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Kaiser interests: 3,500 Internatl Machinists Assn (AFL) members strike in jurisdictional fees dispute with Internatl Operating Engineers Union (AFL), 4 Richmond yds; linked with Victory ship facilities construction, Permanente Metals Corp yd 2; union agents comment
Gers attempt daylight raid against Eng; 1 of 2 planes downed by coastal guns
Ottawa rept on living cost rise, 2 yrs of price control; on dealers prosecuted for ceiling or other violations, Jan 1, '42-Oct, '43; oil subsidy payments, '43
Navy Dept repts US escort carrier Liscome Bay sunk by Jap submarine, Makin invasion
Brit news agency, Exch Telegraph, repts Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin drafting ultimatum to Ger to surrender unconditionally or be destroyed; Sen Connally comments
1943Joseph Franklin Ada, American lawyer and politician, 5th Governor of Guam[†]
Joseph Franklin Ada is an Guamanian politician who served as the fifth governor of Guam from 1987 to 1995. Before his accession to the governorship, Ada previously served as the third Lieutenant Governor of Guam from 1979 to 1983. He is a member of the Republican Party of Guam. He is the member of the Guam Legislature as the lead speaker from 1975 to 1979 and member as the senator from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1987.
1943J. Philippe Rushton, English-Canadian psychologist and academic (died 2012)[†]
John Philippe Rushton was a Canadian psychologist and author. He taught at the University of Western Ontario until the early 1990s, and became known to the general public during the 1980s and 1990s for promoting anti-Black racism through his widely discredited research on race and intelligence, race and crime, and other purported racial correlations.