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August 16, 1928

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NANKING INDIGNANT, SENDS STRONG NOTE TO TOKIO ON TREATY; Contents Are Withheld, but Official Circles Understand It Persists in Abrogation. DIPLOMATIC BREAK FEARED Chinese Factions, United by Manchurian Incident, Ready for Bold Stand. NEW COMPACT SUGGESTED Japanese Unofficially Reiterate Insistance on Acknowledgmentof Old Agreement. Chinese Seem United on Stand. Influential Chinese Uneasy. Four Problems Face Nanking. Soviet Recognition Suggested. NANKING INDIGNANT, SENDS STRONG NOTE Japanese Reiterate Stand. MANCHURIA IS FEAR-RIDDEN. British Writer Says It Expects Japanese Annexation Attempt.

By Henry Misselwitz. Special Cable To the New York Times

Reply to Japan's note on Chinese treaty revision

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DANIELS SAYS SOUTH IS 'SAFE' FOR SMITH; He Predicts 100,000 Margin in North Carolina, Regardless of Wet-Dry Controversy. SEES GOVERNOR ON ISSUE Stand in Acceptance Speech Will Affect Vote Some, He States at Albany. Glass Leaves, Refusing to Talk. DANIELS SAYS SOUTH IS 'SAFE' FOR SMITH Daniels Moderately Confident. Discounts Religion as Issue. Hits at "Distiller" in Office. Sees 100,000 Margin in His State. Wants Smith to Visit South. SAYS NORTH CAROLINA IS SAFE Daniels Stresses Dry Issue--Kentucky Counted for Smith.

By From a Staff Correspondent of The New York Times

Tells Smith he will carry N C; denies Southern opposition to Smith is on religious grounds

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Notable Births

Ann Blyth

1928Ann Blyth, American actress and singer[†]

Ann Blyth is an American retired actress and singer. She began her career in radio as a child before transitioning to Broadway, where she appeared in Lillian Hellman’s Watch on the Rhine (1941–42). Blyth signed with Universal Studios in the 1940s and made her film debut in Chip Off the Old Block (1944), followed by a series of musical comedies. Her breakout role came in Mildred Pierce (1945), where she played the scheming Veda Pierce, earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Eydie Gormé

1928Eydie GormĂ©, American singer (died 2013)[†]

Eydie Gormé was an American singer who achieved notable success in pop, Latin, and jazz genres. She sang solo and in the duo Steve and Eydie with her husband, Steve Lawrence, on albums and television. She also performed on Broadway and in Las Vegas.

Ara GĂŒler

1928Ara GĂŒler, Turkish photographer and journalist (died 2018)[†]

Ara GĂŒler was a Turkish photojournalist of Armenian descent, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul". He was "one of Turkey's few internationally known photographers".

Eddie Kirkland

1928Eddie Kirkland, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2011)[†]

Eddie Kirkland was an American electric blues guitarist, harmonicist, singer, and songwriter.

1928Wyatt Tee Walker, American pastor, theologian, and activist (died 2018)[†]

Wyatt Tee Walker was an African-American pastor, national civil rights leader, theologian, and cultural historian. He was a chief of staff for Martin Luther King Jr., and in 1958 became an early board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). He helped found a Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) chapter in 1958. As executive director of the SCLC from 1960 to 1964, Walker helped to bring the group to national prominence. Walker sat at the feet of his mentor, BG Crawley, who was a Baptist Minister in Brooklyn, NY and New York State Judge.