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April 3, 1930

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FRENCH TO ASK NAVAL CUTS BY ALL IF SECURITY WINS; STIMSON SEES PACT NEARER; PARIS SEEN BACK OF MOVE Tardieu Is Expected in London Saturday With Offer of Cuts. PLENARY SESSION PUT OFF Postponement Permits French and British to Perfect New Political Accord. ITALY REMAINS BIG ISSUE Grandi Is Believed to Prefer Four-Power Pact to Giving Up Stand for Parity. Complications Are Threatened. Plenary Session Postponed. Backs Up Kellogg Pact. Italians May Be Last Problem.

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

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HOOVER IS COUNTED FOR THE NEW CENSUS; HAILS AIMS OF WORK; President Personally Answers Questions and Hands Schedule to the Enumerator.--'A GREAT STOCK TAKING'--He Emphasizes That Replies of All Are Confidential--Says He 'Occupies' White House.--2,347 ENUMERATORS HERE--Voorhis at 100 Heads Roll In His District--Volunteers to Count Unfortunates on Bowery. Held Vital to Social Policies. HOOVER IS COUNTED FOR THE NEW CENSUS Proclamation in 23 Languages. Coolidge First in His District.

By Special to The New York Times

Hoover is counted for census; his proclamation in 23 languages; ex-pres Coolidge counted first in his district

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Notable Births

Lawton Chiles

1930Lawton Chiles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 41st Governor of Florida (died 1998)[†]

Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr. was an American politician and military officer. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a United States senator from Florida from 1971 to 1989 and as the 41st governor of Florida from 1991 until his death in 1998.

Helmut Kohl

1930Helmut Kohl, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (died 2017)[†]

Helmut Josef Michael Kohl was a German politician who served as chancellor of Germany and governed the Federal Republic from 1982 to 1998. He was leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1973 to 1998 and oversaw the end of the Cold War, the German reunification and the creation of the European Union (EU). Kohl's 16-year tenure is the longest in German post-war history, and is the longest for any democratically elected chancellor of Germany.

Mario Benjamín Menéndez

1930Mario Benjamín Menéndez, Argentinian general and politician (died 2015)[†]

Mario Benjamin Menéndez was the Argentine governor of the Falklands during the 1982 Argentine occupation of the islands. He also served in the Argentine Army. Menéndez surrendered Argentine forces to Britain during the Falklands War.

Wally Moon

1930Wally Moon, American baseball player and coach (died 2018)[†]

Wallace Wade Moon was an American professional baseball outfielder in Major League Baseball. Moon played his 12-year career in the major leagues for the St. Louis Cardinals (1954–1958) and Los Angeles Dodgers (1959–1965). He batted left-handed and threw right-handed.

Notable Deaths

Emma Albani

1930Emma Albani, Canadian-English operatic soprano (born 1847)[†]

Dame Emma Albani, DBE was a Canadian-British operatic coloratura soprano, later spinto soprano and dramatic soprano of the 19th and early 20th century, the first Canadian singer to become an international star. Her repertoire focused on the operas of Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini and Wagner. She performed across Europe and North America.