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August 28, 1936

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Headlines from August 28, 1936

POPE WORN DOWN BY GRIEF FOR SPAIN; Associates Fear Pontiff, Now in His 80th Year, May Soon Be Unable to Walk.

By the Associated Press

Pius XI plans expiatory service for nuns and priests killed in civil war

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FRANCE SPONSORS ATLANTIC AIR RACE; New York-Paris Derby in May to Mark 10th Anniversary of Lindbergh Flight.

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

French govt announces plans for internatl air race on 10th anniversary of flight, May 21, 1937, with cash prize; Paris Intransigeant offers blue ribbon to winner; praises his flight

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By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Issue of Treas bonds in foreign market announced; London believes money is required for Ethiopia; rumored F Suvich may try to arrange for placing bonds on U S market despite restrictions of Johnson Act

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General Motors to Build Big Plant At Linden, N.J., Employing 2,000; $5,575,000 Assembly Factory on 80-Acre Site Will Turn Out 120,000 Cars Yearly-- Step in Company's Decentralization Program, It Will End Community's Relief Problems. GENERAL MOTORS TO BUILD IN JERSEY

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Plans for assembly plant at Linden, N J

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ICKES SAYS HEARST IS REPUBLICAN BOSS AND LANDON'S GUIDE; Calls Publisher 'Svengali' to Kansan's 'Trilby' and a Chief Campaign Issue. SEES NOMINEE SILENCED Court Records Cited to Show That Californian Opposed 'Too Many Speeches.' GOVERNOR HELD EVASIVE Secretary's Radio Talk Draws a Retort From Hard for Attack on Character. ICKES SAYS HEARST IS REPUBLICAN BOSS

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

charges Hearst is Landon's boss

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Notable Births

1936Don Denkinger, American baseball player and umpire (died 2023)^[†]

Donald Anton Denkinger was an American umpire in Major League Baseball (MLB) who worked in the American League (AL) from 1969 to 1998. Denkinger wore uniform number 11, when the AL adopted uniform numbers in 1980. He is best remembered for an incorrect safe call he made at first base in Game 6 of the 1985 World Series, which came to be known as The Call.

1936Warren M. Washington, American atmospheric scientist^[†]

Warren Morton Washington was an American atmospheric scientist, a chair of the National Science Board, and a Distinguished Scholar at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. His research was part of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore. In 2019, he was awarded the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.

Historical Events

1936Nazi Germany begins its mass arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are interned in concentration camps.^[†]

Nazi Germany, officially the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", referred to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945, after 12 years, when the Allies defeated Germany and entered the capital, Berlin, ending World War II in Europe.