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August 4, 1937

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Headlines from August 4, 1937

SULLIVAN BLOCKS MOVE TO SIDETRACK COPELAND, WHALEN; Compromise Candidate to Unite the Party Is Said to Have Been Proposed by Kelly

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Tammany slate announced; A E Smith's influence seen

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JAPANESE DRIVING SOUTH TOBATTLE ONCOMING CHINESE; Bomb Vanguard of One Army at Hopeh-Shantung Border--Press Toward Paoting PLANES RAID THAT CENTER Invaders Enter Town 35 Miles From Peiping-They Attack Troop Trains on Northwest The Chinese Situation Japanese Forces Drive South Movement Long Expected JAPANESE DRIVING TO MEET CHINESE Japanese Vexed by Unity Signs Bomb Chinese Troop Trains

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Japanese troops push southward to meet advancing Chinese as airplanes bomb Chinese at Techow; 29th Army being reorganized; Japanese reinforcements arrive from Manchukuo and transports at Tangkup; Japanese planes reptd over Tsinan, Chantung Province; civilians evacuate Tsingtao; search made for prominent Chinese at Peiping; Dr W Wei reptd taken into custody; Japanese disturbed by Han Fu-chu's Nanking visit

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RECORD BUDGET FOR CITY IS PREDICTED FOR 1938;; TAX RATE TO GO UP

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Estimates indicate record 1938 budget; requests submitted

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CHILD IS KIDNAPPED AS MOTHER FIGHTS; Boy Is Taken From the Arms of Mrs. Otto Horst, Wife of Wealthy Chicagoan WOMAN HELPS ABDUCTORS $5,000 Ransom Is Demanded--Police Hunt Chauffeur, Alleged to Have Used Car CHILD IS KIDNAPPED AS MOTHER FIGHTS Tells of Lending Car Woman Attacks Mother Receives Ransom Demand

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Kidnapped, Chicago; $5,000 ransom demanded; F Ewert, chauffeur for Dr J A Rose, sought

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14 Lost as Airliner Crashes Into the Sea Near Cristobal; Searching Planes Find Wreckage, but No Bodies--Two U. S. Air Officials and a Mother and Two Children Aboard Craft PLANE CARRYING 14 CRASHES INTO SEA Trip Began at Guayaqull WRECK STIRS SENATE CLASH McCarran Says U. S. 'Must Awaken to Need' for New Air Rules' THREE OF PASSENGERS ON PLANE THAT CRASHED G. Q. Caldwell Rex Martin

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Liner wreckage found at sea off Cristobal, C Z; 14 missing; passenger list; map

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1937David Bedford, English keyboard player, composer, and conductor (died 2011)^[†]

David Vickerman Bedford was an English composer and musician. He wrote and played both popular and classical music. He was the brother of the conductor Steuart Bedford, the grandson of the composer, painter and author Herbert Bedford and the composer Liza Lehmann, and the son of Leslie Bedford, an inventor, and Lesley Duff, a soprano opera singer.

Headlines from August 4, 1937

SULLIVAN BLOCKS MOVE TO SIDETRACK COPELAND, WHALEN; Compromise Candidate to Unite the Party Is Said to Have Been Proposed by Kelly

RECORD BUDGET FOR CITY IS PREDICTED FOR 1938;; TAX RATE TO GO UP

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