The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-06-16

for resumption of rail
traffic between Peiping and Shanhaik-
wan.
Just before the signing of the truce
the banner of revolt against the Chi
nese Nationalist government was
raised by Gen. Feng Yu-hsiang, usual
ly alluded to as the christian gen.
eral." Feng denounced Gen. Chang
Kai-shek, the dictator, as a traitor
and announced himself as commander
in-chief of the peoples anti-Japanese
army" He had been recruiting large
force at Kalgan and 1t was believed
he was acting in close cooperation
with the army of Canton, which was
reported to be moving to the north
ward. In Tientsin it was thought that
Feng must have been receiving large
supplies of arms and ammunition from
the Russians of Mongolia by the old
caravan route from Urga.
The National government issued q
declaration that the Tangku truce is
entirely local and of temporary ma
ture.
ut is not incompatible with the de-
clared policy Of continuing a sustained
resistance and efforts for the recovery
of lost territories" the statement
said.
1T is absolutely impossible for the
National government to agree to an
ignominious surrender since the Man
churian issue is entirely outside the
sphere of the local military truce with
Peiping."
T ANSING state penitentiary near
~ Leavenworth, Kan, was the scene
of sensational escape of IL convicts
who were led by Wilbur Underhill, a
lifer and one of the most desperate
outlaws of the Southwest. During a
baseball game Warden Prather and
two guards were seized, used as
shields and forced to accompany the
fleeing convicts over the wall. Other
guards were disarmed and the men
got away in the car Of the prison
farm superintendent, keeping their
prisoners with them as hostages I'M
til hours later, when they were re-
leased in Oklahoma. In their flight
they Communicated two other cars
and captured three women, who were
set free near Pleasanton, Kans.
OK bandits held up the State Ex-
~ change bank of Culver, Ind, and
fled in an automobile with $4,000.
But the men of the town had been
trained as vigilantes and, receiving
word of the crime, they modified i'm
medlately under command Of Captain
Obenauf of the Culver Military acad-
envy and went into action. Result:
All six bandits were captured, one of
them being fatally wounded, and the
loot was recovered.
NNE hundred thousand spectators
" saw Louis Meyer of California
win the 500-mile automobile race at
the Indianapolis speedway in record
breaking time. They also saw a
series of fatal accidents that sadly
marred the great spectacle. Three
men were killed and three others we're
badly injured. Mark Billman of In
dianapolis was crushed to death when
he lost control of his car and it
crashed into the retaining wall, and
Elmer Lombard, his mechanic, was
hurt. Later the car driven by NAL
comb Fox of New Jersey lost a wheel
and skidded into the middle of the
track where it was smashed by the
car of Lester Spangler of Los An
geles. Spangler and G. L. Jordan,
his mechanic, lost their lives, and
Bert Cook, Fox's mechanic, was in,
jured.
In test run the day before the
big race William Denver and Robert
Hurst lost their lives.
Meyer completed the run in 4 hours
and 4S minutes, his average speed be-
ing 104.1G2 miles an hour. He won
| $4,000 first prize money and $1,150 in
lap prizes.
a fa1s western Nawspaner rrnia,