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December 26, 1928

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COOLIDGE HEARTENS EUROPE BY AIDING REPARATIONS MOVE; Any Two From Among Dawes, Young, Morrow, Hughes Would Be Welcomed as Experts. NEED OF ONE TO LEAD SEEN Impartial Chairman Held Vital in Delicate Task of Fixing What Germans Must Pay. BERLIN HOPES FOR RELIEF But Paris Is Said to Want Payments Kept at About Same Levelas Under Dawes Plan. German and French Hopes. Viewpoint Finds Little Support.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Considered as possible candidate for com which is to settle problems in Europe

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MILLS, EX-DRY CHIEF, WINS DURANT PRIZE ON THE PLAN HE TRIED; Method to Halt Bootlegging by Curbing Alcohol Diversion Captures $25,000 Award. HE SAYS IT WORKED HERE Major Declares Withdrawals of Denatured Product Were Halved in His Regime. PALO ALTO BOY GETS PRIZE M.D. Almack Takes the $5,000 School Honor--5,340 of 23,230 Essays Ask Volstead Act Change. Mills "Taken by Surprise." 23,230 Persons in Contest. 64,000 Suggestions Made. MILLS, EX-DRY CHIEF, WINS DURANT PRIZE Winner Cites His Experience. Durant Praises Plan.

By Unknown Author

Wins $25,000 Durant prize for best dry plan

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BYRD SHIP CLEAVES TOWERING ICE WALL TO ENTER ROSS SEA; Emerges Upon "Summery" Open Water Through Lane in a Rampart of Bergs. TOW OF 2,000 MILES ENDS Whaler C.A. Larsen, Taking Up Task After the Boiling Left, Cut Way Through Pack. NOW HEADING FOR BARRIER City of New York Crew Feast on Whale Steaks as They Roll on Toward Discovery Inlet. Trying to Beat Record to Barrier. Ice Looms Like China's Wall. BYRD SHIP CLEAVES TO WERING ICE WALL Grim Retrospect of Icy Fastness. Now It's "Pass the Whale" at Mess.

By Russell Owen

Towed 2,000 mi by S S C A Larsen, S S City of N Y enters Ross Sea; route, map; Christmas greeting from S S Eleanor Bolling to friends in N Y C and vicinity

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Notable Births

Martin Cooper (inventor)

1928Martin Cooper, American engineer, invented the mobile phone[†]

Martin Cooper is an American engineer. He is a pioneer in the wireless communications industry, especially in radio spectrum management, with eleven patents in the field.