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August 13, 1931

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Seabury Confident of Making Doyle Testify on Split Fees

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DIAMOND GETS LIMIT, 4 YEARS, $11,000 FINE; TROY TRIAL SEPT. 15; Gangster Is Released in $15,000 Bail for Appeal on Dry Law Conviction. TWO YEARS, $5,000 FOR AIDE Quattrocchi's Counsel Pleads for Clemency--Prosecutor May Seek His Help. NEW PROSECUTION URGED Court Points to Trial Evidence of Jones Act Violations and Advises Further Inquiry. Court Room Was Filled. DIAMOND GETS LIMIT; 4 YEARS, $11,000 FINE Mistrial Motion Denied. Opposes Bail for Diamond. Diamond's Total Bail $57,000. Court Comments on Duty.

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Gets limit, 4 yrs imprisonment and $11,000 fine; released in $15,000 bail on appeal; Quatrocchi gets 2 yrs and $5,000 fine; ct urges new prosecution of Diamond on trial evidence of Jones Law violations

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Chile to Cease Deposits Against Foreign Debts, Completing Moratorium as Crisis Grows Worse

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Will cease deposits against foreign debts, completing moratorium

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WHITE-COLLAR CLASS LIBERATED BY SOVIET; Engineers and Others Put on Same Footing With Workers, Stalin Ally Asserts. ALL TOLD TO FORGET PAST Y.E. Rudzutak, Explaining Speech of Red Leader, Says Classless Society Is at Hand. Cites Need of Competent Men. SOVIET LIBERATES WHITE-COLLAR MEN Lists Engineers' Problems.

By Walter Duranty. Wireless To the New York Times

Engineers, status of

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CITIES PLAN RELIEF WITH NO FEDERAL AID; Report to Hoover Shows That 227 Communities Will Meet Winter Demands. SPECIAL SESSION OPPOSED A.F. of L. Council Asks Immediate Adoption of 5-Day Weekto End Unemployment. Hoover Confers With Gifford. Rail Employment Rose in May CITIES PLAN RELIEF WITH NO FEDERAL AID

By Special to The New York Times

Continues confs with economic advisers; hears rept that 227 cities plan relief without Fed aid

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