Winslow Daily Mail (Newspaper) - August 21, 1929, Winslow, Arizona 11 HUM 1111 ttt 11111111 * * 14 11111 It 11 111 1**4 1 U M t III IIII HI GRAF ZEPPELIN IS SET TOKYO TO L. A it til 11111 f 1111 s i n 11 1111 n 11 11 n 11111111 it 111111111 m 11 n f Government weather bureau records show that the year of Is 62.08 The Weather ARIZONA - Fair tonight and cooler extreme west VOLUME 37 NAVAJO AUGUST 21, 1929 MEMBER Or THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEMBER OP THE UNITED PRESS NUMBER 211 SWISS FIERS Check In At El Paso Amelia Earhart Is First To Arrive On Flight From Douglas In Women's Event EL Aug. 21 Amelia the first to fly the was the first of the fliers iu the national women's air derby to laud the El Paso C airport this morning from t Ariz. Her plane crossed the line at the local field at 8:16:14 a. m. She was closely followed by Miss Blanche Noyes of Cleveland who landed at 8:18:46 a. m. Eleven others brought their ships to a stop at the field within a half hour after the arrival of the Aug. 21 - Although shaken and sobered by the death of one of their number vs. yet sixteen women pilots of the Santa Monica to Cleveland air derby had placed their ships on the line for the fourth lap staunchly determined to carry The and last contestant was at planning to catch up today and join in the flight through Mexico and The body of Marvel 25-year-old San Diego flier who to a Arizona hillside Monday under a partly opened was being sent back to her home in San Calif. A jury declared her death had been Charges of Sabotage Closely following the San Diego girl's death came insinuations and open for the most part discounted by race pending that sabotage had been practiced on several pines entered in the Claire Los Angeles woman forced out of the race at when stay wires of her plane were found reiterated her belief that her ship had been tampered Thea German who spent last night at after foreign matter in her gasoline tank she caused her to land with damage to her plane's under carriage at declined to say that she suspected She exhibited a telegram from the signed which warned her to of Ruth Los Angeles reported oil and gasoline had been in servicing her plane at Investigation Ordered The stir created by a series of minor climaxed by the death of Miss Crosson the district attorney's office of San Bernardino county to order a formal hearing today to investigate the handling of the planes on the Bernardino airport Sunday Most of the accidents occurred after the planes had left San Bernardino for the flight to Yuma and Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden took the lead at the end of yesterday's lap in the large plane Florence Lowe Barnes of San losing out and dropping to fourth place when she wandered off the and Phoebe of Memphis retained her leadership in the small planes planes Aug. 21 - naval from the Pacific coast to the national air races at arrived here from Dallas shortly before 11 a. m. They took off for Kansas City immediately after refueling Record Flight Aug. 21 - - Mok Mamer and Art Walker were home today after having pushed the glistening orange Son God across the and back in a five day refueling The small Buhl touched the ground at Felts field at 5x59:40 p. m. S. last a minute less than five days after the ship was sent into the west towards San the first refueling point Both fliers apparently were In excellent physical but were unable to hear ordinary They stood before a microphone for more than a quarter of an hour to tell the crowd of the flight before they went home catch up a little The long distance refueling record for all time was claimed for the as it flew 7,200 miles on the ' Zeppelin Is Delayed In Tokyo Minor Mishap At Hangar May Prevent Start Of Pacific Flight For a Day Aug. 21 a. minor accident today delayed the departure of the Grf Zeppelin for Los which was planned for 1 a. m. p. in. S. While the dirigible was being drawn from the a gondola containing the rearmost motor struct the earth breaking a strut The airship was returned to the It was uncertain whether It would be possible to start across the Pacific WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LOCOMOTIVES CRASH train near ads 111. WASHING August 21 - is going to be the year round in and year in and year With the new Democratic organization at the capital already in the Republicans are mobilizing a new setup which will get under way next of is slated to he the new chairman of the Republican national committee and the active general of the Republican A. F. Iowa banker and former newspaper is to be the man on the field or executive Dawson is to take office here with the Republican national committee and serve as liaison officer among all Republican organizations including the national committee and the senatorial and congressional campaign A publicity timed to coincide with the consideration of the tariff in the is to be launched as a counter offensive to the Democratic publicity Under the guidance of Charles veteran the Democrats have been making a target of the house tariff measure all summer and the Republicans are Either Dawson or a newspaperman is to take command of the Republican President Hoover is satisfied with the reorganized Republican campaign plans and is credited by many with inspiring the Senator Watso nof the Republican also is regarded as one of thos giving impetus to the program for a more active party There is still to be settled the question whether Mrs. Alvin T. of Kentucky will continue as the vice chairman of the Republican national committee in charge of women's Mrs. Hert submitted her resignation soon after Dr. but some want her continued and negotiations looking to that end are now iu Aug. 21 - Final preparations were all but complete late today for takeoff of the Graf giant dirigible 4 a. m. tomorrow p. m. E. S. T. for its trans-Pacific flight to Los Refueling was underway and finishing touches to repairs on the balloons were bsing The hop to the California is one of approximately 5,400 miles and may occupy about 100 Dr. Hugo the who treats the take-off as no more eventful than departure of a ship from New York asked the passengers to be ready to go aboard at 2 a. m. a full two hours prior to scheduled Will Go to Seattle He said today he expected to follow the Northern Great circle route to possibly along the line of the Aleutian following the American coast Japanese weather surveys of the Western Pacific area made by the service for Dr. not a single disturbance with every prospect of an easy trip across the which will be the second ocean crossed by the i Dr. Eckener and his crew continued their round of entertainments at hands of Tokyo's near great and socially The officers have been so showered with gifts that they will have to ship them home in crates having no room aboard the Graf Fueling Problem Possibly the greatest problem has been which has continued almost since the hour the dirigible was brought into the It was packed with 950,-000 cubic feet of a new plus a load of an older The new fuel was a mixture of combined with hydrogen in the proportion of 65 to 35. It replaced the Blau gas used in Germany but unobtainable and will be sufficient for flying four motors 120 hours against the 100 Dr. Eckener thinks The Japanese government has completed a contract with the company for it to carry mail to the United States and Miss Rebecca Of Pioneer Flagstaff Taken By Death Heavy Fighting Occurs Along Russian Line 21 correspondents of and Asahl today reported a heavy battle yesterday just east of between Soviet Invaders and Chinese The two newspapers said Soviet armored trains appeared within 500 yards of the frontier Four hundred infantrymen jumped from the trains and opening fire on the Chinese under cover of their own The Chinese troops replied with Howitzers and the Russians eventually after two hours Aug. 21 -A message from Harbin said martial law had been declared throughout the Chinese Eastern railway zone as a consequence of Increasing gravity of the situation in Manchuria and recurrence of and train Aug. Ul of incorporation were tiled by the Reserve Petroleum company of Tucson with the corporation commission The company has an capital stock of 100,000 common shares without nominal pur Set Aside For Fruit Fly War By Gov. j Aug. 21 Phillips has proclaimed an appropriation of for use by the slate commission of agriculture horticulture in its fight against invasion of the Mediterranean fruit fly and in combatting foul brood in Yuma Mail V. Aug. 21-Miss Rebecca Spear died here this morning after several illness from Two months ago she an operation for appendicitis the presence of cancer was At that time the opinion was given that she could not live long. She had always been strong energetic until early in the her health At family residence at the time of her death were a J. Hopkins and her Miss Francis of Santa who have taken care of The Charlie Spear came in this morning from the Winona saw mill where he is Funeral arrangements will be announced It is known that burial will be in Flagstaff as the mother and father and a brother Frank are buried Miss Spear was a member of a pioneer family which came to Flagstaff Miss Spear had been here 20 They lived in the old Tom Devine residence in the southeast part of Miss Spear was born at July 27, 1869. When a child i 3he moved with her family to She spent her youth there and completed her education in that city's Miss Spear is the second officer taken by death recently from the Rebekah Tuc funeral of Mrs. Charles W. Lehr who died last Saturday who was was held this Miss Spear was financial secretary of the local For many years she was past president of the Noble Grands Club and belonged to the ladies auxiliary of the Patriarch militant of the Canton of the Odd Fellows She has been past chief of the Pythian sisters and was at the time of her death mistress of a position which she had held for many For the past years she was secretary and treasurer of the Episcopal guild of the Church of Epiphany and just prior to assuming that position had been president of that society for a Besides members of the lodges and church who grieve the passing of | Miss she had many close j friends who will miss her cheer iand helpful JUSTICE 1\ A Aug. 21 I - Mayor John Ashcraft claims the unusual record ting as judge in police court on 2,222 cases in the two years be has been mayor of There are no jail as the Solo Endurance Plane Falls Into Bay As He Nears Goal Of 40 Hours 21 endurance monoplane Fan Franciscan lay at the bottom of San Francisco hay and its Donald former army had nought to a record for refueling endurance was recovering from the of the plunge which ended his undertaking hist Apparently misjudged his distance from fhe ground as he was circling Mills Field in the 36th hour The craft struck an electric transmission line and fell into fhe a few feet from swam lie was taken to a hospital for examination to make sure he had suffered no ill The flight ended at 9:17 p. 35 hours and 3N, minutes after his lie had planned to stay in the air JO hours lo set a record for solo endurance refueling Hope Pair Now ORGANIZE BODY HERE TONIGHT H Sportsmen and others interested in matters concerning fish and game in this section will meet at the council chamber in the city hall at S o'clock tonight for the purpose of reorganizing and actively carrying on the work of Aug. 20 - Both Chinese and Russian sources today reported Warlike activities and preparations along the border with increasing number of border clashes and incursions by the opposing Dispatches from said Chinese defenders 3,000 Soviet cavalry from yesterday engaged in a fierce struggle for the village of south of in which the settlement changed hands several times but finally was retained by the A dispatch from Siberia said Chinese supported by White Guard detachments fired on a Soviet monitor on the Amur river about 95 miles of Simultaneously Chinese fired upon Soviet troops and civilians in the vicinity of Lake near the villages of and The Reds registered Moscow government through the German diplomatic force dispatched a note to both the Mukden provincial and Nanking Central Chinese governments warning against bands fo White Russians and demanding that these bands be disarmed and Chinese troops prevented from encroachments on Aug. 21 a cost of mauy millions of three modern in Phoenix and 15 in Arizona are to be erected in the near future by the Fox West Coast v Announcement of the plans of the Win slow Fish and Game the theatrical concern j making futher j was made by Commissioner David j Soviet P. at a meeting of the city Mukden dispatches reported commission here and searchlights Kimball's came in a on the way to the and discussion of the bond for j official Russian agency which had been put up by the Fox j citing the same reports from in connection with the bin added that Chinese authorities of a portion of the old city permitted the formation of plaza where the first of the new White Gurad cu three Phoenix theaters will be put j the C. T. Chinese i foreign said at Nanking Elaborating on his that if troops already W. E. of a de- j state game warden in the city i interviewing local men and it is possible that mas McCullough of a 1 member of the state fish aud game commission will be in attendance at the meeting to Morgan a number j of violations of the game laws have been reported in this part of the One of the purposes of reorganizing the protective association is to baud the Kimball after the reported that while he Prescott he was meeting j ered to Manchuria were her thousands would be was in j eat informed j men together to put a check to j by the real estate and It is probable that a manager of the Fox West Coast warden whose headquarters j that he had been would be here permanently will to arrange tor the be assigned by the game j ing of 13 theaters in | + if a recognized organization | The Fox company plans to build ' * theaters in and one each iu M Saf ford and Is Meagre Wate To Reach Northern Coast Fuel Exhausted NEW Aug. 21 The same which hag shrouded outcomes of most westward trans - Atlantic flight ventures today cloaked the the attempt of two Swiss hoy Oscar Kaesar and Kurt to reach Neur York Nothing has bean heard of the two airmen and their snow-white the or since it circled a village on at 1 p. S. T. Monday and continued north and west toward New Nova Scotia and New Scant Hope Held There was scant hope that either the plane or its crew of two had the great t Leaving a village near at 7:30 a. a. in. the Young Switzerland was sighted but by the German steamship 175 miles west of before it reached the The two maintaining their average speed of 90 miles an hour might have been expected to be in the neighborhood of Cape at 4 a.m. yesterday and at where they had planned to stop for refueling at 10 a. nir Both In Twenties - The two aviators were the youngest and least experienced ever to attempt the dangerous which although once by the German plane men has come tu be regarded suicidal by Kaesar was but 21 years Both began flying in 1927. Their plane was a French madd Farman with a 230 horsepower a type of proved the confessed upon leaving knowledge of the mariner's science was limited but said he had handled a sextant and knew something of making and expected he could get The plane carried no but was equipped with a rubberT life rubber an for distilling The plane itself could not remain afloat long. judge hears the case j is j Officers may be elected at night's or that detail maj I be put over until a later i Morgan if urging all hunters and fisherman to * i * Pajamas Only At Dance Given By City Department DAYTONA Aug. 21 1 are after the arrest and Most cases have Veen disposed of within an houi claims NEW siLviu Aug. 21 after j silver Mexican dollars BOA It TO HI -A meeting of the state livestock sanitary board has been called for September by Chairman V P. of I s. * to be worn by both sexes at a * * * + 1 * i * i * * * XEW 21 Radio Marine today received a wireless message from the freighter stating she the steamer fire and deserted about 1100 miles east of Va. Aug. 21 Martin H. Grand wax reelected supreme knight of the Knights 01 Columbus by an unanimous rote of delegates at the 17th annual convention Aug. 21 bun 63* prominent locally and for 30 years a resident died at Mormon according to a received here no official information was a sister + dance under the auspices of + 1----------. * the city recreation + i she * ment on the boardwalk next + i heart + Monday No other at- + tire will be + was making a vacation tour 01 northern at the time of his 3?9095
