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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1948
Page
2
Oksana S. Kasenkina recounts Stalin era panic as Moscow officials abandon the city before German advances. She describes scorched earth actions, burning archives, looting, and the collapse of Soviet authority while she and others flee toward Gorki and Barnaul.
An eyewitness describes barricades rising on main avenues, civilians fleeing, and a frenzy at a Moscow train platform on October 20 as Germans threaten the city. The chaos spreads toward Gorki, with residents hitching trains and seeking safety amid shelling and ruin.
AP report: Harold L. Ickes released a telegram dated Oct 5 asking Thomas E. Dewey to state his position on conservation and offshore oil lands. Ickes criticizes Dewey for backing GOP lawmakers seen as eager to exploit national lands. Dewey replied with no comment from his Pawling farm.
Patricia "Sa ura" Schmidt, a Toledo dancer who killed her married lover aboard his yacht in Havana harbor, was released from Guanabacoa women's prison under a presidential pardon. She said it was wonderful to be free and planned to depart Friday at 9 a.m. by plane for Toledo via New Orleans.
A dancer visited her father in Havana after fleeing from the case. She pleaded self defense in the fatal shooting of John Lester Mee, a 33 year old Chicago lawyer, aboard the yacht Laura. She was sentenced to 15 years and a $5000 indemnity to Mee’s widow, due Dec 22, 1947, though the indemnity was never paid. It’s thought she may return to theaters or night clubs.
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