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4 Star Service it Associated Press it Wirephotos -fcr International News -jit; United Press MIAMI DAILY NJ jcO LP MEDAL FIVE CENTS HOME EDITION MIAMI, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1939 VOL. XLIV. NO. 342. CHICAGO BOY SHOOTS BANDIT WHO KILLED FATHER BOY'S BULLETS HUGE CROWD Miami's Own Whirligig News Behind The News WOUND BANDIT WHO SLEW DAD WILL WATCH BANDITS SEIZE U.

S. MAIL BAGS AT R. ROTATION Tactics Of Shotgun Mob Reminiscent Of James Boys Chicago Lad, 13, Routs 1 I -ev i i Robber With Dead Parent's Pistol GATOR GAME 32,500 Persons Expected In KILLER ESCAPES AGENTS ON TRAIL THAT AIR BASE Feelings were mingled as Senator An-drews told Dade Toung Democrats yesterday he wanted to see a large naval air base in Florida, pointing out that expert military opinion is the Southeast coast will be the point of attack if this nation is ever threatened from the east It was only a few short months ago that Miami was left out in the cold at Washington with Jacksonville getting the naval air base and Tampa receiving a similar plum from the army. Now, Miamians may ask, why should the good senator rub it in? 1 HAVEN Immigration of- "Never Fired Gun Be Strong Federal Force Seeks Men Involved In Missouri Job Roddey Burdine Stadium When Teams Clash Tonight By JACK BELL (Daily News Sports Editor) Thirteen years ago, when the first University of Miami fore" Youth Tells Investigators (By United Press) CHICAGO, Nov. 18.

Vito Ad (By United Press) MONROE CITY, Nov. 18. dante, 32, owner of a small grocery. Masked bandits with sawed-off football team trotted onto the field to beat a freshman foe was a hero in the eyes of his son, shotguns and side arms held up Associated Press Wlrepnoto CHICAGO, Nov. 18.

Pasquale Addante (right), 13, picked up a pistol dropped by his slain father and fired three shots into the body of a negro robber here last night. His brother, Alfred (left), 12, and his sister, Lucy (center), 8, were pushed to the floor by their mother during the battle in a small grocery store. The gunman escaped. from Rollins, 39 to 3, Dr. B.

F. Ashe, president of the institution just then a'borning, looked at them and said, "who knows; someday we might persuade Florida to come down Pasquale, 13. He had been held up four times and each time had put up a fight. the Burlington railway station to- day and escaped with seven U. S.

mail pouches. and play us. A year ago he was fired on by a In a style made notorious and Tonight Florida comes to Bur-dine stadium to play the Uni highly effective by the desperado bandit who held up his store. Last Feb. 4, Wilbur Barnwell, a negro SPECIAL GROUPS The War Today bandit, pointed two revolvers at versity of Miami team: and not only the team but just about every him and demanded money.

But Addante reached below the counter with a lightning move and came up shooting. Barnwell died later James brothers in the same section of northeastern Missouri a half century ago, they swooped down on the station apparently advised in advance that two trains which preceded them by an hour had left valuable mail pouches. Among their loot were three leather bags, chained and locked. Jfials reveal the majority of aliens who were here on visitor permits at the time war broke out are clamorinp for extended visas. They want to remain in the United States, safe from the strife raging abroad.

They do not fear the ocean voyage so much as they do the danger of air raids once they return to their home country. BCS-JITNEY SQUABBLE Conferences between Miami and Miami Beach authorities over the muddle as to the newly installed busses and the jitneys which have functioned for years, are scheduled soon. The jitney drivers, according to officials, are driving few feet in front of the busses, slowing them down. The idea in the minds of the Miami police heads is to eliminate the cross causeway jitneys altogether if possible. from his wounds.

body else in the state seems to have been persuaded to come down. When the kickoff comes at 8:15 perhaps the largest crowd ever to see a game in this state will be packed into the stands. Workmen this week have added 3,550 seats at both ends and in boxes along both stands making a seating capacity of 32,500. Thus, Pasquale was sitting alone in the CARPENTER SUIT FILED TO REGAIN DETECTIVE POST Hearing On Ex-Chiefs Suit Scheduled For Tuesday Earl D. Carpenter, former Mi store last night when a negro bandit entered and demanded money.

MENACE PRESS, SAYS PUBLISHER Florida Dailies Quibble Over Criticism Of Weeklies Florida dally newspaper pub 'We haven't got Pasquale protested. "You can't take it," containing registered matter such as business concerns use for the transfer of money. The bandit, keeping his gun aimed at the boy. walked behind Two of them state police be Germans Report Attempted British Plane Attack On Wilhelmshaven "Thwarted" By Antiaircraft Fire (By Associated Press) PRAHA, Nov. 18.

Three more Czechs, including two policemen, were shot today for "acts of violence against a German," it was announced officially. (By United Press) BERLIN, Nov. 18. The army high command announced today that three British airplanes had attempted to raid Wilhelmshaven, German naval base, but had been "thwarted" by antiaircraft fire. German pursuit planes chased the three raiders after antiaircraft gunners had turned them back, but were unable to catch them, the com the counter and took $10 from the lieved there were at least three in till.

The elder Addante. who was the raiding party entered Station Master 'A. G. Squires' office at 3 in a rear room with his wife. Rose, the stadium now is greater than for the Orange Bowl of last New Year's, and indications point to a sellout.

Such is the interest shown by the football-minded of Miami and Florida! When the game is over the winner will be recognized champion of the state, an honor Miami won last year. And this 29, and two other children. Alfred, ami Beach detective chief, who 12, and Lucy, 8, overheard the ban dit. He came out of the room with a. both were masked.

One held a sawed-off shotgun, which. Squires said, "looked as big as a cannon that early in the morning." The other held two revolvers. lishers declined today to criticize formally the action the weekly publishers recently in complaining to the University of Florida was demoted to the ranks last Wednesday, today began a legal fight for reinstatement by filing a circuit court mandamus suit against H. B. Yocum, Miami over the lack of free passes to the "Put up your 'hands, brother.

huge gathering of fans will have seen a game which, no- matter and keep your mouth shut," one university's football games. Informal criticism was expressed by Beach police chief, and Claude A. (CONTINCED ON PAGE TWO 10 MEN DROWN IN BOAT CRASH what happens, will not have lacked Renshaw, city manager. ordered. "And turn your back now!" individuals, however, over the Suit is set for hearing before munique said.

LONDON, Nov. 18. (INS) Praha today was described in the Daily Express as being under the weekly press' complaint. Squires complied. In three min Circuit Judge W.

W. Trammell at DIVORCE GROUND? When a man marries a woman to spite his former wife, he ought not to tell her about it. If he keeps the matter to himself as a gentleman would, he should receive some sort of reward, at least in the next world. But if he comes right out and tells Spouse No. 2 that he just wants to make Spouse No.

1 miserable, he ends up by making everybody miserable and bringing on a divorce suit in addition. At least this is the experience of one Miami couple, as detailed in a divorce complaint filed here GAPONE IS JUST MISUNDERSTOOD The serio-comic discussion 'was launched soon after John S. excitement fostered by two fiercely charging teams. For the Hurricanes, are keyed, awaiting the incoming Gators. And the men of Cody will go out there tonight smarting under the sting of successive one-touchdown losses utes, he said, they had what they had come for, the entire mail deposit of two Burlington trains one that reached here at 1:30 Knight, publisher of the Miami Herald, had discussed the weighty problems facing modern newspapers in Resisting attacks by Fishing Craft And Tug a.

and the other at 1 a. m. Four of the pouches seized were to South Carolina and Georgia, to (CONTINl'D ON rGE EIGHT) Brother Says Scarface Al of the ordinary rip-cord variety, containing first class mail. 9:30 a. m.

Tuesday And is expected to be hotly contested by both sides. Carpenter's complaint charges that while he was the regularly named detective chief Nov. 15 and had legal rights established under the classified civil service of Miami Beach, he was handed a letter by the defendants of his reduction in rank to a private detective. Although the letter contended that he had been guilty of "conduct unbecoming an officer, in Boat-Collide In Carolina Waterway (By United Pren) BEAUFORT, N. Nov.

18. pressure groups as well as wrist slaps from Washington and the current administration. Nelson Poynter of the St Petersburg Times, offered the resolution News from warring countries is subject to censorship in Europe. It may be misleading. Editors of the News believe readers will do their own thinking, hold to their own beliefs and not permit themselves to become victims of propaganda.

They left Squires without an Hamburgers Innocent Victim Of Gossip (By United Press) BALTIMORE, Nov. 18. Al Ca other word, ran down the station tram and apparently took stairs down to the street When he had ascertained the extent of, loss, he ran out on the platform but saw Men were diving in relays in the to spank the weeklies, but the tie vote sent it to the resolutions committee, where it presumably will inland waterway today in search GoffigkHat On Sore Head of the bodies of 10 men drowned be pigeonholed. no trace of the bandits. when a fishing boat and a tug subordination, antagonism to his pone, who "put the finger" on hundreds of gangsters while he ruled He.

was certain they had made Knight welcomed the association "worst reign of terror" since Ger boat collided last night superiors, and had argued with man troops occupied Czechoslo One other man was missing and of daily publishers, speaking "for the city and for the newspapers of Chief Yocum at the Pig Trail inn Oct. 13, the statements were not the Chicago underworld, is the vie tim of legend and misunderstand' ing, his brother asserted today. vakia last March. was feared drowned. Two bodies had been recovered.

Eight of the Miami." A DIFFERENCE Hyde and tton in their petition to the su-me court averred they were ready, able and willing to post bail "for release from custody" but said nothing of bond for reappearance. Smith Ready For New Role; Prison Looms Ten thousand Nazi S. S. troops supported by facts. John Capone, who volunteered In discussing problems facing their getaway in an automobile.

He summoned the state highway patrol which immediately tele-typed a warning throughout the state. Patrolmen were dispatched east and west along highway 36, and south on highway 24 which are guarding public buildings and victims were negroes. The letter, therefore, the suit the daily press he mentioned par The fishing boat Southland, to act as press agent for his notorious brother, told reporters that patrolling the streets in Praha, the British paper said. Ocularly freedom of the press, and south-bound in the waterway Al is and always was a near-model declared it limited only by the A Reuters dispatch from the which parallels the coast, was charges, was not a legal notice containing definite charges such as he was entitled, to receive and that he therefore still is entitled to His office at full pay. courage of the individual editor.

Austrian frontier via Paris assert citizen doesn't drink nor gamble and "never did," smokes only an leads to Kansas City, about 200 miles southwest. rammed by the tug, Escape, eight miles from here. It went down occasional cigar and pays his debts. "I put little credence in all the talk about threats to the free press," he "I don't think the Highway patrolmen said, after ed that as a result of the Munich beer hall explosion last week, 6,000 Czechs were arrested and 900 sent to concentration camps. quickly and the victims were trapped in her cabin.

No one That new description of Capone, whose gang ran the Chicago rack a preliminary search or the station yards and surrounding streets, that the bandit gang had aboard the Escape was lost. JAPS DRIVE TO CUT government is threatening the freedom of the press. The real ets during the prohibition era with The white victims were Mate The agency added that, accord submachine guns, was given as the threat comes from pressure groups. Charles Fulcher and the cook, E. J.

Fulcher. ing to confidential reports of Praha police, the bodies of 30 S. S. exconvict settled down to routine CHINA SUPPLY ROUTE I've been called both a fascist and a red because of what we have probably parked their car a block from the station and that one of the gang stayed in it while the others executed the holdup. hospital life to undergo treatment The tug was towing an oil barge.

men have been removed from the for paresis, a softening of the brain printed on the Spanish civil war, Both are owned by the Salvay Vltava river since the beginning resulting from syphilis. Process Co. of New York and were of the war. have had delegations of brawny labor pickets call to protest about Steady Advance On New bound for the plant of the Ethyl Former L. S.

U. Head Is Reported Recovering From Suicide Attempt (Br United Press) BATON ROUGE, La, Nov. 18. Dr. James Monroe Smith awaited only the word of his doctors today to begin a career vastly different from the one he entered upon nine years ago this week.

BERLIN, Nov. 18. (INS) With Corp. at Wilmington, Del. John Capone said he would cooperate with the press as the representative of the Capone family the handling of strike stories in Akron, Ohio.

The Catholic church Front Claimed By Nipponese (By Associated Press) also has criticized. The Southland was owned by the Cartaret Fish Oil Co. of More-head City, N. and she was the harvest safely in, Germany is certain to withstand the British blockade for at least another year. because of the Interest shown by the public in his brother since bis release from a federal penitentiary Chancellor Hitler indicated today.

bound for that port with a cargo of 300,000 menhaden, an oil-yielding "But, although we can not dismiss criticism lightly, the freedom of the press is limited only by the courage of the individual editor." Knight spoke of concern about HONGKONG, Nov. 18. Japanese campaign headquarters reported today a drive aimed at southwest Thursday. Other members of Ca' Hitler issued a proclamation fish. She and her cargo were thanking the farmers for complet pone's family with him here and who, presumably, approved John's action were Ca pone's wife, mother ern Chinese supply routes to LAKE WORTH YOUTH KILLEDJN CRASH Another Man Seriously Hurt In Wild Plunge (By Associated Press) WEST PALM BEACH Nov.

18. One man was burned to death and another was critically injured here early today when an automobile ran out of control, struck a bridge ing the harvest and the winter Sheriffs deputies said the fallen former president of Louisiana State university might be trans planting, adding: the attacks on the press from the administration, declaring that French Indo-China and Burma had penetrated Kwangsi province and valued at $200,000. MIAMI PORT HAPPY and sister. "This is of decisive importance since 1932 when 75 per cent of the captured a walled town 30 miles John Capone's first press confer ferred from the hospital across country's newspapers opposed ence was held in a reception room in the struggle forced upon us. With God's help, food supplies for Germany will be safeguarded during the coming year." from Nanning.

The Japanese indicated little re President Roosevelt in his cam' of the Union Memorial hospital where his brother will receive the lake from the capitol that his benefactor, Huey P. Long, built to the hospital at Angola state AS WALKOUT ENDS sistance was encountered in the Orchid Set Frolics Till Dawn To Honor Auto Injured Deb (By Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18. Hamburgers went high hat and a bandage peeped from the guest of honor's blonde bangs as 200 of the orchid set danced till dawn today at a birthday party given by wealthy Doris Duke Cromwell for a debutante injured in an automobile accident. The story going 'round was that the bandaged "bud." pretty Peggy Anne Huber of the "main line" Hubers.

left a sick bed for her 18th birthday party and would enter a hospital afterwards for a skin-grafting operation. But the patch on Peggy's pate, cut a week ago when an auto-moble plunged into a tree on the way back from the Princeton-Harvard football game, barely showed as she whirled around the ballroom of a swank mid-town roof garden. Champagne and other potables flowed at a large square bar covered with snowy cloth but the counter attraction was a hamburger dispensary, rigged up as a roadside diner in a setting of transplanted trees and hedges. Inside were a short-order cook, entertainers and plenty of catsup. Wanderer Admits lS-Year-Old Crime FRESNO, Cal, Nov.

18. CP) A 53-year-old man walked into the police station, asked for a place to sleep, and then confessed he killed his wife and another man in Hugo, 18 years ago. Police Lieut. L. H.

Bowen said he identified himself as J. W. Murk, a railroad section hand at the time of the slayings. Bowen quoted him as saying he shot his wife, Mamie, and David Higgs, a railroad engineer, with a .45 revolver when he found them together. 'Since then Tve been all over the world," he added.

50-mile advance from the southern paign for election, the press has been derided by the administration. "President Roosevelt's attitude is understandable. Some papers have malaria fever treatment for paresis. He is younger than Al, is slim, and dresses fashionably. He coast.

penitentiary. railing, and hurtled 50 feet Smith had been under constant They said Chinese forces had left the city of Yamhsien and its 20,000 is a Philadelphia businessman. gone beyond the bounds of de civilians undefended. Yamhsien is cency. But I think the people of guard of deputies from Sheriff Newman H.

Debretton's office since he tried to commit suicide 45 miles northwest of Pakhoi, the country were done a great dis Big Cargoes In Prospect, Harbor Men Assert Santa Claus is going to be on time in Miami anyhow without any detours. That is the meaning of the set through the air after bursting into flames. The charred body of Jack Small, 23, of Lake Worth, was found in the ruins of the automobile. Dyas Keith, also of Lake Worth, suffered severe injuries but escaped service when the sins of a few of Before discussing his brother's morals, he said Al was not in as critical condition as reported that he had eaten a fish dinner yesterday and played dominoes and treaty port on the Gulf of Tonking. BERLIN, Nov.

18. French troops were reported today by DNB, official German news agency, to be digging in the east of the Moselle river, during a lull in fighting on the Western front. Emplacements for long range artillery have been constructed by the French in this sector, DNB said. The entire northern end of the front from the Moselle to the Rhine was reported quiet yester us were seized upon to attack all Thursday in the parish jail by cut an artery in his foot. the press." pinochle with hospital attaches.

Knight declared false impres Gulf Coast Gets Warning Of Storm aeatn witen ne apparently was tlement of the longshoremen's strike in New York to the mer sions are being disseminated in in Nine years ago this week. Dr. Smith, then a backwoods college dean, was elevated by the Kingfish to head L. S. U.

"Because he had Immediate plans, he said, called for a "long rest" at Capone's Miami hurled from the automobile. sidious ways by motion pictures CONTINCED ON PAGE THOl CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 18. Small craft warnings for the gulf a hide as tough as an elephant's. Last week, the dean of the -scan' coast between Mobile and Carra day except for occasional artillery fire at isolated points.

The upper Police said witnesses told them the automobile was traveling about 75 miles an hour when it went out of control They said the car then hit the edge of the bridge, and was a blazing mass when it struck the ground 50 feet belle, were issued today by the dais was sentenced to serve an eight to 24-year sentence on three City 100 Yards Deep In Rhine also was quiet save for in' United States weather bureau charges of forgery and one of embezzlement from east Baton Rouge termittent French machine gun fire directed against the German Fresh to strong easterly winds this afternoon and tonight were away. bank near Briesach. parish. Mountain Hides Eyes And indicated. Nazi scouting-planes, DNB said.

Arms Of French Defenses Last Flare Brings Rescue Of Marooned Bay Fisherman WHERE TO FIND INSIDE FEATURES chants and public here, although the statements seem as far apart as the poles. Freight large holiday goods, a greater proportion of which had been booked by the coastwise water route has had to be rerouted by rail or truck from New York and Boston, while other shippers were holding back in the hope the strike would be settled. "While I have not had any specific word about the resumption of the sailings, it is obvious that the service will be restored promptly. Probably the first ship will be Wednesday," said Ralph I. Vervoort, agent for the Clyde-Mal-lory Line in Miami.

"The fall inbound passenger traffic also will start again immediately. This, like the freight, was running very heavy when the strike interrupted the schedude." The strike has been in effect since Nov. 3. It caused the cancellation of eight Clyde-Maliory sailings. Miami was fortuate that one boat got away just before the strike was called.

Marooned for six hours in Bis-? gas and drifted to a piling where Electric Trains And Dispatch Riders Speed Through Underground Passageways Of The he tied up. Chentoff said some thief apparently had siphoned the Famous Maginot Line Ready For Crucial Hour gas from his tank. Page Alsop and Kintner 4 Amusements 6, 7 Churches 3 Clapper 5 Carter 5 Classified ,12. 13 By H. R.

KNICKERBOCKER (International News Service Staff Correspondent) While daylight lasted and within sight of both skylines, he signalled that he was disabled but nary a boat came within view and nary a person ashore spotted him. At night as things began to get more WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN A "CUIRASSE DE TERRE" (LAND BATTLESHIP) OF THE MAGINOT yesterday penetrated into France as far as Bordeaux and executed reconnaissance missions over the Shetland and Orkney islands. LONDON, Nov. 18. (INS) Ed-uard Benes, former president of Czecho-Slovakia, who now lives in London, today pledged that the "protectorate" would continue to fight against German rule in spite of the execution of nine Czech students in Praha yesterday.

BERGEN, Norway, Nov. 18. (UP) The German liner Bremen has been transferred to Russia and will soon return to the sea, plying between Murmansk and New York, it was reported today. The $20,000,000 liner, which raced out of New York just before the outbreak of war, and whose whereabouts were a mystery for weeks, is still at Murmansk, the north Russian port, it was said, but has been turned over to the Russian shipping trust for inclusion in a new service the Russians were said to be planning directly from Murmansk to New York. LINE, Nov.

18. The Maginot's guns have spoken. uncomfortable he shot off his flares until he had used all but iney spoke just once a phrase or two to tne Ger one. man army, and apparently their meaning was clear. For -ayne bay between Miami and Miami Beach, Paul Chentoff of 1409 Lincoln road, Miami Beach, waved flags in vain during the daylight hours and shot off 12 flares at night before he finally was rescued from a night afloat early Chentoff and a guest, whose name he would not reveal, decided yesterday afternoon to go fishing at a favorite spot on the flats off the Nautilus hotel.

Having been kept tied up in Collins canal by the recent winds, Chentoff gave no thought to measuring his gasoline supply before he started out. remembered having filled the taSnfe- with 30 gallons the previous trip. When he got into the bay with his 24-foot fishing cruiser he suddenly discovered he was out of In the meantime Mrs. Chentoff had notified the coast guard but tney nave not had to speak again. I learned about this somewhat one-sided conversation today in a bis room 100 yards deep in a mountain which $2.56 NEWS AD BRINGS $750 RENTAL Mr.

H. Hilton, 339 N. E. 100th st wanted to rent his new home for the season until May 1. He ordered an ad published in the NEWS three days.

In exactly three days, his NEWS ad found a prospective tenant who paid the season rental of $750. Mr. Hilton's total advertising cost was $2 56. If you have a house, apartments or rooms for rent, telephone 3-1191 today. NEWS Classified Ads cost little.

They get results quickly. Comics .10 Crossword puzzle 3 Editorials 4 Kilgallen Mallon 5 Mergen cartoon 4 Miami story 5 New York Day by Day 4 Radio 7 Society 2 Sports 8, Story 2 Trends of the Times 4 Weather 2 Wirephoto Back page Woman's page 7 they looked for the boat in the south bay. Approaching midnight she summoned the Beach boat slips where an emergency boat is hides a city underground, inhabited now by more than a thousand French soldiers but capable of receiving 20,000. kept on 24-hour service. Capt.

Helena Rocked By Earthquake HELENA. Mont, Nov. 18. (JP) A sharp earth tremor was felt here at 1:38 a. m.

The quake lasted no more than two seconds. There were no immediate reports of it is without doubt the greatest Fred Lifton started the search and it was Chentoffs last flare pyramids look like trivial sand piles. that attracted him, and the ma fortress ever -built by man. It is a super "ouvrage" and as big as any four or five of the other units of the Maginot line we visited put together. It makes Cheops' Some day.

a thousand years hence, archaeologists may stumble rooned' fisherman was safely towed in none the worse for wear. (CO-N TIMED ON PACE TWO).

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