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May 13, 1930

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CRAIN ORDERS VAUSE TO EXPLAIN PIER FEE; M'KEE BACKS INQUIRY; Prosecutor in Letter to Judge Demands Details of Alleged $250,000 Payment. BAR TO CONSIDER ACTION Acting Mayor Pledges City's Aid--Tuttle Keeps Up Investigation Into Tax Returns.DR. DOYLE IS EXAMINED Goes Before Federal Grand Jury asCounty Body Hears Others onPermit Charges. Tuttle Keeps Up Inquiry. Crain Seeks Data. CRAIN ORDERS VAUSE TO EXPLAIN PIER FEE MeKee Asks Speedy Inquiry. McKee Did Not Know Vause. Cosgrove Tells of Deal. Tuttle Seeks Tax Returns.

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Acting Mayor McKee backs inquiry; Dist Atty Crain demands details; K O'Brien, lawyer, found to have urged approval of leases

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STIMSON CHALLENGES FOES OF NAVAL PACT ON PARITY, OPENING SENATE HEARINGS; CALLS ACCORD "FAIR TO ALL Secretary's Move Causes Foreign Relations Body to Summon Experts HALE DEFERS HIS SESSIONS Explaining London Negotiations. Stimson Lauds British Labor Regime for Concessions. HOOVER GAVE A FREE HAND American Delegates, Unanimous on Own Terms, Saved Parley, He Says. Naval Committee Defers Hearings. Firm on Point of Parity. Based on Actual Fleet Power. Had Free Hand from President. Praises Senators on Delegation. Avoided Purely European Issue. Lauds British Government's Effort. Recalls Letters to London Times. Confidence of Basis of Peace. "PARITY" BUILDING UNDER FIRE Taber in House Questions Need of $1,000,000,000 Naval Program.

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Notable Births

Mike Gravel

1930Mike Gravel, American politician (died 2021)[†]

Maurice Robert "Mike" Gravel was an American politician and writer who represented Alaska in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1981 as a member of the Democratic Party. He ran for president twice: in 2008, and 2020. He was the 4th US Senator in all of Alaska history.

Notable Deaths

Fridtjof Nansen

1930Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian scientist, explorer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1861)[†]

Fridtjof Wedel-Jarlsberg Nansen was a Norwegian polymath and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He gained prominence at various points in his life as an explorer, a scientist, a diplomat, a humanitarian, and the co-founder of the Fatherland League.