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July 4, 1934

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PRESIDENT CHARTS INDUSTRY PLANNING WITH RICHBERG AID; Choice of New Emergency Committee Chief a Step Toward a Permanent Policy. CONGRESS WILL GET PLAN Ex-Counsel Drops All His Tasks With NRA in Preparing to Develop Program. RELIEF NEEDS ARE LINKED Nation's Obligation to Victims of Depression Will Be Brought Into Focus for Future. PRESIDENT CHARTS INDUSTRY PLANNING

By Turner Catledge.special To the New York Times.by Turner Catledge

Will coordinate existing agencies and formulate plan for Roosevelt

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FRESH PERILS SEEN FOR HITLER REGIME; Threat of Repercussion to Terrorism Hangs Over the Heads of Rulers. ARMY A POTENTIAL MENACE Its Loyalty to President and Leaders of Old Regime Must Be Reckoned With. FRESH PERILS SEEN FOR HITLER REGIME

By Walter Duranty.copyright, 1934, By the New York Times Company and Nana, Inc.by Walter Duranty

BERLIN, July 3 (By Wireless). -- Viewed in the cold light of Bolshevik revolutionary logic, the most striking fact about the present situation in Germany is the uncertainty and lack of cohesion which exists behind the facade of secure and ruthless authority. In Moscow one learns to ignore superficial details and to examine the main facts, irrespective both of rumor and of personal prejudice.

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Notable Births

Yvonne B. Miller

1934Yvonne B. Miller, American academic and politician (died 2012)[†]

Yvonne Bond Miller was a Virginia educator and American politician who became the first African-American woman to serve in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly. A Democrat, in 1983 Miller became the first African-American woman elected to the state house, where she served for four years before winning election to the state Senate, where she consistently won re-election until her death in office. Miller taught in the Norfolk Public schools, and later taught early and childhood education at one of her alma maters, which had become Norfolk State University during her lifetime.

Colin Welland

1934Colin Welland, English actor and screenwriter (died 2015)[†]

Colin Welland was an English actor and screenwriter. He won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance as Mr Farthing in Kes (1969) and the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for writing Chariots of Fire (1981).

Notable Deaths

Marie Curie

1934Marie Curie, French-Polish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1867)[†]

Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie, known as Marie Curie, was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity.