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April 25, 1930

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FIRST TARIFF TEST IN HOUSE AGREED ON WITH PRESIDENT; White House Breakfast Group Reverses Usual Procedure as Best Strategy. DEBENTURE CHIEF DISPUTE Republicans Face Fight When Lower Body Takes Up Conference Report Thursday. DR. BUTLER HITS AT DUTIES Tells American Business Men inParis Trade Barriers of High Rates Block, World Progress. Conferees at White House. FIRST TARIFF TEST IN HOUSE AGREED ON House Likely to Act Quickly.

By Special to The New York Times

Confers with Cong heads on procedure as regards conf rept

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MRS. GUY BATES POST AND HOSTESS FOUND SHOT DEAD IN HOME; Believed Former Actress, Adele Ritchie, Killed Friend and Then Herself. TRAGEDY IN CALIFORNIA Two Seen Together on Street of Laguna Beach Hour Before Discovery of Bodies. HAD A PREVIOUS QUARREL Mrs. Post Divorced Actor in December--Victim Heiress andEx-Wife of Minnesota Doctor. Had Quarreled Wednesday. MRS. GUY BATES POST AND HOSTESS SLAIN Obtained Divorce in December. First Marriage to C.N. Bell. Mrs. Palmer Also Divorced.

By the Associated Press

Found shot dead in home with Mrs D M Palmer

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ONTARIO'S DRY LAW FAILED, SAYS LIQUOR CONTROL HEAD; ROPER SAYS STUDENTS DRINK; COACH FEARS FOR YOUTHS They Do Not Drink More, but More 'Viciously,' He Tells Committee. SAYS NO LAW IS RESPECTED Sir Henry Drayton Testifies Big Bootleggers Have Been Eliminated in Ontario. HE DENIES WET VICTORY Province Favors Temperance, He Asserts, but Prohibition Failed to Bring It. No Advice Offered. Sentiment Unchanged, He Says. Roper Tells House Committee of Drinking Among College Students Lists Two Chief Problems. Says Problems Come Up. Americans Welcome, He Says. Roper Pleads for Temperance.

By Special to The New York Times

Testifies on Canadian liquor control systems before House Judiciary Com

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Notable Births

Paul Mazursky

1930Paul Mazursky, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 2014)[†]

Irwin Lawrence "Paul" Mazursky was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Known for his dramatic comedies that often dealt with modern social issues, he was nominated for five Academy Awards for Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969), Harry and Tonto (1974), An Unmarried Woman (1978), and Enemies, A Love Story (1989). He is also known for directing the autobiographical Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), Moscow on the Hudson (1984), Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Moon over Parador (1988), and Scenes from a Mall (1991).

1930Godfrey Milton-Thompson, English admiral and surgeon (died 2012)[†]

Surgeon Vice Admiral Sir Godfrey James Milton-Thompson was a senior Royal Navy officer. From 1988 to 1990, he was Surgeon-General, senior medical officer of the British Armed Forces.

Peter Schulz

1930Peter Schulz, German lawyer and politician, Mayor of Hamburg (died 2013)[†]

Peter Schulz was a German politician, member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and First Mayor of Hamburg.