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December 11, 1935

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BRITISH ACCEPT PEACE PLAN WITH SLIGHT MODIFICATIONS; IT GOES TO ROME AND ADDIS; EDEN YIELDS AFTER FIGHT Frantic Telephoning to Paris Brings Changes, Ending Cabinet Row. BALDWIN DEFENDS PLAN Could Make a Convincing Case if at Liberty to Speak, He Tells Commons. PARIS EXPECTS SUCCESS Forecasts the Abandonment of Whole Sanctions System -Rome Fairly Sanguine. BRITAIN ACCEPTS PLAN FOR PEACE

By Charles A. Seldenwireless To the New York Times

Defends Hoare-Laval peace plan for Italo-Ethiopian conflict, in House of Commons debate

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Banks Face Tax Threat, Mayor Indicates, To Force Mortgage Rate Cut to 4 Per Cent

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Hearing on bill on instalment payments on local improvement assessments; LaGuardia signs bill; hints banks may face tax unless they cut mortgage interest rates

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REPUBLICAN NAMED TO SIT AS JUSTICE IN DRUCKMAN CASE; E. C. Rogers of Hudson Falls Is Appointed by the Governor for Special Term. PRESENT JURY IS DEFIANT Tells Lehman It Intends to Press Inquiry, but More Indictments Are Unlikely. WANTS TO SIFT BRIBERY Executive Acts After a Talk With Bennett and Todd, Special Prosecutor. ROGERS TO PRESIDE IN DRUCKMAN CASE

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Apptd by Gov Lehman to preside over special grand jury investigating Druckman case; por

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JAPAN WINS FIGHT TO PUT PARITY FIRST AT NAVAL PARLEY; London Conference Agrees to Tackle Immediately Chief Issue Facing It. HITCH ON 'COMMON LIMIT' Tokyo Delegates, Swamped by Questions as to Meaning, Ask Time to Explain. JAPAN WINS FIGHT TO PUT PARITY FIRST

By Frederick T. Birchall.wireless To the New York Times

conf meets as com of the whole; reprs state relative positions; Japan's desire for common upper limit brings on flood of questions; Davis visits Adm Nagano

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REED IN COLLAPSE; AAA CASES HALTED; Federal Pleader Is Taken III in Midst of New Hail of Questions by Judges. ARGUING BANKHEAD ACT Court May Recess Hearings to Permit Him to Rest -- Pleas in Hoosac Mills Suit End. REED IN COLLAPSE; AAA CASES HALTED

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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1935Pranab Mukherjee, Indian journalist and politician, 13th President of India (died 2020)^[†]

Pranab Kumar Mukherjee was an Indian statesman who served as the president of India from 2012 until 2017. He was the first person from West Bengal to hold the post of President of India. In a political career spanning five decades, Mukherjee was a senior leader in the Indian National Congress and occupied several ministerial portfolios in the Government of India. Prior to his election as President, Mukherjee was Finance Minister from 2009 to 2012 also in 1982 to 1984. He was awarded India's highest civilian honour, the Bharat Ratna, in 2019, by his successor as president, Ram Nath Kovind.

1935Elmer Vasko, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1998)^[†]

Elmer "Moose" Vasko was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Chicago Black Hawks and Minnesota North Stars. He was on the Blackhawks team that won the Stanley Cup in 1961.

Headlines from December 11, 1935

Banks Face Tax Threat, Mayor Indicates, To Force Mortgage Rate Cut to 4 Per Cent

JAPAN WINS FIGHT TO PUT PARITY FIRST AT NAVAL PARLEY; London Conference Agrees to Tackle Immediately Chief Issue Facing It. HITCH ON 'COMMON LIMIT' Tokyo Delegates, Swamped by Questions as to Meaning, Ask Time to Explain. JAPAN WINS FIGHT TO PUT PARITY FIRST

REED IN COLLAPSE; AAA CASES HALTED; Federal Pleader Is Taken III in Midst of New Hail of Questions by Judges. ARGUING BANKHEAD ACT Court May Recess Hearings to Permit Him to Rest -- Pleas in Hoosac Mills Suit End. REED IN COLLAPSE; AAA CASES HALTED

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