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August 19, 1930

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RACKETEERS KEEP CITY FOOD PRICES HIGH, WITNESSES REVEAL AT STATE INQUIRIES; DEATH THREATS AND SABOTAGE CHARGED; NEW MILK RING ALLEGED Fay Group, Rejuvenated, Is Advancing Prices, Prosecutor Hears. GANGS BAR CHEAPER EGGS Slash Tires on Trucks and Menace Drivers to Balk 5-Cent-a-Dozen Cut. MANY FEARFUL ON STAND Dwyer Studies Survey of City Foodstuffs--Wynne on Radio Urges 'Market Basket Army.' More Disclosures Forecast. Said Business Would Go On. Truckman Tells of Cut Tires. Police Protection Assured. Jobber Says He Got Threats. Hears of Milk Price Rises. Dwyer Gets Markets Survey. Quotes Retail Prices. Wynne in Radio Talk. PRODUCE SHIPMENTS STEADY Agriculture Department Reports Only Seasonal Fluctuations.

By Unknown Author

On food prices

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FEDERAL COSTS RISE AS REVENUES SHRINK, FOREBODING DEFICIT; $403,083,448 Expenditure in Fiscal Year to Aug. 15 Is $29,086,698 Above 1929. RECEIPTS OFF $54,766,985 Customs Collections for Period Are $42,113,338, Against $78,169,228 Last Year. TAX CUT SEEN AS DOOMED Treasury Heads Fear Decline In Trade and Income Returns Will Force Stringent Policy. Drop in Tax Receipts Foreseen. FEDERAL COSTS RISE; REVENUES SHRINK Itemized Table for July.

By Special to The New York Times

Rise in July

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GRAND JURY REVIEWS EWALD CASE AS CRAIN SEEKS INDICTMENTS; Prosecutor to Ask for a New Panel if Present Body Fails to Return True Bills. FOUR FACE NEW INQUIRY District Attorney Plans to Name Ewalds, Tommaney and Healy in Specific Charges. DATA SENT TO ROOSEVELT Bar and Republican Leaders Press for Wide State Inquiry Despite Reopening of Case Here. Grand Jury in Five-Hour Session. Roosevelt Gets Records Today. Knight Ready to Aid Governor. GRAND JURY WEIGHS EWALD CASE AGAIN Crain to Press for Indictments. Gets Records for Roosevelt. Tuttle Expected to Handle Case.

By Unknown Author

Grand jury reconsiders Ewald case; data sent to Gov Roosevelt

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Notable Births

Frank McCourt

1930Frank McCourt, American author and educator (died 2009)[†]

Francis McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and writer. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood.