Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1931-10-20
FLYING Ace
IS BELIEVED
OVER MEXICO
Plane Left Corpus AT
l:26, Due Here
AT 2:10

While Brownsville craned its
collective neck this afternoon, Mai.
James Doolittle. en- route TO Mex
leo City from Ottawa Canada, on
a dawn TO dusk flight, evidently slid
through the fleecy clouds and en-
tered the last lap of his $500 mile
journey without being seen here.
Doolittle> landed at Corpus
Christi at 40 this afternoon. TAX
ing off al 1:26. He was expected
over Brownsvt al about 2:l0. ac-
cording 10 calculations OF Capt. r.
ID Sundell, division engineer of the
American Always.
Ideal flying weather from Browns
vile to Mexico City awaited the
flier. Capt. Sundell stated. Reports
received from Pan-American pilots
stated that some clouds had gath
cred between Tampico and Mexico
City. but that conditions should be
ideal late this afternoon.
His arrival at Mexico City at 4.45
was predicted by Capt. Sundell on
the basis OF the time made by the
army ace since leaving Ottawa this
morning.
Maj. Doolittle arrived AZ Biz
mingham from Washington at 9.29
a. m, a distance Of $40 miles in 2
hours. 40 minutes.
He was sighted near Galveston at
1918 p. m. and landed at Corpus
Christi at lilo .. m. making the
hop from Birmingham in 3 hours
and "a minutes. falling a little UNI
der the 200 mile per hour speed he
had maintained on the other two
legs.
He left Corpus Christi for
Brownsville Is minutes later.
The flier left Ottawa shortly af-
ter 6 o'clock this morning.
Watched with interest throughout
the United States and eli Latin
America. George Pocaterro and
Luke Hoover took off at 8:45 this
morning for Mexico City en- route
10 Caracas. Venezuela. the home
town Of P~ocaterro. One stop at
Tampico will be made. Pocaterro
announced, t.c goodwill pair ex-
pecting TO reach Mexico City about
i p. m. today.
From Mexico City the filters will
proceed by leisurely flights to
Venezuela. stopping one da- in ea-h
Of the follOwing South and Gen.
trail American countries: Guate-
mala. Honduras, San Salvador, Tic
aragua, Costa RIGA, Panama and
Colombia.
AT Santa Marta, Colombia. they
will participate in ceremonies hon.
oring the memory Of Simon Bolivar,
the liberator OF Peru.
Another pair of travellers whose
Journey is arouSing interest
throughout the United States ar
rived in Brownsville by trai this
morning; leaving via Pan-American
Anyways at Gas for Mexico City
where they hope 10 serve a sub
poena on Russell T. Sherwood. bust
ness agent OF Mayor Jimm. Walk
er of New York.
Others Take CT
Sidney Handler and Philip w.
Haberman were non-commital re-
gdrumg tnelr journey and ltS pur-
pose, stating that they were sent 10
subpoena Sherwood at tn instiga-
ton Of the legislative committee
investigating the civic affairs Of the
nations largest city. and tn { all
information must come from Samuel
Seabury, head Of the probe organi-
cation.
They did. however. express the
opinion that Sherwood might be
hard TO locate in view OF the fact
th-t their journey and its purpose
had become public, and intimated
that a resident Of Mexico City
friendly to the probe. was keeping
track Of Sherwood's movements.
Their orders from New York are
to stay In Mexico until they have
exhausted every possible means OF
serving Sherwood with the sub
poena, Haberman stated.