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June 24, 1929

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GUGGENHEIM TO GIVE FREE DENTAL CLINICS FOR CHILDREN OF CITY; Creates the Murry and Leonie Guggenheim Fund to Build Units in Every Borough. FIRST TO COST $3,000,000 Program Not Yet Worked Out, but a Tremendous Project is Indicated. NEED FOR IT HELD GREAT Walker and other Officials Have Promised to Cooperate, Says Announcement. Program Not Yet Developed. GUGGENHEIM TO GIVE FREE DENTAL CLINICS Many Fail to Get Treatment. Expects Dentists to Cooperate.

By Unknown Author

Organized to give free dental clinics to children of 5 boroughs of Greater N Y

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SPANISH FLIERS MISSING; DID NOT REACH THE AZORES; HOPE OF RESCUE STILL HELD; MADRID REPORTS FAILURE Government Has No Feat for Them, as Plane Is Seaworthy. GUNBOAT SEARCHES FOR IT After Two Days Without Any Definite Word of Quartet, Public Anxiety Rose. LAST SIGHTED ON FRIDAY Ship Reports Observing "Flare, Apparently a Plane," 1,200 Miles From Here Yesterday. Landing Report Held Unfounded. Canada Watches for Them. Navy Ordered to Aid. Rumors They Are in Islands.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

PARIS, June 23.--Conflicting reports received here tonight indicated that there had been no reliable confirmation of the arrival of the plane containing the Spanish fliers at the Azores, and from Portugal it was ...

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SABERS USED IN FIGHT OF NEGRO FACTIONS; Rival Garvey Clubs in Full Regalia Battle in Streets far Harlem Hall. UNLOADED RIFLES AS CLUBS Missiles Hurled From Windows --Police Arrest 15 and Quell Riot--8 in Hospital. Seven in Hospitals. Score Taken to Police Station. SABERS FLY IN CLASH OF NEGRO FACTIONS Raiders Storm Hall. Police Reserves Called Out.

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Riot over possession of hall between Garvey Club and Universal Negro Improvement Assn quelled by police; 8 arrested, 7 injured

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Notable Births

Carolyn S. Shoemaker

1929Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer (died 2021)[†]

Carolyn Jean Spellmann Shoemaker was an American astronomer and a co-discoverer of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. She discovered 32 comets and more than 500 asteroids.