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April 13, 1928

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Headlines from April 13, 1928

SINCLAIR RIVALS SAY FALL BLOCKED BIDS FOR TEAPOT DOME; Secretary Concealed Lease Plans Until Deal Was Made, Oil Men Swear. SENATOR TELLS OF SECRECY Kendrick Testifies Interior Department Deceived Him When He Sought Data. PROSECUTION NEARS END Government Expects to Have LittleMore to Offer by Adjournment Today.

By Special to The New York Times

Prosecution brings out testimony to show that Fall blocked bids; J B Kendrick, W A Anderson, A L Beaty, J C Shaffer, F W Mondell, B B Brooks and others heard

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M'NARY FARM BILL PASSED BY SENATE; Measure Carried by 53 to 23 After Defeat of Motion to Drop Equalization Fee. HOUSE TO ACT NEXT WEEK Absentees in Senate Leave in Doubt Two-thirds Vote for Passage Over Expected Veto.

By Wireless To the New York Times

Sen passes McNary bill

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Radio Waves Making World's Weather Bad, Says Homeric's Captain, After Stormy Trip

By Unknown Author

Theory on radio's effect on weather

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SCHILT, IN PLANE, SAVES SICK MARINE; Hero of Former Exploit in Nicaragua Repeats It for Fellow-Officer. FIGHT WITH FERRARA TOLD Lieut. Roberts Tells Gallantry of 25 Mounted Marines Who Routed Sandinista Force.

By Harold N. Denny. Staff Correspondent of the New York Times. By Tropical Radio

Lt Burr, ill, saved from Condega by Lt Schilt in plane; details of defeat of Ferrara's band by marine patrol under Lt Roberts and Sgt Dirkes, Apr 1

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LONG RUNWAY SAVED FLIERS FROM SPILL; After Rising at 800 Yards and Soaring 100, the Bremen Bumped Field for 300. THEN KOEHL GOT IT ALOFT Two-thirds of Wing Space Filled With Air Bags to Buoy Plane Up if it Falls at Sea.

By Arthur Webb. Irish Free State Correspondent of the New York Times. Wireless To the New York Times

DUBLIN, April 12.--Amid the cheers of hundreds of people, both inside and outside the big field the Bremen rose from Baldonnel Airdrome, outside Dublin, on the start of its flight to New York at precisely 5:38 o'clock this morning (12.38 A.M. New York time).

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1928Alan Clark, English historian and politician, Minister of State for Trade (died 1999)^[†]

Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark was a British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), author and diarist. He served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade and Defence. He became a member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1991.

1928Gianni Marzotto, Italian racing driver and businessman (died 2012)^[†]

Count Giannino Marzotto was an Italian racing driver and entrepreneur. Marzotto served as President of the Mille Miglia Club and won the Mille Miglia race in 1950 and 1953.

Headlines from April 13, 1928

M'NARY FARM BILL PASSED BY SENATE; Measure Carried by 53 to 23 After Defeat of Motion to Drop Equalization Fee. HOUSE TO ACT NEXT WEEK Absentees in Senate Leave in Doubt Two-thirds Vote for Passage Over Expected Veto.

Radio Waves Making World's Weather Bad, Says Homeric's Captain, After Stormy Trip

SCHILT, IN PLANE, SAVES SICK MARINE; Hero of Former Exploit in Nicaragua Repeats It for Fellow-Officer. FIGHT WITH FERRARA TOLD Lieut. Roberts Tells Gallantry of 25 Mounted Marines Who Routed Sandinista Force.

LONG RUNWAY SAVED FLIERS FROM SPILL; After Rising at 800 Yards and Soaring 100, the Bremen Bumped Field for 300. THEN KOEHL GOT IT ALOFT Two-thirds of Wing Space Filled With Air Bags to Buoy Plane Up if it Falls at Sea.

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