LSU Scientists Build 21000 Atomic Lab at Baton Rouge
Dr C S Simons 31 leads a small team at LSU with Robert Emerson and machinist E T Keel to assemble a $21000 radio isotope laboratory from secondhand gear in a war surplus building. They plan tracer research starting Sept 19 and will teach a graduate course in radio activity and tracer methods by fall 1950. LSU will source isotopes from Oak Ridge and activate substances to track them in organisms.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
C. S. Simons
University
LSU Physics
Two Confirmed Plague Cases In New Mexico
Two New Mexico residents, a 10-year-old boy from Taos and a 37-year-old man in Albuquerque, have bubonic plague. Dr. Vernon Link of the Western Contagious Disease Control Center said modern drugs show strong progress against the disease.
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Santa FE
N. M
New Mexico
Vernon Link
Western Contagious Disease Control Center
San Francisco
Taos
Veterans Hospital
Albuquerque
Link
Honest thief returns $1500 diamond wrist watch
Fort Worth police investigated a case in which an anonymous call led officers to the Ehrhart apartment where the stolen $1500 diamond studded wrist watch was found inside the screen door. The watch had disappeared a week earlier from Donald B. Ehrhart’s home.
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Fort Worth
Theff
Donald B. Ehrhart
Ehrhart
Five Percenter probe flags irregular hotel deal and influence sales
Witnesses testified that James V. Hunt paid and returned a $5,000 check during a hotel deal connected to Leiden Hotel Company while aiding a repurchase of a Long Island property. The hearing also accused Albert Lewitt of falsified interviews and sought favors for Tanforan racetrack via Housing Expediter Tighe Woods. Major Gen. Vaughan pressured permit decisions.
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Washington
James V. Hunt
Pover
Co Ae
Hunt
Leiden
Fesneamn
Long Island
Navy
Harry H. Vaughan
Truman
Army
Tighe Woods
Tanforan Racetrack
California
Albert Lewitt
Hawkes
R-Nj
Rogers
Lewitt
Leiden Hotel
Senator Hawkes
White House
Tanforan
San Francisco
Woods
Vaughan
Eugene Mori Camden
N. J
Tanforan Company
British Health Plan Draws Tribal Chief
British West Africa chieftain Noo Kwabenamwe Ili arrived in London from Accra to explore Britain’s national health scheme. He said he could obtain free health treatment and spectacles here while citing a stomach ailment and a poor health history since a 1944 operation.
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London
Noo Kwabenamwe Ili
British West Africa
Gold Coast
Britain
Accra
Bonne
Europe’s First Unified Assembly Opens In Strasbourg
Edouard Herriot opened Europe’s Consultative Assembly in Strasbourg warning minds are divided on admitting Germany. Churchill’s arrival drew cheers as Spaak poised to become first president. Belgium’s cabinet reshuffle allows new leadership. Assembly includes delegates from Britain France Belgium Netherlands Luxembourg and others.
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Strasbourg
France
Edouard Herriot
Europe
Consultative Assembly
Germany
Winston Churchill
Belgium
Herriot
Assembly
Britain
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Italy
Ireland
Greece
Turkey
Town of Matador Founded On This Day In 1880
Cowboys of the Mata dor Ranch argued that 20 stores, not 20 permanent buildings, were required to issue a land patent for Matador. A grocer’s shelf, a dry goods box, and a saloon serving as the era’s sole legitimate business formed the town’s beginnings.
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Matador
Land Office
Matador Ranch
Hoover Warns on Debt and Spending to Protect Posterity
On his seventy-fifth birthday, Herbert Hoover urges restraint, blaming pressure groups and rising government spending for inflation and burdening future generations. He argues taxes alone won’t fix deficits and calls for living standards cuts and fiscal discipline.
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Hoover
Aoe
Houston Fines Armour Swift For Bad Meat
Armour and Company and Swift and Company paid 100 fines each after meat from Houston plants was found unfit for human consumption. The two firms pleaded no contest and agreed to cooperate with city inspectors who shut the plants until meat was checked.
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Houston
Armour and Company
Swift and Company
W. B Wiler
Swift
Polio Victim Mother Bears 7-Pound Baby
In Houston a British war bride mother, crippled by polio since July, gave birth to a seven pound fourteen ounce boy early Wednesday. Mrs. Dorothy Edge, 27, of Kirbyville, and the baby are said to be doing nicely. She has a 3-year-old daughter Mazel and a 19-month-old son Michael. Rector Edge, the father, works at a Kirbyville sawmill.
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Houston
Dorothy Edge
Kirbyville
Edge
Mazel
Michael
Rector Edge
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