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May 16, 1930

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KINGS REPUBLICANS FAVOR WET PLANK; Poll Shows Borough Will Send Anti-Prohibition Bloc to State Convention. ROOSEVELT IS ATTACKED Steinbrink Says He Is Aiding Tammany to Conceal Graft in the City. Sees Prohibition as Issue. Attacks Roosevelt. KINGS REPUBLICANS FAVOR WET PLANK ROOSEVELT CALLED A TAMMANY GOVERNOR Attacked of Republican Meeting for Vetoing Measures Affecting This City.

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Kings County Com announces results of prohibition poll; wet plank favored

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PRATT DEFENDS GUNS TREATY ALLOWS US; He Prefers 6-Inch Type for Major Engagements, Fleet Commander Testifies. HE URGES LARGE CRUISERS Naval Committee Hears Plan to Build 10,000-Ton Type, With Light Guns and Heavy Armor. Pratt Considers "Fleet Strength." PRATT DEFENDS GUNS TREATY ALLOWS US We Gained in Cruisers, He Says. Pratt Tells How Views Changed. Merchant Marine Discussed. Favors Light Guns, Heavy Armor. Studies Made, Says Pratt. "Must Pay for Parity." Insists Treaty Is Fair.

By Special to The New York Times

WASHINGTON, May 15.--Defense of the London Naval Treaty on the issue to which attack in the Senate committee hearings is rapidly narrowing, namely, the relative merits of 8-inch-gun and 6-inch-gun cruisers to give to the United States parity...

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Early Modernization of Ships Under Treaty Urged by Labor Leaders to Aid Employment

By Special to The New York Times

Labor leaders ask Pres Hoover to have modernization of war craft started as cure for slack at navy yards and arsenals

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CHURCHILL CAUSES CLASH ON NAVY PACT; Commons Howls Him Down When He Reveals Secret Cabinet Document of 1921. LLOYD GEORGE REBUKES HIM-- Baldwin Withholds His Support, Although Noncommittal on Arguments Against Treaty. CHURCHILL CAUSES CLASH ON NAVY PACT Publicly Rebuked. Wanted Different Standard. Both Sides Protest. Lloyd George Supports Pact.

By Charles A. Selden. Special Cable To the New York Times

Attacks London naval treaty

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JONES ASSAILS PACT'S CRUISER TERMS, DISPUTING PRATT ON PARITY IN TREATY; ADAMS TELLS SENATORS OF COMPROMISE; NAVY DISAGREEMENT AIRED Admiral Jones Upsets 'Unanimity' at Foreign Relations Hearing. FOR 8-INCH-GUN CRUISERS 'Cannot Take In' Pratt's Views, He Asserts, Saying Pact Will Favor Britain and Japan. OUR FLEET 'FROZEN' IN 1936 Adams, Questioned by Johnson, Admits Yielding on Plans for Three More Larger Ships. Jones States Different View. Navy Board Head Called. Two American Admirals Sharply Dissent on Cruisers Under Treaty Cross-Examined by Johnson. For Free Building by Categories. Our Interests Safe, Says Adams. Won on Tonnage Limit. Robinson Doubts Parity. Robinson Interprets Clause. Jones Cites Conflicting Views. Jones Gives Views on Treaty. He Opposed Tonnage Limit. Predicts Demands by Japan. Japan Has Advantage, He Says. Full Parity Impossible, He Says. He Prefers 8-Inch Guns. Britain the Gainer, He Says. Combat No Real Test. Big Guns Favored, Says Jones.

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At Sen com hearing on London naval pact; por

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1930Friedrich Gulda, Austrian pianist and composer (died 2000)^[†]

Friedrich Gulda was an Austrian pianist and composer who worked in both the classical and jazz fields.

Headlines from May 16, 1930

Early Modernization of Ships Under Treaty Urged by Labor Leaders to Aid Employment

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