FIERCE SEA FIGHTS RAGE OFF SWEDEN; Planes Join Skagerrak Battle --German Troop Convoy Believed Attacked
By Telephone To the New York Times
repts German tanker sunk
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April 24, 1940
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ANNENBERG PLEADS GUILTY IN TAX CASE; Admits $1,217,296 Evasion, Will Settle All Government Claims of $5,548,384
By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES
Min Reinhardt cites increase, Germany
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President Has Mackenzie King as Guest; 'Visit Means Nothing', Press Is Barred; President Has Mackenzie King as Guest; 'Visit Means Nothing,' Press Is Barred
By Felix Belair Jr. Special To the New York Times
visits Roosevelt, Warm Springs, Ga; press barred; por
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Nazis Permitted to Film Rumania's Oil Plants
By Telephone To the New York Times
Bucharest alarmed by permit to Berlin Ufa Film Co to film Rumania's fields
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Notable Births
1940Sue Grafton, American author (died 2017)[†]
Sue Taylor Grafton was an American author of detective novels. She is best known as the author of the "alphabet series" featuring private investigator Kinsey Millhone in the fictional city of Santa Teresa, California. The daughter of detective novelist C. W. Grafton, she said the strongest influence on her crime novels was author Ross Macdonald. Before her success with this series, she wrote screenplays for television movies.