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August 15, 1936

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U.S. DEMANDS SPAIN RELEASE AMERICAN; Phillips Orders Consul to Call for Rescue of J.O. Ambler, Held by Miners. 37 BRITONS ALSO SEIZED Embassy Closing Threatened as Washington Warns Americans From Madrid. U.S. DEMANDS SPAIN RELEASE AMERICAN

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

With 37 other members of staff of Rio Tinto Co Ltd, held as hostages at Huelva mines by miners' syndicate; U S State Dept orders Consul to make urgent representations to Spanish Govt for his release; Brit warship may land rescue party for entire staff

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GOVERNOR ORDERS GEOGHAN TO TRIAL ON OUSTER DEMAND; Lehman Will Preside Personally at Hearings Starting in Albany Aug. 26. TODD TO PRESS CHARGES Prosecutor's Reply to Jury in Drukman Case Withheld -- Ten-Day Inquiry Likely. HE WILL FIGHT TO THE END Allegations of Misconduct and Laxity Followed Reopening of Brooklyn Murder Case. LEHMAN ORDERS GEOGHAN TO TRIAL

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Lehman notifies Geoghan to defend self at pub hearing of grand jury's charges at which he will preside

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Notable Births

Pat Priest (actress)

1936Pat Priest, American actress[†]

Patricia Ann Priest is an American actress known for being the second person to portray Marilyn Munster on the television show The Munsters (1964–1966) after the original actress, Beverley Owen, left after 13 episodes.

1936Rita Shane, American soprano and educator (died 2014)[†]

Rita Shane was an American coloratura soprano.

Notable Deaths

Grazia Deledda

1936Grazia Deledda, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1871)[†]

Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e. Sardinia] and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general". She was the first Italian woman to receive the prize, and only the second woman in general after Selma Lagerlöf was awarded hers in 1909.