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9 Greenlanders desert expedition, fearing demons in terrific snowstorm; expedition presses on to central station
Dept of Justice clears Sec Wilbur and Dept of Interior; statement by Atty Gen Mitchell; Kelley attacks Justice Dept inquiry and repeats charge
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Woods proposes "spruce up" drive, radio s
Merchants' Assn analyzes per capita cost of budget
1930Leo Baxendale, English cartoonist (died 2017)[†]
Joseph Leo Baxendale was an English cartoonist and publisher. Baxendale wrote and drew several titles. Among his best-known creations are the Beano strips Little Plum, Minnie the Minx, The Bash Street Kids, and The Three Bears.
1930Barry Supple, English historian and academic[†]
Barry Emanuel Supple, CBE, FBA, is Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge, and a former director of the Leverhulme Trust. He is the father of theatre and opera director Tim Supple.
1930Ellen Hayes, American mathematician and astronomer (born 1851)[†]
Ellen Amanda Hayes was an American mathematician and astronomer. She was a controversial figure, both for being a female college professor and for embracing many radical causes.
1930Ratifications exchanged in London for the first London Naval Treaty go into effect immediately, further limiting the expensive naval arms race among its five signatories.[†]
The London Naval Treaty, officially the Treaty for the Limitation and Reduction of Naval Armament, was an agreement between the United Kingdom, Japan, France, Italy, and the United States that was signed on 22 April 1930. Seeking to address issues not covered in the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, which had created tonnage limits for each nation's surface warships, the new agreement regulated submarine warfare, further controlled cruisers and destroyers, and limited naval shipbuilding.