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ARMORED CARS
IN ATTACK ON
FRONTIER CITY
Martial Law Through
out Entire Length of
Eastern Railway Is
Declared
SHANGHAI. Aug. 21.—/AV-The
nationalist government semi-official
Tachung news agency today issued
a dispatch tinder a Harbin date line
saying:
"Although no major developments
have taken place cm the Manchur
ian frontier during the past two
days, both China and Russia arc
quietly preparing for war.”
The Chinese authorities declared
martial law throughout the entire
length of the Chinese eastern rail
way as a result of "the increasing
• gravity of the situation as well as
because of a number of incidents
along the railway such as the de
railing of trains and the recurrence
of sabotage by both Russians and
the Chinese communists."
The dispatch added the Kirin
provincial government had ordered
two artillery brigades to proceed to
the eastern border of Kirin province
to oppose alleged raids by Russian
troops. Telephone communications
from Harbin to the east have been
interrupted and communist agi
tators are believed guilty.
GUNBOAT FIRES ON
CHINESE POSTAL BOAT
MUKDEN. Manchuria, Aug. 21.
(Jp\—Chinese military’ dispatches
from Harbin today stated a Rus
sian gunboat on the Sungari river
near Fuchinghsten fired upon a
Chinese postal barge and captured
five postal employees and the boat's
mall
Minor engagements were reported
from Mullnsien and Hsingkal in the
neighborhood of Lake Hanka, while
it was said severe fighting took
place near Chalanor Oon, Aug. 18
and Aug. 19.
Railway traffic at the eastern end
of the Chinese eastern railway has
been crippled by attempts to blow
up trains.
HEAVY BATTLE NEAR
MANCHULI REPORTED
TOKYO. Aug. 21.——Manchuli
correspondents of Nlchl Nlchi and
Asahi Bhibui tday reported a heavy
battle yesterday just east of Man
chuli between soviet Invaders and
Chinese troops.
The two newspapers said soviet
armored trains appeared within 500
yards of the Manchurian frontier
town. Four hundred infantrymen
jumped from the trains and deploy
ed. opening fire on the Chinese un
der cover of their own artillery.
The Chinese troops replied with
Howitzers and the Russians even
tually retired after two hours fight
ing in which the Chinese suffered
thirty casualties. A number of Rus
sian guns and some ammunition
was captured.
Manchuli is about 10 miles from
the Sino-Russian frontier, in Man
churia.
RUSSIA SAID
QUIETLY MOBILIZING
LONDON. Aug. 21.—OP)—A dis
patch to the London Daily Mail to
day from Dairen, Liaotung penin
sula. said that while the soviet and
Chinese governments had bandied
accusations and repudiations of {
Manchurian frontier raids the sov
iet military administration had been
quietly organizing its far-eastern
army. Mobilization, the dispatch
said, is complete.
The supreme command has been
given General Blucher. who under
the designation of General Gallen
was loaned to the Chinese national
ist government to advise in training
Its army. He has his headquarters
with the Seventeenth Army Corps
at Novostbyrsk.
The Eighteenth Army Corps has
been headquartered at Irkutsk, un
der General Lapis. The nineteen
army corps has been quartered at
Kharbarovsk under General Kor
oboff.
More Than Half of
Scout Fund Raised
The Brownsville Boy Scout fund
reached a total of $1,805 Tuesday as
Uie result of work of a special com
mittee headed by Ed Mockbee.
chairman oi the drive. Browns
ville's quota for the budget of the
coming year is $3,500.
Mockbee has resorted to special
committees to raise the fund and
reports that good progress is being
made. J. W. Ainsworth and Sam
Perl aided in the work Tuesday, as
Lawrence Oimstead and Sam
-nd J. L. Abney,
fund now hi twice as large
Ised before.
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Atlantic Holds Fate
Of Two Swiss Fliers
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NEW YORK, Aug. 21.—(/P)—The same silence which has shrouded out
comes of most other westward transatlantic flight ventures today cloaked
the end of the attempt of two Swiss boy aviators, Oscar Kaesar and Kurt
Luescher. to reach New York from Lisbon.
Nothing has been heard or seen of the two airmen and their snow
white plane, the Jungscnweitzeriana:
or “Young Switzerland," since it
curled a village on Terceira Island.
Azores, at 1 p. m. E. S. T., Monday
and continued north and west to
ward Newfoundland, Nova Scotia,
and New York.
There was scant hope that either
the plane or its crew of two had
survived the great adventure, and
had not gone the way of other trans
Atlantic failures, to a silent, myster
ious disaster, somewhere out at sea.
Sighted Bat Once
Leaving Juncal. a village near
Lisbon. Portugal, at 7:30 a. m. <1:30
a. m. E. S. T. Monday, the Young
Switzerland was sighted but once,
by the German steamship Werra,
175 miles west of Lisbon, before It
reached the Asores, circlilng Praia
Victoria. Terceira Island. 111-2
hours after Its start.
The two aviators, maintaining
their average speed of 90 miles an
hour, might have been expected to
be in the neighborhood of Cape
Race. Newfouundland. at 4 a. m..
E. S. T.. yesterday, and at Halifax,
where they had planned to stop for
refueling, at 10 a. m.
Neither Halifax nor Cape Race
reported any word of them. The en
tire coast reported skies and a heavy
fog bank which presented adverse
flying conditions and hope for their
safety waned rapidly as the hours
passed without news.
Swiss Nationals Watch
At Roosevelt Field. Long Island,
the landing lights were kept on last
night with the hope the plane might
appear overhead after all. but af
ter several hours a small crowd of
Swiss nationals and other aviators
dispersed, convinced of the hope
lessness of their vigil.
Ships at sea. nine of them in the
course of the aviators, were asked
to report any word of them but
without result. If the plane came
down on the Atlantic near a ship
and the airmen were saved the ship
could only have been one without
wireless since otherwise there probo
bly would have been some word of
the rescue.
There was a chance that like the
Bremen of Ma^on Von Huenefeld.
Captain James Fitzmaurice, and
Captain Herman Koehl. the plane
had reached the American continent
and alighted in a desolate out of the
way spot, but the chance was slim
Brave Youths
The two aviators were the young
est and least experienced ever to
attempt the dangerous crossing,
which, although made once by the
German plane Bremen has come to
be regarded as suicidal by aviators.
Kaesar was but 21 years old, Lus
cher 22. Both began flying in 1927.
The plane carried no radio, but
was equipped with a rubber life boat,
rubber life-saving belts, and an ap
paratus for distilling sea water. The
plane itself could not remain afloat
long if forced down.
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FAIRGROUND
PAVING ASKED
Harlingen Commission Will
Get Petition; Expected
To Call Election
(Special to The Herald)
HARLINGEN. Aug. 21.—A petition
was being circulated In Harlingen
today which will be presented to the
city commission at its meeting to
night asking that all streets in the
fair grounds be paved immediately.
Belief was expressed by local cit
izens that the. paving would be or
dered provided the petition is signed
by representative residents of the
city
The commission also Is expected
to name the date of a special elec
tion at which amendments designed
to limit the power of the city gov
erning body will be submitted to the
people.
These amendments to the city
charter include one which would re
strict power to issue warrants to
one-tenth of one percent of the as
sessed valuations. Another would fix
a salary limit for members of the
commission and a third provided
creation of a park board. A fourth
provides that a recall election shall
be called on petition of 20 per cent
of the voters.
ENGELMAN MANAGER
TO OCCUPY NEW HOME
(Special to The Herald)
EDINBURG. Aug. 21—A. L. Cram
er. general manager of J. C. Engel
man company, and his family, will
move into a new $10,500 stucco
home now being built for him in
Engelman Gardens, by the Tewell
Lumber company. A ten-acre or
chard of two-year-old citrus trees is
back of the house. The house will
be seven-room, English cottage style
with cream stucco exterior, modem
in every detail inside.
COSTE TO TRY
TOBEATGRAF
TO NEW YORK
Ace Expects to Reach
Tokyo Saturday and
Equip Plane With
Pontoons There
LEBOURGET. Prance. Aug. 21 —
(AP)—Dieudonne Coste, French air
ace, announced this afternoon he
would take off at 5 a. m. tomorrow
In a flight around the world in pur
suit of the German Dirigible Graf
Zeppelin which he hoped to over
take and pass before she could
reach Lakchurst and New York.
The French r viator who has al
ready made r. flight around the
world since he crossed the south
Atlantic ocean in 1927. told an In
timate friend today he w’ould at
tempt to break the world's non-stop
distance record for airplanes on the
first stage of his race around the
world with the Zeppelin, which is at
present at Tokyo.
Arrangements Made
Coste, flying In the machine with
which he recently attempted to
cross the Atlant from east to west,
will attempt to make the distance
from Le Bourget to V’.adlvostock,
Siberia, In a single flight tomor
row.
He says he Intends to refuel at
Vladlvostock and then Immediately
fly to Tokyo, which he expects to
reach by 9 p. m. Saturday.
The famous pilot added arrange
ments hade been made at Kasaumi
gaura flying field, from which the
Graf Zeppelin was to start, to adapt
Pontoons for his airplane for the
flight across the Pacific to the
American coast.
LA FERIA BOOSTERS
HARLINGEN’S GUESTS
(Special to The Herald*
HARLINGEN, Aug. 21—Directors
of the La Feria Boosters club were
here Wednesday to attend a ban
quet as guests of the local chamber
dlrectoriate which was to be served
at noon in the Reese-Wll-Mond
hotel.
Matters of mutual interest to the
two towns are to be discussed, some
of those who will attend said.
¥ai@y Fl©w«irs |
In Our Valley
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taken to improve this condition by
enforcing the law. if this is possible.
He will hold a conference with Dr.
Primer soon and devise means to
improve the record.
This is of vital importance to
Cameron county. If the official
record says we have a high Infant
mortality and a high death rate it
will be difficult to convince pros
pective citizens and tourists that
these official records are all wrong.
Ladybirds
(Continued From Page I)
to a rocky, mesqulte Arizona hill
side under a partly opened para
chute, was being sent back to her
family home in San Diego. Cal. A
coroner’s Jury found her death had
been accidental.
Closely following the San Diego
girl's death came insinuations and
open charges, for the most part dis
counted by race officials pending
investigation, that sabotage had
been practiced on several planes en
tered in the contest. Claire Fahy,
Los Angeles woman, forced out ol
the race at Calexico, Cal., when stay
wires of her plane were found se
vered. reiterated her belief her ship
had been tampered with.
Investigate Service .
, Then Rasche, German aviatrix,
who spent last night at Phoenix,
after “foreign matter in her gaso
line tank" had caused her to land
with damage to her plane’s under
carriage at Holtville, Cal., declined
to say openly she suspected tam
pering. She exhibited a telegram
from the east signed “Levy." which
warned her to "beware of Sabo
tage.”
Ruth Elder. Los Angeles girl, re
ported oil and gasoline had been
intermixed In servicing her plane
at San Bernardino.
The stir created by a series of
minor mishaps, climaxed by the
death of Miss Crosson. moved the
district attorney's office of San
Bernardino county to order a for
mal hearing today to investigate
the handling of the planes at the
San Bernardino airport Sunday
night. Most of the accidents oc
curred after the planes had left San
Bernardino for the cross-desert
flight to Yuma and Phoenix.
Dr. L. W. Ayres, race chairman,
reported Miss Crosson had told him
at San Bernardino her motor had
been heating, with reducing oil I
pressure on the first leg of the
flight from Clover field. Santa Mon
ica. Officials of the Pacific Aero
motive corporation, servicing Miss
Crosson's plane, said in Los Ange
les, however, that the girl had made
no report to them of any trouble.
Louise Thaden Leads
Mrs. Keith Miller of Australia ex
pressed herself . i in doubt regard
ing the cause of trouble experienced
on yesterday's flight between Phoe
nix and Douglas. She ran out of
gasoline twice, once at McNeal, 23
miles from Douglas, and again
within sight of the Douglas field,
when she was forced to make a
dead stick landing in a mesqulte
covered flat.
Mrs. Louise McPhetnoge Thaden
of Pittsburgh, took the lead at the
end of yesterday's lap in the large
plane division, Florence Lowe
B&rnes of San Tariano, Cal., drop
ping to fourth place when she wan
dered off the course. Mrs. Phoebe
Omlie of Memphis retained her
leadership in the small plane class
In El Paso Tonight
The official flight record of
elapsed times between Santa Mon
ica and Douglas:
Large planes:
Louise McPhetrirge Thaden.
Pittsburgh, 5:13.
Gladys O’Donnell, Long Beach.
Cal., 6:00:00.
Amelia Earhart, Boston. 6:03:05
Florence Lowe Fames. San Mar
ino, Cal., 6:27:09.
Ruth Nichols. Rye. N. Y., 6:27:29.
Ruth Elder. Los Angeles. 6:47:47.
Blanche Noyes. Cleveland. 7:04 20.
Neva Paris, Great Neck, Long Is
land. 7:20:32.
Margaret Perry, Los Angeles. 7:
33:38.
Opal Kunz, New York, 9:35:33.
Vera Dawn Walker, Los Angeles,
11:53:08.
May Haizlip, Kansas City, (time
not officially computed.)
Mary Elizabeth Von Mack, De
troit, (time not officially comput
ed).
Thea Rasche, Germany, (remain
ed in Phoenix last night, lap be
hind >.
Light planes:
Phoebe Omlie. Memphis, C-37:27.
Edith Foltz, Portland, Ore., 7:
38:49.
Mrs. Keith Miller, Australia, 15:
38:49.
The omy scheduled stop on to
day's 190-mile lap to El Paso, Texas,
where the fliers will spend the night,
was at Lordsburg. N. M.
CROSSON MEMORIAL
SERVICE PLANNED
j CLEVELAND. Ohio. Aug. 21.—f/F)
I National tribute will be paid to the
memory of Miss Marvel Crosson. av
iatrix, who lost her jiife in the worn
1
en’s air derby uelng flown in con
nection with the Cleveland air races
which open here Saturday.
The National Exchange club,
sponsors of the .ace. will hold me
morial services it all clubs, num
bering about 800, and a 30-second
period of silence will follow the
opening ceremonies at the Cleve
land airport. A vacant seat will be
marked for her at the banquet at
which the women will be honored at
the close of the race
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DAYTONIA BEACH. Fla.-Paja
mas are to be worn by both sexes
at a dance under the auspices of
the city recreation department on
the boardwalk next Monday night.
No other attire will be permitted.
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