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June 29, 1931

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FLIERS REACH KHABAROVSK; SET FOR OCEAN HOP TODAY OF 2,100 MILES TO ALASKA; TAKE-OFF FIXED FOR 5A.M. Post and Gatty Delay the Start to Check Plane and Study Weather. AIRMEN REST FOR ORDEAL Abandon Plan to Go on Without Sleep When Refueling Delays Them Two Hours. HARDEST STAGE LIES AHEAD Largely Water Route Takes Them Across Strait of Tartary and Okhotsk and Bering Seas. Fliers Carefully Check Plane. Spent Night at Khabarovsk. POST-GATTY PLANE SET FOR OCEAN HOP Some Fog on Route. Boats to Keep Lookout for Plane

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At Khabarvosk; leave for Nome, Alaska; log; map

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EPISCOPALIANS NOW PLAN TO REMARRY DIVORCED PERSONS; Commission, Split by "Storm of Criticism," Revises Its Proposed New Marriage Canon."MARITAL COURT" FAVOREDMinority Would Sanction CivilCeremony Only, but PermitMembership in Church.PAGE IN PLEA FOR LIBERALSBishop Reviews Controversy andCalls for "Frank Criticism"Before Final Action. Criticism Split Commission. EPISCOPALIANS ACT TO MARRY DIVORCED Provision for Remarriage. An Individual Amendment. Bishop Page Discusses Controversy. Quotes Bible on Divorce. Church's Role as Interpreter. The Christian Ideal of Marriage. Argues for a Liberal Attitude. The Minority Statement.

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Marriage of divorced persons by clergymen in ch edifices with service of Bk of Common Prayer proposed under amendment to divorce canon, in rept of comm; minority favors civil ceremony; ecclesiastical marital ct favored; Bishop H Page discusses controversy

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Notable Births

1931Sevim Burak, Turkish author (died 1983)[†]

Zeliha Sevim Burak was a Turkish author and playwright.

Notable Deaths

Nérée Beauchemin

1931Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian poet and physician (born 1850)[†]

Charles-Nérée Beauchemin was a French Canadian regionalist poet and physician from Yamachiche, near Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He was part of Quebec's Le Terroir school of poetry.