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May 17, 1931

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QUOTA PLAN UP IN LONDON; Canadian Leader Will Ask 'Equitable Distribution' for Wheat Nations. ACREAGE CURB IS UNLIKELY Most of Delegates Think It Is Neither Useful Nor Possible-- Russia Unknown Quantity. IMPORTERS ASK OBSERVERS Conference Opening Tomorrow Confined to Eleven Exporting Countries, Including America. Quotas Seem Inevitable. Importers Want Observers. WHEAT EXPORT CURB IS SOUGHT IN LONDON

By Charles A. Selden. Special Cable To the New York Times

Consummation

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BRIAND CONDEMNS UNION; French Leader Charges Austro-German Plan Violates Treaties. PLEDGE OF SILENCE BROKEN Paris and Berlin Statesmen Each Blame Other for Bringing In Forbidden Issue. AUSTRIAN DEFENDS MOVE Counter-Proposals Are Offered by Italy and France to European Union Commission. French Counter-Project. Back Favored-Nation Pacts. Germans Also Irritated Social Danger" in Tariffs. Points to Other Negotiations. Also Combats Customs Unions. Austria Pleads for Action. Austrian Loan Favored.

By Clarence K. Streit. Special Cable To the New York Times

New Eur against old Eur

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$10,000 AIRPORT FEE TRACED TO HALLERAN, BROTHER OF OFFICIAL; $30,000 Was Shared by Three in Transaction Called "Steal" by Court, Testimony Shows. RULING STRONGLY ATTACKED Queens Public Works Head Says It Was "Most Confusing" and Asks Review by Higher Bench. HIS KIN NOT OPENLY IN DEAL Counsel for Man Who Sued Over Road Closed for Field Hints City Inquiry Will Sift the Case. Explanation by Halleran. Shaw's Story of Transaction. SAYS HALLERAN KIN GOT $10,000 IN DEAL Objects Strongly to Decision.

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Testimony suit reveals that L Halleran, bro of J J Halleran, received $10,000 fee for airport deal; Comr Halleran explains deal

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Notable Births

Marshall Applewhite

1931Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader, founded Heaven's Gate (died 1997)[†]

Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr., also known as Do, among other names, was an American religious leader who founded and led the Heaven's Gate new religious movement, and organized their mass suicide in 1997. The suicide is the largest mass suicide to occur inside the U.S.

Dewey Redman

1931Dewey Redman, American saxophonist (died 2006)[†]

Walter Dewey Redman was an American saxophonist who performed free jazz as a bandleader with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett.