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June 28, 1930

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10,000 AT CITY HALL HAIL OCEAN FLIERS, MAYOR DECORATES THEM, LAUDS DARING; LEADER WRITES OF COMPASS MYSTERY; CREW HAS DAY OF HONORS Walker Praises Feat of Kingsford-Smith as Aid to Science. CALLS AIRMEN PIONEERS Advertising Club Gives Medals --British Premier Sends His Congratulations. THRONGS IN STREET CHEER Commander Talks With Fiancee in Australia--To Meet Hoover at Capital on Monday. Talks With Fiancee in Melbourne. To Meet Hoover on Monday. SEA FLIERS HAILED BY CITY, GET MEDALS Photographers' Platform Collapses. City's Scroll of Honor.

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Welcomes fliers; presents medals and scroll of honor

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HOOVER HITS BACK AS SENATE SLASHES LAW BOARD'S FUNDS; Declares He Will Get $100,000 Privately to Continue the Inquiry on General Lines. $50,000, NOT $250,000, VOTED Commission Is Limited by Amendment as Passed to Prohibition Enforcement Only.SENATE REVERSED ITSELFFirst Adopted Jones Amendment toSecond Deficiency Bill, Then Reconsidered. Earlier Action Reconsidered. The President's Statement. HOOVER HITS BACK ON LAW BOARD FUND Looks for Private Contributions. Jones Clashes With Glass. Not "Quitters," Says Wickersham.

By Special to The New York Times

Hoover says he will get private funds to carry on work

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WALSH QUITS OFFICE; MAYOR PLANS STUDY TO OVERHAUL BOARD; Walker, Accepting Resignation, Indicates Citizen Group Will Sift Appeals Body Rules. CHAIRMAN IN COURT AGAIN Pleads Not Guilty to Federal Tax Indictment--Trial to Wait Several Weeks. DEEGAN TALKED OF FOR JOB But Change Would Mean Pay Cut-- Public Service Institute Suggests Ousting the Whole Board. Refuses to Discuss Case. Connell to Act as Chairman. Trial to Wait Several Weeks. WALSH QUITS POST ON APPEALS BOARD

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Will act as chmn of Bd of Standards and Appeals

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Notable Births

William C. Campbell (scientist)

1930William C. Campbell, Irish-American biologist and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]

William Cecil Campbell is an Irish-American microbiologist known for his work in discovering a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworms, for which he was jointly awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He helped to discover a class of drugs called avermectins, whose derivatives have been shown to have "extraordinary efficacy" in treating River blindness and Lymphatic filariasis, among other parasitic diseases affecting animals and humans. Campbell worked at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research 1957–1990, and has become a research fellow emeritus at Drew University.

Itamar Franco

1930Itamar Franco, Brazilian engineer and politician, 33rd President of Brazil (died 2011)[†]

Itamar Augusto Cautiero Franco was a Brazilian politician who served as the 33rd president of Brazil from 29 December 1992 to 1 January 1995. Previously, he was the 21st vice president of Brazil from 1990 until the resignation of President Fernando Collor de Mello. During his long political career Franco also served as Senator, Mayor, Ambassador and Governor. At the time of his death he was a senator from Minas Gerais, having won the seat in the 2010 election.

1930Jack Gold, English director and producer (died 2015)[†]

Jacob M. Gold was a British film and television director. He was part of the British realist tradition which followed the Free Cinema movement.