War Caught Workers Seek Pay in Pacific Island Case
J. Herzl Segal argued for 796 workers and survivors in a federal suit against five major construction firms over wages and damages totaling over 50 million dollars. The workers were stranded on Wake, Guam, and the Philippines when the 1941 Pacific war began and returned by 1945.
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Pacific Islands
J. Herzl Segal
Wake
Guam
Philippines
United States
Hawaiian Dredging Co., Ltd
Raymond Concrete Pile Co
Turner Construction Co
Morrison Knudson Co., Inc
J. H. Pomeroy and Co., Inc
Workes
Segal
NewsWomen Win Honor at Theta Sigma Phi Convention
Four women journalists named headliners of the year at the Theta Sigma Phi national convention in Dallas. Honorees include Ag ness Underwood city editor Los Angeles Herald and Express Carol Lane Shell Oil Co travel writer Gertrude Die ken editor Farms Journal Philadelphia and Bess Furman New York Times Washington bureau. Nine recipients received honorary Texas citizenship certificates at the matric table dinner attended by 200 delegates.
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Tex
Agness Underwood
Los Angeles Herald and Express
Carol Lane
Shell Oil Co
New York
Gertrude Dieken
Farmer’s Wife
Farm Journal
Philadelphia
Bess Furman
Washington
New York Times
Woman’s Journalism Fraternity
Texas
Louise Denny
Billings
Mont
Stoddard Named To Banking Board
Arthur E. Stoddard of the Union Pacific railroad was elected a director of First Se sank Corporation, which operates four banking offices in Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming. George S. Eccles announced the appointment saying the firms share common interests and future territory development.
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OGDEN
Sesank Corporation
Utah
Idaho
Wyoming
Arthur E. Stoddard
Union Pacific Railroad
Stoddard
Corporation
George S. Eccles
Zodiacal Sign Horizon1 Puzzle Clues For 1 Across
A compact clue list presents zodiacal sign, life, liability, and biblical terms. It includes references to staff of life, free, Red Cross, milligram, earth goddess, bargain, and various short definitions across a vertical and horizontal grid format.
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Red Cross
Typhoon Gloria Racks China and Okinawa Dead and Homeless
Typhoon Gloria firstHit Okinawa then Shanghai Nanking area. It left 68 dead 322 injured and nearly 300000 homeless in China while 38 killed on Okinawa including one American child and 42502 buildings damaged. Floods damaged food stocks and 7500 rice fields inundated. Plague death toll cited by WHO.
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Okinawa
Shanghai-Nanking
China
Douglas MacArthur
Air Force
American Pacific Air Force Base
Shanghai
U. S
Nanking
Mornday
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