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June 22, 1929

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STIMSON STUDYING RUM-RUNNING CLASH; Secretary Gets Report of Firing on Patrol Boat by Alleged Canadian Craft. COUNTER-CHARGE IS MADE Ontario Police Investigate a Report That Our Customs Men Riddled Pleasure Craft. Seeks Nationality of Boat. STIMSON STUDYING RUM-RUNNING CLASH CUSTOMS CHIEF SUBPOENAED. Called in Gordon Slaying When Border Patrolmen Are Not Found. CANADIAN BOAT FIRED ON Our Customs Agents Blamed-- Provincial Inquiry Begun. ASKS ADDED CANADIAN FORCE. Ontario Police Official Would Pre= vent International Complications.

By Special to The New York Times

Ogdensburg Collector of Customs served with subpoena on shooting of A Gordon

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SPANIARDS OVER SEA ON FLIGHT TO AZORES; Franco and Three Mates Pass Portugal on the First Leg of Journey to New York. TAKE OFF FROM CARTAGENA Mechanic Cut in Collision, but He Goes Anyway--Men to Fly Back, Changing Plans. Out Over the Atlantic. SPANIARDS OVER SEA ON FLIGHT TO AZORES Crossed Atlantic Before.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

R Franco, R de Alda, G Gallarza and M Madariaga leave Cartagena for Azores on projected flight from Spain to U S and return

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Notable Births

Bruce Kent

1929Bruce Kent, English activist and laicised Roman Catholic priest (died 2022)[†]

Bruce Kent was an English Catholic former priest who became a political activist in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), holding various leadership positions in the organisation.