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November 4, 1926

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SURPRISE OPENS HALL TRIAL; TWO SAW WILLIE STEVENS WANDERING ON CRIME NIGHT; HE SEEMED BEWILDERED Asked Way to a House Near Murder Scene, They Testify. STATE ATTACKS HIS ALIBI Charlotte Mills Sobs on Stand -- Prisoners Calm, Surrounded by Seven Attorneys. MRS. GIBSON COLLAPSES State's Chief Witness May Be Too, Ill to Testify Today -- Jury Chosen in 75 Minutes. Hall-Mills Trial Opens With Witnesses' Attack on Willie Stevens's Alibi Mrs. Gibson Among Witnesses Expected Today

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South Dakota Has Elected First Democratic Governor

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Patrolmen With Rifles to Guard City Prisons As Officials Act to Prevent Future Outbreaks

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Precautions to prevent repetitions of the shooting affray in the Tombs Prison yesterday will be put into effect immediately, Commissioner of Correction Wallis announced last night. He explained that Police Commissioner McLaughlin had offered the fullest cooperation to prevent future jailbreaks. This policy calls for the following additional measures:

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Fatal Accident Grieves Royal Party.; SEIZE REDS ON EVE OF ROYAL WEDDING

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Notable Births

1926Carlos "Patato" Valdes, Cuban-American conga player and composer (died 2007)^[†]

Carlos Valdés Galán, better known as Patato, was a Cuban conga player. In 1954, he emigrated from La Habana to New York City where he continued his prolific career as a sideman for several jazz and Latin music ensembles, and occasionally as a bandleader. He contributed to the development of the tunable conga drum which revolutionized the use of the instrument in the US. His experimental descarga albums recorded for Latin Percussion are considered the counterpart to the commercial salsa boom of the 1970s. Tito Puente once called him "the greatest conguero alive today".