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September 4, 1928

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BOARD SCORES I.R.T. FOR RUNNING TRAIN INTO TUNNEL FUMES; Finds Motorman Should Have Stopped on Seeing Smoke and Ordered Blowers On. CARS AHEAD LOST CONTACTS Delay Charged in Reporting 11 Shoes Broken--They Caused Short-Circuit Blaze. SUBWAY SAFE, HEDLEY SAYS Pledges Continued Vigilance to Curb Mishaps--Dead in Times Square Crash Now 17. Say Train Should Have Halted. Can't Eliminate Short Circuits. BOARD SCORES I.R.T. ON QUEENS ACCIDENT Seventeenth Wreck Victim Dies. Text of Board's Report. Passengers Become Excited.

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Death of T A Ford brings toll to 17

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PISTOL NOT D'OLIER'S, HIS WIDOW BELIEVES; Newcombe Inclines to Theory That Engineer Found Dead in Queens Was Murdered. CONNOLLY MAY BE CALLED Reported Facing Questions on Meetings of Contractors and Sewer Inquiry Witness. Newcombe Gets Autopsy Report. PISTOL NOT D'OLIER'S HIS WIDOW BELIEVES Company in Financial Distress. Lawyer Doubts Suicide Theory. Two Commerce Officials Shifted.

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Dist Atty Newcombe of Queens inclines to murder theory in D'Olier death; widow does not think pistol his; Connolly may be called; co reptd in financial distress

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HUGHES WILL STUMP FOR HOOVER TICKET, CHIEFLY IN NEW YORK; He Cables Voluntary Offer to Enter Campaign on Return From Europe. PARTY LEADERS ELATED They Count on His Aid Against Smith in State--Wide Radio Hook-Ups Are Planned. SLOAN ENDORSES HOOVER Nominee Is Pledged to Policy That Brought Prosperity, Says General Motors Head. See Asset Against Smith. Aid in East Counted On. HUGHES WILL STUMP FOR HOOVER TICKET Burton Confident as to Ohio. Work Predicts Maine Victory. SLOAN ENDORSES HOOVER. Republicans Bring Prosperity, Declares General Motors Head. Text of Sloan Statement. Points to Our Prosperity.

By Richard V. Oulahan. Special To the New York Times

C E Hughes will stump for Hoover

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Notable Births

Dick York

1928Dick York, American actor (died 1992)[†]

Richard Allen York was an American actor. He was the first actor to play Darrin Stephens on the ABC fantasy sitcom Bewitched. He played teacher Bertram Cates in the film Inherit the Wind (1960).