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August 16, 1943

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OUR FOOD PROGRAM SHARPLY ASSAILED IN FEDERAL REPORT; Failure to Set Up World-Wide Plan Is Scored by Committee in Survey of Progress PARITY CALLED HARMFUL We Can Never Feed All Lands, Members Say, and Warn on Hunger From 'Bungling' Our Food Program Is Attacked In Committee Report to Wickard

By Samuel B. Bledsoespecial To the New York Times

Fed agencies advisory com subcom submits critical confidential rept to Sec Wickard; warns of hunger threat; urges pub educ drive

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Churchill Is Back in Quebec After His Visit to Hyde Park; MRS. CHURCHILL: THE CAMERA INTROL UCES HER INFORMALLY AND FORMALLY CHURCHILL ENDS HYDE PARK VISIT

By Will Lissnerspecial To the New York Times

Arrives, Quebec, for war confs

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'Big Inch' Starts Crude Oil to East

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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FOUR TOWNS TAKEN; Americans Drive Ahead in North as British Advance in East FUGITIVES ARE BOMBED Allies' Planes and Ships Attack Craft in Strait of Messina and Mainland Towns FOUR TOWNS TAKEN BY ALLIES IN SICILY

By Wireless To the New York Times

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Notable Births

1943Woody Peoples, American football player (died 2010)^[†]

Woodrow Peoples Jr. was an American professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League (NFL). Undrafted after playing college football for the Grambling Tigers, he was a two-time Pro Bowler with the San Francisco 49ers, and a member of the 1980 National Football Conference (NFC) champion Philadelphia Eagles during his 13-year NFL career.

Historical Events

1943World War II: 317 Greek civilians are murdered by soldiers of the German 1st Mountain Division in the village of Kommeno, Greece.^[†]

The Massacre of Kommeno was a Nazi war crime perpetrated by members of the Wehrmacht in the village of Kommeno, Greece, in 1943, during the German occupation of Greece in World War II.