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July 17, 1929

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BANK DEALS BARED BY CLARKE PARTNER; TRIAL TO BE JULY 29; Tuttle Insists on Speed, but Counsel for Brothers Says He Cannot Be Ready Then. BOUKER TESTIFIES FREELY Indicates That He Will Place Himself at the Disposal of the Prosecution. THREE INQUIRIES GO ON More Depositors Tell of Being Penniless Following Failure of the Firm. Puts Assets at $12,500. Gave Stock for Partnership. BANK DEALS BARED BY CLARKE PARTNER At Prosecution's Disposal. Bouker Keeps Promise. Sought Irving Trust Loan. Offered to Sign Over Property. Ignorant of Stock in His Name. Sees a Gloomy Picture. Move to Get Clarke Property. Woman Tells of Losing All. Clashes at Meeting Calls State Responsible DEPOSITORS PUSH RELIEF. Committee to Provide Aid for Neediest of Clarke Victims.

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July 29 set for trial of 4 firm members; Bouker, G F Gentes of Irving Trust Co, and W H Sturkle testify

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KUBALA TELLS HIS STORY OF FLIGHT AND DISASTER; UNCONSCIOUS FOR HOURS; ALL WENT WELL AT START But Airmen Decided to Land When the Motor Began to Miss. TALKED TO AZORES BY RADIO Unable to Get to Fayal, They Dumped Benzine to Make Descent on Island Easier. FUMES OVERCAME KUBALA Pulled From Plane Still in Faint After Idzikowski Crashed, He Awoke Next Day. Motor Begins to Beat. Overcome by Fumes. KUBALA TELLS HIS STORY OF FLIGHT Will Consider Another Flight.

By Major Casimir Kubala, Surviving Pilot of the Polish Trans Atlantic Flight Expedition. Wireless To the New York Times

Kubala's story aboard ship en route to Poland

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CHINA FIRM IN REPLY TO RED ULTIMATUM; Nanking Defends Seizure of Railway in Manchuria and Makes Counter-Demands. BOTH SIDES MOVING TROOPS Russian Air and Gas Details Reported on Border--Moscow Excitement Keeps Up. Says Red Agents Spread Propaganda. Two Stages in China's Program. CHINA FIRM IN REPLY TO RED ULTIMATUM Six Armored Trains on Patrol. Manchurian Army Strong. Russian Troop Movements Reported. Red Consul Quits Harbin.

By the Associated Press

Memorial anniversary service dispels fiction that he died 17 days after train bombing

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Orchestras in Four Nations Will Play as One Over Radio

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

E Fisher will conduct orchestras in London, Paris, Berlin and Milan, broadcasting simultaneously new hymn for 10th assembly of League of Nations

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Bootlegging Involves No Moral Turpitude, Court Rules in Reversing Deportation Edict

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U S Circuit Ct rules bootlegging involves no moral turpitude in reversing deportation edict against B Iorio

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1929Arthur Frommer, American travel writer (died 2024)^[†]

Arthur Bernard Frommer was an American travel writer known for founding the Frommer's brand of travel guides.

1929Sergei K. Godunov, Russian mathematician and academic (died 2023)^[†]

Sergei Konstantinovich Godunov was a Soviet and Russian professor at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk, Russia.

Headlines from July 17, 1929

Orchestras in Four Nations Will Play as One Over Radio

Bootlegging Involves No Moral Turpitude, Court Rules in Reversing Deportation Edict

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