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Frankenthaler election affirmed by NYS Appeals Ct; Frankenthaler, Rogers comment
armed services accept $15 billion budget after Pres Truman lr asking caution in fiscal discussions
repts seizure of microfilm copies of important documents, object of 10-yr search by Govt, taken from State Dept for transmission to USSR agents
Rio de Janeiro Treaty goes into effect as Costa Rica ratifies; Sec Gen Lleras Camargo signs for Organization of Amer States; illus; Sec Marshall message notes UN links; Sens Vandenberg and Connally stress security aims
statement condemning bias demands equal civil rights for all; Bishop Stamm elected pres
1948Southside Johnny, American singer-songwriter[†]
John Lyon, known professionally as Southside Johnny, is an American retired singer-songwriter who fronted the band Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes.
1948Frank Benford, American physicist and engineer (born 1883)[†]
Frank Albert Benford Jr. was an American electrical engineer and physicist best known for rediscovering and generalizing Benford's Law, an earlier statistical statement by Simon Newcomb, about the occurrence of digits in lists of data.
1948Chinese Civil War: The SS Kiangya, carrying Nationalist refugees from Shanghai, explodes in the Huangpu River.[†]
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Armed conflict continued intermittently from 1 August 1927 until Communist victory resulted in their total control over mainland China on 10 December 1949.