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November 1, 1927

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MRS. KNAPP DECLINES TO TAKE THE STAND IN CENSUS INQUIRY; Refusal Based on Denial to Her of "Constitutional Right" to Have Counsel at Hearing. OTIS SO WRITES LE BOEUF He Also Announces There Will Be No More Affidavits Now as Mrs. Knapp Nods Assent. SHE IS WORN AND SHAKEN Strain Plainly Evident as She Discusses Charges of Mrs. Ninde and Dr. Laidlaw. MRS. KNAPP DECLINES TO TAKE THE STAND

By Unknown Author

Otis writes Le Boeuf that Mrs Knapp will not testify; Le Boeuf's comment; she reaches N Y; discusses Ninde and Laidlaw charges in int with reporters

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MELLON ADVISES LIMITING TAX CUT TO $225,000,000; Greater Reduction, He Tells Committee, Probably Would Run Into a Deficit in 1929. FOR CORPORATION RELIEF Would Cut That Levy to 12% and Give to Small Concerns a Partnership Status. SURTAX REDUCTION URGED Confined to Middle Brackets -Wants Excise Taxes Kept, but Estate Levy Abandoned. Mellon Warns Against Reduction of Sources of Taxation in Time of Prosperity

By Special to The New York Times

Sec Mellon cites tax on Dempsey-Tunney fight as reason for not repealing it, in recommendations to House Ways and Means Com

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Notable Births

Marcel Ophuls

1927Marcel Ophüls, German documentary filmmaker (died 2025)[†]

Marcel Ophuls was a German-French and American documentary filmmaker and actor, renowned for his notable works such as The Sorrow and the Pity (1969) and Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988). Born to German-Jewish filmmaker Max Ophuls, the family fled Nazi Germany during its rise to power in the final stages of the Weimar Republic in 1933. Subsequently, they relocated to France, but fled in 1940 when the Nazis occupied the country. Finally, in 1941, the family emigrated to the United States, where Marcel became a citizen in 1950.

Vic Power

1927Vic Power, Puerto Rican baseball player and coach (died 2005)[†]

Victor Felipe Pellot Pové, known professionally as Vic Power, was a Puerto Rican professional baseball first baseman. He played twelve seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia / Kansas City Athletics, Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, Los Angeles / California Angels, and Philadelphia Phillies, from 1954 through 1965. Pellot was the second Puerto Rican of African descent to play in MLB and the second Puerto Rican to play in the American League (AL), following Hiram Bithorn.