Calcutta Notes on Sacred Cows and India’s Oddities
A travel sketch from Calcutta satirizes sacred cows roaming Indian streets feeding at restaurants and occupying daily life. It contrasts bovine ease with hard realities, noting the cow's place in Hindu tradition and the vivid impressions India makes on visitors.
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India
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Asia
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Homma Says He Prefers Shooting to Hanging, Soaks up Comforts
In Manila on February 13, Lt Gen Masaharu Homma, commander of the Bataan death march, welcomes a death by execution over hanging. He sleeps during transit to Luzon prison as Maj Larry Hodgin recalls Homma examining the verdict and remarking that a firing squad is an honorable death.
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Masaharu Homma
Bataan
Rider
Tomoyuki Yamashita
Larry Hodgin
Alls
Ida
Ofeer
Homma
Luzon
Hodgin
Fresh Crisis Over Argentina Strains U S Ties
The state departments open attack on Argentine leaders as Nazi war pawns worsens relations with Argentina. Byrnes says no single action planned, while senators foresee further steps. Peron condemns US intervention as insubordination amid Feb 24 elections and Nazi documents cited as proof of Argentine complicity.
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United States
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Buenos Aires
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Juan Peron
Germany
Peron
U. S
Spruille Braden
British Troops Open Fire On Indian Mob in Calcutta
Calcutta reports say British troops fired on rioters after attacks on two post offices and looting. At least 25 injured in today’s protests, with unofficial claims of 17 killed and 200 wounded yesterday. U S soldiers and police among the injured as martial law-like control is imposed with tanks deployed.
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Calcutta
Indian National Army
U. S
Truman accepts Ickes resignation as Interior Secretary
President Truman accepted the resignation of Harold L. Ickes as Interior Secretary effective February 15. The president named Oscar L. Chapman, assistant secretary for 13 years, as acting secretary until Ickes' successor is appointed.
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Harold L. Ickes
Oscar L. Chapman
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Ickes resigns as Interior Secretary challenging Truman on veracity
Harold S. Ickes, former New Dealer, announces his resignation from the Interior Department and accuses President Truman of doubting his honesty. He requests March 31 as relief date, but Truman sets the resignation to take effect Friday, February 15. The president’s reply remains private.
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Harold S. Ickes
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Ickes resigns as Truman aide at 3 p m
White House press secretary Charles G. Ross announced that Harold Ickes resigned by order of President Truman at 3 p m yesterday. A letter of resignations was sent to Ross, who declined to publish the texts. Ross refused to discuss whether the resignation related to Ickes testimony on Edwin W Pauley or the latter's Navy undersecretary nomination.
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Archbishops Leave Shannon for Paris to Rome Consistory
Archbishops Francis Spellman of New York John Joseph Glennon of St. Louis and Thomas Tien of Tsingtao left Shannon at 1 10 p m for Paris en route to Rome for the consistory. Their Constellation Star of Rome flight followed a earlier departure of Catholic dignitaries and newsmen. The trio will reach Rome after ceremonies in Paris and receive their red hats next week.
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St. Louis
Thomas Tien
Tsingtao
China
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Rome
Constellation Star of
MacArthur Praises Japanese Press And Coal Shortage
General Douglas MacArthur reported to the War Department that newspapers magazines radio and theater in Japan aid a democratically oriented society. He also said Japan faces a coal shortage due to reluctance to replace liberated Chinese and Korean miners and difficult mining conditions reducing output from 3 400 000 metric tons in June to 519 000 tons in November.
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Douglas MacArthur
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Nippon
Controls On Prices May Be Eased
A high government official near President Truman signals a wage price policy near completion to ease price controls. The plan would replace the lid on wages with a formula to stabilize prices while labor and industry voices cite uncertainty over reactions. Collet’s potential approval of higher steel prices is tied to the policy’s eventual authority.
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Truman
John C. Collet
Ofien
Collet
Tunnel yields up its secret to Americans
Manila February 13 American paratroopers finally unlock the Corregidor tunnel scene of the 1942 last stand. The four month dig by the 342nd regiment cost one American life and freed bodies and diaries detailing American and Japanese actions in the Philippines. Personal records and maps recovered aid inquiries into deaths assignments and promotions.
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Malinta
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86Th (Blackhawk) Division
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Arate
Recove
Chiang Kai-Shek denies secret talks with Russia
Chiang Kai-Shek told newsmen no secret negotiations with Russia are taking place about Manchuria. He said informal discussions on economic conditions in Manchuria continue, with Russia in attendance but no secret talks. He noted Russia was scheduled to withdraw from Manchuria on February 1.
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State Rests In Davenport Case
Greeneville judge denies defense motion to quash charges against Roderick Davenport a former New Bern produce dealer and World War I veteran on trial at Pitt County Superior Court for conspiracy to defraud and false pretense linked to a summer loan business operating in several eastern North Carolina communities.
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Roderick Davenport
J. Paul Frizzelle
New Bern
Davenport
Pitt County
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Rain and Snow Move Eastward Ahead of Cold Air
The belt of rain and snow shifts east from the Mississippi valley as a mass of cold air approaches. Rain falls from Michigan to Texas with rain or snow expected across the east. Colder weather arrives tonight with Minnesota and the Dakotas reporting temperatures as low as 22 below zero. Miami records 71 degrees while Shreveport hits 67. The Weather Bureau says additional rain will not severely affect river overflows in Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina and Mississippi as floods peak in northwest Georgia and much of Mississippi.
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Five Die in Two Car Route 74 Crash Near Hamlet
Five people lost their lives in a two car collision on U S route 74 between seemies and Rockingham in Richmond County. Mrs E G Dawkins 43 of Hamlet and James William Covington of Hamlet were drivers killed. Several others were injured and taken to a Hamlet hospital.
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Flooded Dutch Farm Colony Reclaimed After Nazi Dyke Attack
From the Zuider Zee disaster in Wieringermer, a Nazi dyke bombing wiped out 512 farms and three villages on 48 000 acres. By April 1945 surrender aside, the Dutch land has been drained. farmers plan 1946 crops as pumps restore arable soil. The new colony, reclaimed 15 years earlier, shows resilience amid ruin.
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Happy Eden
Eden Floods and Dutch Resolve Amid Nazi Invasion
The Eden colony, a Nazi resistance hub, faced a deliberate flood after a dyke breach by German forces. Despite advance notice saving most lives, vast farmland, villages, and trees were submerged as the Bochelong invasion unfolded, yet Dutch stoicism persisted in response.
Man And Wife Fined In Lottery Case
Joe Hollifield and his wife Ann Hollifield were fined 5000 and 2000 dollars respectively after appearing before Judge LeRoy Sams on butter and eggs lottery charges in Winston-Salem. A car and 164 dollars were seized. police claimed daily lottery gross of 1000 dollars.
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Joe Hollifield
Ann Hollifield
LeRoy Sams
Hollifield
Charlotte
Joe Johnson
Ann
Agreement Seen In Erwin Mills Controversy
Washington February eleven meetings between Erwin Cotton mill officials and the CIO Textile Workers union indicate progress toward a settlement. Officials say a near end to the few month long strike, with a general wage increase totaling ten cents an hour or more. Talks on the workload dispute were settled last week. Labor department confirms conferences to continue through today.
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Erwin Cotton Mill
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Federal Conciliation Service
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Walkouts End Mild Relief Across U.S. Industry
Associated Press reports the end of crippling strikes in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia along with the revocation of New York City's closure order, bringing some relief to the nation’s industrial strife.
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UAW CIO Charges GM Hearing Postponed In Detroit
The National Labor Relations Board hearing on UAW CPI charges against General Motors was postponed with no explanation. Reports say another GM UAW meeting on wages and contracts may be arranged. Reuther rejected GM's 18 1/2 cent offer and urged GM to meet the 19 cent increase urged by the presidential fact finding panel.
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Postwar labor strife disrupts three eastern cities
A 10 day AFL tugboat walkout paralyzes New York and affects 3,500 workers as talks head to arbitration. Pittsburgh ends a 19 hour stoppage with a three man mediation board after a wage dispute. Philadelphia resumes transit after 48 hours as 9,900 CIO workers approve a wage raise and union shop terms.
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Tornado Injures 14 in Ardmore Oklahoma
A tornado struck Ardmore Oklahoma injuring at least 14 people none seriously. The storm destroyed or damaged about 25 houses and left power and phone lines down plunging the city into darkness as rescue workers searched debris for more victims. Lt Arch Merriott of the state highway patrol said 14 were hospitalized with ongoing recovery efforts.
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