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May 9, 1929

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WARDER REFUSES TO SAY IF FERRARI GAVE MONEY TO HIM; Former State Banking Head Insists on Seeing Counsel Before Replying to Question. LATER DENIES ANY GIFTS Admits $3,000,000 City Trust Loans Were Found Questionable Last November.$500,000 FORGED PAPER Asserts at Lancie Bankruptcy Hearing That He Did Not Find it Till Day He Closed Bank. Warder Consults Counsel. WARDER REFUSES TO TELL OF FERRARI Spent Night Over Signatures. Questioned on Prudential Bank. An $800,000 Loan Item. Balks at Personal Question. Loan to Ferrari's Mother-in-Law. Defends Examination of Bank.

By Unknown Author

Warder questioned on causes and events leading up to failure; admits $3,000,000 loans were found questionable by bank examiners in Nov, 1928; balks at questions in regard to his personal relations with Ferrari; says bank was solvent at time of Ferrari's death

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NAVY FLIER ATTAINS 40,000 FEET TO SET NEW ALTITUDE MARK; Aviator Writes Own Story of His Battle to Breathe and See at Great Height. TEMPERATURE 76 BELOW Wright Apache Plane Sent to Record--Barograph May Cut Mark to 39,000 Feet. SOARS OVER WASHINGTON Goes Into Tail Spin and Drops 2,000 Feet in Trying to Go Higher. By LIEUT. A. SOUCEK, U.S.N. New Holder of the World's Altitude Record. NAVY FLIER ATTAINS NEW ALTITUDE MARK Up To 15,000 Feet. Begins to Feel the Cold. Battle Begins in Earnest. Drops 2,000 Feet in Spin.

By Times Wide World

Lt Soucek sets world mark; por

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HUGHES FORECASTS OUR ENTRY TO COURT; London Pilgrims Cheer Him When He Voices Hope That Absence Is "Temporary." PACIFIC PSYCHOLOGY URGED Jurist, on Way to Hague Post, Says Anglo-American Amity Is Cornerstone of Peace. Touched by Compliment to Son. Text of Mr. Hughes's Speech. HUGHES FORECASTS OUR ENTRY TO COURT Independence Underlying Principle. Says Institutions Rest on Respect Calls for Self-Restraint. Much Talk of Agreements. Calls for Anti-War Psychology. "Arms Competition Inexcusable."

By Charles A. Selden. Special Cable To the New York Times

C E Hughes urges self-restraint on part of both nations, calls for anti-war psychology; Anglo-Amer amity called cornerstone of peace

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