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February 15, 1930

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Plane Afire High Above Sea; Naval Fliers in Hawaii Escape

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Bar Report on Vitale Goes to court Today; Understood to Ask His Trial on Two Counts

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The executive committee of the Association of the Bar of New York City unanimously approved yesterday the report of the subcommittee which has been investigating the judicial conduct of Magistrate Albert H. Vitale and at 10 A.M. today the

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HOTEL PADLOCKING DISOWNED BY DORAN; Not National Policy, Says Dry Chief, Unless Management Is Involved in Violations. CAMPBELL REMAINS SILENT Washington Statement Hints He Acted on Own--'Stool-Pigeon' Methods Denounced Here.

By Special to The New York Times

Doran says attempts of N Y Administrator Campbell to padlock Hotel Manger are not indicative of natl policy to padlock hotels

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INCREASE BY BRITAIN LOOMS TO MEET FRENCH PROGRAM; HOPE FOR NAVY CUTS WANES; 'BIG THREE' ARGUE STANDS Stimson, MacDonald and Tardieu Said to Doubt Reductions Now. FRANCE BARGAINS FOR PACT Her Premier Says More Security Would Be Incentive to Revise High Total for Fleet. CHIEFS ARE OPTIMISTIC They Say Parley Will Be Suc- cess, Setting Limitation and Relative Fleet Strengths.

By Edwin L. James. Special Cable To the New York Times

Hope for cuts wanes; French and Brit views clash; conf by MacDonald, Stimson and Tardieu; Amers silent on 3-power talk; Ital statement may be made; Tokio hopeful for 70% ratio; Japanese elections said to be involved; U S call for new battleship protested by Christian Science Monitor

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1930Bruce Dawe, Australian poet and academic (died 2020)^[†]

Donald Bruce Dawe was an Australian poet and academic. Some critics consider him one of the most influential Australian poets of all time.

1930Sara Jane Moore, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford (died 2025)^[†]

Sara Jane Moore was an American woman who attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford in 1975. She was given a life sentence for the attempted assassination, but she was released from prison on December 31, 2007, after serving 32 years. Moore and Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme are the only two women who have attempted to assassinate an American president; both of their assassination attempts were on Gerald Ford, and they took place in California within three weeks of one another.

Headlines from February 15, 1930

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Plane Afire High Above Sea; Naval Fliers in Hawaii Escape

Bar Report on Vitale Goes to court Today; Understood to Ask His Trial on Two Counts

HOTEL PADLOCKING DISOWNED BY DORAN; Not National Policy, Says Dry Chief, Unless Management Is Involved in Violations. CAMPBELL REMAINS SILENT Washington Statement Hints He Acted on Own--'Stool-Pigeon' Methods Denounced Here.

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