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September 19, 1932

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SOVIET-FRENCH PACT IS SEEN IN OIL TALKS; Paris Hinted Seeking Assured Petroleum Base in Return for Pro-Russian Policy. MOSCOW PRESS GIVES CLUE Reports Laudatory Statement of French Official and Empha- sizes Big Soviet Supplies. SOVIET-FRENCH PACT SEEN IN OIL TALKS

By Walter Duranty.by Wireless To the New York Times.by Walter Duranty

Soviet-French pact for exportation of oil to France rumored

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BRITAIN CONDEMNS GERMAN ARMS PLEA; BACKS FRENCH VIEW; Government, in Sharply Worded Memorandum, Censures Reich for Threat to Re-arm. URGES ACTION AT GENEVA Only Way for Berlin to Gain End, Says London, Is to Join in Disarmament Treaty. ACTION WELCOMED IN PARIS Herriot Is Expected to Offer Cuts but With Reservation on Total of Effectives. BRITAIN CONDEMNS GERMAN ARMS PLEA

By Ferdinand Kuhn Jr.by Cable To the New York Times.by Ferdinand Kuhn Jr

Brit Govt denounces German plea; Germans urged to attend disarmament conf to end inferior status; London press comment; France pleased by Brit stand

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GANDHI LIMITS DIET, TRAINING FOR FAST

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

LONDON, Sept. 18 -- The India office states there is no foundation for the suggestion contained in a news agency message to the effect that the Secretary of State for India has canceled plans for the transfer of Mahatma Gandhi from Yerovda jail at Poona.

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LEGGED-FISH FOSSILS BY THOUSANDS FOUND ON GREENLAND SHORE; Discovery So Valuable It Could Pay Expedition's Costs for 3 Years Reported by Koch. CALLED A 'MISSING LINK' Stegocephali Had Lungs and Were Half Way Between the Toads and Fish. LIVED ON LAND OR IN SEA Explorer Who Found Them Is Wel- comed by Danish Premier on Return to Copenhagen.

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

L Koch finds fossils of Stegocephali, half way between fish and toads in evolutionary scale, on shore of Greenland

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HOOVER SETS LIMIT OF THREE SPEECHES AFTER NIGHT PARLEY; Two Addresses in Mid-West and One Here Indicated in Present Plan. LONG TOUR IS TURNED DOWN President Holds to His Original Program, Arguing His Place Is at White House. SANDERS BRINGS REPORTS "Steady Sweep for the Republicans" Is Under Way, He Says After White House Conference. HOOVER SETS LIMIT OF THREE SPEECHES

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Hoover decides to make 2 speeches in mid-West and one in East

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1932Mike Royko, American journalist and author (died 1997)^[†]

Michael Royko Jr. was an American newspaper columnist from Chicago, Illinois. Over his 42-year career, he wrote more than 7,500 daily columns for the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Chicago Tribune. A humorist who focused on life in Chicago, he was the winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.

1932Stefanie Zweig, German journalist and author (died 2014)^[†]

Stefanie Zweig was a German Jewish writer and journalist. She is best known for her autobiographical novel, Nirgendwo in Afrika (1995), which was a bestseller in Germany. The novel is based on her early life in Kenya, where her family had fled to escape persecution in Nazi Germany. The film adaptation of the novel (2001) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Her books have sold more than seven million copies, and have been translated into fifteen languages.

Headlines from September 19, 1932

SOVIET-FRENCH PACT IS SEEN IN OIL TALKS; Paris Hinted Seeking Assured Petroleum Base in Return for Pro-Russian Policy. MOSCOW PRESS GIVES CLUE Reports Laudatory Statement of French Official and Empha- sizes Big Soviet Supplies. SOVIET-FRENCH PACT SEEN IN OIL TALKS

GANDHI LIMITS DIET, TRAINING FOR FAST

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