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ONLY MIAMI NEWSPAPER WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORTS EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR A DAILY NEWSPAPER FOR MIAMI itflAMI BEACH AND CORAL GABLES FLORID A MOST I P'O A NEWSPAPER THURSDAY MORNING JANUARY 8 1931 VOL XXI NO 38 Entered second clue matter Post OUlca Miami Plot Ida TWENTY PAGES TODAY PRICE FIVE CENTS JfflAL AIRPORT DEDICATION IS Ships of All Sorts Will Swarm In Skies For Three Days ADMIRAL MOFFETT TO ACCEPT FIELD Military Planes Will Thrill Spectators With Formation Maneuvers Miami's skies will swarm with aircraft of all sorts today as the third All-American Air meet sponsored by the city gets under way Twenty-four events will be Included In the program presented at Miami Municipal airport Gratlgny and Le-Jeune roads beginning at noon In addition to races for commercial tiers military planes will thrill spectators with formation flying maneuvers In which pilots of army navy' marine corps and national guard will participate At 10 a today dedication ceremonies will start at the naval aviation reserve unit airport in Opa-Locka with Bear Admiral A Moffett chief of naval aviation taking part Admiral Moffett will accept the flying field on behalf of the navy department Last night he spoke on naval aviation at a public- meeting In Bayfront park where he was guest of honor Jointly with Gen Charles Summer-all retired chief of staff of the army David Ingalls assistant secretary of the navy for aeronautics arrived yesterday to takw part in the Bayfront park program and to be present today at the acceptance and dedication of tbs Opa-Locka flying field Rear Admiral Marshall flying was In command of three pursuit and three observation planes -which landed at Municipal airport after 1 a flight here from' the United States Air Station Pensacola John Norman was master of ceremonies at the Bayfront park meeting He Introduced Mayor Reeder who welcomed the group of distinguished naval officers and other visitors seated cn the bandshell platform Mayor Reeder spoke of the importance of aviation to Miami and the desire of the city to co-operate with the aviation units of the nation's military branches tCrandon chairman of Dade county commission also gave a brief address of welcome Introduction of those on the platform followed The program was broadcast by both Miami radio stations and about 3000 persons were present In the park The Ideal weather for flying which Is found In this area gives Miami a strategic position from a military point of view which makes it a Gibraltar of the Americas General Summerall told the audience Throughout the ages there have been certain localities In the world which repeatedly have been focal positions In warfare These he said Include Gibraltar at the entrance to the Mediterranean the Dardanelles the Hawllan islands In recent history and the West Indian area Ke spoke the former Importance of the Dry Tortugas as a protecting point between the and the gulf and said that with the Increasing Importance of aviation In warfare southeast Florida now occupies a strategic position of great military Importance In Introducing Admiral Moffett Mr Norman told briefly of that officer's service at Manila of his activities with the fleet at Vera Cruz where he earned the Congressional Medal of Honor and of his position as naval advisor at the Washington and London arms conferences Admiral Moffett spoke on the Importance of aviation In national de- fense establishment of a naval aviation reserve base in this city gives to the navy a unit which it has wanted for many years for strategic purposes Please Turn to Page 3 Air Meet Boxes DOX seats for the Miami All-American Air meet may be obtained from any member of the Aeronautical Association or at the Red Cross pharmacy in Flagler street it was announced yesterday by Mrs Byron Freeland presi-dent of the association The organization is handling sale of all box seats and Mrs Freeland urges that persons who have not yet obtained their tickets communicate with her or proceed to the Red Cross pharmacy to make purchases Each box contains six seats and several persons may Join in buying a box KKSWWMKWWWMI IIANDLESS CHICAGOAN CONVICTED OF FORGERY Chicago Jan 7 Frank Gressmayer 40 who has no hands began serving a Jail aentence today for forgery how could I be guilty when I have no hands to write Greiss-mayer protested when arraigned on a charge of obtaining a $700 loan from a finance company by forging a relative's name to a note An assistant attorney interrupted to Introduce evidence that Gressmajer was convicted two years ago of a similar charge The defendant then pleaded guilty and entertained the Judge with an exhibition of writing while holding the pen between his teeth' NEWS SUMMARY THE WEATHER Forecast for Florida: Cloudy and warmer today with probably occasional showers Tomorrow 'generally fair Moderate east and southeast winds Miami temperatures yesterday: Maximum 67 minimum 43 Complete weather report on Page 2 NATIONAL House passed $93000000 deficiency bill Page 1 Republican Treasurer Nutt said Lucas exceeded authority Page 1 Wlckersham commission recessed for week 'Page 1 Suspect Identified ni Llngle murder Page 1 Roosevelt shifted New York Investigation responsibility Page 3 New congressmen were summoned lor caucus Page 3 Button collector made mistake Page 3 Washington recognized provisional government In Guatemala Page 9 FOREIGN Five Italian aviators were killed In Africa- I Page 1 Woman explorer wrote from Franz Joseph Land Page 1 Monoplane Trade Wind landed In Bermuda on way to Faria Page 1 Students rioted in Havana Page 1 Tallulah Bankhead left London for home Page 3 Alabama newspaperman died of wounds In Panama Page 3 Theft recalled Mary Queen of Scots Page 3 Youth In tiny plane took off from Nassau Page 9 STATE Pro-rata financing of Okeechobee flood work approved by United States Page 1 Some frost damage reported in Redland district Page 19 LOCAL Miamian killed himself after wounding hla wife Page 1 Miami air meet began with meeting In park last night Page 1 Food officials announced program for convention opening here today Page 19 Farm loan agent arrived to collect funds Page 2 Post office windows to remain open evenings during winter Page 2 Arrests of motorists who do not have new license plates may begin Saturday Page 2 Three boya were accused of theft of motor car Page 14 Miami i Beach Indicated It would not void license1 tax against whole- CONVICTED WOMAN ASKS FOR NEW TRIAL DENVER Colo Jan 7 VP With the filing today of a motion for a new trial Mrs Pearl convicted killer of her 10 year old step-daughter Leona renewed her fight to escape a sentence of life Imprisonment in the Colorado penitentiary Judge Henley A Calvert will hear arguments on the motion next Saturday I EARTHQUAKE IN QUEBEC QUEBEC Jan 7 VP) A alight earth shock was felt In the lower town districts of Quebec tonight Although no damage was done books In the library of the technical college were jarred from the shelves MUNE FEELS EARTHQUAKE PORTLAND Me Jan 7 Slight earth shocks in and around this city were felt between 7:10 and 7:15 tonight CHINESF PAY TAXES PEIPING China Jan 7 Collection of internal transit taxes continued today throughout most of northern China despite the government's order at Nanking abolishing the as these taxes are called CIB4N TOBACCO EXPORTS HAVANA Jan 7 VP) Cuban tobacco exportations In December 1930 totaled $2157486 The total for the year was $33540575 a decrease of $4338-190 from 1929 1533310 FDR PROHIBITION IS IN DOUSE BILL Fight By New Yorker Cuts $10000 From Dry Law Budget MEASURE CARRIES TOTAL OF $93000000 Veterans and I lighways 1 Will Share II Senate Approves Action BY THE ASSOCIATED PBESSJ WASHINGTON Jan The house today passed the $93000000 first deficiency bill Including $533379 for increased activities of the prohibition bureau The measure now goes to the senate The prohibition bureau sum will provide pay for 130 additional' dry agents during the remainder of this year This la the first quota of 600 additional agents requested by Director A Woodcock of the bureau 1 The action came after the wets had succeeded In having eliminated $10-000 for prohibition education purposes The effort succeeded after Representative La Guardis of New York had changed a motion which sought to strike from the bill the full $543000 for prohibition enforcement to make It apply solely to the education fund La Guardla made public a letter from Comptroller General McCarl under date of January 5 quoting a letter from Secretary Mellon of the employment of former Representative Upshaw of Georgia by the prohibition bureau records of this department show that Mr Upshaw was appointed as a special employe for educational work In connection with the collection and dissemination of information and appeal for law observance and law enforcement during the period January 23 1930 to June 30 1930 with compensation at the rate of $10 per day and $5 per diem for subsistence w'en absent from Washington his designated post of McCarl quoted Vouchers In the comptroller's office McCall said showed that payments to Upshaw over this period totalled $1590 for salary and $116693 for expenses GUTTER IS SENT TO AID BARGES Two Scows Reported Adrift Off Key West MOBILE Ala Jan 7 VP) Coast guard cutters are proceeding the aid of twd barges adrift off Key West and two fishing smacks reported to be drifting off St Andrews bay it was announced today at the Mobile coast guard headquarters The two barges being towed by the tug Sabine out of Port Arthur broke adrift during a gale The coast guard boat Woodberry Is standing ny pending the arrival of the cutter Saranack from Galveston Two fishing smacks operating out of Nlcevllle Fla have been reported to the coast guard as needing aid The patrol boat Mahoney was reported Wednesday as proceeding to the aid of the vessels STUDENTS RIOT AGAIN IN HAVANA STREETS HAVANA Jan 7 Another outbreak of student rioting tonight terrorized Havana's downtown section ending only after a student had been shot and 10 others arrested by police The wounded student's condition Is not critical The demonstration occurred on San Rafael street Just at the night rush hour Some three hundred students gathered to listen to an orator became violent when police attempted to disperse them During the ensuing melee virtually all windows for two blocks along the street were shattered CHANCELLOR ASSAILED BERLIN Jan 7 (OP) Crowds shouting with the hunger greeted Chancellor Heinrich Bruenlng at Tilsit and Insterburg on the East Prussian tour today At Insterburg the Reichswehr was summoned to reinforce the police to maintain order The crowds dispersing sang the COAL PEACE NEAR LONDON Jan 7 (UP) A solution of the coal situation in South Wales was believed distinctly nearer today following separate conversations between William Graham head of the board of trade Emanuel Shlnwell under-secretary for mines and the coal owners and miners Attention Housekeepers! The attention of Miami Houe-keepeis is especially invited this morning for bai gains in food supplies to the advertisements of the following firms: Tip Top Grocery Page 2 White House Grocery Page 2 Capt Torn Fish Market Page 2 FEWER MILGII COWS ARE RECOMMENDED Farm Board Committee Asks One-Tenth Reduction WASHINGTON Jan 7 VP) A curtailment by one-tenth of the number of milking cows on the farms was recommended today by the dairy advisory committee of the farm board The number of cows has shown such increases the committee said that the oversupply of milk has resulted In inventories of all dairy products for the past The resolutions adopted and presented to the farm board urged that retail prices of dairy products especially city market milk be reduced In harmony with the lower price paid the farmer They also recommended the use of dairy products on the farm be Increased to aid In the reduction of Inventories It was resolved that "all low-pioduc-lng and unprofitable cows should be culled from herds and sold for slaughter that additional numbers of calves be vealed and that each farmer reduce the size of his herd by eliminating at least one cow out of each The grotip called upon state and federal agencies to co-operate In directing the attention of the farmer to need of wisdom" of herd reduction Plane With Pay Load On Board Flies From Hampton Roads BY THE ASSOCIATED FRESSl HAMILTON Bermuda Jan The white monoplane Trade Wind washed by rain that was driven before a strong northwest wind sped down out of gray skies to a safe landing in Hamilton harbor this afternoon completing the first leg of a pay-load flight from Norfolk Va to Paris Its motor roared again almost as soon as the pontoons touched the water and Its red-haired woman pilot Mrs Beryl Hart drove the plane upward from the choppy seas and flew to a safer spot in front of the hangar on island Mrs" Hart and her navigator Lieut William MacLaren appearing fresh and untired after their long Journey stepped into a waiting motor boat and proceeded to a hotel where they were greeted by a large crowd that had scanned the skies for their arrival The landing was made at 1:55 (12 55 8 T) 6 hours and 65 minutes after the take-off from Hampton Roads Blight oil trouble developed during the flight which Is to be continued by way of the Azores as soon as repairs are made but it was insufficient to hamper the functioning of the motor The side of the plane was spattered with oil and mechanics tonight prepared to locate the cause of the leak All Clues Collapse In Washington Killing of Beulah Limerick UNIVERSAL SERVICE WASHINGTON Jan With the collapse of another hot trail the murderer of Eeulah Limerick continued to baffle the police tonight i Detectives had been sent post haste to Philadelphia on a mysterious telephone call stating that Ted Martin a golf caddy was the murderer pockets were found to be stuffed with newspaper pictures of the slain girl and clippings relating to the murder Martin admitted he had met Beulah In Washington and this accounted for his Interest In the case he said Meanwhile something of a sensation resulted when police discovered two stills in the home of Patrolman Robert Langdon also held In connection with the murder Searching Langdon's home today his brother officers came upon a 75-gallon and a 20-gallon still together with 150 gallons of rye mash and a halfbushel of rye grain VMVERSJTTS PROGRAM ON BA YFRONT TONIGHT Following it today's program of tha extension department of the University of Miami in the Bayfront park amphitheater postponed from last night: UNIVERSITY CONCERT ORCHESTRA WALTER GROSSMAN Cendaetor 1 Tsnnhaueser Mareh" Warner 2 Guarany" overture Gomes Unforeseen" Cyril-Scott Star" Rogers Helen Flanagan 4 Suite No Biset (a) () (d) 5 Prologue from Leoneavalle Percy Long Beautiful Spring" Lineke 7 Travlata" selection Verdi I Tharenyi News of Tragedy Follows Triumphant Landing In South America COAST OF AFRICA SCENE OF MISHAP Pilots Mechanics Operator Killed Taking Off At Bolama BY UNITED PRESS ROME Jan 7 Five Italian aviators were killed In two accidents which occurred when 14 seaplanes started from Bolama Portuguese Guinea on the west coast of Africa early yesterday morning on a transatlantic flight to South America This was officially announced here tonight The official communique said that two pilots two mechanics and one radio operator had been killed In the accidents at the start of the daring squadron flight to Natal Brazil Ten of the planes arrived there under commend of Gen Italo Balbo The first accident occurred when one of the planes piloted by Capt Enea Silvio Recagno made a forced landing just after the take off The plane plunged about 150 feet Into the sea First Sergeant Louis Fols was killed He was a mechanic Captain Recagno Lieut Renato Ab-brlata and the radio operator Sergeant Mario Mancinl were unhurt the communique declared The second accident took the lives of four men The dead the entire crew of the second plane: Capt Louis Boer pilot Lieut Danllo Barbicintt Sergeant Felice Nensl mechanic -Sergeant Ercole Imbastarl radio op- The plane was forced to land on the ocean 10 minutes after the flight started It came down in flames and all were burned to death The plane was destroyed The communique declared that both accidents were a result of risks which were described as Inevitably Involved in taking off with a full load required on a long transatlantic flight Two other planes which descended on the ocean as they approached the coast of South America were proceeding toward Brazil the communique said One was expected to arrive late tonight and the second tomorrow at the Island of Fernando Noronha 125 miles off Natal where the 10 other machines succeeded In making port without mishap TENNESSEE CASH IS INVESTIGATED Assemblyman Wants To Know About Money In Closed Banks NASHVILLE Tenn Jsn 7 VP The Tennessee general assembly moved today to investigate the affairs of state subject to widespread criticism since the revelation that nearly $6000000 of1 public funds Were Jn three banks which closed in November A joint resolution declaring that thorough and complete Investigation of aU the departments of the state of Tennessee Is essential and passed the house without a dissenting vote and was set for special order of business for Friday by the senate MOTHER AND HER TWO DAUGHTERS DROWNED GREENVILLE Jan 7 VP Mrs Minnie Copeland Brookshire about 30 wife of Alex Brookshire and her two daughters Loreen 4 and Doris Lay 1 wens drowned this afternoon In a well at the Brookshire home two miles from Greer Details were not immediately available here ENDURANCE FLIERS MOVE LOS ANGELES Jan 7 VP A storm brewing off the Pacific Coast sent the endurance plane Lady Rolph and Its two filers Bobbie Trout and Edna May Cooper in full flight for better weather late today With their refueling ship they beat a hasty retreat southeast to Imperial valley planning to spend the night soaring over the desert near El Centro CUBAN DIPLOMAT RESIGNS MEXICO CITY Jan 7 VP The Cuban embassy announced today that Marquez Sterling Cuban minister to Mexico had resigned and would return to Havana before the end of the month No cause was given POLO TODAY Referee William Calhoun ARCTIC IS DESCRIBED BY WOMAN EXPLORER Nina Riabtzova-Demme Is Spending One To Three Years In Soviet Scientific Colony In Polar Ice Wastes of Franz Joseph Land and Writes Her Impressions of Farthest North Laboratory 1 NCITE: From the darknesa of the Arctic nht over Frans Joseph land has come the first storr of the most extraordinary modern explorer In the Far North Nina Riabtzova-Demme a 28-year-old woman who is spend ine from one to three years in the Soviet scientific colony of 11 persone settled in the polar Ice wastes The following dispatch an almost poetical record of the experiences of the only white woman ever to loin such an expedition was transmitted by Miss Riabtzova-Demme to The United Press Bureau In Moscow by radio to Indiao bay thence by letter to the Soviet ice-breaker Miatel (snowstorm) and finally by radio to Moscow 1 Bv NINA RIABTZOVA-DEMME Written for the United Press FRANZ JOSEPH LAND Jan 7 (By way of radio and Ice breaker to the United Press) In the dead heap of the basalt of this desolate Island man has built his northernmost laboratory station the Soviet scientific col6ny of 10 men and myself the only woman Human brains have forced a way through the tenacious darkness of the Archipelago of the land of Franz Joseph The wind has begun to buzz Flood Control District Announces First Payment of $50000 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WEST PALM BEACH Fla Jan 7 The federal government's official acceptance of a pro-rats contribution agreement for financing the $9000000 Okeechobee flood control and navigation project and payment of first funds for the actual work In the sum of $50-000 was announced here today at the offices of the Okeechobee flood control district Acceptance of the plan came In a letter from Lieut Frazier United States engineer It advised that the war department had approved and accepted resolutions adopted by the flood control and Everglades drainage boards providing for the district's furnishing $2000000 of the cost of the project The districts also must turn over to the federal government the rights of way necessary for diking canal construction and other Improvements Under the agreement the districts must furnish each fiscal year two-sevenths of any amount which may be allotted for the project by the federal authorities thus relieving the districts of' the obllgtaion of raising the full St Louis Gangster Identified In Chicago As Killer Of Newspaper Reporter BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO Jank 7 Pat Roche chief investigator for the attorney tonight revealed the arrest of Leo Brothers St Louis gangster who he said had been Identified as the killer of Alfred (Jake) Llngle Tribune crime reporter The suspect Roche said also had been recognized by several witnesses as the gunman whp fired a revolver shot Into Llngle's head as the victim walked through a subway leading to the Illinois Central station at Randolph street and Michigan avenue June 9 last Brothers name Is a new one In chronicles ol Chicago crime but he has a long record in St Louis as a robber and labor terrorist He is also wanted there on a murder charge In Chicago he was known as Louis Bader Brothers Roche revealed was captured December 21 and since has been held 14ommunlckdo while officials continued their Investigation ALLEGED KIllER HAS LONG POLICE RECORD ST LOUIS Jan 7 Leo Brothers alleged killer of Alfred Lingle Chicago Tribune reporter has been arrested more than 50 times In St Louis but never convicted police records show He fled the city In August 1929 after he had been named by a Jury as the slayer of John De Bias! 29 a service car driver WICKERSIIAM GROUP RESTS WASHINGTON Jan 7 VP Upsetting the forecasts of some of Its own members the Wlckersham Law Enforcement Commission recessed for a week today without getting rid of Its chief worry a Peport on Its 19-months-old prohibition Investigation ARKANSAS BANK ROBBED JASPER Ark Jan 7 VP Three unmasked bandits held up the cashier and bookkeeper of the Newton County Bank here at noon today and escaped with cash estimated by bank officials at $6 500 The bandits had a 10-mlnute start on officers and disappeared on the highway leading to Russellville angrily in the migtrfy tightly spread net of a radio antenna The Impenetrable darkness of the Arctic night now wraps the Islands Everything was frozen Only occasionally especially after a violent aurora borealis the snow suddenly becomes alive Together with the wind It rushes furiously over our buildings buried In the snow to their rooftops over the broken Ice of the strait waking the black depths of the water Under the strong wind pressure icebergs are forced to the bottom creaking Blocks of ice are carried away chasing one another complaining of their lost power Inside the station behind the brightly lit windows are proceeding our winter preparations for the season Sleighs and boats are being tested and overhauled We sew sacks and bags clothing and boots The human brains which have reached this northern desolation are Please Turn to Page 3 DRY AGENTS FORM SOUTHERN GROUP Florida Represented In New Orleans Session NEW ORLEANS La Jan 7 Fifteen deputy prohibition administrators from the five Southern states comprising the fifth enforcement prohibition district organized today the Deputy Prohibition Administrators Association Daly of Jackson Miss was elected president' The body has representatives from Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi and Texas and will meet semiannually to discuss and exchange Ideas on prohibition enforcement Holder of Republican Committee Purse Says Associate Exceeded Authority UNIVERSAL SERVICE WASHINGTON Jan Treasurer Joseph Nutt of the Republican national committee bluntly told the Nye committee today that his fellow official Robert Lucas had exceeded his authority In pledging the funds to secure a private loan The transaction which won the disfavor of the whitehaired custodian of the war chest was the $4000 loan which Lucas took out to carry on an undercover campaign against Senator George Norris veteran Nebraska Insurgent To secure the loan Lucas wrote a letter In his capacity of executive director of the! committee pledging the committee's special $50-000 account In the bank as security Nutt declared this was no security at all because Lucas had no right to make any such pledge In fact Nutt said he felt so strongly about the whole affair that he voluntarily loaned Lucas $3500 last week to pay off the balance of the note and so relieve the committee's account 1 While evidently without anger at Lucas Nutt testified frankly that he thought the youthful executive director had made a mistake In judgment In fighting Norris undercover The witness revealed that he himself was so opposed to Norris that he tried to get Senator Fess national chairman to withdraw his statement to the press that the Nebraskan would be aided by the national committee along with other party nominees Fess evidently declined to do this Although he had previously demanded an apology from Senator Nye committee chairman for calling the $40000 account a Nutt made a favorable Impression on the committee by his frank responses The graphic way In which the witness told of his battles to keep the politicians from using up the funds brought smiles all "around MORGAN YACHT SAILS FOR JACKSONVILLE NEW YORK Jan 7 VP The Corsair TV big black yacht sailed from Brooklyn today for Jacksonville Fla on the first leg of a cruise that Is to last late In the spring and to lead eventually to the Holy Land for Easter Accompanied by a group of friends whose names he did not reveal Mr Morgan will leave next week by rail for Florida to board the Corsair for a cruise in the Caribbean GOt ERN'OR IS SILENCED SACRAMENTO Calif Jan 7 VP A demonstration of unemployed held before the state capltol by about two hundred and fifty men accompanied by approximately fifteen hundred onlookers came to a deadlock today when the crowd refused to let Gov James Rolph Jr talk KING PLANS MANIFESTO MADRID Jan 7 VP A person connected with the royal palace said today that King Alfonso was considering Issuing a manifesto explaining and reviewing his policy throughout hit reign and inviting his subjects to express their viewpoint upon It Martin Downey Fires Final Revolver Bullet Into His Head WOUNDS CALLED CRITICAL Gun Fails When Killer Attempts To Shoot Spectator In Hialeah Martin Downey 49 of 757 Twenty-sixth avenue former owner of a cafe at 133 Flagler street shot and wounded critically his wife Laura 35 and then shot and killed himself yesterday In the street at First avenue end Seventeenth street Hialeah Mrs Downey a beauty parlor operator Is In critical condition In Jackson Memorial hospital suffering of several bullet wounds In her abdomen and chest Downey died of a bullet which he fired Into his mouth Witnesses told Bebler Hialeah police chief and Constable Callaway they heard a shot fired as a motor car In which the Downeys were riding Mrs Downey driving approached the scene of the tragedy The automobile careened across the corner vacant lot and stopped In front of a hotel Downey Constable Callaway learned Jumped from the automobile gun in hand and fired several shots at Kls wife Her screams attracted Brown manager of the hotel and Truel-son a guest When Brown asked what the trouble was Downey turned the revolver on him and snapped the trigger several times but the pistol failed to fire Brown and Truelson fled around the corner of the building Downey reloaded the gun staggered Into the middle of the street poked the barrel of the revolver In his mouth and fired Mrs Downey w-as taken to the hospital by Patrolman Benson after the Hialeah ambulance patrol car had turned over and was wrecked In going to the ecene Berth Muth Hialeah policeman suffered an injury to his right arm In the accident Police learned Downey and his wife had been seeking work and that they were returning when the shooting occurred A note found in trousers pockets Indicated domestle troubles might have caused the shooting The note read: still defy me and tell me you met jour sweetheart Well pay You are now sealing your doom This Please Turn To Page 19 LITA GREY CHAPLIN ROBBED OF JEWELRY She Is Kidnaped In New York With Georges Cai-pentier NEW YORK Jan 7 VP Police detectives said tonight that Llta Grey Chaplin and Georges Carpentler were kidnaped outside a Bronx theater drfven more than a mile and robbed by four men The bandits escaped In Mrs automobile She said Jewelry valued at $16900 had been stolen EXPELLED CUBAN WRITER RESIDING IN KEY W'EST KEY WEST Fla Jan 7 Edgar Buttart former member of the editorial staff of the Havana newspaper El Mundo expelled from Cuba because of alleged opposition to the government has taken up residence here He was charged with being a member of the executive board controlling student activities In opposition to the Machado government i GIRL HALTS FLIGHT WARSAW Poland Jan 7 VP Amy Johnson the British girl fler today postponed her flight to China until more favorable weather which she does not expect to have before spring THE fi1IAFfi HERALD PUBLISHED 40151 Paid Classified Advertisements In the Year 1930 DoHnr The Miami Herald pttblUbed fit rent all Clasaifted Ada published la Miami Last Month 44318 Yesterday 1495 nAinrD department Miami At Fhoss 2-7401.

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