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Says Japan offers aid to China against Communists
Chang Hsueh-liang reptd to have broadcast death of Gen Chiang Kai-shek; W H Donald denies rept; says Chiang refuses to discuss terms of release with captors; govt troops encircle Sian; rev of situation; map
Maj T Imai says Japan offers aid against Communists; says revolt justifies German-Japanese pact; is worried over conflicting rumors; Moscow calls revolt Japanese plot
Martial law declared; Sung Cheh-yuan pledges loyalty to Nanking; Exec Council votes to maintain foreign policies recently adopted and continue campaign in Suiyuan; currency and bonds weak; Chinese warn Chang Hsueh-liang of danger to country in capture of Gen Chiang Kai-shek
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1936Morris Dees, American lawyer and activist, co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center[†]
Morris Seligman Dees Jr. is an American attorney known as the co-founder and former chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), based in Montgomery, Alabama. He ran a direct marketing firm before founding SPLC. Along with his law partner, Joseph J. Levin Jr., Dees founded the SPLC in 1971. Dees and his colleagues at the SPLC have been "credited with devising innovative ways to cripple hate groups" such as the Ku Klux Klan, particularly by using "damage litigation".
1936Frank Eugene, American-German photographer and educator (born 1865)[†]
Frank Eugene was an American-born photographer who was a founding member of the Photo-Secession and one of the first university-level professors of photography in the world.