July 17, 1937

temperature 89 and humidity 98%; heat wave not expected; 3 deaths and 1 prostration

Urges Lehman to investigate legality of injunction against Wheeler Shipyard strikers

Storage plant, Atlantic City, destroyed by fire; many injured

Com assails compromise ct reform bill

Reserve auxiliary established

Situation tense; police protection given to Tokyo's Chinese residents; Japanese Mins to rev situation; Kawagoe sent to Nanking to assure govt leaders that Japan desires local settlement

Fighting continues north and south of Madrid; Loyalist advance on Aragon front reptd

compromise bill assailed by N Y C Bar Assn com as worse than original

Yesterday Judge Fetherston told me about the situation and I said I could not be a candidate without the unanimous support of county leaders. I said this on the supposition that the air would be cleared by my selfelimination and that there would be an immediate agreement on the Mayoralty.

N Y S Appellate Div affirms C Lucania's conviction; appeal to U S Sup Ct blocked by Justice Cardozo's ruling on joint trials; Appellate Div reverses N Montana's conviction on procuring charge

conf with Roosevelt; says Pres is neutral

4 other leaders support Whalen