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September 22, 1937

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FUSION HEADS BAR SUPPORT OF HARVEY; Party Chiefs Refuse to Follow Mayor in Endorsement of Queens President

By Unknown Author

City Fusion party endorses LaGuardia; teachers com formed

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100 PLANES IN AIR; Veterans' Biggest Show Goes On All Day and Into Morning

By Craig Thompson

Amer Legion parade effect

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The Warfare in China

By Unknown Author

Japanese planes staged a terrific attack on Nanking, bombing the Chinese capital for an hour and a half. Sirens announcing the approach of the aerial armada had sent the populace scurrying to bombproof shelter. The United States Embassy staff was still quartered on a gunboat offshore in the Yangtze River. [Page 1.]

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PARADE PARALYZES GROSSTOWN TRAFFIC; Two and a Half Miles Packed With Spectators--More Than 6,000 Police on Duty

By Unknown Author

Manhattan Island, for two and a half miles of its busiest extent, was divided yesterday almost as effectually as if the Grand Canyon, instead of Fifth Avenue, ran through its midst.

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ATTACK IS TERRIFIC; Lasts Hour and a Half as Thousands Rush to Bomb-Proof Shelters

By Unknown Author

Description of preparations, Nanking; part of Brit Embassy staff boards gunboats; Amb Johnson explains action; Japanese planes launch terrific attack lasting 1 1/2 hrs; shell explodes near Johnson's residence

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Notable Births

1937Don Rutherford, English rugby player (died 2016)^[†]

Donald Rutherford was an England international rugby union player and administrator. He was the first ever Technical Director of the Rugby Football Union at Twickenham, becoming Director of Rugby where he served with distinction from 1969 – 1999.