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June 16, 1938

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Reich Beheads Husband and Wife as Spies; She Is Third Woman Victim of Nazi Regime

By Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Beheaded in Germany as spies

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CHINA FLOODS RUIN VAST FARM LANDS; Yellow River Covers Fertile Area With Sand-Wal-of Water Rushes South Japanese Increase Forces Death Estimate Is Reduced CHINA FLOODS RUIN VAST FARM LANDS Chinese Claim an Air Victory Flooding of Hankow Expected

By Douglas Robertsonspecial Cable To the New York Times

deaths; damage

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REBELS PUSH AHEAD IN THREE SECTORS; BOMB FOUR VESSELS; Cross Mijares River in Drive on Valencia--Press Clean-Up of 'Lost Division'n' STRIKE IN PENARROYA ZONE They Blast Way to Blazquez--British and French Ships Struck at Valencia New Gains by Rebels Cross the Mijares River Loyalists Yield Blazquez REBELS PUSH AHEAD IN THREE SECTORSS Barcelona Repels Raiders Four Foreign Ships Bombed 300 Flee "Lost" Division Castellon Hails Rebels Castellon's Loss Conceded REBELS ON OFFENSIVE IN THREE SECTORS

By Unknown Author

Rebels push ahead toward Valencia; strike in Penarroya zone and in North; Loyalists yield Blazquez; map; Barcelona bombed; Brit SS Thurston and Seapharer and French SS Gaulois and Karbear bombed; 300 flee 43d Div into France; Loyalists concede Castellon's fall

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LEADERS IN SENATE SMASH FILIBUSTER; Flood Control Plan Finally Wins--Members Refuse to Rush Bills, Delay Adjournment Night Work for Committees LEADERS IN SENATE SMASH FILIBUSTER Party Affiliations Set Aside Rail Unemployment Plan Wins

By Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Sen approves ins under new Maritime Law

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HAGUE REPUDIATES 'RED' AID IN PARTY; JOUSTS WITH ERNST; Court in Bedlam as Mayor and Lawyer Clash -- Roosevelt 'Errs' in Support, He Holds SAYS LEHMAN IS 'FOOLED' But 'You Aren't Fooling Me,' He Warns--Battles Over C.l.O. Against Counsel's Advicee Angered by Foe's Questions HAGUE REPUDIATES 'RED' AID IN PARTY Clash Puts Court in Turmoil Some in C. I. O. "Good Americans" Queried on Trip to Russia. Would Let Borah Speak Hague Insists on Talking

By Russell B. Porterspecial To the New York Times

by Mayor Hague

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Notable Births

1938Thomas Boyd-Carpenter, English general^[†]

Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Patrick John Boyd-Carpenter, is a former British Army officer who became Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff.

1938Torgny Lindgren, Swedish author and poet (died 2017)^[†]

Gustav Torgny Lindgren was a Swedish writer.

1938Joyce Carol Oates, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet^[†]

Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer. Oates published her first book in 1963, and has since published 58 novels, a number of plays and novellas, and many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction. Her novels Black Water (1992), What I Lived For (1994), and Blonde (2000), and her short story collection Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories (2014) were each finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won many awards for her writing, including the National Book Award for her novel Them (1969), two O. Henry Awards, the National Humanities Medal, and the Jerusalem Prize (2019).