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December 15, 1930

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HOUSE DROUGHT BILL WILL TEST STRENGTH OF PRESIDENT TODAY; Republicans Will Try to Pass $30,000,000 Relief Measure With Rules Suspended. SQUALL LOOMS IN SENATE La Follette Retort to Hoover 'Human Suffering' Statement Comes Up for Action. PREDICT QUITTING MARCH 4 Leaders Declare an Extra Session Unlikely--Wagner to Offer Unemployment Reserve Bill. Cloud Looms in Senate. WILL TEST STRENGTH OF HOOVER IN HOUSE Watson Reassures Business. Wagner to Offer New Bill.

By Special to The New York Times

Prepares unemployment reserve bill

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EXCURSION BOAT EXPLODES OFF MIAMI WITH 135 ABOARD; 3 KNOWN DEAD, 7 MISSING; VESSELS RUSH TO RESCUE Pick Up Men, Women and Children Hurled Into the Sea by Blasts. PANIC ADDED TO TERRORS Glass-Bottom Boat Was Returning to Miami When Fire StartedFrom Engine Room.MUSICIANS PLAYED CALMLYPolice Sergeant, Among SeveralNew Yorkers in Party, TellsStory of the Tragedy. Two of Dead Identified. First Fire Causes Panic. Seek to Save All Children. List of Survivors. Many Northerners on Vessel. Orchestra Keeps Playing. Skipper of Craft in Hospital. New York Officer's Story. Were Not Far From Shore. East Orange Couple on Trip.

By Unknown Author

Burns and sinks after blast of Bug Light, Miami; 135 aboard; 3 known dead, 7 missing

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SPAIN EXECUTES TWO AS REVOLT LEADERS; FACES STRIKE TODAY; Doomed Men Themselves Give Order to Firing Squad--Four Others Get Life Terms. FOREIGN LEGION RECALLED Madrid Hears Rumors Native Troops From Morocco May Be Brought Into Spain. UNIONS THREATEN TIE-UPS Several Cities Involved in Plans for Strikes--Many Republican Leaders Are Seized. Eight Soldiers in Squad. Tension on Strike Situation. SPAIN EXECUTES TWO AS REVOLT LEADERS Foreign Legion Brought Home. Loyalists Control Jaca. Quiet Restored at Saragossa. Civilians Cross Border.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Capts Galan and Hernandez executed; 4 other officers face life sentences as revolt leaders attempt to institute general strike throughout country; troops from Morocco may be called in

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Notable Births

Edna O'Brien

1930Edna O'Brien, Irish novelist, playwright, poet and short story writer (died 2024)[†]

Josephine Edna O'Brien was an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer.