India's revolt threatens Allied war effort and peace talks
The India uprising escalates from passive resistance to violent clashes leaving over thirty dead and more than 250 wounded. Amid disorganization of the Allied war effort, a plan from Sirdar J J Singh proposes a popular interim government to bridge British authority and nationalist aims.
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Mohandas Gandhi
Japan
United Nations
India
Hitler
Caucasus
Middle East
Britain
Gandhi
Mainz raid by RAF hits German chemical center on Rhine
London reports the RAF struck Mainz a Rhine city and key chemical and rail hub. Fires raged into morning. sixteen bombers missing, suggesting a sizable force. Coblenz docks Le Havre targets and air fields in the Low Countries also attacked as German raids hit the southern England coast and Midlands.
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London
Mainz
Rhine
RAF
Air Ministry
Coblenz
le Havre
AFL Opposed To Income Top Of 25,000
Washington August 12 AP The American Federation of Labor told the Senate Finance Committee it opposed a net income limit of 25 000 annually as urged by President Roosevelt and supported by a CIO spokesman Raymond G Cranch of the AFL Washington staff warned such a rule would force independent businessmen to restrict activity trim war effort and shrink employment He urged that excess profits taxes be avoided and postwar corporate rebates be considered The AFL favored social security tax increases and allowing tax deductions for medical care and life insurance premiums The Chamber of Commerce urged a 10 per cent sales tax with a 5 per cent withholding tax and Cranch indicated the AFL would support a sales tax if not on foods or cheap clothing The AFL recommended corporations compute excess profits tax on invested capital The House backed revenue measures and the Chamber claimed they would raise 12 billion in new revenue versus 6.27 billion in the bill before Congress The Chamber argued inflation requires a bold offensive and warned the current program would fail to finance the war or control inflation continued on page 2 Col 6
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Congress
Roosevelt
Congress of Industrial Organizatioon
Raymond G. Cranch
Washington Research Staff
AFL
Senate Finance Committee
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Cranch
Vandenberg
Chamber
Ellsworth C. Alvord
Federal Finance
House
Senate
Martial law looming in turbulent India amid riots
August 12 dispatch reports escalating violence across India as British forces deploy more troops and police. New Delhi saw a town hall burned and troops firing on crowds. Bombay endured rioting, looting, and casualties. Officials cite deaths, injuries, and arrests tied to Gandhi era protests and martial law debates.
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Preston Grover
Bombay
India
New Delhi
Bhuleswar
Zaveri
Mohandas IX
Gandhi
All-India Congress Party
Roger Lumley
Plants to be deliberately closed down
War plants running ahead of schedule may be closed or slowed to ease materials drain, under plans by the War Production Board. Cuts would come from reduced material allocations for the last three months of the year, with idle parts common as plants shift to finish products.
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Sterling F. Green
Washington
War Production Board
U S Attack Encouraging To Council
U S offensive against the Solomon islands drew council encouragement at Washington on August 12 1941 with no new progress details. Dr T V Soong Chinese foreign minister called the attack a good enough token of offensive spirit and said officials knew no more than newspaper reports.
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Washington
Pacific War Council
Solomon Islands
T. V. Soong
Roosevelt
Doubtful Russia Seen From Inside the U S S R
Economists and technicians who lived in the Soviet Union for years say Moscow can endure another fall and winter. Civilians’ prophecies prove more accurate than soldiers’, who misread Hitler’s momentum and the vast Soviet resources built under three Five Year Plans. Continued on Page 5.
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Russia
Moscow
Hitler
Europe
Tokyo Declares Allies Defeated
New York reports Domei broadcast from Tokyo claimed a sea battle near the Salomon Islands ended in a U S defeat and U S and Japanese warships collided. The account, citing Captain Shoichi Kamada, contradicted Admiral King's earlier statements and Washington's info.
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New York
Domei
Tokyo
Salomon Islands
United States
Shoichi Kamada
Shanghai
Kamada
Ernest J. King
United States Navy
Washington
Australia
Sani Kamada
Naval Bases In Black Sea Threatened
Russian troops retreating into the Caucasus foothills as German columns push toward Novorossisk and Tuapse and toward Grozny. Berlin claims large Russian forces destroyed with tens of thousands captured. Krasnodar blocked, river crossing attempts deadly. German advances threaten Rostov to Baku railway near Cherkessk. heavy fighting continues with losses on both sides.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
Caucasian
Black
Caspian
Black Sea
Novorossisk
Tuapse
Grozny
Caspian Sea
Krasnodar
Rostov-Baku
Cherkessk
Arni- Vir
Drozny
Red Star
Cherskessk
British Convoy Under Attack
German sources report a new battle in the Western Mediterranean against a British capital convoy escorted by most of the British Mediterranean fleet. The action follows the sinking of the aircraft carrier Eagle and the convoy's route from Gibraltar toward the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Berlin
DNB
Mediterranean
Eagle
Gibraltar
Pelley Sentenced to 15 Years for Sedition in Illinois Trial
William Dudley Pelley founder of the Silver Shirts of America was sentenced in Indianapolis to fifteen years in prison after his bid for a new trial was denied. He faced eleven counts of criminal sedition tied to Fellowship Press publications. Associate Lawrence A. Brown received five years. secretary Agnes Marian Henderson a two-year suspended sentence.
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Pelley
Indianapolis
William Dudley Pelley
The
Silver Shirts of America
America
Robert C. Baltzell
Pelle
Benedict Arnold
Aaron Burr
Fellowship Press, Inc
Baltzell
Lawrence A. Brown
Fellowship Press
Agnes Marian Henderson
Midwest Blackout Test Signals First Civil Defense Drill
Chicago August 12 Twelve million Midwesterners will endure a half hour general blackout covering fifty thousand square miles in Illinois Michigan Wisconsin and Indiana. The drill aims to simulate wartime conditions for protecting arsenals factories mills and power facilities with over 500000 officials on duty and emergency crews ready to respond to incidents.
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Chicago
Midland
America
Wne
Ilinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Indiana
London
Loop
Detroit
Woodward Avenue
Milwaukee
Wisconsin Avenue
Suspected Accomplices Of Nazi Saboteurs Face Treason Talks
Washington Aug 12 The Justice Department considers treason indictments for up to seven of fourteen suspected accomplices linked to eight Nazi saboteurs. Names include Helmut Leiner Hedwig Engemann Maria Kerling and several Chicago residents tied to the Florida group led by Kerling. Evidence review by AG Biddle and aides ongoing with possible late today decision.
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America
James 4. Strebig
Washington
Biddle
Justice Department
Max Surphan
Detroit
Canada
George John Dasch
Ernest Peter Burger
Helmut Leiner
Edward John Kerling
Florida
Anthony Cramer
Werner Thiel
Wherling
Hedwig Engemann
Brooklyn
N. Y
Kerling
Hermann Heinrich Faje
Tramburg
Germany
Heinrich Heinck
Long Island
Maria Kerling
Pacific Battle Details Still Undisclosed
General MacArthur's headquarters reports Marines fighting in the Solomon Islands to broaden footholds amid hand to hand clashes and Allied air men striking Japanese bases along a vast front. Washington released no specifics as Ghormley coordinates plans and limited communications delay a detailed update.
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Marlin Spencer
MacArthur
Australia
Solomon Islands
Washington
Tulagi
Long
Solomons
Robert Lee Ghormley
South Pacific
Progress Toward Tulagi Islands Reported By Allied Base
A BBC broadcast quoted a correspondent from the Australian broadcasting commission reporting from an advanced Allied base that there is a general feeling of progress toward the occupation of the Tulagi area islands. He added that United States marines and other shock troops are apparently firmly established.
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New York
A Broadcasting Commission
Tulagi
Navy hails Tulagi landings opening Allied South Pacific offensive
A Washington statement lauded Marine landings on Tulagi as opening the way for an Allied push in the South Pacific. The note suggested the land, sea and air assault launched five days earlier was advancing, with General MacArthur's headquarters involved.
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U. S. Navy
Washington
Tulagi
South Pacific
MacArthur
Korean Reports Japan's Tojo Shot Wounded by Korean Patriot
Washington reports Kilsoo Haan, Sino-Korean group rep, said a young Korean patriot Park So-won shot and wounded Premier General Tojo on June 17 in Tokyo. A second shot missed Tojo. Hirota and Major Juzo Fujita were injured in the chaos. Japanese police rounded up Koreans afterward. Haan noted Korean terrorist ties and fear of further terror in Tokyo Yokohama Osaka.
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Washington
Kilsoo Haan
Sino-Forest Peoples League
Orient
Tojo
Japan
Haan
Sino-Korean League
Park Sow Won
Tom
War Ministry
Tokyo
Hirota
Juzo Fujita
Nichi Nichi
Hochi
Scowen
Fujita
Seowon
al Korean
Buridan
Yokohama
Osaka
Thei
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Robert L. Ghormley
U. S. -New Zealand
Auckland
New Zealand
Sirdar Kumar J. J. Singh
India League of America
All-India Congress Committee
All-India Congress
Sirdar
Stooges
Chamber of Commerce
Spot
U.S
Pacific Board
Soong
A. Loudon
Ray Tucker
Kalach
Stalingrad
Don River
Brown
Miss Henderson
Ernest Herman Ixerkhof
New York City
Hans Max Haupt
Herbert Haupt
Otto Wergin
Haupt
Walter Wilhelm Frochling
Pacific
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