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October 26, 1947

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INDUSTRIES READY FOR MOBILIZATION; Plants Providing Procedures to Avoid Delays in Future Like those in Last War SOMERVELL TELLS PLANS Koppers Corp. President Has Program to Fill Breach Until Washington Acts

By Hartley W. Barclay

Delays of industrial mobilization like those early in World War II will be avoided in any future emergency, if it should occur. New methods now being used in Pittsburgh plants provide procedures which could be extended on a nation-wide scale if ecessary, Gen Brehon Sbmervell, president of Koppers Corporation, and formerly Commander of the Army Service Forces, revealed yesterday in a statemnt to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

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NEW RATING GIVEN TO INTELLECTUALS; CED's Additions to Board of Trustees Seen as Proof of Developing Policy REFLECTIONS FROM SOVIET Article in Pravda Is Cited to Show Changes in Ideas Behind Iron Curtain NEW RATING GIVEN TO INTELLECTUALS

By Russell Porter

The Committee for Economic Development last week announced the election of a woman, a churchman and two college presidents to its board of trustees. This was regarded as highly significant of the growing importance being attached by responsible business leaders to cooperation with intellectual groups for mutual survival of American free enterprise, free labor, free government and intellectual freedom in a world increasingly menaced by the totalitarian crusade of Communism.

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Notable Births

1947Ricardo Asch, Argentinian gynecologist and endocrinologist[†]

Ricardo Hector Asch is an Argentine-Mexican obstetrician, gynecologist, and endocrinologist. He worked with reproductive technology and pioneered gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT), as well as working on research linking fertility and marijuana usage, and investigated the use of GnRH analogues with Andrew Schally. In the mid-1990s he was accused of transferring ova harvested from women into other patients without proper consent at the University of California, Irvine's fertility clinic. Asch left the United States one year before a federal indictment was filed. He was tried and acquitted of all charges in Argentina in 2008. In 2011, Mexico denied an extradition request by the United States as it would constitute double jeopardy and no new evidence was brought forth. As of 2020, he is living in Mexico City.

Ian Ashley

1947Ian Ashley, German-English race car driver[†]

Ian Hugh Gordon Ashley is a British-German racing driver who raced in Formula One for the Token, Williams, BRM and Hesketh teams.

Hillary Clinton

1947Hillary Clinton, American lawyer and politician, 67th United States Secretary of State and 44th First Lady of the United States[†]

Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton is an American politician, lawyer and diplomat. She was the 67th United States secretary of state in the administration of Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, a U.S. senator representing New York from 2001 to 2009, and the first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001 as the wife of Bill Clinton. A member of the Democratic Party, she was the party's nominee in the 2016 presidential election, becoming the first woman to win a presidential nomination by a major U.S. political party and the only woman to win the popular vote for U.S. president. However, she lost the electoral college to Republican Party nominee Donald Trump. She is the only first lady of the United States to have run for elected office.

Reg Empey

1947Reg Empey, Northern Irish businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast[†]

Reginald Norman Morgan Empey, Baron Empey,, best known as Reg Empey, is a Northern Irish politician who served as the acting First Minister of Northern Ireland in 2001. He was the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) from 2005 to 2010 and served as chairman of the party from 2012 to 2019. Empey was a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Belfast from 1998 to 2011 and has been a life peer in the House of Lords since 2011.

Trevor Joyce

1947Trevor Joyce, Irish poet and scholar[†]

Trevor Joyce is an Irish poet, born in Dublin.

1947Kenzo Kitakata, Japanese author[†]

Kenzo Kitakata is a Japanese novelist, especially known for his hardboiled novels. He studied law at Chuo University in the early 1970s. He served as the 10th President of the Mystery Writers of Japan from 1997 to 2001.

Notable Deaths

Edwin Savage

1947Edwin Savage, English priest and author (born 1862)[†]

Edwin Sidney Savage was a British priest in the Church of England and an author.

Historical Events

Partition of India

1947Partition of India: The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu signs the Instrument of Accession with India, beginning the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948 and the Kashmir conflict.[†]

The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, the Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. The Union of India is today the Republic of India, and the Dominion of Pakistan is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The partition involved the division of two provinces, Bengal and the Punjab, based on district-wise non-Muslim or Muslim majorities. It also involved the division of the British Indian Army, the Royal Indian Navy, the Indian Civil Service, the railways, and the central treasury, between the two new dominions. The partition was set forth in the Indian Independence Act 1947 and resulted in the dissolution of the British Raj, or Crown rule in India. The two self-governing countries of India and Pakistan legally came into existence at midnight on 14–15 August 1947.