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attends Roosevelt funeral; conf with Pres Truman; will return to Mayo Clinic
Operators figured in two important housing transactions reported on the upper West Side yesterday, and an antique retailer bought a building on East Fifty-fourth Street after a generation on Madison Avenue.
While American cities have not been subjected to bombing devastation, E.L. Scanlan, vice president of Frank H. Taylor Son of East Orange, N.J., points out that devastations of blight are just as serious in the destruction of American urban and suburban centers.
Last Wednesday night Franklin Delano Roosevelt set down this testament that in the hour of military victory peace could be won. It was the theme of a radio address he planned to broadcast in celebration of Thomas Jefferson's birthday. The next day Franklin Roosevelt was dead.
RUMSON, N.J., April 14--The twenty-one-acre Shrewsbury riverfront estate of Mrs. G.W.S. Whitney, now of South Orange, has been sold to Robert D. Howard, director of sales for the Hotel Astor, New York. Rolston Waterbury, Red Bank broker, negotiated the transaction.
1945Hermann Florstedt, German SS officer (born 1895)[†]
Arthur Hermann Florstedt was a German SS official who served as the third commandant of Majdanek concentration camp from November 1942 to October 1943.
1945Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.[†]
Bergen-Belsen, or Belsen, was a Nazi concentration camp in what is today Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle. Originally established as a prisoner of war camp, in 1943, parts of it became a concentration camp. Initially this was an "exchange camp", where Jewish hostages were held with the intention of exchanging them for German prisoners of war held overseas. The camp was later expanded to hold Jews from other concentration camps.