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January 5, 19435 de enero de 1943 · Washington, D.C. · The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura

Evening star

SourceFuente: Evening star · Washington, D.C. · January 5, 19435 de enero de 1943
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1943-01-05/ed-1/?sp=18

In contextEn contexto

The Trujillo Era & DictatorshipLa Era de Trujillo y la Dictadura · 1924–1960

Rafael Trujillo ruled for 31 years. US papers reported the 1930 hurricane that leveled Ciudad Trujillo, the 1937 Haitian massacre, sugar commerce, WWII U-boat sinkings, Tito Mella's Compañía Naviera Dominicana shipping fleet, and Trujillo's Washington lobbying.Rafael Trujillo gobernó durante 31 años. La prensa informó sobre el huracán de 1930, la masacre de 1937, el azúcar, hundimientos de submarinos en la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la flota de la Compañía Naviera Dominicana de Tito Mella.

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SummaryResumen

The *Evening Star* reported that Captain Maurice Marshall Berck, an Army surgeon attached to Walter Reed Hospital, died from severe burns sustained in an apartment fire at the Brighton Hotel. Berck, a prominent New York chest surgeon who married Flor de Oro Trujillo in March 1942, had just returned to Washington from visiting his wife in New York. Firefighters found him unconscious on the floor of the ablaze room, and the cause of the fire remained undetermined.

El *Evening Star* informó sobre el fallecimiento del capitán Maurice Marshall Berck, cirujano del ejército adscrito al Walter Reed Hospital, a causa de quemaduras de gravedad provocadas por un incendio desatado en un departamento del Brighton Hotel. Berck, prestigioso facultativo torácico neoyorquino que contrajo nupcias con Flor de Oro Trujillo en marzo de 1942, acababa de regresar a Washington tras visitar a su cónyuge en Nueva York. Los bomberos lo hallaron sin sentido tendido en el piso de la habitación envuelta en llamas, sin determinarse el origen del siniestro.

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The passage where this article was found, copied from the newspaper page itself, reading errors and all. This is exactly what the summary above is based on.El pasaje donde se encontró este artículo, copiado de la propia página del periódico, con sus errores de lectura y todo. Esto es exactamente aquello en lo que se basa el resumen de arriba.

Brighton Hotel.

He was taken to Emergency Hos

pital suffering froih third-degree

burns of the body after firemen

found him on the floor of his apart

ment, his clothing burned off. He

was pronounced dead shortly after

arrival at the hospital.

Surgeon Found Unconscious.

Firemen who entered the apart

ment found the entire room ablaze

and Capt. Berck unconscious near

a bed. Cause of the fire had not

been established.

Capt. Berck, a widely-known

New York surgeon in private life,

had been attached temporarily to

Walter Reed Hospital here since

November 24 of last year. An officer

at the hospital said he was assigned

to Army Medical Department pro

fessional pool.

He was a specialist in chest sur

gery and had served on the staffs

of Mount Sinai and Gouverneur

Hospitals in New York. He was

commissioned in the Army last No

vember 9.

Capt. Berck and Flor de Oro

Trujillo were married March 6, 1942,

at the Hotel Pierre in New York

City. According to investigators,

Capt. Berck had just returned from

a visit with his wife in New York.

A graduate of Cornell Medical

School. Capt. Berck underwent his

internship at Mount Sinai Hospital.

From 1931 to 1932. he was with the I

Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. He 1

Capt. and Mrs. Maurice

Marshall Berck. Shown on

their wedding day in New

York. —A. P. Photo.

i

was in private practice in New York

since 1932. Capt. Berck, according

to police here, was a surgeon for

the New York Police Department.

Hotel Guest Discovers Blaze.

R. H. Fatt, manager of the hotel,

said the Are was discovered shortly

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Evening star · Washington, D.C. · January 5, 19435 de enero de 1943

How to cite this articleCómo citar este artículo

Evening star. (1943). Washington, D.C., 1943-01-05. US/DR Newspaper Timeline. Library of Congress, Chronicling America: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1943-01-05/ed-1/?sp=18

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Library of Congress, Chronicling America: Evening star, 1943-01-05.

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