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India-Burma-China pipe line discussed; engineering feat praised
armed forces parade, NYC; illus
WITH UNITED STATES NINTH ARMY in Germany, Nov. 19 -- Geilenkirchen, a mining and transportation center of about 20,000 population and the second largest German city yet taken by the Allies, was captured by an assault shortly before noon to day by combined British and American forces that scarcely paused in what now appears to be a major drive toward the Rhine and Ruhr valley.
1944Louie Dampier, American basketball player and coach[†]
Louis Dampier is an American former professional basketball player. He played professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA), primarily playing with the Kentucky Colonels.
1944Wayne Maki, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1974)[†]
Wayne Maki was a professional ice hockey player and an early star of the Vancouver Canucks in the National Hockey League (NHL).
1944Anthea Stewart, Zimbabwean field hockey player[†]
Anthea Dorine Stewart is a former field hockey player who was a member of the Zimbabwe national women's team that won the gold medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. Previously, she had represented South Africa between 1963 and 1974.
1944Maria Jacobini, Italian actress (born 1892)[†]
Maria Jacobini was an Italian film actress and writer. She was born in Rome. She was married to the film director Gennaro Righelli and appeared in many of his silent films for the Vesuvio Film Company. She and her husband worked in the German film industry in the mid-1920s. She was the older sister of actress Diomira Jacobini. She died in Rome in 1944, at the age of 52.