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October 17, 1930

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Voter Holds Teacher Erred On Locating Brooklyn Bridge

By Unknown Author

T Burgess holds teacher, marking literacy test paper, erred in locating bridge; upholds statement that it connects Bklyn and Manhattan, not "Bklyn and N Y,"

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ROOSEVELT ASSAILS TUTTLE AS IGNORANT OF STATE ACTIVITIES; "Amused" at Charge That He is Playing Politics With Expenditures, He Says. PUBLIC WORK "SPREAD OUT" He Details Spending of $33,000,000 and Plans for the Remainder. PRAISES SMITH ON PARKS Governor In Radio Speech AlsoCites Education Program--Takesto Stump Tomorrow. Still Silent on Tammany. Program of Expenditures. ROOSEVELT REPLIES TO TUTTLE ON WORK Tells of Education Work.

By From a Staff Correspondent of Ths New York Times

Roosevelt answers Tuttle's charge that he is making political capital of continued unemployment

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BRUENING SAYS REICH WILL ASK DEBT DELAY IF CRISIS DEMANDS IT; Calls on Reichstag to Adopt His Fiscal Reforms in Effort to Avert Moratorium. PLEDGES NATION TO PEACE But Holds Creditors Have Not Fully Cooperated in Solution of Young Plan Problems. SCORES FAILURE TO DISARM Chancellor Recalls 1919 Promise-- Admits $250,000,000 Deficit-- Heckled by Reds and Fascists. Seeks Moral Equality. BRUENING SAYS DEBT MAY REQUIRE DELAY Insists on Whole Program. Effect of Depression. Sees Germany Hardest Hit. Stresses Significance. Fascist Heads Committee. Saxons Would Alter Young Plan.

By Guido Enderis. Wireless To the New York Times.by Guido Enderis

Chancellor Bruening says Govt may ask for moratorium, holding creditors have not fully cooperated

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FEDERALS BEAT OFF BRAZIL REBEL RAID; Attack on Itarare Repulsed With Heavy Losses and 200 Prisoners Taken. REPORT FEDERAL DEFECTION Rebels Claim Sixty Companies Have Deserted--Pernambuco Feels Food Shortage. FEDERALS BEAT OFF BRAZIL REBEL RAID Report Rebels in Sergipe. Rebel Progress Reported. Federals Move Troops.

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Rebel attack on Itarare repulsed; food shortage felt in Pernambuco

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Front Page 1 -- No Title; Deegan Helps to Eject Reds.

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Notable Births

1930Ismail Akbay, Turkish physicist and engineer (died 2003)^[†]

İsmail Akbay was a Turkish scientist. He is mostly remembered as the first Turk to work for NASA.

1930Robert Atkins, American physician and cardiologist, created the Atkins diet (died 2003)^[†]

Robert Coleman Atkins was an American physician and cardiologist, best known for the Atkins Diet, which requires close control of carbohydrate consumption and emphasizes protein and fat as the primary sources of dietary calories in addition to a controlled number of carbohydrates from vegetables.