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September 26, 1928

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SMITH STARS EASRT; ACCLAMED AT BUTTLE BY CROWD OF 25,000; With Assurances of Montana's Vote, He Speeds to St. Paul to Speak Tommorrow TO PRESS FARM SUBJECT Western Democrats Declare the Governor's Appeal to Progressives Has Been Effective.WHEELER TRAVELS WITH HIM He Says Restraint in Candidate's Helena Speech on Corruption Will Attract Country. Three Appeals to Progresstves. SMITH STARTS EAST; ACCLAIMED AT BUTTE Montana Success Predicted. Republican Chiefs Confer. Speech on Prohibition Indicated.

By From a Staff Correspondent of The New York Times

Oil scandal

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JURY QUICKLY PICKED TO TRY CONNOLLY; LOCKED UP FOR NIGHT; Business and Professional Men Are Chosen for Queens Sewer Graft Case. SEELY TO ASK TRIAL ALONE His Lawyer Fights Limiting of Challenges to 5 Shared by Two Defendants. CIRCUMSTANTIAL CASE SEEN Hinted in Questions to Jurors, Who Face Three to Five Weeks' Absence From Homes. Seely to Ask Separate Trial. Defense, Disagrees on Jurors. JURY QUICKLY PICKED TO TRY CONNOLLY Circumstantial Case Hinted. Fereman Once knew Cannoily. Rejects a Republican Talesman.

By Times Wide World Photo

Supreme Court Justice A S Tompkins assists in selecting jury; F Seely to ask trial alone

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Notable Births

Bob Van Der Veken

1928Bob Van der Veken, Belgian actor (died 2019)[†]

Bob Van Der Veken was a Belgian actor.

Wilford White

1928Wilford White, American football player (died 2013)[†]

Wilford Parley "Whizzer" White was an American professional football player who was a halfback for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He also was a member of the Toronto Argonauts in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was selected by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 1951 NFL draft. He played college football for the Arizona State Sun Devils and became the school's first College Football All-American.