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January 11, 1931

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HOOVER REBUKES SENATE ON POWER BOARD; REFUSES TO RETURN NAMES OF 3 NOMINEES; SENATORS, 36 TO 23, ACCEPT HIS CHALLENGE; MESSAGE SENT TO SENATE The President Calls Its Action Encroachment on His Functions. NO POWER ISSUE, HE SAYS Statement to Public Asserts Senators Seek to Name Board's Subordinates. NAMES BACK ON CALENDAR Hostile Senators Will Also Try to Block Appropriations for Appointees' Salaries. Hoover Consults With Mitchell. Message Short and Sharp. Pierces Senate Camouflage. Senate Gets the Message. Walsh Is Insistent. Vote on the Walsh Motion. Wheeler Comments on Statement. Shortridge Defends President. Bonner Reinstatement Favored.

By Special to The New York Times

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Notable Births

1931Betty Churcher, Australian painter, historian, and curator (died 2015)[†]

Elizabeth Ann Dewar Churcher was an Australian arts administrator, best known as director of the National Gallery of Australia from 1990 to 1997. She was also a painter in her own right earlier in her life.

1931Mary Rodgers, American composer and author (died 2014)[†]

Mary Rodgers was an American composer, screenwriter, and author. She wrote the novel Freaky Friday, which served as the basis of a 1976 film starring Jodie Foster, for which she wrote the screenplay, as well as three other versions. Her best-known musicals were Once Upon a Mattress and The Mad Show, and she contributed songs to Marlo Thomas' successful children's album Free to Be... You and Me.

Notable Deaths

1931James Milton Carroll, American pastor, historian, and author (born 1852)[†]

James Milton Carroll was an American Baptist pastor, leader, historian, author, and educator.