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August 22, 1940

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MAX D. STEUER DIES OF HEART ATTACK; Represented Noted Figures in 47 Years at Bar--Stricken in Jackson, N. H., Hotel

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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DRAFT BILL ACTION IS DEMANDED NOW, SENATE IS WARNED; Barkley Says People Want It Taken Care Of 'One Way or Other' at Once WEALTH LEVY IS DEFEATED Ruled Out of Order, 54 to 23, as a House Problem--Women Hang Pepper in Effigy

By Frank L. Kluckhohn Special To the New York Times

Warns Sen on draft bill delay

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Trotsky Dies of His Wounds; Asks Revolution Go Forward; Assassin Says He Broke With Victim After Exile Asked Him to Carry Out Acts of Sabotage in Russia

By Arnaldo Cortesi Special Cable To the New York Times

sends last message to followers; dies; written declaration found on Jackson says he attacked because Trotsky sought to bar his marriage to S Ageloff; Miss Ageloff held; is sister of Trotsky's former sec; brother, M Ageloff, denies she knew Trotsky; Trotsky's sec issues statement on attack details; accuses GPU; Socialist Workers party accuses Stalin; plans N Y C funeral

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HEAVY BOMBS USED; Missile, 'Shaped Like a Torpedo,' Digs a Huge Crater in One Town 13 NAZIS REPORTED BAGGED Air Ministry Suggests That Assaults in Waves Were Found Too Expensive

By W.f. Leysmith Special Cable To the New York Times

German bombers reptd using aerial torpedoes

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CAPITAL REPORTS REFUGEE SHIP SAFE; Barkley Tells Senate American Legion 'Is Out of Danger'-- Welles Reveals Message

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Tells Sen USS Amer Legion is out of danger

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Notable Births

1940Bill McCartney, American football player and coach (died 2025)^[†]

William Paul McCartney was an American college football coach who was the head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes for 13 seasons (1982–1994). He compiled a 93–55–5 (.624) record, and won three consecutive Big Eight Conference titles (1989–1991). McCartney's 1990 team was crowned as national champions by the Associated Press, splitting the title with Georgia Tech, who was first in the final Coaches' Poll. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2013.

Notable Deaths

1940Oliver Lodge, English physicist and academic (born 1851)^[†]

Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge was an English physicist whose investigations into electromagnetic radiation contributed to the development of radio communication. He identified electromagnetic radiation independent of Heinrich Hertz's proof. At his 1894 Royal Institution lectures, Lodge's demonstrations on methods to transmit and detect radio waves included an improved early radio receiver he named the "coherer". His work led to him holding key patents in early radio communication, his "syntonic" patents.

1940Gerald Strickland, 1st Baron Strickland, Maltese lawyer and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Malta (born 1861)^[†]

Gerald Paul Joseph Cajetan Carmel Antony Martin Strickland, 6th Count della Catena, 1st Baron Strickland,, usually known between 1897 and January 1928 as Sir Gerald Strickland, was a Maltese and British politician and, eventually, peer, who served as Prime Minister of Malta, Governor of the Leeward Islands, Governor of Tasmania, Governor of Western Australia and Governor of New South Wales, in addition to sitting in the House of Commons and later in the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.