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October 7, 1926

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LABOR DENOUNCES DETROIT CHURCHES; REJECTS NEW OFFER; Torrents of Denunciation Also Hit the Y.M.C.A. and Auto Makers in Convention. ACCUSATIONS ARE RESENTED Union Chiefs Charge Employers Are Slackers and Profiteers and Assert Plot to Cut Wages. GREEN IS AGAIN INVITED But He Declines to Speak t Meeting Arranged by the Federal Council of Churches. LABOR DENOUNCES DETROIT CHURCHES

By Special to The New York Times

S Squibb submits resolution at convention of A F L demanding Congressional investigation

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Notable Births

Alex Groza

1926Alex Groza, American basketball player (died 1995)[†]

Alex John Groza was an American professional basketball player from Martins Ferry, Ohio. Resulting from the CCNY point shaving scandal, Groza was banned from the National Basketball Association (NBA) for life in 1951. In college, he won two NCAA championships as captain of the University of Kentucky Wildcats, and was a two-time All-NBA player for the Indianapolis Olympians before his career abruptly ended.

Notable Deaths

Emil Kraepelin

1926Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist and academic (born 1856)[†]

Emil Wilhelm Georg Magnus Kraepelin was a German psychiatrist. H. J. Eysenck's Encyclopedia of Psychology identifies him as helping to lay the foundation for modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics.