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April 15, 1925

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Headlines from April 15, 1925

PAINLEVE AGAIN CALLED ON TO FORM A FRENCH CABINET; Briand Declines After Unified Socialists Refuse to Join His Ministry. WOULDN'T EVEN SUPPORT IT Left Bloc Is Fighting Back Against Forces Which Overthrew Herriot Government. BANK-NOTE BILL UP TODAY Both Houses Are Expected to Pass Measure Legalizing 4,000,000,000 Franc Excess Issue. CALLS ON PAINLEVE TO FORM A CABINET

By Edwin L. James.special Cable To the New York Times.by Edwin L. James

Painleve again asked to form Cabinet

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UR ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAIL GREATEST FIND, 4,200-YEAR-OLD SLAB; Beautifully Executed Monument Regarded as Most Important Discovery in Mesopotamia. CARVINGS UNLOCK HISTORY Building of the Great Tower of Ur in 2300 B.C. Is Shown in a Series of Pictures. FIRST FIGURES OF ANGELS British-American Expedition Crowns Its Work With a Wonderful Record of Ancient Life. UR ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAIL GREATEST FIND

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

C L Woolley of British Museum-Univ of Pa expedition, tells of discovery of ancient stella at Ur of the Chaldees; art quoted from London Times

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Notable Deaths

Fritz Haarmann

1925Fritz Haarmann, German serial killer (born 1879)[†]

Friedrich Heinrich Karl "Fritz" Haarmann was a German serial rapist and serial killer, known as the Butcher of Hanover, the Vampire of Hanover and the Wolf Man, who committed the sexual assault, murder, mutilation and dismemberment of at least twenty-four young men and boys in the city of Hanover between 1918 and 1924.