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US troops Mateur drive described; Gers flee before French, Pont du Fahs plain; yield 5 mt positions under joint Brit 1st and 8th Army drives; enemy tanks and manpower seen dwindling; Brit bomb Naples; map
Ger forces occupy Lake Ilmen town; thrown out by USSR counter-attacks; gen lull noted
USSR breaks relations with Poland because of alleged Polish connivance with Ger in appeal to Red Cross
organized food merchants challenge LaGuardia authority to enforce Fed price ceilings through weight and measures law, Bronx Sup Ct; Schwartz summarizes complaint; LaGuardia, Woolley and Aimee show-cause on issuing summonses ordered; LaGuardia comment; Woolley sends retailer complaints of wholesaler overcharges to OPA
1943Helmut Marko, Austrian race car driver and manager[†]
Helmut Marko is an Austrian former racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1971 to 1972. In endurance racing, Marko won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1971 with Martini. He founded RSM Marko in 1989, and has been an advisor to Red Bull Racing and its related teams since 2005, winning six World Constructors' Championship titles between 2010 and 2023.