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May 21, 1929

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WARDER REFUSES TO WAIVE IMMUNITY; GOT FERRARI GIFTS; Banker Paid Month's Rent and Bought Furnishings for State Official, It Is Testified. INSPECTION WAS DELAYED Examination of the Ferrari Institution Was Held Up for Six Months. MANCUSO LOAN ON BOOKS But Judge Denies He or Father Borrowed From Bank or That He Received $7,000 Salary. Refuses to Waive Immunity. WARDER REFUSES TO WAIVE IMMUNITY Broderick First Witness. Says Warder Held Up Examination. Mancuso Item Questioned. Sixty Per Cent of Loans Questioned. Directors' Prudence Questioned. "Time Ripe to Clean House." Warder Interrupts. Dr. Giannini on the Stand. Rent Check in Evidence. Furniture in Warder Home.

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Warder refuses to waive immunity at hearing; hears his former chief examiner testify that he delayed semi-annual examination of Ferrari's banking enterprises, that he failed to take Steps when examiners' rept showed 22 violations of banking laws and that Ferrari paid his rent, bought his furniture and daughter's car; Giannini testifies; Warder subpoenaed for Lancia Motors of Amer Inc hearing

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New Service Stripes and Stars Ordered by Whalen for Police

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Changes service stripe regulations

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VALUATION AND RATE FIXING VICTORY FOR THE RAILROADS IN O'FALLON CASE DECISION; SUPREME COURT ACTS, 5 TO 3 Holds Cost of Reproduction Must Be Considered in Present Computing.BILLIONS ARE INVOLVED Decision of Far-Reaching Effectas Cases of Big RoadsAre Pending.RATE JUMP HELD UNLIKELY Interstate Commission Says Valuation Will Proceed onBasis of Court Ruling. New Litigation May Arise. Important Issue Involved. VALUATION AND RATE VICTORY FOR ROADS Court Cites Congress "Mandate." Brantley Analyzes Decision. Acted Under Transportation Act. Rate-Making and Valuation. "Just Compensation" Defined. Attacks "Speculative" View. Recalls Taylor's Opinion. RATES EXPECTED TO STAND. Railroad Executives and Banking Experts Interpret O'Fallon Decision. Difference of $13,000,000 for C. & O. Capitalization and Valuation. Further Litigation Held Likely.

By Special to The New York Times

Valuation and rate fixing victory for R Rs seen in Sup Ct decision; text

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FLYING INSTRUCTOR DIES TEACHING SPIN; Captain Arthur Argles, War Pilot, in Fatal Crash Near Roosevelt Field. BROKER, A STUDENT, HURT Albert Harris, Owner of Plane, Wanted to Learn How to Come Out of a Spin. Airplane Marks Spot of Crash. FLYING INSTRUCTOR DIES TEACHING SPIN His Career Adventurous. Served in Royal Flying Corps.

By Special to The New York Times

Killed in airplane accident

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HOOVER NAMES 10 LAWYERS AND ONE WOMAN EDUCATOR TO STUDY LAW ENFORCEMENT; MEMBERS OF PRESIDENT HOOVER'S NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION.

By Special to The New York Times.Times Wide World Photo

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Notable Births

1929Larance Marable, American drummer (died 2012)^[†]

Larance Norman Marable was a jazz drummer from Los Angeles, California.

1929Robert Welch, English silversmith and industrial designer (died 2000)^[†]

Robert Radford Welch MBE, RDI, was an English designer and silversmith.

Notable Deaths

1929Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1847)^[†]

Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian, was a British Liberal Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from March 1894 to June 1895. Between the death of his father in 1851, and the death of his grandfather, the 4th Earl of Rosebery, in 1868, he was known by the courtesy title of Lord Dalmeny.