Mother recalls Hiroshima with hope and sorrow
In San Mateo and New York reports, Hiroshima widow Yarika Moriki recalls the 1945 bombing with hope for a world at peace and two decades of loss. Her son, husband, two daughters, and infant died or vanished. she survived with her 30-year-old son in the U.S. Army. Separately, Hiroshima's bomber crew from the 393rd Bomb Squadron gathered in New York for an anniversary reunion, stressing they do not rejoice in destruction but in nuclear era lessons and the need to prevent future war.
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San Mateo
Calif
Hiroshima
Yarika Moriki
Tokyo
Kure
New York
Jacob
Jake) Beser
393Rd
Baltimore
Nagasaki
House Probers Bare Subpoenas In Klan Study
The House Committee on un American Activities announced public hearings on the Ku Klux Klan set to begin by October. Chairman Edwin Willis said subpoenas are authorized and many witnesses are being questioned. sources say at least 160 subpoenas have been issued, including for Klan leaders.
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House
Washington
House Committee On un-American Activities
Edwin ®. Wills
Willis
Russian Hoarder Stood Trial For Miserliness
In Moscow a Russian miner named Anton Volgin faced a trial by coworkers for miserliness after hoarding 3500 pounds of grain 330 pounds of honey and clothes for six years. The labor newspaper Trud reported the case noting his frugality and daily ragged overalls while he avoided cinema and public outings.
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Moscow
UPI
Trud
Anton Volgin
Bachelor Volgin
Willis Aims to Keep Hearings Rolling on Klan Legislation
Willis reportedly plans to press ahead with hearings once they start with a goal of drafting legislation to curb Klan activities. The move signals a determined congressional push to address white supremacist activity through new laws and policy measures.
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Willis
Viet Policy Protested at White House
Several hundred critics of U.S. policy in Viet Nam staged a civil disobedience in front of the White House on a hot Friday. The demonstration followed a four hour Lafayette Park rally as Joan Baez and other folk singers performed. Police reported about 600 demonstrators and arrested one youth who threw water.
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Washington
U.S
Viet Nam
White House
Johnson
Lafayette Park
China
United Nations
Hiroshima
Joan Baez
Miss Baez
Bayh urges split with Indonesia over hostile mobs
Senator Birch Bayh proposes recalling the U S ambassador and severing relations with Indonesia. He cites a new series of insults and government inspired threats against Ambassador Marshall Green and calls for serious consideration by the administration.
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Washington
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Indonesia
Bayh
Marshall Green
Ford Jeopardized His Stature At National Leadership Level
Grand Rapids Michigan report notes Gerald R Ford, House Republican leader, faces questions over a Vietnam briefings controversy and alleged breach of Johnson's confidence. The piece links Ford to Warren Commission dynamics and a new book on the Kennedy assassination, examining how bipartisan trust and leadership may be affected.
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Ford
Grand Rapids, Mich
Gerald R. Ford
Johnson
White House
U.S
Viet Nam
Congress
Washington
America
Mansfield
Arthur Vandenburg
Michigan
Kennedy
Dallas
Sen
John Sherman Cooper
Kentucky
Commission
Life Magazine
Lee Harvey Oswald
Gerald Ford
Life
Michigan Republican
Warren Commission
Oswald
John R. Stiles
Grand Rapids
Maria Oswald
House
Jets Missed Missiles Claim Stirs U S Debate
Defense Department said aerial photos of two North Viet Nam missile sites hit July 27 are still under study. Reports claim no surface-to-air missiles were at the sites, while a Chicago Daily News exclusive questions whether any targets were damaged. Three U S planes were reported down in the July 27 raid.
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Washington
Defense Department
U.S
Peter Lisagor
Chicago Daily News
North
Viet Nam
Lisagor
Department of Defense
Sacco Vanzetti Judge Dies in Boston Legacy
Retired State Supreme Court Justice Harold P. Williams aged 83, a prosecuting attorney in the 1920 Sacco Vanzetti trial, died after a long illness. The Foxboro native and Harvard graduate served as assistant district attorney in Norfolk County during the period leading to the couple's execution amid global protests.
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Boston
State Supreme Court
Harold P. Williams
Sacco-Vanzetti
Williams
Foxboro
Harvard
Norfolk County
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Braintree
Sacco
Vanzetti
Cuban electric workers boast of pay cuts and longer week
In Havana, Felix C. Ronda of the Electrical Energy Union boasted on radio that since nationalization Cuban electrical workers have taken 15 extra vacation days to total 30, quit a 50 percent discount on bills, seen average salaries fall from 392.51 to 261.98 per month, and given up seniority pay while extending the workweek from 30 to 44 hours and adding Saturday jobs. This, he said, is their best contribution to the socialist society.
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Cuba
Miami
Fla
Electrical Workers Union
Havana
Felix C. Ronda
Electrical Energy Union
Socialist Societ
Soviet Proton-1 booster fuels space milestone claim
The Izvestia government paper says the Proton-1 unmanned space station was launched into orbit by a booster with engines rated at over 60 million horsepower. It notes the July 16 launch carried cosmic ray instrumentation and radiation hazard studies, marking a new phase in space exploration.
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UPI
Soviet Union
Izgestia
Honor Student Fatally Harmed in West Los Angeles Home
A 16 year old honor student Stephanie Gorman was found slain in her bedroom at the family's $65,000 Hillscrest area home. Police searched the Hillcrest area door to door while questioning vendors and neighbors for clues. Henry Waldschmidt, 40, was arrested on suspicion of serious crimes after allegedly confessing by telephone, though the voice matched a prior suspect.
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Los Angeles
Hillcrest Country Club
Stephanie Gorman
Cheryl
Edward S. Gorman
Henry Waldschmidt
Palms
William Stambler
Son of SS Man Admits Daubings In Bamberg
Reinhardt Woilzik, 20, son of a Nazi SS officer, confessed at a Bamberg magistrate hearing to smearing antisemitic slogans on Jewish tombstones, the synagogue, and a local U.S. Army arms depot. Police say he blamed anger over failing dental exams. The act drew global attention and Erhard denounced it as a national disgrace.
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Bamberg
Germany
UPI
Reinhardt Woilzik
Ludwig Erhard
Woitzik
Poland
Palice
Hitler
Loval
Underground U.S. Nuclear Test Reported at Nevada Site
The Atomic Energy Commission announced an underground nuclear test of low yield conducted Friday at the Nevada test site. It marks the 18th announced weapons-related U.S. test this year.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Nevada
U.S
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