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NYS Comm of Investigation on Mar 13 charges that Albany Mayor E Corning 2d is trying to delay and hinder investigation into allegations of corruption in Albany police dept; Corning calls charges 'publicity stunt'; says comm is harassing police
NYC Dist Atty Hogan announces on Mar 13 indictment of Iowa Beef Processors Inc, co-chmn of bd of dirs C J Holman, Daitch Shopwell official M Steinman, and C P Sales, meat brokerage concern, on charges of having conspired to bribe union and supermarket officials to sell Iowa Beefs products in NYC; indictment charges that Steinman was key figure in scheme involving several supermarket chains and resulting in over $1-million in pay-offs since '71; Asst Dist Atty F Snitow says scheme threatened labor unions in area; Holman and Steinman plead not guilty before Sup Ct Justice X Riccobono; Hogan says investigation is continuing to determine whether organized crime figures have infiltrated NYC meat indus and unions; Steinman admitted in '69 investigation that he had close ties with crime figure John Dioguardi
murder trial of William J Prater continues Mar 13; convicted killer Paul E Gilly says he, Claude E Vealey, and Aubran W Martin shot and killed Yablonski family on orders from Mrs Gilly, her father, Silous Huddleston, Prater, and W A Boyle; says Prater and Albert E Pass sought vengeance against Yablonski for attempting to oust Boyle from UMW presidency; says he was persuaded to kill Yablonski in return for union pension for his father
Repr M Biaggi, formally announcing his candidacy for NYC Mayor on Mar 13, says that police corruption in city has been reduced because of legalized off-track betting
NEW BRITAIN, Conn., March 13—John T. Downey reflected today on his long imprisonment in China and said it had cost him a great part of his life, apparently for naught.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 14, 1973, covering March 14, 1973.
Eric Weissberg & Steve Mandell
Elton John
Diana Ross
John Denver
Carly Simon
1973Rohit Shetty, Indian film director and producer[†]
Rohit Shetty is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, stuntman, producer and television personality who works in Hindi cinema. A notable director of Hindi cinema, his movies often mix the genres of action comedy and masala films.
1973Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist and engineer (born 1900)[†]
Howard Hathaway Aiken was an American physicist and a pioneer in computing. He was the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I, the United States' first programmable computer.
1973Chic Young, American cartoonist (born 1901)[†]
Murat Bernard "Chic" Young was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Blondie. His 1919 William McKinley High School Yearbook cites his nickname as Chicken, source of his familiar pen name and signature. According to King Features Syndicate, Young had a daily readership of 52 million. Stan Drake, who drew Blondie in the 1980s and 1990s, stated that Young "has to go down in history as one of the geniuses of the industry."
In 1973, the world population was approximately 3,920,805,042 people[†]