23 Sep 1926
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1926
Page
1
Rescue and recovery efforts surge across Moorehaven and Miami after a devastating hurricane. Health crews vaccinate workers against typhoid as authorities count hundreds dead and thousands displaced. Looters arrested, ships wrecked, and a sunken yacht with a gold bath tub marks the catastrophe.
Totals show known deaths 400 with estimates 570 to 1,150 across Miami area and neighboring towns. Property damage estimated between 100 million and 107 million dollars with wide regional impacts on Miami Beach Moorehaven Coral Gables Fort Lauderdale and other communities. The report lists casualties by city and notes crops losses in Seminole lands.
The Numa F. Reid Masonic Lodge and the Monarch club each sent 50 dollars to aid hurricane victims in Florida. Philadelphia prepares for Sesquicentennial crowds with 3500 policemen and 1500 ushers as “One Eye” Connally buys his first ticket in years.
Governor McLean explains the appointment of committees by saying a busy man can find time to do a job quicker and better than a man with nothing on his mind. He notes the prevalence of business leaders on several special commissions in Raleigh.
Two fight fans from Brazil were among the eleventh hour arrivals. The fleeting entry adds to the crowd as doors opened late.
Speculators are bidding up a $27.50 ringside seat to records and offering $590 for an $8 hotel room reservation, signaling heated market demand for limited event access.
Director Krusen orders swift medical response with emergency hospital staff at the exposition grounds. Additional doctors and nurses are assigned to city hospitals in central and southern areas to augment capacity for accidents and emergencies.
W L Arthur of Wildwood, in a Carteret county letter to the State Department of Agriculture, denounces high taxes on farmers while highways are used by moonshiners. He cites a 1913 tax of 110.55 rising to 1400 in 1926 and accuses drivers of reckless speeds with no lights, asking where prosperity will come from.
Judge P A McElroy in Rowan county ruled the local act forcing Southern Railway to build an Spencer underpass unconstitutional. The ruling does not affect Salisbury grade crossing ordinances or any municipal action. The decision centers on state constitutional provisions and a local act, not on local zoning or ordinances.
Hartington Nebraska September 23 AP Judge Wilbur F Bryant known as a bread and water jurist says his own sleep has been disturbed by visions of feasts. He will continue the five day diet begun today and believes it tests the theory as a practical punishment for violators of the liquor law. He notes the diet's sameness and smell of cooking affect prisoners and defends the sentence given to Fred S Dirks for selling liquor to high school students.
London AP reports from Athens that Premier General George Kondylis dissolved his political party and will retire from politics to end complaints of self interest. Kondylis toppled the Pangalos government on August 22 by coup d etat.
Weather at Philadelphia at noon Sept 23 reports clearer skies and rising clouds with no rain. Temperature stands at 70 degrees as conditions improve for the Dempsey Tunney fight tonight.
Unidentified persons slashed and tore apart a revival tent on the Kincaid lot prepared for a scheduled Negro revival beginning Sunday. Police pursued clues as they sought to arrest the culprits.
The Dempsey Tunney heavyweight title bout looms tonight at 8:30 pm in Philadelphia at the sesquicentennial stadium with an expected crowd near 200 000 and 132 900 ticket holders already gathered in the city. Officials moved to resolve last legal issues as fans prepared for a spectacle valued at about 650 000 in prize money.
Crown Prince Leopold of Belgium hopes Gene Tunney defeats Jack Dempsey and has arranged for results to be wired to him. He notes he has attended major bouts before and would be surprised if Dempsey wins. He travels to Stockholm to visit Princess Astrid.
The Enterprise will provide blow by blow results of the Dempsey versus Tunney heavyweight title fight from the Sesqui Centennial Stadium in Philadelphia tonight. A special leased wire will flash each ring blow to High Point as it happens. Preliminary heavyweight bouts precede the main event with Monte Munn vs Hughie Clements and other matchups.
Miami residents rally for relief with Red Cross aid and an appeal led by Frank B. Shutts. Rescue teams clear 60 miles of coast while health officials prepare countermeasures to prevent epidemics amid 400 confirmed deaths and 6 000 injured. More than 50 000 are homeless as aid efforts mobilize.
Fort Lauderdale Florida September 23 1947 AP twenty one people are dead in Fort Lauderdale and Progresso with up to fifty more feared missing Red Cross teams aid the injured and address the homeless while Edwards Hospital feeds three hundred ninety and carpenters erect temporary shacks for shelter
Philadephia September 23 Tex Rickard says the Dempsey Tunney bout would crown his pro motion enterprise He calls it a great match and hopes both fighters endure and rise again after any knockdowns amid lawsuits and injunctions he faces.
The world court delegate conference adopted its committee report on acceptance of American reservations to membership and adjourned. It voted to empower court members to withdraw approval later on amendments to the court statutes and on advisory opinions questions.
Gene Tunney changed plans at the last minute and flew by airplane from Shawnee on the Delaware to Philadelphia for tonight's title bout with Jack Dempsey. The move was announced from Pa. where the match was set to take place under eastern standard time.
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