Former Soviet secret police officer testifies on genocide and deportations
Gregori Burlitski, ex lieutenant colonel in the MVD, tells U S congressional Kersten committee in Munich that mass deportations and mass murder are routine in enforcing Soviet rule. He describes guiding the Chechen deportations and sealing cattle trucks under harsh 24 hour transport. The Kersten panel cites him as a key witness on Soviet deportation and genocide activities.
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MVD
Kersten
Russia
Latvia
Lithuania
Estonia
U. S
Munich
Burlitsk
Leards
Soviet Republic
Chechenovngushsk
Georgia
Burlitski
City Named for Duke of Alburquerque
Albuquerque New Mexico traces its founding to 1706 and honors the viceroy of New Spain the Duke of Alburquerque with a later spelling change dropping the first R.
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Albuquerque, N. M
New Spain
Duke of
Alburquerque
Local Sales Jobs Offered With High Earnings
Advertises for three men in local office with proven product. Average earnings about 125 dollars weekly. Applications accepted Monday noon to 6 PM and Tuesday and Wednesday 9 AM to 6 PM.
Absentee Voting Law for Pennsylvania Called Fog
Harrisburg reports Commonwealth Secretary Gene D. Smith urged a general absentee voting amendment to the state constitution. He noted 54 counties filed only 777 servicemen ballots and 188 hospital veterans ballots in the May primary, with a $150000 fund in place to assist absentee voting.
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Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
Gene D Smith
State Elections Bureau
State Supreme Court
Smith
Peter
Armed Services
Lancaster
Supreme Court
Adams Butler Clearfield
Clinton Kirk Forest
Franklin
Juniata
Lycoming
Philadelphia
Pike and
Venanpo
Youths charged in theft of fireman’s car after police chase
Three Arlington Heights youths await a hearing on charges they stole a city fireman’s automobile and fled a three mile chase as police fired at them. One suspect Norman Kniss 18 was captured with two other boys by Jones Lauehin Steel Corp police near the South Side works. A Philadelphia hospital report notes a newborn twin’s illness linked to a bacterial outbreak described by Dr C J Gentzkow, with the infant recovering and the mother and twin siblings affected but well.
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Lington Heights
Jones & Lauehiin Steel Corp
South Side
Norman Kniss
J & KL
C J Gentzkow
Philadelphia
Gentzkow
Hunt For Typhoid Like Organism In Harrisburg Area
State Health Department agents monitor for any new case of a typhoid like organism known as salmonella cubana. The organism is worldwide and can affect humans and animals.
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Harrisburg
House Burns While Man Is Out Fishing
In Chester Pennsylvania a man away fishing at Cape May returned to find his house ablaze. Police Captain Toward Wintree of Chester reported that the fire started in the kitchen and second story before three fire companies extinguished it.
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Chester Pains
Wintree
Chester
Cape May
River Dragging For Body Of Man Knocked From Boat
Dragging crews search the Susquehanna River for Harold Dissie, 39, of Reading, who disappeared Sunday after a wind whipped wave swept him from the bow of a two-boat fishing party. He was among six fishermen when the incident occurred and the wave knocked him into 60 feet of water.
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Harrisberg Cins
Susquehanna River
Harold Dissie
Reading
Dissie
Dissle
Local party searches for missing diver amid rough seas
Members of a party could not locate a missing diver and, after notifying the State Police, began dragging operations only after calmer conditions returned today. High winds and turbulent water delayed the search effort.
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Bow
Dragging
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