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Yale Law School survey repts congestion in cts encourages fraudulent auto accident claims; favors administrative tribunal to fix compensation
Visited by King Leopold
AFL measure compared with bill; changes forecast
Japanese planes bomb Wuhu wounding 3 Brit, including Lt Comdr H D Barlow, aboard ss aiding refugees; 2 bombed ss burn; hundreds of Chinese killed; Nanking also attacked list of Amers in Wuhu
Comment on brief Fascist movement; danger of completely totalitarian State held passed (F T Birchall)
1937Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian-American soccer player (died 2006)[†]
Alberto Pedro Spencer Herrera was an Ecuadorian footballer who played as a forward, and is widely regarded as one of the best Ecuadorian men's footballers of all time. He is probably best known for his still-standing record for scoring the most goals in the Copa Libertadores, the premier club tournament in South America. He was elected the 20th best South American footballer of the 20th century in a poll by the IFFHS in 2004. He was known as "Cabeza Mágica".