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January 20, 1931

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SENATE DEFIES PRESIDENT, VOTING $25,000,000 AGAIN; HIS RELIEF POLICY SCORED; ADMINISTRATION IS ROUTED Robinson Amendment for Federal Relief Fund Carried, 56 to 27. COMPROMISE IS VOTED DOWN Reed and Vandenberg Only Party Men to Support the President's Demand. BORAH JOINS 19 DESERTERS Caraway and Robinson Lead Attack on Hoover and Red Cross "Inefficiency." Opposition Intensified. Reed Pleads for Delay. Fear for Red Cross Drive. Predicts Big Income Drop. Caraway Scores Delay. Borah for Federal Aid. Predicts Exhaustion of Funds. Recalls Appeals for Russia. House Leaders Near Split.

By Special to The New York Times

Sen again votes $25,000,000 food appropriation; Pres defied

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CORRIGAN SAYS GIRLS GOT JUSTICE IN COURT; 77 Sent to Bedford Were Proper Subjects for Reformatory, He Holds After Visit There. SEABURY DISPUTES CRAIN Criticizes Failure to indict Vice Squad Men--Asserts Departmental Trials "Drag." Harry Levey and 3 Others Indicted. Corrigan's Statement. CORRIGAN DECLARES GIRLS GOT JUSTICE Acted at Walker's Request. Seabury's Statement. Crain Explains Delay

By Unknown Author

Chief Magistrate Corrigan upholds commitment of 77 girls to reformatory; Seabury scores Crain's failure to seek indictments against policemen named in vice ring; H Levey and 3 others indicted

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ROOSEVELT URGES ACTION ON ST. LAWRENCE AT ONCE; ASKS STATE POWER BOARD; BACKS COMMISSION REPORT Message to Legislature Stresses Feasibility and Economy of Plan. WANTS 'CLUB' FOR TRUSTEES Right to Build Lines Proposed as Means to Force Transmission Agreement.REPUBLICANS OPEN ATTACKLeaders in Both Branches ScoreAppeal--An Attempt toDeceive, Says Knight. Republicans Open Attack. Contract Proposal Criticized. ROOSEVELT URGES ACTION ON POWER Stresses Bargaining Power. Deplore "Super-Utility." Could Send Current Here.

By Special to The New York Times

ALBANY, Jan. 19.--In a special message on water power sent to the Legislature this evening, Governor Roosevelt asserted that the reports of his St. Lawrence Power Development Commission, now before the ...

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Notable Births

David Lee (physicist)

1931David Lee, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[†]

David Morris Lee is an American physicist who shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert C. Richardson and Douglas Osheroff "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3." Lee is professor emeritus of physics at Cornell University and distinguished professor of physics at Texas A&M University.

1931Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese pianist and composer (died 1992)[†]

Hachidai Nakamura was a Japanese songwriter and jazz pianist.

Notable Deaths

Margrethe Munthe

1931Margrethe Munthe, Norwegian songwriter (born 1860)[†]

Margrethe Aabel Munthe was a Norwegian teacher, children's writer, songwriter and playwright.