Jan. 31, 1938

Berlin celebrates Adolf Hitler’s fifth anniversary … Dist. Atty. Buron Fitts promises a crackdown on vice in Los Angeles … The City Council is studying whether to set up an intake bureau to assist homeless men in Los Angeles … Members of the LAPD intelligence squad will be ordered to reveal what they know about the Harry Raymond bombing.

Quotes of the day: Times columnist Chapin Hall warns everyone not to make too much of the incident in which a Japanese sentry slapped an American envoy in Nanking, China:

" After all, it’s not our war–yet–and we’re not making the rules."

"Neither today nor at any other time will there be acts of terrorism against the Jews or anything resembling a pogrom." –Octavian Goga, Romanian premier

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