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September 16, 1946

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TRUCK STRIKE LEADERS BACK BIG CONCERNS' WAGE OFFER; SHIP PARLEY IS BROKEN OFF; DRIVERS WILL VOTE Delegates Ask Them to Accept Separate Pacts in Ballot Tomorrow EMPLOYER GROUP IS FIRM Spokesman Says Associations Will Reject Terms--Stand of Local 807 Doubtful

By A.h. Raskin

union reprs to ask drivers to accept separate contracts; Local 807 stand doubtful; citizens com abandons hope; submits rept on efforts to O'Dwyer; discloses Master Truckmen request to deal separately with Local 807; Adelizzi repts employers group refusal to grant new union proposals; union demands noted

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Notable Births

Sonny LeMaire

1946Sonny LeMaire, American country music singer-songwriter and bass player[†]

Alfred William "Sonny" LeMaire is an American country music artist. LeMaire is best known as being the bass guitarist of the band Exile, a role that he first held in 1977. After lead singer J. P. Pennington quit the band in 1989, LeMaire alternated with Paul Martin on lead vocals, including the singles "Nobody's Talking" and "Yet". Following Exile's initial 1993 disbanding, LeMaire played bass for Burnin' Daylight in the mid-nineties, reuniting permanently with his "Kiss You All Over" bandmates in 2008.

Mike Reynolds (Australian politician)

1946Mike Reynolds, Australian lawyer and politician[†]

Michael Francis Reynolds CBE AM is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1998 to 2009, representing the district of Townsville. He served as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 2006 to 2009.

Camilo Sesto

1946Camilo Sesto, Spanish singer-songwriter and producer (died 2019)[†]

Camilo Blanes Cortés, known professionally as Camilo Sesto, was a Spanish singer. There are various sales figures for him, ranging from 70 to 200 million records sold, and the singer himself claimed to have sold more than 175 million records. However, his official sales would represent more than 2.8 million copies worldwide, including nearly 900,000 certified.

Notable Deaths

James Jeans

1946James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1877)[†]

Sir James Hopwood Jeans was an English physicist, mathematician and an astronomer. He served as a secretary of the Royal Society from 1919 to 1929, and was the president of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1925 to 1927, and won its Gold Medal.