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B Shumiatsky ousted as chief; work on film Treasure Island and heavy expenses blamed
Congress will enter tomorrow the third week of its session with the Senate still debating the Anti-Lynching Bill, as other legislation piles up, and with the House hoping to dispose of the Treasury-Postoffice and the Naval Appropriation Bills before the end of the week.
48 Amer pubs to shun Internatl Cong of Book Pubs Leipzig meeting because of German attacks
Home burns, 5 die, Franklin
Preliminary rept by U S Pub Health Service on 1935-36 survey in relation to econ status
1938John Bellairs, American author and academic (died 1991)[â ]
John Anthony Bellairs was an American author best known for his fantasy novel The Face in the Frost and many Gothic mystery novels for children featuring the characters Lewis Barnavelt, Rose Rita Pottinger, Johnny Dixon, and Anthony Monday. Most of his books were illustrated by Edward Gorey. At the time of his death, Bellairs' books had sold a quarter-million copies in hard cover and more than a million and a half copies in paperback.
1938Toini Gustafsson, Swedish cross country skier[â ]
Toini Gustafsson Rönnlund is a Swedish former cross-country skier. She competed in the 1964 and 1968 Winter Olympics and won four medals. Gustafsson also won the 10 km race at the Holmenkollen ski festival in each of 1960, 1967, and 1968. At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships she collected three medals with a silver in 1962 and two bronzes in 1966.