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December 23, 1928

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WHALEN HITS LAXITY IN ROTHSTEIN CASE; Reveals Shake-Up Was Spurred by Failure to Solve Murder --Plans Full Inquiry. FIVE INSPECTORS SHIFTED Loonam to Take Midtown Area to Curb Gambling and Liquor --Five Squads Cut to Two. Finds "No Progress" in Murder. WHALEN HITS LAXITY IN ROTHSTEIN CASE Raftis to Head Combined Squads. Vexed at Fifth Avenue Robbery. One Is Held Without Bail. Plans Liquor Drive in Brooklyn.

By Unknown Author

Comment on Commr Whalen's pronouncement of war on speakeasies

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PEACE THROUGH AFFECTION IS BOND OF TWO NATIONS, HOOVER TELLS BRAZILIANS; FINAL SPEECH OF HIS TOUR At State Banquet at Rio de Janeiro, He Stresses Long Friendship. LAUDED BY PRESIDENT LUIS In Day Crowded With Functions President-Elect Also Speaks to Congress and Supreme Court. GAY THRONGS CHEER HIM He Dismisses Secret Guard as Unneeded--Will Sail Homeward on Utah This Afternoon. Extols Bonds Between Peoples. President Luis Praises Him. PEACE IS THE BOND OF NATIONS--HOOVER Goes Early on Motor Drive. Speaks Briefly to High Court. Busiest Day of His Tour. Era of Economic Expansion. Need for Legislative Restraint. Address to the Supreme Court. World's Dependence on Tribunals. Hoover's Speech at Banquet. Moved by Children's Greeting. Trade a Part of Civilization. Urges Cultural Exchanges. Drops Guard as Unnecessary. HOOVER BACKED COOLIDGE. Interpreter Explains Interview With Buenos Aires Paper on Policies. PRAISES AMERICAN PRESS. Brazilian Publisher Addresses the Correspondents With Hoover.

By L.c. Speers, Staff Correspondent of the New York Times. Special Cable To the New York Times

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WALKER TO 'CLEAN HOUSE' FOR MAYORALTY CAMPAIGN; PLANS FURTHER SHAKE-UPS; HYLAN MEN SLATED TO GO Nicholson, Law Officer, and Quigley, License Chief, Face Ouster. BRONX PARK HEAD MARKED Choice of Whalen and His Swift Reorganization Viewed as First of Shifts. STATE ACTION NOW REMOTE Smith's Power Seen Waning in Demotion of Coughlin and Lahey, Long His Friends. Nicholson Post May Be Vacated. Legislative Inquiry Remote. Whalen's Promptness Pleases. Friendliness to Hearst Seen.

By Unknown Author

Dismissal of some of his friends by Police Commr Whalen regarded as sign of his waning power

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WARD LINE CUTS FARE IN ROW WITH CUNARD; 25 Per Cent Reduction Made in Havana Service to Meet Competition by Caronia. APPLIES TO THE ROOSEVELT British Company Not Expected to Cut Prices Until After Sailing of Liner Thursday. Cunard Defends Its Action. Roosevelt to Start Jan. 5. WARDLINE CUTS RATE IN ROW WITH CUNARD Cunard Man Denies Intrusion. SHIP BOARD BACKS CONTEST. Will Add Another Liner if Needed, Plummer Declares. BRITISH RIDICULE PROTESTS. American Ships Are Seeking Trade in All Seas, They Declare.

By Unknown Author

Havana

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MISS BOOTH PREDICTS 'ARMY' RULE REFORM; In Radio From Ship, She Says Council Will Vote Change in Organization's Control. SHE FACES 'ONEROUS' DUTY Our Commissioners Reported in Favor of Deposing Her Brother as General. Task of High Council. Issue Arouses Salvationists Here. MISS BOOTH PREDICTS 'ARMY' RULE REFORM Asked General to Retire.

By Evangeline Booth, National Commander of the Salvation Army In America. Wireless To the Editor of the New York Times

Tense interest in E Booth's departure for England

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BYRD'S JOLLY CREW LIGHTEN POLAR DAYS WITH JEST AND SONG; Gentle Viking Giant Fingers an Accordion as Smoke of Many Pipes Curls in the Forecastle. MESS BOSS PLAYS TYRANT Latecomers Parry His Ironies With Quaint Excuses at Table of Seamen and Scientists. HOME PICTURES ON WALLS Fair Faces Look Down on Motley Clutter of Bags and Boots and on Ventures Laughing at Danger. With the Men in Their Forecastle. Norse Minstrel a Striking Figure. Commander Byrd's Jolly Crew Lighten Polar Days Bodies Sway and Feet Tap to Music. Cross Fire with Late Comers. Gather About Oracle of the Galley. "Silk Hat Harry" Adams. Why a Ship Is "She." Cold Work Standing Watch.

By Russell Owen. Copyright, 1928, By the New York Times Company and the st. Louis Post-Dispatch. All Rights For Publication Reserved Throughout the World. Wireless To the New York Times

Ed on Byrd's message to Wilkins

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CARD PLAYER KILLS THREE HOLD-UP MEN AND WOUNDS FOURTH; Another Player Dies in Leap From Third-Floor Apartment in Prospect Park West. FOURTH ROBBER GETS AWAY Peter Cardone Fires Accurate Shots at Foreheads Despite Hit From Intruders' Fusillade. WHALEN RUSHES TO SCENE Mulrooney, New Detective Chief, and Inspector O'Brien Arrive at End of Tour of City. Cardone Accurate Despite Wound. Other Players Support Story. CARD PLAYER KILLS THREE HOLD-UP MEN Jumped Through Window Pane.

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P Cardone kills 2 hold-up men; 2 players also killed

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