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US enforcement authorities concerned by repts that fruit boats transport 5-gal cans of Cuban alcohol to Fla bootleggers
MOSCOW, Wednesday, March 8 -- The Russians widened their offensive in the Ukraine yesterday and turned back strong German counter-attacks. Further progress was made toward the Polish junction of Tarnopol and beyond the railroad between that city and Proskurov.
WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Jonathan Daniels, one of President Roosevelt's confidential assistants, told a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Agriculture today why he sought the resignation of Harry Slattery, head of the Rural Electrification Administration.
Navy: Knox cites increased strength
US bomber, dropping to low altitude on return trip from Ger, passes over Eiffel Tower in time to identify city as Paris and seek landing on Eng side of Channel
1944Carole Bayer Sager, American singer-songwriter[†]
Carole Bayer Sager is an American lyricist, singer, songwriter, and painter.
1944Sergey Nikitin, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Sergey Yakovlevich Nikitin is a prominent Soviet and Russian bard, composer, and biophysicist. He performs both solo and in a duet with his wife, Tatyana Nikitina all over Russia, the former Soviet republics, and other countries with significant Russian-speaking diaspora. Nikitin is also known as a composer and performer of songs for children.
1944Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (born 1916)[†]
Alfred Hirsch was a German-Jewish athlete, sports teacher and Zionist youth movement leader, notable for helping thousands of Jewish children during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in Prague, Theresienstadt concentration camp, and Auschwitz. Hirsch was the deputy supervisor of children at Theresienstadt and the supervisor of the children's block at the Theresienstadt family camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.