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...Santa Monica, Calif. 345 of 5,600 employes of Douglas Aircraft Co. on the third day of a sit-down were indicted for "forcible entry and occupancy" but refused to retreat. Police and sheriff's deputies, 350 strong, surrounded the plant, brought up machine guns, ominously set up a dressing station for expected casualties with a Red Cross flag prominently displayed. The sit-downers retaliated by arming themselves with wrenches, rolling airplanes to the windows so that their propellers could be used to blow tear gas out of the plant. They distributed drums of paint with which they threatened...
...fifth day the baffled strikers decided to forget about their union, sat down with President Fry and worked out a settlement as a "family affair." Simultaneously this week a new rash of sit-downs erupted throughout the land, victims including Detroit's Briggs Manufacturing Co. (automobile bodies), Santa Monica, Calif.'s Douglas Aircraft Co., Groton, Conn.'s Electric Boat Co. and Crowell Publishing Co.'s printing plant at Springfield, Ohio...
...Augustine, Fla.; William A. Davis 2G, of New York, N.Y.; Daniel C. Dennett, Jr. '31, 3G, of Winchester, Mass.; Robert B. Eckles '32, 3G, of York, Neb.; Ralph E. Ladd 2G, of Ipswich, Mass.; Arthur J. Mekeel 2G, of South Ashfield, Mass.; Robert O. Schlaifer 3G, of Santa Monica, Calif.; Richard P. Stebbins '33, of Newton Centre, Mass.; and Bradley DeF. Thompson 2G, of Concord...
Died. Irving Thalberg, 37, production chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; of pneumonia; in Santa Monica, Calif. After studying shorthand in a Brooklyn night school, he got a job as office boy to Universal's Carl Laemmle, for whom he filmed his first big show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in 1923. Soon stolen by MGM, he produced Ben Hur, The Merry Widow, The Big Parade, developed such stars as Lon Chaney, Robert Montgomery. Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, made M-G-M millions at the boxoffice. Addicted to nervous overwork, he arranged his most ambitious and recent film, Romeo & Juliet...
Three weeks ago, as 22 white yachts, largest fleet in the race's history, jockeyed for position behind the starting line at Santa Monica, Dillingham's Manuiwa was the favorite. But to the small coterie of yachtsmen who knew the history of ocean racing, one boat was vastly more interesting than any of the others. She was the slim, 53-ft. yawl Dorade, winner of one transatlantic, two Fastnet races, generally regarded on the Atlantic as the finest ocean racer ever built. Brought to the Pacific especially for last week's race, she cost her new owner...