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...Anton Joseph Cermak, martyred Mayor of Chicago: an estate of $545,378-Died. Lieut. Elliott McFarlane Moore, U. S. Naval Reserve. 31, son-in-law of the late Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett (chief of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics who died in the Akron disaster), director of Wilmington-Catalina Airline. Ltd.; of injuries suffered when a W.C. A. ten-passenger amphibion plane, taking off for the California mainland, capsized a half-mile from Catalina Island, killing the copilot, injuring the pilot...
...murder place in the action, as does a vital clue dated four centuries ago. The motive is explained after the solution is reached, and the supreme greatness of Lane is shown as a final curtain. THE PUZZLE OF THE PEPPER TREE- Stuart Palmer-Crime Club ($2). Vacationing on Catalina Island, School-Teacher Hildegard Withers follows her hunch about death in an airplane. Without Oscar Piper by her side, with a casual police and an earthquake to hinder, Miss Withers emerges triumphant. THE CASE OF THE SULKY GIRL-Erie Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, slick lawyer, faces a charge...
...aptitude for publicity which stood him in good stead years later. Photographs of his early barnstorming days show him about to take off with a lady parachute jumper, clad in pink tights, perched on the wing. About that time he won medals for an astonishing overwater flight to Catalina Island 28 mi. offshore. Few years later he took Mary Pickford up for her first flight...
...made unrecognizable in three and one-quarter minutes. Fast Life (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a flagrantly foolish little picture in which Sandy Norton (William Haines) wins a big speedboat race with his coy fiancee (Madge Evans) sitting beside him and a large crowd cheering, in Avalon Bay off Catalina Island, Calif. Sandy is a young inventor and ex-sailor who finances the installation of a special carburetor in his Miss Victory by boarding yachts and robbing their owners. It is giving away no secret to tell how the race turns out because by the time it happens you are likely...
...year. This season John McGraw created a shrewd sensation by taking his New York Giants to Los Angeles instead of San Antonio. There, last week, they played a pre-season series against the Chicago Cubs, which Philip K. Wrigley inherited from his father and which trains at Wrigley-owned Catalina Island. Later the Giants lost a night game to the Hollywood Stars...