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When a big Royal Dutch Indies Airliner crashed near Palembang, Sumatra, four people were killed, famed Polish Violinist Bronislaw Hubermann broke bones in his left arm and right hand. "I shall never be able to play again," he moaned, "but thank God nothing worse happened to me!" Doctors assured him, however, that since his muscles did not appear to have been injured, his bones would knit, his playing probably would not be impaired. In great artistic anxiety, he canceled a tour of Java and Palestine, planned to go to Vienna for treatment. Week later Violinist Hubermann was in Bandoeng, Java, laid low by an attack of pneumonia that endangered his life.
British Fascist Leader Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley climbed onto the top of a sound truck to address a Liverpool open-air mass meeting of 8,000 people. The crowd shouted, hissed. He gestured commandingly for silence, promptly received a volley of brickbats. Gashed on the left temple and back of the head, he fell, was carted off to a hospital with brain concussion. In the riot which he left, 20 people were injured, 15 were arrested.
Mrs. Sarah Delano Roosevelt, mother of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, returned to the U. S. from Europe, denied that Grandson John had squirted champagne on the Mayor of Cannes. "Poor John,"she grieved, "they should not have invented that horrid story. He is a very nice boy and was with me most of the time. Grandma doesn't like that at all."
In recognition of his Rainbow Arch memorial to World War dead, famed Sculptor George Grey Barnard was created the sole male Gold Star Mother.