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December 3, 1929

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FIRST SNOWSTORM CLOGS CITY TRAFFIC; NEW COLD WAVE DUE; Four-Inch Fall Makes Streets Perilous, Causing Skidding Mishaps and One Death. PLANES KEPT AGROUND 30,000 Commuters on Staten Island Delayed--Sweepers Mobilized in All Boroughs. 'Much Colder' Tonight. Skidding Truck Kills Man. FIRST SNOWSTORM CLOGS CITY TRAFFIC Street Cleaners on the Job. Delays on Staten Island. Night Air Mail Halts. Slippery Streets Perilous. Man Killed at Crossing. AUTO ACCIDENTS KILL FOUR. Eleven Are Hurt in and Near City --Four Injured In Jersey Crash.

By Unknown Author

Snowstorm clogs city traffic

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BYRD TELLS OF DARING CLIMB IN PLANE OVER JAGGED PEAKS TO POLAR PLATEAU; WON BY SCANT MARGIN, THE POLE AHEAD; COMMANDER STAKED All ON UNKNOWN GLACIER PASS Pointing Upward Amid Buffeting Winds and Clouds Hiding Dangerous Ridges, Fliers Came to Limit With Their Load. "FOOD OVERBOARD!" THE CHIEF COMMANDED Again and Yet Again Supplies Went Down Till Craft Labored Over Top With a Few Hundred Feet to Spare--Clear Sailing Then Over Flat Plateau. Fog Forming While Fliers Conferred on Course. Danger of Collision with Cloud-Hidden Peaks. Awed by Huge Shapes Carved by Ice of Ages. McKinley and June Struggling for Pictures. Calmly Testing Gauges at Critical Moment. Balchen Tense in Fight to Gain Altitude. Lee Side of Pass Hugged as Wind Increased. Glimpsed Plateau Through the Clouds. Dumping Has Immediate Effect. Gain Altitude, but Slowly. Head Out on Plateau for the Pole.

By Commander R.e. Byrd

T Gran, Norwegian, criticizes flight

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TELL HOW ROTHSTEIN SHIELDED ASSASSIN; Policemen Testify That Gambler Would Not Even Say if He Was Shot in Hotel. REVOLVER SHOWN TO JURY Detective Asserts It Was Found Near McManus's Window-- Mrs. Putnam on Stand. Refused to Tell Detective. Weapon Produced at Trial. State's Witnesses at Trial of McManus Describe Finding Rothstein Wounded Tells of Finding Shells. Discovered No Bloodstains. Mrs. Putnam on Stand Again. Unable to Recall Man's Clothing. Didn't See Him on Stairway. Rothstein Sent for His Will. $1,025 Cash in Wallet. Says He Complained of Pain.

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Mrs Putnam testifies again; Detective Flood on stand

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Notable Births

John S. Dunne

1929John S. Dunne, American priest and theologian (died 2013)[†]

John S. Dunne, C.S.C. was an American priest and theologian of the Congregation of Holy Cross. He held the John A. O'Brien Professorship of Theology at the University of Notre Dame.

Historical Events

Herbert Hoover

1929President Herbert Hoover delivers his first State of the Union message to Congress. It is presented in the form of a written message rather than a speech.[†]

Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st president of the United States, serving from 1929 to 1933. A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, Hoover led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium and was the director of the U.S. Food Administration, followed by post-war relief of Europe. As a member of the Republican Party, he served as the third United States secretary of commerce from 1921 to 1928 before being elected president in 1928. His presidency was dominated by the Great Depression, and his policies and methods to combat it were seen as lackluster. Amid his unpopularity, he decisively lost reelection to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932.