Spy Ring Arrest in Chile Nets 14 Members
Chilean authorities report the dismantling of a German espionage ring with 14 arrested and nearly 100 others sought. Bernardo Timmerman, 35, and Guillermo Kunsemuller, 27, led operations after training in Hamburg and service in the Chilean air force. The ring, disrupted amid strained Chilean Nazi relations, operated under Captain Wig von Bohlen and is described as a major espionage network.
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Spy case to be heard in civil courts in 1944
Civil courts will decide if arrested spies are to be turned over to military courts. The State Department memo of July 1942 denounced espionage in Chile. Timmerman and Kunsemuller admitted supplying Germany with U S armament and embassy activity details plus Nazi interest figures. Messages were microfiled via mail or ships from Buenos Aires to Europe.
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Kunsemuller
Germany
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Communist Party
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Europe
Buenos Aires
Talmadge of Georgia Booms MacArthur as Democratic Nominee
Eastman Ga Feb 23 Former Governor Eugene Talmadge urged Southerners to back General Douglas MacArthur for the Democratic presidential nomination. Senator Vandenberg said MacArthur would win strong Solid South support if nominated by Republicans. Talmadge praised MacArthur as the best commander of the U S Army and Navy and predicted his election if the nomination occurs.
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Douglas MacArthur
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Washington
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South
America
Roosevelt Advocates Rebuilding War Damaged Structures
President Roosevelt suggested Germany be required to reconstruct historic and religious buildings damaged by Nazi occupation. He noted prior bombing of the Benedictine monastery at Cassino and said letters urging repair have reached him. The idea envisions UN responsibility for labor and materials to complete postwar restorations.
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Washington
Germany
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Simlar
United Nations
Floods Kill 4 In California Four Day Tempest
Four dead and more than 300 evacuated as a four day storm unleashed floods and winds across California. Torrential rain, hail and a tornado damaged buildings, with Malibu Pier partly torn away and Santa Monica vessels sunk. Schools closed then reopened as officials assessed flood damage citywide.
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Midget Sub Crews Win British Honors for Tirpitz Attack
London reports that crews of British midget submarines nicknamed Tiddlers received honors for crippling the German battleship Tirpitz on Sept 22 1943. Officers Lt Basil Place and Lt Donald Place Cameron won the Victoria Cross. both are prisoners.
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Congressional Bureau of Efficiency Proposed in Washington
Rep Rees Republican member of the House Civil Service Committee calls for a Congressional Bureau of Efficiency to curb waste by federal agencies. The plan targets nonessential expenditures overlapping duties overemployment and procurement and would oversee agency requests beyond authority.
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R-Kan
Efficiency Bureau
Congress
Eisenhower Sees Brighter American Future in Speech
Dr. Milton S. Eisenhower Kansas State College president told Kansas City audiences that America’s future looks brighter than since 1929. He linked optimism to the nation’s past, the unity shown since Pearl Harbor, and current American thinking.
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Kansas State College
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Pearl Harbor
Bromfield backs GOP hopefuls in Roosevelt bid clash
Louis Bromfield the author and conservationist, a lifelong Democrat, says he will vote for Bricker Dewey or Willkie over a Roosevelt fourth term. He notes he was urged to run for Ohio governor but believes a strong Republican ticket is needed for the country.
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Willkie
Roosevelt
Ohio
House Prepares for Revamping of Lend-Lease Law
Washington February 23 The House foreign affairs committee led by Bloom plans an executive session to draft legislation continuing the lend lease program beyond July 1 1934 amid debate on aid totals and methods. To date 18 billion dollars in aid has been extended to Allied nations with airplanes guns raw materials and food making up 87 percent of aid and services 13 percent. It was extended for one year last March 11 1943 by 407 voting in favor and six against.
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House Foreign Affairs Committee
United States
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Churchill speech hailed as united Allied resolve in war review
London editors praised Prime Minister Churchill for stressing unity among Britain the United States and Russia and for maintaining that ground gained at Moscow and Teheran is not lost. Newspapers called his remarks on the second front air assault and the primacy of air offensive significant and urged cautious optimism.
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Noxon Goes On Trial for Baby's Death
John F. Noxon Jr a 47 year old attorney is on trial in Berkshire Superior Court for murder in the electrocution death of his 6 month old son Lawrence last September. He is escorted from jail accompanied by deputies and supported by two canes as he faces a jury panel and a judge. Noxon claims the child's death was accidental due to a live wire while he repaired a radio.
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Berkshire County
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Waites Donovan
Land
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Abraham FE. Pinanski
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Harvard
Capital Lawyer Free on Slaying Charge Bond Set
Washington attorney Robert J. Miner, 67, charged with the gun slaying of Dr. John E. Lind, 56, a psychiatrist and author, was freed on a $15,000 bond awaiting grand jury action. His wife, Mrs. Miller, 42, denied testifying, while witnesses testified to a confrontation near Lind’s car leading to two fatal shots. A porter reported seeing a white package tossed into the car and police recovered a discharged gun wrapped in a handkerchief in the vehicle.
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Washington
Robert J. Miner
John E. Lind
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Lind
Visit Brings Tragedy In Israel Child Run Down
Mrs Minnie Abramson of New York collapsed on viewing her 6 year old son Stanley who was killed by a car while chasing a ball outside Zion Hospital. He had been left outside while she visited a friend yesterday.
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Israel
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Girl Quadruplets Born Survive One in Fort Benning Family
In Decatur Alabama on February 23 UP reports three of the quadruplets born to Pvt Spencer Edmund Hutto and his wife at Benevolent Hospital have died. The infant Sherlane died as the father arrived to be with his wife. Spencer Edmund Jr and Yvonne died earlier, leaving Dianne as the sole survivor.
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Benevolent Hospital
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