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...hrerbunker for safer refuge in another nearby bunker that had been prepared by Nazi Executioner Adolf Eichmann. According to Farago, Bormann later used clerical clothes supplied by an Austrian bishop to reach Bavaria, then moved on to Northern Italy to visit his fatally ill wife in Merano. After his wife died, Bormann lived in a Dominican monastery in Bolzano, awaiting a chance to flee to Argentina where he had stored a fortune in currency, precious stones and gold, much of which had been extracted from the teeth of gas-chamber victims. Bormann, said Farago, had consigned the hoard to Argentina...
Died. Eugen von Habsburg, 91, Archduke of Austria, distant cousin of the late Emperor Franz Josef, commander in chief of Austrian forces on the Italian front in World War I, grand master of the Order of German Knights; of pneumonia; in Merano, Italy. In 1918 Archduke Eugen was exiled from the Austrian republic for failure to renounce his claims to the throne, was invited back by Chancellor Dollfuss in 1934 as a concession to Vienna's imperial sentimentalism...
...never did. A slight, earnest man of 35, Gabriele is a farm foreman at Sant 'Ilario, near Genoa, where he lives quietly with his wife. Last year his chance-taking mother died, at 75. Last month Gabriele, walking in downtown Genoa, passed a vendor selling tickets on the Merano lottery, Italy's oldest and largest. He remembered that it was the first anniversary of his mother's death. For the first time in his life-in memory of his mother-Gabriele bought a ticket...
Last week lottery officials awarded the 4O-million-lire (some $63,000) first prize in the Merano Sweepstakes. The winner: Father Attilio Bellachioma. Said Don Attilio: "It will all be used for charity...
Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco and Foreign Minister Ramón Serrano Suñer paid a visit to Benito Mussolini (see col. 3), which caused a bright Englishman to observe that he had never before heard of rats boarding a sinking ship. At Merano, in northern Italy, Germany's Grand Admiral Erich Raeder conferred with Admiral Arturo Riccardi, Italian Chief of Naval Staff, about the sea war against Britain in the Mediterranean...