State Papers Hint Yes Did Stalin And Truman Prolong World War II
Reports cite secret state papers claiming Stalin with Truman’s approval stalled a Japanese peace feeler weeks before the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The articles, by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey, say Moscow was used to issue a surrender ultimatum rejected before the bomb drop. Also alleged is Eisenhower praised as an honest man for turning over 135,000 German troops who tried to surrender to Americans.
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Washington
Joseph Stalin
Harry S. Truman
Hiroshima
Moscow
Stalin
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Minneapolis Tribune
Des Moines Register & Tribune
Fletcher Knebel
Charles W. Bailey
Cowles
Truman
Potsdam
State Department
Potsdam Pa
Kids And Matches Again Trigger Fourth Alarm Fire
Firemen answered the fourth alarm in little more than a week after children playing with matches and firecrackers sparked four small fires behind Cony Area High School. Three engines and 25 firefighters battled flames within a 100 foot radius, preventing spread to dry leaves. Police investigate possible deliberate arson. officials will pursue charges against any identified youths.
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Cony Area High School
W. M. Halfast
Jerome Davis
Harley Drake
Davis
Medical Care Bill Faces Senate Showdown Today
In Washington the Senate prepares for a pivotal vote on a medical care plan within social security. Kennedy and Johnson back the social security approach, while Eisenhower and Nixon oppose, eyeing impacts on 16 million Americans over 65. The Anderson amendment would expand payroll taxes to finance benefits at age 68, while Javits favors state driven, voluntary protections with federal grants.
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Washington
Senate
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Jacob K. Javits
RNY
Javits
Clinton P. Anderson
Kennedy
Anderson
New Yorker
Pittsburgh Man Admits He Strangled Wife in Pittsburgh Plot
A 36 year old salesman Robert Phillip Uhlmann confessed to police he rode a train to Pittsburgh, strangled his wife at their Little Rock home after a quarrel, then fled by bus to Cleveland, Memphis and Little Rock. He told detectives he planned the murder believing his wife was unfaithful and brought a pistol for protection.
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Little Rock
Ack
Poller
Pittsburgh
Ted Botula
Allegheny County
Robert Phillip Uhlmann
Bottila
Uhlmann
Uhlan
Lidy Rock
Botula
Ujlmann
Cleveland
Ohio
Memphis
Tenn
Pennsylvania
Uhlman
Heer
Radioactive Material Lost Details Alerted Police
Lawrence Park headquarters issued a state wide alert for a five foot long copper tube containing seven and a half milli curies of Strontium 90. The device also holds four rare lucite rods and must not be handled. Missing from a Manchester Massachusetts research center. Officers told not to open it and junkyards to check. If found notify Atomic Energy Commission Boston or Massachusetts Health Department for pickup.
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Lawrence Park
Set. C. W. Irwin
Manchester
Mass
Irwin
Atomic Energy Commission
Boston
State Police
Massachusetts Department of Health
Icy Blast Hits Montana
Freezing weather with strong winds snow and rain spread through Montana lowering temperatures below freezing in Helena as snow and rain hit Butte. Billings saw a drop to 50 after a 9 degree high. Thunderstorms and gusts up to 52 mph at Miles City and 43 mph in northern Wyoming extended into the Dakotas and Nebraska.
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Associated Press
Montana
Helena
Butte
Mercury
Billings
Miles City
Wyomin
Dakotas
Nebraska
Dickinson
N.D
Philip
Red Cuba Threatens Latins Most Says U S Council
The City Council postponed final action on Mead Avenue and Warehouse sidewalk bids after seven proposals ranged from about 3,094 to 6,066 dollars, a wide spread blamed on unknown factors. City solicitor Brown and officials will study the bids, with final decision due at a special Monday meeting.
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Yisny Amazee
Hnal
Mead Avenue
Mead Park
Raymond Avenue
City Warehouse
Wright Street
John B. Heubel
Erie
Frank A. Pate
Bernard Heubel
Tullio Construction Co
Robert J. McConnell
Donald B. McCray
Frederick Street
Corry
McCray
Council
Roger Brown
Robert Grice
Parks and Public Property
Victor Ward
Grice
Herter Urges OAS Ministers To Condemn Soviet Threats
Secretary of State Christian A. Herter told Latin American ministers in San Jose that they face greater communist pressure from Cuba than the United States. He urged the OAS to condemn Red Chinese Soviet threats to the hemisphere and referenced a U.S. memorandum accusing Cuba of training spies and guerrillas.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Christian A. Herter
United States
Cuba
Herter
U.S
Fidel Castro
Foreign Ministers’ Conference
Organization of American States
Argentina
Harrisburg man cleared in auto crash deaths case
Wellsboro Pa Merill Perry 23 of Harrisburg has been cleared of involuntary manslaughter charges stemming from the February 7 crash that killed four college students. The ruling ends a high profile case and withdraws all charges against Perry. The four students died when their vehicle collided with another in unclear conditions at the time. Local officials noted the decision as a legal closure for the university community.
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Wellsboro
Merill
Perry
Harrisburg
Schools Set September 7 Opening for 1960 61 Enrollments
About 2 500 Corry children aged 6 to 17 will begin the 1960 1961 school year on September 7, the largest enrollment yet. First graders at Conelway School register September 6 at 9 a m in the cafeteria, with Miss Ann Baressi, enrollment supervisor, directing. Registration requires birth certificates and vaccination slips. Junior high at Corry Aves High School gains 100 students to 720 in grades seven through nine. Overall totals show Wright School at 590, Concord 200, Harding 60, St Edward’s about 300 with 50 in the first grade class, while parochial enrollment rises with more to come as a Seventh Day Adventist church plans a new school.
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Conelway School
Ann Baressi
Gerade
Ferry Green
John Rozelle
Corry ‘Aves High School
Wright School
Concord School
Harding School
St Edward's School
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Cancer Takes Life Of Oscar Hammerstein II
Oscar Hammerstein II died of stomach cancer at 65 at Highland Farms in Doylestown Pa ending a landmark career in musical theater. He co led Rodgers since Oklahoma and created enduring classics The Sound of Music and South Pacific with lyricist words shaping Broadway history.
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Doylestown
Oscar Hammerstein
Highland Farms
Oklahoma
South Pacific
Parents Visit Powers Before Leaving Russia
The parents of U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers visit him in prison before leaving the Soviet Union for London and the United States. They note his watch was taken, reminisce on its value, and Barbara Powers seeks clemency from Khrushchev, who is vacationing at Yalta with no return date yet.
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Powers
Tam
Barbara Powers
Barbara
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Yalta
Black Sea
Moscow
Corry Jones town names new advertising aide Chesley
William Chesley 31 of Pittsburgh is appointed mar qeer of advertising and sales promotion for the Corry Jones town Corporation. A University of Pittsburgh graduate, he has held roles at Puller and Smith and Ross, Hoppers Company Tar Products Division, Westinghouse Electric, and Ketchym Mackeod and Grove. He is a Pittsburgh Advertising Club member, married with three children, and plans to move his family here soon.
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William Chesley
Pittsburgh
Corry Jones~ Town Corporation
Chesley
University of Pittsburgh
Puller and Smith and Ross the
Ther
Westinghouse Electric
Ketchym, Mackeod and Grove
Pittsburgh Advertising Club
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Merle Haskell
East Pleasant Street
Citizens National Bank
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Oscar Hammerstein II
Cole’ Porter
Okahoma
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