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March 13, 1928

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SMITH CALLS ON CITY FOR $100,000 TO PAY FOR SEWERS INQUIRY; Acts on Request From Shearn That Large Sum Is Needed to Keep Investigation Going. LAW PLACES COST ON CITY Mayor May Be Asked to Force Queens Engineer, Who Is Missing, to Testify. PHILLIPS IN MIAMI HOSPITAL Telephones to Secretary 'to Tell All' About '$44,000 Dinner Set' That Contractors Gave Him.

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Gov calls on City for $100,000 to pay costs of inquiry; Mayor's aid may be asked in getting Seeley to appear as witness; A Zorn repts burglary; Phillips in Miami hosp instructs Sec to tell about dinner set

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Britain Has Tiny 'Intercepter' War Plane That Rises Vertically 5 Miles in 10 Minutes

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Intercepter war plane perfected

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Thursday Is the Last Day For Federal Tax Returns

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RADIO UP 18 POINTS IN RECORD MARKET; 340,800 of Its Shares Dealt In as 3,875,910-Share Day Beats All Past Marks. SHORTS HAVE VIOLENT DAY Wild Scramble on Exchange as They Try to Buy Back Shares Soaring to 138 .

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Radio Corp stock features in greatest trading day in history

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MAYOR TO DEMAND A TRANSIT INQUIRY; Wants State Board to Take Up Dispute Between I.R.T. and Amalgamated. OUSTED MEN FILE PROTEST Charge Persecution and Ask Redress--Road Says Walker Lacks Power to Act.

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Walker wants I R T dispute referred to Transit Comm; ousted men appeal to him for aid in securing reinstatement; Hedley's comment

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Bath Is Bishop's Only Privacy, And Now He Fears Television

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Bishop Furse of St Alban's, England, fears it will end privacy

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SILENCE STIRS SENATORS; Treasury Chief Will Be Asked Why Facts Were Not Volunteered. BITTER ATTACK ON HAYS Democratic Leader Declares Ex-Chairman Is Open to Criminal Charge. HIS OIL LOSSES UP AGAIN Norris Intimates That Coolidge Should Demand Mellon Leave the Cabinet.

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Sees perjury charge against W H Hays possible in Teapot Dome case

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ASSERT RAILROAD BANNED UNION COAL; Two Ohio Operators at Senate Hearing Accuse Pennsylvania of Restrictive Action. ONE'S SIDING WAS REMOVED Sagle Charges a 'Malicious' Attempt to Destroy Him--Unionto Present 50 Witnesses.

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Introduces bill in Sen to create Federal Child Relief Bd

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BRITISH FLIER DIES IN PLUNGE INTO SEA; SOUGHT SPEED MARK; Plane With Lieut. Kinkead of the Schneider Cup Team Hit Water Like Cannon Shell. FLUNG UP COLUMN OF SPRAY Supermarine Napier S-5 Dived Just as It Started Over Course at 150 Feet Altitude. FEW BITS OF WINGS FOUND Aviator Racing Over the Solent Just After Snowstorm Hoped to Fly 300 Miles an Hour.

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S M Kinkead dies in attempt at record

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Butler's Reply to Senator Borah's Letter Demanding Restitution of Sinclair Bonds

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WASHINGTON, March 12.--Senator Borah gave out today William M. Butler's reply to the Idaho Senator's letter urging that the Sinclair gift to the Republican Party fund be returned.

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PERILS FOR BYRD SEEN BY SCOTT AIDE; Admiralty Scientist Hails Expedition, but Fears Tragedyin Landing in Snow.SAYS PLANES CANNOT RISE.He Tells of Blinding Light That Merges Earth and Sky, butFlying May Overcome It.

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On Byrd Antarctic Expedition

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GOV. SMITH ORDERS SPECIAL GRAND JURY TO SIFT KNAPP CASE; If Indicted, Former Woman Official Will Be Tried at Extraordinary Albany Session.JUSTICE CALLAGHAN TO SITBrooklyn Judge Will ConveneCourt on April 5 and ImpanelGrand Jury of Business Men.MARCH BODY NOT WANTEDOttinger Feared Herrick's NonProsecution Stand Might HaveAffected Its Members.

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