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November 20, 1930

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MAURETANIA SAVES 28 ON VESSEL SINKING IN GALE IN MID-OCEAN; Capt. Fried Also Speeds to Aid of Swedish Freighter Ovidia, but Arrives an Hour Late. BRITISH SHIPS IN CRASH Five Lost When Continental Goes Down Near Holland Coast After Collision. 580 SAVED OFF PORTUGAL Highland Hope Runs on Rocks and Sinks at Mouth of Tagus, but Passengers Are Taken Off. Five Lost in Ship Crash MAURETANIA SAVES 28 ON SINKING SHIP Sinking Ovidia Abandoned. McNeil in Service Thirty Years. THRILLING RACE TO OVIDIA. Witness Describes Rescue in Wild Ocean Waste by Mauretania.

By Times Wide World Photo

In collision with S S Scheldt and Hebble off Flushing, Holland; 5 lost

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WALL ST. FIRMS GIVE $250,000 FOR JOB AID; Partial Canvass of Financial Houses Swells Drive Fund to Nearly $2,000,000. GAME SEATS BRING $100,000 Army-Navy Benefit Expected to Net $1,250,000--Queens to Raise $500,000. Army-Navy Game Seats Go Fast. Centres of Relief Listed. Nearly $2,000,000 Raised in Job Drive To Report on Drive Tomorrow. Seat Demand Swamps Officers. Food for 27,000 Families. BERGEN JOBLESS REGISTER. 1,356 Men and Women Report-- 5,000 Estimated to Be Out of Work. MORROW TO AID JOBLESS. He and Thomson to Hunt Work in Englewood for the Unemployed. WESTCHESTER PRESSES AID. Recreation Group Would Push Building Program. CARTERET CREATES JOBS. New Jersey Town Finds Many Streets in Need of Repairs.

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Stock Exch sub-com repts pledges of $250 000; Army-Navy game seats on sale at Biltmore Hotel; centres of relief listed; Mayor's com prepares food for 27,000 families

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Notable Births

Christine Arnothy

1930Christine Arnothy, French writer (died 2015)[†]

Christine Arnothy was a Hungarian-born French writer. She was born in Budapest. Her first book, J'ai quinze ans et je ne veux pas mourir was submitted for a literary competition and won the Grand Prix Verité in 1954.

Aarón Hernán

1930Aarón Hernán, Mexican actor (died 2020)[†]

Aarón Hernán was a Mexican telenovela and film actor.

Bernard Horsfall

1930Bernard Horsfall, English-Scottish actor (died 2013)[†]

Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall was an English actor of stage and screen.

1930Choe Yong-rim, North Korean Premier[†]

Choe Yong-rim is a North Korean politician who served as the Premier of North Korea from June 2010 to April 2013 and was a member of the 6th Presidium of the Workers' Party of Korea. He has been described by The New York Times as a "KWP insider" and a "friend of Kim Jong Il's family." He is honorary vice-president of the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, the country's parliament.

Notable Deaths

1930Bill Holland, American track and field athlete (born 1874)[†]

William Joseph Holland was an American track and field athlete.