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Dr O Wilheim reptd sentenced to Siberia for opposing USSR seizures of Jewish-owned land; case revd; USSR seizures continue
deliveries improve; Local 282 resumes shipments for chains; producers protest losses
Clayton announces UNRRA relief shipments will not be stopped in retaliation for attacks on planes; cites US internatl obligations under UNRRA pact; revs status of dispute
US maritime strike strands 2,000 Amers in France
1946Frank Marshall, American director and producer[â ]
Frank Wilton Marshall is an American film producer and director. He often collaborated with his wife, film producer Kathleen Kennedy, with whom he founded the production company Amblin Entertainment, along with Steven Spielberg. In 1991, he founded, with Kennedy, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, a film production company. Since May 2012, with Kennedy taking on the role of President of Lucasfilm, Marshall has been Kennedy/Marshall's sole principal.
1946Henri Kuprashvili, Georgian swimmer[â ]
Full Professor of Georgian Technical University Henri Kuprashvili is a Georgian Doctor of Political Sciences, First Class State Councillor who is most notable for breaking a Guinness record for swimming the Dardanelles, with his hands and feet bound in a traditional Georgian style of swimming, also known as Colchian. Kuprashvili has been awarded the Order of Vakhtang Gorgasali and George Byron Golden Medal.
1946Amon Göth, Austrian captain and Nazi war criminal (born 1908)[â ]
Amon Leopold Göth was an Austrian SS functionary and war criminal. He served as the commandant of the KrakĂłw-PĆaszĂłw concentration camp in PĆaszĂłw in German-occupied Poland for most of the camp's existence during World War II.
1946Eugene Lanceray, Russian painter, sculptor, and illustrator (born 1875)[â ]
Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Lanceray, also often spelled Eugene Lansere, was a Russian graphic artist, painter, sculptor, mosaicist, and illustrator, associated stylistically with Mir iskusstva.
1946William Watt, Australian lawyer and politician, 24th Premier of Victoria (born 1871)[â ]
William Alexander Watt was an Australian politician. He served two terms as Premier of Victoria before entering federal politics in 1914. He then served as a minister in the government of Billy Hughes from 1917 to 1920, including as acting prime minister during World War I, and finally as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1923 to 1926.