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May 14, 1926

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PILSUDSKI ASSUMES POLISH GOVERNMENT; ARRESTS PRESIDENT; Occupies All Warsaw With 2,500 Troops, but Loyal Forces Converge on the City. WITOS CABINET HOLDS ON 200 Reported Killed In Street Fighting for Possession of the Capital. POSEN REJECTS DICTATOR Commander of its Army Corps Shoots Himself When Troops Remain Loyal.

By Lincoln Eyre.by Wireless To the New York Times

Polish revolution and Marshal Pilsudski

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Suggests Rights of Way in Air May Some Day Be Contested

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Comments at annual meeting of Bklyn Bar Assn on radio message sent by Norge from North Pole suggesting that lawyers may have to contest right of way in air

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NO WORD FROM LYON IN ALASKAN WILDS; Reporter and Radio Man, on Times Mission to Point Barrow, Unheard From Since April 18. ARMY STATIONS SOUND CALL Faint Signals Amid Buzzing of Static May Possibly Be Replies From the Trail. MISSING REPORTER AND RADIO MAN. NO WORD FROM LYON IN ALASKAN WILDS

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Byrd Describes the Obstacles Met on Reaching Kings Bay; Spirit of Do or Die Which Animated All in the Expedition Enabled Them to Conquer Ice and the Difficulties of Landing the Plane and Equipment. BYRD DESCRIBES KINGS BAY OBSTACLE

By Lieut. Commander R.e. Byrd. Leader of the Byrd Polar Expedition.by Wireless To the New Yore Times.by Lt. Commander R.e. Byrd

KINGS BAY, Spitzbergen, May 13. -- Now comes the hardest part of our polar expedition -- telling about it. I only wish I could make our experiences as vivid on paper as they are in my mind.

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1926Eric Morecambe, English comedian and actor (died 1984)^[†]

John Eric Bartholomew, known by his stage name Eric Morecambe, was an English comedian who together with Ernie Wise formed the double act Morecambe and Wise. The partnership lasted from 1941 until Morecambe's death in 1984. Morecambe took his stage name from his home town, the seaside resort of Morecambe in Lancashire.

Headlines from May 14, 1926

Suggests Rights of Way in Air May Some Day Be Contested

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NO WORD FROM LYON IN ALASKAN WILDS; Reporter and Radio Man, on Times Mission to Point Barrow, Unheard From Since April 18. ARMY STATIONS SOUND CALL Faint Signals Amid Buzzing of Static May Possibly Be Replies From the Trail. MISSING REPORTER AND RADIO MAN. NO WORD FROM LYON IN ALASKAN WILDS

Byrd Describes the Obstacles Met on Reaching Kings Bay; Spirit of Do or Die Which Animated All in the Expedition Enabled Them to Conquer Ice and the Difficulties of Landing the Plane and Equipment. BYRD DESCRIBES KINGS BAY OBSTACLE

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