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LeBel (B) defeated Wilcox (H), 2-1; Orr (H) defeated Noyes (B), 3-0; LeBel and Noyes (B) defeated Wilcox and Orr (H), 2-1; Rickenbacker (H) defeated Wilkinson (B), 3-0 Johnson (B) defeated Butler (H), 3-0; Rickenbacker and Butler (H) tied Wilkinson and Johnson (B), 11/2-11/2; Savidge (H) tied Davis (B), 11/2-11/2; Kinicutt (H) defeated Marshall (B), 2-1; Savidge and Kinicutt (H) tied Davis and Marshall (B), 11/2-11/2...
...lights blinked out in the Centralia Coal Company's Mine No. 5, near Centralia, Ill. Wiry, redheaded Earl Wilkinson had just coasted his squat, electric locomotive out of a tunnel, banged to a stop in a low cavern near the mine's elevator shaft. He stiffened, listened intently. He heard no sound. But a wind came out of the subterranean darkness and enveloped him in clouds of coal dust and coppery-smelling smoke. "God," he said aloud, "it's a bad windy* or an explosion...
Died. Ellen Wilkinson, 55, diminutive, dynamic British Minister of Education, long a leading Laborite; of a heart ailment; in London (see FOREIGN NEWS...
Last week brought another kind of shock to Britain's plain people and to its Laborite Ministers. Ellen Wilkinson, the fiery, tiny (4 ft. 10 in.) Minister of Education, was dead. To her colleagues in the Cabinet, many of whom were tired or ailing, her death at 55 was more than the loss of an able and courageous fighter for the Party's causes: it was also a solemn warning. She had been in a hospital for 24 hours with bronchitis; there her fatigued heart had collapsed...
Ellen Cicely Wilkinson's life had been almost all work and fierce fighting. A child of Manchester's slums, she put herself through Manchester University, championed woman suffrage and union organization. She was elected as a Communist to Manchester's City Council, then switched to the Labor Party, which elected her to Parliament in 1924. There, shrill-voiced but quick-witted, she was in frequent clashes with such debating stalwarts as Winston Churchill, Lady Astor, Lord Woolton (once her schoolteacher...