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Apptd Dominions Sec
Submits London road plan to Transport Ministry
C E Ralston of Merger Coal Mining Co ill; to get separate trial
Sup Ct orders Appeals Ct to show cause why bd should not be allowed to withdraw order
confs with Roosevelt
1938Jason Bernard, American actor (died 1996)[†]
Jason Bernard was an American actor.
1938Marcia Freedman, Israeli activist (died 2021)[†]
Marcia Judith Freedman was an American-Israeli activist on behalf of peace, women's rights, and gay rights. In 1969, she immigrated to Israel where she helped establish and lead the feminist movement in the 1970s. She was a member of the Knesset from 1974 to 1977.
1938Pervis Jackson, American R&B bass singer (died 2008)[†]
Pervis Jackson was an American R&B singer, noted as the bass singer for The Spinners, and was one of the group's original members as well as their spokesman.
1938Jakob Ehrlich, Czech-Austrian academic and politician (born 1877)[†]
Jakob Ehrlich was an early Zionist and leader of the Jewish Community in Vienna, Austria. Ehrlich represented the city's 180,000 Jewish citizens in the city government before World War II, and was among those deported in the "Prominententransport" to the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau, soon after the German army entered Vienna in March 1938. He died in Dachau a few weeks later, from beatings. His wife, Irma Hutter Ehrlich emigrated to England, then the USA with their son where she was active in the rescue of Jewish children from Europe, working with WIZO and Hadassah.