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The first extension to the original street plan of old San Juan proper in more than 200 years is now under way. It will add 200 feet to the south end of Cruz Street and permit the diversion of motor traffic from the congested retail and office section.
Opposes McReynolds neutrality bill
Garland, Mason, 11 assocs, Pub Service Holding Corp, E Myers & Co Inc and G Henriques & Co found guilty; Automatic Signal Corp acquitted
Three thousand men worked in the ruins of the $125,000 London Consolidated High School this morning under the glare of searchlights and gas flares, trying to find the bodies of school children and teachers still buried under the ruins of the building that collapsed yesterday afternoon after an explosion, with a loss estimated as at least 500 lives.
Orders aid in New London, Tex, school explosion
1937Clarence "Frogman" Henry, American singer-songwriter and pianist (died 2024)[†]
Clarence Henry II, known as Clarence "Frogman" Henry, was an American rhythm and blues singer and pianist, best known for his hits "Ain't Got No Home" (1956) and "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do" (1961).
1937Egon Krenz, German politician, briefly leader of East Germany[†]
Egon Rudi Ernst Krenz is a German former politician who was the last Communist leader of the German Democratic Republic during the Revolutions of 1989. He succeeded Erich Honecker as the General Secretary of the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) but was forced to resign only weeks later when the Berlin Wall fell.