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August 4, 1951

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POINT FOUR GRANTS SOUGHT TO PROVIDE GIFTS OF MACHINERY; State Department Aide Gives Senators Plan for Adding to 'Know-How' Assistance COMMUNISM CURB IS AIM Opposition Is Indicated After Hearing--Turkey Safe From Attack, Connally Says Plan in Study Stage MACHINERY GIFTS URGED FOR POINT 4 Opposition Is Indicated Reports on Greece and Turkey

By C.p. Trussell Special To the New York Times

US Asst Sec McGhee on plan to include machinery in Point 4 aid, Sen com; Sen Connally comment

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Scientist a Suicide by Snake Venom After Ouster From U. of Michigan; SCIENTIST ENDS LIFE

By Unknown Author

Dr M H Soule, Bacteriology Dept chmn, kills self after ouster for mishandling dept funds; had repayed $487 involved

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Ridgway Sees Wedge Driven Between Chinese and Soviet; Headquarters Statement Says Red Losses in Korea May Bring On Tito-Like Break Splitting Mao and the Kremlin MAO-SOVIET RIFT SEEN BY RIDGWAY Reminiscent of Previous Statement

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Gen Ridgway hdqrs sees Korean war splitting USSR and Communist regime; sees possible Tito-like break; previous Ridgway statement recalled

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DEADLOCK PERSISTS AS LINE FOR A TRUCE IS DEBATED 9TH DAY; Delegates Meet for Little More Than an Hour at Their 19th Session at Kaesong RED VIOLATION IS NOTED Admiral Joy Charges Armed Enemy Troops Passed Near U.N. Building in City Twentieth Session Set Argue for Viewpoints DEADLOCK PERSISTS IN KAESONG PARLEY Arguments Clarified Advanced Before by Reds

By Lindesay Parrott Special To the New York Times

19th session; no progress; Joy repts Communist violation of neutral zone by co of armed Chinese troops within few hundred yds of conf site; rept that Ridgway hdqrs demands armistice line N of battle line denied

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U.S. BARS DIRECT AID TO PAYMENTS UNION; Marshall Plan Council Agrees on Year's Halt to Dollar Flow, Help to Weaker Countries U.S. BARS DIRECT AID TO PAYMENTS UNIT Considerable Progress Is Seen

By Lansing Warren Special To the New York Times

OEEC mins' deputies agree to US plan, backed by ECA, to end direct US dollar aid to EPU starting in '52; plan for indirect aid set

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Notable Births

1951Peter Goodfellow, English geneticist and academic^[†]

Peter Neville Goodfellow is a British geneticist best known for his work on sex determination and the SRY gene that encodes testis determining factor. He was Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics at the University of Cambridge from 1992 to 1996.

Historical Context for August 4, 1951

In 1951, the world population was approximately 2,543,130,380 people^[†]