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February 28, 1941

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OPM MOVES TO END BETHLEHEM STRIKE; TERMS SUIT UNION; Proposals by Knudsen and Hillman Urge Reinstating of Men, New Conference MEETING TO RATIFY SET Plant Is Besieged All Bay With Frequent Clashes -Lehman Is Watching STRIKERS IN ACTION AT STEEL PLANT NEAR BUFFALO OPM MOVES TO END BETHLEHEM STRIKE

By A.h. Raskinspecial To the New York Times

Bittner to recommend OPM settlement formula to strikers; details; pickets clash with police; illus; co appeals for State police protection; Lehman warns local officials on police duties; co again offers to reinstate discharged employes; food brought in for employes remaining in plant; Bethlehem, Pa, employe mass meeting called on union action there

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Notable Births

Alice Brock

1941Alice Brock, American artist, author and restaurateur (died 2024)[†]

Alice May Brock was an American artist, author and restauranteur. A resident of Massachusetts for her entire adult life, Brock owned and operated three restaurants in the Berkshires—The Back Room, Take-Out Alice, and Alice's at Avaloch—in succession between 1965 and 1979. The first of these was the subject of Arlo Guthrie's 1967 song "Alice's Restaurant", which in turn inspired the 1969 film.

1941Arthur Ngirakelsong, 2nd Chief Justice of Palau (died 2022)[†]

Arthur Ngirakelsong was a Palauan jurist who served as the chief justice of Palau from 1992 to 2020. Ngirakelsong was born on December 28, 1941. He obtained a masters degree from the University of Hawaiʻi in 1967. In 1974, he became one of the first Micronesians to earn a Juris Doctor when he graduated from Rutgers Law School. He worked as a staff attorney for the Micronesian Constitutional Convention, where he was one of the main drafters of the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia, and legal counsel for the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia.