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Deatherage comments; com subpoenas Deatherage, Moseley, McWhirter and J D M Hamilton; Hamilton denies anti-Semitism
rainers to get Fed surplus foods; 25 assn mines operating under guard; miner shot by non-union truck driver; latter surrenders
Transatlantic air-mail service to open on 12th anniv of N Y-Paris flight
Eng rulers receive press
Assembly passes both bills
1939Balu Mahendra, Sri Lankan-Indian director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (died 2014)[†]
Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran, commonly known as Balu Mahendra, was a Sri Lankan Tamil cinematographer, director, screenwriter and film editor who worked in various Indian film industries, primarily in Tamil and Malayalam cinema. Born in Sri Lanka, Mahendran developed a passion for photography and literature at a young age, after witnessing the shoot of David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) during a school trip in Sri Lanka, he was drawn towards filmmaking. After graduation he joined as an Aerial photographer in the Sri Lankan Government. In 1966, he moved to India and gained admission to the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) to pursue a course in motion picture photography. Upon completion of his diploma, he entered Malayalam cinema as a cinematographer in the early 1970s.