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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.

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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.

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

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