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Sen com minority rept scores bill; suggests additional amendments as postponement alternative
Truman Berlin arrival awaited; trip through Brit waters described; Truman accorded traditional Brit Navy salute; Stalin, Molotoff and Churchill reptd en route to conf; Adm King arrives, Paris
publishers wire strikers to return to work or face dismissal; wire to Times workers quoted; Simons repts decision up to men; Mapel and Waldman comment on union arbitration bid; NY Newspaper Guild to meet to consider strike; Friendly radio s discussed
joint communique repts USSR and China have reached gen accord; Reuters claims no formal agreement reached; Soong leaves for Chungking; negotiations to be resumed shortly
Resigns as 14th AAF comdr and as Chinese Air Force chief of staff; Lt Gen Stratemeyer and US War Dept comment; Chennault China role noted; por
1945David Arthur Granger, Guyanese politician, 9th President of Guyana[†]
David Arthur Granger is a Guyanese former politician and retired military officer who served as the ninth president of Guyana from 2015 to 2020. A member of the People’s National Congress (PNC), he previously served as Commander of the Guyana Defence Force and as National Security Adviser from 1990 to 1992. He was leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly of Guyana from 2012 to 2015.
1945Peter Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Peter Charles Lewis is one of the founding members of the band Moby Grape. Three of his better known songs with Moby Grape are "Fall on You" and "Sitting by the Window" from the self-titled first Moby Grape album and "If You Can't Learn from My Mistakes" from Moby Grape '69.
1945Jürgen Möllemann, German soldier and politician, Vice-Chancellor of Germany (died 2003)[†]
Jürgen Wilhelm Möllemann was a German politician of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) who served as Minister of State at the Foreign Office (1982–1987), as Minister of Education and Research (1987–1991), as Minister of Economics (1991–1993) and as the vice chancellor of Germany (1992–1993) in the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl.