Yankees Clinch Win in World Series Opener 12-6
The New York Yankees overpower the Chicago Cubs 12 to 6 at Yankee Stadium in the World Series opener. Lou Gehrig belted a homer as Guy Bush struggled, leading a five run sixth inning that broke the game open. Cubs early rallys were stifled by strong defense and timely hits from the Yankees.
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Grimes
New York
Gehrig
Homer
Yankee Stadium
Yankees
Lou Gehrig
Guy Bush
Cubs and Yankees Fight Into Quiet Tie In Rainy Game
The game featured multiple early outs as Herman and Cuyler produced a single for the Cubs while English and Sewell fielded and chased runners. Yankee pitchers Ruffing and Chapman held the line with strong defense and seventh inning suspense, ending with no runs and one hit for both sides before the page continued.
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Herman
Grimm
Art Fletcher
Yankees
English
Ruth
Cuyler
Stephenson
Ruffing
Moore
Combs
Sewell
Hartnett
Koenig
Bush
Gehrig
Lazzeri
Dickey
Crosetti
Harnett
Chapman
Hoover Expresses Grief Over Caribbean Disaster Relief Urged
President Hoover wires Governor Beverley of Puerto Rico expressing grief over the disaster and urging rapid relief aid. Red Cross and other agencies stand by to rush assistance as damage mounts hourly. Casualties exceed two hundred and may rise. Washington dispatch of Sept 28.
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Red Cross
West Indies
Washington
Beverley
Puerto Rico
San Juan
Santo Domingo
Haiti
James R. Beverely
San Pedro de Macoris
Caribbean
Beverly
Rafael Vere, Jr
Fajardo
Ex Senator John Sharp Williams dies at 78
John Sharp Williams longtime Mississippi politician and fierce opponent of Woodrow Wilson’s League of Nations died at 78 at his plantation home near Yazoo City. The former senator, famed for his fiery oratory and biting sarcasm, leaves a legacy as a staunch Southern voice in Congress and a critic of wartime policy.
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Dixie
Congress
Woodrow Wilson
Yazoo City
Miss
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
Here
John Sharpe Williams
Heidelberg
South
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League of Nations
Havana Under Martial Law After Four Murders
Havana declares martial law as police hunt gunmen who killed four Cuban politicians and mortally wounded a fifth. President Machado cites fear of reprisals. Vazquez Bello dies from machine gun attack. Suspects linked to a garage attack. six rifles and several pistols found in a car.
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Cuba
Machado
Clemente Vazuez Bello
Senate
Cub
Gonzalo
Guillermo
Leopoldo Freyre de Andrade
Vazquez Bello
Augustin Alvarez
Miguel Angel Aguiar
Mechado
Bustemente
Fugitive Jailed After Holding Up Three Stations
John Baker a Wake county convict escaped from a Durham county road camp and, with two friends, robbed three filling stations and abducted a fellow convict from another camp. Police halted a fourth robbery near Apex before arrest near Cary.
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Raleigh
Wake County
Durham County
Baker
Liberty
W. J. Croom
H. O. Sharpe
Wake
Holly Springs
Jack Green
Green
Cecil Warren
Apex
Crickett
Cary
Croom
Sharpe
Supreme Court issues 11 opinions from Raleigh session
The North Carolina Supreme Court released 11 opinions including reversals for Goldsboro Savings and Trust, Rabil v Fagan, and Sassi v Pilot Life, with rulings of no error for Madrin v Norfolk Southern and Boomer v Grantham, plus new trial or dismissal in several other cases.
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Norfolk Southern Railroad Company
Pitt
Goldsboro Savings and Trust Company
Wayne
Rives
Atlantic Coast Line
Halifax
McNeill
McKeel
Latham
Craven
Boomer
Grantham
Sassi
Pilot Life Insurance Company
Armstrong Vs
Service Stores
Rey
Luff
Levey
Moore
Roosevelt En Route To Meeting With Norris
Roosevelt travels from Colorado Springs to McCook Nebraska for a rendezvous with U S Senator George Norris and gains crowds in Colorado Springs. He speaks from a hotel balcony and stresses fighting leadership in the Republican ranks while noting an intelligent election ahead. The trip includes stops at Brush Akron and Wray before McCook.
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Pikes Peak
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U.S
George Norris
Hoover
Bronson Cutting
New Mexico
Williams, Ariz
New York
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Key Pittman
Nevada
John 8. Cohen
Georgia
Colorado
Water Walker
Denver
Brush
Akron
Wray
Colo
Nebraska
Roosevelt to Speak in Raleigh October 14
Tentative schedule for Governor Roosevelt’s southern tour lists a Raleigh appearance on October 14 aboard the Roosevelt Special. The plan calls for October 12 start in Baltimore, October 13 in Raleigh, then four days in Warm Springs Georgia, with Atlanta October 19 and possible Philadelphia stop en route to Albany. Number of speeches and exact venues remain undecided.
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N. C
Mr. Roosevelt
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Warm Springs
Atlanta
Philadelphia
Albany
Oregon mountaineer held over 1916 San Francisco bombing
Paul M. Callicotte 32 of Oregon was jailed without bond after claiming he 'thinks' he unwittingly placed the dynamite suitcase that killed 10 and injured 42 in the 1916 Preparedness Day parade. Detectives said his account lacked credibility and booked him as a fugitive from San Francisco.
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Ore
Paul M. Callicotte
Oregon
San Francisco
Callicette
Industrial Workers of the World Hall
Oakland
San Francisco Bay
Steuart and
Market Streets
Callicotte
Collicotte
Witnesses Say Worker Was Shot Without Provocation
State high way employee Wyman Blakewood testified in general sessions court that Alfred M. Marshall shot road foreman M. Merrill to death on May 12 in Estill after Merrill refused Marshall’s demand to cross a road under construction. Other highway workers corroborated the account as Marshall's murder trial opened with Judge M. M. Mann presiding.
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Marshall
Murer
Blakewood
Carolina Road Surfacing Company
Greenville
Entill
Estill
Hanna
George
Meres C. Lester
Casinoraer
Randolph Parenne
Echo of Lindy Case Draws Jail Time Arrest
Dennis Lawrence, 30, was jailed in Harrisburg Illinois for questioning in the Lindbergh kidnapping case. He was arrested at Marion last night by Sergeant E J Gibbons of the state highway police.
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Ills
Dennis Lawrence
Marion
E. J. Gibbons
State Highway Police
Hilton twins seek US naturalization in Chicago
Daisy and Violet Hilton, 23, Siamese twins born in England, have applied for US naturalization papers in Chicago. The application was filed yesterday.
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Daisy
Violet Hilton
England
Siam
United States
Witness Says Davis Never Was Party To Any Lottery
Former Baltimore Mayor William F. Broening testifies at Senator James J. Davis lottery case saying Davis warned he could not be party to prize drawings. Broening recalls Davis stating the Moose charity balls of 1930 and 1931 involved prize schemes and that he could not support them. The defense argues Davis had reduced Moose involvement and may not have known of drawings.
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Baltimore
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The
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Wales
Ord
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Moos
of Broening
Priz
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