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N Y C police queried on membership in Front, subversive, Communist, Nazi or Fascist groups
Roosevelt entered in Wis primary; to be 1st 3d term test; Fish and Garner petitions pending in Ill; speculation on legality of Roosevelt Ill petition
Turkey seizes German-owned Krupp shipyards; map; discharges German naval engineers and govt advisers; Germany not expected to break relations; sees move as Allied plot; Allied-Turkish relations revd; Germany's recall of natls in Turkey seen as possible fear of Near East activity; Turkish press repts Allied force of 500,000 men; French sources reveal 275,000 under Weygand; Weygand arrives, Cairo; revs Anglo-Egyptian forces
Natl Cath Welfare Conf Administrative Council issues statement on relation of R C Ch to reform; excerpts
1940Brian Bennett, English drummer and songwriter[†]
Brian Laurence Bennett is an English drummer, pianist, composer and producer of popular music. He is best known as the drummer of the UK rock and roll group the Shadows. He is the father of musician and Shadows band member Warren Bennett.
1940J. M. Coetzee, South African-Australian novelist, essayist, and linguist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
John Maxwell Coetzee AC FRSL OMG is a South African and Australian novelist, essayist, linguist, and translator. The recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature, Coetzee is one of the most critically acclaimed and decorated authors in the English language. He has won the Booker Prize (twice), the CNA Literary Award (thrice), the Jerusalem Prize, the Prix Femina étranger, and The Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and holds a number of other awards and honorary doctorates.