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June 2, 1930

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CHICAGO GANGSTERS RAID HOTEL, KILL 3; Machine Guns Spray Death on Dinner Party--Two Others Wounded--A Woman Dying. SIGNAL FOR RENEWED WAR George Druggan, Leader, and Companion Are Mysteriously Dropped at Hospital. End of Gang Truces Is Seen. Pellar Chatted With Druggan. CHICAGO GANGSTERS RAID HOTEL, KILL 3 "Moranites'" Actions Suspicious. Bartender Tells of the Shooting. Blood Offered for Transfusion. Appraise the Gang Situation. Three Others Are Shot Down.

By Special to The New York Times

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BOLIVIAN IN EXILE TO SEIZE PRESIDENCY AS LEGAL SUCCESSOR; But Cabinet Wires to Saavedra He Is Not Important Enough to Occupy Its Time. ARMY CHIEF REBUFFS HIM German Aide of Dr. Sites Asks Deported Vice President to Send Orders to Minister. MILITARY MEN DIVIDED Opposition Leaders in Buenos Aires Count on Support of League Formed to Fight Paraguay. Cabinet Ridicules Demand. Expects Political Support. BOLIVIAN IN EXILE TO SEIZE PRESIDENCY

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

A Saavedra announces intention of seizing Presidency as legal successor to Siles; Cabinet ridicules demand

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104 STATION SITES FOR CITY'S SUBWAYS CHOSEN BY BOARD; The Layout Calls for 39 in Manhattan, 30 in Brooklyn, 25 in Queens, 10 in Bronx. CONTRACTS TO BE LET SOON Commission Hopes to Begin Work in Brooklyn, Bronx and Queens by End of Year. SYSTEMS WILL BE LINKED Express Stops Arranged to Provide Connections Between City and B.M.T. and I.R.T. Routes. Few Changes Expected. Full List of Stations. MANHATTAN. Eighth Avenue Line. PICKS 104 STATIONS FOR CITY'S SUBWAYS Sixth Avenue Line. BRONX. BROOKLYN. Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown Line. Fulton Street Line. QUEENS. Hillside Avenue Line.

By Unknown Author

Except for that part of the new Sixth Avenue subway between Fortysecond Street and Fourth Street, the Board of Transportation has approved a complete layout of stations for the first $600,000,000-stage of its rapid transit construction program in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx, it was learned yesterday.

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Notable Births

Pete Conrad

1930Pete Conrad, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 1999)[†]

Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr. was an American NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer, aviator, and test pilot who commanded the Apollo 12 mission, on which he became the third person to walk on the Moon. Conrad was selected for NASA's second astronaut class in 1962.