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gasoline stock reptd sufficient for only 10 days; Amer Auto Assn statement on shortage; Amer Petroleum Inst contradicts 10 day supply rept; Petroleum Marketing Com meets to formulate curtailment plan; Gasoline Station and Parking Attendants Union protests
Assailed as interventionist by speakers at Amer First Com rally, N Y C
Dnieper Dam reptd blown up by USSR forces
New Japanese maps reveal Japanese claim to island group in P I area; map
1941Jackie DeShannon, American singer-songwriter[†]
Jackie DeShannon is an American singer-songwriter, radio broadcaster and actress who has had many hit song credits beginning in the 1960s, as both a singer and composer. She was one of the first female singer-songwriters of the rock and roll period. She is best known as the singer of "What the World Needs Now Is Love" and "Put a Little Love in Your Heart". She is the writer of "When You Walk in the Room" and "Bette Davis Eyes", which became hits for The Searchers and Kim Carnes, respectively.