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October 28, 1934

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GERMANY PUSHING ERSATZ MATERIALS; To Offset Her Shortages, She Is Mobilizing Industry to Produce Substitutes. TWO ARE WELL ADVANCED Imports From U.S. May Be Affected by Synthetic Oil and Textile Fiber. GERMANY PUSHING ERSATZ MATERIALS

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

Industry mobilized to produce substitutes

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WITHIN THE GATES'; Sean O'Casey's Fantasy of Hyde Park -- Drama of Life as They Lead It Out-of-Doors

By Brooks Atkinson

INSCRUTABLE are the ways of Providence. For years the gentry idling in the studios have dreamed dispassionately of a brave, many-voiced form of drama that would plunge deeper and soar higher than nervous realism and employ singing and dancing as handmaids of the stage.

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PRINCETON ROUTS CORNELL BY 45-0; Makes Second Largest Score of Long Series as 30,000 Look On in Rain. LeVAN AGAIN SPARK PLUG Dash of 65 Yards Over Line Starts Onslaught -- Sandbach and Pauk Also Excel. PRINCETON ROUTS CORNELL BY 45-0

By Allison Danzig.special To the New York Times.by Allison Dansig

PRINCETON, N.J., Oct. 27. -- Princeton came back today from its disquieting experience against Washington and Lee to bury Cornell under the second most decisive score registered in the history of this series going back to 1891.

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SIAMESE MONARCH TO GIVE UP THRONE; HIS POWER CURBED; Prajadhipok, Recuperating From Operation in England, Notifies Bangkok.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

offers to abdicate, following dispute over curtailment of his powers

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Sailors Mark Navy Day Ashore in Canal Zone

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Sailors get shore leave in Panama

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Notable Births

1934Charles A. Gargano, American diplomat, businessman and government official^[†]

Charles A. Gargano is an Italian-American actor, businessman and government official who was the U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago. He was the chairman of the Empire State Development Corporation during the tenure of Governor George Pataki.