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August 30, 1929

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SECOND AV. CHOSEN FOR NEXT SUBWAY; COST $800,000,000; Program to Be Announced Soon Calls for Four-Track Line From Houston St. to the Harlem. TO SERVE FOUR BOROUGHS Connecting Links and Feeders Will Extend Into Brooklyn, Queens and East Bronx. SOME ROUTES TENTATIVE Recapture of White Plains Extension to Provide Through East Side Line Is Included in Plan. To Connect With Link Now Building. Plans Consider Unification. SECOND AV. CHOSEN FOR NEXT SUBWAY

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2d Av chosen for next subway construction program

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New Locomotives to End West Side Smoke; Central Orders 35 For Use Within Two Years

By Unknown Author

Orders 35 oil-elec locomotives for use on west side, N Y C

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Byrd Radio Man Talks to Zeppelin in Flight; Message Sent Eckener as Ship Neared Here

By Russell Owen. Copyright, 1929, By the New York Times Company and the st. Louis Post-Dispatch. All Rights For Publication Reserved Throughout the World. Wireless To the New York Times

radio operator of Byrd Antarctic Expedition talks with Zeppelin wireless operator

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TROOPS SEIZE ARAB CHIEFS AT GATES OF JERUSALEM; MOVE TO TAKE CITY FOILED; CAME FROM TRANSJORDANIA Planned General Attack, With Aid of Bedouins From South. SOME ISOLATED DISORDERS Famous Orange Grove Is Raided and Machinery Wrecked-- Priest Is a Victim. DEATH LIST IS NOW 152 96 Jews, 52 Arabs and 4 Christians Are Among the Slain--Protests World-Wide. Jerusalem Again Threatened. TROOPS HALT ARABS AT JERUSALEM GATE Heavy Punishments Planned. Villager Blames Effendis. Hebron Is Evacuated. Eyewitness Tells Story. Arabs Kill and Plunder. Women Wandering in Daze. Ride to Cemetery an Ordeal. Some Arabs Aided Jews. Troops Are in Control. Desert Revolt Is Feared.

By Joseph M. Levy. Staff Correspondent of the New York Times

Holy war feared as Arabs in Syria and Tiberias become inflamed and Arabs attack R C settlement in fruit district, killing priest and 2 others; Brit seize Transjordanian Arab chief at Jerusalem gates; move to take city with aid of Bedouins foiled

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150,000 Jews in Palestine, 2,000 of Them Americans

By Special to The New York Times

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Notable Births

1929Guy de Lussigny, French painter and sculptor (died 2001)^[†]

Guy de Lussigny was a French painter of the school of geometric abstraction.

1929Ian McNaught-Davis, English mountaineer and television host (died 2014)^[†]

Ian McNaught-Davis was a British television presenter best known for presenting the BBC television series The Computer Programme, Making the Most of the Micro and Micro Live in the 1980s. He was also a mountaineer and alpinist. He was managing director of the British subsidiary of Comshare.