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December 23, 1931

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SENATE RATIFIES MORATORIUM, 69 TO 12, AFTER JOHNSON ATTACK ON PRESIDENT; TRAYLOR SCORES HOOVER CREDIT POOL; WANTS RELIEF FOR BANKS Banker Favors Proposed Reconstruction Body to Aid Weak Ones. IDEA STARTLES SENATORS Suggestion Is Made to Committee That Loans Be Grantedto Failed Institutions.RAILWAYS' NEED STRESSEDSubcommittee Votes to ReportMeasure Favorably atEnd of Recess. Traylor Urges Loans to Closed Banks. Insurance Leads Urge Rail Aid. SENATE APPROVES THE MORATORIUM Other Amendments Beaten. Line-up on the Amendments. Opponents Are Unrelenting. Shortridge Defends Measure. Calls for Aid to Americans. Reads "Hoover Message." Traps Senator Smoot. Denies Message Gave Facts. McKellar Attacks Moratorium. The vote in Detail. Provisions of the Resolution.

By Special to The New York Times

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Notable Births

Ronnie Schell

1931Ronnie Schell, American comedian and actor[†]

Ronald Ralph Schell is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He appeared on the May 28, 1959, episode of the TV quiz show You Bet Your Life, hosted by Groucho Marx. Schell demonstrated a comic barrage of beatnik jive talk. As a stand-up comedian, he first developed his act at the hungry i nightclub in San Francisco, California, and is heard introducing the Kingston Trio at the start of the group's 1962 College Concert album. Schell is probably best known for his 1960s television role as Duke Slater in Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Notable Deaths

Wilson Bentley

1931Wilson Bentley, American meteorologist and photographer (born 1865)[†]

Wilson Alwyn Bentley, also known as Snowflake Bentley, was an American meteorologist and photographer, who was the first known person to take detailed photographs of snowflakes and record their features. He perfected a process of catching flakes on black velvet in such a way that their images could be captured before they either melted or sublimated, and elaborated the theory that no two snowflakes are alike.