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January 18, 1926

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LEWIS CALLS MINERS TO LAST DITCH FIGHT IN PRESERVING UNION; They Won't Be Crushed, Even if Strike Lasts a Year, He Tells 15,000 at Wilkes-Barre. SEES OPERATORS DEFEATED Leader Declares Men United and Backed by Resources of All Organized Labor. PINCHOT PLANS NEW MOVE Governor Prepares to Go Before the Legislature With an Appeal for Anthracite Control. LEWIS CALLS MINERS TO LAST DITCH FIGHT

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Lewis addresses mass meetings at Wilkes-Barre, says miners are united and backed by all organized labor, sees operators defeated, blames Warriner mines, challenges operators to debate personal attacks; W Green, Pres A F L, again asks aid for miners; Gov Pinchot plans new plea for anthracite mining control

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WORKING WOMEN ASK COOLIDGE'S AID; 300 Delegates From National Party Meeting Present a Petition at White House. OBJECT TO WELFARE LAWS Demand Equal Right With Men to Work as and at Any Hours They Please. WORKING WOMEN ASK COOLIDGE'S AID

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Group of Natl Woman's Party leaves petition at White House asking Pres Coolidge's backing for proposed equal rights amendment; protests regulation of women's working hours; signers; Mrs M Murray and Margt Hinchey tell of law's workings

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GUGGENHEIM GIVES $2,500,000 FUND TO FOSTER AVIATION; Writes to Hoover Announcing Foundation to Help Make Flying Pay Commercially. SEES VICTORY IN 10 YEARS Recalls Family's Exploration Under the Earth -- Would Have America Lead in Air. FUND WILL GO TO RESEARCH Donor Says Trustees May Spend Principal -- To Incorporate This Week In Albany.

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Lr from D Guggenheim announcing gift of $2,500,000 to establish Danl Guggenheim Fund for Promotion of Aeronautics

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CHILD DISAPPEARS; MOTHER IS NEAR BY; Police Face Mystery in Sudden Vanishing of Girl, 2 1/2, in Crowded Harlem Street. ON THEIR WAY TO THEATRE Woman Tells Detectives a Man With a Badge Told Her Not to Tell Police.

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Disappearance of Helen Blauvelt, 2 1/2 yrs old, in Harlem crowd; mother nearby

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Vanderbilt Joins Directorate of Opera; Backs Plan to Move Metropolitan Uptown

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Announces that W K Vanderbilt has become director; sentiment of parterre box-holders believed to be in favor of new bldg

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Notable Births

1926Randolph Bromery, American geologist and academic (died 2013)^[†]

Randolph Wilson ("Bill") Bromery was an American educator and geologist, and a former Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst (1971–79). While Chancellor, Bromery established the W.E.B. Du Bois Archives at the University of Massachusetts, and was one of the initiators of the Five College Consortium. He was also President of the Geological Society of America, and has made numerous contributions as a geologist and academic. During World War II, he was a member of the Tuskegee Airmen, flying missions in Italy.