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January 9, 1933

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Notable Births

1933Roy Dwight, English footballer (died 2002)^[†]

Royston Edward Dwight was an English footballer. He scored the opening goal in the 1959 FA Cup Final for Nottingham Forest.

1933Wilbur Smith, Zambian-English journalist and author (died 2021)^[†]

Wilbur Addison Smith was a Northern Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries.

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Headlines from January 9, 1933

O'BRIEN COMMITTEE PROPOSES NEW FEES TO RAISE $2,000,000; Police and Fire Department Levies Urged in Report -- Bridge Tolls Weighed. RIGID ECONOMY STRESSED Schroeder's Pay Assailed as Far Too High -- Limousines for Officials Scored. BUREAU MERGERS SOUGHT Plan Follows Lines of Mayor's Induction Speech -- Retirement of Older Employes Asked. NEW FEES URGED IN O'BRIEN REPORT

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Mayor O'Brien's com proposes new fees

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PLANE CRASH KILLS MATHEWSON'S BRIDE; Son of Famed Pitcher Hurt as Craft He Is Piloting Dives After Shanghai Take-Off. WED ON CHRISTMAS EVE Philadelphia Girl, 23, on First Flight With Her Husband -- Cause of Wreck Unknown.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Wife killed, husband hurt in plane crash; pors

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HOUSE LINES FORM TO BLOCK PRESIDENT ON REORGANIZATION; Cochran Committee Will Report Today Its Resolution to Reject the Economy Proposals. SAVINGS ARE CHALLENGED Delay Until Roosevelt Takes Office is Held Supported by Budget Director. PROTEST FROM MINORITY Democrats Are Accused of "an Indian Gift" in Economy Act -- Hearings Denounced.

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Repts on resolution refusing to Hoover power to reorganize Govt depts

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London Times Urges Clean Slate on Debts; Warns Roosevelt of Peril in Compromise

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

London Times warns him against compromise

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Langmuir Measures Force of Single Atoms By Most Sensitive Method Yet Devised; LANGMUIR DEVISES NEW ATOM COUNTER

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Explains method of detecting atoms and measuring their speed, in Journal of Chem Physics

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Extremists Assault Barracks.; REDS IN SPAIN RISE IN SEVEN PROVINCES

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BARCELONA, Spain, Jan. 8 (AP). -- Two officers and three radicals were killed and a number of others were wounded today in clashes be-

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Herriot's Radicals Triumph In Two Senate By-Elections

By the Associated Press

2 Radical Socialists win Senatorial by-elections

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DUBLIN MOB ROOTS COSGRAVE CROWD; Shouts Down Speeches, Hurls Bricks, Rushes Platform and Wrecks Loudspeakers. ATTACKS WHITE ARMY MEN Police Protection Required to Get 700 Away -- Their Headquarters Stoned. DUBLIN MOB ROUTS COSGRAVE CROWD

By Charles A. Selden.special Cable To the New York Times.by Charles A. Selden

Mulcahy and other Cosgrave supporters prevented from speaking by hecklers; De Valera and Cosgrave s; 30 hurt in riots; De Valera says J H Thomas said he would be overthrown by civil war

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Strikers in the Canary Islands Routed in Fight With Troops

By the Associated Press

Street car workers and taxicab drivers on strike; bombs explode in chocolate and soup paste factories

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LEADERS PUT FAITH IN THE MACHINE AGE TO END DEPRESSION; 150 in Industry, Research and Finance Urge No Halt in Technical Advance. REPLY TO TECHNOCRACY" Our Progress Goes on Despite Slump, Wires to Sloan Agree -- "New Needs" Expected. SMITH GIVES HIS VIEWS Backlog of Demand Must Soon Break its Bounds, the Ex-Governor Says. LEADERS PUT FAITH IN THE MACHINE AGE

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A P Sloan Jr gets replies from 150 leaders in U S industry, economics, educ and finance, praising research

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REDS IN SPAIN RISE IN SEVEN PROVINCES; Communists Battle Troops Two Hours in Barcelona -- Five Slain There. ATTACK MADRID BARRACKS Rebels Seize Autos in Catalan Capital, Throw Bombs and Cause Panic in Crowds.

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Syndicalist outbreak in Barcelona; 5 killed, many wounded in street battles between Communists and Civil Guards; general strike called; city under partial martial law; trouble reptd also in Saragossa and provinces of Cuenca, Lerida, Orense and Gerona; syndicalists attack Carachanchel barracks in Madrid

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PLYMOUTH FOLK HONOR COOLIDGE; ' Here He Was Born and Here His Body Rests,' Preacher Tells Them at Village Church. THEY MARCH TO HIS GRAVE On New-Fallen Snow They Lay Their Wreath in Tribute to Vermont Farmer's Son. PLYMOUTH FOLK HONOR COOLIDGE

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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