Major league baseball enjoyed a banner day yesterday with a total of 214,974 spectators coming out to see the eight double-headers played in both circuits. At the Polo Grounds, a throng of 58,068 saw the Giants oppose the Dodgers, with an estimated 20,000 turned away.

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1944Napoleon Soukatzidis, Greek communist and trade unionist (born 1909)^[†]

Napoleon Soukatzidis was a Greek communist, trade unionist and one of the 200 prisoners executed at the firing range of the Athens suburb of Kaisariani by the Nazi occupation forces on May 1, 1944.

Headlines from May 1, 1944

MAYOR OFFERS PLAN TO INSURE HEALTH OF WORKERS IN CITY; All-Inclusive Coverage Would Be Open to Those Earning Up to $5,000 and Families COST PUT AT 4% OF PAY Employer Would Contribute at Least Half of It -- Non-Profit Corporation to Be Set Up HEALTH INSURANCE PROPOSED BY MAYOR

Canol Oil Refinery Is Opened; $130,000,000 Work Aids Alaska; REFINERY OPENED IN CANOL PROJECT

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U.S. 'HEAVIES' LEAD; ' Forts' Rip Luftwaffe's Bases and Liberators Rock Pas-de-Calais RAIL YARDS ALSO TARGETS RAF by Night Bombs French Factories -- Day Score Is 25 Nazis Down to Loss of 6 THE RAF INVASION TIMETABLE INTERRUPTS THE NAZI TIMETABLE IN FRANCE U.S. 'HEAVIES' LEAD SMASH AT FRANCE

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