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US marines moving up to attack illus
After deliberating more than five hours a jury of six men and six women returned a verdict of guilty at 10:43 o'clock last night in Federal Court against twenty-four of twenty-five leaders of the German-American Bund, accused of conspiracy to counsel resistance to the Selective Service Act.
OWI repts on faults and superiorities of US planes in combat performance; text
Family Loan Co; I Kadens seized during hold-up, Chicago
Offers lower voting age bill
1942Earl Hindman, American actor (died 2003)[†]
Earl John Hindman was an American actor, best known for his roles as Bob Reid on the television soap opera Ryan's Hope from 1975—1984 and 1988–89, and as Wilson W. Wilson on the sitcom Home Improvement from 1991–1999.
1942Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, German biologist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Christiane (Janni) Nüsslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist and a 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate. She is the only woman from Germany to have received a Nobel Prize in the sciences.
1942Bart Zoet, Dutch cyclist (died 1992)[†]
Hubertus Balthazar "Bart" Zoet was a Dutch cyclist who was active between 1961 and 1969. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal in the 100 km team time trial, alongside Gerben Karstens, Evert Dolman, and Jan Pieterse; he finished 20th in the individual road race. Next year he won the Grote 1-MeiPrijs.