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Atlantic Clipper repts Brit censors removed mail when it was forced to refuel at Bermuda by head winds; censor reassembles staff; Wash officials comment
Powers testifies; refuses to answer queries or supply party data; cited for contempt
passed by House; provisions
police save Rudnick witness bailed out by gang to be killed by them; Abbandando and Golob indicted; Mrs G Gurino held as witness in Murtha cage; M Sycoff held as Alpert case witness
Asked by LaGuardia to prepare plans for FSCC stamp plan trial in 1 N Y C Bor
1940Ray Davis, American bass singer (died 2005)[†]
Raymond Davis was the original bass singer and one of the founding members of The Parliaments, and subsequently the bands Parliament, and Funkadelic, collectively known as P-Funk. His regular nickname while he was with those groups was "Sting Ray" Davis. Aside from George Clinton, he was the only original member of the Parliaments not to leave the Parliament-Funkadelic conglomerate in 1977. He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, inducted in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic.
1940Alexander Obolensky, Russian-English rugby player and soldier (born 1916)[†]
Prince Alexander Sergeevich Obolensky was a Rurikid prince of Russian aristocratic descent who became a naturalised Briton, having spent most of his life in England, and who went on to represent England in international rugby union. He was, and remains, popularly known as "The Flying Prince", "The Flying Slav", or simply as "Obo" to many sports fans.