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After unsuccessfully badgering three California radio stations for an opportunity to air his atheism, a retired Palo Alto court reporter named Robert Harold Scott had petitioned the FCC to revoke the stations' licenses. For 16 months the FCC juggled this hot potato. Finally, it denied Scott's petition, but said in the course of a 2,500-word decision: "Freedom of religious belief necessarily carries with if freedom to disbelieve, and freedom of speech means freedom to express disbeliefs as well as beliefs...
...trying to change the geography of a valley where 50,000,000 lived; he was trying to lift a terror that had recurred decade after decade for more than eight centuries; he was trying to create a farm region as big as Iowa. Oliver J. Todd of Palo Alto, Calif., engineer and humanitarian, was fighting the Yellow River...
...neighbor girl named Joan Lepper. "You will never know how much I love you ... I want you to have my bicycle. . . ." Then he killed himself by putting the muzzle of his .22 caliber rifle to his ear and pulling the trigger. ¶ In Denton, Texas, a 14-year-old Palo Pinto County farm girl named Eva Lee Knoop got into a taxicab, showed the driver a .22 revolver, ordered, "Get out of Texas." He headed for Oklahoma. Hours later, gun still in hand, she told him to stop, get out and buy her some candy. He called the cops, then...
Died. Eino Rudolf Woldemar Holsti, 63, able Finnish statesman, who as Foreign Minister reaffirmed "good neighbor" relations with Russia in 1937, as delegate to the League of Nations obtained Russia's expulsion for her attack in 1939; after an abdominal operation; in Palo Alto, Calif. Dr. Holsti saved his country from starvation after World War I by a successful appeal to Herbert Hoover for food. When Nazi domination of Finnish affairs sent him packing in 1940 he found refuge as a professor at Hoover's Stanford University. Generally credited for Finland's prompt war-debt payments...
Died. Charles Gilman Norris, 64, sociological novelist whose unfailingly topical themes included women in business (Bread), birth control (Seed), radical youth (Bricks Without Straw); of a heart ailment; in Palo Alto, Calif. Brother of the late Author Frank Norris, he was the husband of Author Kathleen Norris, who was in many ways his exact opposite number: she was an America Firster, a Democrat, Catholic and dry, he a rousing interventionist, Republican, Episcopalian and dispenser of highballs to their ranch guests...