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...among other activities in the past seven years changed the name of America's most ancient city from San Domingo to his own. The Dominican airplane, a single-motored, 450-h. p. Curtiss-Wright 19R, piloted by the nation's Army Air Commander Major Frank Felix Miranda, was named the Colon, Spanish version of Columbus. The three Cuban planes, all new single-motored, 285-h. p. Stinson "Reliants," were romantically titled after Columbus' discovery ships- Santa Maria, Pinta and Nina. With them as representative of Pan American Columbus Society went Havana Journalist Ruy de Lugo Vina. Gaily...
Soon after dawn one morning last week the four planes left Cali, Colombia for Panama. Because of adverse weather 'reports Major Frank Felix Miranda flew the Colon northeast up the valley between the ranges of the Cordilleras, sat down safely at his destination. The three Cuban planes, commanded by First Lieutenant Antonio Menendez Pelaez, transatlantic Naval ace, wanting to reach the coast before turning north, started to cross the Cordilleras to the west. Twelve miles beyond Cali observers could easily see that the pilots were in difficulty. Powerful winds rocked and buffeted the light planes as they tried...
...each. Next night they came back. This time they were greeted by a policeman who was surprised to discover that the pillage and wreckage had been done by six barefooted, dirty-faced moppets, twins Chester & Leo Froelich, 9; John Rudecki, 9, and his 8-year-old brother Walter; Walter Miranda and his 6-year-old brother Norbert. John Rudecki, the only one who tried to escape, was extricated with difficulty from between the blades of a ventilating fan. Bundled off to the station house, they were lined up, photographed (see cut), bound over to their parents pending a hearing this...
Motoring through Long Beach, Calif, to address a mass meeting of striking Pacific seamen, Strikeleader Harry Bridges ran down and killed 8-year-old Joe Miranda, was released on a writ of habeas corpus in time for another speaking engagement in Los Angeles...
...whom it was said: Sanctus Ivo erat Brito, Advocatus et non latro, Res miranda populo-"St. Ives was a Breton, lawyer and no brigand, a thing amazing to the people...