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Conf with Roosevelt on farm problem
Upstate tour: Binghamton
Chinese reptd cracking on both fronts; Canton defenders and Shameen (foreign settlement) rushes barricades; Japanese drive side-steps Chinese forces near Tsungfa; advances on Canton; Chinese deny Tsengshing and Skeklung capture; map; Japanese break defenses near Hankow; Hwangshihkang boom broken; Japanese planes bomb Hwangpei; Brit Charge d'Affaires and staff leave Hankow for Chungking; 15,000 jinrikisha pullers and junk fleet leave city
Considerable strengthening and expansion of the naval base in Hawaii and establishment of- naval air bases in Alaska and Puerto Rico are expected to be the principal recommendations of the naval board recently appointed to study the navy's base facilities.
Reich cautions Hungary; Hungarians demonstrate
1938Carl Brewer, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2001)[†]
Carl Thomas Brewer was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. Brewer attended De La Salle College and Riverdale Collegiate Institute prior to his hockey career.
1938Dorothy Hale, American actress (born 1905)[†]
Dorothy Hale was an American socialite and aspiring actress who died by suicide by jumping off of the Hampshire House building in New York City. Her husband's death, followed by several unsuccessful relationships, had left her financially dependent on her wealthy friends. The artist Frida Kahlo created a famous painting commissioned by Clare Boothe Luce, titled The Suicide of Dorothy Hale.