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September 23, 1929

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HOOVER PROMISES TO MAKE CAPITAL MODEL DRY CITY; CHALLENGES HOWELL DATA; WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT Demands From Senator Facts to Back Charge City Is Wet. GLAD QUESTION IS RAISED But Considers the Unsupported Assertion Impugns the Good Faith of District Officials. NEBRASKAN IS INSISTENT Bootlegging Common Knowledge, He Asserts, but HasNo Evidence. Denies He Was Attacking President PRESIDENT TO MAKE CAPITAL A DRY CITY Said Carriers Were Accountable.

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

Pres Hoover promises to make it model dry city; challenges Howell data

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SENATE BLOCS WIN TARIFF CONCESSIONS BY THREATS TO BILL; Republican Leaders Are Anxious as to Measure After Losing Test Votes. FARM GROUP GAINS POWER It Is Now in Position to Adjust Rates to Protect Products of West, Capper Asserts. FLEXIBLE CLAUSE ASSAILED House Convenes Today, but Is Due to Mark Time While Issues Are Fought Out in Senate. More Concessions Necessary. Leaders Hope for Appeasement. SENATE BLOCS WIN TARIFF CONCESSIONS Lumber Bloc Adds to Troubles. Caraway Aims Fire at Hoover. Changes Now Whittled Down. Duty on Hides Protested.

By Special to The New York Times

Sen battle continues

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Notable Deaths

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy

1929Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1865)[†]

Richard Adolf Zsigmondy was an Austrian-born chemist. He was known for his research in colloids, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1925, as well as for co-inventing the slit-ultramicroscope, and different membrane filters. The crater Zsigmondy on the Moon is named in his honour.