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July 3, 1930

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COMMERCE CHAMBER URGES RATIFICATION OF THE NAVAL PACT; Letter Sent to All Senators Calls the Treaty a Real Step Toward World Peace. SEES NO BLOW TO DEFENSES President Butterworth Declares Battleship Holiday Will Mean a Material Saving. HOOVER REFUSAL NOTE OUT He Told Signers of Round Robin That "National Interest", Required Extra Session. COMMERCE CHAMBER URGES RATIFICATION Sees Economic Benefits. Points to Savings for Nation. Stimson Comments on Critics.

By Special to The New York Times

Pres Hoover in lr to Sen Moses refuses plea of 23 Sens who asked for postponement

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SOUTHERN CROSS HOPS TO CHICAGO; Major Kingsford-Smith Tells of the First Lap of Flight to Pacific Coast. OFTEN BESETS BY THE FOG Says "Cheerio" to Endurance Fliers--Australia Promotes Him to Be Wing Commander. Climb Above Clouds. ENDURANCE FLIERS PASS 513TH HOUR Send Message to Sister.

By Major Charles Kingsford-Smith,Commander and Chief Pilot of the Airplane Southern Cross

CHICAGO, July 2.--The Southern Cross today followed the Eastern division of the transcontinental air mail route between New York and Chicago, completing the first leg of our three-day trip to San Francisco from Roosevelt Field in a little under ...

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Women to Picket Speakeasy Opposite School; Appeal to Hoover to Shut Queens Resort

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Acts to close speakeasy near school

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CHICAGO FLIERS FIX DYING MOTOR IN AIR; PASS 513TH HOUR; Hunter Brothers Encounter Day of Troubles, but Set Goal Ahead to Sunday. REFUELING PLANE FALTERS Frantic Repairs Adjust the Balky Motor in Time for Contact Aloft. RECEIPTS ARE ATTACHED Backers of Former Endurance Flight Sue Hunters as Their Rewards Pile Up. Set Sunday as the Goal. SOUTHERN CROSS HOPS TO CHICAGO Greet Endurance Fliers. Chicago Police on the Job. FLIERS RADIO APPRECIATION. Send Messages to Hoover and Others While on Flight. To President Hoover. START FROM ROOSEVELT FIELD Weather Reports Fail to Deter Crew of Southern Cross.

By Special to The New York Times.By Major Charles Kingsford-Smith.times Wide World Photo

Fliers mend dying motor in air; backers of former attempt attach receipts, charging plane still belongs to them

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HOUSE RESTORES $250,000 FOR HOOVER'S LAW BOARD; DRY PADLOCK DRIVE LOOMS; PRESIDENT VICTOR ON BILL Carried by 272 to 41, It Gives the Board Scope Beyond Dry Law. FIGHT NOW ON WITH SENATE Monograph on 'Padlock Procedure' Indicates Aggressive Policy Under New Dry Regime. INQUIRY HERE HITS SNAGS Senate Passes Bill Modifying Jones Law--Others of Dry Program May Die. Insist on a Record Vote. LAW BOARD FUND RESTORED BY HOUSE Preventive Policy Indicated. One Violator Follows Another.

By Special to The New York Times

Sen passes bill

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1930Pete Fountain, American clarinet player (died 2016)^[†]

Pierre Dewey LaFontaine Jr., known professionally as Pete Fountain, was an American jazz clarinetist.

1930Carlos Kleiber, German-Austrian conductor (died 2004)^[†]

Carlos Kleiber was a German-born Austrian conductor, who is widely regarded as among the greatest conductors of all time. The son of the conductor Erich Kleiber, he was particularly known for the Romantic repertoire. John Rockwell notes writes: "A fabled perfectionist, he demanded long hours of rehearsal as his reputation grew and allowed him to obtain such concessions. But he made all that work pay off in performances that blended exactitude with impassioned spontaneity."

1930Tommy Tedesco, American guitarist (died 1997)^[†]

Thomas Joseph Tedesco was an American guitarist and studio musician in Los Angeles and Hollywood. He was part of the loose collective of the area's leading session musicians later popularly known as The Wrecking Crew, who played on thousands of studio recordings in the 1960s and 1970s, including several hundred Top 40 hits.

Headlines from July 3, 1930

SOUTHERN CROSS HOPS TO CHICAGO; Major Kingsford-Smith Tells of the First Lap of Flight to Pacific Coast. OFTEN BESETS BY THE FOG Says "Cheerio" to Endurance Fliers--Australia Promotes Him to Be Wing Commander. Climb Above Clouds. ENDURANCE FLIERS PASS 513TH HOUR Send Message to Sister.

Women to Picket Speakeasy Opposite School; Appeal to Hoover to Shut Queens Resort

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