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April 10, 1927

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SAVIN TO DISINHERIT ADOPTED CHILDREN; Veteran Broker Denies Proposed Action Is Connected With Recent Marriage, His 4th. BANISHES THEM FROM HOME Declares Son and Daughter Sought Gay Parties -- Will Continue Their Allowances, He Says.

By Unknown Author

Frank W. Savin, seventy-six-year-old member of the New York Stock Exchange, announced yesterday his intention to disinherit his adopted son, Charles Edye Munroe, and adopted daughter, Muriel Elizabeth Wisnell Savin, whom he banished from his home in Port Chester on Friday. He denied that the trouble had any connection with his recent marriage to Miss Anna Mary Schiels, a housemaid in his employ.

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RUSSIA PLAYS FOR BIG STAKES IN CHINA; The Great Question of the Moment Is Whether Moscow Can Turn the Revolution to Its Own End or Whether the Nationalists Can Throw Off the Communist Domination -- What Russia Wants

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AS THE rising tide of nationalism floods northward in China, engulfs Shanghai and sweeps toward Peking and the Northern provinces, the rest of the world looks on with increasing concern. The looting at Nanking and other evidences of increasing hostility toward foreigners raises the immediate issue of protection of their nationals in the leading chancelleries of the world.

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Notable Births

Norma Candal

1927Norma Candal, Puerto Rican actress (died 2006)[โ€ ]

Norma Daniela Candal Penedo, was a Puerto Rican actress and comedian who was best known for her role as Petunia on La criada malcriada.

Marshall Warren Nirenberg

1927Marshall Warren Nirenberg, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2010)[โ€ ]

Marshall Warren Nirenberg was an American biochemist and geneticist. He shared a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1968 with Har Gobind Khorana and Robert W. Holley for "breaking the genetic code" and describing how it operates in protein synthesis. In the same year, together with Har Gobind Khorana, he was awarded the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia University.