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TEL AVIV, Palestine, April 17. -- Four Jews were seriously wounded, thirty were badly beaten and many were arrested in a clash with the police here today.
Rome hears repts of battle in progress in Ogaden Province; 2 Ital bombing planes appear over Addis Ababa and drop flares in Ital natl colors; Ethiopians charge planes used machine guns
Treas officials estimate windfall levy yield at 1 billion; subcom still adamant on reviving old taxes
Correspondence with W C Runyon of Sentinels of Repub reveals fear of "Jewish threat" in U S
1936Roger Graef, American-English criminologist, director, and producer (died 2022)[†]
Roger Arthur Graef OBE was an American-born British documentary filmmaker and theatre director. Born in New York City, he moved to Britain in 1962, where he began a career producing documentary films investigating previously closed institutions, including Government ministries and court buildings.
1936Vladimir Hütt, Estonian physicist and philosopher (died 1997)[†]
Vladimir Hütt was an Estonian philosopher. He was born in Leningrad, Russia RFSR and move to Estonia after the annexation of Estonia by the USSR. Hütt, a physicist by education, mostly dealt with philosophy of physics, scientific world-view and the theory of cognition. His works followed the Marxist line of thought that was official in the USSR. Most of Hütt's works were published in Russian. In 1979 Hütt published a monographic overview entitled "Philosophical Problems of Physics in Soviet Estonia in 30 Years 1948–1978", where he expounded his philosophical ideas about the complementarity and objectivity in physical knowledge. In 1980s, he worked at the Obninsk State Technical University for Nuclear Power Engineering as the head of the chair of social sciences and philosophy. During the Perestroika era, he remained a committed communist, supporting the pro-Soviet Intermovement after its founding in the late 1980s.
1936Milton Brown, American singer and bandleader (born 1903)[†]
Milton Brown was an American band leader and vocalist who co-founded the genre of Western swing. His band was the first to fuse hillbilly hokum, jazz, and pop together into a unique, distinctly American hybrid, thus giving him the nickname, "Father of Western Swing". The birthplace of Brown's upbeat "hot-jazz hillbilly" string band sound was developed at the Crystal Springs Dance Hall in Fort Worth, Texas, from 1931 to 1936.
1936Ottorino Respighi, Italian composer and conductor (born 1879)[†]
Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist and one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century. His compositions range over operas, ballets, orchestral suites, choral songs, chamber music, and transcriptions of Italian compositions of the 16th–18th centuries, but his best known and most performed works are his three orchestral tone poems which brought him international fame: Fountains of Rome (1916), Pines of Rome (1924), and Roman Festivals (1928).