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September 26, 1926

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DR. BROOKS HONORED BY ALBANY FRIENDS; Pastor of St. Paul's Church Is to Come to St. Thomas's Here on Oct. 1. PARISH TO SAY FAREWELL Congregation Will Pay Tribute to Its Rector for 21 Years Tomorrow Night.

By Special to The New York Times

ALBANY, Sept. 25. -- Arrangements have been completed for the farewell Monday night to the Roy. Dr. Roelif H. Brooks of St. Paul's Church, who, on Oct. 1, is to become rector of St. Thomas's Church, New York City. The farewell will take place in the parish house of St. Paul's Church, over which congregation Dr. Brooks has ministered for the last twenty-one years.

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THE SOLEMN PLEDGES FOR PEACE IN EUROPE

By Unknown Author

FRANCE and Germany have solemnly declared before the League of Nations that the law, not the sword, shall hereafter govern their conduct in international life. Two striking passages in the speeches of M. Briand and Dr. Stresemann, pledging their respective countries to pursue the paths of peace, are given below:

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H.G. WELLS SURVEYS HIS WORLD; Once More He Takes It Apart and Puts It Together Again THE WORLD OF WILLIAM CLISSOLD. A ro,oel at a ew ,4-ngl. BZl B'. O. Yelts. In to volumes. 797 lop. New YorI: Thv George H. Do'ran Company. $5. Wells Surveys His World

By Henry Longan Stuart

LIKE nearly all powerful and pertinacious writers, Mr. Wells, in the afternoon of his career, finds himself in the grip of certain convictions and obsessions which have been imposed upon him by the mere process of selection. One is a catastrophic vision of the antiquity of mankind and its probable endurance into an indefinite future.

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BASEBALL CLASSIC TO START SATURDAY; Cards, Making Debut in World's Series, Will Meet Yanks Here in First Two Games. ST. LOUIS AWAITS STRUGGLE Sportsman's Park Is Sold Out for Games 3, 4 and 5 Next Week. BASEBALL CLASSIC TO START SATURDAY

By James R. Harrison.by James R. Harrison

The twenty-third annual world's series will start at the Yankee Stadium next Saturday afternoon provided the baseball championship is blessed with dryer weather than was the recent fistic titular argument.

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Notable Births

Julie London

1926Julie London, American singer and actress (died 2000)[โ€ ]

Julie London was an American singer and actress whose career spanned more than 40 years. A torch singer noted for her contralto voice, London recorded over thirty albums of pop and jazz standards between 1955 and 1969. Her recording of "Cry Me a River", a song she introduced on her debut album Julie Is Her Name, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001. In addition to her musical notoriety, London was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1974 for her portrayal of Nurse Dixie McCall in the television series Emergency!

Manfred Mayrhofer

1926Manfred Mayrhofer, Austrian philologist and academic (died 2011)[โ€ ]

Manfred Mayrhofer was an Austrian Indo-Europeanist who specialized in Indo-Iranian languages. Mayrhofer served as professor emeritus at the University of Vienna. He is noted for his etymological dictionary of Sanskrit.