Call to Gandhi for resistance move in India crisis
The All-India Congress Committee prepares to urge Mohandas Gandhi to lead a mass passive struggle for independence as Britain weighs two options: grant immediate freedom to 350 million people or face widespread nonviolent resistance. Nehru frames the demand and stresses Britain’s withdrawal, while London signals patience amid wartime constraints. The State Department monitors the development as civil disobedience campaigns loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arnotatea Frey
India
Great Britain
Erasiiont Roosevelt
Bombay
All-India Generess Committee
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Dow
Britain
Ronosa
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Congress Party
Congress
Allahabad
Arction
Tdi
United Nations
Black man admits setting Ringling circus fire
Pittsburgh dispatch reports a Black man arrested on illegal train riding charges told railroad detective he started the Ringling Brothers circus fire Tuesday near Cleveland. He said he threw Meteh Jinto Iney at animals after a threat to club him if he did not.
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Assuomven
Pittshurgh
Pennzyl
Vanlé
Hi Simmons
Tuquesne
Ringling Brothers Circus
Cleveland
Board Considers Vacancies For War Heroes Posts
The board of education discussed filling multiple vacancies for the 1942 43 term at a recent meeting led by Mrs. E G Bates. Supt Ralph S Dewey said suitable applicants are available for the posts, with several appointments expected at the regular session next week. The board also reviewed Columbus High enrollments amid possible consolidation and noted the fall term details to be addressed Monday.
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E. G. Bates
Ralph S. Dewey
Columbus High School
Doutvy
General Electric
Erie
Columbus
Dewey
Pelley Seeks New Trial After Conviction
William Dudley Pelley, convicted on eleven counts of criminel sedition and conspiracy, seeks a new trial with a motion to be filed within three days. Defense attorney Floyd Christian said a denial would lead to an appeal to the US Court of Appeals in Chicago. In Philadelphia a blackout covers Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 53,700 square miles and nearly 13,000,000 people, in a surprise air raid test before September 1 with undisclosed hour.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
William Dudley Pelley
Feedom
Floyd Christian
Theuib Cour of Appeals
Chicago
Penna
N. J
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Talk of New Second Front Excites Europe
Associated Press reports European capitals tense as officials and press push second front as essential. Dutch Premier Gerbrandy calls for patient readiness while BBC and German propaganda highlight defenses and plans along western Europe coast and northern Norway.
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Associated Press
Landon
London
Pieter S. Gerbrandy
Netherlands
Monow ! Radio
Briain
Europe
Hitler
Russia
Trent
Berlin
Zurich
Die Tat
Naul
Stockholm
Switzerlad
Lofoten
Norway
Norwegian
Second Corry Doctor to Enter Army Service
Dr. G. McGoy a local physician has been commissioned to first lieutenant in the Medical Corps of the U S Army. He was sworn in today after examinations at Carlisle Barracks and plans a six to eight week leave to settle affairs before assignment to a base hospital. He follows Dr. Hugh A. O’Hare, a captain in the Medical Corps, who was named earlier and is attached to a Mercy hospital base unit in Chicago awaiting orders.
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G. McGoy
Sigmon
S& Army
Carlisle Barracks
U.S
Amy
McCoy
Smethpork
Ila Ofly
Breaiup
McCay
Corry Travior
Hugh A. O'Hare
Mercy, Hospital of Chicago
Ross Pays $103000 To 27 Philadelphia Leaders
Harrisburg Aug 6 Associated Press Governor James Ross appoints 27 of 52 Philadelphia Democratic ward leaders to payroll with total annual salaries of 103000. Auditor General F Clair Ross says the board spent on payroll and expenses without justification. Ross declines to comment as a payroll dispute threads through tax collections.
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Associated Press
Harrisburg
James
F. Clair Ross
Philadelphia
Edward B. Logan
Ross
Secretary of Revenue
Logan
Navy Bureau Of Ships Scored By Senate For Wilful Misconduct
Senate advocates of a cargo carrier expansion program fault the Navy Bureau of Ships for negligence and wilful misconduct in steel procurement and shipbuilding. Chairman Truman transmits the committee report to Secretary Knox, accusing biased handling of Higgins industries and leaving public release to the Navy.
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Navy
Bureau of Ships
Senate
Assvomven
Washington
Maritime Commission
A.J. Higgins
New Orleans
Defense Investigating
Reese Taylor
Fon
War Production Board
Truman
Navy Department
Baruch Chairs Rubber Production Committee Post Veto
President Roosevelt vetoed a bill to create an independent rubber production agency and instead named a committee led by Bernard Baruch to study the rubber problem. The panel includes James B. Conant and Karl Compton to advise on synthetic rubber programs for war and civilian use.
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Associated Press
Washington
Roosevelt
Bernard M. Baruch
War Industries Board
Baruch
James B. Conant
Bir Vard University
Karl ‘T Compton
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Congress
Prain
Grim
United States
Otter United Nations
World War II Heroes to Address Ajax Workers Saturday
Two WWII veterans will address a large Ajax Tron Works gathering at plant 630 PM on Saturday with wives invited. The visit, arranged via the U S Maritime Commission, will highlight the new maritime engine and factory improvements at the West Washington street plant.
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Ajax Tron
Joe
U. S. Maritime Commission
Admir
el Emory
Land
Yoxether
Goutandris
Hermes
Barcelona
BN. Wilson
Gervict
Wilson
North Atlantic
Shomiembers
Jost
Japs Occupy More Islands In Pacific Pivot
Imperial Tokyo asserted Japanese naval forces had seized Kel Aru and Tanimbar Islands between Timor and New Guinea thus extending a chain of possible invasion bases. MacArthur reported quiet on the New Guinea front as Japanese presses threaten Port Moresby. Tokyo broadcasts claim Japanese air forces shot down eight American planes in a 40 minute Hengyang raid near the Chinese front.
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Associated Press
Imperial Tokyo
Timor
New Guinea
Austal
Kel
Aru
Tanimbar
Australia
Douglas MacArthur
Port Moresby
Tokyo
Hengyang
U. 8
Hanlin Province
Canton
Chuneising
Fengyang
Probing Charge by Independent Oil Operator
Washington August 6. Senate patents committee probes a supposed conspiracy to control synthetic rubber production. C R Starnes of Glade Ware Texas claims major oil companies work inside and outside government to block non cartel partners. He names Frank A Howard Standard Oil and Richard J Dearborn Texas Company as outsiders who guided contracts forming the R A cartel. He warns of corporate empires keeping American workers and machines from production after the war. Also Rep Rankin seeks immediate cash payments to service men’s dependents under the pay allotment act citing hardships.
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Presa
Washington
Senate
C. R. Starnes
Glade Ware
Tex
Starnes
Standard of
New Jersey
Frank A. Howard
Standard Ol Development Company
Aud Aireotett Vor
Richard J. Dearborn
Texas Company
Omnese
Hitler
T. G. Pardenindustrie
Biz German Chemical Trust
Standard’ Oil, Kelloge and Company
R.A
Dearborn
Rubber Reserve Corporation
Rankin
Detroit traitor to be hanged in wartime treason case
A federal court sentence in 1940 orders Stephan, a U.S. citizen, to be hanged at Milan Michigan for aiding in the escape of a man from a Nazi camp. Judge Tuttle frames the ruling as a strong wartime deterrent and questions whether death would deter future double agents.
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Atd
Federal
Frese
Neal Fley
Camnelan
Mary Stephan
United States
Tuttle inMorshomeme
Sanshy
Germany
Aly Ameans
Aft
New Assistant Cashier Named at Citizens Bank
Murrell Baldwin of Union City will assume duties as assistant cashier at the Citizens National Bank around mid August. He comes from National Bank of Union Cig with one and a half years as teller and intermediary assistant cashier. His wife is Dorie Paige of Spring Creek. No cashier appointment yet after S Walter Sweet resigned for Aero Supply Mig. Gos Te. The board expects early action.
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Murrell
Baldwin
Union City
National Bank of Union Cig
Citizens Naional Bank
Ody
Deion City
Dorie Paige
Spring Cree
Citizens National Bank
S. Walter Sweet
Aero Supply Mig
Gos
Wild animals save ship survivors on uninhabited island
Aug 4 report from an east coast port tells of 47 American merchant seamen rescued after drifting 83 days at sea. Wild jackasses guided exhausted sailors to a brackish water hole on Garibbein Isle, saving lives though some crewmen remained missing after a Nazi sub attack.
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Island Water Hole
Assousaene
Garibbein Isle
Atlantic
Allsn Holmes Jackson
Seo
Grave peril in new Nazi drive upon Volga city
Referenced by Associated Press, dispatches report Soviet reserves entering combat as Marshal Timolshenko’s forces resist a major German offensive circling Stalingrad. The front line appears stabilized near Betskayg and Hushwhevk Rosny, with heightened danger to the Volga city and surrounding targets.
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Volga City
Moscow
Russia
Semeon Timolshenka
Stalingrad
Red Army
Fant
Betskayg
Yeyaylyye
Rosny
Berlin reports rapid advances in new German fronts
The Berlin correspondent reports swift German mobile formations pushing along the Rostov to Stalingrad corridor with advances toward the Caspian region. Nazis aim to outflank Russian defenses near the Sea of Azov while contesting positions around Stalingrad, Belaya Guta, and the Kerch Peninsula amid heavy fighting.
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AesNeraven
Perlin
Ehban
Boku
Black Sea
Chmmani
Drm Sadak
Tikhoretsit
Rostov-Balu
Pheyi
Loi Sulsk
Yovashiloval
Culinasan
Caspian
Russia
Sea of Azov
Kerch
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Farm Bloc
Standish
Mich
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Saginaw Bay
L'Lbsy
Abraham Ta Bean
Bay City
Sewickley
Pittsburgh
James D. Webster
Webster
AJAX
Merchant Marine
U. S
China
Texan
Detroit's
Citizens Bank
Caucasus
Belaya
Haytov
Kotelnikovski
Don
Kotelnikovsta
Astrakhan
Cespian Sea
Volea
Stil
Ams
Bushrhecka
Taknoretsk
Sian
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