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December 30, 1935

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DEALS ON COLONIES MAY GIVE GERMANY PORTUGUESE LANDS; London Hears of Plan to Satisfy the Reich if Settlement Is Reached on Ethiopia. PRE-WAR TREATY IS CITED By It Portugal Agreed to Cession to Britain of Rights, Which Might Go to Germany. DEAL ON COLONIES MAY AID GERMANY

By Frederick T. Birchall.special Cable To the New York Times

Rumor of arrangement whereby Germany will acquire African colonies; based on publication in Paris of documents citing account of prewar treaty between Germany and Gt Britain for partition of colonies

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LEAGUE AID ASKED BY M'DONALD TO END NAZI PERSECUTION; Commissioner for Refugees, Quitting, Asserts 500,000 in Reich Are Being Crushed. SEES WORLD CHALLENGED Only International Action Can Avert a Catastrophe to Christians and Jews, He Reports. LEAGUE AID ASKED FOR CURB ON NAZIS

By Unknown Author

J G McDonald resigning as High Comr for Refugees Coming from Germany, urges League intercession with German Govt; advises refugee aid be carried on directly under authority of League; warns on effect of German racial legis

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Notable Births

Omar Bongo

1935Omar Bongo, Gabonese lieutenant and politician, President of Gabon (died 2009)[†]

Omar Bongo Ondimba was a Gabonese politician who was the second president of Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009. A member of the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), Bongo was promoted to key positions as a young official under Gabon's first President Léon M'ba in the 1960s, before being elected the second vice president in his own right in 1966. In 1967, after M'ba's death, he became the country's president.

Sandy Koufax

1935Sandy Koufax, American baseball player and sportscaster[†]

Sanford Koufax, nicknamed "the Left Arm of God", is an American former baseball player. Widely regarded as one of the greatest pitchers in baseball history, he played 12 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers from 1955 to 1966. Koufax was the first three-time winner of the Cy Young Award, each time winning unanimously and the only pitcher to do so when a single award was given for both the leagues; he was also named the National League Most Valuable Player in 1963. Retiring at age 30 due to chronic pain in his pitching elbow, Koufax was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972 at age 36, the youngest player ever elected.

Jack Riley (actor)

1935Jack Riley, American actor (died 2016)[†]

John Albert Riley Jr. was an American actor and writer. He is known for playing Elliot Carlin, a chronic psychology client of Bob Newhart's character on The Bob Newhart Show, and for voicing Stu Pickles, one of the parents in the animated Rugrats franchise.

Historical Events

1935The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.[†]

On 30 December 1935, a Swedish Red Cross field hospital was destroyed in an airstrike by the Regia Aeronautica in Dolo, Ethiopia, killing between 22 and 30 people, mostly Ethiopians. The attack was reportedly part of an Italian reprisal for the earlier execution of an Italian prisoner of war by Ethiopian troops or civilians.