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Roosevelt supporters start move to block Raskob at Natl Com meeting
Gold standard suspended following decree barring gold exports; comments of Japanese leaders and press
Mail flier, missing Newark, N J, in fog, flies to sea: turns back, forced down at Cutchogue, L I
SS Teseo sinks in gales off Sardinia; gale wrecks craft off Algiers, 12 drown on coast guard ship; rum-running SS Venus sinks in North Sea off Norway
1931Jon Elia, Pakistani philosopher, poet, and scholar (died 2002)[†]
Syed Hussain Sibt-e-Asghar Naqvi, commonly known by his pen name Jaun Elia, was a Pakistani poet. One of the most prominent modern Urdu poets of ghazals, popular for his unconventional ways, he "acquired knowledge of philosophy, logic, Islamic history, the Muslim Sufi tradition, Muslim religious sciences, Western literature, and Karbala".
1931Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar, Estonian director and politician (died 2015)[†]
Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar was an Estonian film director.