Estonian Death Camp Trial Details Nazi Atrocities
Three Estonians face trial for mass murder of 125000 people in Nazi camps. Ralf Gerrets testified about executions at Jagala camp, describing buses of prisoners, mass pits, and gunfire amid a grim routine. One defendant pleaded guilty. another in absentia.
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Estonia
Ralf Gerrets
Jan Wijk
Ann Erwin Mere
Britain
Moscow
Gerrets
Eichmann Trial Opens April 11
German defence lawyer Robert Servatius said he may object to Jerusalem judge Dr Benjamin Halevi who presides over Adolf Eichmann’s trial for directing wartime murder of Jews. Eichmann, former Gestapo Jewish affairs head, goes on trial in Jerusalem on April 11.
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Israel
Reuters
Robert Servatius
Adolf Eichmann
Eichmann
Servatius
Germany
Benjamin Halevi
Jerusalem
Halevi
Satan
Gestapo
Department For Jewish Affairs
Court Decides Faloney Property of Hamilton
Toronto CP reports quarterback Bernie Faloney remains the property of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats under a Ontario High Court ruling. The judge refused to decide whether Hamilton or Montreal Als or either owned Faloney after a failed trade with Sam Etcheverry. Faloney’s contract with the Ticats runs through 1961 unless revisited in court.
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Toronto
Bernie Faloney
Hamilton Tiger-Cats
J. M. King
Ontario High Court of Justice
Hamilton
Montreal
Alouettes
Faloney
Als
Sam Etcheverry
Ticats
Justice King
Alberta budget debate opens with Maccagno first speaker
EDMONTON CP report notes Michael Maccagno L Lac La Biche to open budget debate followed by Harry Strom SC Cypress and Art Dixon SC Calgary Southwest. Treasurer E W Hinman delivered the budget forecasting expenditures of 336,697,970 and a deficit of 13,292,175.
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Edmonton
Alberta
Michael Maccagno
L - Lac la Biche
Harry Strom
SC - Cypress
Art Dixon
Calgary Southwest
E. W. Hinman
Three Workmen Find 4200 In City Sewer
Three workmen in Plymouth recovered 1500 pounds returned as 4200 dollars in out of date one pound notes torn into quarters found in the city sewer near the old bank vault. The money had been out of circulation for about twenty years.
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Plymouth
British film star George Formby dies in hospital
Preston England George Formby a leading British comedian and film star died in hospital today after a heart attack Feb 22 He had shown slight improvement since being allowed out over the weekend his fiancée Patricia Howson a schoolteacher was visiting him when he collapsed and died
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Preston
England
Reuters
George Formby
Britain
Formby
Patricia Howson
Youths Found Dead in Lethbridge Basement Room
The bodies of Emil Joachim and John Wittmann, both in their early twenties, were found in a basement room in Lethbridge. Coroner K D Fryett said suffocation likely from a heater being turned up and ventilation shut. Autopsies will determine exact cause. Wittmann lived with Anthony Winkler, who was away Saturday night.
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Joachim
Winkler
Ducked officer escapes gunfire in Congo clash
Captain Gerry Belanger of Quebec City was separated from eight Canadian troops during a Congo lese siege at Matadi. He hid in a canal and jungle, removed insignia, and walked to safety after a night of shelling and machine-gun fire before flying to Leopoldville. The Canadians and Sudanese forces faced Congolese hostility amid tensions in Matadi.
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Leopoldville
Gerry Belanger
Matadi
Belanger
Education Week Farm Boy Feted in Ottawa
Jimmy Zondervan a 15 year old prairie farm boy from Mooomin Sask met External Affairs Minister Green on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in a 20 minute talk about careers in politics or civil service. He represents 785 000 Canadian high school students chosen by the Canadian Conference on Education. He also met Deputy Governor J R Beattie of the Bank of Canada and E V Murray of the Royal Canadian Mint and was to talk with Russ Jackson about football teaching. He dined with Governor General and Mme Vanier at Government House.
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Prairie Farm
Green
Jimmy Zondervan
Moosumin
Sask
Parliament Hill
Jimmy
Conference On Education
Canada
Moosomin
Mr Green
J. R. Beattie
Bank of Canada
E. V. Murray
The
Royal Canadian
Mint
Russ Jackson
Otiawa Rough Riders
Government House
Mme. Vanier
Green Reports Capture of Belanger Returns Unhurt
Ottawa reports Capt. Gerry Belanger of Quebec City has returned unhurt from the Congo. External Affairs Minister Green said Canada is consulting UN forces on Congo troop discipline and aims to back UN operations with reinforcements. Pearson praised soldiers while Herridge noted risks and sacrifices.
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Commons
Green
Gerry Belanger
Quebec City
Congo
Leopoldville
Mr. Green
Canada
United Nations
Service Pay Retroactive for UN Congo Troops
Ottawa Defence Minister Harkness announced in the Commons that the $100 monthly service pay for Canadian servicemen with the United Nations force in the Congo is retroactive to their arrival date. The earlier announcement limited retroactivity to December 1, 1960.
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Ottawa
United Nations
Congo
Harkness
Commons
William Payne
Tornado Hits Freedonia Area Killing Three
A small tornado struck the rural Freedonia community near Stanton Tennessee at dawn. Three people were killed and two houses heavily damaged. Identified victims are Gerald Giles eight months Flerman Randle sixty and his wife Emily sixty one.
Elizabeth Taylor Stabilized in London After Pneumonia
Elizabeth Taylor, gravely ill with pneumonia, has anemia and receives blood transfusions as doctors warn she remains at risk. The 29 year old star is in the London Clinic with a breathing tube and is expected to stay at least ten days, possibly a year to recover. Cleopatra delays have cost over $1 million so far.
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London
Elizabeth Taylor
Carl Heinz Goldman
Goldman
Miss Taylor
Hollywood Star
Nine Airmen Die in KB-50 Crash Near Biggs AFB
A U S Air Force KB-50 refuelling aircraft crashed just short of Biggs Air Force Base runway in El Paso on Sunday night. All nine crew members aboard were killed. The six engine plane was part of a flight returning from a routine Pacific mission. the other five aircraft landed earlier.
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EL Paso
Tex
Biggs Air Force Base
Pacific
Diefenbaker Honors Irish Statesman McGee in Dublin
Prime Minister John Diefenbaker met Irish leader Sean Lemass and Foreign Minister Frank Aiken in Dublin during a layover en route to London. He presented two plaques for Thomas D Arcy McGee, Canada’s founder, in English and Gaelic, and later met the Irish judiciary and President Eamon de Valera at a private lunch.
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Dublin
Reuters
John Diefenbaker
Sean Lemass
Canada
Lemass
Thomas d’Arcy McGee
McGee
High Court
Eamon de Valera
Civic Mall Proposed By Calgary Alderman
Calgary Alderman Dave Russell floated a plan for a civic square that would ban traffic on 7th Avenue between 2nd and 3rd Streets southeast. The idea, modeled after North American shopping malls, aims to cut through pedestrian traffic concerns around the city’s new office building parkade and police building. Reports on Ottawa’s mall approach have been requested to aid council study.
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7Th Avenue
2Nd
3Rd Streets
Ottawa
Toledo
Ohio
Dave Russell
Russell
Canadian Weekend Traffic Toll Reaches 28 Fatalities
A Canadian Press survey reports at least 28 deaths linked to weekend traffic. Nine lives lost on Ontario roads, six in Quebec, five in British Columbia, two in Saskatchewan, one in Prince Edward Island, plus drownings in Nova Scotia and Quebec. Additional deaths occurred from suffocation and a weekend Ontario fire.
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