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Kern charges city time sheets changed to indicate employes were on vacation while working for Flynn; sees Bronx Dems ready to smother charges against Flynn; assails Herlands; Herlands comments, says Kern scored his failure to investigate former Councilman A E Smith Jr
Brit naval planes attack German battleship Tirpitz along Norwegian coast north of Trondheim; 28 planes missing; smokescreen bars Brit naval fire; pursuit of battleship and battle for convoy route to USSR discussed
USSR forces pierce German defenses, Leningrad area; Germans face peril; battles near Dnieper River; USSR claims air superiority; Germans rept attacks repulsed; Germans belittle USSR Army; illus
Roosevelt rept to Cong on U S mil mission aid to China
1942Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player (died 2020)[†]
James Sherman Wynn, nicknamed "the Toy Cannon", was an American professional baseball player. He played 15 seasons as a center fielder; he spent ten of his fifteen seasons with the Houston Colt .45s / Astros before playing two All-Star seasons for the Los Angeles Dodgers and then two more seasons with three other teams. Wynn was nicknamed "The Toy Cannon" because his bat was described as having a lot of "pop" for his small size at 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) and 160 lb (73 kg).
1942William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)[†]
Sir William Henry Bragg was a British X-ray crystallographer who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays".
1942The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Empire of Japan in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.[†]
The Battle of Java was a battle of the Pacific theatre of World War II. It occurred on the island of Java from 28 February – 12 March 1942. It involved forces from the Empire of Japan, which invaded on 28 February 1942, and Allied personnel. Allied commanders signed a formal surrender at Japanese headquarters at Bandung on 12 March.