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January 8, 1931

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URGES CLEAN COURTS LAW; Roosevelt Would Give the Power of Removal to Appellate Divisions. WARNS AGAINST POLITICS He Says City Inquiry Must Spring From Desire to Promote General Welfare.MESSAGE PLEASES MAJORITYRepublican Leaders See Spirit of Cooperation as Legislature Opens the Session. Assured Macy of Funds. Warns Against Playing Politics. New Plan for Clean Courts. Opening Session Harmonious. Macy Praises Message. Land and Waterpower Policies. Knight's Comment on Message.

By W.a. Warn. Special To the New York Times

Gov Roosevelt's message

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ALL FRANCE HONORS JOFFRE AT FUNERAL; Last Rites Performed in Notre Dame Cathedral, Followed by Cortege to Invalides. MULTITUDE LINES ROUTE Barthou in Funeral Oration Calls Marshal Savior--Washington Joins Homage. Crowds Stretch Two Miles. Famous Men Follow Coffin. HIGHEST HONOR PAID AT JOFFRE FUNERAL Americans in Procession. Doumergue Follows Family. Recalls Visit to America. London Holds Service. Mexico Pays Tribute.

By P.j. Philip. Special Cable To the New York Times

funeral; tributes

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CHINA LOAN TO AID TRADE AND END WAR IS PLAN OF SENATORS; Subcommittee Is Completing a Scheme Involving Coopera-- tion of Powers. AIM TO LIFT SILVER VALUE Program Dovetails With Canadian Project to Lend Billion and Ship Wheat to Orient.TO CONFER WITH FINANCIERS Pitman Body Will See Young, Lamont and Baruch BeforeReport Goes to Chamber. In Line With Canadian Proposals. To Offset Causes of War. CHINA LOAN TO AID TRADE AND END WAR

By Richard V.oulahan Special To the New York Times

Sen Pittman expected to submit rept to Sen Com on Foreign Relations urging U S cooperation with other Govts for loan to China to restore value of silver

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Notable Births

Bill Graham (promoter)

1931Bill Graham, German-American businessman (died 1991)[†]

Bill Graham was a German-born American impresario and rock concert promoter.

Clarence B. Jones

1931Clarence Benjamin Jones, American lawyer and scholar[†]

Clarence Benjamin Jones is an American lawyer and the former personal counsel, advisor, draft speech writer and close friend of Martin Luther King Jr. He is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. Jones is a scholar in residence at the Martin Luther King Jr. Institute at Stanford University. He is the author of What Would Martin Say? and Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation. His book Last of the Lions was released on August 1, 2023. Jones currently serves as Chairman of the non-profit Spill the Honey Foundation.