Plumbers Set State Meeting in Albert Lea
Plumbers from Austin and Albert Lea will host the Minnesota Pipe Trades Assn state convention at the Albert Lea Labor Center on June 8. About 80 delegates from 19 locals will attend. officers will be elected. The organization is affiliated with the United Association of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry AFL-CIO.
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Albert Lea
United Association of Journeymen and Plumbers
A. L. Rundell
Minneapolis
Ed Berent
G. J. O'Donnel
St. Paul
James Watson
Austin
Wilfred Ring
William Loftus
James Bergstrom
Tom Meede
Albert Lea Tribune
Minnesota Pipe Trades Assn
Miller faces possible jail term for contempt of Congress
Playwright Arthur Miller was found guilty of contempt of Congress by Judge Charles F. McLaughlin after refusing to identify others at Communist-linked meetings in 1947. Sentencing was postponed to await a probation report, with potential jail up to one year and a $1000 fine. Miller and Marilyn Monroe left their New York apartment citing they were traveling for a while.
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Washington
Arthur Miller
Miller
Marilyn Monroe
New York
Federal
Charles F. McLaughlin
Miller’s
McLaughlin
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Walter
D-Pa
U.S
Communist Party
Congress
Britain Sets Off 2nd H Bomb Most Powerful in Series
Britain detonated its second hydrogen bomb in the South Pacific near Malden atoll south of Christmas Island. A Valiant bomber released a four ton device believed to be about five million tons of TNT, three times the first blast. observers aboard a naval yacht were protected and advised to turn away as a massive fireball formed overhead.
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Britain
Central Pacific
Malden Atoll
Christmas Island
U.S
Far East
Toyko
Bangkok
Thailand
House Group Winds On 2-Day Flood Survey
A House Public Works Subcommittee completed a 1700 mile two day aerial tour of flood ravaged Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas. Rep Edmondson chairman led a briefing on losses and flood control plans estimating 1.5 million acres damaged and losses around 35 million dollars. The group backed prompt funding and noted reservoirs Markham Ferry Oologah Keystone could cut flood damage by over half.
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Tulsa
Okla
House
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Edmondson
D + Okla
Wright
D-Tex
Byrne
R-Ill
Congress
Fort Worth
British Grapple nuke test details on Christmas Island
The blast at Christmas Island produced a blinding rainbow fireball and a mushroom cloud. More than 2,000 scientists and servicemen prepared at the operational HQ for Operation Grapple. William Cook predicted minimal local fallout and worldwide distribution of fine particles.
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Christmas Island
Cook
United States Leads In French Cutlery Exports 1956
French cutlery industry shows United States as top customer in 1956 with 5 million dollars of exports. About 435,500 dollars of that total reached the United States.
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United States
Construction Begins on Cheese Factory in Kenyon
Ground was broken in Kenyon Minnesota for a primost cheese factory. Scriver L Charlson will own and operate the plant after producing the cheese on his farm for years.
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Kenyon, Minn
Scriver L. Charlson
World War II End Triggers Bus Tax Refund in Detroit
Detroit’s trolley and bus system learned the war tax for operating outside city limits is no longer valid after State Treasurer Sanford A. Brown spotted a 1942 law that ended after the war. The transit agency received a $5,842 refund.
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Detroit
Sanford A. Brown
Brown
Michigan City
DSR
Sinatra DiMaggio sued over raid on Monroe
Frank Sinatra Joe DiMaggio and seven others face a 200000 damages suit for a wrong door raid on Marilyn Monroe. Florence Ross says the intrusion caused hysteria and forced her from a $300 monthly job after attackers battered her apartment door on November 5 1954. Private detectives are named defendants.
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Los Angeles
Frank Sinatra
Joe DiMaggio
Marilyn Monroe
Florence Kotz Ross
State Senate
DiMaggio
Ross
Chance of New Election Law Dim in Congress
Washington faces continued stalemate over federal election reform as Sen. McClellan and a special subcommittee push a new bill despite internal disagreements. Debates center on spending limits and contribution caps, with Gore’s stricter proposal contrasting the committee bill’s looser limits.
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Sen
McClellan
D-Ark
Johnson
Senate
Knowland
California
McClellan Committee
Hennings
D-Mo
Senate Rules Committee
Gore
D-Tenn
Special Committee
California health advisory urges high vitamin C and low BP sugar
Public Health Department guidance for Long Beach residents targets middle aged and seniors. Officials emphasize boosting vitamin C intake while keeping blood pressure and blood sugar levels in check to reduce health risks.
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Long Beach
Calif
California Public Health Department
Army Plans to Carry Out Jupiter Missile Program
The Army will continue Jupiter IRBM development through November unless Defense Secretary Wilson shifts policy to limit IRBMs to the Air Force and Navy. A Jupiter-type missile was tested at Cape Canaveral, potentially meeting planned range and altitude, with further funding pledged for the first five months of the new fiscal year.
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Army
Wilson
Air Force
Navy
Missile Test Center
Cape Canaveral
Florida
Defense Department
Gavin
House
Coty Condemns Rebels for Algerian Massacre
President Rene Coty urged all civilized peoples to reject the killers behind the Melouza massacre in Algeria. The village 80 miles southeast of Algiers saw 302 villagers slain in what officials describe as nationalist violence. France pressed a massive force response and blamed rebel groups recently arriving from Tunisia, worsening Franco Tunisian tensions.
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Paris
Rene Coty
France
Algeria
Melouza
Algiers
Tunisia
Tunisian
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Task Force
William Cook
U. S
Kathy Marlowe
China
Hong ‘Kong
South China
Pacific Ocean
Philippines
Sumatra
Sarawak
Indonesia
R.P.M
Sterling Shopping Center
Walgreen Agency
Valuabie
Nilan Printing CO
DEM
Richard Reynolds
Winston-Salem
N. C
Paul Butler
Democratic National Committee
Butler
Reynolds
Curtis
R-Neb
Senate Elections Subcommittee
Mansfield
D - Mont
Lyndon Johnson
Rules Committee
Maxwell D. Taylor
Coty
Eclipse Lumber Co
John Lundy
Mgr
Bash Ey
N. Kenwood
Nashs
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