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April 1, 1931

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INQUIRY COMMITTEE TO BE NAMED AT ONCE; Macy Goes to Albany to Speed Action After Seabury Objects to Waiting Until April 10. MAYOR RETURNING TO FIGHT Clark Prepares for First Crain Hearing Wednesday--Bastress Indicted for Bribery. COMMITTEE TO BE SPEEDED. Macy and Seabury Confer. Fund Feared Inadequate. INQUIRY COMMITTEE TO BE NAMED AT ONCE Bribery Evidence Studied. Higgins Speeds Eleven Inquiries. New Mass Meeting Planned.

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Goes to Albany to speed apptmt of investigation com

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CITY RAZED IN SIX SECONDS; Flames Start at Market, Where 35 Burn to Death --Water Cut Off. MARTIAL LAW IS DECLARED Marines Fight Holocaust With Dynamite--Snatch Bodies From Menaced Ruins. REFUGEES AT MARINE CAMP Roads Cleared for Ambulances --Only One Hospital Left-- Loss Put at $30,000,000. DEAD MAY TOTAL 2,500. THE DEAD. THE INJURED. Earthquake the Worst Ever Experienced in Nicaragua Marine Doctors at Only Hospital. People Are Self-Controlled. 300 Prisoners Believed Crushed. A Red Glow Against the Sky. Red Cross Aid Asked. To Blow Up Bank. DEAD AND WOUNDED IN STREETS. Refugees Reach Granada.

By S.h. Moore. Special Correspondent of the New York Times. Via Tropical Radio To the New York Times

Managua destroyed; fire follows quake; dead may reach 2,500; map

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Notable Births

George Baker (British actor)

1931George Baker, Bulgarian-English actor and screenwriter (died 2011)[†]

George Morris Baker was an English actor and writer. He was best known for portraying Tiberius in I, Claudius, and Inspector Wexford in The Ruth Rendell Mysteries.

Rolf Hochhuth

1931Rolf Hochhuth, German author and playwright (died 2020)[†]

Rolf Hochhuth was a German author and playwright, best known for his 1963 drama The Deputy, which insinuates Pope Pius XII's indifference to Hitler's extermination of the Jews, and he remained a controversial figure both for his plays and other public comments and for his 2005 defense of British Holocaust denier David Irving.