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moves to organize army and navy arsenal and shipyard workers; union complains to War Dept of alleged undemocratic election at Frankford Arsenal, Phila, in wage controversy
Chamberlain attacks Labor party program
Japan replies to League and U S; blames China for hostilities and treaty breaking; Tokyo press alleges Hirota told Cabinet that 9-Power conf invitation would have been accepted if Japan had not been called aggressor; urges U S not to intervene
Yanks win 3d game
1937Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (born 1868)[†]
Ernest Louis was the last Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 1892 until 1918.
1937Murder of 9 Catholic priests in Zhengding, China, who protected the local population from the advancing Japanese army.[†]
The Zhengding Missionary Murder is an incident in which nine Catholic priests were kidnapped and killed in Zhengding, Hebei province, Republic-era China on October 9, 1937.