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April 4, 1931

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RACKET CLEAN-UP ON; $200,000,000 TRIBUTE PAID YEARLY IN CITY; Federal Men From Chicago Delve at Once Into Bank and Brokerage Data of Gangs. HUNT 1,000 TAX EVADERS Seabury to Turn Over Records on Police--Others in City Posts May Be Under Fire. CRIME BOARD FIXES TOLL Report to Legislature Estimates It at $12,000,000,000 In Nation-- Amet Plans Similar Campaign. Delve Into Bank Accounts. Amell Plans Similar Drive. Losses Not Taken as Excuse.

By Unknown Author

Fed agents arrive from Chicago to assist in clean-up of racketeering; crime bd fixes toll

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GOVERNOR TO TAKE NEW POWER CLASH TO PUBLIC BY RADIO; He Will Broadcast Appeal Tuesday Against Republican Plan to Name Trustees.KNIGHT CHARGES POLITICSSenate Leader Says Attempt Is Being Made by Roosevelt to Keep the Power Issue AliveSENATOR IS LIKELY TO BOLTChambers of Commerce In St. Lawrence County Cities ProtestAction of Knight. Sees Invasion of His Field. Friends See an Opportunity. GOVERNOR TO MAKE APPEAL ON POWER Reasons for Naming Trustees. Criticizes Delay by Roosevelt. Governor Answers Knight.

By Special to The New York Times

Gov Roosevelt to broadcast appeal against Repub plan to dicate membership of bd; Sen Knight charges politics

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200 REFUGEES LEAVE MANAGUA BY PLANE; FIRE MENACES CAMP; Children Forget Terrors of the Quake in Delight at Air Ride to Steamer. BLASTS FAIL TO CURB BLAZE Marines Blow Up Houses at Very Edge of Flame to Check Its Advance on Tent City. RED CROSS TAKES CHARGE E.J. Swift Arrives to Supervise Relief--Argentine Cities Rocked by Tremors. Explosions at Edge of Blaze. Too Busy to Worry. 200 REFUGEES LEAVE MANAGUA BY PLANE Shot Down With $7,000. This Shock Different. Burial of Bodies Ceases. Few New Injuries Reported. Smaller Towns Overflow. Red Cross Expert Arrives. Pope Plus Sends a Gift. Radio Description Thwarted.

By C.h. Calhoun. Staff Correspondent of the New York Times. Via Tropical Radio.by C. H. Calhoun

Earthquake

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BUSINESS TIDE TURNS, LABOR HEADS ASSERT; WAGE CUTS DEPLORED; Bottom Is Reached, With a Definite Climb Due by Autumn, Says the Federation. KEY INDUSTRY DATA CITED Movement to Reduce Wages Is Laid to Banking Circles--Delay to Recovery Is Seen. PRICE ARGUMENT ATTACKED Pay Slash In the Depressions of 1874 and 1921 Is Put at Only 10 Per Cent. Says Bankers Advocate Cuts. Cost-of-Living Argument Attacked. UPTURN OF BUSINESS IS SEEN BY LABOR Convinced That the Worst Is Over Low Incomes Check Auto Trade. Bankers Inquire for Wage Figures.

By Special to The New York Times

Says bankers are trying to get wages back to 1913 scale

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Notable Births

James Dickens

1931James Dickens, English politician (died 2013)[†]

James McCulloch York Dickens was a British Labour Party politician.

Bobby Ray Inman

1931Bobby Ray Inman, American admiral and intelligence officer[†]

Bobby Ray Inman is a retired United States Navy admiral who held several influential positions in the United States Intelligence Community.

Catherine Tizard

1931Catherine Tizard, New Zealand politician, 16th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 2021)[†]

Dame Catherine Anne Tizard was a New Zealand politician who served as mayor of Auckland City from 1983 to 1990, and the 16th governor-general of New Zealand from 1990 to 1996. She was the first woman to hold either office.

Notable Deaths

André Michelin

1931André Michelin, French businessman, co-founded the Michelin Tyre Company (born 1853)[†]

André Jules Michelin was a French industrialist who, with his brother Édouard (1859–1940), founded the Michelin Tyre Company in 1888 in the French city of Clermont-Ferrand.