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November 22, 1928

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HEAVY SELLING WAVE DRIVES STOCKS DOWN IN A '6,000,000' DAY; Reaction Near Close Affects Wide List, but Leaders Make Partial Recovery. SEAT SELLS FOR $525,000 Rise of $30,000 Recorded Over Night--Ticker to Omit "Lot" Figures From Today. CURB TRADING SETS RECORD Session Totals 2,214,600 Shares-- Speculators Restive Pending Brokers' Loan Report. Market Balanced Most of Day. HEAVY SELLING WAVE DRIVES STOCKS DOWN Too Much Buying Blamed. Ticker Is 66 Minutes Late. CURB TRADING SETS RECORD. 2,214,600 Shares Sold, With Prices Reacting After Early Advance.

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VESTRIS OFFICERS REFUSED TO MAN BOATS, SAYS CHIEF; HE ADMITS CHAOS IN CRISIS; ASKS 'WHAT COULD I DO? Sea Not Bad Enough to Endanger Well Found Vessel, He Admits. PERIL WAS LONG KNOWN Ship, Unsafe 19 Hours Prior to Sinking, Fought Unknown Danger, Testimony Shows. AN EARLIER S O S "WISER" No Boat Drill Held--Lowering Chains Broke--Passengers Put Off From Wrong Side. Draws Unflattering Picture. Chief Officer's Admissions. Chief Officer of Vestris Describes Losing Battle Against Unknown Danger CHIEF OFFICER TESTIFIES. Experts at Tuttle Inquiry Fix Aims of Investigation. Port Side Was Weather Side. Asks About Power Boat. Jessop Questions Witness. Lifeboat Stations on Cards. Declares Sea Was Rough. Leak Kept Him Busy. Thought Door Caused List. Captain Examined Bunkers. No Call to Lifeboats. Asks About Port Boats. Discussion About S O S. Question on Voltaire Calls. Boats Not Properly Filled. Tuttle Resumes Examination. Would Not Have Sent S O S. Chief Engineer Testifies. Possibility of Pipe Break. Carpenter Tells of Leaks. DISAGREE WITH INSPECTORS. Survivors Also Opposed by the Testimony of R

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U S Steamboat Inspection Service inquiry

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ROTHSTEIN SUSPECT IS NAMED TO POLICE BY WOMAN WITNESS; Mrs. Keyes Partly Identifies Gunman's Picture as Man She Saw in Hotel Room. PLACES McMANUS BY PHOTO He Is Sought Over Nation, but Not as Slayer--Detectives Doubt Murder Was His Intent. GAMBLER'S FILES OPENED Huge Mass of Papers Expected to Link Slain Man With Many Underworld Affairs. Banton Announces Important Leads. ROTHSTEIN SUSPECT IS NAMED TO POLICE Hope to Find Narcotic Evidence. Oliver Called to Track "Fences." Believed to Have Seen Slayer. Dodge Photographers in Street. Case Up to Banton, Says Warren. Cleveland Police Aid Hunt.

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Mrs Keyes partly identifies gunman's picture, also recognizes McManus by photo; secret files expected to prove connection with underworld activities; Cleveland police hunt gunman

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$3,000,000,000 FUND TO AID EMPLOYMENT IN HOOVER PROGRAM; It Would Be Created by Holding Construction Projects in Reserve for Lean Years.PLAN EMBRACES THE NATIONIt Is Presented at New OrleansConference of Governors byBrewster of Maine.HE SPEAKS FOR HOOVERProposal, Reported to Labor Leaders,Hailed as Following Policy They Have Advocated. "Insurance Against Panics." $3,000,000,000 FUND TO AID EMPLOYMENT Governors Withhold Action. Authors of the Plan.

By Special to The New York Times

Hoover program presented to Governor's Conf by Gov Brewster, Me

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Notable Births

Tim Beaumont

1928Tim Beaumont, English priest and politician (died 2008)[†]

Timothy Wentworth Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley was a British politician and an Anglican priest. He was politically active, successively, in the Liberal Party, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party of England and Wales. A life peer since 1967, in 1999 he became the first member of either of the British Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom to represent the Green Party.

Mel Hutchins

1928Mel Hutchins, American basketball player (died 2018)[†]

Melvin Ray Hutchins was an American basketball player. He played professionally in the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1951 to 1958. Hutchins was selected by the Tri-Cities Blackhawks with the second pick in the 1951 NBA draft and was a four-time NBA All-Star.