Secret plans for India leak signals potential three way federation
Report says Viceroy Mountbatten sees possible federation of Hindu, Muslim, and princely states in British India as a path to independence. Gandhi backs compromise, urges unity, and criticizes press coverage. Mountbatten and leaders Jin nah and Nehru hold talks amid calls for partition or federation to end bloodshed.
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New Delhi
Lord Wavell
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Pundit Nehru
All- India Congress
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi
Jinnah
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Delhi
Hindustan Times
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The
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Britain Will Refuse Wartime Debt Recognition In Talks
A British government source said London will not recognize all wartime borrowing as legitimate debt in forthcoming creditor negotiations. He warned many debts should be joint expenditure and pledged a tough push to scale down the sterling balances while not seeking modification of the American loan terms.
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London
Britain
Hugh Dalton
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Gandhi rebuke May Shape Congress Sentiment and Viceroy Support
The passage notes Devadas and Gandhi's son Devadas acknowledge a rebuke from Gandhi. It describes Devadas' filial reverence and suggests the rebuke could influence Congress discussions and strengthen the viceroy's position.
DAD KILLS CHILDREN
Verona dispatch reports four Italian children killed by the explosion of a three inch shell they found in a field.
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Rome
Verona
Arkansas News in Brief May 7 1947
A coroner's jury ruled Mrs. Bernard Clewell's death accidental after a Sunday track fall. The South Arkansas Gas Transport and Marketing Corp. planned to serve Columbia county industrial users from Magnolia. Ford wage suits led to a summary judgment in three cases involving about $65,000. Arkansas senators host unofficial sessions in Eureka Springs June 6–8. Future Farmers of America members from 30 south Arkansas high schools visited the University of Arkansas station. Arkansas Wholesale Grocers reelected leaders in Little Rock. Federal Works Administration funded storm sewer plans for Trumann and Alma street improvements. A thief returned a stolen baseball plate with a note of remorse in El Dorado. Arkansas State Teachers College Bears to open ASC conference schedule in Conway versus Arkansas Tech. University of Arkansas teams swept Southwest Missouri State in Springfield. Bubba Smart led in Arkansas golf with a 67. J E Kress bound over in Hot Springs.
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Arkansas Tech
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College of Ozarks
ASC
Springfield
Southwest Missouri State College
Bubba Smart
Jury to hear first degree murder case
A jury was set for a preliminary hearing before Municipal Judge James R. Long on the murder charge against Kress 33 who is accused of fatally shooting Fred Sharp 55 a commercial fisherman at Lake Catherine Monday Bond not set Kress attorney Bar lane said ha beas corpus will be sought before Circuit Judge Clyde H. Brown Sheriff I G Brown noted Kress said he shot Sharp after the fisherman accused him of giving information to a game warden and advancing with a knife.
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James R. Long
Kress
Fred Sharp
Lake Catherine
Barlane
Clyde H. Brown
I. G. Brown
Man tells son of lost legs after accident and roller skates
Chicago May 7. Howard Richey, a 37 year old father, plans to explain to his six year old son Dale that he must roller skate with artificial legs after severe injuries from a gasoline explosion. Dale's mother remains hospitalized with a newborn, and the family keeps the truth from her until she recovers.
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Chicago
Howard Richey
Dale
Monte Stratton
Richey
Bubble Gum Seller Held on False Pretense Charges
D. C. Glass of Greenville Mississippi is jailed in North Little Rock after taking down payments for bubble gum orders he never delivered. Police estimate as many as eighty charges of false pretense may be filed against him.
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North Little Rock
D. C. Glass
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Glass
France Wins Immediate 250 Million Dollar IMF Loan
Paris May 7 reports say Finance Minister Robert Schumann announced a $250,000,000 loan agreement with the international bank at Bretton Woods is being signed in Washington. France will receive the first portion immediately, linked to the Blum-Byrnes agreement. Schumann said the French budget is finally in balance.
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National Assembly
Robert Schumann
International Bank
Bretton Woods
Washington
France
Schumann
Long Lines Wage Debate Near Settlement in Strike Talks
Conciliators said the company offered wage rises averaging 3.69 dollars per week for 20 000 long lines workers plus 67 cents weekly in fringe benefits. The total proposed package nears 4.36 dollars weekly versus the union’s 5.14 dollars.
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William N. Margolis
Manno and Margolis i
Senate Plans Confined from Page One
Senate Ways and Means Committee agreed to start hearings May 19 on a general revision of federal tax laws. Senator Lucas of Illinois pushed a substitute allowing husbands and wives in all states to split incomes for tax purposes, expanding beyond the nine states with community property laws.
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Case Ways and Means
Protest Reprisals Reported in Basque Strike Areas
The Basque government in exile says about 50,000 workers in Bilbao and Vizcaya provinces joined a general work stoppage and protests amid reprisals tied to the day of strike actions.
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Paris
Bilbao
Vizcaya
Poultry and Produce Market Report Highlights Mixed Movement
Chicago markets show firm live poultry with limited truck receipts while butter prices stay unsettled. Eggs are irregular after 15 903 receipts. At St Louis, hogs near steady to higher on most weights with some price spikes. cattle and calves steady to firm with mixed yearlings and clear buyer interest. sheep and lambs steady with modest gains in light lamb categories.
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Chicago
Louis
New York Cotton Futures Reach Higher on Tight Spot Supplies
Cotton futures in New York rose firmly with gains up to 2.35 a bale on profit taking and lodging. Prices closed higher than the prior close with May at 36.69 and other contracts advancing as traders chased a move in a tight spot market.
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New York
Stocks edge lower in slow New York session
New York May 7 stocks wavered with narrow price changes in one of the slowest sessions of the year. Pivotal issues failed to lead while steels softened in late trading, leaving gains and losses nearly balanced and transfers around 600000 shares.
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New York
Grain and Provisions in Chicago May 7
Corn spurted over 3 cents amid unfavorable planting weather and strong shipping sales. Wheat and oats gained but not as much as corn, with rain in the Midwest boosting oats buying. May prices ranged around 2.64 for wheat and 1.67 for corn. Shipping sales reached 300,000 bushels with 45,000 bushels booked and receipts tallied at 231 cars.
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Chicago
Commodity Credit Corporation
Midwest
New Orleans Cotton Futures Rise on Heavy Fixing and Short Cover
New Orleans May 7 Cotton futures gain as buyers push prices higher amid heavy price fixing and short covering. May contract tops 36.60 with highs and lows posted, spot cotton closes steady up by 2 dollars per bale. Sales reach 1,788 with middling totals around, receipts at 3,515 and stocks 158.
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New Orleans
Georgia Negro Attacks Two Women in Sylvania
James Brown, 25, an escaped convict, abducted and assaulted a white woman then attacked a second woman in front of her 3-year-old son in Sylvania Georgia. He was captured by Blair Daley and James Downing and placed in Reisville state prison for safekeeping. he had prior Bulloch County forgery sentence.
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Ages of Continents Ages of continents vary in age with Asia oldest
The article states continents differ in age with Asia the oldest, followed by Europe and Africa. North America is described as middle aged while South America is labeled young.
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Hope Star publication data and rates from 1920s Hope Arkansas
The Hope Star details its staff and office in Hope Arkansas with publication data. It lists editors and managers, along with press associations and subscription rates for urban carriers and mail delivery in various counties.
Man claims six year old murder buried in Cumberland valley
Bradley Casteel, 30, an army veteran from Big Stone Gap Virginia, told Norfolk police he would lead investigators to a wind swept valley in the Cumberland mountains to reveal a grave where he said he buried Anne Richardson, 16, of Baltimore after strangling her six years ago. He confessed while serving a ten day jail term for drunkenness and said the weapon lay in another nearby hole.
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Attack Victims Improve in Little Rock Cottage Assault
William H. Rudd, 52, a savage operator, and Marie Henderson, 30, victims of a brutal assault at a cottage near Little Rock, show slight improvement after hospital treatment. Sheriff Tom Gulley and Prosecuting Attorney Edwin Dunaway report no new leads. Henderson recalled seeing a large white man with a hat, but did not know him.
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William H. Rudd
Marie Hendrickson
Lite Rock
Tom Gulley
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Sable
Russia Attacks U S British Economic Pacts
Soviet papers criticize United States and Britain over trade links with Sweden Norway and Denmark claiming the Anglo American zone merger in Germany benefits industrial magnates and landlords. Izvestia cites a U S note on Sweden as unwarranted interference while the State Department reports protest over Swedish import restrictions.
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Radium Sources and Global Supply
Radium, valued for cancer treatment, is worth far more than its $50,000 per gram price. Major sources are the Palgian Congo in Africa and Great Bear Lake in Canada, separated by 10,000 miles and a 200 degree temperature range.
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Canada
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