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December 10, 1929

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PUBLISHERS SEEK FEDERAL AID IN FIGHT ON NEWSPRINT RISE; Resolution Orders Directors to See if Government Can Act on Canadian Increase. ADVANCE CALLED UNJUST Board of A.N.P.A. Decides to Tell Mills That New Rate Is Unwarranted Economically. CHARGE OF MONOPOLY MADE Speakers at Emergency Meeting See Price-Fixing Violating American Law--Move Termed 'Hold-Up.' Call Move "Unwarranted." Federal Action Urged. Publishers at Convention Score Proposed Rise in Newsprint Price as a 'Hold-Up' OTTAWA OFFICIALS SILENT. Labor Department Finds Paper Situation Too Delicate for Comment.

By Unknown Author

A N P A passes resolution to seek Fed aid in price fight

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TAX BILL BLOCKED BY TWO SENATORS; Blaine and Black, Defying Both Parties, Balk Smoot's Move to Displace Tariff. LEADERS DECIDE ON PLAN Watson and Simmons Agree to Try to Take Up Measure Friday and Pass It Saturday. Division In Coalition Ranks. TAX BILL BLOCKED BY TWO SENATORS Blaine Refuses to Yield. Democrats Press Tax Reduction. Copeland Warns of Tariff Delay. Flurry Over Wool Schedule.

By Special to The New York Times

Ed on his asking for immediate passage of tariff bill on ground that it would aid business psychologically

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PICTURES UNFOLD BYRD'S POLAR VISTA; Mountains Roll By in Majestic Succession and Walls of Gorge Close In Till Top Is Reached. THEN PLAIN STRETCHES OUT Graphic Record Fascinates Commander as He Studies First Prints of Flight Film. Prints Show Course to Plateau. PICTURES UNFOLD BYRD'S POLAR VISTA Perfect Vista of Whole Journey. Leaky Roof Adds to Trouble. Change Speeds Developing.

By Russell Owen

Pictures of eastern flight developed; description (R Owen); J O La Gorce comments on scientific results of Byrd's explorations; map of geologists' climb; tribute from "Street Singer" co

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Notable Deaths

Harry Crosby

1929Harry Crosby, American publisher and poet (born 1898)[†]

Harry Crosby was an American poet and publisher regarded as a figure of the Lost Generation in American literature. He was the son of one of the richest banking families in New England, a Boston Brahmin, and the nephew of Jane Norton Grew, the wife of financier J. P. Morgan, Jr. As such, he was heir to a portion of a substantial family fortune. He was a volunteer in the American Field Service and later served in the U.S. Ambulance Corps, narrowly escaping with his life. Profoundly affected by his experience in World War I, Crosby vowed to live life on his own terms as a bon vivant, and abandoned all pretense of living the expected life of a privileged Bostonian. In 1920 he met and married Caresse Crosby; their affair was the source of scandal and gossip among blue-blood Boston. He and Caresse subsequently left for Europe, where they devoted themselves to art and poetry.