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July 5, 1931

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TEXT AWAITED IN CAPITAL; Officials Confident Messages, Expected Today,Will Bring Final Steps.PRESIDENT IS NOTIFIEDAfter Phoned Notice From Mellonto Castle and Mills, TheyCall Rapidan Camp.ACTION ON NOTE FROM HEREState Department MemorandumSent Friday Night OutlinedPrinciples for Paris Cabinet. Phone Talk Is Difficult. WASHINGTON THINKS TERMS ACCEPTABLE Final Adjustment Expected. Points in the Agreement. Compromise on Repayments. Waited Hopefully All Day.

By Richard Y. Oulahan. Special To the New York Times.by Richard V. Oulahan

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NATION CELEBRATES THE FOURTH OF JULY; 1,000 ARE HURT HERE; Fireworks Casualties 4 Times Last Year's--2 Die--Autos Kill 5 and 9 Drown. NATION'S DEATH LIST IS 175 Beach Resorts and Highways Crowded--City Hall Flag-Raising Opens Observance Here.MANY FETES HELD ABROAD155th Year of American Independence Hailed in Paris, Berlin,Poznan and in South America. Two Killed, 900 Hurt. Transportation Lines Taxed. NATION CELEBRATES THE FOURTH OF JULY 750,000 at Coney Island. Flag-Raising Starts Day.

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Celebration; monument of W Wilson, at Poznan, Poland, unveiled

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Notable Births

1931Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and politician, 17th Chief Justice of South Africa (died 2000)[†]

Ismail Mahomed SCOB SC was a South African lawyer and jurist who served as the first non-white Chief Justice of South Africa from January 1997 until his death in June 2000. He was also the Chief Justice of Namibia from 1992 to 1999 and the inaugural Deputy President of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 1995 to 1996.