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May 8, 1927

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AUSTRIAN PEASANTS FOR GERMAN UNION; Their Deputies Vote to Demand That Seipel Press It Before Parliament and League. BUSINESS UNION GROWING German Industrial Mission Now in Vienna Agrees to Help War-Weakened Country.

By Copyright, 1927, by the New York Times Companyspecial Cable To the New York Times

Austrian Peasant Party votes to demand that Chancellor Seipel bring bill for union before Parliament and instruct delegates to Geneva to request approval of League of Nations; German industrial mission now in Vienna agrees to financial union

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PENNOCK AND GEHRIG RAID WHITE SOX, 8-0; Herb Finishes Well, the Five Hits Off Him Coming in as Many Innings. LOU'S HOMER CLEARS BASES Delivered in Ninth, It More Than Clinches Yanks' Opener in Western Invasion. PENNOCK-GEHRIG RAID WHITE SOX

By Special to The New York Times

CHICAGO, Ill., May 7. -- Herb Pennock and Lou Gehrig collaborated here this afternoon in making the start of the Yankees' first Western invasion highly auspicious. At the same time they spoiled a matinee for 35,000 chilled fans, the largest crowd of the season at Comiskey Park, by completely submerging the White Sox by 8 to 0.

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PULITZER LAURELS; Leadership In the Award to Patti Green's Negro Play -- The Spanish Art Invasion

By J. Brooks Atkinson

Spanish Art Theatre

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QUAKE AND STORMS IN FLOODED STATES; FEAR FELT FOR DIKES; Many Houses Are Shaken Down and the Farm Animals Are Killed. FLOOD CREST PAST NATCHEZ Mighty Torrent Now Is on Final Lap of Its Devastating Journey to the Gulf. ANTHRAX ATTACKS CATTLE Herds of 55,000 Are Menaced by Outbreak of Epidemic in Louisiana. RESCUERS AT WORK ON THE FLOOD WATERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI. QUAKE AND STORMS IN FLOODED STATES

By From a Staff Correspondent of The New York Times

Towns in Ill, Miss, Mo, Ky and Tenn rocked by quakes

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LONG STEP FORWARD BY HUNTER COLLEGE; Session of Land in Bronx by City Brings a Dream of New Buildings Nearer Reality. ARTISTIC CENTRE IN VIEW Completion of Structures, at Cost of $9,000,000, Will Require About 5 Years. DRAWING DEPICTS PROJECT Total of $27,500,000 to Be Spent on Jerome Park Site, Where Museum and High School Will Rise Also.

By Unknown Author

Plans for bldg on Jerome Pk Reservoir site, illus

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Historical Events

1927Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.^[†]

A transatlantic flight is the flight of an aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean from Europe, Africa, South Asia, or the Middle East to North America, South America, or vice versa. Such flights have been made by fixed-wing aircraft, airships, balloons and other aircraft.