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March 27, 1944

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ALLIES POUND FOE AT CASSINO IN VAIN; Positions Unchanged There and on Beachhead -- Each Side Continues Shelling ALLIES POUND FOE AT CASSINO IN VAIN

By Wireless To the New York Times

Cassino positions reptd unchanged; shelling continues; Ger planes attack at Teano and Trocchio; Allied planes active over Cassino area; aerial activity reptd, Anzio-Nettuno area; Brit destroyers Urchin and Grenville join beachhead battle; other fronts remain static; weather curtails Brit 8th Army activities; Allies bomb Leghorn harbor and Florence area

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UNIONS ARE WARNED TO LET DOWN BARS FOR WAR VETERANS; Ives Legislative Committee Report Points Way to Allay Any Anti-Labor Feeling MACHINISTS' ACTION CITED Bipartisan Group Criticizes War Labor Board for Slight to State Mediation Body Ives Committee Warns the Unions To Aid Veterans After the War

By Warren Moscow

Ives com warns unions not to bar veteran membership; cites Internatl Machinists Assn action in opening membership, without initiation fee, to those with hon discharges, rept to legis

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Notable Births

Jesse Brown

1944Jesse Brown, American marine and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (died 2002)[†]

Jesse Brown was an American politician and Marine Corps veteran who served as the second United States secretary of veterans affairs under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997.

1944Bryan Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player[†]

Bryan Albert Campbell is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played 260 games in the National Hockey League and 433 games in the World Hockey Association between 1967 and 1978. He played for the Los Angeles Kings, Chicago Black Hawks, Vancouver Blazers, Cincinnati Stingers, Indianapolis Racers, and Edmonton Oilers. He retired to Deerfield Beach, Florida, with his wife Jo-anne.