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May 24, 1933

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Headlines from May 24, 1933

NORTH CHINA TRUCE REPORTED REACHED; JAPANESE ADVANCE; Agreement Is Said to Bar Occupation of Peiping by Invading Forces. HEAVY FIGHTING OBSERVED Tokyo Foreign Office States Armistice Is Ready for Signing Tomorrow. FOREIGN ENVOYS CONFER American, British and French Ministers Meet as Japanese Set Up Patrolling Forces. NORTH CHINA TRUCE REPORTED REACHED

By Hallett Abend.special Cable To the New York Times.by Hallett Abend

Japanese Foreign Office announces preliminary negotiations for armistice are completed, and Chinese ready to sign; Japanese in Tientsin deny truce; fighting continues along Tungchow front; Japanese planes fly over Peiping; Japanese send 600 reinforcements from Tientsin to legation guard in Peiping; evacuation of Nanking troops continues but North China troops outside city continue fighting; Yu Hsueh-chung continues to hold Tientsin for Chinese; U S, Brit and French Mins in Peiping confer; no action taken

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Women's Forest Work Camps May Be Set Up If Enough Ask Them, Says Mrs. Roosevelt

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Mrs Roosevelt says women's camps may be set up if enough applications are received

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CREDIT EXPANSION BEGUN BY WOODIN AS RECOVERY STEP; Reserve Banks Authorized to Buy $25,000,000 in Federal Bonds in Open Market. MOVE WILL RELEASE CASH Expectation Is That It Will Be Used for Industrial and Commercial Loans. SPRAGUE BECOMES ADVISER Harvard Professor, Hitherto Aide of Bank of England, Accepts Treasury Post. CREDIT EXPANSION STARTED BY WOODIN

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

appts Sprague adviser

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Morgan Inquiry Highlights

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

None filed by J P Morgan or partners for 1931 and 1932

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R.F.C. Has Only $1,468 Left Of $300,000,000 Relief Fund

By the Associated Press

Approves loans for Maine, Ind, N D, Va and Mich; has $1,468 left of fund

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1933Jane Byrne, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago (died 2014)^[†]

Jane Margaret Byrne was an American politician who served as the 50th mayor of Chicago from April 16, 1979, until April 29, 1983. Prior to her tenure as mayor, Byrne served as Chicago's commissioner of consumer sales from 1969 until 1977 under Mayor Richard J. Daley, the only woman in the mayoral cabinet.

1933Réal Giguère, Canadian television host and actor (died 2019)^[†]

Réal Giguère was a Canadian television host and broadcaster.

1933Aharon Lichtenstein, French-Israeli rabbi and author (died 2015)^[†]

Aharon Lichtenstein was an Orthodox rabbi, Israel Prize laureate and rosh yeshiva who was an authority in Jewish law (Halakha).

Headlines from May 24, 1933

Women's Forest Work Camps May Be Set Up If Enough Ask Them, Says Mrs. Roosevelt

Morgan Inquiry Highlights

R.F.C. Has Only $1,468 Left Of $300,000,000 Relief Fund

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