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E Boczor testifies Ewald told of buying judgeship; 4 Tammany leaders testify
Will be nominated by Pres Hoover as U S Atty for So Dist of N Y; por
Receives freedom of city
Fed-owned speakeasy established in Indianapolis to obtain conviction of six policemen, A W W Woodcock admits; Sec Mellon admits existence of Treas Dept fund for such emergencies
Mayor Walker made his first comment yesterday on the recently proposed legislative investigation of his administration and reiterated the willingness to have any department under him investigated, which he expressed a year ago.
1931Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier (died 2013)[†]
Mirja Kyllikki Hietamies-Eteläpää was a cross-country skier from Finland who competed at the 1952 and 1956 Winter Olympics. She won a gold medal in the 3 × 5 km relay in 1956 and a silver medal in the individual 10 km race in 1952, placing sixth in 1956. She also won two medals at the 1954 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a silver in the 3 × 5 km relay and a bronze in the 10 km.
1931Edward Channing, American historian and author (born 1856)[†]
Edward Perkins Channing was an American historian and an author of a monumental History of the United States in six volumes, for which he won the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History. His thorough research in printed sources and judicious judgments made the book a standard reference for scholars for decades. Channing taught at Harvard 1883–1929 and trained many PhD's who became professors at major universities.
1931Guy Menzies flies the first solo non-stop trans-Tasman flight (from Australia to New Zealand) in 11 hours and 45 minutes, crash-landing on New Zealand's west coast.[†]
Guy Lambton Menzies was an Australian aviator who flew the first solo trans-Tasman flight, from Sydney, Australia to the West Coast of New Zealand, on 7 January 1931.