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January 6, 1929

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UNDERWORLD SURVEY AND A NEW ROUND-UP ORDERED BY WHALEN; Commissioner Tells Borough Chiefs to Report Full Data on Hangouts of Gunmen. REPORTS 'CRIME FREE' DAY Asserts Criminals Are on Run and Will Be "Kept Hopping" by Week-End Dragnet. 65 MORE LIQUOR RAIDS Jansen's Hofbrau at 30th Street Among Places Invaded as Police. Keep Up Dry Drive. More Raids on Speakeasies. De Groot Fails to Pledge Help. GANGSTER SURVEY ORDERD BY WHALEN Underworld Survey Ordered. Text of Whalen's Order. Low Crime Record for Day. 118 in Court in Liqnor Cases. LIQUOR RAIDS NOW CITY-WIDE. With 700 Arrests Since Clean-Up Began, Speakeasy Drive Is Pushed.

By Unknown Author

65 suspected places visited by police

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HOUSE FIGHT WAGED ON BIG TAX REFUND; MELLON THE TARGET; Garner Demands $75,000,000 Item Be Thrown Out and an Inquiry Be Made. ALLEGES 'BARGAIN' POLICY He Calls Treasury Heada 'Santa Claus' to Corporations and Intimates Self-Interest. REPUBLICANS RETURN FIRE They See Fraud Gharge Leveled at President--Administration Faces Test in Vote on Monday. Charges Secret Credits of Millions. Assails Vesting of Refund Power. HOUSE FIGHT WAGED ON BIG TAX REFUND Asks Committee Head for Facts. Republican Reply Blames McAdoo. Holds President Accused of Fraud. Hawley Defends Steel Refund. Garner Brings Up Aluminum Case. Assails Mellon as Arbiter. Compares Treasury Heads.

By Special to The New York Times

Seeks approval of Pres Coolidge for appropriation to preserve Lincoln farm in Ky

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ANTI-WAR PACT UNDER FIRE AS SENATE HEARS CRITICS; CRUISERS FACE FILIBUSTER; SWANSON FINDS DEFECTS Treaty Is Ineffective but Marks Advance for Peace, He Says. McLEAN FOR UNDERSTANDING He Calls Measure Paper Promise and Attacks Purposes of Foreign Signers. NAVY BILL FOES MOVE Are Planning to Defeat It by Preventing a Vote at the Present Session. Critics Make No Headway. McLean Gibes at Treaty. Swanson and McLean Tilt. Reed Is Sardonic. Refers to League and Locarno. Monroe Doctrine Undisturbed. Discusses the British Note. Points to Cruiser Bill. Senator McLean's Speech. Sees Signs of Trouble. Questions Purpose of Great Powers.

By Richard V. Oulahan. Special To the New York Times

Sen discussion; ss by McLean and Swanson and J A Reed; Sir J A Chamberlain's, interpretative note discussed

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ROTHSTEIN HOLDINGS PUT AT $25,000,000; Estate Schedules Expected to Reveal Vast Enterprises Controlled by Gambler. EQUITIES ABOVE $3,000,000 Hidden Assets Sought in Other Cities--Loss Near $2,000,000 Seen on Election Bets. Assets Sought in Another City. ROTHSTEIN HOLDINGS PUT AT $25,000,000 $2,400,000 Stakeholder Sought. Held Large Tracts in Queens. Nurse Said Cantor Guided "X." Stolen Bonds Recall Biller.

By Unknown Author

Holdings put at $25,000,000; assets sought

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Historical Events

Alexander I of Yugoslavia

1929King Alexander of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes suspends his country's constitution, starting the January 6th Dictatorship.[†]

Alexander I Karađorđević, also known as Alexander the Unifier, was King of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes from 16 August 1921 to 3 October 1929 and King of Yugoslavia from 3 October 1929 until his assassination in 1934. His reign of 13 years is the longest of the three monarchs of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

Mother Teresa

1929Mother Teresa arrives by sea in Calcutta, India, to begin her work among India's poorest and sick people.[†]

Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa or Saint Mother Teresa, was an Albanian-Indian Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity and is a Catholic saint. Born in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire, she was raised in a devoutly Catholic family. At the age of 18, she moved to Ireland to join the Sisters of Loreto and later to India, where she lived most of her life and carried out her missionary work. On 4 September 2016, she was canonised by the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. The anniversary of her death, 5 September, is now observed as her feast day.