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March 18, 1937

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CHAOS IS FORESEEN; Hiram Johnson Asserts Dictatorship Lurks in Strike Waves FASCISM HELD POSSIBLE Senators Lewis and King Join in Declaring National Peril Exists in Movement ROBINSON ENTERS FRAY Plant Seizure Is Obviously Illegal, He Says, and Much Depends on Wagner Act Calls It Kidnapping a Plant SENATORS ASSAIL SIT-DOWN STRIKE Wagner Act Held Essential Senator Lewis Puts Question Beginnings Of Fascism Cited Senator Robinson's Statement

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Sens Robinson, Johnson and King condemn CIO methods

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BLUM WEATHERING PARIS RIOT STORM AS REDS BACK HIM; Labor Federation Asks Arrest of Head of Social Party and Ban on Fascist Groups MORE DEATHS EXPECTED Many Wounded Persons Still in Hospital--All Policemen Are Removed From Clichy Little Consequence Expected Tone Already Moderated Half-Day Strike of 1,000,000 in Capital Today to Support Regime Against Rightists DE LA ROCQUE IS ASSAILED BLUM WEATHERING PARIS RIOT STORM De la Rocque's Arrest Sought Challenge Taken Up

By P. J. Philipwireless To the New York Times

Gen Corned of Labor calls 1-day strike in Paris in protest against Fascists; asks for arrest of de la Rocque; investigation of Clichy riot begun; comment on strength of Blum's govt as Communists and Socialists back him; Blum forbids pub meetings of Fascist parties in Paris

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Notable Births

Rudi Altig

1937Rudi Altig, German cyclist and sportscaster (died 2016)[†]

Rudi Altig was a German professional track and road racing cyclist who won the 1962 Vuelta a España and the world championship in 1966. After his retirement from sports he worked as a television commentator.

Mark Donohue

1937Mark Donohue, American race car driver (died 1975)[†]

Mark Neary Donohue Jr., nicknamed "Captain Nice", was an American race car driver and engineer known for his ability to set up his own race car as well as driving it to victory.

Historical Events

New London School explosion

1937The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.[†]

The New London School explosion was an explosion that occurred on March 18, 1937, when a natural gas leak caused an explosion and destroyed the London School in New London, Texas, United States. The disaster killed 295 students and teachers. As of 2021, the event is the third-deadliest disaster in the history of Texas, after the 1900 Galveston hurricane and the 1947 Texas City disaster.

Spanish Civil War

1937Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.[†]

The Spanish Civil War was fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republicans and the Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the left-leaning Popular Front government of the Second Spanish Republic and included socialists, anarchists, communists, and separatists. The opposing Nationalists who established the Spanish State were an alliance of fascist Falangists, monarchists, conservatives, and traditionalists supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy and led by a military junta among whom General Francisco Franco quickly achieved a preponderant role. Due to the international political climate at the time, the war was variously viewed as class struggle, a religious struggle, or a struggle between dictatorship and republican democracy, between revolution and counterrevolution, or between fascism and communism. The Nationalists won the war, which ended in early 1939, and ruled Spain until Franco's death in November 1975.