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Int on food and refugee confs, Eden talks
Backs Pres Roosevelt Bankhead bill veto
US planes attack 13 Jap ships near Kavieng; 2 ships believed hit; Jap activity, New Guinea area, studied; hundreds of Jap survivors from convoys smashed in Bismarck Sea reptd taken by Australian patrols, Goodenough and Trobriand Islands; map
dealers cut points under spoilage rule; OPA warns of action; liverwurst problem reptd; Bklyn dealer J Engert explains cutting
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, April 2 -- British First Army Troops in the north fought their way toward the Axis strongholds of Tunis and Bizerte today while General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's Eighth Army gathered force in the south for more smashing blows coupled with the continuing massive air assaults on Field Marshal General Erwin Rommel's divisions retreating up the Tunisian east coast.
1943Mario Lavista, Mexican composer (died 2021)[†]
Mario Lavista was a Mexican composer, writer and intellectual.
1943Jonathan Lynn, English actor, director, and screenwriter[†]
Jonathan Adam Lynn is an English film director, screenwriter, and actor. He directed the comedy films Clue, Nuns on the Run, My Cousin Vinny, and The Whole Nine Yards. He also co-created and co-wrote the political-satirical television series Yes Minister.
1943Richard Manuel, Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist (died 1986)[†]
Richard George Manuel was a Canadian musician, singer, and songwriter, best known as a pianist and one of three lead singers in the Band, for which he was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994.
1943Hikaru Saeki, Japanese admiral, the first female star officer of the Japan Self-Defense Forces[†]
Hikaru Saeki is the first female admiral of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and the first female in the entire Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) to achieve star rank. Originally an obstetrician-gynecologist with the degree of M.D., Saeki joined the JMSDF in 1989. After her service in several military hospitals and medical rooms aboard naval vessels, she became the first woman to head a JSDF hospital in 1997, promoted to rear admiral in 2001, and retired in 2003.
1943Conrad Veidt, German actor, director, and producer (born 1893)[†]
Hans Walter Conrad Veidt was a German and British actor. He attracted early attention for his roles in the films Different from the Others (1919), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), and The Man Who Laughs (1928). After a successful career in German silent films, where he was one of the best-paid stars of UFA, Veidt and his new Jewish wife Ilona Prager left Germany in 1933 after the Nazis came to power. The couple settled in Britain, where he took citizenship in 1939. Veidt subsequently appeared in many British films, including The Thief of Bagdad (1940). After emigrating to the United States around 1941, he was cast as Major Strasser in Casablanca (1942), his last film role to be released during his lifetime.