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November 14, 1930

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TRANSATLANTIC AIR MAIL VIA BERMUDA IS PLANNED BY AMERICANS AND BRITISH; NEGOTIATIONS UNDER WAY Passenger and Express Services to Be Added Eventually. PLANES TO STOP AT AZORES Pan-American Line Plans to Connect With Imperial Airways at Bermuda.3-DAY SCHEDULE IS LIKELYFlying Boat Being Tested by theBritish Has Reported Rangeof 3,000 Miles. British Have Bermuda Concession. European Lines Experimenting. AIR LINE PLANNED ACROSS ATLANTIC Fleet of 125 Planes.

By Unknown Author

Negotiations for internatl agreement with Imperial Airways for transatlantic commercial air line

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FRANCE TO EXPOSE ATTACKS ON TREATY; Shows Alarm at Geneva Over Italian Support of Germany's Call for Revision. ARMS LIMITATION IS UPSET Some Hold Debate More Likely to End in War Than in Cuts of Armament. French Serve Notice Pole Tells of War Talk. FRANCE TO EXPOSE ATTACKS ON TREATY Persian Sees Suspicions. French See Revision Move. Leaders Object to Resolution.

By Clarence K. Streit. Special Cable To the New York Times

Argument underlying question of revision threatening at Preparatory Disarmament Comm

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Notable Births

Peter Katin

1930Peter Katin, English pianist and academic (died 2015)[†]

Peter Roy Katin was a British classical pianist and teacher.

Monique Mercure

1930Monique Mercure, Canadian actress (died 2020)[†]

Marie Lise Monique Émond, better known as Monique Mercure, was a Canadian stage and screen actress. She was one of the country's great actors of the classical and modern repertory. In 1977, Mercure won a Cannes Film Festival Award and a Canadian Film Award for her performance in the drama film J.A. Martin Photographer.

Michael Robbins

1930Michael Robbins, English actor (died 1992)[†]

Michael Anthony Robbins was an English actor best known for his role as Arthur Rudge in the television sitcom On the Buses (1969–73) and its film spinoffs.

Ed White (astronaut)

1930Ed White, American engineer and astronaut (died 1967)[†]

Edward Higgins White II was an American aeronautical engineer, United States Air Force officer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He was a member of the crews of Gemini 4 and Apollo 1.

Notable Deaths

Sandy Pearce

1930Sandy Pearce, Australian rugby league player (born 1883)[†]

Sidney Charles Pearce, better known as Sandy, was a pioneer Australian rugby league footballer and boxer. He is considered one of the nation's finest footballers of the 20th century. In 1907 he played for New South Wales in the first rugby match run by the newly created 'New South Wales Rugby Football League' which had just split away from the established New South Wales Rugby Football Union. He made his first national representative appearance in 1908.