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May 5, 1931

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DI ROBILANT'S OWN STORY OF WANDERING IN JUNGLE FOR 13 DAYS AFTER CRASH; HIS MECHANIC A SUICIDE Italian Pilot Carried and Towed Mad Aide Until He Fell Exhausted. TORTURED BY THE INSECTS In Peril of Wild Animals, but One Plowed a Path Which They Followed. ANTS DEVOURED THEIR FOOD An Airplane Passed Unheeding Overhead--Rescued by Indian When Unable to Move.

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His story; contradicts previous information concerning death of Quaranta

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TAMMANY IN REVOLT ON INQUIRY TACTICS; COMMITTEE IS SPLIT; McNaboe Accuses Hofstadter of Breach of Faith in Signing Subpoena for Higgins. COURT FIGHT IS IMMINENT Dunnigan Attacks as Illegal Plan to Exclude Democrats From Secret Hearings. CUVILLIER MEETS A REBUFF He Goes to Seabury's Office to Demand a Special Meeting to Reply to Schieffelin.

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Dem members of Legis investigating com attack legality of resolution empowering any single member to sit as subcom to take testimony at private hearings; Hofstadter charged with playing politics

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Notable Deaths

Glen Kidston

1931Glen Kidston, English pilot and race car driver (born 1899)[†]

George Pearson Glen Kidston was a Welsh/English motor racing driver and aviator who completed a record-breaking flight from Netheravon, Wiltshire to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1931. He was one of the "Bentley Boys".