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June 30, 1930

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21 HOURS AHEAD OF RECORD; Chicago Fliers Up 441 Hours at 1:40 A.M. Are Still Going Strong. WATCHING CROWD CHEERS Hunter Brothers Promise to Drop Firecrackers From the Plane on Fourth of July. SALUTED BY ARMY PLANES New Champions Count On $200,000 in Prizes--Old Record-Holders to Try Again. 40,000 Autos Jam Roads. CHICAGO FLIERS SET ENDURANCE MARK Prize Offers Are Made. St. Louis Men to Try Again.

By Special to The New York Times.Times Wide World Photo

D Jackson and F O'Brine plan another attempt to "bring record back to St Louis,"

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CITY PLANS TO MAKE SUBWAY TRIPS EASY BETWEEN BOROUGHS; Engineers Map Routes on New Lines to Go Shortest Way and With Few Transfers. AN INTERLOCKING SYSTEM General Scheme Has Been Worked Out, but Awaits Final Approval by Board. UNUSUAL BROOKLYN SERVICE Crosstown Link to Queens to Provide Local Transit and Line Will Not Enter Manhattan. Plan for Eighth Avenue Line. Junction at Eighth Street. CITY PLANS TO CUT SUBWAY DISTANCES

By Unknown Author

Engineers map routes to go shortest way and with few transfers; interlocking system; unusual Bklyn service

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8 JESUIT MARTYRS PROCLAIMED SAINTS; First From North America Are Canonized in St. Peter's, With Pope Pius Presiding. SEPT. 26 TO BE FETE DAY Father Jean de Brebeuf and His Companions Were Slain by Indians in 17th Century. Thousands Fill St. Peter's. 8 JESUIT MARTYRS PROCLAIMED SAINTS Courtiers in Colorful Garb. Church Bells Signal Event. Americans and Canadians There. Tortured by Iroquois Indians. MANY AT MARTYRS' SHRINE. Eight Thousand at Scene of Martyrdom in Ontario--Service in Ottawa.

By Arnaldo Cortesi. Wireless To the New York Times

Canonization of Canadian martyrs

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Notable Births

1930Ben Atchley, American politician (died 2018)[†]

Curtis Bentley Atchley Jr., known as Ben Atchley, was an American politician in the state of Tennessee. He served in the Tennessee House of Representatives from 1972 to 1976 and the Tennessee State Senate from 1977 to 2005, as a Republican. He was a majority leader and caucus chairman in the senate. He was an alumnus of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and veteran of the United States Naval Reserve. He was married with two children.

Ahmed Zaki Yamani

1930Ahmed Zaki Yamani, Saudi Arabian politician (died 2021)[†]

Ahmed Zaki Yamani was a Saudi Arabian politician who served as Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources under four Saudi monarchs from 1962 to 1986, and a minister in the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) for 25 years.

1930Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad, Syrian bishop (died 2018)[†]

Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad was patriarch of Antioch and all the East of the Syriac Catholic Church. He served as patriarch from 2001 to 2008, when he resigned and retired.