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September 22, 1931

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SNOWDEN CRITICIZES FOREIGN ALOOFNESS; He Tells Parliament of Rebuff on Gold Parley--Appeals to People on Radio. SNOWDEN CRITICIZES FOREIGN ALOOFNESS Mr. Snowden's Speech. Crisis Started in Austria. Front Was Not United. $350,000,000 Tied Up in Germany. Text of Reply. Foreign Banks Thanked. Burden Was Too Heavy. Our Gold Declared Sterile. Snowden Makes Radio Apeal.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

LONDON, Sept. 21.--Foreign aloofness contributed to Great Britain's financial crisis, said Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in presenting the gold suspension act to Parliament today.

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WIFE SAID COLLINGS KNEW HIS SLAYERS; Transcript of Her First Story Also Shows She Believed Them Bootleggers. NEW MAN HUNT IS ORDERED Blue Starts Search for a Father and Son on Theory Killing Was to Avenge a Wrong. Explains Not Crying Out. Youth Waded Ashore. WIFE SAID COLLINGS KNEW HIS SLAYERS New Man Hunt Ordered. Blue Runs Down Clues. Reconstructs Actual Killing. Checked Up Details. Wants Widow at Inquest.

By Unknown Author

Mrs. Benjamin P. Collings believed that the two men who boarded the cabin cruiser Penguin, murdered her husband and abducted her were known to her husband, it was revealed authoritatively last night.

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Notable Births

Fay Weldon

1931Fay Weldon, English author and playwright (died 2023)[†]

Fay Weldon was an English author, essayist and playwright.

George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie

1931George Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Scottish banker and politician, Secretary of State for Defence (died 2003)[†]

George Kenneth Hotson Younger, 4th Viscount Younger of Leckie, Baron Younger of Prestwick,, was a British Conservative Party politician and banker. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayr from 1964 to 1992. During the premiership of Margaret Thatcher, Younger served as Secretary of State for Scotland from 1979 to 1986, and as Secretary of State for Defence from 1986 to 1989.