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August 14, 1931

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LINDBERGHS TO FLY AROUND THE WORLD AFTER HOP TO JAPAN; Will Come Home Across Asia, Europe and Via Azores Over the Atlantic. COLONEL ANNOUNCES PLAN Held at Nome by Rain, He and Wife Prepare for 1,000-Mile Hop to Siberian Island. START TODAY IF IT CLEARS Eskimos Entertain Them by Rare "Wolf Dance" and Kayak Race on Bering Sea Coast. Nome on Display for Them. Guests at Reindeer Dinner. Lindbergh to Lecture in Tokyo. LINDBERGHS TO FLY ROUND THE WORLD

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At Nome; plan to continue flight around world

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RAPID LIFE SENTENCE FOR 3 TORCH KILLERS BALKS MICHIGAN MOB; Speedy Trial Follows the Confession of the Murder of Two Young Couples.THEN RUSHED TO PRISONEx-Convict and Negro, Arrestedin Ypsilanti, Implicate ThirdMan in Their Crime.GAS BOMBS BAR LYNCHINGS Crowds Attack After Capture andat Ann Arbor Court House,but Troopers Save Prisoners. Tell of Burning Bodies in Car. 3 GET LIFE TERMS FOR TORCH MURDERS Plead Guilty at Arraignment. Judge Calls Them Fiends. Had Tried to Reform Smith. Three Confess at Ypsilanti. Had Denied Crime All Day.

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F Smith, F Oliver and D T Blackstone, Negro, get speedy trial and life imprisonment following their confession of murder

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Notable Births

1931Frederic Raphael, American journalist, author, and screenwriter[†]

Frederic Michael Raphael is an American-born British novelist, biographer, journalist and Oscar-winning screenwriter, known for writing the screenplays for Darling, Far from the Madding Crowd, Two for the Road, and Stanley Kubrick's last film Eyes Wide Shut. Raphael rose to prominence in the early 1960s with the publication of several acclaimed novels, but most notably with the release of the John Schlesinger film Darling, starring Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde, a romantic drama set in Swinging London, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1966. Two years later he was nominated again in the same category, this time for his work on Stanley Donen’s Two for the Road, starring Audrey Hepburn and Albert Finney. Since the death of screenwriter D. M. Marshman Jr. in 2015, he is the earliest surviving recipient of the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and the sole surviving recipient of the now retired BAFTA category of Best British Screenplay.