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June 27, 1937

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WPA CAPTIVE YIELDS TO STRIKE DEMANDS; Head of Arts Projects Here Held in His Office 15 Hours Till He Signs Agreement CAPITAL IS CONCILIATORY Board to Be Set Up to Review Dismissals--5,000 Pickets March at City Hall Viewed as Warning to Congress Agreement Signed by Stein Two Other Officials Sign

By Unknown Author

Description of camping in State and Fed areas; illus

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RUSSIANS COWED; REVOLT UNLIKELY; Stalin Is Expected to Moderate Purges as the Industrial Situation Nears Chaos FEAR GRIPS EXECUTIVES Stakhanoffism Spreads Unrest Among Workers--Teachers Are Afraid of Textbooks Soviet People Are Subdued RUSSIANS COWED; REVOLT UNLIKELY Industrial Situation Serious Stalin's Structure Shaken Conditions Held Appalling Instances of Indiscipline

By Harold Dennyspecial Cable To the New York Times

W Duranty revs background of situation; illus

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IRWIN CONFESSES 3 GEDEON MURDERS; SEIZED IN CHICAGO; Sculptor, Hunted Since Easter Crimes Here, Says He Meant to Slay Model's Sister LIKELY TO BE FLOWN HERE Declares He Killed Mother in Rage, Then Girl and Roomer to Bar Discovery Meant to Kill Sister Only Chatted With Mother First IRWIN CONFESSES 3 GEDEON MURDERS Not Noticed by Daughter Feared Roomer as Witness Hunted Nearly Four Months Kitchen Girl Gives Alarm Dismissed From University

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Irwin surrenders in Chicago; said to have confessed 3 murders

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NLRB ACCUSES FORD; Company Is Blamed for 'Brutal' Attack on Auto Union Organizers COERCING MEN CHARGED Dismissals Are Laid to Failure to Sign 'Confidence' Pledge, Circulated in Work Hours HEARING SET FOR JULY 6 Court Action Would Follow the Refusal of Compliance--No Comment by the Concern Other Charges Set Forth Anti-Union Propaganda Alleged FORD IS ACCUSED BY LABOR BOARD Names of Those Discharged

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Bowen, Ledyard S; E M Lincoln

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18,556 RESUME JOBS AT YOUNGSTOWN; 'Flooded With Men,' Say Plant Officials as Troops Protect Returning Non-Strikers WARREN AND NILES ACTIVE Operations Are Increased in Both Ohio Cities--7 Bombs Found Near Tube Mill 18,556 RESUMING AT YOUNGSTOWN Union Makes Claims Seven Bombs Found Highways Again Closed

By Russell B. Porterspecial To the New York Times

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Notable Births

Joseph P. Allen

1937Joseph P. Allen, American physicist and astronaut^[†]

Joseph Percival "Joe" Allen IV is an American former NASA astronaut. He logged more than 3,000 hours flying time in jet aircraft.

1937Otto Herrigel, Namibian lawyer and politician (died 2013)^[†]

Otto Herrigel was a Namibian businessman, and politician. He served as Namibia's first Minister of Finance between 1990 and 1992.

Kirkpatrick Sale

1937Kirkpatrick Sale, American author and scholar^[†]

Kirkpatrick Sale is an American author who has written prolifically about political decentralism, environmentalism, luddism and technology. He has been described as having a "philosophy unified by decentralism" and as being "a leader of the neo-Luddites," an "anti-globalization leftist," and "the theoretician for a new secessionist movement."