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April 18, 1930

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17 SENATORS JOIN MOVE TO RECALL NAME OF PARKER; Fearing Reaction in Election, Group Led by Watson Plans an Appeal to Hoover. PARLEY HELD ON PROTESTS Letters to White House Will Ask Light on High Court Nominee's Views on Negroes.CALL TO COMMITTEE URGEDWatson Says He Will Demand Appearance of Judge--Caraway Ready to Force Floor Fight. Senators in Opposition Parley. Protest to President Ordered. MOVE TO RECALL NAME OF PARKER Tie Reported in Committee. Nye Opposing Confirmation. Secret Sessions Protested. STATE PARTY BACKS PARKER. Convention Unanimously Adopts Resolution Supporting Nominee.

By Special to The New York Times

Leads 17 Repub senators opposing confirmation of Parker

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HOOVER SOUNDS SENATORS ON NAVY TREATY; BORAH INDICATES HE IS FOR RATIFICATION; PACT IS COMPLETED FOR SIGNING TUESDAY; SOME OPPOSITION ARISES Pact Provision Delaying Our Cruiser Building Causes Objection. WATSON SEES PRESIDENT Republican Floor Leader Holds That Tariff Bill Should Be Ahead of Treaty. NAVAL MEN TO BE HEARD Hale to Call Sessions of Senate Group--Andrew Critical of Treaty. Provision Causes Opposition. Borah Would Speed Action. Safeguarding Clause Helps. Andrew Sees "Feeble Output." F.J. Libby for Ratification.

By Richard V. Oulahan. Special To the New York Times

Conf with Hoover; wants tariff bill settled before London naval treaty

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WETS SEEK $1,000,000 FUND FOR CONGRESS CAMPAIGN, CURRAN INFORMS SENATORS; CLASHES ENLIVEN HEARING Wet Leader Makes Sharp Retorts to Heckling by Walsh and Caraway. 'THIS CONGRESS IS DRIEST' But the Turning Point Has Been Reached, He Tells Lobby Committee. DETAILS POLITICAL OUTLAY Association Spent $18,500 on Congressional Elections in 12 States in 1928, He Says. Public "Ahead of Congress." Questioned by Walsh on Killings. Curran Details Cost of Campaign to Elect Wets to Congress Case Fails to Satisfy Walsh. Blaine Prompts Curran. Caraway Heckles Witness. Campaign Contributors Listed. Backed Many New Men. Capital Headquarters Explained. Questioned About Montana. Curran Refuses to Answer. Spent $9,500 in Montana. Caraway Quotes Memorandum. Opposed Younger Coudert. Denies Aiding Tydings Speech. Letter to Dr. Butler. Asks if Robinson Is Jealous. Curran Does not "Share Panic."

By Special to The New York Times

J Ware gives himself up as driver who ran down 15, killing 1

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Notable Births

Clive Revill

1930Clive Revill, New Zealand actor and singer (died 2025)[ā€ ]

Clive Selsby Revill was a New Zealand actor, best known for his performances in musical theatre and the London stage. A veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he also starred in numerous films and television programmes, often in character parts. He was a two-time Tony Award nominee, as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Irma La Douce and Best Actor in a Musical for Oliver! He was also nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Billy Wilder's Avanti! (1972).

Jean Guillou

1930Jean Guillou, French organist (died 2019)[ā€ ]

Jean Victor Arthur Guillou was a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue. Principal Organist at Saint Eustache in Paris, from 1963 to 2015, he was widely known as a composer of instrumental and vocal music focused on the organ, as an improviser, and as an adviser to organ builders. For several decades he held regular master classes in Zurich and in Paris.

Historical Events

1930A fire kills 118 people at a wooden church in the small Romanian town of Costești, most of them schoolchildren, after starting during Good Friday services.[ā€ ]

In 1930, a devastating fire destroyed the wooden church in Costești, a small town in Argeș County, Romania, and killed 118 people, mostly primary school and high school students, the youngest of them being an 8-year-old girl. The event was also known in Romanian press as the Black Easter.