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Divorced. Ludlow Ogden Smith, Manhattan insurance broker; by Katharine Hepburn, cinemactress; in Merida, Mexico. Her next husband, it was reported, would be Leland Hayward, her manager, now being sued for divorce by Lola Gibbs Hayward in Juarez, Mexico...
Last week a U. S. Coast Guard destroyer steamed out beyond the Virginia Capes to police another exciting treasure hunt. Goal was the Merida, sunk in 210 ft. of water in 1911 with bullion and jewels in her vaults. In the Salvor, backed by Vincent Astor & friends, Captain Harry L. Bowdoin set out to catch the prize. Aboard he carried stout metal cylinders with movable legs and arms attached, which were to enable his divers to work comfortably at great depths. The weighty apparatus (1,400 Ib. at the surface) is also equipped with searchlights. Also aboard, Captain Bowdoin carried...
...this caused vast activity in Miami where U. S. householders and Cuban exiles were busily cultivating their respective plots. Political exiles from the Machado regime have gravitated to four cities: New York, Miami, Tampa and Merida in Yucatan. Most important of these groups is in Miami, for here in a comfortable, unpretentious little house in residential...
...Merida, Mexico...
...Giro Over Mexico. Down upon a terrace of the famed Chichen-Itza ruins in Yucatan, where the Carnegie Foundation has an outpost, plumped an autogiro piloted by Capt. Lewis A. ("Lon") Yancey. In less than two hours he had windmilled over the mountains from Merida, a journey which takes most of a day by narrow-gauge rail and wagon. Having flown the first 'giro to Cuba and thence to Mexico, Pilot Yancey visited Mexico City before heading for the U. S. Pacific Coast...