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July 16, 1926

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Plans of Fauntleroy Memorial in Central Park Rejected by Board, but May Be Resubmitted

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N Y C Art Comm disapproves plans for W Whitman statue

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REPUBLICANS FEAR CORN BELT REVOLT IN FARMERS' PARLEY; Leaders See Prospect of Des Moines Meeting Turning Into Anti-Coolidge Demonstration. BROOKHART WILL ATTEND Nye Will Also Confer With Farmers and Business Men Representing Eleven States. DEMOCRATS ALSO TO MEET Oldfield Declares They Offer the Midwest the Relief the Republicans Have Refused. REPUBLICANS FEAR CORN BELT REVOLT

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Will attend Des Moines meeting called by reprs of farm assns, to discuss relief legislation

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FIND TRANSIT FUNDS, BERRY URGES BOARD; Retention of 5-Cent Fare Put Up to City Administration by the Controller. ASKS PROMPT SOLUTION If Rate Will Not Meet Debt Cost, He Wants Other Means Provided at Once. FIND TRANSIT FUNDS, BERRY URGES BOARD

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Controller Berry submits retention of 5c fare to Estimate Bd, in lr urging definite action on problems

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WIFE DIES AS MORSE IS ORDERED TO TRIAL; She Is Stricken by Apoplexy at Her Sister-in-Law's Home in Maine. HIS PLEA REJECTED HERE Must Appear in Court Next Thursday or Bail Will Be Forfeited, the Judge Rules.

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Wife dies of apoplexy as he is summoned to appear at trial for defrauding investors by mails in stocks of U S Steamship Co

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Notable Births

1926Ivica Horvat, Croatian footballer and manager (died 2012)^[†]

Ivan "Ivica" Horvat was a Croatian and Yugoslav professional football player and manager.

1926Irwin Rose, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2015)^[†]

Irwin Allan Rose was an American biologist. Along with Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation.