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August 4, 1928

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POLISH FLIERS OVER OCEAN, LAST SEEN OFF FRENCH COAST, NOT SIGHTED AT THE AZORES; MAY HAVE PASSED ISLANDS Horta Thinks Crew Chose Course to North as No Word Comes. GOOD SPEED MADE IN FOG Trawler Reports Them 60 Miles at Sea Three Hours After Hop-Off From Paris. CLEAR WEATHER LAY AHEAD Few Steamers in Path of Plane. Which Is Expected Here This Evening. Masterly Take-Off Is Made. Rapidly Takes Altitude. Disappear off French Coast. People of Warsaw Excited. Trawler Sights the Plane. Horta Misses Seeing Plane. FEW STEAMERS ON ROUTE. Poles Here Prepare for Reception of Two Ocean Fliers.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Leave Le Bourget Field in plane Marshal Pilsudski; careers, map, etc

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RECORD HEAT STIFLES CITY AND THE EAST; THREE DROWN HERE; Five Fatalities in City, Ten Persons Felled on Hottest Aug. 3 in 46 Years. FIFTEEN DEAD IN CHICAGO Rain Brings Relief There as Mercury Reaches 94--Boston Reports 95, With One Dead. COLUMBIA STUDENT VICTIM Hot Spell to Continue Here-- Women Rescued in Surf at Thronged Beaches. Four Deaths Reported Here. Swimmer Drowns in Harlem. RECORD HEAT BURNS CITY AND THE EAST Food Blamed for Illness of 8.

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Notable Births

1928Gerard Damiano, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008)[†]

Gerardo Rocco "Gerard" Damiano was an American director of adult films.

1928Nadežka Mosusova, Serbian composer[†]

Nadežda Mosusova (Nadezda) is a Serbian composer and musicologist. She was born in Subotica, Serbia, and studied composition with Predrag Milosevic at the Belgrade Academy of Music. She continued her studies at the Salzburg Seminar on Contemporary American Music and received her doctorate in musicology in Ljubljana. After completing her studies, she took a position as professor at the Stanković Musical School in Belgrade.

Clarke Reed

1928Clarke Reed, American businessman and politician (died 2024)[†]

Clarke Thomas Reed Sr. was an American businessman and politician. He served as Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party from 1966 to 1976. Prior to his political career, Reed was an agricultural businessman and a graduate in economics.