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June 7, 1927

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UNTERMYER BRANDS I.R.T. LABOR POLICY AS TYRANNY TO MEN; He Demands End of Compulsory Adherence of Its Workers to Company's Own Union. SEES DANGER OF STRIFE Strike Cost the Company More Than if It Had Met the Men's Wage Request, He Says. FARE RISE MAY GO TO COURT Quackenbush Says Commission Can Increase the Rate Without the City's Consent. UNTERMYER ASSAILS I.R.T. LABOR POLICY

By Unknown Author

Testifies on I R T stock transactions and on salaries of officials, at rapid transit readjustment hearing

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FLIERS ARE RESTING 60 MILES FROM BERLIN; PLAN TO GO ON TODAY WITH NEW PROPELLER; TELL OF BAD WEATHER, GOT OFF THEIR COURSE; FOUGHT GALES AND RAIN FROM CHANNEL ON They Were Forced to Throw Cans of Gasoline Overboard to Lighten the Plane, Cutting Their Fuel Reserve. FLEW AS LOW AS SEVEN FEET AND AS HIGH AS 17,000 Levine Ran Plane for an Hour at a Time -- Says Lindbergh Had All the Luck -- Slept Little, Ate Little, Not Over Tired.

By Lincoln Eyre.copyright, 1927, By the New York Times Company.by Wireless To the New York Times

Receives $15,000 check from Bklyn Chamber of Commerce; sails to join her husband in Germany, portraits

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Notable Births

Paul Salamunovich

1927Paul Salamunovich, American conductor and educator (died 2014)[†]

Paul Salamunovich KCSG was a Grammy-nominated American conductor and educator.

1927Herbert R. Axelrod, American tropical fish expert, publisher of pet books, and entrepreneur (died 2017)[†]

Herbert Richard Axelrod was an American tropical fish expert, a publisher of pet books, and an entrepreneur. In 2005 he was sentenced in U.S. court to 18 months in prison for tax fraud.

Notable Deaths

1927Archie Birkin, English motorcycle racer (born 1905)[†]

Charles Archibald Cecil Birkin was an English motorcycle racer, brother of Tim Birkin, one of the "Bentley Boys" of the 1920s.

Edmund James Flynn

1927Edmund James Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 10th Premier of Quebec (born 1847)[†]

Edmund James Flynn was a Canadian lawyer, politician and the tenth premier of Quebec, from 1896 to 1897.