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July 7, 1928

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Headlines from July 7, 1928

REPUBLICANS BAN STRESS ON PROHIBITION, SAYS WORK; RELIGIOUS TOPICS ARE TABOO; NEITHER IS HELD POLITICAL Chairman Says Smith Will Be Fought if He Raises Wet Issue. FOR HOOVER'S DRY STAND Nominee's Opposition to Repeal Cited as Summing Up the Party's Attitude. TARIFF PRESSED FOR EAST Letter to Committeemen Sets Policies--Eastern Conference in Washington Today. Protection to Be Battle Cry. Outlines Campaign Policy. REPUBLICANS BAN STRESS ON DRY LAW Eastern Conference Today. Hoover Sees Moses and Good.

By Special to The New York Times

Ruled out by Repubs, says Work

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TEST DOOR TO SOLVE LOEWENSTEIN CASE; HOAX DISCREDITED; Paris Mechanics Are Unable to Open One Through Which Financier Fell to Sea. SPILL AT 'AIR BUMP' HINTED Investors Recently Insured Belgian's Life Up to 500,000, With Suicide Covered. SEARCH FOR BODY GIVEN UP Rumor on Wall Street of $11,000,000 Loan Negotiated Here Is Denied.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Mechanics unable to open door through which he fell; suicide and hoax theories; pilot abandons search for body; liquidation of estate may be delayed 4 yrs; suicide among risks covered in insurance policies; report of loan in U S denied

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Notable Births

Pat Hitchcock

1928Patricia Hitchcock, English actress (died 2021)[†]

Patricia Alma Hitchcock O'Connell was an American actress and producer. She was the only child of English director Alfred Hitchcock and film editor Alma Reville, and had small roles in several of her father's films, with her most substantial appearance being in Strangers on a Train (1951).

Kapelwa Sikota

1928Kapelwa Sikota Zambian nurse and health official (died 2006)[†]

Kapelwa Sikota (1928–2006) was the first Zambian registered nurse, in the 1950s when her country was still the British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia. She trained and qualified in South Africa where nursing education was available before it was developed in Zambia. Her qualifications were not fully recognised at home until independence in 1964 when she was appointed to senior nursing posts. By 1970 she was Chief Nursing Officer in the Ministry of Health. In 2011 she was honoured posthumously by the Zambian Association of University Women.

Historical Events

Sliced bread

1928Sliced bread is sold for the first time (on the inventor's 48th birthday) by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.[†]

Sliced bread is a loaf of bread, sliced with a machine and packaged for convenience, as opposed to the consumer cutting it with a knife. It was first sold in 1928, advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped". By 1933, around 80% of bread sold in the US was pre-sliced, leading to the popular idiom "greatest thing since sliced bread".