug. 7 — All
available plane-; and men were en
gaged today in fighti- new forest
fires which ' ave broken out ir
northern Manitoba.
Col. H. I. L.evenson. head of the
dominion forestry department, an
nounced that for a time the fires
which raged northeast of Lake Win
nipeg, menaced valuable pulpwooc*
areas, but the fighters had managed
to prevent th^ flames from spread
ing to those areas.
"We are having a trying time of
it, but are holding our own with the
fire fiend.” said Colonel Stevenson
ANXIETY FELT OVER
PRINCE’S HEALTH
LONDON. Aug. 7.—(JP)—Anxiety
has arisen in some quarters as to
the health of Prince George, fourth
! and youngest son of the British
* monarch.
The Daily News said today the
royal family had become somewhat
t anxious, and remarked that the
prince had left the navy recently
because of his health and had gone
into the foreign office.
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NOW THE FAIR SEX TAKES IT UP! '
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Not to be outdone by men, these £» walk thrc -h Broadway, New
York, in pajamas They are, left to right. Madelyn Mack. Henriett
Kay. Helen Harper and Marion Young.
BRIDE WON BY
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MAIL RETURNED
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BY VALLEY MAN
(Special to The Herald)
MISSION. Aug. 7. —After a
whirlwind courtship by mail, a
63-year-old man of this section
induced a 56-year-old woman of
Minneapolis to come here and
marry him, and the marriage
lasted exactly 49 days, the aged
man sets ferxh in his petition for
divorce, which will be heard at
the coming ression of court.
The local man answered an ad
vertisement of the Minnesota
woman, and the correspondence
courtship blossomed into matri
mony.
I. alleges in his petition that
his wile soon undertook to take
charge of affairs, including all his
habits, business, etc., that she be
littled Texas people, declaring
they had no pep and ate bitten,
embarrassing him in public, and
otherwise failed to come up to his
expectations as u desirable com
panion for his declining years.
After 49 days of married life
he gave her a ticket back to Min
neapolis, and started consulting
lawyers.
Workers Neded To
Raise Scout Fund
With $1232 raised toward the Bo*•
■ 8c ts’ $350u fund through Tues
day, Ed Mockbee. chairman of the
! drive, declared that he feels certain
that the money will be raised.
“Our trouble is not in getting Un
people to donate, but in getting peo
ple to obtain the donations.” Mock
bee said. Mockbee, Harry Faulk
and Alfred Putegnat obtained ap
j proximately $400 Tuesday by mak
ing personal calls in the business
I district.
I “The donations are here—people
| are glad to aid the Boy Scouts—but
II haven't enough committees to
work the city thoroughly in a house
to house canvass," the chairman
said.
Mockbee urges that anyone wish
ing to donate, mail checks to the
"Brownsville Boy Scout Fund" to
him at the telephone orfice.
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One-Time Prominent
Author Dies Alone
CHICAGO. Aug. 1.—UP)—Mary
MacLane, a successful author 15
years ago. died last ntght in a kttfe
ly room on the fringe of ChicajH
black-and-tan belt. If
The author of *T. Mary IMP
Lane." “Men Who Have Made Love
to Me" and other romantic writ
ings. Miss MacLane had virtually
disapperaed. It was some time
after her death before it was real
ized she was the Mary MacLane
whose own romantic adventures as
well as her books had stirred the
Imaginations of the reading public
of a few years ago.
No one was ct her bedside as she
died.
NO LIVES LOST IN
WINK THFATER FIRE
WINK. Aug. .—<>!*)—A checkup
today had revealed no casualties in
the fire that swept the Liberty the
ater here during a performance
yesterday. The business block in
which the building was located was
threatened for » time but the com
bined effort# of remen and volun
teers kept the blaze comparatively .ajfe
localized. jH|
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Cinderella
and the Three pr&ud cigarette brands
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A Modern Fable
Once upon a time a Mighty Prince eet forth
to find a perfect cigarette. Being very wise,
be netted down his search to the four Na
tional favorites ... that quartette of popular
sister brands known as the “20 for 151” family.
The three elder cigarette brands rushed for
ward to meet the Prince with all the proud
pomp in the world . . . each vying with the
other in urging her cLarm* upon him.
“Smoke me!” said the eldest, “I am the class
of the field."
"Smoke me!” said the second, "for I am
beyond compare."
"Smoke me!” said the third, “all the world
acknowledges roe to be the best.’!
Then, from the background, the youngest
brand ... the Cinderella of the family . . .
quietly spoke up. !'If you please, Sire,”
she suggested, "why not smoke all four of
us ,,. and compare us fairly and impartially,
letting your taste decide which one of us yoia
like best?”
“Why, that's a commsu senre idea!” ex
claimed His Highness. Whereupon he covered
the names of all four brands with paper
masks; lit them and smoked them reflectively,
with all brand prejudice removed.
One cigarette seemed to capiwo bis fancy, far
and beyond the others. "I don’t know which
cigarette this is,” he declared, “but, un
questionably, it is the cigarette for me.”
Whereupon he removed the mask and found
it to be . . . Well, Cinderella is the “story
book” name but in America today that J
winning brand is known as OLD GOLD. /
MORAL: It is easy to make big claims, ^
but you can’t smoke claims. The only sound
way to discover the cigarette you like best is
to let your taste decide.
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