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July 27, 1930

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14,000 BEING MOVED FROM QUAKE AREA; KING ENDS SAD TOUR; Halian Homeless Will Go to Relatives Until Hut Towns Can Be Erected. SERVICES IN OPEN TODAY Half the Churches Wrecked or Unsafe--Extra Priests Required for Many Masses.DEATH LIST RISES TO 2,142Mgr. Chiapetta, Pope's Envoy,Gathers Data in Stricken Regionand Praises Work of Relief. Cheers Little Girl in Hospital. King Congratulates Woman. 14,000 EVACUATED FROM QUAKE AREA Death List Rises to 2,142. Plenty of Tents for Homeless. Extra Priests to Hold Services. Papal Envoy Gets Data in Area. Hut Cities Will Be Built.

By Arnaldo Cortesi. Wireless To the New York Times

Earthquake

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AMTORG ACCUSED IN SMUGGLING PLOT; SECRET LIST SEIZED; Two Arrested for Bringing In Watches Name Leader as Official of Agency. TUTTLE ACTS ON EVIDENCE Finds Hint of Passport Frauds and Sees Chance to End Band --Amtorg Makes Denial. DETROIT RED LINKED HERE Witness at Congressional Inquiry Declares New York Leads in Communist Numbers. Book Names Soviet Agents. AMTORG ACCUSED IN SMUGGLING PLOT Says Man Was Only a Clerk. Deny Manganese Competition. Call Soviet Product Superior.

By Unknown Author

Accused in watch smuggling plot

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EINSTEIN EVOLVING YET ANOTHER THEORY; "Maybe People Will Think I am a Fool When They Read It," He Says at League Meeting. CHATS WITH MME. CURIE French Woman Savant Devotes Every Odd Moment at Geneva to Scientific Treatise. Mme. Curie Silent on Studies. EINSTEIN EVOLVING YETAN OTHER THEORY Wants Better Child Education. Urges Colonial Information. Laughs at Intellectuals. Savants From Asia Attend. To Study World Alphabet.

By Clarence K. Streit. Special Cable To the New York Times

Experiment in changing to Latin alphabet reptd working out well

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Notable Births

1930Joy Whitby, English director, producer, and screenwriter[†]

Joy Whitby is an English television executive, television, and radio producer who specialises in children's programmes and animated films.

Shirley Williams

1930Shirley Williams, English academic and politician, Secretary of State for Education (died 2021)[†]

Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby was a British politician and academic. Originally a Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP), she served in the Labour cabinet from 1974 to 1979. She was one of the "Gang of Four" rebels who founded the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in 1981 and, at the time of her retirement from politics, was a Liberal Democrat.