Goering says he knew nothing of concentration camp experiments
Reichsmarschal Hermann Goering testified at the International War Crimes Tribunal that he had no knowledge of the experiments conducted in camps charged by the prosecution. He claimed subordinates ran them, not him, and he denied signing any orders. He also rejected involvement in the ice bath immersion tests and suggested others hid details to protect him.
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Mernberg
UP - Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
International War Crimes Tribunal
Goering
Luftwaffe
Reich Research Council
Special Department
Germany
David Maxwell Fyfe
Great Britain
Russia Harvests Big Grain Crop
Moscow dispatch reports half the Soviet grain acreage harvested with expectations of ending bread rations in autumn. No exact figures, but earlier notes valued a fair average with bumper yields in some areas. Ukraine Kuban Crimea and Don regions lead as four fifths of grain reaped.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Ukraine
Kuban
Crimea
Don
Europe
Ultra-Modern Features Planned for 40 Veterans Hospitals
Army engineers set architect engineer contracts for 23 new veterans hospitals with central oxygen piping air filters and allergy rooms. Plans include canteen space barber shops and possible department store style amenities. Firms listed include Eggers and Higgins New York and Geen and James Buffalo with Albany and Buffalo locations involved.
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Washington
Army Engineers
Veterans’ Administration
Albany
Buffalo
N. Y
General Medical and Surgical
Eggers and Higgins
New York City
Geen and James
Former Slovak Nazi Leader Vojtech Tuka Hanged
Vojtech Tuka once premier of Nazi dominated Slovakia died on the gallows in a Bratislava prison courtyard. The execution occurred after his conviction in a war crimes case.
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Bratislava
Czechoslovakia
Vojtech Tuka
Slovakia
Hull May Reenter Public Life
Cordell Hull, the longest serving US secretary of state, watches world events while perhaps reentering public life. He fights illness after resigning in 1944 and works on his memoirs, saying he studies, writes, and revises slowly. Hull remains private but stronger, with wife Mrs. Hull by his side.
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Washington
INS
Cordell Hull
Roosevelt
United Nations
Hall
Sulic
Nylons in Yokohama rationed for women dependents
The U S S Eighth Army post exchange in Yokohama offers nylons with a monthly ration per woman. Eligible groups include Red Cross workers, civilian women, and dependents 13 years and older of American service members.
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Yokohama
U. S&s
Eighth Army Post Exchange
Red Cross
Farm worker held after arsenic deaths in Holly Springs
A farm hand who admitted dropping arsenic in a well near Holly Springs to make his wife sick is jailed on six deaths. Sheriff Tucker says at least 20 others ill since early June and 15 to 18 still treated.
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Holly Springs
Miss
UPI
Lawrence Tucker
Tucker
Autos Kill 4 Upstate
Four people died in upstate New York car crashes in the past day. Ruth Silverman, 29, of Philadelphia, was a passenger when the car struck a tree near Keeseville. Raymond La Flamme, 56, of Crown Point, died when his vehicle left the highway and overturned. Clarence J. Kirby, 46, of Plattsburgh, was killed when struck by a crane pole end at Chautauqua. Frances Thornton, 9, of Delevan, died after being struck by an automobile.
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Albany
New York
Keeseville
Ruth Silverman
Philadelphia
Crown
Point
Raymond la Flamme
Chattaugay
Clarence J. Kirby
Plattsburgh
Delevan
Frances Thornton
Einstein Endorses Plan for Waltham University
Albert Einstein backed a plan to establish a new university in Waltham Massachusetts open to all races and creeds. The Middlesex University campus of 110 acres will be purchased by the Albert Einstein Foundation for Higher Learning Incorporated within a year.
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New York
INS
Albert Einstein
Waltham
Mass
Middlesex University At
Albert Einstein Foundation For Higher Learning, Inc
Middlesex University
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Edwards
Syracuse
Stamimite
Hull
Tennessean
Tennessee House of Representatives
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Stanley West
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