President Truman Returns From Potsdam Big Three Parley
President Truman ends Potsdam talks in Potsdam and Berlin and sails home. He arrives in Washington on a special train after a long 10000 mile journey by land sea and air. Officials plan a radio address and cabinet meeting to discuss agreements with Britain and Russia and the war plans for Japan.
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Potsdam
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Newport News
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Europe
Japan
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James W. Byrnes
Jonas H. Ingram
Atlantic Fleet
Philadelphia
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Fifth Naval District
John R. Kilpatrick
Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation
German POW flees Middletown depot
Middletown August 7. The FBI reports a German prisoner of war escape from a box reclamation plant opposite the Middletown air technical service command depot. The prisoner Joseph Moore, 22, blond with blue eyes, fair complexion, 155 pounds, wore a green fatigue suit bearing PW. He had been under army installation supervision before the disappearance was discovered.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Missing Woman’s Body Found Near Welland Ontario
The body of 73 year old Mrs. Clara Erhardt of Buffalo was located today in a wood seven miles west of Long Beach after a search by Ontario provincial police. She had been missing since July 29 from her son’s summer home, last seen in a nightgown and reportedly ill for some time.
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Clara Erhardt
Buffalo
Long Beach
Ontario
Japan Cabinet Called Into Special Session
New York Aug 7 The Japanese cabinet has been called into special session to discuss internal and foreign matters BBC radio quoted by NBC said the wording was interpreted as a discussion of the Hiroshima atomic bomb raid by Tokio authorities and BBC broadcasts.
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China
Will Honor Uhl Fifty Years At Bar
District Attorney Charles F. Uhl is honored at a Women’s Democratic Club banquet in Jennertown White Star hotel marking his fifty years at the bar. Toastmaster Ramsey S. Black presides with state officers David L. Lawrence and G. Harold Wagner among attendees. County’s 150th founding anniversary noted. preparations led by Mrs. John M. Kehoe and committee members across the county attend.
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Somerset
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Jennertown
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David L. Lawrence
Emma Guffey Miller
National Democratic Committee
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John M. Kehoe
Four Injured In Plank Road Auto Accident Near Somerset
Four people from Somerset were admitted to Somerset Community Hospital Tuesday night after a collision on Plank Road around 10 pm. The injured are Ella Jean Baer, Doris Jean Lape, John S. Vogel, and Daviu Simpson. Baer suffered facial lacerations, Lape deep leg wounds, Vogel elbow gashes, and Simpson a hip cut with teeth knocked out. All remained under care at 2 am.
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Ezra Baer
Doris Jean Lape
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Daviu Simpson
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Meyer'sdale
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Miss Lape
Vogel
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Governor's Wife Expected to Fully Recover by Fall
Harrisburg Aug 7 Mrs Edward Martin Pennsylvania's first lady expected today to be fully recovered by autumn from a back injury suffered in a fall An executive mansion spokesman said Mrs Martin was wearing a brace and a physician expected her to resume normal activities by fall.
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Truman transfers land for park and street widening
President Truman signs act transferring three fourths of an acre of Agriculture Department land at Wyndmoor to Springfield township Montgomery County Pa. The parcel will be used to widen and relocate 4th Street and create an ornamental park.
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Department of Agriculture
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Earthquake Still Worse Than Atomic
The Georgetown seismograph director Father Frederick W Sohon says earthquakes outclass atomic blasts. He notes no man made disturbance registered on seismographs beyond campus piles and Potomac piles since 1922. He warns hurricanes overpower earthquakes and urges caution about world destruction fears.
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Washington
Frederick W. Sohon
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Seeismograph Observatory
Georgetown University
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Japan
Georgetown
Potomac
Interpretation of Bomb Damages at Hiroshima
The War Department announced an official interpretation of the atomic bomb damages on Hiroshima will be released tomorrow morning. First photographs of the strike are arriving in Guam for analysis. Reconnaissance planes reported an impenetrable cloud of dust and smoke over the target area after the blast.
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War Department
Hiroshima
Guam
Japan
Russians Hear of Atomic Bomb
Moscow reports the atomic bombing of Hiroshima with radio and Tass confirming President Truman’s announcement. Izvestia published the foreign news item without comment.
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Hiroshima
Tass
Truman
Izvestia
Westinghouse Helped Make Bomb
Westinghouse Electric Corp. employees in Pittsburgh are referenced in connection with a bomb program. The brief item hints at wartime production and notes continuance on page four.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Bomb Falls on Hiroshima Center in Atomic Strike
Guam August 7 reports from Marlin Spencer describe America's atomic bomb hitting Hiroshima's industrial core at 9 15 am Pacific time. Gen Spaatz Maj. Gen Lemay and Col Tibbetts praised the weapon as revolutionary while damage details remained unclear amid smoke and fires.
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Guam
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Hiroshima
Paul W. Tibbets, Jr
Miami
Fla
Navy
William §. Parsons
Santa Fe
N. Mex
Honshu
Parson
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Carl Spaatz
Spaatz
Europe
Curtis Lemay
Strategic Air Forces
Pacific
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Parsons
Thomas W. Ferebee
Mocksville
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Niroshima
Yeungkong Captured By Chinese Forces Near Canton
Chinese high command said Yeungkong, an invasion coast port 121 miles southwest of Canton next to Hong Kong, fell after street fighting. News reports describe Chinese advances along the Canton highway toward Yanping and further battles near Lingling and Hingan as they push toward Japanese bases.
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Yeungkong
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14Th Air Force Base
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Hingan
More Forts To Follow Enola Gay
Gen. Carl A. Spaatz announced more B-29s would follow the Enola Gay and operate from 20th Air Force bases in the Marianas. He said details on the bomb’s size and drop altitude were being withheld, while a leaflet campaign would warn Japan of atom bombs to come. the force behind Hiroshima’s blast was equal to 2,000 superforts.
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Carl A. Spaatz
Enola Gay
Hiroshima
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20Th Air Force
Marianas
Spaatz
Magle
229 Superforts Strike Yawata War Industries
About 225 fighter escorted B 29s struck Yawata’s industrial areas this morning, flying from the Marianas and Okinawa. The raid, part of a three day B 29 offensive on Japan, hit the Toyokawa arsenal and Yawata known as the Pittsburgh of Japan, with thousands of tons of bombs and reported generally excellent results. One damaged bomber was abandoned but its crew was rescued.
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Tokio Rose Morale Symbol for Forces in the Pacific
Government monitors debunk the Tokio Rose legend while noting a real announcer on Radio Tokio shortwave and another on the ergo hour dinner program. The Navy praises the persona for boosting morale, though records show Tokio Rose is a GI invention with varying identities.
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Atomic bomb spurs world alarm over Hiroshima
San Francisco reports say Japanese transport halted as Domei and Imperial HQ describe the bomb as diabolic. U S officials warn of swift surrender pressure as Allied signals from Washington and Tokyo reflect shock, fear, and the prospect of further strikes on major cities.
Third Fleet To Operate Off Japan
The navy told Japan that Admiral Halsey’s Third Fleet is back off the homeland and will unleash more destruction on coastal installations. A radio review cites his avoidance of a damaging typhoon last June and notes the typhoon season in the far Pacific with four or five storms monthly through December. The navy patrol system should spot typhoons before they threaten operating ships.
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Washington
Japan
Navy Department
Navy Hour Radio Program
NBC
William F. Halsey
Associated Press
Guam
Honshu
Hiroshima
Fleet Headquarters
Wake
China
Navy
Halsey
Third Fleet
Chester W. Nimitz
Asiatic
Jesse B. Oldendorf
China Coast
Ting Hai
Shanghai
Far East
Kyushu
Kagoshima
Miyakonoko
Navy Hour
Far Pacific
Move Nazis for Trials From Mondorf to Nuernberg Jail
London reports top ranking Nazis held as prisoners of war will be moved soon from Mondorf Luxembourg to Nuernberg jail for the major war crimes trial. They will lose war prisoner status and be held as civil criminals without bail. Justice Jackson declined to identify who is moving and gave no details on security plans.
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Mondorf
Luxembourg
Nuernberg
Supreme Court
Robert H. Jackson
United States
International four power patrols in Vienna eye cooperation
An inter national police team from American Russian British and French soldiers patrol Vienna by jeep providing visual proof of four power administration cooperation. The two six hour shifts from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. were developed by Col. William P. Yarborough American provost marshal in Vienna and may lead to full scale combined military police patrols.
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Roeichmond
Pennsylvania veterans benefit payments announced
Harrisburg state treasurer Auge Ramsey Black reported that during the week ending July 27 payments to returned Pennsylvania veterans under the service men's adjustment act totaled 13170 807.00 in 6594 checks.
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Veterans’ Benefits
Harrisburg
Ramsey
Black
Pennsylvania
Weather Forecast for Maryland and Nearby States
Forecast shows generally fair conditions for Maryland eastern Pennsylvania and West Virginia with a cooler Wednesday. Eastern regions trend from fair moderate temperatures to showers mid period and warm end. western areas stay fair and dry early, warming and humid late with possible showers Thursday or Friday, weekend mainly fair and warm.
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Somerset Weather Report by David Grove Observer
Daily weather summary for 24 hours ending 5 30 p m Tuesday. Maximum 18 degrees, minimum 60 degrees, rainfall 3T. Temperature comparison notes last year’s figures with maximum 80 and minimum not specified.
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David Grove
A. S. Weather Observer
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