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Amer Machine & Foundry Co employe election ballot changed by NLRB to remove name of United Elec Radio and Machine Workers of Amer (CIO)
U S cruiser Tuscaloosa informs U S Navy Dept of finding Columbus scuttled and burned by crew 450 mi east of Cape May, N J; Brit destroyer Hyperion near; 579 survivors rescued; 2 firemen missing; Tuscaloosa ordered to Ellis Is; no naval action reptd; Germany confirms scuttling; illus; pors of Tuscaloosa Capt H A Badt, Columbus Capt W Daehne; map
Samaria (SS) in collision, damaged; puts back to Eng
Reptd sunk
1939Kathryn Joosten, American actress (died 2012)[†]
Kathryn Joosten was an American actress. Her best known roles include Delores Landingham on NBC's The West Wing from 1999 to 2002 and Karen McCluskey on ABC's Desperate Housewives from 2005 to 2012, for which she won two Primetime Emmy Awards in 2005 and 2008.
1939Kim Weston, American soul singer[†]
Kim Weston is an American soul singer, and Motown alumna. In the 1960s, she scored hits with the songs "Love Me All the Way" and "Take Me in Your Arms ", and with her duet with Marvin Gaye, "It Takes Two".
1939Hans Langsdorff, German captain (born 1894)[†]
Hans Wilhelm Langsdorff was a German naval officer, most famous for his command of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee before and during the Battle of the River Plate off the coast of Uruguay in 1939. After the Panzerschiff was unable to escape a pursuing squadron of Royal Navy ships, Langsdorff scuttled his ship. Three days later he died by suicide in his hotel room in Buenos Aires, Argentina.