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WFA cites causes for shortage; gives consumption figures, 9 mos; Agr Dept denies tobacco leaf shortage rept
Jap radio claims US China-based planes, presumably B-29s, had raided northern Kyushu and were engaged by Jap intercepters
Allied planes drop over 2,000,000 leaflets in Coblenz and Strasbourg areas
CIO PAC lists successful candidates whom it supported and those it claims to have helped defeat
reception; rides through sts in rain; illus
1944Munir Ertegun, Turkish diplomat (born 1883)[†]
Munir Ertegun was a Turkish legal counsel in international law to the "Sublime Porte" of the late Ottoman Empire and a diplomat of the Republic of Turkey during its early years. Ertegun married Emine Hayrünnisa Rüstem in 1917 and the couple had three children, two of whom were Nesuhi and Ahmet Ertegun, the brothers who founded Atlantic Records and became iconic figures in the American music industry.