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Died. Sven Anders Hedin, 87, Swedish author-explorer (The Silk Road, Riddles of the Gobi Desert) who did more than anyone since Marco Polo to unveil the geographical mysteries of Central Asia; of cerebral inflammation; in Stockholm. He retraced the ancient silk routes from Cathay to Tyre and, in a series of expeditions covering half a century (1885-1935), put names and colors into blank areas of Asian atlases. At home on Asia's plains, he often got lost in the jungle of closer-to-home politics. A fervent admirer of Hitler ("one of the greatest men in world...
...week's embarrassment, the usually well-behaved Swedish police had one of their worst publicity breaks in years. Discharged from the police force for assault & battery, one Tore Hedin successively murdered his parents, his fiancée and the matron of an old folk's home. Then he set fire to the home, burning five of its inhabitants to death. Just before he drowned himself in a lake, Hedin wrote out a confession in which he admitted being guilty of another murder-one which he had been assigned to solve during his tour on the force...
...week's end, with the Hedin case to chew on, Stockholm's newspapers had lost some of their interest in American "gorillas" and the Armpit Artillery Case...
...Wage Stabilization Board, which ordered a nationwide wage freeze a year ago, last week got around to making the order stick. In Detroit, a regional WSB enforcement commission found the J. D. Hedin Construction Co. guilty of paying $40,000 in over-the-ceiling wages, the first such major decision since the freeze. It found that Hedin's bricklayers got $3 an hour for working on a Veterans Administration hospital when WSB regulations allowed only $2.75. The commission ruled that Hedin must pay federal income taxes on the $40,000, and ordered the VA to deduct the sum from...
...first major enforcement case, the Wage Stabilization Board last week accused an employer of paying employees too much. The J. D. Hedin Construction Co. of Washington was charged with paying bricklayers $3 an hour, 25? more than the WSB maximum, to work on a new veterans' hospital at Ann Arbor, Mich. Said Ann Arbor contractors: the only way to get bricklayers is to pay $3, which is the new WSB-approved maximum in Detroit, 26 miles away...