President Truman Returns From Potsdam Big Three Parley
President Truman arrives at the White House at 10:50 p m from the Potsdam conference. He later heads to Washington aboard a special train after a long D day style trip. The trip included Berlin and Potsdam talks with Britain and Russia on postwar plans and the use of the new atomic bomb.
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Truman
White House
Potsdam
Ernest B. Vaccaro
Newport News
Berlin
America
London
Germany
Augusta
James H. Foskett
Atlantic
Britain
Russia
Europe
Japan
George Dresher
Secret Service
William Leahy
Naval
Samuel Rosenman
James W. Byrnes
Jonas H. Ingram
Atlantic Fleet
Philadelphia
David McD. Lebreton
Fifth Naval District
John R. Kilpatrick
Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation
P. N. L. Bellinger
Air Force
Kilpatrick
German POW FLEES Middletown Depot
The FBI reports a German prisoner of war escaped from a box reclamation plant opposite the Middletown air technical service command depot. Identified as Joseph Moore, 22, 155 pounds, blond with blue eyes and fair complexion, wearing a green fatigue suit marked PW. He had been amid other workers under army control before a check up showed disappearance.
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Middletown
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Missing Woman's Body Found Near Welland Wood
The body of Mrs. Clara Erhardt, 73, of Buffalo, was found today in a wood seven miles west of Long Beach near Welland Ontario. Police had searched since her disappearance July 29 from her son's summer home, where she was last seen in a nightgown. She had been ill for some time.
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Ont
Clara Erhardt
Buffalo
Long Beach
Ontario
Call Jap Cabinet Meeting Called for Special Session
New York August 7 report says the Japanese cabinet was convened in a special session to discuss internal and foreign matters. BBC quoted Tokio radio and NBC heard the broadcast, with interpretation suggesting a discussion of the Hiroshima atomic bomb raid.
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New York
BBC
Tokio Radio
NBC
Will Honor Uhl's Fifty Years At Bar
The Women’s Democratic club of Somerset hosts a Friday banquet at White Star hotel Jennertown to honor Charles F. Uhl on his fiftieth year at the bar. Ramsey Black will act as toastmaster with state officers David L. Lawrence Emma Guffey Miller G. Harold Wagner present. The county’s 150th founding anniversary will be noted.
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J. Buell Snyder
Women’s Democratic Club For
Somerset
White Star Hotel
Jennertown
Uhl
Ramsey
John M. Kehoe
Ellen Carter
Clara McKelvey
Nora Mitchell
H. H. DeLong
Charles R. Blatt
Susan Walker
Four Injured In Auto Accident At Plank Road
Four people from Somerset were admitted to Somerset Community Hospital Tuesday night after an auto accident on Plank Road near Meyersdale. Miss Ella Jean Baer, Miss Doris Jean Lape, John Vogel, and Davia Simpson sustained multiple cuts and facial injuries. they were en route from Meyersdale to visit Miss Baer’s grandmother prior to her funeral. The four were brought by ambulance and were in stable condition at 2 a.m.
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Plank Road
Ella Jean Baer
Ezra Baer
Doris Jean Lape
Bruce Lape
John §. Vogel
Davia Simpson
Somerset
Meyer'sdale
Miss Baer
Littile
Miss Lape
Vogel
Simpson
Governor's Wife Expected to Recover by Fall
Harrisburg reports Mrs. Edward Martin, Pennsylvania's first lady, should be fully recovered from a back injury after a fall. An executive mansion spokesman said she wore a brace and a physician expected her to resume normal activities by autumn.
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Harrisburg
Edward Martin
Pennsylvania
Executive Mansion
Martin
Land donated to Springfield township for street widening
Three fourths of an acre of land owned by the department of agriculture at Wyndmoor is transferred to Springfield township Montgomery county Pa by act of President Truman. The land will be used to widen and relocate a street and for ornamental park purposes.
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U. S
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Wyndmoor
Springfield Township
Montgomery County
Truman
Earthquake Still Worse Than Atomic
Washington reports Father Frederick Sohon of Georgetown University argues earthquakes outpace atomic blasts in destructive power. He notes seismographs show man-made blasts 100 miles away fail to register, while even weak earthquakes surpass atomic tests. He adds hurricanes surpass earthquakes in danger.
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Washington
Frederick W. Sohon
S. J
Seeismograph Observatory
Georgetown University
Father Lohon
New Mexico
Japan
Georgetown
Father Sohon
Potomac
Interpretation of Bomb Damage at Hiroshima
The War Department announced an official interpretation of atomic bomb damages on Hiroshima will be released tomorrow. First photographs from the Japanese homeland city are arriving in Guam for analysis and interpretation tonight. Reconnaissance reports describe an impenetrable cloud of dust and smoke over the target area after the detonation.
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Washington
War Department
Hiroshima
Guam
Japan
Russians Hear Of Atomic Bomb In Hiroshima News
Moscow radio announced the new atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima shortly after midnight and Tass issued Truman's announcement. Izvestia printed the story on its foreign news page without comment.
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Hiroshima
Tass
Truman
Izvesila
Westinghouse Involved in Bomb Making
Westinghouse Electric Corp. employees in Pittsburgh are noted in this item as having contributed to the bomb effort. Details appear continued on page four.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Atomic Bomb Strikes Hiroshima Center In WWII Milestone
A Manila Pacific dispatch reports America's new weapon the atomic bomb struck the industrial heart of Hiroshima at 9 15 a m Pacific time producing a massive blast and mushroom cloud. Col Paul W Tibbetts Jr piloted the Superfortress with Capt William Parsons and Maj Thomas Ferebee aboard describing the explosion as tremendous and awe inspiring.
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Marlin Spencer
Guam
America
Hiroshima
Pacific
Paul W. Tibbets, Jr
Miami
Fla
Navy
William §. Parsons
Santa Fe
N. Mex
Honshu
Parson
Gen
Spaattz
Carl Spaatz
Spaatz
Europe
Curtis Lemay
Strategic Air Forces
Lemay
Thomas W.W. Ferebee
Mocksville
Tibbets
Enola Gay
Niroshima
Chinese Forces Capture Yeungkong Near Canton
Chinese high command reports Yeungkong fell after street fighting, tightening control along a 50 mile coastal stretch toward a key Japanese bastion near Canton. Battle lines extend along the Canton highway as Chinese troops push from Yeungkong toward Yanping and along the Si River fronts.
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Yuengkong
Hong Kong
Canton
Chiang Kia-Shek
Yeungkong
China
Kwangtung Province
Yanping
High Command
Tanchuk
Kwangsi Province
Hunan- Kwangsi
U. S
14Th Air Force Base
Lingling
Hingan
More Forts To Follow Enola Gay
Gen. Carl A. Spaatz announced more B 29s would follow the Enola Gay, with atomic bombers to operate from 20th Air Force bases in the Marianas. He said the force behind the Hiroshima bomb equaled 2,000 Superforts and noted a leaflet campaign to inform Japan of the bombing and future use.
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Morrie Landsberg
Guam
Carl A. Spaatz
Enola Gay
Hiroshima
U. S. Army
Strategic Air Force
20Th Air Force
Marianas
Spaatz
Bombing of Yawata Marks First B-29 Strike on Japan
About 225 B 29s escorted by fighters struck Yawata and its war industries this morning, dropping roughly 1 500 tons of demolition bombs. The raid hit the Pittsburgh of Japan, with 70 tons on Toyokawa arsenal, no enemy intercepts, and one damaged bomber that was later abandoned but crew rescued.
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Yawata
Kyushu
Marianas
Okinawa
Japan
Toyokawa Naval Arsenal
Pittsburgh
U. S. Army Strategic Air Force
Toyokawa
Tokio Rose Morale Builder For Forces In Pacific
Navy officials credit Tokio Rose as a morale booster for U S troops in the Pacific while government radio monitors find no true Tokio Rose. The name refers to voices on radio Tokio and the zero hour program with uncertain identity. Servicemen recall a girlish, gay hostess who aims to comfort troops away from home.
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Navy
Tokio Rose
Pacific
U. S
Rose
Aleutians
Annie
Radio
Tokio
Anne
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Wipes Out City Scorched Whole Districts
Reports from Washington and Tokyo describe the first use of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Officials say several bombs darkened the military city, with vast destruction and fires, while the Americans warn of a new terror that could force Japan toward surrender. The event prompts international reactions and strategic forecasts as Admiral Halsey’s fleet returns to action.
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Hiroshima
Domei Agency
Truman
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China
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Vatican City
L’osservatore Romano
Harry Barton
American Institute of Physics
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World League
Washington
Universal
Guam
City
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China Coast
Halsey
Third Fleet
Associated Press
Honshu
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Navy
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Monnday
Adm
Chester W. Nimitz
Asiatic
Jesse B. Oldendorf
Ting Hai
Shanghai
Far East
Kyushu
Kagoshima
Miyakonoko
Third Fleet To Operate Off Japan
The navy announced Admiral William F. Halsey’s Third Fleet is off Japan’s homeland and will strike coastal installations. A navy hour NBC review said the fleet avoided a threatening typhoon after June 5, with four or five typhoons expected monthly until December. A patrol system will detect typhoons before they threaten operating ships.
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Washington
Navy
William F. Halsey
Halsey
Navy Hour
NBC
Far Pacific
Move Nazis For Trials In Major War Crimes Case
Top ranking Nazis held as prisoners of war will be moved from Mondorf Luxembourg to the Nuernberg jail for the approaching war crimes trial. They lose their war prisoner status and are held without bail as civil criminals. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson declined to identify the group and noted transfers will occur in small guarded groups.
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London
Mondorf
Luxembourg
Nuernberg
Supreme Court
Robert H. Jackson
United States
International patrols in Vienna show four power cooperation
An inter national police team of American Russian British and French soldiers patrols Vienna by jeep in two six hour shifts from 6 p m to 6 a m. The effort, developed by Col William P Yarborough American provost marshal in Vienna, could expand to full scale combined military police patrols. In Harrisburg, state treasurer Ramsey Black reported 131807 dollars in veteran re adjustment act payments for the week ending July 27, issued in 6594 checks.
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Vienna
William P. Yarborough
Reichmond
Harrisburg
Ramsey
Black
Pennsylvania
Weather forecast for Maryland regions and nearby states
Generally fair conditions with a slight drop in temperature on Wednesday and Thursday. Eastern states expect fair skies with moderate heat and humidity to rise mid period, then fair and warm at week’s end. Western Pennsylvania and Ohio anticipate fair, dry start, becoming warmer and more humid with possible showers Thursday or Friday, then mostly fair and warm over the weekend.
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Pennsylvania
West Virginia
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Virginia
Ohio
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