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January 11, 1929

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SALVATIONISTS ASK GEN. BOOTH TO QUIT OF HIS OWN ACCORD; Committee Will Seek to Present to Chief Today Request of the High Council. VOTE ALMOST UNANIMOUS Councilors Act After Receipt of Old Leader's Letter Begging for More Time. HOLD OFFICE TOO ARDUOUS Should General Not Yield, He Will Be Voted Out as "Unfit," It Is Predicted. Letter Affectionately Phrased. Council Would Nullify Choice. SALVATIONISTS ASK GEN. BOOTH TO QUIT Excerpts from Booth Letter. Doubted General's Writing. Committee on Way. Text of Resolution.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES.Times Wide World Photo

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STEINHARDT'S AIDE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE; Court Employe Cuts Throat in Tuttle's Office When Checks for $100,000 Are Bared. SIX JUDGES ORDER INQUIRY Grand Jury to Take Up Bankruptcy Situation--Another.Lawyer Arrested. Steinhardt Indicted for Thefts. Lawyer Arrested at His Home. STEINHARDT'S AIDE ATTEMPTS SUICIDE Pinner Involved by Records. Mysterious Activities at Night.

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Inquiry ordered at request of 6 judges for Southern dist of N Y, following Steinhardt case disclosures

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Notable Births

1929Dmitri Bruns, Estonian architect and theorist (died 2020)[†]

Dmitri Bruns was a Latvia-born Soviet and Estonian architect and architecture theorist of Russian origin.

Notable Deaths

Elfrida Andrée

1929Elfrida Andrée, Swedish organist, composer, and conductor (born 1841)[†]

Elfrida Andrée, was a Swedish organist, composer, and conductor. She was the sister of Swedish opera singer-soprano Fredrika Stenhammar.