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Bernadotte to ask truce extension; Syria charges violation; US sends communication equipment for Bernadotte staff
USSR to attend 10-nation conf on free navigation; site undecided as USSR repts Belgrade lacks facilities; participants listed
House draft action delayed as Repr Powell pushes segregation ban amendments; Speaker Martin illus discussing legis with Reprs Wadsworth and Andrews
US dock workers refuse to load Yugoslav ship, NYC, after seeing pictures of Premier Tito and USSR Premier Stalin in lounge
members ordered to sell tickets for city jubilee
1948Ron LeFlore, American baseball player and manager[â ]
Ronald LeFlore is an American former Major League Baseball center fielder. He played six seasons with the Detroit Tigers before being traded to the Montreal Expos. LeFlore retired with the Chicago White Sox in 1982. He stole 455 bases in his career and was an American League All-Star selection in 1976.
1948Members of the Malayan Communist Party kill three British plantation managers in Sungai Siput; in response, British Malaya declares a state of emergency.[â ]
The Malayan Communist Party (MCP), officially the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), was a MarxistâLeninist and anti-imperialist communist party which was active in British Malaya and later, the modern states of Malaysia and Singapore from 1930 to 1989. It was responsible for the creation of both the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army and the Malayan National Liberation Army.