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August 23, 1930

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HOOVER AND MELLON STILL HOLD OUT HOPE OF KEEPING TAX CUT; President Declares Predictions That Reduction Will Be Abandoned Are Premature.'NO GROUND' FOR STORY NOW Administration Appears Ready to Apply Foreign-Debt Interest to Current Expenses.SEES A $75,000,000 SAVING Democrats, Through Hull, Declare "the Myth" of a PermanentTax Slash Is Exploded. Party Chiefs Disconcerted. The President's Statement. HOOVER AND MELLON HOPEFUL ON TAXES Mellon Points to Surplus. Could Borrow for Farm Board. Wait on Situation in December. Criticized by Democrats.

By Special to The New York Times

Statement on declarations of Pres Hoover and Sec Mellon that income-tax cut predictions are premature

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WARD, HERE, INSISTS GRAND JURY CAN SIFT EMPIRE CITY BENCH; Says Only His Own Activity Is Limited to the Ewald Case-- Confers With Steinbrink. SPECIAL PANEL IS SELECTED Roosevelt to Meet Lazansky Today on Inquiry by Court in Brooklyn and Queens. FEDERAL INQUIRY BALKED Tommaney Defies Tuttle After Judge Orders Witness to Testify on $10,000 Loan. Ward Regrets Being Limited. Expects Inquiry to Be Wide. WARD, HERE, HOPES TO WIDEN INQUIRY Grand Jury Panel Picked. Witnesses Again Defy Tuttle. ROOSEVELT CONFERS TODAY. Governor to Discuss Brooklyn and Queens Bench With Lazansky. From a Staff Correspondent of The New York Times.

By Unknown Author

Ward hopes to widen inquiry to include whole bench; grand Jury named; U S Atty Tuttle defied in questioning T T Tommaney, Mrs B E Ewald and M J Healy

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BODIES OF AIRMEN LOST 33 YEARS FOUND NEAR WHERE BALLOON FELL IN ARCTIC; ANDREE AND COMRADES FROZEN AT CAMP; WERE TRYING POLAR FLIGHT Three Daring Aeronauts Perished in the First Attempt of Kind. DIARY TELLS OF TERRORS Note Book Being Brought Back to Reveal Details of Effort to Blaze Trail. BEAR'S BODY FOUND NEAR BY Harpoon, Boat and Three Rifles Recovered, With Scientific and Other Paraphernalia. Diary Tells of Fate. Find Details of Adventure. No Trace of Balloon. Arctic Island Yields Bodies of First Aeronauts to Attempt Polar Flight BODIES OF ANDREE AND 2 OTHERS FOUND Pigeon Brought Message.

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES.Brown Bros. Photo.Times Wide World Photo.Brown Bros. Photo

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Notable Births

Michel Rocard

1930Michel Rocard, French civil servant and politician, 160th Prime Minister of France (died 2016)[†]

Michel Rocard was a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party (PS). He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991 during which he created the Revenu minimum d'insertion (RMI), a social minimum welfare program for indigents, and achieved the Matignon Accords regarding the status of New Caledonia. He was a member of the European Parliament, and was strongly involved in European policies until 2009. In 2007, he joined a Commission under the authority of Nicolas Sarkozy's Minister of Education, Xavier Darcos.

Vera Miles

1930Vera Miles, American actress[†]

Vera June Miles is a retired American actress. She is known for appearing in John Ford's Western films The Searchers (1956) and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and for playing Lila Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and Richard Franklin's sequel Psycho II (1983).