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January 15, 1928

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REPORT DIAZ PLANS TO QUIT PRESIDENCY; Friends Say Nicaraguan Head Sees Lack of Support by United States. MONCADA GAINS STRENGTH Marine Planes Attack Sandino's Stronghold, Killing Forty-- Lejeune Reaches Corinto. Moncada Is the Leading Candidate REPORT DIAZ PLANS TO QUIT PRESIDENCY Brother Urbed Diaz to Resign. PROTEST NEAR NAVY YARD. Communists Demonstrate Against Marines in Nicaragua. March at Washington for Sandino

By Harold N. Denny, Staff Correspondent of the New York Times. Copyright 1928, By the New York Times Company. By Tropical Radio

On Nicaragua, in feature article

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MARINE PLANE FLIES WITHOUT STOP FROM MIAMI TO MANAGUA; Major L. M. Bourne and Two Aides Do 1,150 Miles in 13 Hours, Starting in Dense Fog. RADIO REPORTS PROGRESS Course Takes Them Over Cuba, Yucatan, British Honduras and Honduran Republic. TO PRESS FIGHT ON SANDINO Big Tri-Motored Fokker Transport Plane Will Be Used in Marine Movements in Nicaragua. Take-Off Made in Dense Fog. MARINE PLANE FLIES MIAMI TO MANAGUA Greeted by Sun Off Key West. Only a Blur Seen by Watchers.

By From a Staff Correspondent of The New York Times. Special to The New York Times. Copyright, 1928, by the New York Times Company. By Tropical Radio

Maj Bourne completes 1st non-stop flight from Miami to Managua; map

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Notable Births

Joanne Linville

1928Joanne Linville, American actress (died 2021)[†]

Joanne Linville was an American actress. She later taught at the Stella Adler Academy, Los Angeles.

W. R. Mitchell

1928W. R. Mitchell, English journalist and author (died 2015)[†]

William Reginald Mitchell was a British writer who was the editor of Dalesman magazine for twenty years and over a sixty-year period wrote over 200 books, hundreds of articles, and delivered many talks on the history and physical and natural evolution of North Britain, with particular emphasis on the Yorkshire Dales, Lancashire and the Lake District. These include the regions' biographies, social history, topography, and natural history. In the course of his career Mitchell made and collected many taped interviews with people of these regions - now housed at the Universities of Leeds and Bradford - representing a unique archive of dialect and history.