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...week's end negotiations were still deadlocked when an I.A.T.S.E. official telephoned the Guild's Founder-Secretary Kenneth Thomson, promised to call a sympathetic walkout of his 30,000 members if the Guild struck. At that, the producers' representatives knuckled under. On behalf of RKO, Paramount, MGM, Columbia, Universal and Twentieth Century-Fox, Twentieth Century's Chairman Joseph M. Schenck and MGM's Vice President Louis B. Mayer squeezed their signatures at the bottom of an agreement to the Guild's demands, scribbled on a sheet of foolscap. Prime points were granting...
...Charles Thomson Rees Wilson of Cambridge University invented a "cloud chamber" in which tracks made by sub-atomic particles could be seen. At about the same time Hans Geiger, now of the University of Tubingen, invented a cylindrical "counter" which crackles every time a particle enters it. Physicists use both devices, alone or together, to record the presence of and identify cosmic rays, gamma rays, X-rays, photons, electrons, protons, positrons, neutrons...
Died. Elihu Thomson, 83, co-founder of General Electric Co., onetime (1920-22) acting president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; after two months' illness; in Swampscott, Mass. A precocious British immigrant who built an electric friction generator out of a wine bottle before he entered high school, Elihu Thomson invented electric welding, the standard three-phase alternating current generator, the centrifugal cream separator, the common watt meter, the street arc lamp; built the first electric locomotive for Baltimore & Ohio Railroad...
...EUNICE THOMSON...
Vacancies would be filled by gubernatorial appointment from a list of eligibles selected by a non-partisan commission. Said President Charles M'. Thomson of the Chicago Bar Association as he signed the report: "There can be no reasonable difference of opinion over the proposition that the existing method of selecting judges ...is about as bad as it could...