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October 4, 1931

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POPE URGES AID FOR IDLE, LAYING ILLS TO ARMS RACE; WARNS OF PERIL TO SOCIETY; ASKS 'CRUSADE OF MERCY' Encyclical Calls On All Bishops to Organize Charitable Relief. SEES DANGER IN MISERY Pontiff Fears Want May Drive Unemployed to the Point of Exasperation. HAS LONG TALK WITH CECIL Vatican City Sees Significance in Visit of British Proponent of Arms Reduction. Document Published in Paper. Denounces Arms Race. TEXT OF THE ENCYCLICAL. Crusade to Comfort Soul. Condemns Armaments Race. Exhorts to Charity. Pope Sees Lord Cecil. Pontiff Receives 30 New Yorkers.

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Visits Pope

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HALE DEFIES HOOVER, WILL FIGHT FOR NAVY; He and Britten Will Ask Congress for $750,000,000for Ship Building.CITES PERIL OF A LOST WARDeclaring Arms ConferencesLeave Us Weaker, He Is for Meeting London Treaty Basis. Hale Sees Annual Fight Ended. The Navy "First Line of Defense." HALE DEFIES HOOVER, WILL FIGHT FOR NAVY Weakening Our National Defense. Points to Effect on Employment.

By Special to The New York Times

Will fight for naval construction up to London Treaty limits

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HERNDON, PANGBORN FLY FROM JAPAN FOR AMERICA; SEEK A DISTANCE RECORD; CARRY FUEL FOR 45 HOURS Pacific Fliers Set Salt Lake City as the Goal, 5,205 Miles Away. WEATHER IN THEIR FAVOR They Take Advantage of Calm After Storm and Tail Winds --Fog Less at This Season. WILL DROP LANDING GEAR Plane Has No Radio, Pontoons or Lifeboat--Start Delayed by Disappearance of Maps. Reported Over Nemuro. Will Fly as Far as Possible. FLIERS LEAVE JAPAN ON HOP TO AMERICA Hope to Set Distance Mark. Encountered Much Trouble.

By Hugh Byas. Special Cable To the New York Times

Pacific flights

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Notable Births

1931Terence Conran, English designer and businessman (died 2020)[†]

Sir Terence Orby Conran was a British designer, restaurateur, retailer and writer. He founded the household retailer Habitat in 1964, and the Design Museum in Shad Thames, London in 1989. The British designer Thomas Heatherwick said that Conran "moved Britain forward to make it an influence around the world."

1931Basil D'Oliveira, South African-English cricketer and footballer (died 2011)[†]

Basil Lewis D'Oliveira CBE OIS was an England international cricketer of South African Cape Coloured background, whose potential selection by England for the scheduled 1968–69 tour of apartheid-era South Africa caused the D'Oliveira affair.

Richard Rorty

1931Richard Rorty, American philosopher and author (died 2007)[†]

Richard McKay Rorty was an American philosopher, historian of ideas, and public intellectual. Educated at the University of Chicago and Yale University, Rorty's academic career included appointments as the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, the Kenan Professor of Humanities at the University of Virginia, and a professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. Among his most influential books are Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (1979), Consequences of Pragmatism (1982), and Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity (1989).