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February 23, 1928

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5-POWER ENTENTE IN MIDDLE EUROPE PLANNED BY BENES; He Proposes That Austria and Hungary Join Present Tripartite Combination.HUNGARY IN FOR SCOLDINGLeague Will Demand Explanation of Her Machine GunSmuggling. POLITIS RAPS THE COUNCIL Condemns Its Inaction in TreatyBreach--British Sympatheticto Russian Arms Plea. Union a War Menace. Indulgence by Some Expected. Not Hungary's First Offense. 5-POWER ENTENTE PLANNED BY BENES Britain Kindly to Soviet Plan. Latin-American Objections.

By Wythe Williams. Copyright, 1928, By the New York Times Company. By Wireless To the New York Times

League Council will demand explanation of smuggling; N Politis assails delay in League action

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LOCKHART IN AUTO HURTLES INTO OCEAN AT 225 MILES AN HOUR; He Is Somersaulted With Car as It Hits a Wave and Flies 40 Feet Into Sea. PINNED IN DRIVER'S SEAT But He Suffers Little More Than a Shock in Plunge at Daytona Beach. CROWD YELLED FOR 'ACTION' Bad Weather Had Decided Racer Against Run at First--Clocked Just at the Crash. 15,000 See Plunge Into Sea. Conditions Were Against Run. Get Him Out With Drills. May Have Hit Rough Spot.

By Special to The New York Times

Lockhart hurt as he hurtles into ocean at 225 ml

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Notable Births

Hans Herrmann

1928Hans Herrmann, German racing driver[†]

Hans Herrmann is a retired Formula One and sports car racing driver from Stuttgart, Germany.

Vasily Lazarev

1928Vasily Lazarev, Russian colonel, physician, and astronaut (died 1990)[†]

Vasily Grigoryevich Lazarev was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 12 spaceflight as well as the abortive Soyuz 18a launch on 5 April 1975.