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April 4, 1929

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ASSERT GOV. LONG BOASTED OF BRIBING; Witnesses Say He Told of Buying Representative "LikeLoad of Potatoes."PUBLISHER TAKES STANDTestifies at Louisiana Impeachment Proceedings Executive Threatened Him. Has Brother in Insane Asylum. ASSERTS GOV. LONG BOASTED OF BRIBING Charged with Buying Representative.

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C P Manship, publisher of 2 Baton Rouge papers, testifies that Gov threatened him because of his editorial policy against proposed oil tax; witnesses say Gov boasted of buying Reprs

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FEDERAL SANCTION FOR OIL LIMIT PLAN DENIED TO INDUSTRY; Mitchell Rules Conservation Board Cannot Approve It Under Anti-Trust Law. OPINION AROUSES OIL MEN Petroleum Institute Heads Say at Washington Hearing, No "Immunity" Was Sought. CONSERVATION STEPHALTED But Leaders Here Assert Project of 1928 Output Ratio May Be Pressed in Separate Areas. Raises Issue of Further Efforts. FEDERAL SANCTION DENIED TO OIL LIMIT Opinion Sought of Mitchell. "Not Authorized" to Give Ruling Reeser Presents Report. Oil Men to Continue Efforts. Companies May Act Alone

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

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FEDERAL FARM BOARD IS STRESSED BY HYDE; HELD AS HOOVER PLAN; Secretary Outlines to Congress Committees a Program for Aid, Presumed to Be Official. $300,000,000 FUND URGED He Insists Idea of Board With Wide Powers Like New McNary Bill Is Mandate From Voters. TARIFF HELP ALSO FAVORED Better Waterways Is Suggested as Another Feature of Broad Relief Scheme. Closely Follows McNary Bill. Sharply Questioned by Senators. HYDE FOR BOARD ON FARM RELIEF Hyde's Formal Statement. Cites Some of the Problems. Lack of Order in Distribution. Need of Wider Cooperation Views of Farmers Desirable. Taber Outlines Grange's Plan.

By Special to The New York Times

Sec Hyde outlines administration's farm relief plan, featuring Fed Farm Bd and $300,000,000 fund to operate through stabilization corporations; suggests tariff relief and better waterways

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FEDERALS REPORT KILLING MANY REBELS IN NEW FIGHT; SEE REVOLT IN COLLAPSE; ARMIES MEET AT LA REFORMA Almazan Falls on Rebels, Blocked in Flight by Burned Bridges. FEDERAL LOSSES HEAVY Insurgents Fought Bravely-- They Report Battling Way Back Into Jimenez. 3,000 CASUALTIES IN 3 DAYS Details of Jimenez Battle-- Bomb Falls in Arizona-- Skirmish at Border. Capital Sees End in Sight. Troops Kept in Positions. Many Federal Casualties. Calles Described Jimenez Fight. Reports Bridges Burned. "Field Strewn With Dead." Rebels Report Counter-Attack REPORT REBELS OUT OF QUILA. Aviators Tell of Retreat on Culiacan --Manzo Declared Ousted. Rebel Quarrels Reported.

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

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DE RIVERA DEFENDS STUDENT PENALTIES; Spanish Dictator, in Interview With The Times, Tells Why He Took Drastic Stops. HE SAYS NATION BACKS HIM Now Than Country Is Tranquil, the Premier Explains, He Hopes to Retire by 1931. Convinced People Are Content. DE RIVERA DEFENDS STUDENT PENALTIES Sees Desire to Avoid Violence. Officers Get Chance to Re-enlist.

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Primo de Rivera explains steps taken in student strike; working for return to constitutional govt; officers of Artillery Corps get chance to re-enlist

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1929Humbert Allen Astredo, American actor (died 2016)^[†]

Humbert Allen "Bud" Astredo, Jr. was an American stage, film, and television actor. He made several notable Broadway and Off-Broadway theatrical performances, but was best known for the numerous roles he performed on the daytime Gothic horror soap opera Dark Shadows, most notably that of the warlock Nicholas Blair.

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1929Karl Benz, German engineer and businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz (born 1844)^[†]

Carl Friedrich Benz was a German engine designer and automotive engineer. His Benz Patent-Motorwagen from 1885 is considered the first practical modern automobile and first car put into series production. He received a patent for the motorcar in 1886, the same year he first publicly drove the Benz Patent-Motorwagen.

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