Thursday, April 7, 1927

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The Headlines

RAID ON SOVIET OFFICES NETS 72 PEKING AGITATORS; MOSCOW TALKS OF BREAK; SOLDIERS ENTER COMPOUND Seize Red Propaganda and Flags, but Avoid Embassy Proper. SEARCH GOES ON ALL DAY Diplomatic Corps Permitted Act Which Soviet Alleges Violates Immunity. TWO AMERICANS DETAINED Woman and Man Are Taken in Hotel for Writings Displeasing to Chang Tso-lin.

Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• AT&T engineer Herbert Ives transmits the first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).

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You Share a Birthday With

• William Wordsworth (1770)
• Gabriela Mistral (1889)
• Ravi Shankar (1920)
• Billie Holiday (1915)
• Francis Xavier (1506)

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Tech Check

Electronic TV (Philo Farnsworth), Jukebox (Automatic) & Iron Lung.

Cost of Living (1920)