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May 9, 1931

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SCHOOL SITE DEAL HELD UP FOR INQUIRY; RYAN SCORES CRITICS; Estimate Board Acts When Levy Questions Plan to Buy Tract in East Fourth Street. TWO PLOTS ARE INVOLVED Mayor Wants to Know if the One Chosen Is More Suitable or Economical Than the Other. RYAN DEFENDS SYSTEM Urges Investigation by Graves and Says Charges Represent Partisan Views of a Few. Defends the System. SCHOOL SIDE DEAL IS UP FOR INQUIRY Recalled Earlier Proposal. Calls Board Inefficient. LIKELY TO HEED RYAN PLEA. Graves Says Inquiry Request Will Get Careful Consideration.

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Bd of Estimate holds up purchase of land adjoining P S 25, Manhattan, when Borough Pres S Levy questions acquisition

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CROWLEY INDICTED QUICKLY FOR MURDER; GIRL AIDS THE STATE; Helen Walsh, Who Was in Siege With Him, Is Chief Witness Against Police Slayer. HE ASKS A SPEEDY TRIAL Offers to Plead Guilty to First Degree Murder--Woman He Cast Off Caused Arrest. DURINGER IS INDICTED, TOO Pair Boasted They Were Hired to Kill Miss Brannen for $300, Man Declares. Score Check Evidence. CROWLEY INDICTED QUICKLY IN MURDER His Wounds Not Serious. Swift Court Action Planned. Says Hirsch's Pistol Missed Fire. Duringer Tells of Killing. Grand Jury Hears Miss Walsh. Crowley Was a Foundling.

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Indicted for murder of Hirsch; H Walsh State witness; I Dunne sent out the tip which caused his arrest; Nassau County grand jury hears witnesses; R Duringer indicted for Brannen murder; R LeClair, M Moore and S Russo held as material witnesses

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Notable Births

Vance D. Brand

1931Vance D. Brand, American pilot, engineer, and astronaut[†]

Vance DeVoe Brand is a retired American naval officer, aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut. He served as command module pilot during the first U.S.-Soviet joint spaceflight in 1975, and as commander of three Space Shuttle missions.

Notable Deaths

Albert A. Michelson

1931Albert Abraham Michelson, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)[†]

Albert Abraham Michelson was an American experimental physicist known for his work on measuring the speed of light and especially for the Michelson–Morley experiment. In 1907, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, becoming the first American to win the Nobel Prize in a science. He was the founder and the first head of the physics departments of the Case School of Applied Science and the University of Chicago.