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September 10, 1931

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STIMSON TO DELAY OUR ACTION ON ARMS; Would Give European Leaders Chance to Settle Issues Before Fixing Program. SEES HOPE OF SUCCESS Encouraged After Finding Real Atmosphere of Good-Will on the Continent. Sympathetic to Grandi Plan. STIMSON TO DELAY OUR ACTION ON ARMS Debt Holiday an Aid. Urged Laval to Go to London.

By Special to The New York Times

Stimson to delay setting down definite Amer program for conf, to give Eur countries chance to settle issues; sympathetic with Grandi plan, but will take no definite stand

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SHIPS BEGIN SEARCH FOR PACIFIC FLIERS, MISSING TWO DAYS; Coast Guard Orders Out Four Vessels in Hunt for Moyle and Allen. FUEL BELIEVED EXHAUSTED Supply Could Not Have Lasted More Than 48 Hours on Flight to Seattle From Japan. NOT SIGHTED BY STEAMERS Absence of Radio Prevents Plane Reporting--Hope Lingers of Safe Forced Landing. Fiancee Would Not Admit Worry. Like Hunting for a Needle. Emergency Landing Possible. SHIPS BEGIN SEARCH FOR PACIFIC FLIERS Score of Ships Questioned. No Trace in British Columbia. FLIERS ARRANGED INSURANCE. Mobile and Allen Prepared Paper to Facilitate Collection.

By Special to The New York Times

Cost Guard vessels ordered to search for Moyle and Allen

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Notable Births

1931Isabel Colegate, English author and agent (died 2023)[†]

Isabel Diana Colegate was a British author and literary agent.

Philip Baker Hall

1931Philip Baker Hall, American actor (died 2022)[†]

Philip Baker Hall was an American character actor. He is known for his collaborations with Paul Thomas Anderson, including Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), and Magnolia (1999). He also starred in leading roles in films, such as Secret Honor (1984) and Duck (2005). Hall had supporting roles in many films, including Midnight Run (1988), Say Anything... (1989), The Truman Show (1998), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), The Insider (1999), The Contender (2000), Bruce Almighty (2003), Dogville (2003), Zodiac (2007), 50/50 (2011), and Argo (2012). He received an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best Male Lead for his role in Hard Eight and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Cast in a Motion Picture for Boogie Nights and Magnolia.

Notable Deaths

Dmitri Egorov

1931Dmitri Egorov, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1869)[†]

Dmitri Fyodorovich Egorov was a Russian and Soviet mathematician known for contributions to the areas of differential geometry and mathematical analysis. He was President of the Moscow Mathematical Society (1923–1930).

Salvatore Maranzano

1931Salvatore Maranzano, Italian-American gangster (born 1886)[†]

Salvatore Maranzano, nicknamed Little Caesar, was an Italian-American mobster from the town of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, and an early Cosa Nostra boss who led what later would become the Bonanno crime family in New York City. He instigated the Castellammarese War in 1930 to seize control of the American Mafia, winning the war after the murder of rival faction head Joe Masseria in April 1931. He then briefly became the Mafia's capo di tutti capi and formed the Five Families in New York City but was murdered on September 10, 1931, on the orders of Charles "Lucky" Luciano, who established the Commission, in which families shared power to prevent future turf wars.