Gilbert Pacific, Inc. v. Donovan

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, District Judge.

Mrs. Katusha Bradford, a resident of New Orleans, went to the Orient as a civilian employee of the United States in 1946. She did clerical work for the government at a variety of posts in Japan, Iwo Jima and Korea until 1956. In 1956 she left her job with the United States and was employed by Gilbert Pacific, Inc. as a secretary on Okinawa. Among her duties was the fingerprinting of some eight hundred Okinawan employees of Gilbert Pacific. On April 30, 1959, after a period of weight loss and intermittent coughing, Mrs. Bradford submitted to a physical…