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February 6, 1938

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TRAVELERS AID SENDS SYMPATHY TO MONKS; Gratified All Escaped in Alps When Avalanche Swept St. Bernard's Hospice

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sympathy lr to monks from Travelers' Aid Soc

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FINANCIAL MARKETS; Stocks Extend Recovery; Bonds Dull and Irregular Dollar Higher-Wheat Easier; Cotton Up

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The stock market extended its recover in quiet trading yesterday. The armament shares, so-called, led the rise, reflecting the reintroductionr of .the armament topic by reason of the inquiry directed by the United States to Japan concerning the latter's naval building plans.

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AMERICANS TIE, 3-3, WITH CANADIEN SIX; Anderson Retaliates for New York After Goupille Gets Goal in Extra Period

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FOUND: 'THE MELODY THAT GOT LOST'; An Adaptation From the Danish Sets London To Thinking

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Melody That Got Lost, by R Adam and F Sinclair (London)

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WILD WEST DANCE TO AID BOYS CLUB; Backwoods Night Feature on Feb. 24 to Assist Work of Madison Square Group

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Backwoods Night will be observed at La Salle Tropicale of Le Coq Rouge Restaurant on Feb. 24 when a Wild West Dinner Dance will be given as a benefit for the Madison Square Boys Club, an organization which, since its establishment in 1884, has conducted an extensive program for the educational, cultural and moral guidance of underprivileged boys.

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Notable Births

1938Fred Mifflin, Canadian admiral and politician, 19th Minister of Veterans Affairs (died 2013)^[†]

Rear-Admiral Fred J. Mifflin, was a rear admiral in the Canadian Forces and a politician.

Notable Deaths

1938Marianne von Werefkin, Russian-Swiss painter (born 1860)^[†]

Marianne von Werefkin was a Russian artist, whose work is celebrated as a central part of German Expressionism.