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Exec com decides political policy to defeat wets
Makes record flight of 15 hrs from N Y to Los Angeles; description; plans return flight
R Rs assure Hoover of cooperation; blighted areas increase
Comparison of figures in Gt Britain, Germany, France and other countries
Brit aviators and others honor her
1930Togrul Narimanbekov, Azerbaijani-French painter and academic (died 2013)[†]
Togrul Farman oglu Narimanbekov was one of the prominent modern Azerbaijani artists, laureate of the State Prizes of the USSR and the Azerbaijan SSR, the People's Artist of the USSR and Azerbaijan, and a personal benefactor of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
1930Veljo Tormis, Estonian composer and educator (died 2017)[†]
Veljo Tormis was an Estonian composer, regarded as one of the great contemporary choral composers and one of the most important composers of the 20th century in Estonia. Internationally, his fame arises chiefly from his extensive body of choral music, which exceeds 500 individual choral songs, most of it a cappella. The great majority of these pieces are based on traditional ancient Estonian folksongs (regilaulud), either textually, melodically, or merely stylistically.
1930The last confirmed lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana; two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are murdered.[†]
Lynching is an extrajudicial killing by a group. It is most often used to characterize informal public executions by a mob in order to punish an alleged or convicted transgressor or to intimidate others. It can also be an extreme form of informal group social control, and it is often conducted with the display of a public spectacle for maximum intimidation. Instances of lynchings and similar mob violence can be found in all societies.