U-boats shell Standard Oil subsidiary, Lago Oil & Transportation Co, Aruba, and sink 3 tankers; 23 killed; no shore employes hurt and oil plant undamaged; illus; Lt Gen Andrews repts U S planes sent out to attack raiders

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MAYOR DISMISSES KERN AND SAYRE; Their Successors Named -- Civil Service Head to Take the Case to Courts Kern and Sayre Are Dismissed by Mayor, Who Also Announces Their Successors

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Marsh, H, Munic Civil Service Comm pres

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1942Huey P. Newton, American activist, co-founded the Black Panther Party (died 1989)^[†]

Huey Percy Newton was an African American revolutionary and political activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966. He ran the party as its first leader and crafted its ten-point manifesto with Bobby Seale.

Headlines from February 17, 1942

PALEMBANG SEIZED; Allied Fliers Blast River Barges Taking Enemy From Sea to City BUT DUTCH LOSE GROUND U.S. Airmen Help in Offshore Raid -- 2 Japanese Cruisers and 5 Transports Hit PALEMBANG SEIZED IN SUMATRA DRIVE

Japanese Open Drive on M'Arthur; Pessimism Rises in Washington; JAPANESE LAUNCH DRIVE ON M'ARTHUR

ARUBA IS SHELLED; Nazis Attack Refinery 700 Miles From Canal, Near U.S. Bases 3 OR MORE SHIPS SUNK General Andrews Witnesses Raid -- Some U-Boats Hit by Fliers, He Believes DUTCH WEST INDIES RAIDED BY U-BOATS Points in Dutch West Indies Which Were Targets for Enemy Submarines

MAYOR DISMISSES KERN AND SAYRE; Their Successors Named -- Civil Service Head to Take the Case to Courts Kern and Sayre Are Dismissed by Mayor, Who Also Announces Their Successors

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