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Last week, at Contractor Warner's request, trouble-shooting Father Maguire hied to Washington. There he conferred with spokesmen for the unions, the Labor Department, Colorado's Labor Federation. A telephone call to a negotiating committee in Denver cost $150, which the U. S. Treasury will pay. Soon Father Maguire was able to announce a basis for peace at Green Mountain. A. F. of L. got the equivalent of a closed shop for its unions. Contractor Warner got assurance that he can resume work, catch up on his $4,000,000 contract. Back to Chicago went Father Maguire...
Died. Samuel Davis Wilson, 57, eight days after he resigned as Mayor of Philadelphia; of cerebral thrombosis and hypertension (high blood pressure); in Philadelphia. Hardworking, harddriving, hard-drinking, red-faced Sam Wilson had been an automobile manufacturer, Sunday blue-law spy, contractor, justice of the peace, crime investigator. Politically he was all things to all men. A violent Wilsonian Democrat (his oldest son-secretary is named Woodrow), in 1933 he was elected Philadelphia's Controller on a coalition ticket, next year supported Democrat George H. Earle for Governor of Pennsylvania, year after that was elected Mayor as a Republican...
...Blood was shed last week at Green Mountain Dam in the Colorado Rockies, where a private contractor is building a dam for the U. S. Reclamation Bureau. Five A. F. of L. unions struck last month for a closed shop at the dam. Last week 200 deputized vigilantes (non-strikers, ranchers, businessmen) attacked the strikers, shot and wounded five, subsided only when Governor Ralph L. Carr sent National Guardsmen to quell "a state of insurrection...
...Conklin rubbed his chin, named her Mary. She is now Mrs. Samuel Masland, wife of a Towson, Md. electrical contractor...
...Captain Austin Eugene Lathrop, a building contractor turned shipmaster, sailed to Alaska from Puget Sound in the small steam schooner L. J. Perry. He sailed right into the Klondike gold rush. Instead of turning to pick & pan, however, Cap Lathrop stuck to his bridge and toted prospectors and their pokes. Nowadays, in rich Central Alaska, stout, furrowed, 73-year-old Cap Lathrop is the head man. He owns a big salmon cannery, a bank, a coal mine, an airplane hangar, three cinemas, two newspapers, a general store, apartment houses, and is a member of the Board of Regents of University...