LONDON, March 6, 1953 (UP) -- Radio Moscow today "advised" editors of newspapers throughout the Soviet Union how the death of Premier Josef Stalin is to be printed. Material will be published on Page One. The page will be bordered in black, with a portrait of Stalin in military uniform taking up three columns on the right, the broadcast said.
Then follows: First, the announcement from the central committee, the council of ministers and the supreme council of the presidium; second, the bulletin on Stalin's health at 4 p.m. March 5; third, the medical diagnosis on the illness and death of Stalin; fourth, the setting up of the funeral commission, and fifth, the announcement from the commission for the organization of the funeral.
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