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August 18, 1930

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GRAND JURY MAY ACT FURTHER ON EWALD, CRAIN NOW ASSERTS; Declares Its Report Has Not Yet Been Made and Either Jury or He May Press Charges. WOULD "WELCOME" ACTION Says Such a Course Would Not Surprise Him--Calls Talk of Dismissal "Premature." DATA TO GOVERNOR TODAY Still in Grand Jury's Hands. Would Welcome Reopening. No Comment From Governor. Inquiries May Overlap. Deposits to Be Sifted. PRESSES FOR STATE ACTION. Young Republicans of Brooklyn Again Urge Governor to Move. PROPOSES A MAYOR'S INQUIRY.

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AID REACHES TAHITI JUST AS LINER TILTS; PASSENGERS SAVED; Ventura Picks Up 175 in Five Boatloads, but Crew Stays on Injured Vessel. RACE AGAINST A STORM Liner's Pumps Keep Going as Rescuer Nears--Norwegian Freighter on Guard. RADIO CONTACT MAINTAINED Radio Working Through Night. Crew Remains Aboard. Pumps Kept Ship Afloat. AID REACHES TAHITI JUST AS LINER TILTS Passengers Listed. New Yorker's Relative a Passenger.

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Passengers transferred to Ventura as liner tilts; lists of passengers

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Notable Births

Liviu Librescu

1930Liviu Librescu, Romanian-American engineer and academic (died 2007)[†]

Liviu Librescu was a Romanian–American scientist and engineer. A prominent academic in addition to being a survivor of the Holocaust, his major research fields were aeroelasticity and aerodynamics.

Rafael Pineda Ponce

1930Rafael Pineda Ponce, Honduran academic and politician (died 2014)[†]

Rafael Pineda Ponce was a Honduran professor and politician in the Liberal Party of Honduras and President of the National Congress of Honduras from 1998 to 2002.