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August 8, 1929

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WICKERSHAM HEADS DIVISION TO STUDY DRY ENFORCEMENT; N.D. Baker and Judge Kenyon Also on Subcommittee of Hoover Inquiry Board. 11 FIELDS TO BE COVERED Lawlessness by Enforcing Officers and Cost of Crime Are Among Subjects. POLICE ARE ANOTHER TOPIC. Commission Groups Are Expected to Travel Widely in Country for Testimony. Baker and Kenyon in Group. Other Divisions and Members. Conferred With Outside Groups. WICKERSHAM HEADS DRY DIVISION

By Special to The New York Times

Natl comm marks out 11 fields of study; subcoms apptd

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BRIAND ISOLATES BRITAIN AT REPARATIONS PARLEY BY DEAL WITH GERMANY; STRESEMANN FIRST VICTOR Political and Financial Issues to Be Taken Up Together at Hague. MANY REPLY TO SNOWDEN Cheron for France Leads With Protest Against Tampering With Young Plan. BRITON REITERATES VIEWS chancellor of Exchequer Also Says London Financiers Op-- pose International Bank. Briand Keeps Germans From Fray. Cheron Tells of Sacrifices. BRIAND ISOLATES BRITAIN AT HAGUE Wants Share in Any Bonds. Snowden Opposes Bank Scheme.

By Edwin L. James. Special Cable To the New York Times

Stresemann wins in request that pol and financial issues be considered at same time; many reply to Snowden; Cheron opposes tampering with Young plan; Snowden says London financiers oppose Internatl Bank

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Notable Births

Larisa Bogoraz

1929Larisa Bogoraz, Russian linguist and activist (died 2004)[†]

Larisa Iosifovna Bogoraz was a dissident in the Soviet Union.

Luis GarcĂ­a Meza

1929Luis García Meza Tejada, Bolivian general and politician, 68th President of Bolivia (died 2018)[†]

Luis García Meza Tejada was a Bolivian general who served as the de facto 57th president of Bolivia from 1980 to 1981. He was a dictator convicted of human rights violations and leader of a violent coup. A native of La Paz, he was a career military officer who rose to the rank of general during the dictatorship of Hugo Banzer (1971–78).

Ronnie Biggs

1929Ronnie Biggs, English criminal (died 2013)[†]

Ronald Arthur Biggs was an English criminal who helped plan and carry out the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He subsequently became notorious for his escape from prison in 1965, living as a fugitive for 36 years, and for his various publicity stunts while in exile. In 2001, Biggs returned to the United Kingdom and spent several years in prison, where his health rapidly declined. He was released from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2009 and died in a nursing home in December 2013.

Historical Events

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin

1929The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.[†]

LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was a German passenger-carrying hydrogen-filled rigid airship that flew from 1928 to 1937. It offered the first commercial transatlantic passenger flight service. The ship was named after the German airship pioneer Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a count in the German nobility. It was conceived and operated by Hugo Eckener, the chairman of Luftschiffbau Zeppelin.