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Show MEXICANS DID NOT FIRE ON ! AIRPLANES YUMA, Ariz, Aug. ID Reports that j Mexican soldier yesterday fired on; American airplanes of the border patrol pa-trol near Andrada, Lower California. Mexico, six miles wese of here, were denied tonight by S N Cromwell who spent all of yesterday within 1000 1 yards of the scene of the reporter! . ( lash. I Mr Cromwell, general superinten dent of construction oi an Irrigation work on the Colorado river, declared ruan men employed on the work had ; heard unusual noise lrom the border' I patrol airplanes as they flew over on ! their way from Yuma to Rockwell field J ;at San Diego. He attributed reports that the airplanes had been tired oaj lo thesi He said ih- noises -o uncled. 1 to him "as though the motors wm I ba kti: n- bu. i h i ') - migbt hart. li. ii i : j.-. h or.-. -.ii. ' - tired bf :or froi.i Mr machine gun. 1 Mi Cromwell said no shots were firel I from the ground near the scene of usj I reported clash al ;nv lime esterdlW P on either side of the internatiool boundary line , "The border airplane patrols did dM I fire any shots at any one," he sa'(H "I was on the scene when they ciOH f om San Diego ;'nd when thev v0IkJ |