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December 30, 1929

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Notable Births

1929Rosalinde Hurley, English physician, microbiologist, and academic (died 2004)^[†]

Dame Rosalinde Hurley, DBE, FRCPath, FRCOG, was a British physician, microbiologist, pathologist, public health and medical administrator, ethicist and barrister. She was knighted in 1988 for her services to medicine and public health.

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Headlines from December 30, 1929

SCIENCE WILL SAVE MANKIND FROM WAR, SAYS DR. MILLIKAN; It Will Also Keep the Race From Overcrowding and Starvation He Tells Scientists.DESTRUCTIVE FORCE DENIEDFear That the World May Be "Blown Up" Is Based on aMyth, He Declares."CRAZE FOR NEW" DEPLOREDScientists and the Public Are Advised Not to Be Carried Away by Discoveries. Peaceful Arts Exceed Warlike. Says Science Has Freed Man. SCIENCE WILL SAVE MANKIND FROM WAR "Sub-Atomic" Forces Denied. Glad. Panic Did not Ensue. Regrets "Craze for the New."

By From a Statf Correspondent of The New York Times

Predicts science will save mankind from war and starvation, Pres s at meeting of Amer Assn for Advancement of Science

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Fair Weather Is Predicted For City's New Year's Eve

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BUTLER SCORES CRY TO ENFORCE ALL LAW; Declares Plea Is That of the Fanatic for Punishment Under One Statute Only. CITES CONGRESS 'DEFIANCE' In Annual Report He Urges $2,000,000 Pay Rises for Faculty at Columbia. Hails Rockefeller Lease. His Views on Democracy. BUTLER SCORES CRY TO ENFORCE ALL LAW "Not All Law Is Really Law." Sees Burdens Eased.

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Referred to in annual rept of N M Butler

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EDGE STILL HOPES TO OBTAIN CHANGES IN PARIS NAVY STAND; Envoy Devotes All His Time to Seeking Way to Accord Before London Parley.MORE MEETINGS ARE LIKELYFrench Believe Hoover UrgedTalks With Tardieu to GetShift in Policy.PRESS DOUBTS ALTERATIONLe Temps Declares Frankness ofMemorandum Is of Benefit inConference Preliminaries. Stand Stressed in Talks. Le Temps Defends Frankness. EDGE STILL HOPEFUL OF FRANCE ON NAVY

By Carlisle MacDonald. Special Cable To the New York Times

Armament limitation etc

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1,000-Foot Waterspout Seen By Americans on World Cruise

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

1000-ft spout seen by Amers on world cruise

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STOP OR GET HURT, BILLARD WARNS; Admiral Says Coast Guard Will Not Use "Soft Words" in Combatting Rum-Running. HIS FORCE MEANS BUSINESS Lowman Awaits Official Reports Before Commenting onFatal Battle Near Newport. First Told by Newspaper Men. STOP OR GET HURT, BILLARD WARNS British Ships Captured. Answers Demand for Enforcement.

By Special to The New York Times

F G Billard, Commandant of Coast Guard, refuses to admit existence of wholesale liquor traffic

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McKee Finds Peril in Grand Central Subway; Asks Transit Board to Act on Overcrowding

By Unknown Author

Asks Transit Bd to act on overcrowding at Grand Central station of I R T

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THREE ON RUM BOAT SLAIN BY COAST GUARD IN CHASE; THREE VESSELS CAPTURED; FIGHT IN RHODE ISLAND FOG Shots From Machine Gun Wound Fourth Man on Fleeing Craft. BRITISH VESSEL IS CAUGHT Crew Escapes After Setting Fire to Flor-del-Mar With 4,000 Cases of Liquor Aboard. ANOTHER BOAT ABANDONED Sloop Roamer's Crew Escape in Napeague Bay after a Warning From Shore. Part of an Intensive Drive. One-Pounder Goes Into Action. Flor-del-Mar Ignores Signals. Watchers on Shore Give Warning. To Confer on Jurisdiction. TRACES SLACK DUCK'S CAREER FORMERLY A FISHING CRAFT. Flor-del-Mar Plied Out of Halifax and Lunenburg.

By Special to The New York Times

Seized near Montauk, L I

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24 Officials Convicted in Idaho Liquor Case; Throng Saw Trial of Heads of Ten Towns

By the Associated Press

24 officials convicted

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SEIZE THREE GUESTS OF VITALE DINNER; Police, by Order of Whalen, Charge With Robbery the Men Who Restored Hold-Up Loot. BAR GIVES DECISION TODAY Committee Will Determine if Magistrates Conduct Warrants Court Inquiry. Prisoners Have Police Records. SEIZE THREE GUESTS OF VITALE DINNER

By Unknown Author

3 dinner guests with police records arrested on robbery charge

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9,000 SIKHS MARCH IN INDIAN PROTEST; Yellow-Clad Warriors, Beating Scabbards, Seek Admission to Nationalist Party. HUNDRED CAUGHT BY POLICE Herded to "Unknown Destinations" After Demonstration for Grants of Land. Sikhs Parade For Leader. Pandemonium at Congress. 9,000 SIKHS MARCH IN INDIAN PROTEST Sees Dominions Disaffected. Committee Urges Independence. Complete Break Voted Down. Liberals Ask Dominion Status. London Paper Discounts Demand.

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Addresses Indian Natl Cong

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RAIDERS FIND VITALE'S NAME ON LIST KEPT BY FACCARONA, ALLEGED HEAD OF DRUG RING; GANGSTERS ALSO LISTED Phone Numbers on Card Marked "Frequently Called." ROTHSTEIN AIDE ON IT Brother of Faccarona Says Magistrate Freed Him of Hold-Up Charge. 12 INDICTMENTS DUE TODAY Undercover Men Say They Won Confidence of Leader Who Revealed Ring's Methods. Faccarona Had Phone Number. Brother Says Vitale Freed Him. FIND VITALE'S NAME ON FACCARONA LIST HELD AS "CONTACT" MAN. Go-Between Broke Jail.

By Unknown Author

Vitale's name reptd found on list left by Faccarona, alleged head of drug ring

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