India Faces Mass Civil Disobedience Risk in Britain’s Hold
India’s Nationalists plan a short swift nonviolent campaign to seek independence, led by Pandit Nehru and Gandhi. Gandhi urges Indian princes to share power or risk imperial downfall as world turmoil looms and Linlithgow warns princes to ready their political houses.
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de Witt McKenzie
Britain
Pandit Nehru
Mohandas Gandhi
India
All-India Congress
Calcutta
Pandit
United Nations
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi
Mahatma
Lord Linlithgow
Escapee Harvey Cline Kills Wife Then Dies
Harvey Cline 41 escaped from Montana State Prison July 26 shot his wife Gwendolyn 31 in Melstone after threatening to kill sheriffs officers and his four children. He died Monday night on an operating table after robbing Carol Lewis of his clothes and pickup. Sheriff Jess Burns led the investigation.
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Mont
Jess Burns
Harvey Cline
Cline
Bull Mountains
Mountana
Deer Lodge
Melstone
Gwendolyn
Mooney
Carol Lewis
Lewis
Burns
Frank Ottman
George Smith
Spitfires Attack Calais Area as Raid Hits English Towns
British Spitfires swarmed the English Channel area in a mid day strike on Calais with Nazi raiders damaging two English towns in scattered bombing forays. A third town on the south coast was saved by a strong anti aircraft barrage. Folkestone observers saw Spitfires returning in the afternoon, often flying at rooftop level due to low clouds.
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London
English Channel
Calais
Folkestone
Channel
President Studies Report of Nazi Trial Findings
President Roosevelt spent most of the day reviewing the military commission findings and sentence for eight Nazis charged with entering the United States for sabotage. No decision was expected Tuesday due to a large backlog of documents to read.
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Washington (P
Roosevelt
United States
Mr. Roosevelt
Navy Officer Bulkeley Receives Medal of Honor
President Roosevelt awarded Lieutenant John D. Bulkeley the Medal of Honor for four months of daring operations in Philippine waters with a motor torpedo boat squadron. The citation highlights his dynamic leadership, planning, and risk taking in damaging enemy ships and dispersing landing parties. The ceremony took place in the White House.
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Roosevelt
John D. Bulkeley
Philippine
Bulkeley
Douglas MacArthur
Manuel Quezon
Philippines
Corregidor Island
Roosevelt to finish review of saboteur case in days
President Roosevelt said he expects to complete within two or three days his review of the evidence and findings of the military commission that tried eight alleged Nazi saboteurs. Marcus E. Cox, a Shelley farmer, admitted to officers he shot his wife saying she wanted him to do things he did not want to do. Sheriff William A. Cough testified at Cox's preliminary hearing as Cox, in the presence of his father Leonard Cox, saw the body of his wife Lottie Melvina Russell Cox, 23.
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Rosevelt
Marcus E. Cox
Shelley Farmer
William A. Cough
Cox
Leonard Cox
Shelley
E. William Furchner
Bingham County
Lottie Melvina Russell Cox
Navy says squadron downed 54 Japanese planes in four actions
The navy credited a single fighter squadron in the Pacific with shooting down 54 enemy planes across four actions, plus 18 more probably destroyed. The first action occurred in the Coral Sea battle, with three more in the Battle of Midway.
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Washington
Navy
Pacific
Coral Sea
Midway
National League and American League scores update twilight
Baseball scores show Brooklyn at New York, St Louis vs Cincinnati, Chicago vs Pittsburgh, Boston vs Philadelphia, Detroit vs Chicago, and New York at Washington with multiple inning tallies and pitcher pairings listed for each game. Several games include late-night matchups in cities across the leagues.
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National Brooklyn
New York
Twilight
Fire devastates Ringling Brothers tent killing many animals
A blaze at Cleveland lakefront destroyed the Ringling Brothers menagerie tent. At least 60 animals died including an elephant and multiple big cats and giraffes. many more were seriously burned or escaped as firefighters and circus workers tried to control the flames. Crowd of about 5000 watched as some animals were removed.
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Ringling Brothers
John Ruxting North
Frank Braden
New York Central
British Meet In Secrecy
The British House of Commons held a secret session to hear Deputy Prime Minister Clement Attlee. In the following open sitting MPs passed a bill allowing United States army courts to try American personnel in Britain, despite protests over Washington dictates. The measure awaits the king's assent.
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Clement R. Attlee
House
United States Army
Britain
Washington
Stafford Cripps
Privy Seal
Attlee
Home
Herbert Morrison
Workmen Return to Mason County Ordnance Works
About 1000 construction workers who walked off Monday at the Mason county ordnance works returned Tuesday. Officials say the unauthorized walkout stemmed from a misunderstanding and could not be explained by E. B. Badger, the general contractor, as the government builds a 55 million dollar facility.
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W. Va
Mason County
E. B. Badgers Company
Water Fueled Steam Locomotive Splash at Swan Creek
A Baltimore and Ohio locomotive on the Philadelphia to Baltimore run scooped water from a track pan at Swan Creek Maryland and returned to Baltimore with a full tank. A 22 inch snapping turtle floated in the water tank. Porter Pete Williams took it home and praised it as “good.”
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Baltimore and Ohio
Philadelphia
Swan Creek
Pete Williams
Woman Awaiting Execution Worries About Her Brother
Toni Jo Henry, 26, on death row in Lake Charles for the 1940 St Valentine’s Day murder, speaks of her brother overseas in the army and the motive behind the crime. She describes her life as a public specter behind bars and discusses her husband Claude Henry and accomplice Fin nan Burks in a bank robbing plot.
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Toni To Henry
Toni Jo Henry
Houston
Texas
San Antonio
Claude
Cowboy) Henry
Henry
Tonio
Finnan Burks
Joseph P. Callaway
Four Locomotives Collision Near Dunsmuir Kills Engineer
Four Southern Pacific locomotives collided at a siding at Mott nine miles north of Dunsmuir California killing Engineer Frank Brown. The crash derailed two engines and blocked the main line between California and Oregon for hours. Three helper engines descending a grade struck an engine exiting a siding. Brown was the engineer of the inbound locomotive.
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Calif
Southern Pacific
Mott
Frank Brown
San Francisco
California
Oregon
Brown
River Riders Complete Fast Colorado River Trip
Norman D. Nevills of Mexican Hat Utah led a six man and two boy party on a 19 day Colorado River rapids trip from Lee's Ferry Arizona to Boulder City Nevada. They finished Monday with the fastest Grand Canyon running time and three boats in the flotilla. The group included Preston Walker Wayne McConkie Neill Wilson Bruce Wilson Otis Marston Garth Marston E C Hudson and E Olsen. They plan a Cataract Canyon journey from Moab Utah to Lee's Ferry next October.
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Ariz
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Utah
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Lee’s Ferry
Colorado
Grand Canyon
Preston Walker
Grand Junction
Colo
Wayne McConkie
Neill Wilson
Burlingame
Calif
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Otis Marston
Berkeley
Garth
E. C. Hudson
Banning
E. Olsen
Pittsburgh
Gandhi draft on Japan negotiation sparks Congress clash
In New Delhi the British government report details Mohandas Gandhi proposing that if India gained freedom its first step might be to negotiate with Japan. Nehru opposed the line as linking with axis powers. Gandhi defended the language and said he would press China’s freedom if India gained independence.
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India
Mohandas K Gandhi
all-India Congress
Japan
Gandhi
Bombay
China
all-India Congress Party
Pandit Jawaharalal Nehru
Nehru
Youth Tells Of Crash In Idaho Falls Nurse Dies In Center Street Collision
Chief of detectives C Evans cites boy witness Chris Poullos of 618 North Sixth Ave as saying Mrs. Essie Moronda Moore 53 of Idaho Falls turned to dodge an Indian crossing the street. Her coupe hit the municipal building at Center and First, 8 54 p.m. She died at hospital from face and chest injuries. No inquest. services to be announced.
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Spencer Hospital
Idaho Falls
James E. Gray
Melba Services
Halmortuary
Lowe Recommends Shift in Sports
Scott D Lowe county superintendent of schools proposed a plan to limit athletic programs for the next year. He urged school districts to organize within each district and develop a stay-at-home program so that various classes compete locally rather than against outside districts.
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Scott D Lowe
Bannock County
Court Opens Cox Hearing At Blackfoot
Preliminary hearing for Marcus E. Cox, 33, Shelley farmer, charged with murdering his wife July 16, opened in Blackfoot before Judge Earl W. Cory. Witnesses described finding the body in the Danskin canal and details of the wound and location.
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Marcus E. Cox
Shelley Farmer
Earl W. Cory
Henry Johnson
Dankin Canal
Johnson
Danskin Canal
Porterville Bridge
J. C. Sandberg
J. O. Hampton
Kenneth Russel
Floyd Russell
Idaho Falls
William A. Clough
Sandberg Funeral Home
Marcus Cox
Cox
Canal
Shelley
California
Califoria
Mercury Climbs to 96 Amid Ongoing Heat Wave
The forecast calls for warmer temperatures after two weeks of 90 to 101 degree heat. Monday reached 96 with a 49 degree low, as Old King Sol intensifies the heat while nights offer a brief cooling window. Sun rises 6 24 and sets 8 48. current temperature 91.
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Sol
Hiker Held for Trial in Utah Robbery Case
Joseph Hoffman a 39 year old Salt Lake City man was bound over for trial in second district court on charges of robbing R W Seewer of 433 Canyon Road Ogden. Hoffman is accused of stealing 41 dollars and an object from Seewer.
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Utah
Joseph Hoffman
Salt Lake City
Uesday
Second District Court
R. W. Seewer
Canyon Road
Ogden
Hoffman
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