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September 14, 1937

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RUSSIA IS GRIPPED BY SPY PSYCHOSIS; HER INDUSTRY LAGS; Well-Founded Espionage Fear Held One Reason for PurgeWorkers Are Demoralized PRODUCTION COSTS MOUNT Stakhanoffism Deemed Partly Responsible--Observers Are Skeptical on 'Sabotage' World Politics Involved Spy Fear Held Justified RUSSIA IS GRIPPED BY SPY PSYCHOSIS Foreigners Are Skeptical Industry Goes Badly Workers Are Demoralized Production Costs Up Plan Launched Anew

By Harold Dennywireless To the New York Times

H Denny on situation and reasons for drastic purge

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CHINA APPEALS TO LEAGUE, BUT AVOIDS CHARGE OF WAR; ARMY RETIRES AT SHANGHAI; INVOKES 3 ARTICLES Plea Asks Application of Untried XVII as Well as X and Xl CHINESE STRAIGHTEN LINE Abandon 6-Mile-Wide Salient on Shanghai Front to Avoid Naval Guns of Enemy JAPANESE CLAIM TATUNG Report Capture of Shansi Rail Center-U. S. Hospital Hit by Their Bombs in South The Warfare in China China carried the struggle with Japan to the League of Nations as the Assembly met. She complained of aggression and invoked action under Article X, which guarantees the territorial integrity of members; XI, which provides the League may take action in a controversy, and XVII, which provides a non-member can be summoned to answer charges. The conflict was not referred to as a war. China was not expected to ask for immediate action, but was seen as safeguarding her position. [Page 1.]

By Clarence K. Streitwireless To the New York Times

session; Aga Khan elected pres

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Notable Births

Renzo Piano

1937Renzo Piano, Italian architect and engineer, designed The Shard and The New York Times Building[†]

Renzo Piano is an Italian architect. His notable works include the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, The Shard in London (2012), Kansai International Airport in Osaka (1994), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (2015), Istanbul Museum of Modern Art in Istanbul (2022) and Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens (2016). He was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1998.

Notable Deaths

Tomáš Masaryk

1937Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Czech sociologist and politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (born 1850)[†]

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was a Czechoslovak statesman, political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1935. He is regarded as the founding father of Czechoslovakia.