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August 15, 1927

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Notable Births

1927Eddie Leadbeater, English cricketer (died 2011)^[†]

Edric "Eddie" Leadbeater was an English cricketer who played in two Tests in 1951. He was born in Lockwood, Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, and died in Huddersfield.

1927Oliver Popplewell, English cricketer and judge (died 2024)^[†]

Sir Oliver Bury Popplewell was a British judge and cricketer. He chaired the inquiry into the Bradford City stadium fire, presided over the libel case brought by Jonathan Aitken MP against The Guardian newspaper which eventually led to Aitken's imprisonment for perjury, and was widely reported for asking "What is Linford's lunchbox?" during a case over which he was presiding, brought by Linford Christie. He played first-class cricket for Cambridge University and was president of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) from 1994 to 1996. He wrote a memoir of his legal career, published in 2003.

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$1,000 Play Prize Contest Result of Student Suicides

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$1,000 prize offered by patron of Repertory Theatre of Boston for best Amer play holding up faith in life to youth of America

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Low Pressure Off Ireland.; FOG FORCED EUROPA TO GIVE UP FLIGHT

By Copyright, 1927, by the New York Times Company.by Wireless To the New York Times

HAMBURG, Aug. 14.--The latest weather report states that a low pressure centre barometer of 748 degrees at 55 degrees North, 7 West, is just off the coast of Ireland and moving northeast. There are strong southwest winds over England, but east winds over Scotland.

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DR.T.W. SALMON LOST OFF YACHT IN SOUND; LONG HUNT IS FUTILE; Noted Alienist and Columbia Professor, 51, Vanishes When Left Alone on Schooner. FOUR CUTTERS DRAG WATER Lead Line Found Hanging at Stern of Vessel Indicates Doctor Fainted and Fell. WAS ON TWO-WEEK CRUISE Psychiatrist Headed State Board of Alienists and Was In Federal Service--Decorated In War. DR. T.W. SALMON LOST OFF YACHT IN SOUND

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Lost off yacht

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GREAT RECEPTION PLANNED FOR FLIERS; Chamberlin Prepares to Fly Out to Greet the Bremen at Sea Tuesday. MITCHEL FIELD ALL READY Troops Will Protect German Airmen From Crowds -- City Welcome on Thursday. GREAT RECEPTION PLANNED FOR FLIERS

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Plans to fly out to meet the Bremen plane arriving from Germany

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THREE STORM AREAS OVER THE ATLANTIC; One Is Off Ireland, Another in Midocean and the Third This Side of Grand Banks. NO SIGNS OF HEAD WINDS Forecaster Here Says German Flight Will Meet Mist and Rain Three-fourths of Way. THREE STORM AREAS OVER THE ATLANTIC

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Weather predictions for German transatlantic attempt

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GEN. CHIANG RESIGNS NANKING COMMAND; AIDES JOIN HANKOW; Civil Chiefs Quit, Too, and Regime Falls -- He Begs Rival Nationalists to Take Charge. UNITY AGAINST NORTH URGED Chiang Says He Yields for Good of Revolution and Appeals to All to Join Against Its Foes. OUSTER IS LAID TO FENG He Had Balance of Power and Feared That of Young Generalissimo -- Tang Slated to Succeed Chiang. GEN. CHIANG RESIGNS NANKING COMMAND

By Henry F. Misselwitz.copyright, 1927, By the New York Times Company.special Cable To the New York Times.by Henry F. Misselwitz

Chiang Kai-shek resigns as Comdr-in-Chief of the Nanking forces

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HOPES FOR TAX CUT PERSIST IN CAPITAL; Despite Rapid City Reports Washington Sees Cause for Optimism. LARGE EXPENSES MAY WAIT Navy Costs and Farm and Flood Relief Won't Be Early Drain, It Is Held. HOPES FOR TAX CUT PERSIST IN CAPITAL

By Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. -- Opinion prevails in political circles here that there will be a substantial reduction of taxes by the next Congress, despite the dispatches from Rapid City that increased budget estimates now appear to indicate a greatly reduced surplus in 1928 and 1929.

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