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3 more Jap destroyers sunk by submarines, Kiska area; army and navy plane bombing; Jap force in isles estimated; map
Sec Hull to s on post-war problems
Amer Fed of Musicians Local 802 bars This Is the Army orch from playing at Times Sq Service Men's Center opening; illus; Mayor LaGuardia thanks W S Mack Jr for donating bldg; Mack s; center described
names Bklyn as site
Sen plans several revisions; inflation danger held imminent; war workers salaries reptd untouched; sales tax, 10% withholding tax and corp tax cuts favored
1942Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, English-Australian politician (died 2012)[†]
Michael Edward Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, was a British-Australian farmer, who is most noted because of the 2004 documentary Britain's Real Monarch, which alleged he was the rightful monarch of England instead of Queen Elizabeth II. From February 1960 until November 2002, he held the courtesy title Lord Mauchline.
1942Peter Habeler, Austrian mountaineer and skier[†]
Peter Habeler is an Austrian mountaineer. He was born in Mayrhofen, Austria. He developed an interest in mountain climbing at age six.
1942Les Johns, Australian rugby league player and coach[†]
Leslie Howard Johns is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and early 1970s.
1942The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands.[†]
Gasoline or petrol is a petrochemical product characterized as a transparent, yellowish and flammable liquid normally used as a fuel for spark-ignited internal combustion engines. When formulated as a fuel for engines, gasoline is chemically composed of organic compounds derived from the fractional distillation of petroleum and later chemically enhanced with gasoline additives. It is a high-volume profitable product produced in crude oil refineries.
1942Grossaktion Warsaw: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto begins.[†]
The Grossaktion Warsaw was the Nazi code name for the deportation and mass murder of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto during the summer of 1942, beginning on 22 July. During the Grossaktion, Jews were terrorized in daily round-ups, marched through the ghetto, and assembled at the Umschlagplatz station square for what was called in the Nazi euphemistic jargon "resettlement to the East". From there, they were sent aboard overcrowded Holocaust trains to the extermination camp in Treblinka.