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July 12, 1933

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$200,000,000 WORKS TO START PROGRAM; Cabinet Board Approves Plan for Federal Projects to Provide Jobs Quickly. $48,606,501 FOR ROADS New York and 3 Other States Will Share This Fund -- H.M. Waite to Assist Ickes. $200,000,000 WORKS TO START PROGRAM

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Cabinet Advisory Bd approves list of projects involving $200,000,000; Ickes warns contractors against hiring "inside men,"

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BIG TRACT DONATED BY ROCKEFELLER JR. TO SAVE PALISADES; To Preserve Scenic Beauty, He Gives $5,000,000 in Land for 13-Mile Parkway. FEDERAL AID TO BE ASKED $3,500,000 Grant in Recovery Program Sought -- Smith Praises 'Generous Act.' ROCKEFELLER GIFT TO SAVE PALISADES

By Unknown Author

Offers 265 acres of land atop Palisades to Palisades Interstate Park Comrs for parkway, conditional on Comrs' ability to raise sum for construction; text of lr; praise

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Connecticut Is Twelfth.; BEER BY NEARLY 2-1 VOTED INOKLAHOMA

By Unknown Author

Conn and N H delegates vote for repeal

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Dollar Rises on Chamberlain's Prediction; Pound Falls 14 1/4 Cents, Franc Off 19 Points

By Unknown Author

dollar rises

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MATTERN RELATES TALE OF HARDSHIPS; Badly Burned and With Ankle Broken, He Fought Off Death From Hunger and Cold. OWES HIS RESCUE TO RAFT Crawling to River, He Built a Float to Reach Island and Signal Eskimo Boat. MATTERN RELATES TALE OF HARDSHIP

By James Mattern.copyright, 1933, By Nana, Inc. World Rights Reserved

Mattern's story of crash and trek to Anadyr; Soviet Pilot Levanovsky ordered to Anadyr to fly him to Nome; backers rept Pan Amer Airways agrees to furnish plane to complete flight

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Notable Births

1933Victor Poor, American engineer, developed the Datapoint 2200 (died 2012)^[†]

Victor "Vic" Poor was an American engineer and computer pioneer. At Computer Terminal Corporation, he co-created the architecture that was ultimately implemented in the first successful computer microprocessor, the Intel 8008. Subsequently, Computer Terminal Corporation created the first personal computer, the Datapoint 2200 programmable terminal.

1933Donald E. Westlake, American author and screenwriter (died 2008)^[†]

Donald Edwin Westlake was an American writer with more than one hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction, especially comic capers, with an occasional foray into science fiction and other genres. Westlake created two professional criminal characters who each starred in a long-running series: the relentless, hardboiled Parker, and John Dortmunder, who featured in a more humorous series.