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September 8, 1927

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Front Page 2 -- No Title; WORLD FLIERS RIDE STORM TO RANGOON

By the Associated Press

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Carry Rifle for Tigers.

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

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CARLING PLANE OFF ACROSS ATLANTIC; Tully and Medcalf Confident of Reaching London for Luncheon Today. MAKE A GOOD GETAWAY Fliers Start From Newfoundland Unaware of Old Glory's S O S -- Plane Lacks Radio.

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

HARBOR GRACE, N.F., Sept. 7. -Somewhere over the Atlantic the airplane Sir John Carling, with Captain Terry Tully and Lieutenant James Medcalf aboard, was believed tonight to be winging a silent course to the British Isles on a flight from London, Ontario, to London, England.

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SHIPS FAIL TO FIND OLD GLORY AFTER SOS; CARLING PLANE WINGS TOWARD ENGLAND; WORLD FLIERS LEAVE RANGOON FOR SIAM; SILENCE FOLLOWS S O S Fear Grows That Old Glory and Her Crew Are Lost. WIND FRESH AND SEA ROUGH Collapsible Boat Believed to Have Had Very Little Chance of Surviving. SOME HOPE IS STILL HELD Fliers Possibly Had Time to Empty Tanks -- May Be Still in Air, With Radio Gone.

By Unknown Author

2 S O S signals; radio log; map; A Fokker's comment; search on; Hearst's warnings to Payne; Payne's father had premonition of disaster

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Court Relieves Shop of Rent for 7 1/2 Years; Landlord Cut Space Six Inches Loses $48,750

By Unknown Author

O'Kay's Style Shop released from paying rent for next 7 1/2 yrs because landlord cut space 6 inches

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Notable Births

1927Harlan Howard, American songwriter (died 2002)^[†]

Harlan Perry Howard was an American songwriter, principally in country music. In a career spanning six decades, Howard is credited with writing more than 4,000 songs, over 100 of which reached country music's Top 10.

1927Robert L. Rock, American politician, 42nd Lieutenant Governor of Indiana (died 2013)^[†]

Robert Lee Rock was an American politician who served as the Lieutenant Governor of Indiana from 1965 to 1969 and as the Mayor of Anderson, Indiana, from 1972 to 1980. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of Indiana in 1968, but lost to Republican Edgar Whitcomb.

1927Marguerite Frank, American-French mathematician (died 2024)^[†]

Marguerite Straus Frank was a French-American mathematician who was a pioneer in convex optimization theory and mathematical programming.