Zeppelin to Radio Pictures on Polar Trip, Showing Exploration Scenes at Top of World
By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Plans for Dr Nansen's exploration trip in Graf Zeppelin, under auspices of Aero-Arctic Assn
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January 13, 1929
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CITY BAR PLEDGES AID TO HUNT EMBEZZLERS IN 'BANKRUPTCY RING'; Hughes Offers Help to Tuttle and Association's Committee Prepares for Inquiry. TWO DEPOSIT BOXES FOUND Steinhardt and Pinner Evidence Will Be Sought When They Are Opened Tomorrow. FUGITIVE'S CASES LISTED 37 Open Receiverships Will Be Turned Over to E. H. Childs for Administration. Will Help Go Over Evidence Safety Deposit Boxes Found. CITY BAR PLEDGES AID TO HUNT EMBEZZLERS Will Plan Inquiry Tomorrow.
By Unknown Author
Offers to aid Tuttle in "bankruptcy ring" investigation
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TOKIO FEELS BLOW IN YANG'S EXECUTION; Officials Anticipate Immediate Trouble in Manchuria and Reaction Against Japan. GAIN FOR MANKING IS SEEN 'Practical Politician's' Death Is Ascribed to Governor of Kirin, Looming as Dictator. Mixed Motives in Execution. Signatures Expected Soon. Killed at Mah Jong Game. TOKIO FEELS BLOW IN YANG'S EXECUTION
By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Influence of diet seen in experiments in India and Japan
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EXTRA SESSION IS CERTAIN FOR FARM AID AND TARIFF; COOLIDGE PRESSES TREATY; OBTAIN HOOVERS' VIEWS Leaders Learn He Favors Calling Extra Session for April 15. FARM AND NOW GIVEN UP But Move for a Declaration on Pact Is Stiffened by "Round Robin." COOLIDGE CALLS MEETING White House Conference Decides to Keep Treaty Beforethe Senate for a Vote. McNary Sees Hoover. Interpretation Group Gaining. Contents of the "Round Robin." Ultimate Ratification Expected. Coolidge Summons Bingham.
By Richard V. Oulahan. Special To the New York Times
Statement on 1929 prospects in relation to financing of bldg operations
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SMITH PLANS UNITY WITH ROOSEVELT; Their Conference at Albany Will Take Up Ex-Governor's Radio Speech to Nation. AIM TO END TALK of RIFT They Will Discuss Port Authority, to Which Knight Now Says He Is Not 'Antipathetic. To Take Up Party Finances. Face Port Authority Issue. Would End Rumors of Any Rift. SMITH PLANS UNITY WITH ROOSEVELT
By Special to The New York Times
Will begin confs with Legis leaders
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Notable Births
1929Joe Pass, American guitarist and composer (died 1994)[†]
Joe Pass was an American jazz guitarist. Pass recorded and performed live with pianist Oscar Peterson, composer Duke Ellington, and vocalist Ella Fitzgerald, and he is generally esteemed as one of the most notable jazz guitarists of the 20th century for his solo guitar playing, found on recordings such as Virtuoso.
Notable Deaths
1929Wyatt Earp, American police officer (born 1848)[†]
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp was a lawman in the American West, involved in the gunfight at the O.K. Corral during which he and other lawmen killed three outlaws. While Wyatt is usually depicted as the key figure in the shootout, his brother Virgil was Deputy U.S. Marshal, Tombstone City Marshal, and had decided to enforce a city ordinance prohibiting carrying weapons in public and to disarm the Cowboys. Wyatt was an assistant marshal to his brother.
1929H. B. Higgins, Irish-Australian judge and politician, 3rd Attorney-General for Australia (born 1851)[†]
Henry Bournes Higgins KC was an Australian lawyer, politician, and judge. He served on the High Court of Australia from 1906 until his death in 1929, after briefly serving as Attorney-General of Australia in 1904.