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...Threw out a Conservative motion censuring the Labor Party's free trade policy by a vote of 312 to 241, the largest majority Mr. MacDonald has received in recent weeks...
...monoplane aloft over Teterboro, N. J. At 4,000 ft. he dove the tiny craft in an attempted outside loop. The plane's 40-h. p. motor would not pull out of it. Four times Pilot Ahearn climbed slowly back to make another try. On the final attempt he threw the throttle open, held the plane's nose down longer than before. The wing tore loose, fluttered away. Un- checked, the fuselage bored down into the earth, instantly killed Stunt Pilot Ahearn...
Died. Helen Bowen Blair, 17, only daughter of Mr. & Mrs. William McCormick Blair, Chicago socialites; from injuries received when her horse, Pitennis, threw her at Onwentsia Country Club, Lake Forest...
Canvassers for the Miami Civic Tourist Club solicited Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone for a gift of $2,500 to swell a fund dedicated to community progress & betterment. News of the solicitation threw the club into a turmoil. President Clyde A. Epperson resigned; many board members followed his example. While this quarrel raged, a letter came from Capone's attorneys stating that no contribution would be forthcoming...
...swimming further away. After one such disappearance the pursuers gave the animal up, thought it had drowned. Hours later, a fisherman inbound off Sea Gate, some seven miles from the bull's dive, beheld a horned creature swimming out to sea with the tide. The fisherman approached, threw an anchor rope, caught and towed the beast, still belligerent, to shallow water at Coney Island. To get the animal into an S. P. C. A. ambulance required two ropes, 18 policemen...