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held on deportation warrant; charged with US illegal entry and membership in subversive organization; released on bond; Communist party and Amer Com for Foreign Born Protection protest
WASHINGTON, June 1 -- Extension of Federal old age and survivors insurance to an estimated 3,500,000 workers, but only at their employers' option for the most part, was approved today by the House Ways and Means Committee.
lower Columbia River area evacuated; navigation suspended; Williamette rise stops; new dike breaks flood N Portland; ARC increases aid allotment to $1 million; Vanport bldgs reptd floating out to sea; no bodies yet recovered; area sprayed with DDT to combat disease
Israel holds most of area assigned it by UN partition resolution; issues summary of fighting; sees 4 separate fronts
ATHENS, June 1 -- The radio station of the Communist "First Provisional Democratic Government of Free Greece" has put out peace feelers.
1948Jerry Mathers, American actor[â ]
Gerald Patrick Mathers is a former American actor best known for his role in the television sitcom Leave It to Beaver, originally broadcast from 1957 to 1963. He played the protagonist Theodore "Beaver" Cleaver, the younger son of the suburban couple June and Ward Cleaver and the younger brother of Wally Cleaver.
1948Viktor Brack, German physician (born 1904)[â ]
Viktor Hermann Brack was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and a convicted Nazi war criminal and one of the prominent organisers of the involuntary euthanasia programme Aktion T4; this Nazi initiative resulted in the systematic murder of 275,000 to 300,000 disabled people. He held various positions of responsibility in Hitler's Chancellery in Berlin. Following his role in the T4 programme, Brack was one of the men identified as responsible for the gassing of Jews in extermination camps, having conferred with Odilo GloboÄnik about its use in the practical implementation of the Final Solution. Brack was sentenced to death in 1947 in the Doctors' Trial and executed by hanging in 1948.
1948Karl Brandt, German SS officer (born 1904)[â ]
Karl Brandt was a German physician and Schutzstaffel (SS) officer in Nazi Germany. Trained in surgery, Brandt joined the Nazi Party in 1932 and became Adolf Hitler's "escort doctor" (Begleitarzt) in August 1934. A member of Hitler's inner circle at the Berghof, he was selected by Philipp Bouhler, the head of Hitler's Chancellery, to administer the Aktion T4 euthanasia program. Brandt was later appointed the Reich Commissioner of Health and Emergency Services. Accused of involvement in human experimentation and other war crimes, Brandt was indicted in late 1946 and faced trial before a U.S. military tribunal along with 22 others in the Doctors' Trial. He was found guilty, sentenced to death, and executed on 2 June 1948.
1948Karl Gebhardt, German physician (born 1897)[â ]
Karl Franz Gebhardt was a Nazi physician and a war criminal. Gebhardt was the main coordinator of a series of medical atrocities performed on inmates of the concentration camps at RavensbrĂźck and Auschwitz. These experiments were an attempt to defend his approach to the surgical management of grossly contaminated traumatic wounds, against the then-new innovations of antibiotic treatment of injuries acquired on the battlefield.
1948Waldemar Hoven, German physician (born 1903)[â ]
Waldemar Hoven was a Nazi physician at Buchenwald concentration camp, and convicted war criminal for conducting human experiments regarding typhus which led to the deaths of many concentration camp prisoners, and as one of the organizers of the euthanasia program Aktion T4; this Nazi initiative resulted in the systematic murder of 275,000 to 300,000 disabled people. He was sentenced to death and hanged on 2 June 1948.
1948Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (born 1905)[â ]
Wolfram Sievers was a Nazi and convicted war criminal for medical atrocities carried out while he was managing director (ReichsgeschäftsfĂźhrer) of the Ahnenerbe from 1935â1945. He was convicted of war crimes in the Doctors' Trial in 1947 and executed by hanging in 1948.