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May 30, 1934

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U.S. COURT REFUSES TO ENJOIN WEIRTON ON LABOR ELECTION; REVERSE FOR NRA AND UNIONS; JUDGE ASKS OPEN TRIAL Labor Anti-Injunction Act Is Made the Basis of Nields's Ruling. AFFIDAVITS NOT ENOUGH Doubt of Constitutionality of the NRA Is Another Bar to a Definite Decision. LONG DELAY UNAVOIDABLE Open Hearing, Then an Appeal to the Supreme Court May Outlast Life of Law. WEIRTON CASE WRIT DENIED TO THE NRA

By Louis Stark.special To the New York Times.by Louis Stark

Norris-LaGuardia Anti-injunction Act invoked in ruling against NRA; Weirton Steel Co case

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Swanson Says Review Will Show Fleet Is Fit

By Unknown Author

Asked for a statement on the visit of the United States fleet to New York, Secretary of the Nary Claude A. Swanson replied last night as follows in a wireless message from the cruiser Indianapolis anchored off Grant's Tomb:

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Notable Births

Alexei Leonov

1934Alexei Leonov, Russian general, pilot, and cosmonaut (died 2019)[†]

Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut and aviator, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first person to conduct a spacewalk, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for 12 minutes and 9 seconds. He was also selected to be the first Soviet person to land on the Moon although the project was eventually cancelled.

Alketas Panagoulias

1934Alketas Panagoulias, Greek footballer and manager (died 2012)[†]

Alketas 'Alkis' Panagoulias was a Greek association football player and manager. He managed the national teams of both Greece and the United States. He also managed several clubs, including Aris, his birthplace team, and Olympiakos with whom he won three Alpha Ethniki championships.

Notable Deaths

Tōgō Heihachirō

1934Tōgō Heihachirō, Japanese admiral (born 1848)[†]

Tōgō Heihachirō , served as a gensui or admiral of the fleet in the Imperial Japanese Navy and became one of Japan's greatest naval heroes. As Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, he successfully confined the Russian Pacific naval forces to Port Arthur before winning a decisive victory over a relieving fleet at Tsushima in May 1905. Western journalists called Tōgō "the Nelson of the East". He remains deeply revered as a national hero in Japan, with shrines and streets named in his honour.