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June 21, 1938

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CHINESE INTENSIFY GUERRILLA TACTICS; Flood Subsiding, but Japanese Forces Face Sniping From Twenty-five Divisions Use of Gas Is Charged CHINESE INTENSIFY GUERRILLA TACTICS Japanese Control Timited Poppies in Full Bloom Japanese in Big Retreat Deny Sinking of Ships

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

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ITALY TO CHECK AID TO SPAIN IF FRANCE CLOSES HER BORDER; Effort to Agree Is Hastened I French Cooperation Sought Ciano and Perth Seek a Way to Make Agreements Effective Without Further Delay DEFINITE PLEDGE SOUGHT Paris Believed Ready to Enter Accord at Meeting of Non. Intervention Group Today ITALY OFFERS PLAN ON FORCES IN SPAIN Compromise Held Necessary Accord Today Hoped For

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Italy believed ready for token withdrawal if France guarantees to halt supplies to Loyalists

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KENNEY, HINES AIDE, CITED IN CONTEMPT; Grand Jury Charges He Balked at Queries About Purchase of Giant Baseball Stock Mystery Partly Cleared Up 200 Pages of Testimony KENNEY, INESAIDE, CITED IN CONTEMPT Has No Counsel Light Sought on Money

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Kenney cited for contempt in refusing to tell jury source of funds used to buy Giants baseball team stock; citation demands information on money paid to Hines; Rosenthal released in bail

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CITY RELIEF BUDGET $17,633,927 HIGHER; Hondson Tells Council He Will Need $137,228,000 for Year Beginning July 1 Hodson Gives Views. CITY RELIEF BUDGET $17,633,927 HIGHER WPA Quotas Now Filled E. B. Butler Heard

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submits 1939 budget estimate

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WIRETAPPING ISSUE NARROWED TO USE OF DATA AT TRIALS; Dunnigan Revises His Plan to Make It Meet in Substance Other Dewey Points VETO BY LEHMAN IS CITED Justice Lewis Scores for Republicans by Pointing to Action on McNaboe Bill Points to Veto by Lehman ISSUE NIARROWED ON WIRETAPPING

By Warren Moscowspecial To the New York Times

conv debate; Dewey-Lewis plan offered; Dunnigan revises his so that they agree on all but use of evidence illegally obtained

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1938Don Black, English songwriter^[†]

Donald Blackstone, known professionally as Don Black, is an English lyricist. His works have included numerous musicals, movie, television themes and hit songs. He has provided lyrics for John Barry, Charles Strouse, Matt Monro, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Quincy Jones, Hoyt Curtin, Lulu, Jule Styne, Henry Mancini, Meat Loaf, Michael Jackson, Robbie Williams, Elmer Bernstein, Michel Legrand, Hayley Westenra, Ennio Morricone, A. R. Rahman, Marvin Hamlisch and Debbie Wiseman.

1938John W. Dower, American historian and author^[†]

John W. Dower is an American author and historian. His 1999 book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II won the U.S. National Book Award for Nonfiction, the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, the Bancroft Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Mark Lynton History Prize, and the John K. Fairbank Prize of the American Historical Association.

1938Michael M. Richter, German mathematician and computer scientist (died 2020)^[†]

Michael M. Richter was a German mathematician and computer scientist. Richter is well known for his career in mathematical logic, in particular non-standard analysis, and in artificial intelligence, in particular in knowledge-based systems and case-based reasoning. He is worldwide known as pioneer in case-based reasoning.

Headlines from June 21, 1938

CHINESE INTENSIFY GUERRILLA TACTICS; Flood Subsiding, but Japanese Forces Face Sniping From Twenty-five Divisions Use of Gas Is Charged CHINESE INTENSIFY GUERRILLA TACTICS Japanese Control Timited Poppies in Full Bloom Japanese in Big Retreat Deny Sinking of Ships

KENNEY, HINES AIDE, CITED IN CONTEMPT; Grand Jury Charges He Balked at Queries About Purchase of Giant Baseball Stock Mystery Partly Cleared Up 200 Pages of Testimony KENNEY, INESAIDE, CITED IN CONTEMPT Has No Counsel Light Sought on Money

CITY RELIEF BUDGET $17,633,927 HIGHER; Hondson Tells Council He Will Need $137,228,000 for Year Beginning July 1 Hodson Gives Views. CITY RELIEF BUDGET $17,633,927 HIGHER WPA Quotas Now Filled E. B. Butler Heard

WIRETAPPING ISSUE NARROWED TO USE OF DATA AT TRIALS; Dunnigan Revises His Plan to Make It Meet in Substance Other Dewey Points VETO BY LEHMAN IS CITED Justice Lewis Scores for Republicans by Pointing to Action on McNaboe Bill Points to Veto by Lehman ISSUE NIARROWED ON WIRETAPPING

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