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February 4, 1943

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Headlines from February 4, 1943

War Work Order Sends 30,000 To U.S. Job Offices Here in Day; 30,000 HERE SEEK JOBS IN WAR WORK

By Unknown Author

NYC USES offices swamped with war job applicants; registrants must wait until May 1 for jobs; many men quit jobs in anticipation of induction; warned by McDermott to remain at work pending determination of essentiality; non-deferrable list may be extended; large war plants indicate they will welcome applicants; NYC opportunities noted; USES offices listed

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SEA BATTLE DENIED; Knox Says a Big Fight Is Not Necessarily in Making in Solomons TASK FORCES SKIRMISHING Secretary Expresses Complete Confidence Over Guadalcanal -- Sees Japan 'Fishing' AMERICANS WIDEN HOLD ON GUADALCANAL Naval-Air Task Units Spar in South Pacific; Knox Discourages Speculation on Events

By Lewis Woodspecial To the New York Times

On Sec Knox rept of US command unity in Pacific

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Allied Air Armada Wrecks Rebuilt Plants at Cologne; ALLIED AIR FORCE ATTACKS COLOGNE

By James MacDonaldspecial Cable To the New York Times

Gers raid northeast and southeast coast towns

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REICH IN MOURNING FOR VOLGA DEBACLE; Berlin, Stunned by Stalingrad Loss, Closes Amusements -- Nation Warned of Peril REICH IN MOURNING FOR VOLGA DEBACLE

By Daniel T. Brighamby Telephone To the New York Times

cryptic wording of Ger communique noted

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GEN. MARSHALL BANS ALL HARD LIQUORS ON ARMY PROPERTY; 3.2% Beer and Wine Again to Be Strongest Beverages After Interval of a Decade JERSEY TOWN BEGAN TEST Bone-Dry Collingswood, Site of Camp, Called Attention to Federal Law of 1901 HARD LIQUOR OUT FOR ARMY CAMPS

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War Dept renews '01 hard liquor in mil establishments ban; effects cited; Collingswood, NJ, protest of '01 law disregard held to have fostered renewal

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1943Alberto João Jardim, Portuguese journalist and politician, second President of the Regional Government of Madeira^[†]

Alberto João Cardoso Gonçalves Jardim, GCC, GCIH is a Portuguese politician who was the President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal, from 1978 to 2015.

1943Wanda Rutkiewicz, Lithuanian-Polish mountaineer (died 1992)^[†]

Wanda Rutkiewicz was a Polish mountaineer and computer engineer. She was the first woman to reach the summit of K2 and the third woman to summit Mount Everest.

1943Ken Thompson, American computer scientist and programmer, co-developed the B programming language^[†]

Kenneth Lane Thompson is an American pioneer of computer science. Thompson worked at Bell Labs for most of his career where he designed and implemented the original Unix operating system. He also invented the B programming language, the direct predecessor to the C language, and was one of the creators and early developers of the Plan 9 operating system. Since 2006, Thompson has worked at Google, where he co-developed the Go language. A recipient of the Turing award, he is considered one of the greatest computer programmers of all time.

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1943Frank Calder, English-Canadian ice hockey player and journalist (born 1877)^[†]

Frank Sellick Calder was a British-born Canadian ice hockey executive, journalist, and athlete.

Headlines from February 4, 1943

War Work Order Sends 30,000 To U.S. Job Offices Here in Day; 30,000 HERE SEEK JOBS IN WAR WORK

Allied Air Armada Wrecks Rebuilt Plants at Cologne; ALLIED AIR FORCE ATTACKS COLOGNE

REICH IN MOURNING FOR VOLGA DEBACLE; Berlin, Stunned by Stalingrad Loss, Closes Amusements -- Nation Warned of Peril REICH IN MOURNING FOR VOLGA DEBACLE

GEN. MARSHALL BANS ALL HARD LIQUORS ON ARMY PROPERTY; 3.2% Beer and Wine Again to Be Strongest Beverages After Interval of a Decade JERSEY TOWN BEGAN TEST Bone-Dry Collingswood, Site of Camp, Called Attention to Federal Law of 1901 HARD LIQUOR OUT FOR ARMY CAMPS

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