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Adenauer ignores Allied advice to be silent; asks they use Ger troops
Carney to seek approval for installing water meters in multiple dwellings; sees 20% saving; Councilman Quinn to offer bill; O'Dwyer thanks press and radio for cooperation: Clark repts on supply
Ewing charges some Amer observers misrepresent service; charges Amer Physicians and Surgeons Coll, Madison County (Ind) Med Soc and AMA aid Brit drs opposing plan
Mrs Massing testifies, over vigorous defense objection, that Hiss was CP underground member in Washington in '35; says she met him at Field home end competed with him for Field services in underground; revs personal history; cites meeting Hiss in FBI office in '48; Cross gets ct permission to examine her testimony in husband's citizenship petition, denied in '42; Cross cross-examines her on party in E Lyons home and on H Rabinovicius; she denies she is writing book on trial; Lyons, int, identifies Rabinovicius; F Inslerman, on stand, refuses to answer questions on self-incrimination grounds; Wadleigh testifies; says it is remotely possible he gave some trial documents to Chambers
Traffic Comm adopts engineers timing plan; 40% cut in crosstown traffic time seen; map; accidents cut seen; project to cost $1,897,500 and take 2 yrs; T T Wiley comments
1949Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Ugandan-English journalist and author[†]
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a British journalist and author. A columnist for the The i Paper and the Evening Standard, she is a commentator on immigration, diversity, and multiculturalism issues.
1949David Perdue, American politician[†]
David Alfred Perdue Jr. is an American diplomat, politician, and businessman serving as the United States ambassador to China since 2025. A member of the Republican Party, Perdue previously served as a United States senator for Georgia from 2015 to 2021. He was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Georgia in 2022.
1949Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.[†]
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.