Plumbers in Virginia strike over contract dispute
About 40 plumbers walked out in Virginia after talks with the Iron Range Contractors Association failed to yield a settlement. The union seeks a 10 cent hourly raise retroactive to May 1 plus 10 cents on November 1, while the best employer offer is 10 cents for the year.
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Virginia, Minn
Iron Range Contractors Association
Warren Sandquist
Sandquist
Streeter
Bricklayers Union
Duluth Contractors Association
Duluth
Milwaukee Attorney Enters 9th District Race
Milwaukee attorney Thomas N. Tuttle, 34, announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for representative of Wisconsin's new 9th district. The district includes Waukesha County, Wauwatosa, and northern Milwaukee suburbs. the old 9th was in Northwestern Wisconsin with Democrat Lester Johnson as incumbent.
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Milwaukee (Ap
Thomas N. Tuttle
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Waukesha County
Wauwatosa
Lester Johnson
Haiti and Dominican Republic share Hispaniola island
Haiti covers 10 714 square miles in the western third of Hispaniola the world’s only two nation island. The Dominican Republic occupies the rest of the island.
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Haiti
Hispaniola
Dominican Republic
Vault of gold beneath New York bank explored
Sylvia Porter tours the Federal Reserve Bank of New York vault at 33 Liberty Street. She describes security, access by three-key doors, 118 cages for foreign gold, and a scale that weighs to one hundredth of a troy ounce. Porter notes the vault holds over 13 billion dollars in gold and discusses the nation’s balance of payments.
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Financial District
Manhattan Island
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Liberty St
Manhattan
U.S
Treasury
New York Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve
Reserve
United States
The
Hall Syndicate, Inc
Fisherman Survives Six Days in Gulf Bait Box Rescue
Rus sell C. Swift, 45, of West Springfield Pennsylvania, rode out six days in a 3 by 3 foot bait box after his 30 foot snapper Java sank 60 miles offshore. An amphibious plane spotted the box 50 miles southwest of Fort Myers Florida and a shrimp boat and helicopter ferried him to Fort Myers Hospital.
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Fort Myers
Fla
Pennsylvania
Gulf of Mexico
Russell C. Swift
Springfield
Coast Guard
Swift
Here
Marshfield Bank Founder Clarence Mau Dies at 67
Clarence W. Mau executive vice president of Central State Bank of Marshfield and co founder of the bank 26 years ago died Saturday night in a Marshfield hospital from a heart condition. He was 67 and had led districts one and six of the Wisconsin Bankers Association. Earlier in his career he was with the Bank of Prairie Farm and remained a Prairie Farm director, led by his brother Willard.
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Marshfield
Clarence W. Mau
Central State Bank of
Mau
Wisconsin Bankers Association
May
Bank of Prairie Farm
Prairie Farm Bank
Willard
Contraband Coin Shipment Seized in Juarez
Mexican customs agents seized about one million pesos eight hundred dollars in one peso silver coins. The silver coins retired from circulation were to be smuggled into the United States, packed in crates aboard a trailer from Mexico City.
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Juarez
Mexico
U.S
Guillermo Alarcon Najera
United States
Mexico City
Pterodactyl of Prehistoric Times Described as Flying Reptile
A brief note explains the pterodactyl as a prehistoric flying reptile. It contrasts its flight with modern birds and emphasizes its place in ancient life.
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Pterodactyl
Dow Jones Near Record After 18 Month Lapse
The Dow Jones industrial average nears a new high after an 18 month lapse. The article explains how the index is computed, its history since 1897 and 1928, and why actual stock prices differ from the index value due to stock splits and divisor adjustments.
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Dow Jones
New York
Associated Press
Standard & Poor
American Tobacco
General Electric
du Pont
Episcopal Service For Pope Praised In Milwaukee
Episcopal Bishop Donald H. V. Hallock reported a Roman Catholic archbishop sent praise for the Christian charity shown by those at the Episcopal Requiem for Pope John XXIII. The Solemn Eucharist at All Saints Cathedral Saturday drew other Protestant clergy and was likely Milwaukee’s first joint service of its kind.
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Milwaukee
Episcopal
Donald H. V. Hallock
Christian Charity
John XXIII
William E. Cousins
Hallock
All Saints Episcopal Cathedral
Court Invalidates Missouri Utility Seizure Law
The Supreme Court unanimously struck down a Missouri statute allowing the governor to seize and operate a private public utility during a strike. The ruling held the law unlawfully penalized peaceful strikes against interstate commerce employers, conflicting with the Taft Hartley Act's protections and collective bargaining rights.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Missouri
Division 1287
Kansas City Transit Inc
Kansas
Stewart
High Bench
White
Approval of $31,000 Factory Loan for New Richland Plant
The Small Business Administration approved a $31,000 loan to the New Richland Development Corp of New Richland Minnesota to buy land and construct a factory for Tonna Plastics Inc. The project will create about 25 jobs and house a plant producing plastic pipe and lawn sprinkler systems.
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Washington
New Richland Development Corp
New Richland, Mann
Small Business Administration
Tonna Plastics Inc
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