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May 12, 1932

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HOFSTADTER BARS STORY OF HOW DAHL WON CITY'S FAVOR; Blocks Seabury in Fight to Use Big Bonuses Paid to B.M.T. Head as Evidence. HASTINGS ACTIVE IN QUEENS Helped Fageol in Move to Sell Buses to Group Favored by Walker, Records Show. SHERWOOD ALSO IS NAMED Banker, Interested in Franchise, Admits Giving Mayor's Aide $10,000-a-Year Job. Link Equitable Group to Queens Bidders

By Unknown Author

Sen Hofstadter rules out evidence to show G M Dahl, chmn of B M T bd, received bonuses for improving relations with city; Fageol testifies on North Shore Bus Co's agreement to buy buses from him if he got franchise for them

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TARIFF BILL VETOED BY THE PRESIDENT; HOUSE UPHOLDS HIM; Blunt Note by Hoover Declares Measure Would Have Led to Preference Wars. STANDS ON EQUALITY BASIS Message Asserts Plan Would Destroy Present Flexibility by Curbing Executive. DEMOCRATS IN HOT ATTACK Motion to Override Veto Falls to Win Two-thirds -- Hull in Senate Charges Hoover "Subserviency." TARIFF BILL VETOED BY THE PRESIDENT

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Hoover vetoes Dem bill; message to Cong cites 4 major objections; House upholds veto; Sen Hull denounces veto in Sen, Repr Crisp in House; vetoed measure referred to Ways and Means Com for possible modification

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AKRON SNAPS CABLE; 2 HURLED TO DEATH; A THIRD IS RESCUED; Landing Crew Dragged, Aloft When Line Breaks at Camp Kearney (Cal.) Field. 10,000 SEE PAIR PERISH Third Sailor, 2,000 Feet in the Air Clings to a Rope for Two Hours. THEN IS PULLED INTO SHIP Night Attempt to Land is Successful and Dirigible is Attached to Mooring Mast. 2 DIE WHEN CABLE ON THE AKRON SNAPS

By the Associated Press

Akron breaks cable attempting to land at Camp Kearny, Cal; R Edfall and N Henton killed after being carried aloft; C Cowart rescued; illus

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Historical Events

Lindbergh kidnapping

1932Ten weeks after his abduction, Charles Jr., the infant son of Charles Lindbergh, is found dead near Hopewell, New Jersey, just a few miles from the Lindberghs' home.[†]

On March 1, 1932, Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Col. Charles Lindbergh and his wife, aviator and author Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was murdered after being abducted from his crib in the upper floor of the Lindberghs' home, Highfields, in East Amwell, New Jersey, United States. On May 12, the child's corpse was discovered by a truck driver by the side of a nearby road in adjacent Hopewell Township.