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GROUP
STILL FIGHTS;
MOVETOPEACE
Central Governments
Still Hoping Row
Can Be Settled By
Arbitration

PEIPING, China, July 22.-tPl-
An increasingly serious border stu
alton in Manchuria over the week
end counteracted eradication that
American intervention under the
authority of the Kellogg pact seem
ed to have averteG actual hoStlllt1es
Chang Hsueh Liang, governor OF
Manchuria, reDorte dto the Ma
tionalist COVE, Hment at Nankine
that soviet forces opened an attack
on the Chinese along the Sulten
river on the eastern border OF Man
churi aat 8 a. M, Saturday.
Chang said the Chinese troops
remained on the defense. RusslaL
troops. he said, were equipped WITH
poison gas and 80 field guns.
DELAYED Associated Press dls'
patches from Pogranichnaya, sem
Saturday morning, Mentioned NJ
battle but said the populace there
was panic stricken because OF re-
heated demonstrations by four So
Wet airplanes above the ely. Chln'
ese fired upon the planes out SCOT
ed no hits. The. same dispatch Sait
VIadivostok was cut off completel.
bv rail. even the Amur railway pc
inp blocked by what the ottlclal
described as floods" along the rlV
er by the same name.
An appeal of President Chlan'
Kai Shek. who is also generall!s
simo Of the Chinese armies, 10 Ch
commanding officers and sololer,
WAS published here. Chang calleC
unon the armies to rise agalns
cred imperialism" and uphold III
sovereign rights of China.
He declared the abolition OF un
equal treaties and realization Q
national independence CONSTITUTES
the most important points OF Un
Chinese revolution program, an
said that every officer and sold1e
If the national army should be Will
inp to sacrifice his life for thes
oscillations.
Publish Manifesto
The Nationalist government a
Nanking published q manifesto !
the world governments stating II
case.
The announcement said that \
view Of communist propaganda url
dermining the government it ha
been constrained adopo measure
Of self-defense with regard TO th
Chinese eastern railway. II oe
clared the soviet government oE
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SOuiets Turn Gas Bombs on Chinese Troops
Plane Wrecked;
Flyer Escapes
Without Injury

EDMONTON, Alberta, July 22.--
R-Captain Ross G. HoytS at
tempted flight from New York to
Nome, Alaska, and return, has end
ed in a crash near Yarmouth, b. q.
He was on his way here from White
Horse, Yukon, on the third leg OF
his homeward trip yesterday.
The United States army flier es-
capped injury, but his Curtiss hawk
pursuit plane was wrecked.
Hoyt had been expected to arrive
back at Mitchell Field, N. r., to-
day if he maintained his pace. He
had battled wind and rain since
Thursday with practically no sleep
and had covered nearly 5000 miles.
He left Mitchell Field at 2:38 p. m,
New York time, Thursday.
Bad. weather in Alberta forced
him down. He lost II hours on the
northWard flight and tried to make
I'D lost time. "A message sent from
Fairbanks, Alaska, told of tough
trip" to Nome and return, with rain
and low clouds the entire distance.
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1000 DEAD in
TURK QUAKES
LandsIides Also Taking Toll
AS Result of Heavy
Floods

CONsTANTINOPLE, July 22.-tP)
Latest reports from northern Ana
tomia state recent earthquakes and
landslides have caused the deaths
of one thousand persons. Ten thou
sand are homeless and without food.
AS reports Of the disaster con-
tinued, the Turkish Red Crescent
society rushed aid to the assistance
Of the victims while the Constanti-
nople press appealed for the help
of the International Red Cross.
Shocks and landslides, the latter
caused by torrential rains, were re-
ported to be increasing the havoc
in northern Anatola where recent
inundations devastated the towns
Of Surmene and Rizer.
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1900 CONVICTS
STAGE REVOLT
Guards With Machine Guns
Keep Prisoners At Bay;
Burn Carpenter Shop

PLATTSBURGH, N. r., July p.
-(P-More than 1900 convicts at
Clinton prison, Dannemora, revolted
today, injured two guards, burned
the carpenter shop and made ar
unsuccessful attempt to rush the
prison walls.
The 124 prison OFFICERS manned
the walls, armed with rifles and
machine guns and kept the prison
ers at bay.
Details of the outbreak were with
held by prison officials but 1t was
learned every available state troop
er at the Malone barracks was on
the way to Dannemore.
Colonel Madden, commandant at
PIattsburgh barracks, despatched a
motor truck loaded with soldiers
armed with rifles and bayonets to
Dannemora to aid in quelling the
riot.
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man LEFT ON
HIGHWAY IN
DYING STATE
Lay Helpless For 81 J
Hours Until Picked
Up BY Another Cary
Hunt For Driver
Especial to The Herald)

RAYMONDVILLE. July 22.-The
second victim of a hit-and-run driv-
er in the Valley during the last 10
days, Rafael Barbosa, IS, farmer, is
in the Valley Baptist hospital at
Harlingen, in a dying condition,
with one leg amputated and suf-
fering severe shock.
The aged man was struck while
walking on the highway six miles
east Of here about midnight Satur-
day and lay on the road until short-
ly before 6 a. m. Sunday when he
was discovered by w. j. Dry and
II. B. Drake. superintendent Of
schools at Harlingen.
The men brought him into Ray
mondville, and summoned Sheriff
Luther Snow, after taking the in
jured man to the court house.
Deputy sheriffs over the county are
hunting the driver Of fhe auto
mobile, but they have no clues as to
his identity.
O1RlJly COISCIOuS. WHICH, UIOuSllu
to Raymondville, the man said he
was walking to his home, about
seven miles east of here when he
was struck by an automobile COM
ing in back of him.
DR.. j. ID. McCann, who examined
the man. reported that both his legs
were broken, his right arm was
I,rolyny ord hic RIGHT hand was
crushed and severely mangled. DR..
McCann and Sheriff Snow took the
man to the Valley Baptist hospital,
where DR.. Davidson is attending
him
His left leg has been amputated
above the knee and several bones
have been removed from his right
arm. The arm will be amputated
Monday, doctors report if the aged
man withstands the shock Of the
other operation. The man i in a
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ROBIN MAY
SET new MARK
Fliers to Break Record
By Staying Aloft
Until 3 P. M.

ST. LOUIS, July 22.-(P)-Need-
ing to stay aloft until 3:01 p. H.,
Central standard tirne) to set q
new record for refueling endurance
flights, Dale Red" Jackson and
Forest O'Brine in their st. Louis
Robin we're slowly circling over 6
st. Louis airport today.
The sister ship, the Missouri Rob-
in, starting 80 hours later, also
monotonouSly wheeled in the air,
under command of Joe Hammer
and w. Gentry Shelton.
Nine days in the air found Jack
son and O'Brine optimistic in their
notes, Red" being given Sunday
'off" by his partner, as the latter
caught six hours sleep in one
stretch. Refueling contacts were
made with regularity, and good fly
ing weather held.
Jackson and O'Brine took off
from Lambert-St. Louis field al
TIT a. m. on Saturday, July /, and
it wasn't until they had been in
the air more than an 100 hours
they announced their try for the
record to stay aloft while engine.
plane and pilots held out.
Hammer and Shelton left at 1898
a m. on Wednesday, July II, and
Shelton experienced a slight attack
of "air sickness" on the second day.
The propeller Of their plane sew
cred the refueling hose on one of
the early contacts, otherwise the
dual record attempts we're unevent-
full.
A crowd estimated by officials at
$4,000 larger than the one which
greeted Lindbergh on his return
from Paris, watched the planes
soar.
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SIX DEAD AS
PLANESFALL
Air Accidents Take Toll In
Three Crashes Over
Sunday

CHICAGO, July 22.-P)-Four
persons were killed yesterday in two
airplane crashes in the middle west,
one here and the other at North
Platte, Neb.
Jens Jensen, %, and Miss Hilda
Schaufelberg, 81, were killed and
Miss Pauline Taylor, %, was crlti-
cally inirued when Jensen's plane
fell. The engine stalled and the
plane went into a tail spin. landing
near the Akers airport, west Of Chi
cago.
County police said they learned
the women had given Jensen, VINO
was not licensed a commercial pl-
lot. SIS to take them a1oft.
Frozen" controls were believed TO
have caused the North Platte acct-
dent.
Henry Oldham, pilot for the Mid
west Aviation Corporation, was IN
structing Mike Ryan in flying. They
had been in the air nearly an hour
and were about to land when the
crash occurred near the North
Platte municipal airport.
Both Ryan and Oldham were
killed. They lived at North Platte
WORCESTER, Mass, July 22.-
tPD-A long loop which caused {
piece of wing fabric to tear sent ar
airplane piloted by George j. Ha.
ven. 81, careening to the ground
$500 feet below, Yesterday ant
brought death to Haven and hi
passenger, Charles w. Holmes, "A
commercial photographer. The &C
cident occurred at the Worceste
airport. North Grafton. Both Ha'
ven and Holmes were Worceste
men and were married.
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PLANE PASSES 1O8
HOUR MARK IN AIR

HOUSTON, Texas, July 222-(P)
"Bumpy' air held the endurance
monoplane Billion Dollar City, rel
atively close to ground today, but
the motor was singing, and the
weather was good.
The monotony of refueling was
broken for the pilots, Glenn l.
Loomis and Joe Glass, by a message
from the Shreveport fliers, Van
Lear Leary and Curry Sanders,
whose record-hunting plane had
been in the air only a few hours
longer than the Billion Dollar City,
which at 12:49:54 a. m, passed the
108-hour mark.
Leary and Sanders wishes the
Houston men 'luck and even
breaks"
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RIVER FORECAST

There will be no material change
in the river during the next few
day. except probably will continue
to fall very slowly at San Benlt0
and Brownsville.
c-Ia-, VrvIry CTcf
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Sunday JuIv 2Ist
TIDE TABLE

High and low tide at Point Isabel
tomorrow, under normal meteorolog-
ical conditions:
High ..,....ss.sss.ssa. - - a. "a
Low .10:30 p. nj,
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WEATHER
THE WEATHER

THE WEATHER
For Brownsville and the Valley:
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday.
Light to moderate winds, mostly
Southerly.
For East Texas: Not received in
time.
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I'm OUR
VALLEY

THOUSANDS of Valley citizens
and tourists missed their Sunday
afternoon dip in the surf.
Hard showers of rain fell on the
road to Boca Chica Sunday morn
ing and there was some rain on the
Point Isabel road.
More hardy motorists-those who
were most anxious to visit the gulf
put on chains and made it
through to Boca Chica. But a.rge
number of cars attempting to get
through were stuck in the mud and
other motorists who had gone to
the beach before the rain had diff
ticulty in getting home.
THE ROAD to Point Isabel was
In better condition and a number
Of cars got through, but the Sun
day crowd was greatly reduced.
The water was unusually fine, be-
ing clear as crystal, although the
waves were not high enough for
real sport.
The rain not only ruined an out
Ing for thousands of persons it
ruined day of business for bath
house operators and other business
places at both beaches.
Some day paved roads will con-
meet the beaches with the Valley
and then there will be no more dis
appointments.
Tourists at the seaside demand
that the surf be available at any
hour Of the day or night. They have
q right to make this demand.
The gulf coast is the Valleys
greatest recreational asset.
"A WOMAN visitor from Oklahoma,
Is not familiar with bathhoue prac-
tices.
She paid IS cents for a suit at
q beach bath house.
Thought she had bought the suit
and started to leave with it.
II was explained to her that she
c. not bought the suit.
We'll, do get my IS cents back"
che asked.
She didn't.
THE HERALD, having trouble
with one of its intricate machines.
wrote to Chicago for some infor-
nation on its operation.
The letter was air mailed from
Brownsville at p. m. SATURDAY..
Tne reply was back Monday
morning.
Ordinary mail would have re-
Quired a week.
Only one example of the value Of
being on an important international
air mail route.
THE VALLEY leads in vegetables
grapefruit and many other products
and phases of life.
1t also leads in quantity-and
Quality-production of ice.
Ice plants belonging to the Cen
tral Power and Light Co. located
in various Valley towns already
nave a capacity Of more than 1000
CO44S HCI Qdy.
Now the company is to add 21n
tons per day to this by erecting
new plants at Mercedes and Elsa Of
100 and go tons capacity.
The company supplies ice fer
icing vegetables and fruit, in addi-
tion to selling large part of the
ice consumed in Valley homes. res
taurants, meat markets and the
like.
Approximately 10000 cars Of per-
ishables were shipped under refr;g-
Grafton last season.
All Of these were iced by the Cen
tral Power and Light Co. plants
located over the Valley.
Not all Of the capacity of the new
Mercedes plant will be needed Al
present, Frank Ludden, manager of
the company, explains, but the COM
pany, following its set policy, plans
TO stay far ahead of the demand in
order to be prepared to meet arv
emergency.
ears ago much of the ice used
In Shipping vegetables was brought
here from Houston in carlots. .rhis
was an expensive practice.
Confidence in the permanent
prosperity of the Valley caused tie
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MISCELLANEOUS DATA

Sunset today ..-.......--7:z2 ID. M
sunrise tomorrow ......5:51 a. t..
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I KILLED, 30 |NJURED
IN CABARET FIRE
At DETROIT
By ROBERT B. WALLACE
International News Service

DETROIT, Sept. 20.-Seventeen persons,
eight of them women, persisted when an ex-
plosion and FIRE swept the Study Club, a
cabaret here, at o'clock this morning.
The number of injured in hospital was
estimated at so.
Cause of the disaster has not been def
nitely established. A 'fwet bomb was
blamed by Marty COIN, manager of the
cabaret Cohn was taken tn headquarters
for questioning and later held on an open
charge. His wet bomb thecry wal de-
clared 'preposterous" by Inspector Henry
J. Garvin, of the crime and bomb squad.
Both Garvin and Fire Marshal Gabe Gold
water blamed the disaster on careIessly
tossed away match or cigarette. The FIRE
started, they said, on the stairway to the
second floor and was swept upward when
Beatrice Heath, check room girl, opened the
front door to call for help.
Dead Found in Heaps Near Windows
Many of the dead were found in heaps near win
dows that had been boarded up to muffle the sound
of midnight revelries. More bodies were found
heaped up a stairway landing. Still others died
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HEARD PEACOCK
SCREAMS

COURT HOUSE. White Plains,
N. Y, Sept. 20 U.N.S).-Mrs.
Muriel Clarke, who lived in the
apartment below the one in which
Dorothy Heinzelman Peacox was
strangled on the night of April 81
last, was called to the witness stand
this afternoon at the trial of Earle
Francis Peacox on the charge of
first degree murder.
Mrs. Clarke, a slim woman of
about 80, said she had lived below
the PeacoXes for two years and
knew both Dorothy and Peacox.
Il heard them go upstairs about
a quarter to twelve on that night, ="
Mrs. Clarke testified, Every soon I
heard a woman screaming frantical-
ly. She was crying, please, oh,
please" she screamed three or four
times before her cries ceased.
Saw Him On Stairs
Soon I heard the radio playing,
then / heard Mr.. Peacox walking
about softly, apparently in his
stocking feet.
About 8 a. M, I heard some
noise above, l got up and saw Mr..
Peacock carrying a heavy bundle to
his car. noticed he came down
the stairs slowly"
Mrs. Clarke testified she smelled
something like ether" when Peacox
was carrying the bundle out to the
car. Earlier she heard three or four
thumps on the floor at the time
Dorothy screamed.
Not Easily Tangled
She was cross examined by De-
Tense Attorney Sidney A. Syme. You
did not like Peacox.
A. Hesitating) No, I did not.
@, There is a gas house a few
blocks from your house. Did you
smell doors from this gas house?
A. can't say that l did.
@. There is a cleaning and dyeing
house near your home. They use
ether in this cleaning establishment.
Don't they?
A. Not at o'clock in the morning.
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SHEARER TRICKY
BOSS CLAIMS

The Senate Naval Affairs Com
mittee's inquiry into activities of
William r. Shearer, American naval
expert and American ship builders at
the 1927 Geneva tri-power disarma
ment confere nee was broadened this
afternoon to include all lobby activi.
ties of American shipbuilders within
the last five years.
After Clinton +. Bardo. president
of the American Shipbuilding Com.
pany, which was one of the three
which employed Shearer as an lob
server" at the Geneva conference,
had told the committee which
opened it's investigation this after
noon that Shearer was an observer
only and had no authority to take
any action for the shipbuilders
Senator Allen (RJ of Kansas asked
Bardo for a report of all the moneys
paid out or handled by his organiza-
ton within the last five years.
Received $4,000
Bardo told the committee Shearer
got $4,000 for his work at Geneca
and he considered the amount too
much
why did you not protest."
Senator Robinson of Arkansas.
Democratic floor leader of the Sen
ate. asked. a
Il was influenced by the judg
ment of representatives of the two
other shipbuilding companies pres
ent. the Newport News Drydock
and Shipbuilding Company and the
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Company.
''Shearer impressed me with his
knowledge of ship building Bard0
said. I'VE were not interested in
the results of the Geneva Confer
ence but in the trend ofth e pro-
ceedings as we had to make
decision as to whether to construct
new plant to carry out two
Government ship contracts long
before the conference was over.
At the request of Robinson, the
only Democratic member of the
committee, Bardo turned over the
reports sent in by Shearer as IN"
conference went OF. HE sald no
member of the company knew 81
the agrekmcht with Shcarer except
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Charging a stupid inquest
and destruction Of important

Charging a stupid inquest
and destruction of important
/ evidence by police ia the nlys-
isgissia
Mcrherson, in the Park Lane
Apartments. last Saturday !,
Policeman Robert j Allen, OF
the Third precinct, today was
riding the waves OF the most
important case in his career.
He interested Senator Lee 5. Over
man of North Carolina, enough for
that veteran legislator to write a
letter to District Attorney Leo A.
Rover urging that he leave no
stone unturued'' in his quest for
new facts concerning the death OF
the pretty nurse, who was found
strangled with pajama cord.
The coroner's jury gave verdict
of suicide.
Faces New Hearing
FOncSIIldH Alien may LdSC O oAiNN
Trial Board hearing, the fourteenth
In his service on the force, on the
allegation that he was 80 minutes
late for duty on Tuesday night.
Allen says he was helping Assist
ant District Attorney William IL.
Collins investigate the death, and
that's why he was late.
Allen also says that Collins denies
this.
Allen declared that he investi-
gated the Mcpherson tragedy and
turned over mass of evidence to
Collins, who communicated with
the homicide squad and later said
the information did not tend to show
a murder had been committed.
Il can prove that this woman was
murdered said Allen, and will be
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5 INDICTED
|NCALHNJN
CASE:

An indictment charging con-
spiracy to blackmail Clarence
c. Calhoun and his wife, Corr
nelia D. b. Calhoun, socially.
prominent sponsors of the
Women's Universal Alliance,
was reported by the grand
jury today against w. Clark
Noble, an internationally fa-
nous sculptor, and four others.
Mobiles wife, Mrs. Emelie b.
Noble; Mrs. Anna NJ. HiIlenbrand, a
nurse: James r. Bird, an attorney,
and Stephen A. Armstrong, jr., e.
financial.' adviser, are the Others
named in the indictment which sets
out II overt acts OF conspiracy.
The alleged conspiracy Is said
to have existed from january 4.
1929, to- last August 6, according Ia.
the Indictment. The defendants am,a
lawfully and felonioaSly did con
spirs, GomlaDe, confederate and agree
among themselves and with divers
others persons to accuse and
threaten to, accuse certain other
persons OF certain crimes and of Ger.
tain c0ndact which, il true, would
tend to disgrae the said Clarence
{. Calhoun, and the said CorneIia
d. b. Calhoun and subject them to
the ridicu'e and contempt of So
ciety," IL is charged.
The purpose of the alleged con-
spiracy, according to the Indictment,
was to extort from the Calhouns
800. 900.
The indictment specifically charges
that the defendants threatened that
unless the Calhouns paid them
large sum of money. they would
cause to be published in the news
papers an accusation that the Cal
houns had diverted to their own
personal use large sums of money
the property of the Women's Uni
versal Alliance. and further that the
defendants threatened to publish
lone of the greatest scandals the
country had even seen"
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NURSE WAS
SLAIN, He
CL. AIMS
M Pherson Murder
Theory Points

BOdy found i'm bedroom, al
though blood on bathroom floor
indicated woman had been
killed there and then carried to
other room.
After Mrs. McPhersOn'S
estranged husband had discOV-
cred body and notified apart
nlent manager, latter had to
push body aside to open door.
Police, on arrival, also had
to push body aside to gain
entrance.
Tests reveal virtual iInpOs-
sibility OF woman choking self
to death with string.
Cries and disturbances heard
by janitOr on night of tragedy.
Important evidence alleged to
have been removed by police.
Thirty witnesses summoned
to inquest and only one heard
by eeroner's jury before return.
ing suicide verdict.
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AoUEDUCT RESULTS

FIRST RACE-Five furlongs
Ming tM. Garner), ...... 10-l Al 81
Chatter Anne (Erickson) ~ Al 2-l
ZubIena IL. Fator)...... 7-1O
Faultless Rain Crow. Recede, Span
taft, Valenciennes, Babadil. Dark God
dess, Showers also ran. Time. so 4-5.
SECOND RACE--One mile.
Nearby I'M GarnerD....1-l is out
bravery Up. WallsD.. 2-5 out
priscilla Carter (McAuliffeL out
Only three starters. Time, :40 ga.
THIRD RACE--Five.eigh mile.
Dinah's Dimple (Ken'dy) 1875 III 1-2
Brooksie (Beishak) ...... Al 2-l
ST Prisca (Eaby), 6-5
Bright Red, Sea Romance Tidy Miss
Marette Nell W. and Vicente also ran.
Time. $50 2-5. ''-'' '''