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August 29, 1929

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WHALEN TURNS BACK THE SPEAKEASY TASK TO FEDERAL DRY CHIEF; He Tells Campbell That Local Enforcement Would Cost City $15,000,000 a Year. RETURNS 300 COMPLAINTS Flat Refusal to Conduct Dry Raids Follows Conference With District Attorneys. CALLS STEP 'BUCK PASSING' Declares Administrator Himself Has Full Power to Act Under State Nuisance Law. Sends Back Complaints. WHALEN TURNS BACK THE SPEAKEASY TASK Letter in Detail. Promises General Cooperation. Many Complaints Anonymous.

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Dist Atty Edwards of Nassau Co urges use of State nuisance law

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STEPS FROM AIRSHIP ON TO FLYING PLANE; Lieut. Bolster Performs HistoryMaking Feat From the LosAngeles at Cleveland.LINDBERGH IN NEW STUNTSSpanish Flier, Exhibiting AutoGiro, Lands in 20-Foot Circle--Two More Derbies End. Plane Hooks On to Los Angeles. STEPS FROM AIRSHIP ON TO FLYING PLANE Boards Plane in 45-Knot Gale. Akron Crew Lands Dirigible. Mendell and Williams Lead Derbies. Lindbergh Again Skylarks.

By Lauren D. Lyman, Staff Correspondent of the New York Times.by Lauren D. Lyman

Dispatches from Cleveland on Natl Air Races and Aeronautical Exposition

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MOSLEMS IN OPEN REVOLT; OFFICES OF GOVERNMENT IN TWO TOWNS ATTACKED; ARABS NOT IN DAMASCUS Number Injured in New Disorders--British Fliers Active. GIRL ORPHANS THREATENED American Women Appeal for Protection When Moslems Warn of Attack. JORDAN COLONIES IN PANIC Outlying Districts Fear Invasion From Transjordania--Palestine Is Now Calmer. Anti-British Raids Made. Ekron Is Set Ablaze. $50,000 Aids Refugees. Girl Orphans Threatened. Eyewitness Tells of Massacre. Rabbi Beaten in Street. Says Police Did Not Aid. Troops Follow Irregulars. Misgivings Expressed.

By Joseph M. Levy. Staff Correspondent of the New York Times. Special Cable To the New York Times

Moslems in open revolt against Brit; offices of govt attacked in 2 towns; Amer women ask Brit protection for girl orphans; refugees gathered in Straus Health Centre aided by $50,000 for relief; details of massacres; Jerusalem quieter under Brit control; map

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Notable Births

1929Thom Gunn, English-American poet and academic (died 2004)[†]

Thomson William "Thom" Gunn was an English poet who was praised for his early verses in England, where he was associated with The Movement, and his later poetry in America, where he adopted a looser, free-verse style. Gunn wrote about his experience moving to San Francisco from England. He received numerous literary honours, and his best poems are reputed to possess a restrained elegance of philosophy.