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Melk copy sold to Dr A S W Rosenbach for $106,000
Sen Edge offers bill to remove limit of 1/2 of 1% on alcoholic content and permit making malt beverages up to point where they are not intoxicating
J G Wills of White Plains gets permit to use rifle because of squirrels invading his attic
Federal Court of Appeals dismisses habeas corpus writ; declines to question validity of commutation of former sentence; Groehl, chief counsel, says he will appeal to Supreme Court
W A De Ford, W J Lambert and A F Canfield attys, present appeal to Bd of Review of Labor Dept denying that she committed acts involving moral turpitude within meaning of immigration laws; reprs of Natl Women's Party and Amer Civil Liberties Union denied admission to hearing and protest to Sec Davis; Countess wires women supporters
1926Margot Frank, German-Dutch holocaust victim (died 1945)[†]
Margot Betti Frank was the elder daughter of Otto Frank and Edith Frank and the elder sister of Anne Frank. Margot's deportation order from the Gestapo hastened the Frank family into hiding. According to the diary of her younger sister, Anne, Margot kept a diary of her own, but no trace of it has ever been found. She died in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from a typhus outbreak.
1926John Schlesinger, English actor and director (died 2003)[†]
John Richard Schlesinger was an English film, television and stage director, and actor. He emerged in the early 1960s as a leading light of the British New Wave, before embarking on a successful career in Hollywood, often directing films dealing frankly in provocative subject matter, combined with his status as one of the rare openly gay directors working in mainstream films.