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August 7, 1934

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SMITH FOR LAW TO CREATE NEW CHARTER BODY NAMED BY MAY OR GOVERNOR; HE CHARGES POLITICS Accuses the Legislature of 'Scuttling' Move for Revision. HITS AT OBSTRUCTIONISTS Declares Majority on Board Fought Real Reform -- Sees Public Confidence Gone. FAVORS STATE'S FORMULA Holds It Adapted to City Needs -- Bill Offered in Assembly to End Old Commission. SMITH PROPOSES NEW CHARTER BODY

By Unknown Author

Introduces bill for new charter revision comm

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Five American Tourists Are Assaulted in Reich

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Thrown out of Munich hotel for alleged slur on Nazis

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DROUGHT DAMAGE NOW $5,000,000,000, ROOSEVELT IS TOLD; Hopkins Aide Reports 27,000,000 Persons and 60% of the Country's Area Affected. PRESIDENT ENTERS REGION No Migration to Be Forced, He Says in Speech at Fort Peck, Mont., Dam. ROOSEVELT IS TOLD OF DROUGHT HAVOC

By From a Staff Correspondent

Roosevelt s on Fort Peck Dam for irrigation, navigation and flood control

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65 MILES OF TORCHES LIGHT ROUTE OF VON HINDENBURG TO TOMB AT TANNENBERG; VAST PILGRIMAGE BEGINS 250,000 Converging on Memorial for Great Funeral Today. BATTLE FLAGS PARADED Throngs Bow Heads as Body Passes Through Tannenberg on Way to Monument. HITLER EXTOLS MARSHAL Calls Him 'Eternal Protector' of Nation in Reichstag Eulogy -- Prays for Peace. MILES OF TORCHES ON FUNERAL ROUTE

By Otto D. Tolischus.wireless To the New York Times.by Otto D. Tolischus

Funeral

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3 AMERICANS HELD IN CUBAN FORTRESS; Army Says Washington Asked for Arrests, but Embassy Denies Knowledge. OFFICIAL ZEAL IS BLAMED Seizure of New Yorkers Laid to Investigators of Rebel Arms Smuggling. 3 AMERICANS HELD IN CUBAN FORTRESS

By J.d. Phillips.special Cable To the New York Times.by J.d. Phillips

Arrested in Cuba; denies knowledge of charges

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Notable Births

1934Sándor Simó, Hungarian director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2001)^[†]

Sándor Simó was a Hungarian film producer, director and screenwriter. He produced 25 films and directed a further seven. His 1969 film Those Who Wear Glasses won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. His 1977 film My Father's Happy Years was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.