Soviet Demand to Try Emperor Hirohito as War Criminal
The Soviet Union pressed for Emperor Hirohito to face war crimes charges following trials in Khabarovsk and the Far East War Crimes Tribunal. It cites 12 Japanese officers convicted for bacteriological experiments and notes executions of Tojo and others. The Far Eastern Commission authorized the trials, with stern justice promised to all war criminals amid broader Allied calls for accountability.
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Japan
Tril
Khabarovsk
Siberia
Ake
International Military Tribunal of the
Far East
A. &. Rees
Hiedejki Tojo
Far Eastern Commission
Power Top Policy Board
FEC
Washington
General MacArthur
Hirohito
Internations Military Tribunal
Frederick Webb
Australia
Ihe
Communist Party
Tokyoi
Russia
Twenty Years Ago In Journal Files February 6 1980
A montage recalls 1945 events with Japan and World War II trials, noting emperor Hirohito’s postwar status and Allied decisions. It then shifts to local items: Mrs. Sarah M. Gross regains sight after an operation, L J Kelly leaves his North Center stand, Grand Wantele Shop to move in, a minor auto accident near Union City, and stock moves in Columbia Gas and Electric Corp. plus personnel changes at U S Radiator and other local notes.
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Sarah M. Gross
Hiinot Hospital
Gross
L. J. Kelly
Rogers
North Center Street
Barlow Block
South Center Street
Melvin Stout
Jaude Price
New $450,000Anthracite Laboratory Opens in Schuylkill Haven
Schuylkill Haven Pa February marks the opening of the United States Bureau of Mines laboratory built at a cost of $450,000. A 20-person staff under J R Bush of Wilkes Barre will run the facility which aims to devise new uses for anthracite. In full operation it will employ 50 people, with experimental work starting by summer. The lab, named Headquarters Region, will focus on eastern and central Pennsylvania coal regions and cover a wide area west to the Mississippi and south to Tennessee.
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Schuylkill Haven
Ue United States
J. R. Bush
Wilkes-Barre
U. S. Bureaty of Mines
Feadquarters
Mississippi Nd
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
Question quiz from a vintage page asks 10 items on history and trivia
A reader quiz lists ten questions about figures, places, and events. It asks who Brady was in art theater or religion, geography queries on Zaragong, a bird trivia option, Intelligence Digest editor, female fox name, sentence correction, pigment colors, and Elisabeth Patterson’s emperor brother.
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Willian A. Brady
Brady
Zaragong
Henry A. Wallace
Jaude Wickard
Clinton P. Anderson
Intelligence Digest
Soviet Russia
Committee For Economic Development
Eliabeth Patterson
Baltimore
New Hearing Device Lets Deaf Hear Without Ear Receiver
A Chicago Beltone brochure promotes a new almost invisible hearing device that sits in the ear without a visible receiver. It promises clear hearing of songs sermons and conversations and offers at home testing with a plain wrapper brochure.
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Chicago
Beltone
Dept
19Th St
Ill
Color TV Debate Hits FCC Over Color Licensing
Washington February 6 Color television poses a knotty FCC problem as demonstrations win applause while the agency weighs introducing color broadcasting space for commercial use. Hearings will extend for months as the commission weighs impact on monochrome TV, station spacing, and public investments in black and white receivers.
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Washington
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Persious
Blair House
Truman
Columbia
FCC 5
Urge Musmanno to Seek Governor's Nomination
Greensburg, Pa February 6 Judge Michael A Musmanny of Allegheny County has 30000 more backers urging him to run for the Democratic nomination for governor. About 150 officers of the United Steelworkers locals representing 50000 members met in Greensburg and drafted a resolution supporting the jurist. Musmanny has yet to publicly state any candidacy.
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Greensburg
Michael A. Musmanny
Allegheny County
Cfo
United Steelworkers Rocals
Jurist
Musmano
Starlet Colleen Townsend Preaches at Punxsutawney Church
The Rev. Herman Hunike and congregation report Colleen Townsend Sunday delivered a gospel sermon at the Punxsutawney Presbyterian Church. The star, vowing to renounce acting, drew a sizable audience and compared her decision to past church milestones.
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Punxsutawney
Herman Hunike
Colleen Townsend
Colleen
Presbyterian Church
Sincere speaker inspires western Pennsylvania church crowd
About 1,200 people attended two morning services as Mrs. Leone Lossman spoke in the city. Members praised her sincerity and spirit, while Dr. Humke, who invited her for a movie premiere, called her message consoling and devoted to God’s will.
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Leone Lossman
Humke
Pennsylvania
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