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As printed: MOBILE ALSO ESCAPES DEATH TOLL FROM WIND
ContextA hurricane tore across the lower Florida east coast on the night of September 17-18, flattening Miami and its new boom-time suburbs; with wires down, the toll has only now begun to be tallied. Red Cross workers, troops and martial law are in place while relief ships and trains bring water, food and medicine.
As printed: Giant Sikorsky Plane Crumples On Take Off, 2 Die
ContextA $25,000 prize offered by hotelier Raymond Orteig awaits the first nonstop flight between New York and Paris; French war ace René Fonck's huge Sikorsky biplane, heavy with fuel, never left the ground at Roosevelt Field. Fonck and his navigator scrambled clear, but two crewmen were trapped as the wreck burned before a crowd of a thousand.
As printed: PHILADELPHIA IS CROWDED AS FIGHT NEARS
ContextHeavyweight champion Jack Dempsey, who has not defended his title in three years, meets ex-Marine Gene Tunney in Philadelphia, where a crowd expected to be among the largest ever assembled for a sporting event is already pouring in. Rival lawyers — for Dempsey's discarded manager Jack Kearns and for a Chicago promoter claiming a prior contract — are still trying to stop it in court.
ContextThe 1922 killing of the Rev. Edward Hall and choir singer Eleanor Mills in New Brunswick, N.J., was reopened this summer, and the pastor's widow, her two brothers and a cousin now stand accused. Special Prosecutor Simpson says his evidence is complete and will move in Trenton tomorrow for an early trial and an out-of-county jury.
As printed: State Freckles Contest Opens In California
ContextA California town's fall fair has thrown open a statewide freckle contest, with entries limited to boys under fifteen who can show at least one. A juvenile film star will judge, and the rules were announced early enough that some contestants spent the whole summer cultivating rather than bleaching.
