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WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 -- The successes of United States submarines listed today were announced by the Navy with the usual brevity given to reports of submarine activity -- no mention of time, place or details. A possibility, however, is that the three transports and some of the eleven other ships were carrying men and supplies to enemy bases in the Marshall Islands.
US State Dept statement and representations note 89 protests to Japan, from Jan, '42 to date, on Jap failure to abide by Geneva Conv
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Gen Govoroff forces fight in Kingisepp suburbs; other USSR forces take Krikovo, points in Volosovo area, Divenskaya and Lyudyantino; Gers exterminated in Rozhdestveno and Ostrov area; fighting continues near Lyuban; Moscow Pravda describes Novosokolniki capture; map
Realty: Tax Comm opens tentative assessment rolls to pub; decreases noted; tables
1944Burkhard Ziese, German footballer and manager (died 2010)[†]
Burkhard Ziese was a German football manager.
1944Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (born 1872)[†]
Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He was one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.