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August 3, 1942

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MURRAY PROPOSES NEW PEACE EFFORT BY C.I.O. AND A.F.L.; In Letter to Green He Says War Accord Opens Way to Organic Unity Talks NAMES COMMITTEE OF 3 Lewis Dropped and Ousting of Hutcheson as Negotiator for A.F.L. Is Expected MURRAY PROPOSES LABOR UNITY TALKS

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

AFL and CIO: Murray proposes reopening of organic unity negotiations, lr to Green; names CIO com; hits stoppages caused by AFL jurisdictional disputes, cites no-strike pledge; text; labor circles reaction; speculation; situation revd

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Notable Deaths

Richard Willstätter

1942Richard Willstätter, German-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1872)[†]

Richard Martin Willstätter FRS(For) HFRSE was a German organic chemist whose study of the structure of plant pigments, chlorophyll included, won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for Chemistry.