Army engineers to report against proposed all-Amer ship canal across N Y S as uneconomical; objectors to have chance to be heard before report goes to Cong; Maj De W C Jones says report is like previous adverse one

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1926Necmettin Erbakan, Turkish engineer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Turkey (died 2011)^[†]

Necmettin Erbakan was a Turkish politician and political theorist who served as the 23rd prime minister of Turkey from 1996 to 1997. He was pressured by the military to step down as prime minister and was later banned from politics by the Constitutional Court of Turkey for purportedly violating the separation of religion and state as mandated by the constitution.

1926Jon Vickers, Canadian tenor and actor (died 2015)^[†]

Jonathan Stewart Vickers, known professionally as Jon Vickers, was a world renowned Canadian heldentenor.

Headlines from October 29, 1926

Films Earth as He Drops By Parachute From Airplane

SMITH BY 235,000, DEMOCRATS FIGURE; Governor's Headquarters Gives Out Result of Its Survey of Vote in State. NEGRO FOLLOWING DECLINES Tammany Gets Report of Falling Off to 40 Per Cent. -- Smith Encouraged by Registration. SMITH BY 235,000 DEMOCRATS FIGURE

THRILLING RESCUES SAVE EIGHT IN FIRE; Women and Children Taken to Safety by Policeman, Civilian and Firemen. DOG, TOO, IS CARRIED DOWN Patrolman Dislocates Shoulder Reaching an Aged Woman in West Side Blaze.

ARMY MEN DECIDE AGAINST SHIP CANAL ACROSS THIS STATE; Engineers Plan Report Opposing All-American Route From the Lakes to Sea, Via Hudson.

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