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Coast Guard Searches Washington Beach
For Mystery Boat Reported Foundering
Graf Makes Bee Line
For Ne.v York Harbor

NAVAL AIR STATION. LAKEHURST, Aug. 3,-(AP)-Radio
the department Washington, and
Zeppelin
weather about $40 nauti
miles LakchurSt at 10 Eastern Standard time
dgible its position 350 north latitude
west longitude which would place the craft $50 miles northeast
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INJURIES FATAL

HOUSTON. Tex, Aug. 3.-tPl-
Mrs. Joe Porter. "a. died at hos
pital here today from injuries re-
ceived earlier in the day when her
car overturned.
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CBv The Associated Press)

dgbe Zeppelin approached
New York by at the earliest estimates
The opposing winds which retarded
had essened but
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-04
World Powers Seek to
Solue Troubles at Meet

THE HAGUE 3U-Satesmen
Italy Belgium and Japan here Tuesday the inter-
national troubles hanging
The first item the adoption the repaans
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-08-04
Virginia Senator Hits
Hoover Naval Cut Plan

3--IF0-A broadsde President
the laying down Of three ships Of the f
Virginia,
of the senate naval committee his return from
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VALLEYS COTTON
GINNINGS TOTAL
rs, 900 TO DA TIE
Expect Crop of 10000 Bales To Be Produced
Before Season Ends; Cameron and Hidal-
go Running Neck and Neck in Figures
Especial TO The --c=ald)

Especial
SAN BENITO 3-The to has
gnned $4,000
expected be
OF this total
than
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You May be to Blame-InSure.
Rio Grande Valley Trust Co.
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DALLAS SXELTERS

DALLAS. Aug. 3.--(Pl-The therS
mometer assembled 10 l02 degrees
here today. the highest level 1t has
reached this year
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S-t the rawlings Of a wild VAL
kk land man bubbling over with
Continued on page g.
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FOR BUILDINGS
Over 5000 Tons in Stock
Let us Quote
Alamo Iron Works
Brownsville - Corpus Christi
San Antonio $50 Houston
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-19

ship with little regret to look out upon
the broader stretch of the Whangpoo
ito starboard, to watch the junkS and
the sampans. With little regret, in
deed with much relief. For Shanghai
has been trying in weather and in po-
1itical stress. The temperature has
been high, and we have been sore beSet
with opportunities to believe the only
true aspect of the situation so varied
in principle and in detail that we feel
somewhat as we did on leaving Peiping,
when two military bands played fare
well to us in two different tunes stimuli
taneously.
It is only fair to Shanghai and to
China to say that our rejoicingS upon
casting off were inspired mainly by the
fact that at last we are homeward
bound. We have turned the corner,
having reached our farthest south at
then work eastward to Toxic with vari-
Gus stops, and we sail for the States
on the I'd of August. That is to say,
some of us. probably most of us. will
sail then. AS I write news reaches the
ship that the situation" in Manchuria
between Russia and China has become
acute. So acute, indeed, that three Of
our party are feeling the urge to get to
1.-The front" at once. and are talking
train and boat schedules that will best
get them there.
Bit Of Oriental Background.
BY the time this letter reaches and
Is printed in Washington the "situa-
ton" may have f1attened out to state
of diplomatic negotiations. Or again it
may have developed into actual hos
Utilities. So it must be read as describ-
ing a condition antecedent. Just as
when Chang Kai Shek talked to us in
Picking I sent his words on as either a
swan song or declaration OF independ-
ence. according as conditions stood at
the time of printing. so now this goes
forth to serve as a bit of background
for the happenings of the next few
weeks.
If we had remained in China for
three months instead of three weeks.
we probably would not have been able
to get closer to the true conditions OF
affairs. For the truth seems to be that
nobody, not even those closely in touch
with the Nationalist government, knows
Just how that organization stands, how
long it can endure, how grave its per1ls
today from factionism. Take this Man
churian affair. for an example. 1t IL
illustrates the slenderness of the Nation
alist hold upon the body polite OF
China.
In an earlier letter, referred to the
desire of the Chinese to get complete
possession of the Chinese Eastern Rail-
way. Following the consular raids at
Hardin, which yielded great quantities
Of propaganda material in the interest
of the Russian Soviets and of the Com
munist party, and in favor Of the spread
of Communism to China, there came
series of maneuvers calculated to drive
the Russian government into position
of obstinate resistance. Russian rail-.
way officials were accused by China OF
using their positions for the purpose Of
Prosecuting the Chinese politically.
Wholesale dismissals were effected, and
the Russian director general OF the
system summary was fired.
Now the question arises, at this point:
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by the lack Of educational facilities and
by the lack especially OF free admis-
sion Of the people to actual particle
patton in the fundamental function Of
citizenship.
Perhaps It may be the, part Of wis
dom to hold the power of government,
so far as It applies to all China, in the
hands of small group pending the
evolution of what may be called q cit
izenship consciousness. But to call
China a republic meanwhile is to use
metaphor without real meaning. It
may not be the dictatorship of the
proletariat," as they call government in
Russia, but 1t is strikingly like 1t. II
is certainly the dictatorship OF a group
of more or less self-selected persons. be-
hind whom stands a large mass Of IN.
fluence known as the Kuomintang
party.
It is regarded at Shanghai as some
what anomalous that Just as the Chi
nese Observation-Disclosures may be ac-
tually doing its putting the skids UNI
der the Russians In the matter OF the
Chinese Eastern Railway, thereby rails
ing the question OF the scrap Of pa
per" value of treaty, DR.. G. T. Wang,
minister of foreign affairs at Marking,
should be proclaiming that all extra
territorial rights and all settlements
and concessions must be abolished by
the LIST of next January.
No alarm is really felt on the score
Of the abolition of extraordinarily.
for it is recognized that this can only
be done by mutual consent. and nobody
with any line at all on the ideas now
prevailing at the various capitals Of the
world believes for a moment that con-
sent will be given by them so long as
China cannot guarantee Justice and
equity TO foreigners in her own courts.
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"Who did these things in the name of
China9 Was 1t the railroad admins
tration? Was it the Manchurian chief
tain. Chang Hseu LANG? Was 1t the
Nationalist government at Nanking?"
At this time of writing, nobody seems
to know. The other day the hint was
given in one of the dispatches from
Peiping. where the chief Nationalist Of
ficials were about to disperse after a
series of important conferences. that II
Russia were to press the point of re-
sponsibility too far. Marking would
pass the buck" to Hardin and disclaim
the affair Then Immediately came the
report that in a very short time the
foreign affairs" departments of the
three provinces which constitute Man.
churia would be merged with or trans
ferred to the foreign affairs depart
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On Board Steamer Shanghai Maru.

Oh BOHru SCedIIler oIlallBIIdI WdTu,
Shanghai to Nagasaki, July IS, 1929.
A bell clangs. a deep-toned whistle
blows, tug snorts and the ship moves
away from the dock. A hundred Jap
anese Boy Scouts. ranged along the up
per deck; tug at the paper tapes Of all
friends and relatives on the wharf. The
air rings with banzais and the Chinese
equivalent for that Japanese word of
geeting, farewell and patriotic cheer.
The more ceremonious "sayonara" is
heard.
We who have been touring through a
little corner of China-but very i'm
portant corner-for the past three
weeks or so in the hope of getting a
better understanding of that land Of
complexities and dramatic possibilities,
turn from the Shanghai side of the
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ment Of the Nationalist government at
Marking.
Up there in Manchuria. Marshal
Chang Hseu Liang commands an army
of approximately 100000 troops. He
has just left Peiping after taking part
in the conferences with Chang Kai
Shek, the president. and Marshal Yen.
who was persuaded not to go abroad
with Gen. Feng. who in turn reconsid-
cred his foreign trip. The Young
Marshal of Manchuria evidently wants
to play ball with Marking. He. quite as
evidently does not want to bear the
brunt of any war that may result from
the Russian protest against the attempt
by China to seize the Chinese Eastern
Railway in violation of treaty and con-
tract.
China's Army Of 100000.
But can Chang Kai Shek command
the entire Chinese army-which con-
sists Of provincial army units-to' the
point of sending all three million against
the Russians? Three million is said to
be the present military strength Of
China. On a pinch it would probably
reduce to a million and half or per-
haps to mere million.
Well, as I have already explained. all
this is beside the mark, inasmuch as
even before we reach Nagasaki the
fighting may have begun or the di-
plomacy may have become effective.
Those who predict peace aver that
Chang Kai Shek cannot afford at this
stage of China's unif1cation, which is
not yet effected in full, to risk his
prestige in a war that may bring dis
aster Can he demonstrate that the
details of management of the Chinese
Eastern Railway are worth national
conflict? Can he persuade the armies
of the south and the west of China to
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go to Manchuria, and possibly Mon
golia, on such an issue?
The late Sun Vat Sen, whose body
now Is enshrined in q magnificent
mausoleum at Nanking-which q group
of our members went to see, but which
was denied me because Of passing in
observation-disclosures the Nationalist
government of China upon his three
famous rinciples"-namely Nation
aliSm, Democracy and Livelihood. His
words, his will" his principles and his
"five-fold constitution" now are bla-
zoned all over China on walls in great
white characters upon a field Of blue.
Every Monday morning at 8 o'clock
every government worker. in all parts Of
China, and even the employees of large
Chinese-controlled business and indus
trial establishments. are assembled and
recite in unison the will" and the
principles and then bow three times
before the portrait of Sun Vat Sen.
Evasive Answers of Kuomintangs.
In this way are Sun Vat Sens sue
cessors trying to develop and solidify
a nationalist spirit. But back of the
government-are the members of the
Kuomintang party. I have endeavored
to ascertain how membership in this
party is acquired, but every time have
put the question to a Wearer OF the
Kuomintang badge-which Is issued to
him and recorded by number and which
he must not lose on penalty Of fine
of a months pay and a severe dement,
Il have received one Of those evasive
answers to which we are now accuS-
toned. I do not know whether the
question is understood or not. But the
fact stands that nobody has been able. ,
or willing, to tell me Just how a Chinese
gets into the party that runs the gov
eminent.
There never has been an election in
China as we understand the word. The
republic was proclaimed by the Kuo-
mintang. The other day in Peiping
nounced all attempts to form a second
or competitive party and declared that
China must have only one party and
that the Kuomintang. Which sounds,
forsooth. suggestively like the pro-
nouncementS Of the Moscow commits |
sars, who aver that there is room in
Russia for only the Communist party.
Just what is meant by "nationalsm"?
Sun Vat Sen recognized that China
contains five racial stocks, Hans, Man. !
chus, Mongols, TartarS and Tibetans.
and he admitted that "a certain racial
distinction still exists which distorts the
real meaning of a republic, so steps
must be taken to cement the unity of
the individual peoples inhabiting China
we must satisfy the demands and re-
quirements of all peoples and unite |
them in a single cultural and political
whole, to constitute single nation"
Advance Toward End Made.
Advance has unquestionably been
made toward this end. But in the
judgement of nnany who have long been
students Of the Chinese that advance
cannot be carried much further at
present. 1t will be limited. they believe.
hv the lack OF railroad communication |
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Deeply impressed by Canada during
his recent visit there, Mayor j. A.
Ormerod Of Blackburn, England, has
provided an investment fund to enable
each Of his seven grandchildren to visit
IL on reaching 81,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-19
CLIMPSINC THE FAR EAST
BY GIDEON A. LYON,

Touring the
Endowment for International Peace
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-19
Advance Toward End Made.

Advance has unquestionably been
made toward this end. But in the
Judgment of many who have long been
students Of the Chinese that advance
cannot be carried much further at
present. 1t will be limited, they believe.
by the lack OF railroad communication
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26

The owners agreeds to allow the
park board to name their own ap-
praisers of the tract. stating about
S1,200.000 is invested The tract is
bounded by Millersville road. Fall
Creek. Forty-sixth street and Sher-
man drive.
The park board adopted a new
Improvement resolution on Kessler
boulevard from keystone to M!llers-
vile to permit the open Specifica-
lions" which were ordered recently.
A fortv-foOt roadway and eight-foCt
bridal path are included Public
hearing on the proposed extension
will be May Is.
The board adopted an acquisition
resolution for q south side swim
ming pool on Pleasant Run parkway
between Madison avenue and
Pennsylvania railroad.
Henry F. Kottkamp, member of
the south side civic committee, holds
an option on the fye-acre tract, He
asked $4,000.
4 resolution, to buy the Sinclair
estate. Forty-sixth street and Boule-
ward place for a recreation center,
was adopted. No price was men
toned
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26
LEAST EFFORT
PUT ME TO BED"
Virginia Lady, Who Was
Weak, Reports Improve
ment After Taking Cardui.

Mrs. L. T. Marsh. IT'S First Street,
Lynchburg, Va. says:
My health had grown very bad.
I was weak and liStleSS, and the
least effort on my part put me 10
bed. / had not strength enough to
walk a city block.
"On friends suggestion, I bought
a bottle of Cardui. and began to
take il. When l had finished 1t, I
was noticeably better. I was so
pleased with my improvement that
I kept on taking the medicine req
ularly until I had taken six bottles.
I was then feeling so well that 1
stopped.
Two years ago, We drove to Viz
einia from Florida in our car. The
weather YVES bad and 1 took cold.
1 became really i'll. lost in weight,
and was very much rundown. My
appetite all but left me.
Il began taking Cardui. and IN a
short time I felt much better. After
I had taken several bottles Of this
medicine. I felt as if I had been
made over. I was stronger than l
had been in months. I have been
in splendid health ever since"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26
CITY ASKED TO
BUY 452 ACRES
FOR PARK SITE
Part of Old Fletcher Tract,
Northeast of City, Is
Offered.

An offer to lease or sell 452 acres
of the old Fletcher estate, north
east of the city. was considered to-
day by the park board.
J. R. Moynahan, real estate dealer,
appeared before the park board
Thursday and urged purchase OF the
tract for park purposes.
The Laurel Stock Farms Com
pany through Theodore Stempfel,
vice-president. offered to give the
park board a longtime lease with
option to purchase.
The lease would provide a rental
to net ~ per cent income on $780,
0O0 The ground is rolling and
would accommodate four eighteen
hole golf courses. Some Of the tract
is wooded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26

DR.. Arthur Slender, professor of
orthopedic surgery at the Univer-
sity Of Iowa, will conduct a clinic
and give a semi-scientific Illustrated
address, open to the public, at the
Indiana university hospital center
here Thursday. May 2.
THE Paralyzed Upper Extremity
will be the clinic topic in the aft
ernoon and Posture and Health
the evening lecture subject
Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1875,
DR.. Slender came to this country
in 1907. He joined the staff Of Iowa
university in 1913 and became cit
izen in 1914
His visit here is sponsored by the
James Whitcomb Riley Memorial
ASSOCIATION, cooperating with the
Indiana Medical school authorities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26
Plan Identification
LESSON TOO PRACTICAL
Pupil Takes Money Used in Class
Demonstration.

Bu United Press
LIE MANS, France, April 26.-In
giving a practical lesson to her class,
Madame Lander, school teacher at
Vivoln. drew from her bank account
a complete series of bank notes Of
the Bank of France.
She passed them around the
classroom, but when she collected
the bills l $50 francs were missing.
Two days inquiry finally proved
that they had been taken by a g.
year-old boy pupil, whose pocket
was later picked by a 13-year-old
girl.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26
FIRE CHIEF TO SPEAK

Virgil T. Furgason, fire prevention
chief of the city fire department,
will be the principal speaker at the
meeting of the Indianapolis Fedora
ton of community civic clubs at the
Chamber of Commerce tonight at 5.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26

Wisconsin Governor Hoover Guest
BV Unitcd Press
WASHINGTON. April 26.-Gov-
ernor Walter j. Kohler of Wiscon-
sin and Mrs. Kohler were guests OF
President and Mrs. Herbert Hoover
at a White House luncheon today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-04-26
NUMBERS AND
NAMES URGED
FOR HIGHWAYS
u. S. Good Roads Group to
Consider Four Prob
lens at Session.


MEMPHIS Tenn. April. 26.-Four
major projects will engage the at
tcntion Of good roads enthusiasts at
the seventeenth annual meeting of
the United States Good Roads As
ISOLATION here next week.
More than 1000 delegates are ex-
pectcd to gather here Monday, April
%. to Friday. May 3, according to
j. A ROuntree, Birmingham, Ala,
director general Of the association.
The convention will consider, &C
cOrding to ROuntree, proposal to
urge- the United States Bureau OF
Public Roads to use both names and
numbers in designating national
highways.
Straight Roads Favored
The second project OF major i'm
portance will be a proposal to give
the full support of the association
10 the Holiday bill, which adVo-
Gates a system of straight and I'M
Jl DktAl a dllo~ itbcli lis "
Of the best type available.
For the establishment OF this SyS-
tenn the federal government author
jze a minimum bond issue Of $1,000
600 900 for connected interstate
highway. The bonds would be re-
tired by payment of federal tax Of
81 on each automobile and a one
cent tax on gasoline.
The third major objective is to
be a request to the federal govern
ment to increase the federal aid for
state highways from $75000,000 to
SIPS 100000.
Plan Identification
Identification of highways is the
fourth objective.
w. w. Brandon, of Tuscaloosa,
and former governor Of Alabama,
president Of the association, arrived
here this week to make final prep
aratiODS for the convention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-29
The Danger Signal

No citizen interested in the saving of the
public schools from the control of Coffinism
should be lulled to any false sense of security
by the public statement of Boss Coffin to his
workers, telling them to take no part in the
school election.
Instead it should be the danger signal to
the electorate and the cue to get even buster
in an effort to elect the five candidates Of the
Citizens ticket.
What has happened to the schools dur
ing the past four years Of Coffin domination
is a matter of such shame as to need no ex-
PLANTATION.
Jobs have been given to Collins commit
teemen and their relatives. The law in regard
to purchases has been SO twisted as to invite
protest from the state tax board The schools
are no longer the pride of educators. The
large funds raised for education are being
diverted to political channels.
When faced by the universal protest
against his control Of the schools, and know
ing that the same protest is likely to spread
to include his city ticket, it was the part of
strategy for Coffin to attempt to throw over
board his Jonahs on the school ticket.
But you may be very sure that he also
tossed them a life preserver in the shape Of
a secret promise to send the word down the
line at the last minute to save at least one of
his favorites.
1t is true that the statement may be re-
garded as confession by Coffin that his rule
of the schools has been so bad that he him
self can not defend it.
It may be confession that he knows
that the present board has conducted itself in
such way that not even he can find a
plausible reason for asking for its reelection.
When Coffin indlcts himself and his own
machine for incOmpetency or worse, is there
any reason for any citizen voting for the
continuation of such rule?
The school system, under the Coffin
regime, has been a most fruitful source of po-
litical power. 1t has millions to spend. 1t
has hundreds of jobs and positions with
which to traffic.
Coffin will not lightly surrender this
power The people must take it away from
him.
The way to keep Coffin out of the school
system is to vote for all five of the Citizens
candidates.
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changed their minds afterward and decided public
business better might be transacted publicly, and the
secrecy rules were amended in some particulars.
Bingham never swerved. He voted for secrecy.
Defeated but not unbowed, he and his friends
barred from the floor of the senate Mallon and all
other newspaper men who had been accorded the
privilege of the floor as representatives of the public.
resolution to restore their privilege has been bottled
up probably forever, in the senate rules committee
by Bingham and his friends.
Those who respect not the dignity of the senate
even in the name of the public must not go unpun-
ished, they said
Seldom has a bad bird come home to roost go
swiftly
The custodian of the senate's honor, it appears,
has, by a subterfuge taken into the secret tariff
meetings of the senate finance committee $10000a-
year agent of the Connecticut Manufacturers Asso-
citation disguised as his own secretary. Not openly
employed, but secretly Not public service for
all of U.s. but a service for the manufacturers Of
Connecticut
What happened in the secret sessions of the
finance committee to get the tariff bill in the shape
1t is in? Only the manufacturers appear to know.
The committee has voted not to make the informa-
ton public and the newspaper men at the Capitol
have been unable to find out all of it. They are
barred from the floor for their last transgreSson,
which amounts to a feeble attempt at censorship by
coercion.
1t seems about time for the senate to straighten
out this matter of honor and secrecy. Let's have all
this public business in public We pay this tariff
bill, why not let in the people, well as the manu-
facturers, how it is written even if the people
have not the money to hire lobbyist to pose as
Senator Bingham's secretary?