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July 15, 1929

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WALKER COMMITTEE OF 682 WILL ASK HIM TO RUN AGAIN; HE MAY DECIDE THURSDAY; HECKSCHER HEADS GROUP Wants Mayor to Carry Out 'Unsurpassed' Program of Public Works. MOVE IS NON-PARTISAN Smith, Former Mitchel Backers and Business Leaders Are Among Members. CIVIC WORKERS INCLUDED Mrs. F.D. Roosevelt and Mrs. J. F. Curry Listed--Delegation to Go to City Hall. Group Called Non-Partisan. Mitchel Backers Listed. Members of Citizens Committee of 682 Formed to Ask Mayor Walker to Run Again

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Citizens' Com of 682 will ask Walker to run again

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COSTE DEFEATED BY WIND; Turned Back Near Azores When Fuel Fell Too Low to Cross the Sea. AIRPLANE IN AIR 28 HOURS Aviator Declares Disaster Was Certain if He Continued on Way to New York. WILL ATTEMPT HOP AGAIN Declares on Arrival at Paris He Learned Valuable Lessons for Next Attempt. Dejected but Undaunted. HIGH WIND DEFEATS COSTE'S SEA FLIGHT Not a Race, Says Racover.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

PARIS, July 14.--Beaten back by a steady west wind, which sometimes reached great violence and forced them to use more fuel than they could afford, and discouraged by constant clouds, the French transatlantic fliers, Captain Dieudonne Coste and his navigator, Maurice ...

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IDZIKOWSKI DEAD IN WRECK; POLISH PLANE AND ROUTES OF OCEAN FLIERS.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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CLARKE DEPOSITORS TO GET NO PAYMENT FOR THREE MONTHS; Retired Blacksmith, 70, Ready to Return to Work, and Widow, 80, Now Has No Funds. LIFETIME SAVINGS MELT Prosecutor Hears Many Bitter Stories of Sudden Poverty-- Creditors Meet Tonight. Depositors Meet Tonight. NO PAY FOR 3 MONTHS FOR CLARKE PATRONS Man, 70, to Go Back to Work.

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Depositors to get nothing for at least 3 mos; depositors of Clarke Bros Bankers Assn, formed; hearings continue

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ROME FLIERS HONORED BY ITALY AND THE POPE; They Get Highest Aeronautical Medals at Banquet and Are Received by Pontiff. FLIERS ARE HONORED BY ITALY AND POPE Fliers Are Guests at Dinner. Reads Mussolini's Letter. Envoy Praises Balbo. Envoy Much Applauded. Feel Flight Was a Success Ovation at Airport in Afternoon.

By Arnaldo Cortesi. Wireless To the New York Times

R Q Williams and L A Yancey

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1929Charles Anthony, American tenor and actor (died 2012)^[†]

Charles Anthony Caruso, better known by his stage name of Charles Anthony, was an American actor and tenor noted for his portrayal of comprimario characters in opera. Anthony had the distinction of appearing in more performances at the Metropolitan Opera than any other performer. He celebrated his fiftieth anniversary with the company in 2004, and gave his farewell in the role of the aged Emperor Altoum in Turandot, at the Met, on January 28, 2010.

1929Francis Bebey, Cameroonian-French guitarist (died 2001)^[†]

Francis Bebey was a Cameroonian musicologist, writer, composer, and broadcaster.

1929Ian Stewart, Scottish racing driver (died 2017)^[†]

Ian Macpherson McCallum Stewart was a British racing driver from Scotland.

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1929Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Austrian author, poet, and playwright (born 1874)^[†]

Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal was an Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.

Headlines from July 15, 1929

IDZIKOWSKI DEAD IN WRECK; POLISH PLANE AND ROUTES OF OCEAN FLIERS.

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