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August 20, 1929

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Headlines from August 20, 1929

NAVY HALTS ENTRY IN SCHNEIDER RACE; Ingalls Is to Decide Whether Lieut. Williams's Racer Will Be Sent to Cowes. Williams Summoned to Capital. NAVY HALTS ENTRY IN SCHNEIDER RACE Would Take "Sporting Chance."

By Special to The New York Times

U S Navy halts Mercury's entry unless speed is proved

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Lindbergh Instructs Bride In Rudiments of Flying

By Unknown Author

Gives flying lessons to wife

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BRITAIN TO EVACUATE RHINE WITHOUT WAITING ON PARIS; NEW BITTERNESS AT HAGUE; MOVE BEGINS NEXT MONTH Labor Decides Regardless of Whether Young Plan Ever Is Effective. ALLIES SHOW IRRITATION Briand Said to Have Won Stresemann to Evacuation Not Earlier Than March. APPEAL TO M'DONALD LIKELY French Premier Will Thresh Out Whole Situation With Him at Meeting in Geneva. Ends Compromise Plan. Would Trim Its Powers. RHINE EVACUATION BY BRITAIN SOON Delegates Split on Adjournment. Belgium Refuses to Yield.

By Edwin L. James Special Cable To the New York Times

Gt Britain to evacuate Rhine without waiting for Young plan decision by Hague meeting; France resentful as Briand had negotiated with Stresemann for evacuation in Mar; Belgium will not yield in Young plan

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TOKIO HAILS ZEPPELIN WITH FETES; HALF OF WORLD FLIGHT COMPLETED; SWISS, FLYING HERE, PASS AZORES; LANDING LIKE CLOCK-WORK But Crowd Breaks Lines as 500 Sailors March Ship Into Hangar. OFFICIAL DINNER FOR STAFF Cabinet Members Entertain and Geisha Girls Dance--Airship Refuels to Go Thursday. AMERICANS ENTHUSIASTIC "Magnificent," Rosendahl Says of Trip--Official Time Is 101 Hours, 50 Minutes. Steamer Delays for View. Time for Breeze to Die. Refueling Under Way. Landing Dramatically Prosaic. Strange Spectacle to Orient. Rosendahl Enthusiastic.

By Hugh Byas. Wireless To the New York Times

Reception at Tokio, refueling for Pacific flight started; map of flight; length of route; French press praises Eckener; log; Germany plans larger Zeppelin

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CHINESE RUSH TROOPS IN 6 LINES TO BORDER; Army Will Concentrate on All Railways Under Commmand of Chang Hsueh-liang. SOVIET DISPATCHES A NOTE Warns White Russians Must Be Disarmed and Raids on Reds Prevented. Soviet Troops Take Town. May Reopen Negotiations. Soviet Warns China. CHINESE RUSH TROOPS IN 6 LINES TO BORDER Town Fiercely Defended. Red Army Still Distant. Military Council Summoned. Chinese Fire on Red Monitor. Nanking Ready to Resist. Russians Seize Chinese.

By Hallett Abnend. Special Cable To the New York Times

Sino-Russian dispute

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Notable Births

1929Kevin Heffernan, Irish footballer and manager (died 2013)^[†]

Kevin Heffernan was an Irish Gaelic footballer and manager who played as a left corner-forward at senior level for the Dublin county team.