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January 26, 1936

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RED 'BADGE' URGED FOR WILD DRIVERS; Scarlet Rim on Plates After Accident Proposed to Safety Conference Here. COURT LAXITY CHARGED M.A. Connor Says Enforcement of Traffic Laws Has 'Bogged Down Completely.' RED 'BADGE' URGED FOR WILD DRIVERS

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Question of making it an extraditable offense for a suspended driver from one State to give false information in obtaining a license from another discussed at interstate conf on highway safety; opposing arguments

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SEC Sets Rockland Light Hearing

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Engineers Convene Tuesday.

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CITY TO EASE CURB ON TALL THEATRES; Amended Code Would Permit Skyscrapers to Be Built Over Playhouses. UP FOR HEARING THURSDAY Other Drastic Changes Also Designed to Make 1905 Law Meet Modern Needs. WOULD AID CONSTRUCTION Activity in Business Realty Likely to Be Spurred by Lifting Restrictions.

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For the first time in New York's history, skyscrapers may rise above the auditoriums of theatres under the revised building code, which will come up for its first general hearing before the committee on buildings of the new Board of Aldermen on Thursday.

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Notable Births

1936Sal Buscema, American illustrator^[†]

Sal Buscema is an American comics artist, primarily for Marvel Comics, where he had a ten-year run as artist of The Incredible Hulk and an eight-year run as artist of The Spectacular Spider-Man. He is the younger brother of comics artist John Buscema.