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June 30, 1933

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ASKS 7-POWER STATEMENT; Declaration Would Aim at Mutual Help to Steady Currencies. AND EVENTUAL STABILIZING French Drop Demand for a Pegged Pound as British Are Firm in Refusal. CONFERENCE AT A CRISIS Moley and MacDonald Confer After the Gold Nations Threaten to Quit. Europe Appeals to Roosevelt. SPECULATION PLEA ISSUED BY EUROPE

By Frederick T. Birchall.special Cable To the New York Times.by Frederick T. Birchall

World Economic Conf delegates send appeal to Roosevelt to join in declaration favoring return to gold standard and agreeing to temporary stabilization; MacDonald reptd to have sent personal telegram

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French Urge World Ship Pool

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

French suggest to World Monetary and Economic Conf joint operation of lines under internatl contract but subject to maintenance of natl flags; Atlantic Shipping Conf appts com to rept on reclassification of tonnage

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Notable Births

Tomislav Ivić

1933Tomislav Ivić, Croatian football coach and manager (died 2011)[†]

Tomislav Ivić was a Croatian professional football player and manager. Often described as a brilliant strategist, Ivić is credited with helping develop the modern style of the game. In April 2007, Italian sports daily La Gazzetta dello Sport proclaimed him as the most successful football manager in history, due to his seven league titles won in five countries.

1933Joan Murrell Owens, American educator and marine biologist (died 2011)[†]

Joan Murrell Owens was an American educator and marine biologist specializing in corals. She received degrees in Geology, Fine Art, and Guidance Counseling. She described a new genus, Rhombopsammia, and three new species of button corals, R. niphada, R. squiresi, and Letepsammia franki.

1933M. J. K. Smith, English cricketer and rugby player[†]

Michael John Knight Smith, better known as M. J. K. Smith or Mike Smith, is an English double international, in cricket and in rugby union.

1933Orval Tessier, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2022)[†]

Orval Roy Tessier was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and coach who played parts of three seasons in the National Hockey League for the Montreal Canadiens and Boston Bruins between 1954 and 1960, appearing in a total of 59 regular season games. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1953 to 1965, was spent in the minor leagues, where he was a solid offensive player. He won two scoring titles with the Eastern Professional Hockey League's Kingston Frontenacs, and was voted the league's most valuable player and most sportsmanlike player in the 1961–62 season.

Cookie (cockatoo)

1933Cookie, Australian Major Mitchell's cockatoo, oldest recorded parrot (died 2016)[†]

Cookie was a male pink cockatoo residing at Brookfield Zoo, near Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was believed to be the oldest member of his species alive in captivity, at the age of 82 in June 2015, having significantly exceeded the average lifespan for his kind. He was one of the longest-lived birds on record and was recognised by the Guinness World Records as the oldest living parrot in the world.