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March 27, 1935

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Notable Births

1935Stanley Rother, American Roman Catholic priest and missionary (died 1981)^[†]

Stanley Francis Rother was an American Catholic priest from Oklahoma who was murdered in Guatemala in 1981. He had worked as a missionary priest there since 1968. He held several parish assignments as a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City from 1963 to 1968 before being assigned to Guatemala.

1935Julian Glover, English actor^[†]

Julian Wyatt Glover is an English actor with many stage, television, and film roles. Classically trained, he is a recipient of the Laurence Olivier Award and has performed many times for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

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Headlines from March 27, 1935

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FOUR MEMEL NAZIS SENTENCED TO DIE; Two Get Life and 90 Others Long Prison Terms in Plot to Seize City for Reich.

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

KAUNAS, Lithuania, March 26. -- Four death sentences were passed this morning by the court that has been trying 126 Nazis accused of plotting to seize Memel for Germany.

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WILGUS TO RETIRE WHEN INQUIRY ENDS; DEFENDS PAY RISES; 'Fed Up With Sniping and Too Many Masters' in Work-Relief Task, He Says.

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Wilgus resigns, effective when inquiry is completed; asserts increases were not secret but approved by TERA and ERB and earned through savings and creation of values; Hodson praises his work

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BERLIN PARLEYS FRUITLESS; END IN A WARNING BY SIMON; MEMEL CASE ENRAGES REICH; GERMANS ARE UNYIELDING

By Frederick T. Birchall

talks end; results negative; Simon believed to have warned Germany against continuation of current policy; no compromise from Germany on rearmament; German demand for equality reiterated and made one of conditions for return to League; summary; Eden starts on tour

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Governor and Mayor Clash As Lehman Denies Tax Plea; Year's Extension of City's Emergency Powers Might Create Chaos, Lehman Says, While La Guardia Scoffs at 'Pawnshop System.'

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Lehman sends message to Legis on extension and diversion; LaGuardia and Sen Baldwin reply; Baldwin introduces bill extending power to Dec 31, 1936; Lehman and LaGuardia clash on issues at meeting of State Conf of Mayors com

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Defense Counsel Protests.; FOUR MEMEL NAZIS SENTENCED TO DIE

By the Associated Press

KAUNAS, Lithuania, March 26. -- Accused of directing a plot to seize the former German town of Memel and return it to the Reich, four Nazi leaders, Emil Boll, Walter Preiss, Heinrich Wannagat and Emil Lepa, were sentenced by a military court today to die before a firing squad.

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