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October 5, 1930

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Notable Births

1930Pavel Popovich, Ukrainian general, pilot, and cosmonaut (died 2009)^[†]

Pavel Romanovich Popovich was a Soviet cosmonaut.

1930Reinhard Selten, German economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)^[†]

Reinhard Justus Reginald Selten was a German economist, who won the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is also well known for his work in bounded rationality and can be considered one of the founding fathers of experimental economics.

Notable Deaths

1930Christopher Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson, Indian-English soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Air (born 1875)^[†]

Christopher Birdwood Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson,, was a British Army officer who went on to serve as a Labour minister and peer. He served as Secretary of State for Air under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and between 1929 and 1930, when he was killed in the R101 disaster.

Historical Events

1930British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage killing 48 people.^[†]

R101 was one of a pair of British rigid airships completed in 1929 as part of the Imperial Airship Scheme, a British government programme to develop civil airships capable of service on long-distance routes within the British Empire. It was designed and built by an Air Ministry–appointed team and was effectively in competition with the government-funded but privately designed and built R100. When built, it was the world's largest flying craft at 731 ft (223 m) in length, and it was not surpassed by another hydrogen-filled rigid airship until the LZ 129 Hindenburg was launched seven years later.

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Headlines from October 5, 1930

JOE COOK, MADMAN; His Scrambled Stories, His Demented Machines His Infectious Personality in "Fine and Dandy"

By J. Brooks Atkinson

Article by J B Atkinson

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BANKERS AND THE BUSINESS FUTURE.

By Unknown Author

Proceedings of last week's American Bankers' national convention were noteworthy in one respect. Alike in the formal speeches, in the discussions from ...

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Colgate Averages Point and Half a Minute In 99 to 0 Rout of Bethany at Hamilton

By Special to The New York Times

HAMILTON, N.Y., Oct. 4.--With Walter Terry scoring four times and contributing additional long runs, Colgate's varsity football team and reserves crushed Bethany today, 99 to 0, for the second highest score in the Maroon's football history.

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PRESENT LIQUOR FLOW 40% OF THAT IN 1914; Woodcock, Dry Chief, Puts the Possible Production in 1930 at 876,320,718 Gallons. SEVEN FOR EACH PERSON The Commissioner Estimates That Consumption of Illegal Spirits Is Decreasing. LIQUOR FLOW NOW 40% OF THAT IN 1914 Compare Alcoholic Content. Use of Corn Sugar.

By Special to The New York Times

Rept on liquor production and consumption

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Notre Dame Defeats So. Methodist, 20-14, In Dedicating Its New $750,000 Stadium

By Unknown Author

SOUTH BEND, Ind., Oct. 4.-- Notre Dame pitted a hard running attack against the famed aerial offense of Southern Methodist today, but was forced to revert to the overhead style of play to win, 20 to 14.

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NEWS AND GOSSIP OF THE RIALTO; Miss Barrymore Breaks Some Ohio Records--Mr. Tyler Buys a Play--Crane Wilbur for "On the Spot"--Again the Messrs. Shipman and Hymer

By Unknown Author

ALTHOUGH Miss Barrymore's new play has been received with something less than ecstasy by the reviewers in Columbus and Cleveland, it is doing, and promises to continue to do, record-breaking business on the road. In Columbus, where it opened, "scarlet Sister Mary" brought, forth such a turnout an the legitimate theatre seldom attracts these days in cities ...

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PRINCETON DEFEATS AMHERST BY 23 TO 0; Alert Eleven Takes Advantage of Opportunities to Score All Its Points in First Half. JAMES IN 91-YARD DASH Nassau's Sophomore Halfback Tallies Twice--Also Aids With 55-Yard Sprint. Holds Off Amherst Bid. PRINCETON BEATS AMHERST BY 23-0 Lea Blocks the Kick. Purnell Intercepts Pass. Teams Exchange Punts.

By Robert F. Kelley. Special To the New York Times

PRINCETON, N.J., Oct. 4.-- Princeton's football team found luck waiting for it this afternoon and embraced it with open arms. Taking full advantage of a sudden string of breaks almost at the very outset of the game, the Tigers rolled up 23 points during the first period and ...

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SNARING THE ELUSIVE BROADWAY JOB; JOB HUNTING ON BROADWAY

By Lucile Hoerr Charles

ON Sept. 16 of this year, after five and a half weeks of jobhunting on Broadway and a total of 344 calls upon 71 cast ing officials, I decided to take stock of myself.

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CONVENTION TO PUSH NEW JERSEY CANAL; Shorter New York-Philadelphia Route Will Be Chief Topic of Waterways Body This Week. SURVEY IS NOW UNDER WAY Atlantic Association, Meeting at Wilmington, N.C., Will Get Messages From Three of Cabinet.

By Special to The New York Times

Plans for 23rd annual convention

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PROSPERITY'S CYCLE; A Review of Financial Conditions in the United States Too Much Optimism. The Cycle Theory. A New Generation. The Human Factor. When the Crash Came. The Workman's Purchase Power. Intensive Salesmanship." Cost Reductions. Inpregnable" Prosperity. The Next Chapter. Factors for Recovery.

By Alexander D. Noyes, Financial Editor of the New York Times. Text of An Address Delivered To the Convention Or the American Bankers Association of Cleveland Last Wednesday

A D Noyes s to Amer Bankers' Assn on prosperity cycles

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CHANGES COMING IN WEST 42D STREET; Transit Additions Aid Growth. Increase in Realty Values.

By Unknown Author

Real estate prospects

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CIVIC REPERTORY

By Unknown Author

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