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August 21, 1931

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MACDONALD BALKED IN BUDGET REFORMS; Cuts Fail to Meet Demands of Tories--Trades Unionists Call Them Too Drastic. LATTER PREFER A TARIFF All-Day Parleys in Attempt to Reconcile Viewpoints Prove Fruitless. Program Is Outlined. MACDONALD BALKED IN BUDGET REFORMS Cabinet Session Resumed.

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

Tories decline to support economy plan on ground that it does not go far enough; Trades Union Council holds it goes too far

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MYSTERY VEILS NEW CLASH; One Killed by Firing in Streets--Bridge Blown Up in Matanzas. REBELS ESCAPE AT JIBARA Federals Lost 250 Dead, Says Eyewitness--Government Says It Lost Five. FLIER ATTACKS DANISH SHIP Rains Bombs and Machine-Gun Bullets on Vessel Near Antilla Harbor. Rebels Active in New Region. Only Eight Rebels Killed. Many Nationals Among Rebels. Planes Continue Reconnoissance. Fighting Near Cienfuegos. Government Version of Battle. Airplane Passes Required.

By the Associated Press

Fighting begins in Havana and in Matanzas Province; further details of Jibara battle; airplane passes required

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60 LEADERS CHOSEN BY HOOVER TO AID GIFFORD ON RELIEF; Men and Women Distinguished in National Life to Be Advisory Committee.RAPIDAN MEETING CALLEDPresident and New Director ofUnemployment Board Will MapTask Over the Week-End.STABLE WORK PLAN SOUGHT Gifford Here Urges All Local ReliefAgencies of Country to Coordinate Appeals for Funds. Gifford to Confer at Rapidan. 60 LEADERS CHOSEN TO AID RELIEF TASK Effort Centred on Gifford. Advisory Committee List. To Seek Permanent Cure Also. Relief Action Comes First.

By Special to The New York Times

To be assistant director of unemployment relief group under W S Gifford

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