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December 16, 1930

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TWO SETBACKS FOR HOOVER; HOUSE HALTS DROUGHT BILL, SENATE REBUFFS CONFEREES; SHARP DEBATES ON RELIEF House by 205-159 Beats Suspension of Rules on Drought Fund. 16 REPUBLICANS DESERT Senate Sets Aside Conference Agreement, to Give President Control of Works Fund. EXECUTIVE IS DEFENDED Watson Upholds the Adequacy of Employment Measures, Challenged by La Follette. Senate Upsets Conference. House Plans "Gag" Action. Purnell Leads the Battle. Garner Sees Different Issue. Would Increase Income Tax. The House Vote in Detail. Senate Debate Is Bitter. Assails Critics of the President. Denies Red Cross Aid Is Enough. Demands Minority's Cooperation. La Follette Asks About Woods. Summary of Employment Reports. Challenges Watson Statement. Urge $500,000,000 for Relief. Calls Hoover Innocent of Deceit.

By Special to The New York Times

Defends administration bills for unemployment relief

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SUGAR PARLEY FAILS AS GERMANS REJECT ACCORD AND GO HOME; Brussels Conference Collapses With Others Blaming Reich's "Exorbitant Demands." DUMPING BATTLE IN OFFING Germans Insist They Have to Export to the Limit to Pay War and Other Debts. LOOPHOLE FOR AGREEMENT Nations Will Fulfill Chadbourne's 5-Year Plan if He Can Win Germany Over by Jan. 15. Resentment Is Intense. SUGAR PARLEY FAILS AS GERMANS OBJECT Reason for Hope. Really an Increase.

By Carlisle MacDonald. Special Cable To the New York Times

Conf fails as Germans reject accord and go home

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Notable Births

1930Bill Brittain, American author (died 2011)[†]

William E. Brittain was an American writer. He is best known for work set in the fictional New England village of Coven Tree, including The Wish Giver, a Newbery Honor Book.

Sam Most

1930Sam Most, American flute player and saxophonist (died 2013)[†]

Samuel Most was an American jazz flutist, clarinetist and tenor saxophonist, based in Los Angeles. He was "probably the first great jazz flutist", according to jazz historian Leonard Feather.

Bill Young (Florida politician)

1930Bill Young, American sergeant and politician (died 2013)[†]

Charles William Young was an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 until his death in 2013. A Republican from Florida, Young served as chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations from 1999 to 2005. He was the longest-serving Republican member of Congress at the time of his death.