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April 8, 1930

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DOWNING REBUFFS EFFORT TO REVIVE CITY TRANSIT BILL; Tells Fullen and Lockwood at Albany Walker Must Assent to Amendment. REPUBLICANS AVOID ACTION Knight Insists It Is Up to theDemocrats to Eliminate Five Cent Fare Clause.MAYOR UNLIKELY TO AGREEWould Approve Amended Bill Only After It Had Been ReportedOut of Committee. Republicans Allege Trickery. REBUFFS EFFORT FOR TRANSIT BILL Walker Unlikely to Act.

By W.a. Warn. Special To the New York Times

Rapid transit unification

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Notable Births

Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma

1930Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma (died 2010)[†]

Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma and Piacenza was the head of the ducal House of Bourbon-Parma from 1977 until his death. Carlos Hugo was a Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain and sought to change the political direction of the Carlist movement through the Carlist Party, of which he was the official head during the fatal Montejurra incidents. His marriage to Princess Irene of the Netherlands in 1964 caused a constitutional crisis in the Netherlands.