Americans Mourn Death of Mexican Ace

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 408, 17 July 1928, Page 9

Americans Mourn Death of Mexican Ace

Gre a t Alii ita ry Funeral Planned MESSAGE FROM CALLES (United P.A.-—By 7'clcgraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association.) NEW YORK, Monday. Crowds of silent people to-day packed the sun-baked streets around the chapel where lay the body of the Mexican airman, Captain Emilio Carranza, who was killed when his machine crashed in a New Jersey pine forest. In the chapel were heaps of floral tributes. The New York civic authorities are planning the greatest military funeral in the history of the city. NVest Point cadets will form a guard of honour and will escort the coffin to the train on which it will be taken to Mexico. It is estimated that 10,000 troops will assist at the funeral. The retiring President of Mexico, General Calles, sent a model of the aviator’s jilane made of scarlet and white flowers. Colonel Lindbergh sent a wreath bearing the inscription: “His life was dedicated to his country, liis death to the entire world.” Mexican advices state that the deceased had already been promoted to the rank of major and that probably the posthumous rank of general will be bestowed upon him. The remains of the plane will be placed in the Mexican National Museum and a monument will be erected at the runway from which the airman left Mexico for Washington.