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September 14, 1930

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300 CRAFT FOLLOW RACERS; Record Floating Gallery Creates Brilliant Scene Along the Course. START BLINDLY IN MIST Cluster of Passenger Steamers, Pleasure Yachts and Tiny Boats Has Few Mishaps. DIN GREETS CRAFT AT FINISH Whistles, Sirens and Horns Hail Victor and Are Sounded Again in a Tribute to Loser. Hundreds of Small Boats. 300 BOATS PURSUE RACERS ON COURSE Spectators Pursue Racers.

By Lincoln A. Werden. Special To the New York Times

NEWPORT, R.I., Sept. 13.--Following in the wake of the cup defenders this morning as Shamrock V and Enterprise went over the starting line was the greatest spectator fleet that had ever assembled for an international race, 300 craft of varying size, one of the most costly fleets afloat.

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GUN BATTLE IN BERLIN ON EVE OF ELECTION; One Killed, Score Wounded When Communists Fire on Fascists From Housetops. OTHER FIGHTS ELSEWHERE Fate of Parliamentary Regime is Seen at Stake in Today's Balloting for Reichstag. Mice Break Up Meeting. A Pursuit of Voters. GUN FIGHT IN BERLIN ON EVE OF ELECTION Loath to Yield Privileges. Approval Taken for Granted. Would Nullify Intransigeance. Newcomers on Ballot. Disorders in Many Cities.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Communists fire on Natl Socialists (Fascists) on eve of Reichstag elections

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Notable Births

Allan Bloom

1930Allan Bloom, American philosopher and academic (died 1992)[†]

Allan David Bloom was an American philosopher, classicist, and academician. He studied under David Grene, Leo Strauss, Richard McKeon, and Alexandre Kojève. He subsequently taught at Cornell University, the University of Toronto, Tel Aviv University, Yale University, the École normale supérieure, and the University of Chicago.

1930Romola Costantino, Australian pianist and critic (died 1988)[†]

Romola Helen Louise Costantino, Mrs Enyi, was an Australian pianist, accompanist and teacher, who also worked as a music, film and theatre critic.

Eugene I. Gordon

1930Eugene I. Gordon, American physicist and engineer (died 2014)[†]

Eugene Irving Gordon was an American physicist. He was Director of the Lightwave Devices Laboratory of Bell Labs.