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THE WEATHER: Fair and plot Quite So ColdToJght. (THE LARGEST NET PAID NET PAID CT BROOKLYN NEWSPAPER IRCULATION OF ANY EIGHTY-THIRD YEAR BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1931-20 PAGES PRICE 3 CENTS AAA. I Home Edition F1T CAREER ENDS SULLIVAN FAVORS CRESCENTCONTES I BUTCHER DIES Charge of Panhandling Ends Crippled "Broker's" $40 Day i $25 Mechanic, Vith One-Leg, Prospers in Ritzy Pelham Until Policeman Jails Him. Governor Makes $2,315,336 Cut In State Budget sy J) i -wsl (nf i iwl 4kf mi iim i ii Leroy Kiefer, arrested as a high grade panhandler who sneered at less than $40 a day in his chosen profession, was known to his neighbors in Springfield as "that nice BUSINESS WOMAN eg" who lives with his sister young man with the wooden at 145-15 Harding st. The wooden leg, they vaguely thought, 'was a result of the war.

and when he drove off to work every morning in his sister's car, everyone thought he was going to his brokerage office in Manhattan. A bright young policeman In Pel-ham yesterday pierced the mystery of Klefr's "business" and placed him under arrest for vagrancy, an offense that high-hat Pelham cannot tolerate, even if Kiefer does make $40 a day at it Patrolman Edward Rlker noticed Kiefer "at work" and then noticed his quick First Time Since 1922 That Estimate Has Been Lower Than Previous Year. TOTAL IS $323,605,606 I. I I Appropriations Are Reduced to Minimum on Account of Drop in Income. Bv GEOROE L.

CAS81DY (Brooklyn Staff Correspondent) Albany, Jan. 15. Governor Roosevelt today sent to the Legislature an executive budget providing for totaUAppellate Division investigation Daisy Devoe Resumes Story Of Clara Bow's Boy Friends Girl Secretary Again on Stand, While Film Star Denies She Employed Rex Bell as Aide. ENDS WHEN DOYLE AND REED QUIT Haff and Tomlins Opposition Removed as 500 Members Sign Protest Petition. WITHDRAWAL VOLUNTARY Move Made in Interest of Harmony and for Success of Club's Plans.

Charles A. K. Doyle and Dayton F. Reed, It is announced today at tho Crescent Athletic Club, have withdrawn from the race for places on the board of governors. This leaves the field clear for Erastus E.

Haff and William M. Tomlins, and there will be no contest when the club holds its annual election on Saturday, Jan. 24. Doyle and Reed were named by the nominating committee in place of Haff and TomllnB, whose terms had expired. All the other outgo ing governors and tho officers were renominated.

The action of the committee in making exceptions in these two cases aroused much feeling in the club, and an opposition movement was organled to re-elect the two governors who had been turned down. Independent nominating petitions were circulated, and signatures were obtained in great numbers (n a few days. On the bulletin board In the clubhouse at Plerrepont and Clinton some 250 signatures are displayed in support of the Haff-Tomllns ticket and it is said that as many more were obtained, but could not be put up for lack of room. Major Frederick II. Stevenson, secretary of the elub, in announcing the withdrawal of the Nominating Committee candidates today, said that they had done so In the interest of harmony and for the welfare of the club, fearing that a contest might interfere with the success of the undertakings which the club now has under way.

This refers to the development of the extensive and costly country house and grounds which the Crescent Athletic Club has acquired at Huntington. amendments to the by-laws which will come up for action at the annual meeting, to raised the dues so as to provide more revenue, i Much printed matter has gone to waste as the result of this collapse of the election contest Secretary Stevenson had prepared the official notices of the election, containing the names of all the candidates. They were to have been mailed today. He is now awaiting a decision from Supreme Court Justice James C. Cropsey, president of the club, as to what shall be done about the withdrawal of the regular candidates.

The committee in charge of the opposition movement had also pre- Continued on Follotcinp Page) HELPEDTRAMING' Testifies in Kresel Inquiry Re- naud Convicted Her on One Policeman's Word. An attractive young business) woman took the stand today at tha the Magistrates' Courts and related a brutal story of her experi ence with the vice squad. Terrified that publicity might cost her her position, she asked permission to testify under the fictitious name, Betty Smith. wicn xier nusDana siiung in ins courtroom, the witness told how DetecUves James T. Brady and Morris crashed Into her apartment In November, 1929, while she and a friend of her husband were awaiting for the latter to arrive to keep a business engagement She was convicted before Magistrate Renaud on Brady's uncorroborated testimony, although her husband and his friend, Edward W.

Hazelton, refuted the policeman's story. She was placed on probation for six months. After carrying an appeal to Special Sessions, she obtained a reversal of the conviction. "This is an example," said Judge Seabury, when the witness finished her story, "of the injustice that will roaiilf if fflaa ova not give perjured testimony in court." Before "Betty Smith" tesUfied. Magistrate Jesse Silbermann took the stand and read a lengthy state-.

ment defending his opinion in two vice cases and a shop lifting which had been challenged by Isl-dor J. Kresel at previous hearings. Defends His Judgment Silbermann said he rendered these decision according to his best judgment. He declared that throughout his career as a magistrate he had conducted all cases before him straightforwardly and honestly. He denied there was anything illegal in his friendship with Mark Alter, a lawyer in the Women's Court As for the bribes accepted by John C.

Weston, the prosecutor, he said he had no knowledge they were being passed. At the opening of the hearing. Judge Seabury replied to Mayor Walker's criticism of the attempt being made by the investigators to free the 77 girls illegally committed as wayward minors to Bedford Reformatory. The refere read an opinion by Attorney General Bennett which declared the Magistrate had no legal right to commit those girls without a heading In open court After "Betty Smith" took the stand, Mr. Kresel said: "Tour Honor, this lady will not give her correct name or address.

I have consented to that because this lady is engaged in a business career, and I have given her full assurance that he position would not be endangered. Her right namt will be given to the stenographer at the proper time." Turning to the witness, Mr. Kresel said: "What name do you wish to give?" "Betty Smith?" replied tho wlt- The Southeast Corner A bill te prevent baby mix-ups In hospitals has been Intro-duced In Albany. Appro 1 ately enough, its sponsor-Is ATS MAGISTRAT IE SALE Report to Estimate Board Ignores Chamber's Request for Delay. ACQUIRED 17 YEARS AGO Civic Group Thinks Marginal Railroad Terminal May Yet Be Needed.

The request ot tlie Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce for a year's delay In the proposed sale of city-ewned land In Red Hook, which has awaited development for 17 years as a marginal railroad terminal, was denied In a report Submitted today by City Planning Commissioner Maj. John F. Sullivan, to tho Board of Estimate. The report, which consists en-lirely of recommendations on two Brooklyn projects, will be taken up tomorrow by the Board, and la a result of tho newly created depart- Sent's first public hearing held on onday. Acquired During Mitchell Regime The report recommends that streets be cut through the acreage In Fed Hook which was acquired by the city during the Mitchell ad-tninlstratlon at a cost of $3,600,000 fcnd the property sold at Thibllc auction, tho proceeds to be returned to the city.

This plan was advocated by tho Controller and Borough President Hesterberg at the public hearing and was vigorously opposed by a delegation from the Chamber of Commerce, headed ly former Borough President Lewis H. Pounds. The Chamber group asserted that the possibility of a marginal railroad terminal was still very much alive and that within six months or a year action would develop on the project Mr. Pounds asked the Commissioner to grant a year's extension. The report also recommends that the block on the north side of Ave.

between East 18th and East 19th be changed from an zone to a zone. The request for the fchange was made at the public hearing by Arthur W. Mlddleton, (owner of the property, and was opposed In a petition signed by 98 toer cent, of the other residents of fche block. The present zone permits only the construction of rlvate one and two family dwell-ngs with, lawns and gardens on the property, and Mlddleton seeks to jhave It reoned to permit apartment fcouse construction. Advocates Zone Change The Commissioner's report recommends the zone change, declar ing that "nothing of a convincing nature developed at the hearing that would justify a change from my previous report." "It would be for the best inter- Bts of the city," he adds, "since It will offer an opportunity for developing property that is now vacant Into property that will have a 'material taxable value to the City." Opponents of tho plan hope, however, that Borough President Hesterberg will support the opposition group and refuse to vote in of the change, and thus hold up the change which requires the Unanimous vote of the Board, The group already has declared its 'Intention of carrying the case to jthe Supreme Court If the zone 'jehange is voted.

MARINES FIGHT BANDITS Several New Clashes Reported in Nicaraguan Wilds. Managua, Nicaragua, Jan. 15. patrol under Lieut. Broderlck Iiad two encounters with bandits in the region of San Juan De Telpan- eca.

It was announced today at United States Marine Headquarters, The first clash was with a group at bandits headed by Oreblo Sanchez. Bandit camps were burned and a large amount of provisions elzed. The patrol later met a group of 12 bandits between El Balsamo and Varlllal, killing one bandit and capturing two others. There were no other casualties. Oil Gwher Brought In One Mile From Elmira Elmira, N.

14. An oil gusher has been brought In one mile from here in a spot being drilled for gas. Oil never has been found so close to the city, but experts claim a large pool underlies that region. A number of large gassers recently have been struck within a fifty-mile radius with about four million acres In Northern Pennsylvania and Central and Southern New Tork undeV lease by large oil companies. MEDIA OF RED HOOK LAND NOTED LECTURER, Specialized on Boy Problems; Long Identified With Brace Home for "Newsies." MEMBER OF CRIME BOARD Also Active in Scout and Big Brothers' Movement Led Red Hook Investigation.

William L. Butcher, 750 Can member of the New York State Crime Commission nationally known writer, lecturer and worker with boys and their problems, died at the Caledonian Hospital early today after an Illness of abo eight weeks. Mr. Butcher was born in Holy-oke, Oct 1, 1886. He first entered the advertising field, but In 1910 became director of the West Side Boys' House of the Children's Aid Society, in Manhattan.

In 1913 he went to the Brace Memorial Newsboys' House, where he was an active director until his death. He was a director of Boys' Welfare of Children's Aid Society, executive secretary of the International Boys' Work Council, Special Field Commissioner Boy Scouts of America, director of Boys' Club Federation; Jchairman of the executive committee of the Big Brother and Big Sister Federation; chair man of executive committee of New Tork State Crime Commission, appointed by Governor Alfred Smith, in 1925; acting chairman. New Tork City Advisory Committee for the Crime Prevention Bureau. He also was a director of the Sportsmanship Brotherhood, a director of the Flatbush Boys Club, chairman of the Boys' Work Sec tion of Boys' Work Council of New Tork, and guardian of 8.000 boys who entered the Army and Navy from Brace Memorial House, from 1914. until the present time.

He.was a member of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, and of the National Conference On Social Work. His clubs included the Democratic, the Masonic and Town Hall. Mr. Butcher directed the inves tigation of the Red Hook section of Brooklyn as chairman of the sub-committee on Causes, New Tork State Crime Commission, some years ago. This particular work was designed- to show how the Crime Commission carried out in vestigations of any sections of the five boroughs.

He was the founder and secretary of International Boys' Week, held in 4,000 cities around the world; formerly advisor on boys' work to Rotary International, and a member of the American Prison Association. He was a member of the Congregational Church. The funeral will be from his office, at 244 William Manhattan, at 2 o'clock Saturday. Surviving him are Mae Butcher, his wife; William Lewis Butcher, his son; a daughter, Ruth Butcher; a brother, Harry Butcher, of and two sis ters, Emily Butcher, of Holyoke, and Mrs. Jennie Holden, of Hartford, Conn.

ITALIAN AIRPLANES START HOP TO RIO Eleven Machines Plan to Make Trip Without Stop. Bahia, Brazil, Jan. 15. Eleven Italian seaplanes started on the last leg of their flight to Rio de Janeiro today. They took off from Bahia for the Brazilian capital at 8:21 A.

M. Minister of Air Gen. Italy Balbo hoped to reach Itlo de Janeiro, some 700 miles south, by 4 P. M. The seaplanes did not intend to stop en route.

Balbo said the machines would land In Botafogo Bay, at the foot of the famous Sugar Loaf Mountain. U. S. SHIPPING BOARD VESSEL IN DISTRESS Coast Guard Cutter on Way to Aid the Effringham. Coston, Jan.

15. A Coast Guard cutter started from Boston Navy Tard today to assist the United States Shipping Board steamer Ef fringham, in distress 86 miles southeast of St. John's, Newfound land. New advices from the Shipping Board freighter today said that her propellor shaft was broken ana that she -was helpless. The mes sage did not Indicate the weather and the sea.

The Shipping Board steamer Mishmaha is in the vicinity of the Effringham and may take the freighter In tow. But the Mishmaha is en route to Europe and probably will await arrival of the 1 Coast Guard cutter, WELFAR WORKER change from his working clothes and his drive home. 80 Springfield's rising young business man was clapped Into Jail and kept there for 48 hours. He's scheduled to get out at 6 o'clock tonight, but he won't be permitted to practise In Pelham any more. Out In Springfield, Klefer's sister complained last night: "It isn't right," and that the cops are "Just persecuting my brother." "But they'll find out they can't get away' with It.

There'll be (Continued on Following Page) Rex Bell, one of the men who Clara Bow, neither discharged as her secretary, Miss Bow OPEN TOSKATERS Icy Winds Bring Joy to Cold-Weather Fans; Much wVmer Tomorrow. Skating enthusiasts were jubilant today as they scanned the weather menu, with chill north winds as an entree and genuine ice at four borough parks as the main dish. The red ball was up at Drearnjand, Mc- Carren, Highland and Sunset parks as the mercury hovered around the lower 'teens. After a night of freezing tem peratures, at 7 A. M.

the thermometer was 11 degrees above zero. It climbed a point at ana another at 9, but for the time being there appeared little possibility of ice-destroying figures. The Park Department's hopes for a sheet of ice for Saturday in Pros pect Park were dashed by the Weather Bureau's prediction of increasing temperatures from tonight on. The cool north breezes, the forecast gloomily stated, would veer to the southwest by tomorrow noon, with correspondingly warm temperatures. PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL MODIFYING JONES DRY LAW Measure Eases Drastic Statute for Prohibitiv Crimes.

Washington, Jan. 15. President Hoover today signed the Stobbs bill modifying the Jones Law providing heavy penalties for prohibition law violations. The Stobbs bill softens the provisions of the Jones Law in some regards. SKULL BROKEN IN FIGHT Victim in Hospital Xlleged Assail- ant Arrested.

James Donegan, 35, of 819 69th is in Harbor Hospital with a fractured skull today, and Joseph Accardl, 40, of 1938 West Eighth is under arrest at tho Fort Hamilton precinct, as the result of a fight last night at the Eighth ave. station of the Sea Beach B. M. T. line.

The pollco were unable to get other than vague details, but learned the alleged combatants are, or were, total strangers to each other. THREE GUNMEN ESCAPE Threo men engaged in a gun battle with a patrolman early today because the officer's suspicions were aroused when he saw them in a parked sedan, at Pacific st and Buffalo ave. As Patrolman Henry Flnkelsteln approached the auto to Investigate, it raced away. The policeman commandeered a passing car and chased the sedan. One of the occupants opened fire, sending a volley of bullets through the rear window of the fleeing machine.

Finkeistein responded by emptying his gun at the fugitives. The chase continued for several blocks until the sedan escaped Into Eastern Pkwyy FOUR BORO PARKS WILLIAM L. BUTCHER STEUER ASKS CITY TO GIVE 1100,000 FOR BAIPROBE Lawyer Takes Oath as Deputy Attorney General in Bank of U. S. Inquiry.

Max D. Steucr was sworn in today as deputy attorney general by Attorney General Bennett to handle the State's investigation Into the collapse of the Bank of United States. The oath of office was administered in the Manhattan office of the attorney general in 51 Chambers st. Immediately after taking the oath, Mr. Steuer visited the offices of the State Banking Department, In the same building, but it was not learned whether he saw Superintendent Broderick.

He was there only a few minutes. Mr. Steuer will ask the Board of Estimate to set aside $100,000 from the contingent fund, for purposes of the investigation he is to undertake for the city as a Special Assistant District Attorney. This was decided today, It was learned, at a conference with District Attorney Crain at 9:30, in the home of Mr. Steuer, 731 Park Manhattan.

There will be other conferences this week, it was understood, at which some of the details of the Inquiry are to be discussed. At the request of Robert P. Levis, attorney for officials of the several bankrupt Bank of United States affiliates, Referee Stevenson adjourned the bankruptcy hearings until Monday. For a time the adjournment was opposed by James N. Rosenberg, attorney for the receiver, the Irving Trust Co.

He consented, however, after Mr. Lewis agreed there would be no plea for further adjournment and that he would have Bernard K. Marcus, president of the bank, Saul Singer, vice president, Herbert Singer, his son, and Alexander White, one of the "big five" in the subsidiary corporations, present for examination Monday and Tuesday. Mr. Rosenberg indicated he wanted the hearings to be pushed Continued on Following Page I now living at the Hotel Vic fused to have his wife as a traveling companion, she charges.

He left her last March and since then has contributed only occasionally to her support, Mrs. Kaiser alleges. The upkeep of her apartment is $125 a week, she said. At first her husband would send t50 a ween, tnen ne cut it aown to a month, she said, and of late there has been no check and she is in danger of being dispossessed. When her husband was home, Mrs.

Kaiser said, he was subject to ungovernable fits of temper and frequently threatened to kill her. The husband put in no affidavit. Only two Mcuulnnesses were mentioned In the will, the Alder man's father and aunt, Kate Mc Guinness, both deceased. They were left $1 each. A house and lot were willed to Theodore Jensen of to Bedford at.

Alderman McGuinness is represented by Judge Thomas H. Brown ot Jersey City. expenditures by the State during the next fiscal year, beginning July 1, of as against during the current year. This is a reduction of $2,315,338 and is the first reduction In a Governor's budget under the budget of the preceedlng year that has been made since 1922. The Governor effected the cut by reducing appropriations to the minimum.

He asked only $293,605,606 from current revenue as against $315,920,942 for the last fiscal year. A sharp decline in the State income forced him to do so, for the total estimated resources for the coming fiscal year were only in order to achieve a balance. As a result the estimated surplus, $267,101. is the lowest in the history of New Tork State. Governor Roosevelt, however, in sisted the State was lucky to do so well and find itself "In the red," although the esUmated free sur plus for the current year, 866, was the largest on record and usually there is an estimated surplus of from three to five millions of dollars Included in the budget.

The small surplus has the immediate effect of placing the Re publican legislative majority in a delicate position politically. Puzzle for G. O. P. The G.

O. P. leaders, should they insist upon passing an considerable number of appropriations not included in the Governor's budget. would have to find the money themselves, and where they could do so without taking responsibility for increased taxation would puzzle any financial wizard. A little while ago, the Republi- (Continued on Following Page) 20 FIREMEN FELLED BY ICE AND SMOKE Collapse From Cold at Manhattan Blaze.

Covered with Ice and choked and blinded by dense, oily smoke, firemen battled for five hours early today In the bitter cold against a blaze which wrecked a six-story loft building, at 20 to 22 Desbros-ses, st, northeast corner of Greenwich Manhattan. One fireman fractured his right leg when he tripped over a hose-line and crashed to the icy pavement Another collapsed after he had been relieved, and was taken to a hospital, suffering from grip. More than a score were felled by smoke, but after treatment by Surgeon Harry M. Archer and his aides, who set up first-aid stations, returned to duty. The building was occupied by the Bernard-Greenwood manufacturers of pipe and valves, and the dense smoke was- due to large quantities of lubricating "oil and grease stored in the building.

Four alarms were sounded after the sprinkler system had operated the automatic alarm. Fire Commissioner Dorman, early at the scene, and Acting Chief Dougherty said it was the smokiest fire they ever witnessed. After three hours of fighting, the blaze burst through the roof, and still was far from being under control. More than 100 streams were poured Into the blaze from street lines, lines set up on the Ninth ave. structure, which was cut off from service and power, and from water towers.

Water froze into a solid sheet as it hit walls or sidewalks, and firemen who came in contact with water found their eyes frozen shut Wife Sues Traveling Husband Los Angeles, Jan. 15. wrote stirring love notes to nor succeeded Daisy Devoe wants the world to know. With tears for which she apologized to -her fans in the crowded courtroom and a vehemence for which she apologized to no one. Miss Bow testified late yesterday at the trial of Miss Devoe, the former secretary whom she charged with "robbing her right and left" Attorneys for the defense planned today to recall Miss Devoe to the stand to hear more of the story of Miss Bow's boy friends, of her love notes, of the $350,000 she spent In 18 months, and of the money and articles which the secretary was charged with to her own use.

Her Defense of Bell Miss Bow's defense of Bell was given after Defense Attorney Nathan Freedman hinted that the cowboy actor not only visited the Bow home frequently but sort of took charge while there. "As a matter of fact. Bell discharged Miss Devoe, didn't he?" asked Freedman. "He didn't," snapped Clara. "I fired her myself because she wasn't honest." "Well, he's your secretary now.

Isn't he?" "He is not. I know it has been printed that he is, but it is not the truth.V The actress burst into tears as she was asked if Bell had been delegated to confer with repre sentatives of an insurance com pany which had paid her 8760 for a watch assertedly lost, but which she later found. "She was my friend the only friend I had In the world. I'm sorry I'm crying. I can't help 't," she apologized, looking at her fans instead of at the Judge or Jury.

"Doesn't Bail live on Bedford Drive?" Freedman continued. Miss Bow lives on that street in Beverly Hills. Admitted the Demand "How dare you!" exclaimed the witness. Then she cried some more. Miss Bow said that when Miss Devoe asked for her Job back, she accused her of making a demand for $126,000 for telegrams and letters she said she possessed, and that Miss Devoe admitted making the demand.

"Yes. my best friend: that was the way answered me," and the red-haired actress again was on the verge of tears. She dabbed at her nose with a powder puff and went on. "I said: 'Listen, Daisy, are you kidding me? After all the money you have stolen from me, and after trying to get $126,000 out of me for (Continued on Kollwoftig Tape) TWO OVERCOME BY GAS Married Couple Are Found Unconscious in Apartment. Mr.

and, Mrs. Arthur Donnelly, aged $2 and SO, respectively, of 96 Washington st, were discovered last night in their home unconscious from Illuminating gas 'poisoning. Gas was flowing from an unllghted burner on the range. They were treated by Dr. Cran-dall of Jewish Hospital and were permitted to remain in their home.

TREASURY BALANCE Washington, Jan. 15. The Treasury net balance on Jan. 13 was $204,929,427.06. Expenditures for that day were $17,838,602.91.

Customs' receipts for the month to that day were $10,813.575.17. STOCK EXCHANGE 8ALE8 Total 'sales on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, Includ ing inactive shares and rights, were 1,276,345. For Racing Information, Se Following P( Alleges Hyman Kaiser Never Took Her Along, But Exhibits Pictures With Other Women. Her husband liked to travel but he never took her with him, Mrs. Pearl Kaiser, of 7902 Bay Parkway, told Supreme Court Justice Dodd today in her suit for separation from Hyman Kaiser, stock broker, toria, Manhattan.

Justice Dodd awarded $50 a week alimony and $500 counsel fees to her, pending trial of the action. Mr. Kaiser made frequent trips to Panama, the Canal Zone, West Indies and traveled extensively through the South, Mrs. Kaiser asserted in her action and produced pictures taken of her husband at various resorts with other women to prove it. The couple were married on Oct.

11, 1911, and have one child, a boy. Of late years Mr. Kaiser has spent six months of every year traveling and always re McGuinness to Fight Will Of Uncle Filed in Jersey Alderman Peter J. McGuinness, Democratic leader of Greenpoint, has brought action in New "Jersey contesting the will of his uncle. Thomas J.

McGuinness of the Senator Love. Most of us are perfectly willing to have the Senator prevent baby mix-ups so long1 as he doesn't introduce legislation making it harder to mix-up cocktails. One thing we'd like very much to see is a little more unemployment among the "flu" germs. 9fr 9 At the Npoultry show this week there is a mechanical hen that lays wooden eggs. And It probably won't be long before urge their customers to take home a dosen eggs with which to start the furnace.

S. 8. BTCK. Highlands. Twenty blood kin were ignored in the will of the elder McGuinness, who left an estate estimated at between $50,000 and $150,000 to two employes, John Kendrlck and Leslie J.

Gordon, of Highlands. They had been the companions of Thomas McGuinness for 42 years, from the time he moved to the highlands until his death. FLYER AND DAUGHTER HURT Detroit, Jan. 15. William B.

Stout, prominent aeronautical engineer and head of Stout Airways, and his daughter, Wllma, 19, were recovering at their home here today from severe cuts about the face and head, suffered in a minor airplane crash. 1 I'.

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