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City Treas Portfolio and other city officials admit using cityowned cars for pleasure; trips to race track cited, Hart com hearing
WLB anthracite hearing; Lewis scores rrs, operators and financial interests; warns failure to grant miners' wage demands to buy food threatens output; T Kennedy says miners had not had basic wage rise from '23 to '41; W G Merritt denies charge; scores portal-to-portal pay demand
Stalin orders 20 salvos, order of the day
London repts US refusal to sell arms and ammunition to Spain for cash
Phila Inquirer says Welles is about to be replaced by Under-Sec Long
1943John Cipollina, American rock guitarist (died 1989)[†]
John Cipollina was a guitarist best known for his role as a founder and the lead guitarist of the prominent San Francisco rock band Quicksilver Messenger Service. After leaving Quicksilver he formed the band Copperhead, was a member of the San Francisco All Stars and later played with numerous other bands.
1943Antonio Alice, Argentinian painter and educator (born 1886)[†]
Antonio Alice was an Argentine portrait painter. He was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1904.
1943Ettore Muti Italian aviator, adventurer and politician (born 1902)[†]
Ettore Muti was an Italian aviator and Fascist politician. He was party secretary of the National Fascist Party from October 1939 until shortly after the entry of Italy into World War II on 10 June 1940.
1943Simone Weil, French philosopher and activist (born 1909)[†]
Simone Adolphine Weil was a French philosopher, mystic and political activist. Despite her short life, her ideas concerning religion, spirituality and politics have remained widely influential in contemporary philosophy.