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April 22, 1930

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335 CONVICTS DIE IN OHIO PRISON FIRE; TROOPS SUBDUE 2,000 FREE IN THE YARD; THREE OTHER FIRES SET IN ESCAPE PLOT; INMATES TRAPPED IN CELLS Burned and Suffocated While Rescuers Try in Vain to Reach Them. YARD LIKE A BATTLEFIELD Dead and Dying Cover Ground as White-Robed Doctors Try to Save Them. 4,300 IN CROWDED PRISON Prisoners and Guards Show Heroism--Regulars and Militia Called to Prevent Outbreak. 311 Bodies in Prison Yard; 24 Others Lying in Basement Hundreds of Bodies on Grass. New Fires Are Started. 335 CONVICTS DIE IN OHIO PRISON FIRE Start of the Disaster. Says 100 Could Have Been Saved. General Escape Was Feared. Warden's Family in Panic. Machine Guns Posted. Key to Cells Misplaced. KNOWN DEAD IN PRISON FIRE. Convict Victims at Columbus Listed With Home Counties.

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Ohio State Penitentiary; 355 reported dead

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WALKER VETOES BILL RAISING TAXI FARE; ORDERS NEW STUDY; Expresses Belief City Has No Right to Deprive Public of Benefits of Competition. SPLIT WITH WHALEN SEEN But Mayor Shows "Sympathy" With Commissioner's Argument for Better Service.NAMES WALSH BOARD HEAD Lawyer and Four Others to Make aThorough Survey of Taxicab Industry. Believes Measure Unconstitutional. WALKER VETOES BILL RAISING TAXI FARE Walker's Veto Message. An Economic Problem. Walker-Whalen Rift Seen. "A Wise Move," Says Donella.

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Walker vetoes rate bill; appts comm to survey taxi situation

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COMMITTEE, 10 TO 6, REJECTS PARKER; Vote for Adverse Report on Nomination Follows Refusal, 10 to 4, to Call Judge. SWIFT AND UNEXPECTED Action on High Court Nominee Taken Without Debate--Hoover Firm in Face of Senate Fight. Hoover Stands by Nominee. COMMITTEE, 10 TO 6, REJECTS PARKER Committee's Vote on Nomination. Long Debate on Invitation Plan Racial Issue Feared in Senate. Southern Students Wire Norris. Labor Protests Forwarded.

By Special to The New York Times

Merchants Ladies' Garment Assn will ask Gov Roosevelt to reconsider bill

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Notable Births

1930Enno Penno, Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 2016)[†]

Enno Penno was an Estonian politician, who was acting as Acting Prime Minister of Estonia in exile from 1 March 1990 to 20 June 1992.

Historical Events

London Naval Treaty

1930The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.[†]

The London Naval Treaty, officially the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament, was an agreement between the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy, and the United States that was signed on 22 April 1930. Seeking to address issues not covered in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, which had created tonnage limits for each nation's surface warships, the new agreement regulated submarine warfare, further controlled cruisers and destroyers, and limited naval shipbuilding.