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January 15, 1929

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KELLOGG PACT FIGHT STIRS BITTERNESS AND CONFUSION; REED TAKES THE OFFENSIVE; BORAH LEADS THE DEFENSE Blocks Missourian on an 'Interpretation' From Committee. TELLS OF KELLOGG'S STAND Secretary Objects Primarily, He Says, to Sending Senate Report to Powers. ROUND ROBIN MADE PUBLIC Bingham Refuses to Name the Signers--Robinson Deplores Waste of Time. The Reed Resolution. Text of the Round Robin. Borah Tells Where Break Came. Cites Secretary Kellogg's Stand. Calls It Reservation in Effect. Robinson Decries Waste of Time. Borah Blocks Reed's Move. Points to Kellogg's Words. Fess Charges Plan of Defeat.

By Richard V. Oulahan, Special To the New York Times

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THEATRE 'STAGGER' PLAN AND CURB ON NIGHT TRAFFIC IN MIDTOWN AREA ORDERED; All AUTO TURNS BARRED Whalen Parley Agrees to Start Musical Shows at 8:30, Others at 8:50. AMUSEMENT ZONE CREATED Two Weeks' Test Involves Area From 6th to 8th Av. and 42d to 50th St. BUSES TO BE KEPT OUT Trucks Also Banned in Nightly Rush--Public Asked to Pay Taxis Before Trip Ends. Features of Program. Whalen Praises Step. NIGHT TRAFFIC PLAN FOR MIDTOWN AREA City Engineers at Meeting.

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Notable Births

Earl Hooker

1929Earl Hooker, American guitarist (died 1970)[†]

Earl Zebedee Hooker was a Chicago blues guitarist known for his slide guitar playing. Considered a "musician's musician", he performed with blues artists such as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Junior Wells, and John Lee Hooker and fronted his own bands. An early player of the electric guitar, Hooker was influenced by the modern urban styles of T-Bone Walker and Robert Nighthawk. He recorded several singles and albums as a bandleader and with other well-known artists. His "Blue Guitar", a slide guitar instrumental single, was popular in the Chicago area and was later overdubbed with vocals by Muddy Waters as "You Shook Me".

Martin Luther King Jr.

1929Martin Luther King Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)[†]

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister, civil rights activist and political philosopher who was a leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination.

Notable Deaths

George Cope (artist)

1929George Cope, American painter (born 1855)[†]

George Cope was an American painter who specialized in landscapes and still lifes. His works are held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Brandywine River Museum of Art.