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April 26, 1929

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LEHMAN PICKS MOSES FOR BANKING INQUIRY IN CITY TRUST CRASH; Ex-Secretary of State, Vested With Broad Powers, Pledges a Speedy Investigation. WARDER PROMISES TO HELP Former Superintendent Gives Up Plan to Sail for Europe Today to Attend Hearings. 'FORGERIES' ARE TAKEN UP Banton Calls Bank's Notes Genuine --Federal Securities Company, Ferrari Concern, Crumbles. Moses Appoints Two Aides. Lehman Tells of Conferences. LEHMAN PICKS MOSES FOR BANKING INQUIRY Warder Meets Broderick. Seem Genuine, Says Banton. Lancia Hearing Postponed. Company Was Reorganized.

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Hearings on Lancia Motors of Amer Inc, affairs postponed

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AGREE TO ARBITRATE I'M ALONE SINKING ON CANADA'S CLAIMS; Washington and Ottawa Will Submit Dispute Under the Ship Liquor Treaty. GOVERNMENTS FAR APART Start of Coast Guard Pursuit in 'Treaty Waters' and Rights of 'Freedom of Seas' at Issue. CASE FIRST TEST OF PACT Notes Made Public as Canada, Seeking Redress, Accedes to Stimson's Arbitration Proposal. Contentions Essentially Opposed. AGREE TO ARBITRATE I'M ALONE SINKING Provision for Arbitration. Other Cases Are Cited. Canada's First Note Is Broad. Stimson's Reply Combats Case. He Finds Pursuit "Justified." Massey Holds to 3-Mile Limit.

By Special to The New York Times

Wash and Ottawa agree to submit contentions to arbitration; notes made public

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HOUSE PASSES FARM BILL WITHOUT DEBENTURE PLAN; HAILED AS HOOVER VICTORY; MEASURE WINS, 367 TO 34 All But Two Republicans Back Administration Plan of Relief. BATTLE NOW IN SENATE Frazier, Who Supported President, Turns Against Himin Debenture Fight.BORAH ALSO CLINGS TO IDEABut Democratic Caucus Reveals There Is No Unanimity forSenate Proposal. Fight Now Centres in Senate. Hostile Amendments Beaten. The Vote in Detail. Objective of the Measure. President to Appoint Board. To Promote Cooperation. Frazier Speaks in the Senate. Urges the Debenture Plan. Minority Caucus Binds No Member.

By Special to The New York Times

House of Reprs passes administration farm relief bill; Sen Frazier, who supported Hoover, turns against him in debenture fight; minority caucus will not bind members for or against any particular measure

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Notable Births

1929Richard Mitchell, American author and educator (died 2002)[†]

Richard Mitchell was a professor, first of English and later of classics, at Glassboro State College in Glassboro, New Jersey. He gained fame in the late-1970s as the founder and publisher of The Underground Grammarian, a newsletter of opinion and criticism that ran until 1992, and wrote four books expounding his views on the relationships among language, education, and ethics.