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February 12, 1931

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JEAN NORRIS DEFENDS BONDING HOUSE LINK; SEVERE IN VICE CASES; Tells Seabury She Considers It Proper to Own Stock in Firm Operating in Her Court. "AMAZED" AT OWN RECORD She Is Surprised to Learn That of 5,502 Vice Cases She Dismissed Only 775. NEVER DOUBTED POLICE Swears She Naver Heard of a Case of Perjury by Vice Squad Men Wears Green Ensemble. JEAN NORRIS BACKS BONDING HOUSE LINK Defends Profit on Bonds. Girl Tells of Perjury Case. Officials Refuse to Act.

By Times Wide World Photo

J Norris defends bonding house link and decisions in vice cases; records show she convicted more women in vice cases than any other Magistrate in 10 yrs; girl, F Greenspan; tells of framing and perjury case before J Norris; por

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SHOW CANON PUT FUND IN OWN NAME; Bankers Tell Nye Committee of Transfer of Anti-Smith Contributions. BISHOP ATTENDS HEARING Comes in Wheel Chair and Protests Revelation of His Personal Bank Transactions. Photostat Shows Endorsement. SHOW CANNON PUT FUND IN OWN NAME Cannon Comes in a Wheel Chair. Total Deposits $58,708. Listed as Chairman and Executor.

By Special to The New York Times

Attends Sen campaign funds investigating com hearing in wheel chair; S A Barrow testifies Cannon appropriated $8,000 check for campaign fund

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Notable Births

Janwillem van de Wetering

1931Janwillem van de Wetering, Dutch-American author and translator (died 2008)[†]

Jan Willem Lincoln van de Wetering was the author of a number of works in English and Dutch.

Notable Deaths

Samad bey Mehmandarov

1931Samad bey Mehmandarov, Azerbaijani-Russian general and politician, 3rd Azerbaijani Minister of Defense (born 1855)[†]

Samad bey Sadykh bey oghlu Mehmandarov was an Azerbaijani General of the Artillery in the Russian Imperial Army, a member of the Independence faction of the Parliament of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, the Minister of Defense of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and a military figure of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and the Soviet Union.