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May 9, 1938

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JAPAN WIPES OUT GUERRILLA THREAT TO BASE IN KIANGSU; Reports Crushing Victory Over Chinese Menacing Nantung, on the Yangtze DEFENDERS GET NEW AID Yunnan and Kweichow Mass Their Reserves and Men--South Coast Attacked See Relief to Column Building 750-Mile Road. Japanese Navy Harasses Coast JAPAN WIPES OUT GUERRILLA THREAT

By Unknown Author

Japanese wipe out guerrilla threat to Nantung; Peiping gates reopened as guerrilla rumors are dispelled; Kweichow and Yunnan Provinces line up resources to aid China; send men and munitions to front; start roadbldg from Yunnan to Chungking to transport supplies; Japanese naval forces under Oikawa reptd more active along South China coast; marines repulsed on Ballast Is and near Swabue; Amoy prepares defenses; Fukien Govt to move to Yungan

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ITALIAN AIR POWER IS SHOWN TO HITLER IN ROME FAREWELL; Planes Bomba a 'Concentration' of Troops About to Embark and 'Industrial Zone'' ARMY ALSO 'ATTACKS' FOE Reich Chancellor Takes Leave of King Today--He Will Go to Florence by Train Hundreds of Planes Involved Attack on Ships Realistic Ships Bombarded Next Smoke Covers Entire Area ITALIAN AIR POWER IS SHOWN TO HITLER Italian King Reported Planning Berlin Visit

By Frederick T. Birchallwireless To the New York Times

air force display; army sham battle; Hitler dines with Ciano; attends gymnastic exhibition by youth; other activities

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Notable Births

Carroll Cole

1938Carroll Cole, American serial killer (died 1985)[†]

Carroll Edward "Eddie" Cole was an American serial killer who was executed in Nevada in 1985 for killing two women by strangulation. He was also convicted of murdering three other women in Texas and is believed to have murdered dozens between 1947 and 1980.

Charles Simic

1938Charles Simić, Serbian-American poet and editor (died 2023)[†]

Dušan Simić, known as Charles Simic, was a Serbian American poet and poetry co-editor of The Paris Review. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1990 for The World Doesn't End and was a finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for Selected Poems, 1963–1983 and in 1987 for Unending Blues. He was appointed the fifteenth United States Poet Laureate in 2007.

Notable Deaths

1938Thomas B. Thrige, Danish businessman (born 1866)[†]

Thomas Barfoed Thrige was a Danish entrepreneur, industrialist and businessman. In 1894, he started the company Thomas B. Thrige, a manufacturer of electric motors, now known as T-T Electric. The power station of his factory in Odense is now the Thriges Kraftcentral museum run by Odense City Museums.