War Today analysis on India's independence under Atlantic charter
Dewitt Mackenzie argues Queen Wilhelmina's call for a free world under the Atlantic charter echoes Gandhi's struggle for independence in India. He warns rash action by the All-India Congress could destabilize allied efforts and trigger chaos if Britain withdraws without groundwork. England cannot grant immediate independence. allies may oppose moves risking India.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utte
Wilhelmina
Congress
All-India Congress Committee
Bombay
Britain
Congress Committee
India
Mohandas Gandhi
Holland
Hindustan
Congress Party
England
China
Russia
Gandhi
U S O Appeals for Indiana County Support
Home Front appeal from Indiana County urges donations to the U S O to boost morale and aid service members. Readers are asked to contribute to the Indiana County quota, with praise for supporters and reminders of the Scroll of Honor and local heroism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Indiana Borough
Indiana County
WSO
Indiana Countain
Court Yard
USC
Phila
St. Indiana
U.S. OU
Endorsement Backing Gandhi for Indian Independence
India endorses a resolution supported by Mohandas Gandhi in a meeting opened with a request for immediate independence yet opposing the withdrawal of British or American troops. The discussion followed Gandhi and other speakers as the process continued.
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Mohandas K. Gandhi
Ava
India
Gandhi
Bethlehem Plants Active in Wartime Labor Drive
The War Production Board announced twenty seven Bethlehem Steel plants including eight in Pennsylvania formed voluntary labor-management committees to boost wartime production. The effort liftsWPB reach to 1100 plants, with committees also at Erie Register in Erie and Pittsburgh firms.
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Washington
Atla
Bethlehem Steel Company
Pennsylvania
War Production Board
Bethlehem Group
Erie Register Corporation
Erie
Pittsburgh Tube Company
Monaco
General Engineering and Model Works
Pittsburgh
Bethlehem
Steelton
Pottstown
Rankin, Johnstown
Williamsport
Leersdale
Coatesville
WPH
WPB
Nazi drive nears Maikop and Krasnodar fronts in Caucasus
A wartime bulletin reports Nazi forces advancing within 30 miles of the Maikop oil fields and nearing Krasnodar on the Rostov line toward the Black Sea. It notes Soviet reinforcements, RAF raids on Duisburg, and a large Moscow conference as Britain and allies seek a second front. Gandhi signals potential general strike in India as Congress weighs mass disobedience.
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Hitler
Feld
Kuban
Maikop
Baku
Caucasus Mountains
Krasnodar
Rostov
Black Sea
Don River
Sal River
Kotelnikovski
Stalingrad
High Command
Rzhev
Moscow
London
United Nations
Russia
United States
Great Britain
Norway
Semeon Timoshenko
Kursavka
Rostov-Baku
Great Baku
Caucasus
Ruhr Valley
Duisburg
Low Countries
DNB
Cambridge
Edinburgh
Pilot Training Programs May Come to Western Pa
Harrisburg Aug 7 Civil pilot training programs may move from eastern Pennsylvania’s vital defense area under war effort restrictions. The ban affects all Pennsylvania east of a line from Sussex New Jersey through Pottsown. Wing Commander William S Anderson says training will cease by August 15 and many operators plan to relocate training outside the defense zone. Plans for a cap courier service between war factories were abandoned for now, with efforts shifted to central and western Pennsylvania and a start hoped by Sept 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
Decense
William S. Anderson
Pennsylvania Civil Air Patrol
Air Corps
Anderson
Sussex
N. J
Pottstown
Pottsville
Allentown
Lancaster
Reading
Easton
York
Civil Air Patrol
Gandhi Calls For General Strike As India Seeks Independence
Amid wartime turmoil Gandhi urged mass civil disobedience to press Britain for immediate Indian independence. Leaders of India’s 396 million vote to seek support from Roosevelt Chiang Kai-shek and Russia, while Maulana Azad moves to dispatch appeals after a Congress resolution. Britain pledges steps to prevent further riots and violence allied to Gandhi’s tactics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific
India
Roosevelt
Chiang Kai-Shek
Russia
Great Britain
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Gandhi
Britain
Lord Linlith- Row
Maulana
Abdul Kazan Azad
Atledix Party
Chiang
Ivan Maisky
Congress Committee
China
Joseph W. Stillwell
U. S. Army
Canton
Hawaii
U. SS. Army
Wake Island
Charge B. Gluber
Wartime destroyer leaders in Lombok Strait battle
Wilhelmina commanded a destroyer division while T H Binford led Destroyer Division 58 in the Lombok Strait night action on February 19 1942 against numerically superior Japanese forces. H E Eccles led the Destroyer Edwards in the same battle. H P Smith commanded the Destroyer.
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Pacific
Glassford
Order of lorange-Nassau
Binford
Militaire Willemsarde
Eccles
Smith
Agriculture official lauds President's pick on supply plans
Gillette praised the President's selection for coordinating rubber supply needs for the military and civilians. He stated the nation would be better off if the committee had been formed six weeks earlier, aligning with his agriculture subcommittee's earlier recommendations.
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Gillette
Freight cars increase in weekly AR report
Washington reports the Association of American Railroads announced 869,528 revenue freight cars loaded in the week ending last Saturday. This marks an 8,006 car rise or 0.9 percent from the prior week, a 18,494 car drop or 2.2 percent year over year, and a 145.60 car rise or 20.3 percent since 1940.
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Washington
Association of American Railroads
Iron sets new monthly production record at Carnegie Illinois
Pittsburgh August reports Carnegie Illinois Steel blast furnaces set a new monthly iron output record for July totaling 1,458,728 tons, surpassing May’s previous high. The group also tallies eight other new production marks including strong steel making performances. Open hearth works at Farrell Pennsylvania produced 90, 84 tons of steel ingots, beating its March record.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie
Red Cross Seeks Bandages From Pennsylvania Mental Hospitals
The American Red Cross aims to supply hospitals in Pennsylvania with bandages to meet a large demand. Dr. William C. Bandy, head of the welfare department’s mental health bureau, says hospitals will help produce the material.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrishing
American Red Cross
Pennsylvania
Red Cross
William C. Bandy
Welfare Department
Bureau of Mental Health
Giant cargo planes move from vision to production
Los Angeles reports that mass troop transport aircraft are now in quantity production. Planes with 400 soldier capacity and 10 to 12 hour Atlantic range are nearing construction. Leaders from Consolidated Aircraft and founder Major Reuben Fleet touted readiness to tackle heavy transport needs in radio talks.
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Los Angeles
Atlantic
Tom M. Girdler
Consolidated Aircraft Corp
Reuben H. Fleet
Girdler
San Diego
Douglas
Curtiss
Consolidater
Fiert
CBS
Blackpool's wartime bustle masks concern for 300 battalion
Atlantic City of England Blackpool thrives with theaters ballrooms and beaches while residents fear for 300 local battalion members reported fighting in Malaya. The U S employment office records 7 547 placements for the week ending July 17, raising yearly total to 189 000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harissang Vons
Pennsylvania
United States Employment Office
H. Raymond Mason
Warden Aide Faces Justice in Jail Conspiracy Case
Chester W. Calvin deputy warden and former Beaver Falls mayor and Alex Bentley faced a justice of the peace on a conspiracy charge to aid prisoner George Puskar's escape from Beaver County jail. Puskar, an Ambridge auto dealer, had earlier fled the jail with alleged help from Bentley who paid Calvin, with Puskar later captured in California. Bond posted, hearing set.
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Beaver
Chester W. Calvin
Beaver County
Beaver Falls
Alex Bentley
Rittelmann
Puskar
California
Bentley
Calvin
Small oil firms to join 60 car petroleum trains
The Office of Defense Transportation announces plans to include tank cars from small oil producers in 60 car solid trains to be rushed into the eastern shortage area. Two thirds of oil products now move to eastern cities in solid trains under a program started August 1. A Dallas meeting will draft plans to concentrate cars from small shippers at designated terminals for inclusion in the trains.
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Washington
Office of Defense Transportation
Nestroleum
ODT
Dallas
Oil Industry
Association of American Railroads
Seaboard
Stock market ticker from Evening Gazette clipping
A dense OCR style listing shows numerous corporate names and percentages, resembling a stock ticker or market roundup. Brands include Air Reduction, Boeing, Chrysler, Du Pont, General Electric, General Foods, Libby, Montgomery Ward, National Biscuit, Packard, Penn RR, Radio Corp, Studebaker, Texaco, United Aircraft, US Steel, Woolworth, and many others with varied percentage figures. The fragment ends with a quotation about a personal letter from home.
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Amiarret Air Reduction Am
Am Teb
Anaconda
Atch T
Bald Loco Ct
Balt and Ohio
Bendix Aviat
Beth Steel
Boeing Airplane
Borden Co
Budd Mfg Co
Ches and Onia
Chrysler Corp
Colum G
Edlyon
du Pont
Eastman Kadak
Mlinois Central
Int Harvester
Nick Can
Johns Manville
Studebaker Corpaig Swift and Co
Texas Co
United Aircraft
United Corp
United Gas Imp
US Steel
West el and Mighty Woolworth
Ark Nat Gas
Electric
Penmoad Corpay
Unswayed Chicago Woman Refuses Fare Fine Reduced
Rose Kane, 48, tied up 18 streetcars after refusing to exit a car past her stop. Fined $5 for disorderly conduct, the court cut to $2, she protested. She offered $10 if city needed money. judge left a symbolic $1 fine with no commitment.
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Chicago
Rose Kane
Obituary notices from Blairsville area deaths
Obituaries list several Blairsville area deaths with spellings and dates. Mrs Nazel Kelly of Blairsville died at home on Stewart street with burial in Blairsville Cemetery after services at 2 30 pm Monday. Elsie Ruefner McLaren of Edgemont near Blacklick died in Latrobe Hospital and interment at Blairsville Cemetery. Lois Marie Stivson George's services held at Robinson Funeral Home with interment at Oakland Cemetery. Edwin Townsend of South Bend Township Armstrong County died, funeral plans pending with interment at South Bend Cemetery.
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Nazel (Kelly) Skinner
Stewart Street
Blairsville
William J
Annab Hel (Carson) Kelly
Westmoreland County
Hugh Fryer
Dover, O
E. ©. Shupe
Saltsbburg
Audrey O'Neal
Harry Forsha
Blair
Harry Kelly
Saltsburg
Raymond Kelly
Johnstown
O'Neal
Main Street
John Mc Culloch
Blairsville Cemetery
Elsie (Ruefner) McLaren
Edgemont
Blacklick
Latrobe Hospital
Derry
Edward J. Ruffner
John 8. McLaren
Hese
John R. Deve
Beltydo
Louise
George E. William FP
Joseph S
Donald Ruftner
Windber
Mr. Nicholson
Blacklick Presbyterian Church
Lois Marie
Stivson) George
Robinson Funeral Home
Oakland Cemetery
William L. George
Edwin FE. ‘Townsend
Sara Elizabeth (Fritz) Townsend
South Bend Township
Armstrong County
Simon PL
Eliza J. Townsend
Ridge Presbyterian Church
Smany
W. M. Townsend
Garwih
Messrs
Emil G. Teyssier
WOR
KF Craighead
South Beni Cemetery
Statewide inspection success reported in July period
Elmer Transeau, state highway safety director, said about five percent of vehicles had failed to obtain inspection stickers for the month ending July 8. He estimated roughly 2,300,000 motor vehicles, noting a drop from January. Commissioner Lynn G Adams added very few owners were cited for failing to inspect, as most used cars daily or stored them.
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Elmer Transeau
Pennsylvania
Trang
Lynn G. Adams
Failun
Pittsburgh Market Summary Shows Mixed Prices and Steady Livestock
Market report from Pittsburgh dated August 7 notes moderate demand for pork products and steady apple prices with regional berry and potato quotes. Hog sales remain active at steady prices, cattle and calves steady to strong, with sheep also steady to strong in salable lots.
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Pittsburgh
Roosevelt Still Reading Saboteur Case
Washington August 7 The White House said the President has not yet concluded his reading of the testimony in the eight alleged Nazi saboteurs case. Assistant secretary William D. Hassett read the statement to reporters about Roosevelt’s ongoing review of evidence and findings from the military trial, with the President to pass sentence as the sole reviewing authority. In other news Dr Mary B McElwain will be acting dean at Wilson College for a year, replacing Margate Criswell Disert who was inducted as a lieutenant in the Women’s Naval Reserve Corps.
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Blackpool
England
Atlantic City
Paul Manning
London
Britain
McElwain
Wilson
4 College
Smith College
Weston-super-Mare
Cardiff
Madison Square Garden
Lancashire
Coney Island
Alice
Tussaud
Hitler
Epstein
Jacob and the
Angel
Miss Blandish
Malaya
Washington
White House
William D. Hassett
Roosevelt
Nas
Military Trial Commission
Chambersburg
Mary B. McElwain
Wilson College
Margate Criswell Disert
Women’s Naval Reserve Corps
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Merchantman
U. S. S. Charger
Nea
Western
RAF
Ruhr
Reich
Joe Fercements
Warden
Justice
Pittston
Forest Hills
Wyoming
Burna Sheldon
Joseph Mangione
Mary M. Pedallonis
Mangione
James Mangione
Margaret Martin
Kingston
Toolisng Evening Gazette
Army
Navy
Basket
Rambos
Wealthys
Duchess and Gravesteins
W. Va
Cobblers
New Jersey
Culinary Arts Institute
Indiana Evening Gazette
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