Union Official Beaten At Elba Amid Dorsey Strike
Montgomery attorney Tom Adair says James P. Harden an international union official was beaten in Elba Alabama by three men who also threatened two other union leaders. The Dorsey Trailer Works plant, linked to the struck U A W, employs about 300 workers and has not reopened amid transport and material shortages. Harden says the assailants accused the union of continuing a strike that had been called off.
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Montgomery
Ala
Tom Adair
C. I. O. United Automobile Workers
Elba
Dorsey Trailer Works
Adair
James P. Harden
Ben Logan
J. L. Harrison
L. P. Mullins
Claude E. Dorsey
Harden
Dorsey
Child Sits on Tie Struck by Engine Near Oak Street Crossing
Four year old Rose Jones was struck by the pilot of freight engine No 276 on the Illinois Central main line near Oak Street crossing. She escaped serious injury after the locomotive nudged her aside. She was treated at St Francis Sanitarium and discharged. Her mother said the child had wandered from home.
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Illinois Central Railroad
Oak Street
Rose Jones
Eastbourd Freight No. 276
St. Francis Sanitarium
Mulhearn
Rose
Real Estate Transfers in Ouachita Parish
Yesterday the Ouachita Parish clerk recorded sales including Norma Hunt and others selling to Alice Register the southeast quarter of southwest quarter and related south west parcels in section 9 for 335 dollars. Joe Nett sold to Parke Bailey Lot 5 in Steele addition for 250 dollars. William A Johnston sold to Robert M Johnston two lots in Ouachita Cotton Mills Second Addition for 3811.32 dollars. J C Golden and associates sold to James Frost several partials of the northwest and southwest quarters totaling multiple small tracts.
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Quachita Parish
Norma Lee Hunt
Alice May
Township 18
Joe Nett
Parke Bailey
Steele
West Monroe
William A. Johnston
Robert M. Johnston
Ouachita Cotton Mills
Monroe
J. C. Golden Et al
James Frost
Color Change in Blackbird Eye During Mating Season
In the mating season blackbird males display pale yellow irises while females show light brown eyes. This eye color shift helps distinguish sexes during breeding.
Famous French physicist Paul Langevin dies at 74
Paris December 19. Professor Paul Langevin aged 74 a renowned French scientist died today after a brief illness. He was noted for work in electro magnetism and sound and served as general physics professor at the College of France for many years. He was dismissed from that post in 1940 by the Vichy government.
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Paris
Paul Langevin
France
College of France
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