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Hitler-Hungarian Regent Adm Horthy conf on anti-invasion plans revealed; Hungarian aid pledge reptd; Ger communique; illus; Ger Transocean news agency repts Hungary, Italy and Rumania pledged mil aid
Agr Dept revises '43 civilian supply estimates downward; specific estimated supplies compared with goals set; OWI repts percentage cuts from '42 supplies
Trade sees '43 beet crop shortage threat to home-canning program; cites OPA delay in signing processors contract as major cause; hail govt Caribbean import plan; urge greater imports; shortage reptd, Boston
PEARL HARBOR, April 18 -- It is believed here that the Japanese, having experimented recently with concentrated large-scale air attacks for the first time in the Southwest Pacific theatres, may now be analyzing the probabilities in some new offensivedefensive blow, which, however, would not necessarily take the direction apparently feared in Australia.
repts on Northwest African Air Forces role since Mareth Line attack
1943Margo MacDonald, Scottish journalist and politician (died 2014)[†]
Margo Symington MacDonald was a Scottish politician, teacher and broadcaster. She was the Scottish National Party (SNP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow Govan from 1973 to 1974 and was Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party from 1974 to 1979. She later served as an SNP and then Independent Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Lothian from 1999 until her death.
1943World War II: In German-occupied Poland, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins, after German troops enter the Warsaw Ghetto to round up the remaining Jews.[†]
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the gas chambers of the Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camps.
1943Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16, an event commonly known and celebrated as Bicycle Day.[†]
Albert Hofmann was a Swiss chemist known for being the first to synthesize, ingest, and learn of the psychedelic effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Hofmann's team also isolated, named and synthesized the principal psychedelic mushroom compounds psilocybin and psilocin. Hofmann discovered the structure of chitin in 1929. He authored more than 100 scientific articles and numerous books, including LSD: Mein Sorgenkind. In 2007, he shared first place with Tim Berners-Lee on a list of the 100 greatest living geniuses published by The Daily Telegraph.