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May 11, 1929

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CITY TRUST CASE CLASH ENDS; STATE WILL USE RECORDS, FEDERAL INQUIRY WAITS; AGREEMENT IS REACHED Bankruptcy Investigation Yields to Speed Baring of the Facts. CONTEMPT MOVE DROPPED Lancia Creditors Get Right to Make Copies of Papers in Banking Bureau. TROOPERS AID MOSES Whalen Withdraws Police From Moreland Commissioner as Needed by the City. City Trust Facts to Be Bared. Tuttle Watches Inquiry. Troopers Assigned to Aid Moses. Myers Acquiesces. Moses Complains to Hoyt. Can't Spare Men, Whalen Says.

By Unknown Author

State and Fed authorities agree that State Banking Dept records be used in Fed bankruptcy hearing but not before they have been used in Moreland act investigation of State Banking Dept

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CONGRESS RIFTS WIDEN; SENATE REBUFFS HOOVER; HOUSE CONFERENCE FUTILE; FARM PROVISION REJECTED Senators Refuse Power for Hoover to Fix the Board Head's Pay. RENEWED STRIFE LOOMS Brookhart Announces He Will Reply to Fess Monday-- Latter Is Ready. HOUSE LEADERS CHECKED Convinced by Republican Foes of Tariff Bill That Gag Rule Is Unwise. Echoes of the Fess Letter. Fess Primed for Brookhart. RIFTS IN CONGRESS; REBUFF TO HOOVER House Course Undertermined. Regulars Desert Hoover. Vote on Thomas Motion. Fruit Amendment Lost.

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

Sen rejects provision authorizing Pres to fix salary of chmn of farm bd; amendment to exempt fruits and vegetables defeated; another, to exempt apples and pears, also defeated

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Notable Births

Gerhard Klingenberg

1929Gerhard Klingenberg, Austrian actor (died 2024)[†]

Gerhard Klingenberg was an Austrian actor and stage director, and theatre manager. He was also involved in television productions as an actor, director, and scriptwriter. He was Intendant of the Burgtheater in Vienna from 1971 to 1976, and then of the Schauspielhaus Zürich from 1977 to 1982.

Notable Deaths

Jozef Murgaš

1929Jozef Murgaš, Slovak-American priest, architect, botanist, and painter (born 1864)[†]

Jozef Murgaš was a Slovak inventor, architect, botanist, painter and Roman Catholic priest. He contributed to radio development, which at the time was commonly known as "wireless telegraphy".