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CZECH MILLIONAIRE KIBC'ER. (United Press Association—By Electric ' - ■ Telegraph—Copyright.') BERLIN, jVi'ly 12. Thomas Bata, the Czecho-Slb vakian mifflionaire shoe manufacturer," was killed when his private .aeroplane .crashed near Zlin, in Moravia. A WONDERFUL RECORD". 7 (Received this dav at 10.15 a.m.) PRAGUE, July m l2. Flags were flown /at half , mast throughout Czecho-Slovakift, : as_ a, tribute to Thomas Bata, whose iiamfe is. a household word throughout the countryHe was regarded as an industrial Napoleon. He was the son of a cobbler at Zlin. He worked. af Kis father’s shop. He started a.. Jslnail; factory with fifty employees ami seized his opportunity, during wartime,' hbd by 1917 was qmplioying four thousand. The Zlin factory is at pi’es^fw^ producing 130.000* pairs of hoots, daily. He has also factories in France, Switzerland and England. He paid seventeen thousand 'employees the best wages in CZecho-Slovakia and provided them with houses and entertainments.' He isu repoutecI t /to„have,made,:; tcji UMlm lion- sterling in the last THe pilot,, was killed instancy Bata died at the hospital!, ..jj
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1932, Page 6
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172NOTABLE COBBLER Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1932, Page 6
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