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90 per cent duty on autos planned
Accord reached covering Young plan dues and army cost; Cong must approve; execution depends on ratification of Hague agreements with other powers
L Lier and I Schreiner from whaling ship Kosmos missing on aerial scouting trip; members of Byrd expedition asked to aid in search for them
14 arrested in roundup of 3 narcotic rings linked with him
IN flat defiance of the prevailing snobbish tendency to decry General Grant. Colonel Fuller, the celebrated English military critic, starts his book on Grant by declaring that "he was the greatest strategist of his age of the war, and, consequently, its greatest General."
1929Matt Murphy, American guitarist (died 2018)[†]
Matthew Tyler Murphy, known as Matt "Guitar" Murphy, was an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. He was associated with Memphis Slim, The Blues Brothers and Howlin' Wolf. In 2012, Murphy was elected to the Blues Hall of Fame.
1929Wilhelm Maybach, German engineer and businessman, founded Maybach (born 1846)[†]
Wilhelm Maybach was an early German engine designer and industrialist. During the 1890s he was hailed in France, then the world centre for car production, as the "King of Designers".
1929Edward Christopher Williams, American librarian (born 1871)[†]
Edward Christopher Williams was the first African-American professionally trained librarian in the United States. His sudden death in 1929 ended his career the year he was expected to receive the first Ph.D. in librarianship. Williams was born on February 11, 1871, in Cleveland, Ohio, to an African-American father and an Irish mother. Upon his graduation with distinction from Adelbert College of Western Reserve University in 1892, he was appointed Assistant Librarian of Hatch Library at WRU. Two years later, he was promoted to librarian of Hatch Library until 1909, when he resigned to assume the responsibility of the Principal of M Street High School in Washington, D.C. He continued his career as University Librarian of Howard University until his death on December 24, 1929. Williams was rediscovered as a Harlem Renaissance author with the 2004 publication of his novel When Washington Was in Vogue, considered among the earliest epistolary novels by an African American.