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December 4, 1929

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1929Şakir Eczacıbaşı, Turkish pharmacist, photographer, and businessman (died 2010)[†]

Şakir Eczacıbaşı, a second generation member of the notable Turkish Eczacıbaşı family, was a pharmacist, photographer and businessman.

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Headlines from December 4, 1929

PRESIDENT DECLARES BUSINESS SOUND; URGES SPEED ON TARIFF, PLEDGES TAX CUT; FAVORS STRONGER DRY LAW IN MESSAGE; DOCUMENT HAS WIDE RANGE Tells Congress Business Stability Parleys Gave New Confidence. PRESSES FOR RAIL MERGERS Transfer of Prohibition to the Attorney General Part of Reorganization Plan. ROOT FORMULA ADVOCATED On That Basis, the President Calls for Adherence to the World Court. For Revised Law on Chain Banks. HOOVER ASKS SPEED ON TARIFF, TAX CUT

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

Messages to Cong

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SOVIET CANNOT SEE STIMSON NOTE AS A FRIENDLY ACT; Litvinoff's Answer Charges "Unjustifiable Pressure" and Expresses "Amazement." RESENTS "INTERFERENCE" Washington Astonished by the Sharp Reply--Stimson at First Gratified by Responses. Text of Russian Note. HOLDS STIMSON NOTE NOT A FRIENDLY ACT Charges Chinese Illegality. Say We Were Unjustified. Stimson Declines to Comment. Few Small Powers to Join. Reasons for Berlin's Attitude. Italy's Reply Favorable. Threat Read Into Our Stand. JAPAN FEARS FOR PARLEYS. Stimson Move Seen as Endangering Direct Sino-Soviet Efforts. Nanking Prepares Answer.

By Unknown Author

Note to U S, replying to appeal for peace in Manchurian affair

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BYRD TELLS OF SCENE AT SOUTH POLE WHERE HE DROPPED AMERICAN FLAG; 15 BELOW ZERO ON THE VAST PLATEAU; FLEW SIX MILES BEYOND AND AROUND BOTTOM OF WORLD Commander Pictures Huge Ice Cap Fringed by Mountains, the Pole Itself in Centre of Uplifted Plain Hundreds of Miles in Diameter. NO LANDING POSSIBLE ON CHAOTIC TERRAIN "Devil's Ballroom," Mentioned by Amundsen, Seen in This Menacing Waste--Turned Back to Base Just in Time Ahead of Storm. Engine Sputters, Then Resumes "Singing." Out Over the Plateau, Mountains on the Left. New Range North and South Rises on Right. Lone Peak an Outpost on Polar Plain. Head Wind and 10 Below Zero Nearing Pole. Byrd Tells of Scene at the South Pole Chaotic Masses of Ice on Plateau. Plateau Seemed to Slope Gently Downward. Memories of Amundsen Stirred Along His Route. Allowed for Error in Sight. With Luck, Should Beat the Storm. Scott's Trail Recalled His Heroism. Flying Over the Pole. Flag Dropped as They Turned Back. Pass Loomed Amid Threatening Clouds. A Few More Weeks, Then Home.

By Commander R.e. Byrd, Leader of the Antarctic Expedition. 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

T Gran rebuked by Eng explorers

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DENIES M'MANUS PHONED ROTHSTEIN ON MURDER NIGHT; Restaurant Cashier Says Voice That Called Gambler to Death Was Not the Defendant's. ADMITS CHANGING STORY Police Say They Disregarded All Guests at Hotel Who Heard No Disturbance. Cordes, Demoted Detective Ace, Explains Failure to Fingerprint McManus Cordes on the Stand. Recounts Phone Incident. Detectives' Work Described. Went to McManus's Home. Interviewed Couple in Room 347. Rothstein Would Not Talk. McManus "Red and Ruffled." Ex-Representative Not Queried.

By Unknown Author

A Scher and detectives testify

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SENATORS REFUSE TO DELAY VARE CASE; Move by Reed Defeated, 43 to 31, and Norris Presses His Ousting Motion. TALK OF GRUNDY FOR SEAT Capital Circles Hear of Possible Appointment as Democrats Manoeuvre for Post for Wilson. Borah Puts In Objection. SENATORS REFUSE TO DELAY VARE CASE Caraway Acts on Seating Wilson. Vote Against Delay on Vare. FARMER-LABOR--1. Shipstead. Says Payments Were Held Up.

By Special to The New York Times

Rept that J R Grundy will be apptd to take W S Vare's seat

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