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The death of Parker Cramer 1931?

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Sailors Sight Body In Ocean Near Norway

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Heavy Seas Prevented Norwegian Ship From Picking Up Dead Man in Flying Togs and Life Belt Who Floated Past Close By.

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  Haugesund,  Norway,  Aug 14- (AP) - Whether or not the body of an airman sighted off the Shetland Islands was that of Parker Cramer or his radio operator, missing since Sunday on a flight from the Shetland Islands to Copenhagen,  was the subject of speculation today.
   The  master  of the  Norwegian steamer Sjoegimt,  which arrived yesterday, reported that his crew noticed a body, clothed in what appeared to be flying togs, floating west of the Island of Foula Sunday afternoon.  Foula is located about 20 miles west of the Shetland Islands.
    Owing to heavy storms, the steamer had to run into the lee of the Shetland Islands when the discovery was made, he said, and there was no opportunity to salvage the body.
      [[bolded]] Wore Airmans' 'Clothes [[/bolded]]
    The airmen  left  the  Shetlands Sunday morning on the  final stage of their flight across Canada, Greenland, and the North Sea to chart an air mall route for American aviation interests.
    Captain Joergensen, master of the ship, said the body was sighted Sunday at 4 p. m. 20 or 30  nautical miles northwest of the Shetland Islands. 
    Several saw the body of a stout man pass the steamer only a few meters away.  It was standing erect in the waves and was clothed in a suit apparently intended to keep the wearer afloat.
    [[bolded]] Reykjavik, Iceland, Aug. 14 [[/bolded]]- (AP) -Parker Cramer, American transarctic flyer, was tired and indisposed when he left here Aug. 7 for the Faroe Islands,  it was learned today. 
    An employe of a commercial firm-Dernhoeft by name-said  both Cramer  and  his  radio  operator, Oliver Pacquette [[accent over the q??]] were fatigued when they landed here from Angmagsalik, Greenland, and went to bed at once.
    As they walked toward the harbor  with  him,  Dernhoeft  said, Cramer talked lightly of the flight to Copenhagen.  He admitted feeling ill, however, and said he had a continual pain in his stomach.

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[[cut off] ENING WORLD,  TUESDAY,  JULY 2, 1929.
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[[rectangle box]] Prepare for Chicago-Berlin Flight [[/rectangle box]]

[[image of a plane with two people standing by its nose and a few in the background--words handwritten under photo on left hand side read THE_'UNTIN'_BOWLER and words under the photo to the right say WIDE WORLD]]

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   Bob Gast and Parker S. (Shorty) Cramer are in New York arranging for their take-off  from  Chicago next week in their huge Sikorsky amphibian plane, the Untin Bowler, for Berlin,  via  the  Great  North Circle route.  If they arrive in the German  capital  safely  they  will then attempt to fly back to Chicago via Warsaw,  Stockholm, Bergen, and then over the same course as before.

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G.S. HOUSTON
MASON AND DIXON
AIR LINES INC.
LUNKEN AIRPORT, CINCINNATI, OHIO

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Ford [[??]]
[[underlined]] 917S [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] Russel Point P.O [[?]] [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]]Ohio [[??]] [[/underlined]]

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Mrs.  H. M. Junkin, 
   4123 Packard Ave., 
       Toledo, Ohio.

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[[circular stamp, near top of envelope]] KNOXVILLE
AUG 11
[[small vertical line before the 7]]  7 [[subscript]] 30 [[/subscript]] PM
1929
TENN.
[[/stamp]]

[[circular stamp, near bottom of envelope]]
TOLEDO, OHIO [[??]]
AUG13
330PM
WEST TOLEDO [[illegible]]
[[/stamp]]

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2
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[[stamp of 1929, diagonally stamped]]
 
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[[image of a plane, words cut off under: WHEN YOU [[rest cut off]]]]

Transcription Notes:
I was uncertain about how to transcribe the spacing between words in the newspaper clips; some of the words had larger spaces between them than others, so I did transcribe some or all instances of those, but that could use checking. I also wrote that there were underline dividers, and I'm not sure if that was the correct way to notate the lines, since I'm not sure if they would be considered underlines or dividers, so that could also afford to be checked. I did my best on formatting everything else, as well, so that could afford to be checked, too. Thank you!