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September 21, 1926

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COOLIDGE OPPOSES COMPROMISE PLAN ON WORLD COURT; Mere Accordance of Equal Standing With League Council Members Not Acceptable. DOES NOT MEET OBJECTIONS President Still Believes the Fifth Reservation as It Stands Will Win in the End. WILLIS BACKS HIS VIEWS He Says the Senate Will Maintain Its Position as Interpreted in the Reservations. COOLIDGE OPPOSES COMPROMISE PLAN

By Special to The New York Times

Pres Coolidge opposes compromise plan according U S equal standing with Council members as substitute for 5th reservation; statement by Sen Willis

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PISTOL SALE TRACED TO WILLIE STEVENS, INVESTIGATORS SAY; Dealer Said to Have Kept Silent Four Years, Fearing He Would Be Implicated. WILL CONFRONT PRISONER New Set of Fingerprints Is Found -- Gorsline Fails to Add to His Story. HE BEMOANS HIS TROUBLES Garage Man Sought Who Washed Henry Stevens's Car -- Mrs. Clark Too Ill for Questioning. PISTOL SALE TRACED AS HALL CRIME CLUE

By Unknown Author

Pistol sale traced to W Stevens, who will be confronted by dealer in trial; new set of fingerprints found on calling card set against rectors body; Gorsline fails to add to his story; garage man sought who washed H Stevens's car

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Notable Births

Don Dunstan

1926Don Dunstan, Fijian-Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of South Australia (died 1999)[†]

Donald Allan Dunstan was an Australian politician who served as the 35th premier of South Australia from 1967 to 1968, and again from 1970 to 1979. He was a member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for the division of Norwood from 1953 to 1979, and leader of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party from 1967 to 1979. Before becoming premier, Dunstan served as the 38th attorney-general of South Australia and the treasurer of South Australia. He is the fourth longest serving premier in South Australian history.

Donald Glaser

1926Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)[†]

Donald Arthur Glaser was an American physicist and biologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for his invention of the bubble chamber.

Fereydoon Moshiri

1926Fereydoon Moshiri, Iranian poet and critic (died 2000)[†]

Fereydoon Moshiri was one of the prominent contemporary Persian poets who wrote poems in both modern and classic styles of the Persian poem.

Notable Deaths

Léon Charles Thévenin

1926LĂ©on Charles ThĂ©venin, French engineer (born 1857)[†]

Léon Charles Thévenin was a French telegraph engineer who extended Ohm's law to the analysis of complex electrical circuits.