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July 5, 1939

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NAZIS BEAT PRELATE ON AUSTRIAN TOUR; INNITZER QUITS TRIP; Cardinal Attacked With Eggs and Epithets as He Visits Parishes Near Vienna STRUCK ON HEAD BY STICK He Is Called 'Murderer' for Failure to Get Pardons for Slayers of Dollfuss

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Card Innitzer reptd to have been assaulted by rural Nazi mob near Vienna

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HUGE HOUSING UNIT IN RED HOOK OPENED; Mayor Questions U.S. Rule on Tenant Income--Heckled by Group in Audience USHA Ruling Discussed HUGE HOUSING UNIT IN RED HOOK OPENED Opening Day Held Fitting

By Times Wide World

opening; LaGuardia, A Rheinstein and others s; illus

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U.S. POLICY ON WAR IS JULY 4 THEME; HOLIDAY TOLL 555; Deaths and Injuries Exceed Last Year's--Millions Get a Four-Day Vacation ALL TRAVEL LINES CHOKED Record Crowds at All Near-By Resorts--Nearly 250,000 Visit the World's Fair

By Unknown Author

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61,808 FANS ROAR TRIBUTE TO GEHRIG; CHIEF FIGURE AT THE STADIUM AND OLD-TIME YANKEES WHO GATHERED IN HIS HONOR

By John Drebingertimes Wide Worldtimes Wide Worldtimes Wide World

In perhaps as colorful and dramatic a pageant as ever was enacted on a baseball field, 61,808 fans thundered a hail and farewell to Henry Lou Gehrig at the Yankee Stadium yesterday.

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SOVIET PACT TALKS ARE SNAGGED ANEW; Moscow Balks at Aid to Small States in West--London and Paris Are Discouraged

By Ferdinand Kuhn Jr. Special Cable To the New York Times

negotiations held up; USSR opposes pledge to Netherlands and Switzerland; Brit refuses to guarantee Baltic States internal status quo; French and Soviet reaction to delay; Latvian press comment

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