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August 19, 1937

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HOUSING BILL VOTED BY HOUSE AS 'GAG' BLOCKS OPPONENTS; Measure, Carrying 500 Million, Is Pushed Through in a Heated Night Session $5,000 UNIT IS ADOPTED Changes in Wagner-Steagall Proposal, Passed in Senate, Now Force It to Conference Last on Main House Program Benefit to Aliens Is Refused HOUSING BILL VOTED AFTER HOUSE CLASH Cost Called Too High O'Connor Cites General Gains Civil Service Clause Beaten Terms of-the House Bill THE DAY IN WASHINGTON

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

House passes bill; House and Sen bill compared

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FIGHTING IS SEVERE; Invaders, Outnumbered, Yield in YangtsepooTheir Bombers Active ATTACK FIERCELY AT NIGHT Air Raid in Moonlight Viewed by Thousands-Warships' Guns Roar Through Day DARING FEAT BY CHINESE They Scuttle Enemy Craft in the Whangpoo Under FireFlames Rage in Pootung Fires Dot Pootung Area Bombers Vanish to East Chinese Report Gains More Japanese Land Pootung Suffers Heavily Advance in Yangtsepoo Fires Cause Heavy Damage CHINESE ADVANCE IN SHANGHAI STRIFE

By Unknown Author

Japanese stage night air raid

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5-DAY BILL FOR CITY PASSES COMMITTEE; Estimate Board Now Gets the Measure for Municipal Civil Service Group PARK WORK BILL ENDORSED Yearly Status for Day Labor Would Add $865,000 to the Budget Total Other Measures Approved CITY GROUP BACKS 5-DAY WEEK BILL

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The Committee on Local Laws of the Municipal Assembly reported out favorably yesterday the bill sponsored by Alderman John J. McManus calling for a five-day week for all municipal civil service employes except members of the uniformed police and fire forces.

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Notable Births

1937Richard Ingrams, English journalist, founded The Oldie[†]

Richard Reid Ingrams is an English journalist, a co-founder and second editor of the British satirical magazine Private Eye, and founding editor of The Oldie magazine. He left the latter job at the end of May 2014.

1937William Motzing, American composer and conductor (died 2014)[†]

William Edward Motzing Jr. was an American composer, conductor, arranger and trombonist best known for the award-winning film and television scores and gold and platinum pop album arrangements he wrote in Australia. He was a jazz lecturer and the Director of Jazz Studies at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music over a period of 40 years.