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December 20, 1928

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KING HOLDS HIS GAIN; WORST PHASES OVER, HIS DOCTORS REVEAL; Ground for Hope Is More 'Solid,' but Recovery Must Be 'Difficult and Tedious.' DISEASE ONCE LIKE TYPHOID Hand Breathing and Bad Circulation Were Added Factors,Long Statement Explains. PALACE CIRCLES CHEERED Queen Visits Zoo on First Drive inSeveral Days--Prince SeesSquash Racquets Match. Text of Two Bulletins. Queen Visits the Zoo. Premier to Leave London. KING HOLDS HIS GAIN; WORST PHASES OVER Four Privy Councilors Called. Text of Doctor's Statement. Second Phase Resembled Typhoid. Ray Treatment Has Helped. Cricket Gets First Place in Press.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Visits zoo with Princess Elizabeth

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COMMITTEE FAVORS CONFIRMING WEST OVER NYE PROTEST; Votes 7 to 3 for Favorable Report to Senate on New Secretary of Interior. HIS INSULL HOLDINGS CITED North Dakotan Says They Bar Him, Since He Will Be on Federal Power Commission. COMPANIES SEEKING SITES Appointee Replies That He willRefrain From Passing on AnyInsull Applications. Nye Explains Opposition. Outlines the Insull Projects. COMMITTEE FAVORS CONFIRMING WEST Refers to Senate Testimony. Refers to Utility Investments.

By Special to The New York Times

Public Lands Com favors confirming his appt, over protest of Sen Nye

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WHALEN BEGINS SHAKE-UP, OUSTING TWO INSPECTORS; WILL WAR ON SPEAKEASIES; LAHEY AND COUGHLIN GO Others Reported Slated to Follow Chief and Detective Head. NIGHTSTICK TO BE INVOKED Commissioner Tells Men to Use Forcible Tactics on Thugs and Stamp Out Gambling. RESCINDS WARREN ORDER Reinstates Glee Club Leader, Consigning Report on Which He Was Reduced to 'Basket.' Speculation on Rothstein Case. Rumor Demotion of Carey. Alters Fixtures of Office. Praises O'Brien's Work. Speaks of Fitzgibbons. BIG SHAKE-UPS IN PAST. Upheavals Marked Regimes of Enright and McLaughlin. NEW POLICE OFFICIALS TAKE THEIR OATH OF OFFICE.

By Times Wide World Photo

Removal of W J Lahey and J D Coughlin from police force by G Whalen causes speculation on case

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Notable Births

1928John Menkes, Austrian-American pediatric and writer (died 2008)[†]

John Hans Menkes was an Austrian-American pediatric neurologist and author of fictional novels and plays. He identified two inherited diseases: maple syrup urine disease which is a defect in amino acid metabolism, and a defect in copper transport which bears his name. In addition to a career in academic medicine, he pursued a career in writing, publishing novels and plays.