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May 24, 1929

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AIRMAN DESCRIBES HIS 'BOMBING' OF CITY; Lieut. Moon Tells of Glowing Lights Marking New York as 'Splendid Target.' BATTLED STORM TO GOAL Lifting Over Cloud-Banked Mountains, Boring Through Fog, Plane Came True on Course. At Once Met Bad Weather. AIRMAN DESCRIBES HIS 'BOMBING' OF CITY Drove Into Clouds Over Mountains. Emerged True to the Mark. Passage Down the City's Length. Radio and Navigation Won.

By Lieutenant Odas Moon. Special To the New York Times.by Lieutenant Odas Moon

Lt Moon, comdr of plane which "raided" Manhattan, describes "attack,"

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DIRECTORS TESTIFY FERRARI DUPED THEM ON CITY TRUST LOANS; Unaware of Transactions Bearing Their Approval, TheyTell Moses.SAY WARDER ORDERED SALEFerrari Chauffeur's Name on$77,000 Check of a Concern Believed Non-Existent. SWEARS HE NEVER SAW IT H. Warren Hubbard, TammanyLeader, Got $4,000 a Year asBranch Manager. New Ferrari Manipulation Shown. Silent on Ward's Speech. DIRECTORS TESTIFY FERRARI DUPED THEM Never Heard Loans Mentioned. Not Active, Mancuso Says. Signed Report in Haste. LANCIA HEARING POSTPONED. Put Off Till Wednesday--Warder Sought Delay.

By Unknown Author

9 directors testify that due to Ferrari's manipulations they were unaware of large loans which theoretically they approved; Ferrari's chauffeur, W Halloran, surprised to learn he figured as pres of Ferraffan Development Corp

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Notable Deaths

Nikolai von Meck

1929Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (born 1863)[†]

Nikolai Karlovich von Meck was a Russian engineer and entrepreneur involved in the development of Russia during the first part of the twentieth century. He was put on trial as part of the Shakhty Trial and executed in 1929.