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September 6, 1928

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WALES GOES TO HUNT, BUT REALLY TO PUSH NEW POLICY IN AFRICA; Prince's Trip, Starting Today, Is Part of Move to Develop Rich Colonial Resources. CAMPAIGN NOW UNDER WAY Press Will Focus Attention of Capital and Prospective Settlers on Mandated Territories.CHANGE DUE TO DOMINIONSEmergence to Nationhood TurnsBritain to Build New ColonialEmpire--Shift Will Affect Us. Vanguard Already Gone. British Sway Is Continental. Move or Import to America. WALES GOES TODAY TO HUNT IN AFRICA By ALLEN RAYMOND.

By Allen Raymond. Wireless To the New York Times

Prince of Wales's trip to Africa seen as move to develop new colonial empire to replace independent Dominions

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DEMOCRATS PLAN WAR ON CAMPAIGN OF 'WHISPERERS'; Speakers and Pamphlets Will Be Used to Meet Attacks on Governor Smith. PARTY LEADERS AROUSED Nominee Is Expected to Reply to the Insinuations When He Takes the Stump. SURVEY OF APPOINTMENTS Governor's Cabinet Now Consists of Ten Protestants, Three Catholics and One Jew. "Whisperings" in New York. DEMOCRATS PLAN WAR ON WHISPERERS Republicans and Independents. Reply to Lowman Recalled. Secretary Moses's Statement. Summary of the Data.

By From a Staff Correspondent of The New York Times

Speakers and pamphlets will be used to meet attacks on Smith

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GERMANY TO OFFER ALLIES CONCESSIONS TO QUIT RHINELAND; Chancellor Mueller Will Make Proposal for Evacuation at Conference of Powers. MEETS BRIAND IN GENEVA In Friendly Conversation He Is Told Matter Must Be Negotiated. BERLIN TAKES DEBT STAND Holds international Problem Cannot Be Associated With Reparation Payments. Request Had Been Discouraged. Agrees to a Conference. GERMANY TO OFFER ALLIES CONCESSIONS Three Speakers Laud Kellogg Treaty. Calls League "Shook Absorber." Monroe Doctrine to Be Discussed.

By Wythe Williams Special Cable To the New York Times.by Wythe Williams

Manoeuvres in Rhineland

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Notable Births

Fumihiko Maki

1928Fumihiko Maki, Japanese architect and academic, designed the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium and Makuhari Messe (died 2024)[†]

Fumihiko Maki was a Japanese architect. In 1993, he received the Pritzker Prize for his work, which often explores pioneering uses of new materials and fuses the cultures of east and west. Maki died on 6 June 2024, at the age of 95.

Robert M. Pirsig

1928Robert M. Pirsig, American novelist and philosopher (died 2017)[†]

Robert Maynard Pirsig was an American writer and philosopher. He is the author of the philosophical books Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values (1974) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (1991), and he co-authored On Quality: An Inquiry Into Excellence: Selected and Unpublished Writings (2022) along with his wife and editor, Wendy Pirsig.

Yevgeny Svetlanov

1928Yevgeny Svetlanov, Russian conductor and composer (died 2002)[†]

Yevgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov was a Soviet and Russian conductor, composer, and pianist.

Sid Watkins

1928Sid Watkins, English neurosurgeon and academic (died 2012)[†]

Eric Sidney Watkins, also known as Professor Sid or simply Prof, was an English neurosurgeon. From 1978 to 2004, Watkins served as Safety and Medical Delegate in Formula One.