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Meanwhile last week Gerardo Machado y Morales was traveling from Nassau. Bahama Islands, to Montreal. With guns in belts, he and his friends ate in their cabins. When the ship docked at Hamilton, Bermuda, he waited until the dock was clear, then appeared at the head of the gangway. Bermuda's Chief of Police hastened up, spoke in his ear. Machado & friends went back to their cabins. Asked by newshawks what would be his last wish if he knew he were about to die, he replied : "That Cuba might always be a free and sovereign State." He added...
...them forward, spun them round & round. Out of this counterclockwise rotation with a deep low pressure area at its core was gradually born a tropical hurricane which with a yell of fury headed northwest toward the U. S. coast line 1,000 miles away. As it skirted south of Bermuda it kicked up enormous seas, sent Bermudians scurrying to cover, kept three large liners from putting in at Hamilton. As it thundered along under a black sky, it built up fresh strength from its own incessant whirling...
...Always hoping to escape, somewhere, somehow, he last week begged and obtained permission to seek refuge in Canada. To confuse those Cuban avengers who will not rest, two means of escape were arranged. A seaplane was chartered, and also accommodations were engaged on the S. S. Lady Rodney for Bermuda and Halifax. On the latter he slipped away in the evening with only a few policemen and hotel porters to see him go. In New York, Paris, Miami, former Machado exiles were still being approached with subscription blanks to underwrite his assassination...
MURDER IN BERMUDA - Willoughby Sharp-Kendall ($2). In crimeless Bermuda, a comely girl is stabbed. The astonished police trace the actions of doubtful tourists and a dead man; catch a murderer and a kidnapper...
...Flame amounts almost to a rule of ocean sailing. In 1931 the Stephens brothers won the Newport-to-Plymouth trans-atlantic race in 17 days, then won the biannual Fastnet race for the first time. Last year Dorade was first in her class in the New London-to-Bermuda run. This spring, with a crew of five intruding famed Sherman Hoyt, who has navigated the Atlantic on everything except an inflated tire tube, the Dorade sailed for Norway in May. She arrived in 24 days after encountering two gales in one of which Roderick Stephens had to go aloft...