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August 5, 1932
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Headlines from August 5, 1932
Fist Thrust Through Window Balks Gem Thieves; Jeweler Used Same Alarm Six Years Before
Renner, I; attempt foiled; 2 men escape
FINANCE BOARD BARS PENNSYLVANIA LOAN; Pinchot's Personal Plea Fails as Directors Hold State Has Not Helped Itself. MICHIGAN GETS $1,800,000 New York Tunnel Plan Study Is Deferred--Red Cross Here Asks 155,960 Barrels of Flour. FINANCE BOARD BARS PENNSYLVANIA LOAN
Refuses Pa's request for $10,000,000 advance on ground that State has not helped itself
NEXT MOVE IS UP TO STATE; Mayor Held Powerless to Act Without Sanction of the Legislature. HIS PROGRAM IS ASSAILED Spokesman for Firemen Scores Failure to Try Berry Plan to Reduce Budget. SEES WORKERS PENALIZED Official Count Withheld by Dorman -- Returns Based on Duplicate Ballots. FIREMEN REJECT WAGE REDUCTION
Firemen refuse to yield month's salary
FIRM FARM PRICES SOUGHT; Efforts Will Be Made for Orderly Marketing of Federal Holdings. GRAIN GROUP ORGANIZING Action on Cotton to Follow, With Move to Delay Government Sales a Year. HEAVY TRADING IN STOCKS 3,522,000 Shares Sold in Most Active Day of 1932 -- Record Rise in Preferred Issues. MEYER AND BANKERS ACT TO AID STAPLES
Pool to market holdings of Farm Bd and cotton cooperatives planned
Notable Births
1932Tera de Marez Oyens, Dutch pianist and composer (died 1996)[†]
Tera de Marez Oyens was a Dutch composer.
1932Vladimir Fedoseyev, Russian conductor[†]
Vladimir Ivanovich Fedoseyev is a Soviet and Russian conductor, accordionist, teacher. People's Artist of the USSR (1980). Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1989) and the Glinka State Prize of the RSFSR (1970). Full Commander of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland". Artistic director and chief conductor of the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra since 1974.