Life Magazine was out with a black and white cover of children in uniform, and a story on "Kid's Uniforms". Both were Navy style. No doubt, with the war being so overarching in everyone's life, this resulted in this style for children.
The United States and the United Kingdom signed treaties with the Republic of China renouncing extraterritorial privileges. Both nations had exercised them since the 19th Century, along with other powers, with the same being a major insult to Chinese sovereignty. Indeed, this sort of extraterritorial claim had been the primary cause of the Boxer Rebellion.
The British intercepted a telegram from SS Major Herman Hofle to Adolf Eichman noting the murder of 1,274,166 Polish Jews in 1942. The telegram was held with secret status by the British until 2000.
On the same day SS Major General Heinrich Müller began the deportation of 45,000 Polish Jews to munitions factories including 30,000 from Bialystok, Poland, 10,000 Theresienstadt, 3,000 from the Netherlands and 2,000 from Berlin.
Germany and Romania entered into a secret treaty providing for German bases in Romania in exchange for gold and Swiss francs.
President Roosevelt sent a budget message to Congress seeking $16,000,000,000 in new taxes or "compulsory loans" to meet the $100,000,000,000 needed for the war effort and $9,000,000,000 for other purposes.
Radical Italian American Socialist and labor leader Carlo Tresca, an opponent of Communism, Fascism, and the Mafia, was gunned down in a drive by shooting in Manhattan. While theories abound, nobody was ever arrested by the murder and nobody really knows who committed it, although the Mafia seems like the strongest candidate.
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