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June 12, 1933

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Headlines from June 12, 1933

NAZIS BAR CARDINAL FROM MUNICH MASS; END CATHOLIC RALLY; Police Terminate Congress of Journeymen After Severe Clashes in the Streets. PRIESTS AMONG BEATEN Troopers Tear Badges From Delegates and Assault Apprentices in Hotel. RESENT ORANGE SHIRTS Authorities Lay Trouble to 'Unruly Conduct' of Delegates -- Meeting Allowed Because Papen Spoke.

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

MUNICH, June 11 -- Almost simultaneously with the proclamation from Catholic pulpits of the bishops' pastoral letter defining the place of the Catholic Church in Germany, the Nazi steamroller today flattened out the Gesellensche, the Catholic journeymen's congress here, after a series of clashes between Nazis and delegates.

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Notable Births

Eddie Adams (photographer)

1933Eddie Adams, American photographer and journalist (died 2004)[†]

Edward Thomas Adams was an American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and for coverage of 13 wars. He is best known for his photograph of the execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém, a Viet Cong prisoner of war, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography in 1969. Adams was a longtime resident of Bogota, New Jersey.