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September 2, 1930

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Horn Says Ice Brought Down Andree's Balloon; Pictures From Camera Impossible, He Believes

By Odd Arnesen, Correspondent For the Associated Press and the Aftenposten, Oslo. Copyright, 1930

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Dr. Horn Writes His Own Story Of Finding Bodies of Explorers; Head of Expedition Relates How Walrus Hunters Stumbled on Half-Buried Camp on White Island--SaysExplorers Apparently Died From Exhaustion Found Map of the Region to Be Incorrect. Lonely Ice-Bound Island Rarely Visited. Dr. Horn Writes His Own Story Of Finding Bodies of Explorers Fine Weather Continued Next Day. Find Boat Sticking Up From Mound of Snow. Salvaged All They Could and Put It Aboard. Diary Was in Andree's Inner Pocket. Boat, Partly Buried, Difficult to Free. Marked Spot With Cairn Surmounted by Pole. Took Advantage of Calm Weather at Island. Later Visit May Reveal More. Traced Course of Party Along East Coast. Ice Would Bar Use of Boat. By DR. GUNNAR HORN. Chief of the Norwegian Expedition That Found the Bodies of Andree and His Companions. Copyright, 1930, all rights reserved in North and South America and Japan, by The Associated Press. By Wireless to The Associated Press.

By Dr. Gunnar Horn. Chief of the Norwegian Expedition That Found the Bodies of Andree and His Companions

Andree expedition

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FREQUENT RADIO CONTACT; Ships and Land Stations Report Progress-1,725 Miles Out at Midnight. BAD WEATHER LIES AHEAD Forecast Is for Head-Winds and Fog, but No Storms or, Dangerous Conditions. START IS DELAYED BY FOG Lights Will Be Turned On at Field Here if Aviators Do Not Arrive Before Dusk. Fog and Headwinds Over Coast. Clouds Force Change of Course. Weather Change Foreseen. COSTE IS HALF WAY ACROSS ATLANTIC Turns Southward for New York. On Lower Edge of Great Circle.

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Take-off from Le Bourget; fliers carry R E Byrd's altimeter; reptd half-way across; good weather expected; Coste's story of preparations; careers of fliers; history and description of plane, Question Mark; log; map; illus of plane; pors

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Germans Seize 'Legs' Diamond After Expulsion From Belgium; Reich Secret Police--Say United States Wants Gangster in Connection With Murder--Held for Day in Antwerp. Belgium Bars Gangster. DIAMOND ARRESTED AS BELGIANS BAR HIM Says He Used Own Name. Diamond Not Wanted Here.

By Unknown Author

Diamond arrested in Germany after expulsion from Belgium

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REDS LEAD JOBLESS IN BUDAPEST BATTLE; 2 DIE, 257 WOUNDED; Workers, Erecting Barricades in City Park After Wrecking Cafe, Driven Out by Tanks. CROWDS PLUNDER STORES Socialists Unable to Control Protest-Scenes of Terror in Street Fighting. Affair Starts Peacefully. Communists Rouse Mobs. REDS LEAD JOBLESS IN BUDAPEST BATTLE Blame Police Brutality. American Has Close Call. EXPLAINS "ARREST ORDER." Bethlen Says Police Were Merely to Watch for Otto and Zita.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Communist agitators rouse unemployed to riot; 2 killed, 257 wounded

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