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September 5, 1931

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Headlines from September 5, 1931

20 DIE IN BARCELONA AS STRIKE IS BROKEN IN ALL-DAY BATTLE; Syndicalists Are Routed by Machine Guns and Hand-toHand Fights in Streets.10,000 TROOPS IN ACTIONMany Rioters Yield and SomeAre Shot Trying to Escape--Cavalry Charges Mob. WOMEN AID BOTH SIDES A Few Join In Shooting and Many Wives Start Counter-Strikes toSend Husbands Back to Work. Extremists Refuse to Quit. Roads Still Entrenched. Twenty or More Slain. BARCELONA STRIKE CRUSHED IN BATTLE Ship Parties Landed. Shout for Soviet. President Macia Criticized. One Killed at Cordoba.

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Syndicalists routed in revolutionary outbreak and general strike in Barcelona; 20 killed in battle with police; women figure in conflict; policy of Col Macia criticized

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CITY TO INVESTIGATE 15,000 RELIEF JOBS; 51 WOMEN DISMISSED; McKee Acts as Richmond Man on Emergency Roll Is Found to Have $59,200 Realty. TO HIRE 75 INVESTIGATORS Acting Mayor Rules Aid Must Be Confined to Heads of Families Found to Be in Need.41 MEN WRONGLY LISTED Lynch Is Ordered to Add No More Workers--Clerks to Be NamedFrom Civll Service Eligibles. 51 Women Clerks Dismissed. CITY TO INVESTIGATE 15,500 RELIEF JOBS McKee Consults Officials. 41 Men Improperly on Payroll.

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City to investigate 15,000 relief jobs; to hire 75 investigators; 51 women clerks dismissed; 41 men found wrongly listed

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Nautilus Radio Heard Here and in Norway; All Well on the Submarine, Silent 5 Days

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Nautilus radio heard in U S and in Norway; repts all well

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BERLIN PRICES HOLD AS FOREIGNERS BUY; Slump on Boerse Is Checked by Orders Which Virtually Offset Sales. YOUNG BONDS SHOW DROP Press and Experts Criticize the Banks and Large Stockholders for First Day's Results. Purchases Balance Sales. Boerse Management Criticized.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Prices hold on Berlin Boerse

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MEXICO IS EXPECTED TO JOIN THE LEAGUE; Foreign Secretary to Make "an Important Statement" on the Subject Next Week. PRESIDENT HINTED AT MOVE Situation Radically Changed, He Told Congress--Assembly Will Open on Monday. Washington Not Surprised. Assembly to Meet Monday. MEXICO IS EXPECTED TO JOIN THE LEAGUE

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Expected to join; Pres Ortiz Rubio at opening of Cong says attitude has changed

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1931John Thomson, Scottish footballer (born 1909)^[†]

John Thomson was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Celtic and the Scotland national football team. He died as a result of an accidental collision with Rangers player Sam English during an Old Firm match at Ibrox.

Headlines from September 5, 1931

Nautilus Radio Heard Here and in Norway; All Well on the Submarine, Silent 5 Days

BERLIN PRICES HOLD AS FOREIGNERS BUY; Slump on Boerse Is Checked by Orders Which Virtually Offset Sales. YOUNG BONDS SHOW DROP Press and Experts Criticize the Banks and Large Stockholders for First Day's Results. Purchases Balance Sales. Boerse Management Criticized.

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