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March 9, 1928

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Didn't Keep Coolidge Waiting, Walker Says; 'Wasn't Half Hour Late With Mellon, Either'

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Denies he kept Coolidge or Mellon waiting

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New Asks Life Term or Death For Bandits Who Rob Mails

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Postmaster Gen New asks for legislation for life imprisonment or execution for mail robbers

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PATTEN BARES 'FAKE' GIFT OF $25,000 TO REPUBLICANS; GOT OIL BONDS HAYS HELD; DESCRIBES DEFICIT DEAL Grain Operator Supplies First Evidence of Veiled Donations. $400,000 FOR ALIEN PRESS New Yorker Reveals Purchase of Association as Aid in 1920 Campaign. HODGES LISTS DONATIONS Many Chicagoans Who Helped to Meet the Party Debt Will Be Subpoenaed.

By Special to The New York Times

Patten bares "fake" gift of $25,000 to Repubs; got oil bonds, which Hayes received from Sinclair, in exchange from Upham, then Treas of Repub Com; Hodges lists contributors to Repub fund; M J Pessin testifies on $400,000 deal which brought Amer Assn of Foreign Language Newspapers under control of du Pont, Pratt and Thompson as aid in 1920 campaign

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I.R.T. REBUFFS MAYOR ON A COMPROMISE; OUSTS 4 MORE MEN; Stands by Its Policy and Again Warns Union Workers They Face Discharge. CONFERENCE IS FRUITLESS Walker Said to Be Convinced That Company Wants to Force a Strike. WILL CALL NEW PARLEY To Hasten Back From Albany for Meeting Today With the Labor Chiefs.

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I R T rebuffs Mayor on compromise; 4 more men ousted; Company union's new warning; statement by W B Fitzgerald, Vice Pres of Amalgamated

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SMITH CONSIDERS NAMING OTTINGER AS PROSECUTOR TO REOPEN KNAPP CASE; SPURRED BY PUBLIC OPINION Charges of Census Graft Would Go Before Special Supreme Court Term. OUTSIDE OF ALBANY COUNTY Governor Will Decide Today on Having Attorney General Supersede District Attorney.EXECUTIVE REPLIES TO OTISRidicules 'Smoke-Screen' Talkand Defends Le Boeuf, WhoStands By Finding of Guilt.

By Special to The New York Times

May be named by Gov to reopen Knapp case

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Notable Births

1928Gerald Bull, Canadian-American engineer and academic (died 1990)^[†]

Gerald Vincent Bull was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery. He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed the Project Babylon "supergun" for Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq.

1928Keely Smith, American singer and actress (died 2017)^[†]

Dorothy Jacqueline Keely, professionally known as Keely Smith, was an American jazz and popular music singer, who performed and recorded extensively in the 1950s with then-husband Louis Prima, and throughout the 1960s as a solo artist.