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May 10, 1927

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UNENDING VIGIL KEPT FOR AIR ARGONAUTS; Searchlights Sweep Sky Over Bay and Planes and Boats Await Call During Night. THRONGS WATCH ALL DAY Line Battery Wall, Anxiously Peering Into Fog as Fleet of Welcoming Craft Puts Out. UNENDING VIGIL KEPT FOR AIR ARGONAUTS

By Unknown Author

The vivid beams of four powerful searchlights swung restlessly through the darkness above Sandy Hook last night like white fingers pointing seaward for the gallant Nungesser and Coli. The beacon was all that the city, after waiting all day to give welcome, could do.

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Mrs. Snyder Unconscious an Hour in Cell; Symptoms Resemble Epilepsy, Doctors Say

By Unknown Author

Mrs Snyder suffers attack resembling epilepsy

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150 DEAD, 1,000 HURT AS TORNADOES LASH WEST AND THE SOUTH; Storms Spread From Texas to Five Other States, Causing Millions in Damage. MANY TOWNS LEFT IN RUINS Poplar Bluff (Mo.) Business Area Razed, With 40 Killed -Arkansas Villages Hard Hit.

By the Associated Press

Tornadoes spread from Texas to Ark, Mo, Ill; about 150 killed, 1,000 hurt; Poplar Bluff, Mo, and villages in Ark hardest hit; Red Cross starts relief work; storms sweep Wis, Ind and Mich

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BELLANCA'S PLANE IS READY TO START; Fliers Set Hop-Off for 1 A.M. Tomorrow to Reach Paris in Daylight. GET GOOD WEATHER REPORT Acosta Joins Byrd -- May Race Across if Chamberlin and Bertaud Are Delayed. BELLANCA'S PLANE IS READY TO START

By Special to The New York Times

Hop off set for May 11; instruments tested; wives of Chamberlin and Bertaud to pack their food; Bellanca and fliers on lack of news from Nungesser and Coli; Levine partly confirms report that Acosta will fly with R E Byrd

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GALLATIN RESIGNS IN ROW WITH MAYOR; Park Head Says Criticism by Walker Makes the Step Necessary. DEFENDS 8-YEAR RECORD Mayor Is Silent on Successor -Ex-State Senator Straus Is Suggested for Job. GALLATIN RESIGNS IN ROW WITH MAYOR

By Unknown Author

Resigns; defends 8-yr record

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