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July 16, 1937

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DOOLING IS BALKED AS 4 PARTY CHIEFS REJECT COPELAND; Leaders Won't Accept Senator as Mayoralty Candidate and Hunt Continues MANY NAMES CONSIDERED Contest Still Is Wide OpenDr. Butler Urges That Smith Be Drafted Smith Plan Appears Off. Outlook Disturbs Leaders DOOLING IS BALKED ON COPELAND BOOM

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Dooling unwilling to consider other candidates; 4 other county leaders refuse to name Copeland; dist leaders disturbed by primary fight prospect; LaGuardia backed by Richmond County Repub Com, opposed by 8th Bklyn A D Repub County Com; D Frooks to seek Dem nomination

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TOKYO IS PREPARED; Settlement Is Sought, but Governors Are Warned of Danger BATTLE AT PEIPING NEAR Japanese Say They Will Smash Hostile Chinese Forces Unless They Withdraw From Area NANKING HOPED FOR HELP Leaders Disappointed Because U. S. and Britain Stay Aloof--Troops Are Sent North The Chinese Situation Japan Sends Home Troops Japanese Ships Dispatched HOME TROOPS SENT TO CHINA BY JAPAN Premier Sends a Message Japanese Being Evacuated Negotiations Still Under Way

By Hugh Byaswireless To the New York Times

Japanese home force sent to North China; Gen Sung Cheh-yuan and Gen Katsuki confer, Tientsin; Adm Yonai announces warships are being sent to Chinese and Manchukuoan coasts; Cabinet chiefs s at govs conf; Prince Kohohito repts on situation to Emperor Hirohito; provincial Govs of Korea receive instructions; Japanese natls evacuate Peiping, Kalgan and Taiyuan; Anglo-Japanese negotiations disrupted

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Notable Births

Richard Bryan

1937Richard Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 25th Governor of Nevada[โ€ ]

Richard Hudson Bryan is an American retired politician and attorney who served as the 25th Governor of Nevada from 1983 to 1989 and as a United States Senator representing Nevada from 1989 until 2001. A Democrat, Bryan previously served as the state's attorney general and a member of the State Senate.

1937John Daly, English director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2008)[โ€ ]

John Daly was a British film producer.