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cotton loan bloc attempts to force loans without crop curb; Comrs see Roosevelt and Wallace
Repubs turn to Comr Moses in case LaGuardia declines; Bond to remain in race; says Copeland and LaGuardia should withdraw from Repub primary; W M Calder claims Kings for LaGuardia; Simpson doubts validity of Copeland petitions; W Ziegler Jr scores LaGuardia's Repub candidacy; says majority of Repubs oppose him; Livingston assails LaGuardia
Sen to defer bill to hasten adjournment, says Byrnes
82 Japanese warships mass at Shanghai; land reinforcements arrive; Mayor Yui rejects demands for withdrawal of Peace Preservation Corps guards and removal of Chinese defenses in city; situation tense; Amers reported held at Kiangwan as U S Consul Gen tries to get evacuation order; reaction in Tokyo to Hungjao incident
Rain undermines tracks, Pittsford, N Y
1937Walter Dean Myers, American author and poet (died 2014)[†]
Walter Dean Myers was an American writer of children's books best known for young adult literature. He was born in Martinsburg, West Virginia, but was raised in Harlem, New York City. A tough childhood led him to writing and his school teachers would encourage him in this habit as a way to express himself. He wrote more than one hundred books including picture books and nonfiction. He won the Coretta Scott King Award for African-American authors five times. His 1988 novel Fallen Angels is one of the books most frequently challenged in the U.S. because of its adult language and its realistic depiction of the Vietnam War.