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April 24, 1931
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Headlines from April 24, 1931
HIGGINS OFFERS AID IN SEABURY INQUIRY; Calls on Counsel, Who Assigns an Aide to Survey Records in Commissioner's Office. MAYOR LIKELY TO BE HEARD Expected to Be Asked at Public Hearings Why, He Failed to Act on Surveys of 23 Bureaus. Expect Mayor to Be Called. HIGGINS OFFERS AID IN SEABURY INQUIRY
Offers to cooperate with S Seabury
Thugs Beat Racket Witness of Seabury Inquiry; An Anonymous Telephone Call Reveals the Attack
Beaten by thugs
Allenby, at 70, Warns Next War Means "End of Civilization"
Int on 70th birthday
M'KEE FAVORS TAXING BUSINESS TENANTS; Suggests Levy on Unincorporated Concerns to Relieve Burden on Realty.BASED ON THE RENTAL PAIDDeclares 'Honeymoon' in Rising Property Values Is Over andSomething Must Be Done. M'KEE FAVORS TAX ON TRADE TENANTS Sees Finances Sound. Cites Other Handicaps.
Suggests direct tax on unincorporated business to relieve burden on real estate
Notable Births
1931Abdelhamid Kermali, Algerian footballer and manager (died 2013)[†]
Abdelhamid Kermali was an Algerian footballer and football manager of the Algerian national team.

1931Bridget Riley, English painter and illustrator[†]
Bridget Louise Riley is an English painter known for her op art paintings. She lives and works in London, Cornwall and the Vaucluse in France.
Notable Deaths
1931David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (born 1862)[†]
David Kldiashvili was a Georgian prose-writer whose novels and plays are concentrated on the degeneration of the country’s gentry and the miseries of the peasantry, boldly exposing the antagonisms of Georgian society.