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October 7, 1946

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DEWEY BIDS BRITAIN OPEN UP PALESTINE TO IMMIGRANTS NOW; Admission of 'Hundreds of Thousands' of Jews Urged at Dinner of United Appeal ISSUE HELD NON-POLITICAL Rabbi S.S. Wise Defends His Stand on Partition--Assails 'Loafers' Who Boo His Plea Satisfied With Truman Plea DEWEY BIDS BRITISH OPEN UP PALESTINE Berates His Hecklers

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Urges US immigration laws change to admit share of displaced persons

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Shower of Stars To Fall This Week

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Astronomers prepare to observe meteors accompanying comet Giaconini-Zinner return

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OPA AND WAA ACT TO SPEED HOUSING; BUILDERS CRITICAL; Surplus Materials Ordered Into GI Plan in Sixty Days--Rise for Pine Millwork, Doors NAIL SHORTAGE DENOUNCED Need for Simple Articles Perils Program, Association Says --U.S. Claims Discounted Federal Reports Questioned OPA AND WAA ACT TO SPEED HOUSING

By John D. Morris Special To the New York Times

WAA orders all surplus bldg materials allotted to program within 60 days; OPA raises ceilings on certain materials; Natl Assn of Home Bldrs criticizes Fed agency handling of supplies; suggests changes

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Gen C A Spaatz hails flight

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YUGOSLAVS CLEARED CHURCH, POPE SAYS; Cites 1942 Exoneration of Its Hierarchy in Croatian Forced Conversions YUGOSLAVS CLEARED CHURCH, POPE SAYS

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Pope declares Yugoslavia acknowledged, '42, that neither Holy See nor RC Ch had any part in forced conversions; scores charges made at trial; woman witness testifies against E Lisak, former Ustashi col and sec to Stepinatz; says her daughter was hanged; Stepinatz queried on relations with Lisak

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Notable Births

1946John Brass, Australian rugby player and coach^[†]

John Brass is an Australian former rugby union and rugby league footballer – a dual-code international. He made twelve international representative rugby union appearances with the Wallabies from 1966 to 1968 and six representative rugby league appearances for the Kangaroos in 1970 and 1975, as national captain on one occasion.

1946Catharine MacKinnon, American lawyer, activist, and author^[†]

Catharine Alice MacKinnon is an American feminist legal scholar, activist, and author. She is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she has been tenured since 1990, and the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. From 2008 to 2012, she was the special gender adviser to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.