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October 19, 1929

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Headlines from October 19, 1929

MANUFACTURERS PRAISED SENATE-PAID TARIFF AIDE; WROTE FREELY IN LETTERS; WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.--The Senate lobby investigating committee brought into evidence today letters showing that the Connecticut Manufacturers Association considered very effective the work of one of its officials whom Senator Hiram E. Bingham of Connecticut placed at his elbow during the drafting of the tariff ...

By Special to The New York Times

C L Eyanson on stand tells of his connection with Conn Mfrs Assn; lrs of E K Hubbard, assn pres, in Eyanson's praise read at inquiry; text of lr of E K Hubbard to E G Buckland and of E S Davis to Hubbard

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CAPONE CHECK SETS AGENTS ON NEW TRAIL IN LIQUOR RING CASE; Seek Stopped Order for $1,500 Made Out to One in Band by Chicago Gangster. ELLIOTT MAY PROVIDE LINK Kidnapping to Be Investigated on Theory of Racketeering to Get Loans From Banks. A MAYOR REPORTED BRIBED Bank to Be Asked to Explain Account Kapt in Code--AuthoritiesStill Hunt 21 Indicted Men.

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Authorities rept finding of check made out to ring head by A Capone; kidnapping of W H Elliott in June to be investigated on theory of "racketeering" to get loans from banks; N J bank had ring's acct in code

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Notable Births

Lewis Wolpert

1929Lewis Wolpert, South African-English biologist, author, and academic (died 2021)[†]

Lewis Wolpert was a South African-born British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. Wolpert popularized his French flag model of embryonic development, using the colours of the French flag as a visual aid to explain how embryonic cells interpret genetic code for expressing characteristics of living organisms and explaining how signalling between cells early in morphogenesis could inform cells with the same genetic regulatory network of their position and role.