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September 3, 1938

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PRISON HEADS HELD FOR 'HEAT' DEATHS; Coroner's Jury Finds 2 Chiefs and 12 of Holmesburg Staff 'Criminally Responsible'

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Mills, Craven and 12 of prison staff charged with criminal negligence by coroner's jury and held for grand jury; 5 make voluntary test of steamed cell

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Throngs Quit City for Last Summer Holiday Despite Forecast of Unsettled Weather

By Unknown Author

Heavy travel in and out of N Y C

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SCHOOLS OF ITALY TO KEEP OUT JEWS; Teachers Must Quit by Oct. 16--Students in Universities May Finish Courses Decision Made Recently Only the Beginning SCHOOLS IN ITALY TO KEEP OUT JEWS TEXT OF THE DECREE Ten Thousand Students Affected 20,000 Will Be Exiled Under Study by Hull

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Jews banned

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Farley Omits Congratulations For Senator Smith and Downey; In the Past Democratic Chairman Always Wired to Winners of Party Primaries and Pledged Them Support in Campaign

By Unknown Author

J A Farley fails to congratulate Smith

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CANADA WILL MAKE PLANES FOR BRITAIN; New Factories for Bombers Will Deliver Them by Flights Across Atlantic Others Also to Get Orders British Official's Statement CANADA WILL MAKE PLANES FOR BRITAIN Sise Will Head Company

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

To head co to make bombers for Brit

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Notable Births

1938Liliane Ackermann, French microbiologist, community leader, writer, and lecturer (died 2007)^[†]

Liliane Aimée Ackermann was a French microbiologist, Jewish Community pioneer, leader, writer, and lecturer.

1938Sarah Bradford, English historian and author^[†]

Sarah Mary Malet Bradford, Viscountess Bangor is an English author who is best known for her royal biographies.

1938Caryl Churchill, English-Canadian playwright^[†]

Caryl Lesley Churchill is a British playwright known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes. Celebrated for works such as Cloud 9 (1979), Top Girls (1982), Serious Money (1987), Blue Heart (1997), Far Away (2000), A Number (2002), and Love and Information (2012), she has been described as "one of Britain's greatest poets and innovators for the contemporary stage". In a 2011 dramatists' poll by The Village Voice, six out of the 20 polled writers listed Churchill as the greatest living playwright.

1938Richard MacCormac, English architect, founded MJP Architects (died 2014)^[†]

Sir Richard Cornelius MacCormac CBE, PPRIBA, FRSA, RA, was a modernist English architect and the founder of MJP Architects.

1938Ryōji Noyori, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate^[†]

Ryōji Noyori is a Japanese chemist. He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2001, Noyori shared a half of the prize with William S. Knowles for the study of chirally catalyzed hydrogenations; the second half of the prize went to K. Barry Sharpless for his study in chirally catalyzed oxidation reactions.