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October 4, 1927

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By Edwin L. James.copyright, 1927, By the New York Times Company.special Cable To the New York Times

PARIS, Oct. 3. -- The French Government has approached the American Government with an intimation that it would be pleased to reopen negotiations for a settlement of the French war debt to the United States. At the same time a similar sounding has been made in London.

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WALKER TO ENFORCE NIGHT CLUB CURFEW; Declares Law Is Being Defied and Wants to Know Who Is Responsible. THREATENS PERSONAL TOUR Says Some Places Keep Open All Night -- Sees City's 'Fair Name' Imperiled. WALKER TO ENFORCE NIGHT CLUB CURFEW

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Comr Quigley asks Estimate Bd for sum for more inspectors

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Levine, Received by Pius, Kisses Papal Ring, But Is So Awed That He Cannot Speak

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Received by the Pope

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Notable Births

1927Wolf Kahn, American painter and academic (died 2020)^[†]

Wolf Kahn was a German-born American painter.

Historical Events

1927Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.^[†]

John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum was an American sculptor best known for his work on Mount Rushmore. He is also associated with various other public works of art across the U.S., including Stone Mountain in Georgia, statues of Union General Philip Sheridan in Washington, D.C., and in Chicago, as well as a bust of Abraham Lincoln exhibited in the White House by Theodore Roosevelt and now held in the United States Capitol crypt in Washington, D.C.