Nehru Emerges as Leader in India Independence Move
A profile contrasts Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru with Gandhi and Franklin D Roosevelt, detailing Nehru’s socialist aims for political and industrial modernization in India, his education, personality, and leadership role in the Indian independence movement amid British negotiations.
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England
India
Pandit Jawa
Harlal Nehru
Mohandas K Gandhi
Andit Jawaharlal Nehru
United States
Franklin D Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Nehru
Motil
Groton
Harvard
Harrow School
Old Trinity College
Cambridge
Roosevelts
Mohandas Gandhi
Great Britain
Allahabad
Gandhi
India Party
Congress
Independence
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
McCleary Clinic Offers Piles and Digestive Disorder Book
Excelsior Springs clinic promotes a 122 page illustrated guide on piles fistula stomach and colon disorders. Readers may obtain a copy by sending a postcard or letter to the McCleary Clinic C 1527 Elms Blvd. No obligation learn the smubee.
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McCleary Clinic
Elms Blvd
Excelsior Springs
Czech guard training at Sokol hall urged for defense
Arrangements prepare a Czech home guard drill at the Sokol hall under Rudolph Novak with registration on March 25 for Czech men up to 54. Training aims to boost civilian defense and is separate from active military service.
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C.S.P.S
Sokol Association
Rudolph Novak
Sokol
Community notices and local meeting agenda items
Vaclav Picek will direct the next play closing their forty second season. Sixteenth Avenue Commercial club members travel to Ely for a pinochle tourney with Cedar Rapids players meeting at the old Rude parking lot. The Anna staff hosts a 1 PM luncheon at the Glow room of the Iowa Illinois Gas and Electric company. Mrs Agnes Vishek hosts. Z.C.B.I. girls drill team meets Libbie Holecek for initiation. Lodge Progressive CSA meets Tuesday at 8 PM in the CSP S hall. Cadets of St George meet at St Wenceslaus hall Tuesday at 8 PM. Mladocech lodge Z.C.B.T. will cry Thursday at the Z.C.B.J. all.
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Ning
Vaclav Picek
Sixteenth Avenue
Ely
Cedar Rapids
Sixteenth Avenue SW
Anna
lowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Company
Agnes Vishek
Z.C.B.I
Libbie Holecek
Twenty-second Avenue SW
Progressive
C.S.A
C.S.P.S
Cadets of
St. George
St. Wenceslaus Hall
Third Draft Lottery Set For Tuesday Evening
Plans are complete for the third draft lottery to be held next Tuesday at 5 p.m. CWT with 7,000 capsules to determine order numbers for about 9,000,000 registrants. Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson will draw the first capsule, followed by cabinet officers, as officials expect all capsules to be drawn by 5 a.m. CWT Wednesday.
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Washington
Henry L. Stimson
Ban on Sale of 13 Office Machines by War Board
The War Production Board banned sale or rental of 13 types of new office machinery from adding machines to punch card tabulators. The restriction applies to all but priority-rated buyers and takes effect at midnight Saturday, pending a general production and distribution plan for the office machine industry.
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Washington
War Production Board
Fuel Oil Delivery To New Equipment Stopped in East
War Production board orders halt on new fuel oil burning equipment in 17 eastern states plus DC and parts of Pacific Northwest to conserve fuel oil. New installations must complete within 30 days, conversions within 10 days, or basis for new construction if foundations finish in 30 days. Existing users must use standby fuels other than electricity or natural gas. States affected include Connecticut through Virginia and West Virginia.
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Washington
INS
War Production Board
District of Columbia
Oregon
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Cedar Rapids Boys Build 1000 Navy Model Planes for Training
More than 200 Cedar Rapids youths tackle a 1000 model aircraft project for the navy bureau of aeronautics. Plans include 20 initial planes with U S, British, Japanese and German planes, to be refined to pass rigid accuracy standards and earn Ensign to Captain craftsman titles. The Hawkeye Aeroneers club and Cedar Rapids public schools back the effort, with sessions at the national guard armory and weekly meetings.
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Cedar Rapids
Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
United States
Corrigan
Navy
Hawkeye Aeroneers
Young Men's Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
John Pavlis
Industrial Arts Department
Public Schools
National Guard
Shrine Temple
New Economic Pact Between Reich and Italy
Rome and Berlin reported a broad economic agreement linking Germany and Italy with tight Italian bread rationing. The accord includes German coal steel iron goods and chemicals sent to Italy and an increase in Italian workers in Germany.
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United. Preas
Rome
Berlin
Italy
Germany
Transocean
Free French Sweep Far West in Libya
Free French raiders advanced 200 miles west in the Fezzan desert of South Libya capturing the Italian outpost of Udlou, about 375 miles southwest of El Agheila, where Rommel had opened a recent offensive.
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London
Fezzan
Libya
Udlou
EL Agheila
Erwin Rommel
British forces disperse Axis columns on Libyan front
British field guns shelled along the Libyan front in a daylong operation declared successful. A communiqué said British artillery was active all day Friday in breaking up Axis attempts to move equipment reinforcements and supplies toward Tobruk as both sides prepared for a major battle before the summer heat.
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Cairo
Egypt
Ins
Tobruk
Japs Move North on Burmese Front
Japanese spearheads aided by tanks reportedly advanced north from Rangoon along the Irrawaddy and Sittang basins as British forces hastened to deepen and secure new lines in south central Burma. Officials warn a major assault may try to push British defenses toward Mandalay with Rangoon under enemy control and Pegu noted as a key rail junction.
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London
Rangoon
Irrawaddy
Sittang
Burma
Mandalay
Adopt Iowa Boy Slogan Urges National War Effort
Vice-president Wallace urged Americans to adopt the diary slogan of Martin Treptow, the Iowa boy killed at Chateau-Thierry in 1918. He quoted the lines declaring that America must win the war and that each person should work save sacrifice endure fight cheerfully and do their utmost as if the outcome rested on them alone.
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Omaha
Wallace
Martin Treptow
Iowa
Chateau-Thierry
America
Gillette
D-Ia
Congress
Ellis Admits Killing Wife by Dynamiting Home
Morton A. Ellis 39 a toolroom clerk at No 4 Muscoda mine confessed to killing his wife Bonnie Lucille Ellis 33 and destroying their home by placing 16 sticks of dynamite under the bedroom and driving away after lighting a 30 foot fuse 13 miles southwest of Bessemer Alabama.
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Bessemer
Ala
Clyde Morris
Morton A. Ellis
Morris
Ellis
Bonnie Lucille Ellis
Here
Muscoda
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
Health dept to cut trips by sending officials to clamming hearing
New Jersey health department said one carload of officials would drive about 50 miles to the Raritan Bay shore for a Thursday hearing on the clamming industry. The move aims to spare several hundred clammers and local officials from individual trips to Trenton.
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Trenton
N. J
New Jersey Health Department
Raritan Bay Shore
Trenon
Hanford Post Backs Free Smokes for Service Men
The Hanford post of the American Legion launches a Cedar Rapids effort to provide free cigarettes to enlisted service members. Boxes will appear in cigar stores and at cigarette counters for purchases that include an extra pack for servicemen. Sam Cohen chairs the committee with Ray Dutthbert and Murray Woltman.
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Hanford Post
Cedar Rapids
Armed Services
United States
American Legion
Gazette
Legion
Sam Cohen
Ray Duthbert
Murray Wolfman
Herring to press work or fight bill for defense workers
Senator Herring announces he will sponsor a work or fight bill applying to defense project workers. He accuses the labor committee of blocking anti strike bills and seeks to discharge the committee to push the measure. Senator Lee backs the plan citing wartime blood and defense needs.
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Washington
Herring
D-la
Senate Labor Committee
Lee
D-Okla
Labor Committee
War Labor Board
Congress
William S. Knudsen
St. Louis
Congressional
Probes Find No Sabotage Evidence in Normandie Fire
Three investigations by the Navy FBI and a House subcommittee report no direct sabotage evidence in the Lafayette Norman die fire aboard the Normandie. Testimony says findings are substantially the same with no positive proof of foul play as the $80 million liner, under wartime conversion, burned and capsized at a New York pier after sparks from a welder’s torch ignited kapok life preservers.
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Washington
Lafayette
Normandie
Navy
Federal Bureau of Investigation
House Naval Affairs
New York
Washing machines to halt production by May fifteenth
The War Production Board ordered all domestic washing machines and ironers stopped by May 15 with larger firms ending April 15. From now to then, output may run at 1.5 times February quotas. Firms over 60,000 units last year must shut by April 15. smaller producers by May 15. Parts production allowed.
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Washington
War Production Board
Strike Threat at Weirton Steel Demands Government Action
CIO SWOC appeals to Washington amid a ten month organizing drive at Weirton Steel plants in Weirton West Virginia and Steubenville Ohio. The union reports 30 key members dismissed and alleges threats of bodily harm against its leaders, signaling a serious situation and possible rank and file revolt.
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Pittsburgh
INS
CIO Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Washington
Weirton Steel Company
SWOC
Weirton
W. Va
Steubenville
Weirton Steel
Weirton Independent
Woman Author to Get Catholic Laity Medal
Helen Constance White author and University of Wisconsin instructor named Notre Dame Laetare medal recipient. She becomes the 60th honoree and the 13th woman to receive the award first given in 1883 in South Bend Indiana.
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South Bend, Ind
Helen Constance White
University of Wisconsin
University of Notre Dame
Miss White
Unexploded Shell Removed From Russian Soldier
In a rare surgical case, a two inch shell fragment was taken from the side of Nikolai Bystrikov after a German mortar hit his shoulder. He warned medics of danger and attempted suicide with a grenade before Dr M M Pakhman and staff safely removed the shell at a field hospital.
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Moscow
Tass
Nikolai Bystrikov
Bystrikov
M. M. Pakhman
WPB Textile Heads Quit in War Production Clash
Three top WPB textile division executives Robert Guthrie George Doher ty and Marshall Hale jr resign claiming industry representatives within and outside the WPB blocked converting plants to full war production. They accuse opponents of slowing rayon shipments to Latin America and hindering U S aid to Soviet Russia.
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Washington
WPB
Robert Guthrie
New York
George P. Doherty
Marshall Hale
South
Central America
United States
Soviet Russia
Farley urges continuing political activity during war
James A Farley, former Democratic national chairman, says politics should not be adjourned during the war. He insists the goal is to win the war while preserving democracy and that both parties must nominate the best candidates without conflicting with war effort.
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Indianapolis
James A Farley
Washington Drops Plans For Safety Patrol Parade
American Automobile Association announced the cancellation of the annual safety patrol parade in Washington planned for early May. The decision cited crowded conditions and hotel shortages in the capital and transport issues for the youngsters. About twenty thousand patrol members had planned to attend. Regional parades may be sponsored by motor clubs schools and police departments instead.
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Washington
American Automobile Association
AAA
Lemon Juice Recipe Advertises Fast Rheumatic Pain Relief
An advertisement promotes Ru-Ex Compound as a cheap home remedy for rheumatic arthritis and neuritis. It advises mixing a two-week supply with a quart of water and four lemons, taking three tablespoons twice daily, with claims of relief within 48 hours. If no improvement, return the package for a money-back guarantee from drugstores.
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Aim
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Emma Dvorak
Clutter
Charles Bohaty
E. H. Vajnar
Chelsea
Czech National Alliance
Z. C
Central Committee
Czech Alliance
Masaryk
Memorial Coliseum
Joe Julis
T. B. Hrubucek
Czech Alliance Association
St. Wenceslaus
Bohemian Dramatic Association
SYKES
Sykes Service
H. J. Halamka
Iowa Farmer
Rudolph Schave
Londen
Rudolph Schade
East
LOYAL
Iowa Civil Air Patrol
Saxon
CPT
Alfred Meyer
Ilinois
Missouri
Meyer
Navy Celestial Navigation
Naval Branch
Cedar Rapids , Airways
Army Primary Air Corps
Kansas City
Cheyenne
Denver
Boston
Africa
Jim Wathan
Lyle Hetzel
Cade
Saxon Field
Squadron 18
Civil Air Patrol
CAP
Philadelphia
George II
Reich
Branford Post
Er A
Peposit
Farley
Star Jewelry CO
Pascal Delerv
Minnesota
Kappa Alpha Theta
Crandic
Reed
Iowa City
Cedar Rapids and
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