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October 18, 1930

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President's Statement on Unemployment.

By Unknown Author

I have today requested Secretaries Lamont, Davis, Wilbur, Hurley, Hyde, Mellon and Governor Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board to formulate and submit to me plans continuing and strengthening the organization of Federal activities for employment during the Winter.

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LOS ANGELES BLAST INJURES 52 WORKERS; LOSS PUT AT MILLION; Officials Decide Explosion in 12-Story Garment Capitol Building Was Due to Gas. FLAMES TRAP MANY WOMEN Fatalities Are Averted by Heroic Rescue Work by the Police and Firemen. NEAR-BY STRUCTURES HURT Building Had Been Under Police Protection for Two Months in Garment Strike. Police Guard Car Destroyed. Disagree on Explosive. $5,000,000 IS ADDED TO CITY'S BUDGET

By Special to The New York Times

$1,000,000 appropriated by City

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RECORDS ON BERTINI DENIED TO GOVERNOR; TODD INQUIRY LAGS; Justice McCook Rules Grand Jury Might Be Hampered by Revealing Minutes Now. PROSECUTOR LEAVES CITY Action on Investigation of Judge Is Expected to Go Over Until After Election. MRS. BERTINI ENDS STORY Two Other Witnesses Are Heard Secretly--Kresel Questions Brown on Bronx Magistrate. Minutes Asked Under Protest. Text of the Court Decision. RECORDS ON BERTINI DENIED TO GOVERNOR Two Secret Witnesses Heard. Roosevelt Silent on Refusal. KRESEL QUERIES J.W. BROWN. Bronx Public Administrator Is Said to Have Backed Silberman.

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McCook refuses to submit Bertini data to Roosevelt and Senate; Mrs Bertini testifies with 2 others; Kresel hears J W Brown

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Notable Births

Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun

1930Flora Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun, Scottish politician (died 2024)[†]

Flora Marjorie Fraser, 21st Lady Saltoun, was a Scottish noblewoman and Crossbench peer. Until her retirement on 12 December 2014, she was the only holder of a lordship of Parliament with a seat in the House of Lords as an elected hereditary peer.

1930Esther Hautzig, Lithuanian-American author (died 2009)[†]

Esther R. Hautzig was a Polish-born American writer, best known for her award-winning book The Endless Steppe (1968).