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August 1, 1947

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INCENSED BRITONS KILL 5 IN TEL AVIV TO AVENGE HANGING; Troops and Police Run Riot After the Finding of Two Slain Sergeant Hostages BOOBY TRAP ON ONE BODY Blast Occurs as the Searchers Cut It Down -- Palestine Voices Horror at Crime INCENSED BRITONS KILL 5 IN TEL AVIV IMMIGRANTS RESISTING DEPORTATION IN PALESTINE

By Gene Currivanspecial To the New York Times

Brit mil and police, incensed by hanging of Sgts Paice and Clifford, kill 5 Jews, wound 15; wreck cafes, Tel Aviv; garroted bodies of 2 sgts found near Nathanya; 1 blown up by booby trap as finders cut it from tree; Nathanya Mayor voices Palestine horror over crime; Haganah attempt to prevent hangings revealed; armed terrorist band uses Brit constable as shield in skirmish with police; Haifa-Lydda rr bombed

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$13,005,000 Credit Obtained by Austria

By the Associated Press

Export-Import Bank extends $13,005,000 credit

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FORD ASKS MURRAY TO PREVENT STRIKE; He Says Company Has Been Chosen as 'Guinea Pig' in Move to Circumvent Labor Act FORD ASKS MURRAY TO PREVENT STRIKE

By Walter W. Ruchspecial To the New York Times

KAISER-FRAZER CORP: 9,000 Willow Run workers idled by wildcat strike provoked by alleged jerky assembly line

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GREECE REQUESTS DRASTIC U. N. MOVE; Hints of Military Acts by Some Member Nations if Soviet's Balkan Vetoes Continue GREECE REQUESTS DRASTIC U.N. MOVE

By George Babrettspecial To the New York Times

Submits Greek request to UN Security Council for mil action to stop Balkan warfare

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Notable Births

1947Lorna Goodison, Jamaican poet and author^[†]

Lorna Gaye Goodison CD is a Jamaican poet, essayist and memoirist, a leading West Indian writer, whose career spans four decades. She is now Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature/Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, previously serving as the Lemuel A. Johnson Professor of English and African and Afroamerican Studies. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica in 2017, serving in the role until 2020.

1947Chantal Montellier, French comics creator and artist^[†]

Chantal Montellier, born on August 1, 1947, in Bouthéon near Saint-Étienne in the Loire Department, is a French comics creator and artist, editorial cartoonist, novelist, and painter. As the first female editorial cartoonist in France, she is noted for pioneering women's involvement in comic books.