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January 27, 1944

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Headlines from January 27, 1944

WLB USURPS POWER, SAYS HOUSE GROUP; ASKS RESTRICTIONS; Smith Committee Calls Board Menace to Enterprise and Right of Judicial Review HITS 'UNION MAINTENANCE' Policy Is Declared a Spur to Labor Strife -- Minority and Davis Assail Report WLB USURPS POWER, SAYS HOUSE GROUP

By John H. Criderspecial To the New York Times

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 -- In a sharp denunciation today of the National War Labor Board as indulging in policies and practices "menacing to the system of private enterprise and the constitutional right of judicial review," the Select Committee of the House named to Investigate Executive Agencies of the Government called on Congress to define and limit clearly the board's powers.

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U.S. Fliers Sink 6 Japanese Ships And Fell 24 More Planes at Rabaul; JAPANESE PRISONER AIDS COAST GUARD IN CLEANING UP U.S. BOMBERS SINK 6 JAPANESE SHIPS

By Frank L. Kluckhohnby Wireless To the New York Times

ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS in New Guinea, Thursday, Jan. 27 -- A large Japanese tanker and five cargo ships ranging from 300 to 7,500 tons were destroyed and two other vessels beached Monday when United States Navy land-based Avengers, with a heavy escort, struck Rabaul harbor, which is becoming a graveyard for Japanese ships.

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Notable Births

Peter Akinola

1944Peter Akinola, Nigerian archbishop[†]

Peter Jasper Akinola is the former Anglican Primate of the Church of Nigeria. He is also the former bishop of Abuja and Archbishop of Province III, which covered the northern and central parts of the country. When the division into ecclesiastical provinces was adopted in 2002, he became the first Archbishop of Abuja Province, a position he held until 2010. He is married and a father of six.

Mairead Maguire

1944Mairead Maguire, Northern Irish activist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]

Mairead Maguire, also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Maguire and Williams were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize.

Nick Mason

1944Nick Mason, English drummer, songwriter, and producer[†]

Nicholas Berkeley Mason is an English drummer and a founder member of the rock band Pink Floyd. He has been the only constant member since the band's formation in 1965, and the only member to appear on every Pink Floyd album. He co-wrote Pink Floyd compositions including "Echoes", "Time", "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" and "One of These Days".

Historical Events

Siege of Leningrad

1944World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.[†]

The siege of Leningrad was a military blockade undertaken by the Axis powers against the city of Leningrad in the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front of World War II from 1941 to 1944. Leningrad, the country's second largest city, was besieged by Germany and Finland for 872 days, but never captured. The siege was the most destructive in history and possibly the most deadly, causing an estimated 1.5 million deaths, from a prewar population of 3.2 million. It was not classified as a war crime at the time, but some historians have since classified it as a genocide due to the intentional destruction of the city and the systematic starvation of its civilian population.