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March 19, 1930

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UNEMPLOYMENT WIDE, DECLARES WAGNER; Senator, Pressing Relief Bills, Holds Hoover Parleys Only Averted 'Mass Hysteria.' SHOWS BREAD LINE PHOTO Chicago Professor Declares the Distress There Is the Most Acute in Ten Years. How Heads Unemployed Group. Wagner Quotes From Records. SAYS UNEMPLOYMENT IS WORST ON RECORD Criticizes Julius Klein. Statistics Called Out of Date. Davis Backs Hoover on Recovery.

By Special to The New York Times

Sen Commerce Com hearing on 3 Wagner bills; Sen Wagner shows bread line photo; B M Squires testifies

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COURT CENSORSHIP ON FOREIGN BOOKS ADOPTED BY SENATE; Smoot Amendment, Slightly Changed, Takes All Authority From Customs Officials. SHARP DEBATE RANGES FAR Shakespeare, Bible and Brigham Young's Essays Cited inFervid 12-Hour Discussion. EVEN NERO IS BROUGHT IN Utah Senator Praises Mormons,While Cutting and OthersAttack "Intolerance." Debate Covers Wide Range. Pulp Wood Duty Restored. BOOK CENSORSHIP ADOPTED BY SENATE Customs Officials Discussed. American Publications Criticized. Brigham Young's Essays Discussed. Wheeler Condemns Intolerance. Text of Smoot Amendment.

By Special to The New York Times

Countervailing duty on pulp and pulp wood restored

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TOKIO NAVAL CHIEFS ASK FOR REJECTION OF AMERICAN OFFER; Notify Cabinet That It Fails to Meet Two Fundamental Requirements of Japan. DEMAND 70% IN CRUISERS Ministry Will Meet Saturday to Consider Report and Make Formal Decision. ITALIANS CLING TO PARITY Say They Would Rather Have No Treaty Than Forego Equality With French. CRITICISM IRKS WAKATSUKI. But Delegation Has No Confirmation of Admiralty's Attitude. ASK FOR REJECTION OF AMERICAN OFFER REPORTS RIFT OVER JAPAN. London Daily Express Says MacDonald Criticized Stimson.

By Hugh Byas. Special Cable To the New York Times.by Clarence K. Streit

London Naval Arms Conf

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Notable Deaths

Arthur Balfour

1930Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1848)[†]

Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, was a British statesman and Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. As foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ministry, he issued the Balfour Declaration of 1917 on behalf of the cabinet, which supported a "home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, and later issued the Balfour Declaration of 1926 as Lord of the Privy Council, which announced a co-equal relationship between the United Kingdom and its Dominions, laying the groundwork for the Statute of Westminster 1931 which granted full independence to the former colonies.

Henry Lefroy

1930Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia (born 1854)[†]

Sir Henry Bruce Lefroy was the eleventh Premier of Western Australia.