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Columbus Trust Co (Newark): Judge P J Pellecchia confesses to $657,000 embezzlement over 2 1/2 yr period on false mortgage applications; admits money went for horse-race betting; resigns judgeship; por; Gov Driscoll to extend inquiry
efforts made to reduce Southern rebellion
Goldsborough announces compromise pact; Lewis and Moses sign same; stipulate unfair practice charge to take normal procedure subject to appeal to cts; Lewis accepts Act procedure for 1st time; blames Act for stalemate and lost output; orders 40,000 to return to work
SC dispute settled
NYC retail prices rise 2-6c; further rise seen; resort hotel buying is factor; Agr Dept aide J Santora repts beef quotations of $58-62 a cwt are 2d highest on record; sees no early drop; butchers repr protests situation; chain stores deny causing rise; hint at adjustments
1948Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu, Zulu king (died 2021)[†]
Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu was the King of the Zulu Nation from 1968 to his death in 2021.
1948Palmiro Togliatti, leader of the Italian Communist Party, is shot and wounded near the Italian Parliament.[†]
Palmiro Michele Nicola Togliatti was an Italian politician and statesman, who led Italy's Communist party for nearly forty years, from 1927 until his death. Born into a middle-class family, Togliatti received an education in law at the University of Turin, later served as an officer and was wounded in World War I, and became a tutor. Described as "severe in approach but extremely popular among the Communist base" and "a hero of his time, capable of courageous personal feats", his supporters gave him the nickname il Migliore. In 1930, Togliatti renounced Italian citizenship, and he became a citizen of the Soviet Union. Upon his death, a Soviet city was named after him. Considered one of the founding fathers of the Italian Republic, he led Italy's Communist party from a few thousand members in 1943 to two million members in 1946.