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April 25, 1941

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HOLD-UP IN N.Y.A.C. BALKED BY WOMAN; GUNMAN ENDS LIFE; Policeman Is Shot Fighting 3 Thugs Who Seek to Rob Bookmaker Erickson CHAMBERMAID FOILS PLOT Refuses to Let Invaders Into Gambler's Suite -- Beaten but Shrieks Alarm FIGURES IN ATTEMPTED HOLD-UP AT N.Y.A.C. HOLD-UP IN N.Y.A.C. BALKED BY WOMAN

By Unknown Author

Attempted hold-up balked by Mrs C O'Brien; Patrolman G Schuck wounded; G Gambon, pedestrian, injured; L Finnell, thug, commits suicide; J Kress captured; Erickson called for questioning; pors

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GRIM FIGHT AT PASS; Big Infantry Attack Is Hurled Back at Great Cost to Invaders BOMBERS POUND PIRAEUS Set Afire Ship Crowded With Refugees -- Athens Threatens Disturbers With Death

By the Associated Press

ATHENS, April 24 -- Hurled back when they attempted to storm the historic pass of Thermopylae, eighty miles north of Athens, with infantry, the Germans today brought up the heaviest artillery yet used in the Balkan campaign and shelled the British-Greek positions.

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Notable Births

Bertrand Tavernier

1941Bertrand Tavernier, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2021)[†]

Bertrand Tavernier was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer.

1941Dorothy Shea, Australian librarian (died 2024)[†]

Dorothy Shea was an Australian librarian who was the Librarian of the Supreme Court of Tasmania from 1988 to 2016, president of the Australian Law Librarians' Association (ALLA) from 2004 to 2005, and the editor of the organisation's journal Australian Law Librarian from 2008 to 2012. She notably discovered and helped to preserve a large amount of original Tasmanian legislation.

Notable Deaths

Salih Bozok

1941Salih Bozok, Turkish commander and politician (born 1881)[†]

Salih Bozok was an officer of the Ottoman Army, later the Turkish Army and a politician of the Republic of Turkey. He was the chief aide-de-camp of Mustafa Kemal (Atatürk), the founder of modern Turkey.