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September 6, 1949

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DEATHS SET RECORD IN HOLIDAY TRAFFIC; CARRIERS CROWDED; Toll Forecast for the Week-End Eclipsed, With 328 Killed on Nation's Highways U. S. FATALITIES NOW 480 Temperature Rise Sends Many to City Beaches -- Rail Travel Less Than Last Year's DEATHS SET RECORD IN HOLIDAY TRAFFIC

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Mild temperatures, although a bit above those at the start of the long Labor Day week-end, sent good-sized crowds to metropolitan beaches yesterday as returning week-enders and vacationists taxed the city's bus, railroad and air terminal facilities.

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Notable Births

Iris Robinson

1949Iris Robinson, Northern Irish politician[†]

Iris Robinson is a former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) politician in Northern Ireland. She is married to Peter Robinson, who was First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2008 to 2016.

Notable Deaths

Song Qiyun

1949Song Qiyun, Chinese communist activist (born 1904)[†]

Song Qiyun was a Chinese journalist and member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Born in Pi County, Jiangsu, to a poor family, he attended the Sixth Normal School but left teaching in 1926 to join the military. As a member of the CCP, he infiltrated the police to gather information on the Kuomintang (KMT) before ultimately joining the 17th Route Army under Yang Hucheng. In this capacity, he served as the editor-in-chief of the Northwest Cultural Daily from 1930 to 1937. Detained by the KMT in 1941, he was imprisoned with his wife Xu Linxia and youngest son Song Zhenzhong, with whom he was executed in 1949.

Song Zhenzhong

1949Song Zhenzhong, Chinese child internee (born 1941)[†]

Song Zhenzhong, popularly known as Little Radish Head, was the son of Chinese Communist Party members Song Qiyun and Xu Linxia. Held by the Kuomintang for the majority of his life, he was killed together with his parents as part of a mass killing of detainees. He has been identified as "China's youngest martyr", and featured extensively in film and literature. He has also been commemorated with multiple monuments.

Xu Linxia

1949Xu Linxia, Chinese communist activist (born 1904/1905)[†]

Xu Linxia was a Chinese communist. Born in Pi County, she attended the No. 3 Normal School before joining the Kuomintang (KMT). After the dissolution of the First United Front, she joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), becoming a leader of its women's branch in Pi. She married Song Qiyun in 1928, and the couple had seven children. Xu was detained by the KMT in 1941, together with her youngest son Song Zhenzhong; her husband was also arrested that year. The three were executed in 1949. Xu has been recognized by the CCP with the title of revolutionary martyr.

Yang Hucheng

1949Yang Hucheng, Chinese general (born 1893)[†]

Yang Hucheng was a Chinese general during the Warlord Era of Republican China and Kuomintang (KMT) general during the Chinese Civil War. He was a main supporter of Zhang Xueliang during the Xi'an Incident in late 1936, when the two generals plotted to force Chiang Kai-shek to cease hostilities against the Chinese Red Army and agree to a Second United Front against Japanese incursions into China with the Chinese Communist Party. In retaliation of his involvement in the incident, Yang was forced into exile by Chiang and then imprisoned by the Nationalist spy agency Juntong for 12 years, before being killed along with two of his children, his secretary Song Qiyun and Song's wife and youngest son in September 1949.