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Elected to League Council
Brit rept U-boat sunk and cruiser torpedoed by Brit submarine; Brit Air Ministry issues statement on new air and sea tactics; repts air-patrols over Helgoland Bight to prevent mine-laying at night; 2 German planes reptd repulsed over North Sea
J Ozanic, PMA (AFL) pres, testifies at NLRB inquiry; charges decisions favored UMWA (CIO); scores Lewis as dictator; memo from P G Phillips, W Va NLRB regional dir, charging "Van Bittner" ordered UMWA members to shoot PMA organizers shown; V A Bittner denies order
L I Battle Brit Army hdqrs bldg razing begun, Queens
German pocket battleship Adm Graf Spee puts into Montevideo harbor with 36 dead and 60 wounded after 18-hr fight with Brit cruisers Exeter, Ajax and Achilles, convoying French freighter Formose, intended victim of Spee; German freighter Ussukuma believed used as decoy for Brit cruisers; illus, map
1939Ann Cryer, English academic and politician[†]
Constance Ann Cryer JP is a British former politician who was the Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Keighley from the 1997 general election up until she stood down at the 2010 general election.
1939Ernie Davis, American football player (died 1963)[†]
Ernest R. Davis was an American college football player who was a halfback for the Syracuse Orangemen who won the Heisman Trophy in 1961. He was the award's first black recipient. Davis was selected first overall by the Washington Redskins in the 1962 NFL draft but was almost immediately traded to the Cleveland Browns. He was diagnosed with leukemia that same year, and died shortly after at age 23 without ever playing in a professional game. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1979 and was the subject of the 2008 film The Express: The Ernie Davis Story.
1939Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.[†]
The Winter War was a war between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet invasion of Finland on 30 November 1939, three months after the outbreak of World War II, and ended three and a half months later with the Moscow Peace Treaty on 13 March 1940. Despite superior military strength, especially in tanks and aircraft, the Soviet Union suffered severe losses and initially made little headway. The League of Nations deemed the attack illegal and expelled the Soviet Union from its organization.