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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1945
Page
9
Six New York bachelors sponsor a peacetime ball marking New York society's return to postwar life. The group includes Col Serge Obolensky, famed hero of two world wars and former husband of Alice Muriel Astor, signaling a glittering, private event after four years of war.
A grand society ball, hosted by the Beau Brummels, gathers famed bachelors and premier women at the mid-Victorian Hotel Plaza set to run 11:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. with Emil Coleman’s orchestra, champagne supper at 2 a.m., and a platinum-plated postwar showcase. Notables include Milton Holden, Fifi Widener’s former husband, and guests such as Mrs. Vincent Astor, Mrs. John Hay Whitney, Adele Astaire, and Leonora Corbett.
A U S military court in Dachau Germany sentenced thirty six officials and guards to death by hanging for crimes tied to the concentration camp. Convictions were returned a day after forty were found guilty with one defendant given life in prison and three given ten year terms. Dr Klaus Schilling among those to hang showed visible reactions as the verdicts were read while a former inmate who betrayed the camp fainted at the news.
More than 12 500 men were due at east coast ports Thursday and 13 000 were scheduled to land on the west coast. The list names ships and units arriving from Marseilles Le Havre Antwerp and Newport News with divisions hospitals ordnance and support detachments including 79th division elements 313th 314th int reg 79th signal co and 27th evacuation hospital among others.
A C 54 transport crash five weeks earlier in Bhutan killed 44 Americans including 10 officers and 34 enlisted men. Authorities said the plane was destroyed on impact at 8,200 feet, and misreports about a course deviation are denied. Deep snow hampered search efforts.
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