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June 6, 1932

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1932David Scott, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut who was the commander of Apollo 15^[†]

David Randolph Scott is an American retired test pilot and NASA astronaut who was the seventh person to walk on the Moon. Selected as part of the third group of astronauts in 1963, Scott flew to space three times and commanded Apollo 15, the fourth lunar landing; he is one of four surviving Moon walkers and the only living commander of a spacecraft that landed on the Moon.

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Headlines from June 6, 1932

CHILE ACTS TO SEIZE ESTATES AND TRADE; PLANS MONOPOLIES; Americans There Fear Loss of $700,000,000 Invested in Locaf Enterprises. BANKS TO BE SOCIALIZED State Control of Oil, Sugar, Tobacco and Gasoline Is Ordered. HEAVY TAXES ON THE RICH Huge Nitrate Concern Will Be Reorganized -- Estates to Be Given to the People. SEIZURE OF TRADE PLANNED IN CHILE

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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YOUNG WOULD GIVE PRESIDENTS POWER TO COMBAT CRISES; He Holds Needed Leadership Is Impossible Under Present Form of Government. DEPLORES SPECIALIZATION He Asserts That It Has Caused a Dearth of Men With a Broad Viewpoint. SPEAKS AT NOTRE DAME Financier Lays Depression to Efforts of Farmers to Meet Tariff-Protected Living Standard. SUGGESTS WIDENING PRESIDENT'S POWERS

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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ROOSEVELT TO FIGHT SHOUSE AS CHAIRMAN; Governor's Forces Will Support Walsh of Montana for the Per- manent Convention Post. OPEN WAR ON SMITH BEGUN Hyde Park Conferees Aware of Danger, but Feel Control of Enough Delegates Is Certain. ROOSEVELT TO FIGHT SHOUSE AT CHICAGO

By James A. Hagerty.by James A. Hagerty

Roosevelt supporters will oppose him for permanent chmn

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Kreager Had Dead End Phone To Cut Off Overlong Visits

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Had dead-end telephone on desk

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Hausner, Overdue at Warsaw, Is Unreported; Would Have Used All Fuel by Noon Yesterday

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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THE STATES COULD BORROW; $1,500,000,000 Increase in Reconstruction Fund to Be Asked. IMPETUS TO PUBLIC WORKS Corporation Would Buy Bonds of Political Subdivisions to Start Employment. PROGRAM MADE AT RAPIDAN Conference at President's Camp Also Calls for Passage of Home Loan Bank Bill. PROGRAM OF RELIEF MAPPED AT RAPIDAN

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Hoover proposes stock increase to secure funds for loans to States for unemployment relief, to Fed Farm Bd for relending to farm cooperatives, and for loans upon security of agr commodities

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POLICE THWART PLOT TO SLAY MUSSOLINI; Youth Seized Near Premier's Office With Two Bombs and Pistol Confesses at Once. MEMBER OF SECRET GROUP Entered Italy on Forged Pass- port -- Accomplices Sought -- King Guarded at Review.

By Arnaldo Cortest.wireless To the New York Times

Police avert attempt on his life on anniversary of Ital Constitution; A Sbardellotto, arrested, confesses plan to hurl bombs at Premier's car; investigation

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