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At meeting of internatl non-intervention com, London (F Kuhn Jr)
Gen Chiang Kai-shek and Amb S Kawagoe confer; optomistic statement issued; unexploded grenade thrown into Japanese shop, Hankow; Tokyo cautious but optimistic
Borah explains opposition to return to gold standard
Visited by Amb N T Johnson
PARIS, Oct. 9. -- Police re-enforcements were rushed into Alsace-Lorraine tonight after the shooting of an Italian Fascist at Metz sharpened tension between Communists and Rightists.
1936Gerhard Ertl, German physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate[†]
Gerhard Ertl is a German physicist and a Professor emeritus at the Department of Physical Chemistry, Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin, Germany. Ertl's research laid the foundation of modern surface chemistry, which has helped explain how fuel cells produce energy without pollution, how catalytic converters clean up car exhausts and even why iron rusts, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
1936Abul Kasem, Bengali politician (born 1872)[†]
Abul Kasem was a Bengali politician.