Roosevelt attacks rumors, press conf; reads aloud Washington Times-Herald article by W K Hutchinson, headed Army Shake-up Plot Perils Sixteen Commands, and 2 NY Herald Tribune eds scoring rumors; orders article and eds incorp in record

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BRITISH SEIZE FOGGIA AIR CENTER, BASE FOR WIDE PLANE OPERATIONS; GUNS POUND GERMANS AT DNIEPER; FOE IN DUAL PERIL Germans Face Flanking Drive by 8th Army as Well as New Raids ALLIES INCH ON IN WEST Enemy Still Holds High Ground Before Naples -- Warships Stand By to Aid Troops FOE IN DUAL PERIL AS FOGGIA FALLS

By Milton Brackerby Wireless To the New York Times

map showing strategical value of Foggia air base

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Notable Births

1943Juan Flores, American academic and professor (died 2014)^[†]

Juan Flores was a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and director of Latino Studies at New York University. He was considered a leading pioneer, scholar, and expert in Latin American and Nuyorican culture, often working with his wife Miriam Jiménez Román.

1943Lech Wałęsa, Polish electrician and politician, 2nd President of Poland, Nobel Prize laureate^[†]

Lech Wałęsa is a Polish statesman, dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who served as the president of Poland between 1990 and 1995. After winning the 1990 election, Wałęsa became the first democratically elected president of Poland since 1926 and the first-ever Polish president elected by popular vote. An electrician by trade, Wałęsa became the leader of the opposition Solidarity movement and led a successful pro-democratic effort, which in 1989 ended Communist rule in Poland and ushered in the end of the Cold War.