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June 5, 1926

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OPERATION HALTS MISS WILLS'S TENNIS; Attack of Appendicitis in Paris Puts Her Out of Tournaments There and at Wimbledon. LOSES CHANCE AT LENGLEN Speedy Recovery Is Expected, but She May Not Be Able to Defend Title Here in Fall.

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PARIS, June 4. -- Miss Helen Wills, America's star woman tennis player, was operated on for appendicitis this evening in the American Hospital at Neuilly, apparently with every success. Though her illness developed suddenly today, Miss Wills has been complaining for the past week of feeling unwell and something of her state of health was reflected in her play, which was far below the form she showed in Nice.

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PENSION FOR HYLAN AGAIN FOUND ILLEGAL; Injunction That Citizens Union Got Against It Is Sustained by Appellate Division. TWO ENABLING LAWS VOID Ex-Mayor Says He Will Appeal -- Sorry for 100 Others Whom Decision Affects. PENSION FOR HYLAN AGAIN FOUND ILLEGAL

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Appellate Div of N Y S Supreme Court sustains Citizens Union injunction; holds illegal two local laws enacted by Municipal Assembly undertaking to change age limit; Hylan will appeal; says he is sorry for others affected

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Notable Births

Paul Soros

1926Paul Soros, Hungarian-American engineer and businessman (died 2013)[†]

Paul Soros was a Hungarian-born American mechanical engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist. Soros founded Soros Associates, which designs and develops bulk handling and port facilities. Soros Associates currently operates in ninety-one countries worldwide, as of 2013. Paul Soros, often called "the invisible Soros", was the older brother of George Soros, a businessman and financier.