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June 13, 1931

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EVA LE GALLIENNE IS BURNED IN BLAST; ACTRESS SERIOUSLY BURNED. Actress Seriously Injured as Water Heater Explodes at Her Weston (Conn.) Home. WILL RECOVER, SAYS DOCTOR Josephine Hutchinson, Stage Associate, and Maid Also Burned Beating Out Flames. Won't Interfere With Work EVA LE GALLIENNE IS BURNED IN BLAST Servants Aid the Injured. Taking a Year's Vacation.

By Special to The New York Times.Times Wide World Photo

Burned as water heater explodes at home of E Le Gallienne, Weston, Conn

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BUSINESS LEADERS OF NATION MOBILIZE TO STEM DEPRESSION; Commerce Chamber Gives Study of Trade Recovery to Twenty Groups of Experts. ACTION SOUGHT BY FALL Causes of Carriers' Difficulties and Export Slump Will Receive Detailed Analysis. PUBLIC FINANCE AN ITEM Agriculture and a Scrutiny of theEffects of 'Government Competition on Program. BUSINESS LEADERS MOBILIZE TO STUDY

By Special to The New York Times

Begins mobilization of leaders to stem depression; 9 of 20 coms formed

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Notable Births

1931Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (died 2009)[†]

Nora Kovach was a Hungarian ballerina who defected in 1953 together with her husband and fellow ballet dancer Istvan Rabovsky, the first highly publicized defection of individuals in the field of dance to the West from the Soviet bloc.

1931Reed Scowen, Canadian politician (died 2020)[†]

Philip Reed Scowen was a Canadian business executive, author and politician, living in Quebec.

Irvin D. Yalom

1931Irvin D. Yalom, American psychotherapist and academic[†]

Irvin David Yalom is an American existential psychiatrist who is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction.

Notable Deaths

Kitasato Shibasaburō

1931Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (born 1851)[†]

Baron Kitasato Shibasaburō was a Japanese physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered as the co-discoverer of the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong during an outbreak in 1894, almost simultaneously with Alexandre Yersin.