Hitler orders body burned and possessions saved
The personal valet recalls Hitler telling Eva Braun they would die together and that their bodies must be burned. He orders petrol to burn them and to take items that prove his identity to safety, while not burning a cherished portrait of Frederick the Great.
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Fuehrer
Eva Braun
Hitler
Linge
Fraulin Braun
Frederick the Great
Baur
Bavaria
Mein Fuehrer
Air Guard Intercept Drill Activates New York Units
The 138th Fighter Squadron at Hancock Field joined 2,200 New York guardsmen in a surprise Air National Guard practice drill code named Stopwatch. Squadrons at Niagara Falls White Plains Schenectady and Andrews AFB reported, with 75 percent turnout and weather delays due to snow flurries. The operation tested alerting manning and deployment times for air defense readiness.
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Hancock Field
Air National Guard
New York State
138Th
Niagara Falls
White Plains
Schenectady
Joseph C. Irwin
Webb
Air Defense Command
Colorado Springs
Colo
Andrews Air Force Base
Siamese Twins Born Sunday Die In Madison Hospital
Siamese twin girls born in Madison early Sunday died last night. They shared a single heart and weighed about nine pounds combined at birth. The infants were joined at the abdomen and appeared otherwise well formed. Family identity was not released by hospital authorities.
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Madison
Wis
Ex-Diplomat Accused of Tip Off Spies Case in Parliament
Labor MP Marcus Lipton named Harold Philby former Washington embassy first secretary as the suspected third man in the Burgess and Maclean spy case. Burgess and Maclean vanished in 1951 and are believed to be abroad. Government debates and ministerial positions tied to the investigation span several administrations.
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London
Labor
Washington
Guy Burgess
Donald Maclean
Marcus Lipton
Harold Philby
Burgess
Maclean
Foreign Office
Kremlin
Lipton
Eden
Laborite
Churchill
Harold Macmillan
Driver Fined and Another on Bail After Guilty Plea
One man was fined 100 dollars and given a 30 day suspended sentence by Traffic Judge Truman H Preston after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated in an Aug 6 crash at Hawley Ave and N McBride St Onondaga Hill Peace Justice Morris Went worth Wendell Fuller 36 of Baldwinsville was the defendant Harold EF Ladd of Nedrow was released on 100 bail after entering a not guilty plea to a similar charge.
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Truman H. Preston
Onondaga Hill
Morris Wentworth
Wendell Fuller
Baldwinsville
Hawley Ave
N. McBride St
Harold Ef, Ladd
Nedrow
Editorial page outlines Proposition One on fall ballot
Today’s features explain Proposition One on the fall ballot on the editorial page. Other regular features appear on Amusements, Letters, The Way, Financial, and Money sections with notices on City Life, Radio-TV, Deaths, and Women’s pages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Life
Radio-Tv
Illegal stimulant crackdown targets truckers in multi-state sweep
A year-long undercover operation led to 42 arrest warrants across Virginia North and South Carolina Georgia Illinois and Indiana in a drive by Attorney General Brownell and Welfare Secretary Folsom to disrupt illegal amphetamine sales to truck drivers. Federal inspectors posed as drivers to locate dispensing sites. The drugs known as bennies goof balls and co pilots kept drivers awake on long hauls.
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Washington
Atty
Gen. Brownell
Welfare Folsom
Food and Drug Administration
Justice Department
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
Duchess Here Mum On Royal Romance Amid Autobiography Talks
The Duchess of Windsor arrived from Europe aboard the United States liner and avoided comments on England's royal romance or her rift with author Cleve Amory over her autobiography. She will stay three weeks to confer with her publisher while the duke remains near Paris.
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New York
Duchess of Windsor
United States
England
Cleveland Amory
Paris
Margaret
Peter Townsend
Amory
Magsaysay Administration Seen as Endless Process
The Herald Journal editorial notes daily governance under President Raymundo Magsaysay in Manila is a continuous, demanding task. Executive Editor Alexander F. Jones writes that managing the Philippines requires persistent effort and steady leadership.
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Magsaysay
Raymon Magsaysay
Philippines
Alexander F. Jones
Herald + Journal
Manila
Western Allies to offer package on German unification
In Geneva the Western Powers plan a package deal to unite Germany on Western terms. They will offer Moscow security guarantees against new German military moves, aiming to remove Russia's fear of a united Germany. The plan seeks to avoid dissolving NATO and is not to give Russia value for agreeing to unification.
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Geneva
Russia
Germany
Moscow
Bonn
West
West Germany
NATO
Today's Chuckle Optimist and pessimist clash over best world
The joke frames two views the optimist claiming this is the best world while the pessimist fears that may be true showing a wry contrast between sunny idealism and cautious doubt.
Snow Blanket Over Upstate NY After Severe Storms
Upstate New York endured brutal storms with winds up to 110 mph. Five people killed and a sixth critically injured in area accidents blamed on the storms. Light snow blanketed Syracuse as temperatures plunged from 69 to 51 in an hour.
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Syracuse
Upstate
New York
First day of season ends in tragedy as hunters injured
Upstate New York reports a 16 year old boy killed and four others injured on opening day. Larry J Plain of Lima died when struck by a blast from a 12 gauge shotgun as it was pushed through a fence by Darrel Wemett. Also dying were Myles Gardner and Earl Miller from heart attacks. Emery Godfrey was shot in the shoulder and torso by pellets from a companion’s gun near Oriskany.
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New York
Lima
Larry J. Plain
Raymond Plain
Livingston County
Plain
Darrel Wemett
Wemmett
Tracy Swan
Woods
Emery Godfrey
Rome
Oriskany
Charles W. Carver
Newspaper cash found at Sky Restaurant Sparks relief
A hurried patron at Sky Restaurant Hancock Airport left a newspaper containing $900 in bills. Waitress Lee Venesky and manager Tony DelMonte alerted the man, who later retrieved the money from the safe, relieved to be reunited with his bankroll. He declined to give his name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hancock Airport
Lee Venesky
Firefighters Battle Runaway Well in Hawkins Texas
Daring oil field crews unite to fight a runaway well sending a 200 foot flame above Hawkins. Residents of two thousand are evacuated as crews plan heavy equipment use and possible demolition to prevent explosions from nitroglycerine like charges.
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Hawkins
Tex
East Texas
The Drama of Automation in Telephony
A Senate subcommittee hears CIO official Joseph Beirne and Marshall Munce argue automation reshapes jobs. Beirne cites Bell system dial shifts reducing operators by millions of hours in the 1950s while urging higher productivity. Munce notes long-term gains in oil refining and telephone services and broader use of cheaper fuels.
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Washington
Joseph A. Beirne
CIO Communications Workers of America
Marshall G. Munce
York and
York, Pa
National Assn. of Manufacturers’ Industrial Problems Committee
Senate
House
Beirne
Bell Telephone
Bell System
Munce
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Herald-Journal
By John M. Hightower
Weather Bureau
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Olean
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Little Falls
Gloversville
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Rochester
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