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October 1, 1929

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ROCKET PLANE SOARS IN UNCANNY FLIGHT; WRECKED IN LANDING; Spectators Shiver in Awe When New German Craft Sweeps Through Air, Gushing Fire. 1 MILES IN 75 SECONDS Rear Winds Keep Plane From Rising Above 49 Feet, Preventing Safe Glide to Earth.VON OPEL TELLS THRILLSHe Feels a Sense of TremendousPressure and Then Elation--Predicts World Flight.

By Fritz von Opel. World Copyright, 1929, By the New York Times Company. All Rights Reserved. Special Cable To the New York Times

Describes his flight in rocket-propelled plane

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HOOVER LEADERSHIP ON TARIFF DEPENDS ON ONE OR TWO VOTES; Outcome of the Flexible-Clause Fight in Senate Hinges on That Narrow Margin. OPPOSITION COUNTS ON 48 But Steck Deserts Democrats in Speech Backing Hoover on Retaining Provision. NORRIS FILES AMENDMENT His Motion, to Be Acted on First, Would Hold Congress to a Specific Rate Change. Seek to Retain Kendrick's Vote. CLOSE LINES DRAWN IN THE TARIFF FIGHT Nye's Plan an Alternative. Growers' League for Flexible Clause.

By Special to The New York Times

Hoover leadership in Sen reptd dependent on votes of Sen Kendrick, Dem, and Sen Schall, Repub, as flexible provisions face vote; Growers' Tariff League in lr to Sen Reed approves flexible clauses

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Notable Births

1929Ken Arthurson, Australian rugby player and coach[†]

Kenneth Richard "Arko" Arthurson AM is an Australian rugby league football identity. Affectionately known as "The Godfather of Manly", he played, coached and was later an administrator at the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles club in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership. Later he ran the NSWRL, and then the Australian Rugby League during the 1990s' Super League war, resigning in 1997 as part of the peace process for creating the unified National Rugby League.

1929Grady Chapman, American singer (died 2011)[†]

Grady Chapman was best known as the American lead singer of doo wop group The Robins.

Bonnie Owens

1929Bonnie Owens, American singer-songwriter (died 2006)[†]

Bonnie Owens was an American country music singer who was married to Buck Owens and later to Merle Haggard.

Notable Deaths

Antoine Bourdelle

1929Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor and painter (born 1861)[†]

Antoine Bourdelle, born Émile Antoine Bordelles, was a French sculptor and teacher. He was a student of Auguste Rodin, a teacher of Giacometti and Henri Matisse, and an important figure in the Art Deco movement and the transition from the Beaux-Arts style to modern sculpture.