Smuggling Of Dope Is Major Menace In Japan
Japanese authorities report to the United Nations that narcotics smuggling is a rising menace in Japan with heroin and morphine imports from Hong Kong. In 1954 over 10,000 grams of heroin were seized and 2,139 people were convicted, many Koreans and Chinese, with a network feeding dope to buyers nationwide.
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Kenneth Ishii
Tokyo
United Nations
Japan
Hong Kong
U. S
Narcotics Bureau
U. N
la Chin Shui
Macao
Boku Jin Taku
Drug and crime stats show varied conviction by group
Juana cigarette sold heroin at sixty dollars per gram. Among last year's arrestees the unemployed led with 1 160. Medical professionals followed with 188 tried and convicted. Nationality based figures show 1 368 Japanese 497 Koreans and 237 Chinese convicted for narcotics offenses.
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Juana Cigarette
Summer schedule set for scouting events across Lawrence county
The Lawrence County Council of the Boy Scouts of America announced a full summer schedule June through August. Highlights include a baseball excursion to Cleveland on June 11 with about 1200 youths and adults via special train from New Castle, camp programs at Camp Agawam, and Order of the Arrow ordeals on June 10-11 and Aug 15-16. The lineup also features roundtables, board meetings, and a Philmont trek followed by a World Jamboree in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
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Lawrence County
Boy Scouts of America
Order of the Arrow
Camp Agawam
County Council Executive Board
Castleton
Mahoning-Kuskuski
Elks Club
Ellwood City
Girl Scouts
Camp Agawa
Connoquenessing
Connoquenessing District Board of Review
Citizens Now
Bucknell University
Lewisburg
Greer Building
New Castle
National Boy Scout
New Brunswick
N. J
Lucien Maxwell
Philmont
Bell Telephones Then and Now Under the Bell Name
An article notes how Alexander Graham Bell would not recognize modern telephones while Bell engineers push innovations. Highlights jack and plug sets, amplified hearing, extension phones, six line capability, and extension bells for barns, with a nod to ongoing invention and a playful coda about a Davey Crockett raccoon tail. Also brief international and agricultural items follow.
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Alexander Graham Bell
Bell Telephone Company
Pie
J. R. Rohleder
Bell Telephone
Flaxseed acreage in 1946 and 1955 projections
Farmers expect to plant 5 743 acres of flaxseed in 1946, per Archer Daniels Midland. In 1954 acreage was 5 959. Most flaxseed comes from the Dakotas and Minnesota. North Dakota aims to plant 63 percent of the 1955 total. The statement notes hospital patient totals in Boston and Cincinnati.
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Minneapolis
United States
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co
Dakotas
Minnesota
North Dakota
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