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December 5, 1930

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Headlines from December 5, 1930

HOOVER LISTS PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS, URGING CONGRESS TO SPEED $150,000,000; $8,000,000 NEW GOAL OF JOB FUND HERE; PRESIDENT FEARS DELAYS Says in Message That He Can Make Jobs Now by Directing Spending. BILLS OFFERED AT ONCE Wood, in the House, Demands Immediate Action, Recalling Wartime Emergency. CONGRESS CONTROL URGED Democrats Counter Administration Proposal, but Capital Expects That It Will Win. Says Congress Should Decide. Hearings Will Begin Today. Places for Spending Indicated. Wood Opens Debate in House. Says Hoover Proved His Worth. Huddleston Demands Action. Immigration Bills Pushed. Seeks Relief From Red Tape. Other Unemployment Measures.

By Special to The New York Times

Pres Hoover sends special message to Cong listing projects to increase employment; bills introduced

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MULROONEY STARTS VICE SQUAD SHAKEUP, 8 FACING DISMISSAL; Formal Charges Against Seven Others Likely--'Impersonator' of Ryan Transferred. FEES TO DECOYS STUDIED Kresel to Subpoena Accounts of All Detectives Working With Stool Pigeons. BAIL JUMPER IS HUNTED Becker Case Witness Put Up $7,500 for Missing Informer--McQuade and Bushel Inquiries Pushed. Delaney to Seek Writ. MULROONEY STARTS VICE RING SHAKE-UP Seven More Police Under Fire. Denies Posing as Ryan. Kresel Refuses Aide to Crain.

By Unknown Author

Mulrooney starts clean-up of vice squad; 8 plain-clothes men face trial; Pfeiffer transferred; Kresel declines to let asst put case before grand jury; H Milham, called bail jumper, sought; vice inquiry continues

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5TH AV. BUSES SLATED FOR 12 NEW ROUTES; ONE TAPS TIMES SQ.; Company Also Likely to Get Grants for Other Lines Now Operating on Permits by City. LIST INCLUDES 7TH AVENUE Line Would Run From Canal to 57th Street and Handle Riverside Drive Traffic. LINKED TO TROLLEY DEAL New York Railways Proposal to Drop Surface Cars Hinges on Acceptance of Plan by City. Linked With Trolley Deal. NEW ROUTES LIKELY FOR 5TH AV. BUSES List of Routes. Mostly Pleas for Extensions.

By Unknown Author

Slated for 12 additional route franchises; likely to get grants for other lines now operating on permits by City; list of routes

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Notable Births

Yi-Fu Tuan

1930Yi-Fu Tuan, Chinese-American geographer (died 2022)[†]

Yi-Fu Tuan was a Chinese-born American geographer and writer. He was one of the key figures in human geography and an important originator of humanistic geography.