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December 22, 1928

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NIGHT FIRE SWEEPS RIVERSIDE CHURCH AS 100,000 LOOK ON; FLAMES RAGING IN ROCKEFELLER'S RIVERSIDE CHURCH. $4,000,000 Edifice Being Built by Rockefeller's Congregation for Dr. Fosdick Burns. THE SCAFFOLDING AFLAME Blazing Structure on the Drive Is Saved, but Interior Is Left a Shell. SPARKS IMPERIL BUILDINGS Spectacle Viewed by Throngs on Both Sides of Hudson--Four Are Hurt Fighting Fire. Thousands View Blaze. Dr. Fosdick Makes No Estimate. Fight Blaze Two Hours. Scores Wood Scaffolding. Three Fire Companies on Watch. Cost Set at $4,000,000. Elevators Planned for Tower.

By Times Wide World Photo

Spectacular fires recalled

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WHALEN ABOLISHES THE HOMICIDE SQUAD; CAREY IS FORCED OUT; Commissioner Asserts It Made Arrests in Two of 228 Cases This Year and Deserves Fate. CREATES BOROUGH SYSTEM Veteran, Refusing to Resign, Is Retired--New Chief Makes Midtown Night Tour. MANY SHIFTS OF OFFICERS Rothstein Detective Sent Back to Uniform--590 Lieutenants Told to Get Out on the Streets. Whalen's Orders for Third Day. Rothstein Detective Demoted. WHALEN ABOLISHES THE HOMICIDE SQUAD Changes of Uniformed Officers. Captain Carey Hard Hit. Whalen Makes Night Tour. Orders Uniforms Worn. Promises Dry Law Cooperation.

By Unknown Author

J Daly, detective, ordered back to uniform patrol

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Notable Births

Fredrik Barth

1928Fredrik Barth, German-Norwegian anthropologist and academic (died 2016)[†]

Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth was a Norwegian social anthropologist who published several ethnographic books with a clear formalist view. He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, and previously held professorships at the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen, Emory University and Harvard University. He was appointed a government scholar in 1985.