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December 24, 1931

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$45,000 OF PIER FEE CASHED BY HICKIN; He Refuses to Waive Immunity in Inquiry on "Split" After Withdrawals Are Disclosed. MAIER REVEALS INFLUENCE Admits Paying $500 to Official Now Dead--Seabury Scores Him as Evasive. Maler Waives Immunity. Queried on Conviction. Hickin, on Stand, Denounces Seabury Hickin Checks Identified. Hickin Insists on Immunity. McNaboe Defends Witness. Clash on Maier Testimony. Tells of Trip With Walker. Grell Was Political Friend. Tells of Hiring Hickin. Recants on $50,000 Fee. Admits Plan for Split. Calling of Walker Vetoed. McKenzie Is Questioned.

By Unknown Author

Insufficient bank deposits hold up pay of city employes

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LONGER HOLIDAY IS SOUGHT; Two-Year Extension of Hoover Project Is Now Thought Likely. REPORT SIGNED IN BASLE Advisory Board Finds Young Plan Insufficient to Combat 'Unprecedented Crisis.' IMMEDIATE ACTION URGED Committee Warns That Nations Face Spread of Paralysis of Finances to All Europe. Finds Young Plan Insufficient. Affects Unconditional Payments. EXPERTS ASK A NEW REPARATIONS DEAL Only Eight Texts Signed. Stewart Explains Debt Reference.

By Lansing Warren. Special Cable To the New York Times

Official summary of rept of Basle com does not mention private debts

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Notable Births

Ray Bryant

1931Ray Bryant, American pianist and composer (died 2011)[†]

Raphael Homer "Ray" Bryant was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.

Mauricio Kagel

1931Mauricio Kagel, Argentinian-German composer and scholar (died 2008)[†]

Mauricio Raúl Kagel was an Argentine-German composer and academic teacher.

Notable Deaths

Carlo Fornasini

1931Carlo Fornasini, micropalaeontologist (born 1854)[†]

Cavaliere dottore Carlo Fornasini was an Italian micropalaeontologist who specialised in Foraminifera ('forams'). He was a pioneer in using fossil forams to sequence marine sedimentary deposits by their relative dates; a technique called biostratigraphy.

Flying Hawk

1931Flying Hawk, American warrior, educator and historian (born 1854)[†]

Flying Hawk, also known as Moses Flying Hawk, was an Oglala Lakota warrior, historian, educator and philosopher. Flying Hawk's life chronicles the history of the Oglala Lakota people through the 19th and early 20th centuries, as he fought to deflect the worst effects of white rule; educate his people and preserve sacred Oglala Lakota land and heritage.