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December 12, 1930

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23 Clearing House Banks Offer Loans to Depositors

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Closes; State takes over affairs; 23 clearing-house banks offer loans to depositors

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HOOVER DEMANDS SUPPORT AND PARTY SENATORS AGREE; EMPLOYMENT BILL PASSED; PRESIDENT WARNS WATSON Danger of Treasury Raids Calls for Solid Front, He Declares. ACTIVE DEFENSE NEEDED Payne of Red Cross and Woods Will Testify on Relief at the Executive's Suggestion. SOME SENATORS RESENTFUL Say White House Should Cooperate, but Agree in Parleyto Take the Offensive. Warns Against Bonus Proposals. Senators Voice Resentment. PRESIDENT DEMANDS SUPPORT IN SENATE Watson Reassures Senators. Longworth Promises Support. House Forces Marshaled. Black Attacks President.

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Confers with Pres Hoover on unemployment relief

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Smith Urges Gifts for Jobless As Price of Happy Christmas

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A E Smith urges gifts for jobless to insure happy Christmas for donors; s at Emergency Employment Com lunchean

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BRODSKY TO TESTIFY ON INCOME TODAY; Magistrate Is Summoned to Public Hearing--Crain Agrees to Defer "Frame-Up" Cases. TAX FRAUDS ARE HUNTED Federal Agent Confers With Kresel on Judges' Accounts --Bondsman Is Held. Brodsky Is Surprise Witness. Crain Defers Prosecutions. BRODSKY TO TESTIFY ON INCOME TODAY Warn of Laxity on Vice. Bondsman Held for Trial. Bar Explains Refusal to Aid.

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Magistrate Brodsky to testify on income; Cain defers prosecutions of policemen

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Herbert Hoover 3d Sends Word to Santa Via Talkie Camera to Bring Police Uniform

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Children of H Hoover 3d make sound film

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HOOVER'S AUTHORITY CUT FROM JOB BILL; Senate Eliminates Executive Power to Shift Money Among Works Projects. ADDS $8,000,000 TO FUNDS Amendments to $118,000,000 Measure May Cause Delay-- Wagner Urges His Plan. Wagner Criticizes President. HOOVER'S AUTHORITY CUT FROM JOB BILL No Opposition on Vote. Blaine Amendment Is Beaten. Crowded Galleries Hear Wagner. Accuses Administration of Delay. Says We Are Paying Price Now. Acts to Speed Building Program.

By Special to The New York Times

Will explain Administration's unemployment relief plans to Sen Appropriations Com

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EINSTEIN ON ARRIVAL BRAVES LIMELIGHT FOR ONLY 15 MINUTES; Submits on Ship to Rapid-Fire Interview by 50 Reporters Flanked by 50 Camera Men. JESTS, BUT FINALLY FLEES With Wife Acting as Buffer, He Escapes Reception--Praises America in Statement. TOURS CHINATOWN IN CAR Tomorrow German Scientist Will Be Officially Received at City Hall. EINSTEIN HERE, FLEES LIMELIGHT His Prepared Statement. 100 Appear for Interview. Questions Flung at Scientist. Predicts Hitler Will Fall. Worked on Board the Ship. A Comedy of Errors. Greets America on Radio. Einstein Wants to Eat. Wife Handles the Bank Books. She Speaks English Fluently.

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Arrives in N Y; grants 15-min int; tours Chinatown

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BIG BANKING HOUSES DECIDE ON MERGER; Brown Brothers & Co., W.A. Harriman & Co. and Harriman Brothers & Co. to Unite. BUSINESS IS INTERNATIONAL To Be Brown Brothers, Harriman & Co.--All but One ofOld Partners Continue. BIG BANKING HOUSES DECIDE ON MERGER

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To be formed from merger of Brown Bros & Co, W A Harriman & Co Inc, and Harrimar Bros & Co

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DRY CHIEF TO AVOID HOLIDAY RAID FLARE; AIMS AT BIG SELLERS; Woodcock Drops Mobilizing of Agents to Search Drinkers at Resorts in Wet Cities. BARS "FIRST-PAGE STUNTS" He Reveals New Policy Centring on "Commercial Violators" as Way to Solve Problem. DRY STRATEGY SESSION SET Enlarged Board Will Reconvene to Complete Program--Wets Adopt Dispensary Plan. To Put Pressure on Traffickers. Dry and Wet Programs Evolved. DRY CHIEF TO IGNORE HOLIDAY DRINKERS Drys Enlarge Strategy Board. Wets for Dispensary System.

By Special to The New York Times

Announces prohibition agents' holiday plans

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BANK OF U.S. CLOSES DOORS; STATE TAKES OVER AFFAIRS; AID OFFERED TO DEPOSITORS; ACTION BY CLEARING HOUSE Twenty-three Members Willing to Lend 50% on Accounts. $160,000,000 IN DEPOSITS $1,500,000 of City Money and $164,927 Postal Savings-- Garment Funds Tied Up. CROWDS AT OFFICES CALM McFadden, Fearing Effect Abroad, Explains Institution Has No Government Connection. Ask Broderick to Take Charge. STATE TAKES OVER THE BANK OF U.S. Washburn Reveals an Inquiry. Postal Savings in Bank. Official of Bank Optimistic. Washburn Tells of Inquiry. Tell of Past Negotiations. Negotiations Fall Through. Clearing House Acts. Realty Mortgages a Problem. Garment Trade Affected.

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Explains that closed Bank of U S has no Govt connection

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Mellon Asks Corporation Gift Exemption; Bill Advances Plan as Aid to Employment

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Sec Mellon asks that charitable contributions be deducted from income taxation during period from July 1, 1930, to June 30, 1931

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Doak Moves to Deport Alien Gang Leaders; All Resources' Put Into War on Underworld

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W N Doak moves to deport alien gang leaders

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