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May 12, 1931

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PACT LINKS AUSTRIA, HUNGARY AND ITALY; Agreement to Facilitate Trade by Credits Is Expected to Enter Political Field. OPEN TO OTHER NATIONS Accord Is Intended to Evade Favored-Nation Treaties by Subsidies to Exporters. Negotiations Began Last Year. PACT LINKS AUSTRIA, HUNGARY AND ITALY Others Invited to Join. Concealed Preferences Planned. Austria Ready for Geneva.

By Arnaldo Cortest. Wireless To the New York Times.by Arnaldo Cortesi

Italo-Austro-Hungarian commercial pacts

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SEIZED AS PLOTTER TO SAVE VICE POLICE; 'Broker' Accused of Trying to Threaten and Bribe Witness as Pair Go on Trial. DOUBLE INDICTMENT FOUND Mrs.Potocki, Beaten in 'Framed' Vice Case, Tells of Move to Free Lewis and McFarland. Woman Tells of Bribe Offer. Secret Indictments Voted. SEIZED AS PLOTTER TO SAVE VICE POLICE Policemen Fight Attack Charge.

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R Leik arrested on charge of attempt to bribe Mrs G Potocki, witness in trial of W B Lewis and E P McFarland, former vice squad patrolmen

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Notable Deaths

Eugène Ysaÿe

1931Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian violinist, composer, and conductor (born 1858)[†]

Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tsar".