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By-elections: Repub victories reptd; W L Willkie and H E Spangler hail results
DETROIT, Wednesday, Nov. 3 -- Mayor Edward J Jeffries Jr., was re-elected for a third term yesterday, defeating Frank Fitzgerald, labor's candidate.
Rivers elected, Manhattan; Higgins congratulates Rivers; W M Chadbourne, Citizens Com chmn, and Repr Marcantonio, ALP spokesman, hail election; G J Joyce elected, Kings; Justice Shackno re-elected, Bronx
Election: Donaldson leads Willis by small margin
1943Bert Jansch, Scottish-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)[†]
Herbert Jansch was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s as an acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter. He recorded more than 28 albums and toured extensively from the 1960s to the 21st century.
1943World War II: Five hundred aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany.[†]
The Wilhelmshaven World War II bombings by the Allies of World War II destroyed targets at Wilhelmshaven in Germany. From spring 1943 until November 1943 slave labourers of the SS-Baubrigade II from the Neuengamme concentration camp were transferred to Wilhelmshaven to clear up after air raids.