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June 26, 1931

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FLEW TO MOSCOW IN RAIN; Post and Gatty Spent the Night There Following Hop From Berlin. DELAYED AT DAWN TAKE-OFF Lose Several Hours and Have to Give Up Plan to Reach Irkutsk Late Tonight. NOVO-SIBIRSK GOAL INSTEAD Fliers, in Fine Shape, Hope to Be Back in New York in Less Than Ten Days. Reach Moscow in Afternoon. Not Afraid of Urals. POST AND GATTY FLY INTO SIBERIA

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leave for Siberia

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LOSE BEARINGS IN GALE; Hoiriis and Hillig Think They Flew Over Spain; Land at Krefeld. STAY IN AIR FOR 32 HOURS But New Start After Refueling Is Halted by Exhaustion of the Pilot. DANES ARE DISAPPOINTED Huge Crowd Waits All Day, Its Hopes Lifted, Then Dashed-- Mail Pilot Nearly Mobbed. Flight Near Disaster. Nods at the Controls. Landing at Bremen a Surprise. HOIRIIS AND HILLIG SAFE AT BREMEN Stay at Krefeld Short.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Land at Krefeld, Germany; continue to Bremen; story of flight; lost bearing and thought Krefeld was Spain; Liberty, N Y, where they started, celebrates arrival; map; log

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SOUTH AMEERICAN AID NEXT; Capital Credits Hoover With Move to Extend World Relief. CONFERENCE CALL IS LIKELY Advance to Governments Affected by Commodity SlumpMight Be Contemplated.WAR DEBT ACTION AWAITEDEconomic Conditions in Argentina, Brazil and Chile ArePictured as Serious. Reported Considering a Parley. Hit by Commodities' Decline. Two Courses Held Open. HEAR HOOVER PLANS SOUTH AMERICAN AID

By Richard Y. Oulahan. Special To the New York Times

Pres Hoover said to plan parley on economic conditions

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STIMSON TO DISCUSS DEBT PLAN IN EUROPE; By Advice of President, He Is to Give Time to Talks-- Will Sail Tomorrow. HE CONFERS WITH CLAUDEL Opinion at Capital Is France Must Agree--Concessions Only on Basis of Hoover Program. Stimson Announces Plans. French Envoy Confers. STIMSON TO DISCUSS DEBT PLAN IN EUROPE Castle to Act for Stimson Here. Mellon's Diplomacy Relied Upon. French Arguments Recognized. May Meet Apprehensions. Silver Payments Proposed.

By Richard V. Oulahan. Special To the New York Times

Hoover, H, war debt proposal

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Log of the Plane Winnie Mae On Its World-Circling Flight

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1931Colin Wilson, English philosopher and author (died 2013)^[†]

Colin Henry Wilson was an English existentialist philosopher-novelist. He also wrote widely on true crime, mysticism and the paranormal, eventually writing more than a hundred books. Wilson called his philosophy "new existentialism" or "phenomenological existentialism", and maintained his life work was "that of a philosopher, and (his) purpose to create a new and optimistic existentialism".

Headlines from June 26, 1931

Log of the Plane Winnie Mae On Its World-Circling Flight

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