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October 10, 1929

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Text of the Joint Statement Of President and Premier; Progress and Nature of Negotiations Between the Two Executives to Obtain Real Naval Disarmament and Foster World Peace Are Described. Nations Have Different Roles. "War Is Unthinkable." Other Nations Must Cooperate. Agree to Fleet Parity.

By Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON. Oct. 9.--Following is the text of the White House announcement issued this afternoon embodying a joint statement from President Hoover and Premier Mac Donald on the results of their conferences on naval disarmament:

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Notable Births

1929Ayten Alpman, Turkish singer (died 2012)[โ€ ]

Ayten Alpman was a Turkish jazz and pop singer who gained fame in the 1970s with the song "Memleketim" during the 1974 Cyprus Peace Operation.

1929Herb Levinson, American actor (died 2012)[โ€ ]

Herbert S. Levinson was an American television and movie actor. Levinson played a variety of character roles, often set in Baltimore, Maryland. Most notably, he played the character Dr. Lausanne in the NBC police procedural series Homicide: Life on the Street.

Bernard Mayes

1929Bernard Mayes, English-American journalist and academic (died 2014)[โ€ ]

Anthony Bernard Duncan Mayes was a British broadcaster, university dean and author. In the United States, he founded KQED-FM, was Executive Vice President of KQED TV, then co-founded and became first working chairman of National Public Radio. He also founded one of America's first suicide prevention hotlines.