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Requests removal from office of State Comr of Correction Kieb on incompetency charge; statement by Pres Osborne
Civil war
Lrs of H C Lakin to V Guiterrez, Pres Machado of Cuba and to and from others in interest of Cuban sugar producers read at Sen lobby inquiry; plans to win over Major Gen E L Crowder and to spread propaganda among House of Reprs members revealed; connivance of Pres Hoover hinted
H C Day dismissed from Howard Coll, Birmingham, Ala, for anti-Fundamentalist statements
1929Ron Jarden, New Zealand rugby player (died 1977)[†]
Ronald Alexander Jarden, better known as Ron Jarden, was a New Zealand rugby union footballer, businessman, and sharebroker.
1929Henry B. Jackson, British admiral (born 1855)[†]
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, was a British Royal Navy officer. After serving in the Anglo-Zulu War he established an early reputation as a pioneer of ship-to-ship wireless technology. Later he became the first person to achieve ship-to-ship wireless communications and demonstrated continuous communication with another vessel up to three miles away. He went on to be Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy, then Director of the Royal Naval War College and subsequently Chief of the Admiralty War Staff. He was advisor on overseas expeditions planning attacks on Germany's colonial possessions at the start of the First World War and was selected as the surprise successor to Admiral Lord Fisher upon the latter's spectacular resignation in May 1915 following the failure of the Gallipoli Campaign. He had a cordial working relationship with First Lord of the Admiralty Arthur Balfour, but largely concerned himself with administrative matters and his prestige suffered when German destroyers appeared in the Channel, as a result of which he was replaced in December 1916.