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WASHINGTON, June 9.--J. P. Morgan, one of the American members of the experts' committee for the settlement of the reparations problem, expects to come here soon to confer with President Hoover and give him an intimate review of the proceedings at Paris, it was reported here today.
Armed band, said to be Venezuelan insurgents, abduct Gov and troop commander in raid to capture arms in Willemstadt fort; prisoners retd
forced landing in Iceland; illus of plane; pors of fliers; map of route
Must pay $10,400 customs penalty on undeclared articles
protests
1929James McDivitt, American general, pilot, and astronaut (died 2022)[†]
James Alton McDivitt Jr. was an American test pilot, United States Air Force (USAF) pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo programs. He joined the USAF in 1951 and flew 145 combat missions in the Korean War. In 1959, after graduating first in his class with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Michigan through the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) program, he qualified as a test pilot at the Air Force Experimental Flight Test Pilot School and Aerospace Research Pilot School, and joined the Manned Spacecraft Operations Branch. By September 1962, McDivitt had logged over 2,500 flight hours, of which more than 2,000 hours were in jet aircraft. This included flying as a chase pilot for Robert M. White's North American X-15 flight on July 17, 1962, in which White reached an altitude of 59.5 miles (95.8 km) and became the first X-15 pilot to be awarded Astronaut Wings.
1929Ian Sinclair, Australian farmer and politician, 42nd Australian Minister for Defence[†]
Ian McCahon Sinclair is an Australian former politician who served as a Member of Parliament for 35 years, and was leader of the National Party from 1984 to 1989. He served as either a minister or opposition frontbencher for all but a few months from 1965 to 1989, and later Speaker of the House of Representatives from March to August 1998.
1929Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn, British Labour Party politician (died 2016)[†]
Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn, was a businessman and Labour politician. He was a member of Blackburn Council for 22 years, serving as its leader from 1972 to 1976. In 1978, he became a member of the House of Lords. In 2009, he was suspended from the House, along with Baron Truscott, as a result of the cash for influence scandal, the first peers to be suspended since the 17th century.
1929E. O. Wilson, American biologist, author, and academic (died 2021)[†]
Edward Osborne Wilson was an American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist known for developing the field of sociobiology.