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April 22, 1939

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SHIPS TAKE UP POSTS; Fleet at Alexandria Guards Dardanelles and Suez Canal ANGORA SHUNS PUBLICITY Fears Berlin Will Be Angry if British Guarantee Is Openly Proclaimed Pledge to Turkey Complete Evacuation Idea Obsolete LONDON IS RETICENT ON PLEDGE TO TURKS Compromise Held Likely Russia Proposes Alliance POLES OPPOSE SOVIET AID Doubt It Will Prove Effective and Fear It May Be a Boomerang

By Unknown Author

Brit reptd to have accepted Soviet proposal as basis for negotiations

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GEOGHAN ASSISTANT INDICTED BY AMEN; RUDICH DISBARRED; Madden Charged With Taking $9,000 Bribes to Protect Medical Racket HE PLEADS NOT GUILTY Ousted Magistrate Is Held Unfit' to Practice Law-- Decision Is Unanimous Seen as Blow to Geoghan Madden Stuck to Geoghan Madden, Chief Geoghan Alide, Is Indicted On Bribery Charge in Medical Racket Geoghan Won't Comment To Move for Martin Jury TWO MORE JUDGES FOR KINGS Fitzgerald Announces Plan to Clear Crowded Docket

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F A Madden, Geoghan asst, indicted for taking bribes to protect 2 Bklyn drs from prosecution on abortion charges; Geoghan silent; Amen to ask blue-ribbon jury for Martin trial

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Notable Births

Mel Carter

1939Mel Carter, American singer and actor[†]

Mel Carter is an American soul and pop singer and actor. He is best known for his 1965 million-selling recording "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me".

1939John Foley, English general and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey[†]

Lieutenant General Sir John Paul Foley, is a retired British Army officer with a long career in military intelligence. He is the great-grandson of Henry Hodgetts-Foley, and was educated at Bradfield College.

1939Ray Guy, Canadian journalist and author (died 2013)[†]

Ray Guy was a Canadian journalist and humourist, best known for his satirical newspaper and magazine columns.

Jason Miller (playwright)

1939Jason Miller, American actor and playwright (died 2001)[†]

Jason Miller was an American playwright and actor. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and Tony Award for Best Play for his play That Championship Season, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Father Damien Karras in the 1973 horror film The Exorcist, a role he reprised in The Exorcist III (1990). He later became artistic director of the Scranton Public Theatre in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where That Championship Season was set.

Theo Waigel

1939Theodor Waigel, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Finance[†]

Theodor Waigel is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU). He represented Neu-Ulm in the Bundestag from 1976 to 2002.