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February 11, 1931

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REICHSTAG FASCISTS WALK OUT AND PLAN WEIMAR PARLIAMENT; Nationalists Join Them, Vowing They Will Return Only toDefend Their Rights.REFUSE TO HEAR CURTIUS Foreign Minister Says Nation Has Only Promised to "Try" to Adhere to Young Plan.OPPOSES QUITTING LEAGUEDenies German War Guilt and Sees Relations With France Aboutto Improve. Nationalists Define Stand. Curtius Reports on Geneva. REICHSTAG FASCISTS BOLT PARLIAMENT The Colonial Question. Some Boycotters Return. Editor Ridicules Action.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

S in Reichstag on foreign policy

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EMBARGO ORDERED ON RUSSIAN LUMBER AND PULP BY MELLON; Secretary Requires Importers to Prove Production by Free Labor Before Entry. HOUSE PLANS DRASTIC ACT Committee Approves Tariff Amendment Aimed at All Products of Forced Labor. REDS INVADE THE CONGRESS Four Ejected From Gallery of the House After Delegation Leaves Petition for Speaker. Proof Shifted to Importer. Manganese Case Is Pending. EMBARGO ORDERED ON SOVIET LUMBER Bill Would Extend Embargo.

By Special to The New York Times

U S Govt orders embargo, charging use of convict labor

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TRIALS TO BE IN OCTOBER; $100,000 Bail Each Will Be Asked Today for Marcus and Singer. $10,000 FOR THE OTHERS Mitchell, Pollock, White, Kugel and Singer's Son Accused Also of Misusing Funds. STEUER HALTED BY STAY Officials Get Writ to Oust Him --Argument Up Today--Case May Go to Highest Court. Names of Those Indicted. Accused in Debt Deal. Some Named Principals. EIGHT ARE INDICTED IN BANK INQUIRY Deal Leading to Indictments. Get Writ at Midnight. May Ask Delay. Back Rosoff Plan. Perskin to See Broderick.

By Unknown Author

Kresel, Marcus, H and S Singer, Mitchell, A S White, Pollock and S H Kugel indicted on charge of felony; trial to be in Oct; Steuer inquiry halted by stay

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STOCKS GO HIGHER; PUBLIC BUYING AGAIN; Spirited Swing Upward Brings New Advances in Grains, Cotton and Silver. STEEL HEARTENS WALL ST. Brokers Expanding Staffs-- 4,762,725 Shares Dealt In-- Wheat Up Sharply at Chicago. Wheat Advances at Chicago. General List Rises. STOCKS GO HIGHER; PUBLIC BUYS AGAIN Report on Russia Unconfirmed. CHICAGO WHEAT PRICE JUMPS. Rise Laid to Reports of Turmoil in Russia--Bogdanov Denies Dumping.

By Unknown Author

Stocks rise in buying wave

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Notable Deaths

Charles Algernon Parsons

1931Charles Algernon Parsons, English-Irish engineer, invented the steam turbine (born 1854)[†]

Sir Charles Algernon Parsons was an Anglo-Irish mechanical engineer and inventor who designed the modern steam turbine in 1884. His invention revolutionised marine propulsion, and he was also the founder of C. A. Parsons and Company. He worked as an engineer on dynamo and turbine design, and power generation, with great influence in the naval and electrical engineering fields. He also helped develop optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes. Parsons received the Franklin Medal in 1920, the Faraday Medal in 1923, and the Copley Medal in 1928 for his work, as well as the Engineering Heritage Awards posthumously in 1995.