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May 4, 1930

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HOOVER WILL OPEN RED CROSS MEETING; His Address at the Capital Tomorrow Morning Will Be Broadcast Over 2 Chains.16-YEAR-OLD GIRL TO SPEAK Winner in Essay Contest Will Be the First Junior to Appear onNational Society's Program. Essay Winner Is on Program. Will Broadcast Luncheon Speeches.

By Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, May 3.--The annual convention of the American Red Cross, which will be attended by 1,200 delegates representing chapters throughout the country, ...

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WEEK-END CABLE VIEWS OF EUROPE; AS THE SENATE SEES IT

By Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. Wireless To the New York Times

LONDON, April 30.--Three new vessels slid down the ways in British shipyards yesterday-- each about the most outstand ing ship of its type. In each of Britain's greatest shipbuilding centres-- ...

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CROWDING MENACES OHIO INSTITUTIONS; Governor Cooper Asks Citizens' Committee to Formulate TenYear Relief Program.PRISON REVOLT SEEMS OVER Thirty of the Convicts Who AreStill Mutinous Put on Breadand-Water Diet. MILITIA TO STAY ON DUTY 500 Prisoners Have Resumed Work--Number Being Reduced byParoles and Transfers. Passive Rebellion Seems Over. Overcrowding Being Reduced.

By F. Raymond Daniell. Special To the New York Times

30 convicts still mutinous put on bread-and-water diet; 500 resume work

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THE WEEK'S OPENINGS

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POPULATION LESS IN OLD YORKVILLE; Latest Census Figures Indicate Decline of 38,000 Within Ten Years. LIVING STANDARDS CHANGE Expensive Apartment Edifices Are Wiping Out Archaic Tenement Structures. South Orange Home Sold.

By Unknown Author

Census figures as at present obtainable for the Yorkville district of Manhattan give its population as approximately 70,000, as compared with 108,117 ten years ago, a decline of about 38,000, points out Francis S. Bancroft, vice president of the realty firm of Pease Elliman.

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Notable Births

1930Katherine Jackson, matriarch of the Jackson family^[†]

Katherine Esther Jackson is the matriarch of the Jackson family of entertainers that includes her children Michael and Janet Jackson. Michael dedicated his sixth studio album Thriller (1982) to her. Janet did the same with her fourth studio album Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989). In 1985, acknowledging the positive impact on her children's successful music careers, national urban magazine Essence honored her as "Mother of the Year".