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March 23, 1928

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Notable Births

1928Lee Sexton, American banjo player (died 2021)^[†]

Lee Sexton was an American banjoist from Letcher County, Kentucky. He began playing the banjo at the age of eight and was proficient in the two-finger picking and "drop-thumb" (clawhammer) traditional styles of east Kentucky. He also sang and played fiddle. His Whoa Mule album includes recordings from a 1952 home recording with fiddler Fernando Lusk to recordings made in 2001. Four solo songs also appear on Smithsonian Folkways album Mountain Music of Kentucky.

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Headlines from March 23, 1928

LEGISLATURE ENDS WITH A SLAUGHTER OF SMITH'S BILLS; Attack on Governor for 'Petty Politics' Marks Assembly Action on 4-Year Term. WATER POWER BILLS LOST Republicans Supply No Substitute for Executive Measure-- County Home Rule Rejected.OTTINGER'S PROGRAM FAILSHis Securities Legislation Goes Down With Jurists' Bill onWidows' Share in Estates.

By Special to The New York Times

Home rule bill rejected by Assembly

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King Asks Senate to Arrest Cunningham For Refusing to Tell of $50,000 Gift to Vare

By Special to The New York Times

Sen King introduces resolution in Sen to arrest T W Cunningham for refusing to tell of $50,000 gift

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OUR EMBASSY HIT IN MEXICAN QUAKE; Wall of Morrow's Bedroom Is Cracked--He Resumes Talk After the Tremor. OTHER CITIES ARE ROCKED People Panicstricken in Worst Shocks in Years--Milo, Me., Is Shaken Also.

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Embassy damaged in earthquake

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Two Frenchmen Invent a Mechanical Violin; 'Violinista' Follows System of Player-Piano

By Copyright, 1928, by the New York Times Company. Special Cable To the New York Times

Mechanical one called "Violinista" to be displayed in Paris; G Boreau and E Aubry inventors

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LITVINOF HITS BACK AT SOVIET'S CRITICS; STAYS ON AT GENEVA; British Action in China Called Example of Meddling in Other Countries. OUR LEAGUE STAND CITED Delegate's Words Quoted to Show the United States Also Spurns Its Jurisdiction. GOOD FAITH IS AFFIRMED Moscow's Present Cooperation and Past Peace Efforts Adduced as Proof of Sincerity.

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WILD STOCK TRADING SENDS LEADERS HIGH; Tenth Day of Feverish Buying Brings 2 to 14 Point Rises-- Some Stocks Tumble. 3,873,890 SHARES SOLD General Motors at Peak of 181 as Steel Hits 152-- Radio Climbs to 157 .

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Rise continues

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SENATE SIDETRACKS ANTI-MELLON MOVE; Couzens Resolution Sent to Calendar After Renewed Attack by Senator. REED DEFENDS SECRETARY Pennsylvanian Tells of Secret Service Aid in Oil Inquiry-- Moses Charges "Feud."

By Special to The New York Times

Sen Couzens says it is "rotten with favoritism and corruption," in attack on Sec Mellon

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Mother and Aunt, With Gun and Knife, Attack Alabaman as He Is Acquitted of Killing Girl

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Mother and aunt, C Tubbs, try to kill H F Blake as he is acquitted of murder

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Finds Safety Area Protects Tall Buildings From Lightning

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On lightning rod protection, at meeting of Amer Inst of Electrical Engineers, N Y C

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GOVERNMENT BRINGS $1,376,134 TAX SUIT AGAINST PHILLIPS; Charges Missing Queens Sewer Witness Failed to Pay Income Taxes for Four Years. PUBLIC HEARINGS APRIL 9 Shearn Speeds Inquiry as Albany Enacts Law to FineWitnesses Who Hide. CONNOLLY PLEA DELAYED Estimate Board Postpones Action onBorough President's Request for$100,000 Defense Fund.

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Govt sues Phillips on income tax; Shearn examines 25 witnesses, including M C Smedley; public hearings to begin April 9; Legis enacts missing witnesses bill; Estimate Bd postpones action on Connolly's request for $100,000 defense fund

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Sinclair Co. to Pay $100,000 For Slandering Business Rival

By Special to The New York Times

Ordered to pay $100,000 for slandering Lion Oil Co

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RENT LAW EXTENDED IN RUSH AT ALBANY; Democrats Defeated in Last Effort to Save Untermyer Transit Bill. COURT MEASURE PASSES Police and Firemen's Pay Amendment Beaten Amid the Jam of Legislation.

By Special to The New York Times

Bill killed in Assembly

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