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February 16, 1938

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PRESIDENT DEFINES NAVY DEFENSE-AIM; Avoiding Japan's Ratio, He Explains Two-Ocean Fleet as Necessary in Policy VINSON WILL SPEED BILL Says Committee Will Report It to House Next Week--Fish Under Fire at Hearing Issue Not Mathematical PRESIDENT DEFINES NAVY DEFENSE AIM He Sees "Parallel Action" Scores Cruiser Visit at Singapore Report to House Next Week

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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Indictment Vainly Stolen; New One at Once Voted

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W O Sevecke and J L Lotsch rearraigned on conspiracy charge after original indictment is stolen

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TWO GIRLS GUILTY IN HOLD-UP SLAYING; Genevieve Owens, Mrs. Sohl Convicted in First Degree With Plea for Mercy BOTH TO GET LIFE TERMS Widow of Jersey Bus Driver, Who Was Slain for $2.10, Hears the Verdict Owens Girl Cries Softly TWO GIRLS GUILTY IN HOLD-UP SLAYING Marijuana Plea Assailed Girls Plight Laid to Essex GIRL GUILTY IN PATRICIDE Dorothy Schaefer Pleads to Manslaughter in Jersey City

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Daughter pleads guilty to manslaughter

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Sweetness and Light at Council Session Surprise and Disappoint the Galleries'

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N Y C Council postpones consideration of Cong memorial on amendment

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A.F.L. SPURNS PLEA BY STALIN FOR AID IN EVENT OF WAR; Woll Declares Soviet Regime Deserves No Support From Workers in Democracies PLANS TO FIGHT IT AT OSLO Says A. F. L. Will Withdraw Unless International Body Bars Russian Unions To Demand Democracy in Russia Sees Moscow Aim Revealed APPEAL BY STALIN REJECTED BY A. F. L.

By Joseph Shaplen

AFL assails destructive role

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Notable Births

John Corigliano

1938John Corigliano, American composer and academic^[†]

John Paul Corigliano is an American composer of contemporary classical music. With over 100 compositions, he has won accolades including a Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, and an Academy Award.