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November 26, 1928

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KING HAS QUIET NIGHT AFTER A RESTIVE DAY WITH HIGHER FEVER; Public Anxiety Persists and Throngs Ask for News at Buckingham. NURSING STAFF INCREASED Temperature, However, Does Not Alarm the Doctors, as Ruler Holds Strength. CHURCHES PRAY FOR HIM Heir Told There Is No Need to Alter His African Plans, but Warship Stays Near Him. Curb on Pleurisy Reported. Appreciate American Solicitude. KING HAS QUIET NIGHT AFTER A RESTIVE DAY Pray in Westminster Abbey. Two Nurses Attend Ruler. Warship Is Near Prince of Wales.

By Unknown Author

Repts by Sir H Rigby, Sir S Hewett, Dawson of Penn and others; visitors to palace; prayers offered, &c

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ROTHSTEIN CASE GOES TO GRAND JURY TODAY; Mrs. Keyes and Detectives to Be Chief Witnesses of 50 or 60 in 21-Day-Old Mystery. WILL SUIT ISSUES FRAMED Illegal Execution, Incompetence and Fraud to Be Charged, Family Counsel Asserts. Mrs. Keyes to Testify. Suit Over Will Prepared. ROTHSTEIN CASE UP IN GRAND JURY TODAY

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Search for the slayer of Arnold Rothstein, the gambler, entered its twenty-first day yesterday. The police apparently are no nearer to a solution of the case.

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SENATE WON'T PRESS WORLD COURT ISSUE; Gillett Resolution Likely to Be Shelved While Coolidge Deals With Signatory Nations. HUGHES BELIEVED A FACTOR Change in American Attitude Is Attributed to His Election as Judge of the Tribunal. Reservation Causing Deadlock. Question of Our Status Raised. SENATE WON'T PRESS WORLD COURT ISSUE Judgeship of Hughes a Factor. Would Deal With Each Nation.

By Special to The New York Times

Revival of issue of joining of U S attributed to his election to bench

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Notable Births

Tatsuo Nishida

1928Nishida Tatsuo, Japanese linguist and academic (died 2012)[†]

Tatsuo Nishida was a professor at Kyoto University. His work encompasses research on a variety of Tibeto-Burman languages, having made great contributions in particular to the deciphering of the Tangut language.

Notable Deaths

Reinhard Scheer

1928Reinhard Scheer, German admiral (born 1863)[†]

Carl Friedrich Heinrich Reinhard Scheer was an Admiral in the Imperial German Navy. Scheer joined the navy in 1879 as an officer cadet and progressed through the ranks, commanding cruisers and battleships, as well as senior staff positions on land. At the outbreak of World War I, Scheer was the commander of the II Battle Squadron of the High Seas Fleet. He then took command of the III Battle Squadron, which consisted of the newest and most powerful battleships in the navy. In January 1916, he was promoted to Admiral and given control of the High Seas Fleet. Scheer led the German fleet at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May – 1 June 1916, one of the largest naval battles in history.