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April 12, 1943

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Americans Retake Faid Pass; LA HENCHA TAKEN AS BRITISH RACE ON

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US forces retake Faid Pass

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23 OF 45 RAIDERS LOST BY JAPANESE; Allied Ship Hit in Oro Bay Attack -- M'Arthur Warns of Enemy Air Offensive 23 OF 45 RAIDERS LOST BY JAPANESE

By the United Press

Allied fighter planes down 23 of 45 Jap planes attacking Oro Bay; Allied merchant ship hit and beached; other losses negligible; Allied planes raid Madang-Finschhafen-Lae coastal area, Timika, Babo, Kaimana and Aru Islands; Allied scout bomber downs 3 Jap fighters, damages 3, in clash over Kavieng

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$13,000,000,000 War Loan Drive To Be Launched at Rally Tonight; RECORD LOAN DRIVE WILL BEGIN TODAY

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The greatest War Loan drive in the nation's financial history will be launched today. The goal is $13,000,000,000, of which $8,000,000,000 is to come from investors other than commercial banks. The quota for the New York Federal Reserve District, which includes New York State, Northern New Jersey and Fairfield County, Conn., is $3,000,000,000 from non-banking investors and nearly $2,000,000,000 from the commercial banks.

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$25,000 PAY LIMIT REPEALED MINUS ROOSEVELT SIGNATURE; HE ASSAILS CONGRESS RIDER; DEBT RISE IS LAW President Lets Ceiling on Salaries Die to Help New Bond Drive DEMANDS WAR SUPERTAX Insists Congress Put Stop to 'Excessive' Incomes When It Drafts Men at $600 PAY LIMIT VOIDED MINUS SIGNATURE

By John MacCormacspecial To the New York Times

allowed to become law without signature

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1943Sumitra Mahajan, Indian politician, 16th Speaker of the Lok Sabha^[†]

Sumitra Mahajan is an Indian politician who was the Speaker of Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament from 2014 to 2019. She belongs to Bharatiya Janata Party. She represented the Indore constituency of Madhya Pradesh from 1989 to 2019 as the longest serving Woman Member of Parliament.

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1943Viktor Puskar, Estonian colonel (born 1889)^[†]

Viktor Puskar VR I/1 was an Estonian military commander (Colonel) during the Estonian War of Independence.

Headlines from April 12, 1943

Americans Retake Faid Pass; LA HENCHA TAKEN AS BRITISH RACE ON

23 OF 45 RAIDERS LOST BY JAPANESE; Allied Ship Hit in Oro Bay Attack -- M'Arthur Warns of Enemy Air Offensive 23 OF 45 RAIDERS LOST BY JAPANESE

$13,000,000,000 War Loan Drive To Be Launched at Rally Tonight; RECORD LOAN DRIVE WILL BEGIN TODAY

$25,000 PAY LIMIT REPEALED MINUS ROOSEVELT SIGNATURE; HE ASSAILS CONGRESS RIDER; DEBT RISE IS LAW President Lets Ceiling on Salaries Die to Help New Bond Drive DEMANDS WAR SUPERTAX Insists Congress Put Stop to 'Excessive' Incomes When It Drafts Men at $600 PAY LIMIT VOIDED MINUS SIGNATURE

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