Work Resumes At Atomic Plant After Walkout
Associated Press reports construction on 250 million dollars of government projects including two atomic plants resumed in Oak Ridge Tennessee after a weeklong strike that paralyzed all building. Four thousand five hundred workers returned, with 700 AFL Local 818 members among them. The walkout began May 24 and spread to halt all construction by May 26. Laborers sought 1.25 per hour wage from 95 cents, with arbitrators to decide by June 15. The plants K-29 and K-31 advance uranium-235 production for atomic bombs.
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Associated Press
Oak,ridge, Tenn
AFL Laborers and Hadcarriers Local 818
Wildcat
Laborers Union
Tobacco smug gling guns on border with blinding light beam
The article notes widespread tobacco smuggling on the Franco Belgian border aided by "the zle guns" that emit a four mile beam of light powerful enough to temporarily blind anyone in its path.
Magistrate fines listed for speeding and stop sign violation
Fines assessed before Mag istrate A. M. Dulaney include Paul Belcher ten dollars and forty cents for speeding and Thomas Edwards nine dollars and forty cents for running a stop sign.
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A. M. Dulaney
Paul Belcher
Thomas Edwards
Red man's share of global agricultural wealth estimated
An observer notes that about five sevenths of the world's agricultural wealth has been attributed to the contributions of Indigenous peoples. The statement emphasizes the historical impact of Native communities on farming knowledge and crops.
Cracks Down on Brooklyn Rowdies
Associated Press reports a New York magistrate warned Brooklyn teenage gangs after Memorial Day gun and knife fights left three youths wounded. Eleven youths from Greene Avenue Stompers Nits Chicos and Gay Nineties faced bail in the Edford Stuyvesant area with Harvey Charles held without bail for a shooting that seriously wounded a 15 year old. others grazed by bullets.
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New York
Brooklyn
Benjamin Brenner
Greene Avenue Stompers
Nits Chicos
Edford-Stuyvesant
Brenner
Harvey Charles
Decoration Day House Guests From Far and Wide
Dahlgren notes parade of visitors over Decoration Day weekend. Among attendees are Mrs. Frank Osborne of Centralia with local kin, Atlanta visitors the Hart family, Mississippi and Cairo relatives of various branches, and St. Louis families dropping by. Numerous Lamport and Lowery relatives from Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa joined the gatherings, with several staying to visit the Miller and Lowery households.
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Frank Osborne
Centralia
Nim_Estes
Charles Froom
Harry Hart
Atlanta
Georgia
Ora Turrentine
Roy Sawyer
Mississippi
Ed Sawyer
Ellery Hill
Bess Brookins
Cairo
Joe Loehr
Demoines
Iowa
John Loehr
Floyd Judd
Josephine
Chaney Walden
Gus Mitchell
Madison, IL
Frank Devers
A. C. Lamport
Wayne Masters
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Wart Lamport
St. Louis
Lizzie McReynolds
Alice Grechen
Jeri Lou
Urbana, IL
W. HH. Lamport
Kieth
Kay
Peoria
I. R. Lamport
Mike
Johnny
East Peoria
Hassell Lamport
Suzanne
Linda
Evansville
Ind
Guy V. Jones
Jyr
Glenellyn
Lesser
Elmon
Charles R. Miller
Buddy
Dave Lowery
Earl
Ruth Hartland First US air hostess record
Ruth Hartland is identified as the United States first air hostess in an early aviation era feature highlighting pioneering women in commercial flight.
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Ruth Hartland
United States
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Erie
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Sweden
Dahlgren News
H. E. Maulding
Scott Orr
Eldorado
A. J. Lowery
Art Fetty
Ella Judd
Blanc Sanders
Helen Bogart
Alice
Joe Judd
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