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February 19, 1926

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FIRST COAL STARTS ROLLING EASTWARD AS MINERS PLY PICKS; Trains Rumble Through the Night to Tidewater With Day's Diggings. BULK OF THE MEN AT WORK Fear of Accidents Keeps Many Away Till Today -- One Is Killed by Black Damp. ALL ARE 'GLAD TO GET BACK' Veterans Quickly Find Way to Their Old "Chambers" and Begin Work of Blasting.

By From a Staff Correspondent.Special to The New York Times

Magis McAdoo suspends sentence on 48 violators of smoke ordinance

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MANCHURIA MOVES FOR INDEPENDENCE; Chang Delegates Propose Autonomy and Direct Dealing With Powers. AIM A BLOW AT MOSCOW American Consul Goes to Rescue 31 Missionaries Under Fire at Sinyang, China.

By Wireless To the New York Times

Move for autonomy of Manchuria at conf of provinces convened at Mukden; Soviet alarmed; Moscow press comment

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TO RESCUE 31 AMERICANS.; Consul Goes to Sinyang in Behalf of Missionaries. MANCHURIA MOVES FOR INDEPENDENCE

By Special to The New York Times

Goes to relief of Amer missionaries besieged at Sinyang

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URGES PROSECUTION IN ALUMINUM CASE; Walsh in Resolution Proposes Grand Jury Proceedings as in Teapot Dome.

By Special to The New York Times

Assails majority report of Sen Com on Aluminum Co of Amer

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Father Dies as His Son Ends Search of 36 Years for Him

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Dies in Poughkeepsie, N Y; son sought him 36 yrs

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Notable Births

1926György Kurtág, Hungarian composer and academic^[†]

György Kurtág is a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music and pianist. According to Grove Music Online, with a style that draws on "Bartók, Webern and, to a lesser extent, Stravinsky, his work is characterized by compression in scale and forces, and by a particular immediacy of expression". In 2023 he was described as "one of the last living links to the defining postwar composers of the European avant-garde".