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OPA asks Justice Dept to act under anti-trust laws against priority profiteers
Berlin sources doubt Budenny Army encirclement in German Azov Sea thrust
SIU strikes Alcoa Pathfinder, N Y C, Alcoa Cutter, Norfolk, Va and Alcoa Patriot, Tacoma, Wash; plans to strike all foreign ships under contract with union; Alcoa Trader sails; prevailing wages paid on seized ships
S on aid to USSR, Natl Labor Council rally
RAF bombs Berlin, Frankfort, Ostend, Gosnay and Lille; downs 24 German planes, loses 17; 2 RAF pilots rescued from Channel; German planes bomb southeast Eng coast town Germans rept raids on Southampton, southern and eastern Eng
1941Jeremiah Wright, American pastor and theologian[†]
Jeremiah Alvesta Wright Jr. is a pastor emeritus of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, a congregation he led for 36 years, during which its membership grew to over 8,000 parishioners. Following retirement, his beliefs and preaching were scrutinized when segments of his sermons about terrorist attacks on the United States and government dishonesty were publicized in connection with the 2008 presidential campaign of Barack Obama.
1941The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.[†]
The Holocaust saw the systematic mass murder of Jews in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine, the General Government, the Crimean General Government and some areas which were located to the east of Reichskommissariat Ukraine, in the Transnistria Governorate and Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and the Hertsa region and Carpathian Ruthenia during World War II. The listed areas are currently parts of Ukraine.