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LONDON, June 24 -- The rising fury of the Allied air offensive has shaken Nazi leaders into a desperate attempt to throw an "aerial Maginot Line" into the skies over the bomb-shattered areas of western Germany, according to information reaching British air circles.
RAF shuttle bombing of Ital points begun; Lancasters bomb Spezia naval base on way back to GB from N Africa; fires reptd set; map
comment continues; Sen Byrd to urge approval of his work-or-fight bill; Sen E V Robertson scores plan as slave labor
OPA increases ration; lifts roasters green coffee purchase curbs
Council fails to fix basic realty rate; ignores LaGuardia message for request for special State Legis session
1943Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter[†]
Carly Elisabeth Simon is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 top 40 U.S. hits include "Anticipation" (No. 13), "The Right Thing to Do" (No. 17), "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" (No. 14), "You Belong to Me" (No. 6), "Coming Around Again" (No. 18), and her four gold-certified singles "You're So Vain" (No. 1), "Mockingbird", "Nobody Does It Better" (No. 2) from the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, and "Jesse" (No. 11). She has authored two memoirs and five children's books.
1943Arthur Goldstein, German Jewish left-wing activist (c. 1887)[†]
Arthur Goldstein was a German Jewish journalist and communist politician.
1943The Holocaust and World War II: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.[†]
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The murders were committed primarily through mass shootings across Eastern Europe and poison gas chambers in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland. Separate Nazi persecutions killed millions of other non-Jewish civilians and prisoners of war (POWs); the term Holocaust is sometimes used to include the murder and persecution of non-Jewish groups.
1943The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein is murdered in Auschwitz.[†]
Arthur Goldstein was a German Jewish journalist and communist politician.