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I PAUL JEANS DIES IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT 1 . . - - - - - - 4 MIAMI, Fla., April 19. Funeral services for Paul G. Jeans, editor of the Miami Tribune, and M. Victor Miller, attorney for that newspaper, who were killed Sunday afternoon in an automobile accident on U. S. Highway No. 1, twenty miles south of St, Augustine, FIa, will be held Tuesday morning at the Nicely Funeral Home, Miami Beach. The two men were returning to Miami from Tallahassee, where they had been observing legislation in which the Tribune was interested. It is believed Jeans car skidded as the brakes were applied suddenly to avoid hitting one of a number of cattle which graze along that section of the highway. In trying to right the car, it swerved in front of another machine driven by Mrs. Edward Morr, of Cincinnati, Ohio. Her husband, a retired grocer, was killed, and his wife injured. Miller was killed instantly, and Jeans died in the St. Augustine Hospital an hour later. PAIXBEARERS. After the services the body of Jeans will be shipped to Jacksonville for cremation, while Millers body will be buried in Wood-lawn Park Cemetery here. Among the pallbearers will be M. L. Annenberg, publisher of the Miami Tribune; Walter Annenberg and many old friends and associates interested in the growth and development of that publication during the two and a half years Jeans directed its editorial policies. Jeans was formerly editor of the New York Racing Form. Jeans, 41, was born in Chicago. He entered the public schools of that city and graduating from Lake View High School, he later earned his way through the University of Chicago by working in the college library. Rejected by the United States Army at the outbreak of the World War because of faulty eyesight, Jeans then became a correspondent for the Hearst Chicago papers at Camp Grant,
