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July 17, 1930

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FLIERS LEAP SAFELY ASK PLANE CRASHES; New York-Buenos Aires NonStop Refueling Flight Endsin Wreck in Georgia.COMPLETELY LOST IN A FOG Unable to Control Their Ship, Crew of Three Take toTheir Parachutes. Lost in Fog for Eight Hours. Planned Contact at Havana. Bad Luck Besets Project. FLIERS LEAP SAFELY ASK PLANE CRASHES Garrigan Talks to His Mother.

By the Associated Press

Plane crashes in Ga; fliers jump to safety; details

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Peers Bar Women Members by 4 Majority; Birkenhead in Caustic Retort to Astor Plea

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

House of Lords rejects motion to admit peeresses in their own right, on same terms as peers

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TREATY FORCES SEEK DEBATE LIMITATION TO GET VOTE IN WEEK; Agreement to Check Talk by Tuesday Rests With Johnson and Moses.CLOSURE MOTION DRAFTEDBut Watson Says He Will Withhold It Unless OppositionStarts Filibuster.TWO RESERVATIONS FILED McKellar Addresses Senate on"Freedom of Seas"--DemandsBritish Give Up Bases. To Await Moses's Return. Reservations Filed. Senator McKellar's Speech. Recalls Borate's Previous Stand. Sees Instructions Disregarded. Reservation on "Free Seas." Reservation on Naval Bases. Notes Britain's Bases. Both Likely to Be Defeated.

By Special to The New York Times

Plan to limit Sen debate submitted to Sen Johnson; Sen McKellar offers another reservation calling for dismantling of Brit naval bases in western Atlantic and eastern Pacific

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BIG SMUGGLING PLOT LAID TO CUSTOMS RING; Prosecutor Charges Appraisal and Dock Workers Joined to Let Goods in Free. PUTS LOSS IN MILLIONS Two Await Sentencing After Confessing--4 Others Are Held for Hearing. Charge Is Borne Out. SEES MILLIONS LOST IN SMUGGLING PLOT

By Unknown Author

S Stansfield and W F Gilroy, appraisers, confess to having allowed watch smuggling; 4 other employes held on conspiracy charges

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BRUENING ENFORCES TAX BILL BY DECREE AS REICHSTAG BALKS; Uses Article 48 of Constitution After Legislature Rejects Program, 256 to 204. HAS HINDENBURG'S SUPPORT Will Dissolve Reichstag Today if Socialists Seem Likely to Carry Revocation Move. LATTER SEE DICTATORSHIP Nationalists' Stand Will Decide-- Elections Must Follow a Dissolution in Sixty Days. Up to Nationalists. Galleries Are Packed. BRUENING ENFORCES TAX BILL BY DECREE What Program Includes. Dissolution Defeated

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Cabinet decides to enforce its financial program by decree

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