W.Va. mine gives up rock with CIO letters in natural formation. Washington, D.C., Feb. 19. This rock containing the letters CIO in natural limestone formation was dug out of the West Virginia coal mine belonging to the United States Steel Corp. Miss Lorena Montesanti si holding the rock which is now

Only women delegates to United Mine Workers Convention. Washington, D.C., Jan. 24. These three women delegates to the Gas, By- Product Coke and Chemical Workers, District 50, United Mine Workers of American Convention being held in Washington, are taking an active part in the daily sessions. Left to

A fragment of largest shooting star placed in Smithsonian Institution. Washington, D.C., April 4. This 2,000 pound meteorite, probably a fragment of one of the largest shooting stars which have struck the earth, has been added to the meteorite collection of the Smithsonian Institution. It was found

Wife of CIO Head attends Mine Workers Convention. Washington, D.C., Jan. 25. Mrs. John L. Lewis, wife of the CIO Head and President of the United Mine Workers, listens attentively as her husband delivers the opening speech at the 35th annual convention of the UMWA today. Lewis declared that labor wi

Discharged for union activites. Washington, D.C., March 18. Miss Zella Morgan, of Gadsen, Ala., told the Lafollette Civil Liberties Committee today how she was discharged from the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company's plant in Gadsen. Ala., because she was active in the local union, she was given an "h

White House talent. Washington, D.C., Dec. 30. Mabel E. Williamson, White House Stenographer for Presidential Stephen T. Early, with the free hand drawing of President Roosevelt she has just completed. When shown the likeness the President was so pleased he autographed it for Miss Williamson

U.S. Expert on burnt and mutilated currency. Washington, D.C., Oct. 8. For years it has been the duty of Miss Bertha M. Sherfy to pass on the genuineness of the burnt and mutilated currency which is sent to the U.S. Treasury for Redemption. Miss Sherfy says she finds the most difficult currency to i

Arthur Kochler, wood identification specialist of the Department of Agriculture, says the piece of wood he is holding is 12,000,000 years old. It is a fragment from a fossil log of redwood, 7 feet thick, found by workmen of the Reclamation Service buried 150 feet below the bed of the Yakima River in

Monopoly Committee turns to housewives for advice on consumer products. Washington, D.C., May 10. Mrs. Alice Belester of Chicago, wife of a carpenter, who was called by the Monopoly Committee today to tell, as Secretary of the United Conference Against the High Cost of Living, what she thought of ad