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However, the Feslermen were able to overcome the handicap of playing in the immense Palestra in Philadelphia and they may still be able to pull another upset out of the fire...
...insufferably weak in the broad jump with Read Murphy as its only prospect. Manager Mel Chapin will pair with Woody Rich in the high jump and they promise to be the real dark horses on the Ell squad. If Rich's ankle regains its former strength he may pull a real surprise...
...Turkey seized the Krupp shipyards on the Golden Horn and dismissed 20 German technicians employed there outfitting two new Turkish submarines, together with 60 other Germans working at the Gremlik naval base, in an explosives factory at Kirikkale, and in the Zonguldak coal field. Other Germans made haste to pull up stakes, for now the handwriting on Turkey's wall was clear. Authoritative sources explained that the technicians' dismissal was necessitated by discovery of a sabotage plot. But one Turkish spokesman ominously said: "Spring is coming...
...natural operating area for German U-boats. This stretch of water is bound to bring trouble to any neutral who dabbles in it, and none that gets out of it could be accused of over-cautiousness, America, having no vital interests there, can and should pull its fingers out of this fire...
...aggrieved. Having asked for such a law himself, labor-loving Governor Lehman was expected to sign it, after the Legislature disposed of final technicalities. Fearful of any & all curbs on unions, the State American Federation of Labor fought this one. So did A. Philip Randolph, Negro president of the Pull man Porters' Union, who sagely warned: "The Negro workers are part & parcel of all workers . . . and they cannot hope to gain equality within trade unions by legis lation." More militant Negroes hardly expected that the law would be effectively enforced, valued the step chiefly because it put union inequality...