Dempsey to Defend Ring Title Tonight Fight At Local Stadium
Weather improves for the Dempsey Tunney heavyweight title bout in Philadelphia with 182000 expected to attend at Sesqui Centennial Stadium. Main attack scheduled between 8 30 and 9 00 p m eastern standard time. Advance guard of nearly 40 000 sports fans move into the city with trains from New York Washington and Chicago.
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Philadelphia
Jack Dempsey
Gene Tunney
Lurricana
Battle Ground
Dzens of Spec
New York
Washington
Baltimore
Chicago
Dempsey Tunney Fight Injunction Dismissed
Philadelphia judges dismiss injunction bids blocking the Dempsey Tunney title bout. Promoter B C Clements had claimed a prior contract with Dempsey and sought to restrain Promoter Tex Rickard and the Exposition from staging the fight. Evidence of contract terms deemed insufficient to support the injunction.
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Philadelphia
B. C. Clements
Chicago
Dempsey
Tex Rickard
Bartlett
Clements
Clement
Chicago Coliseum Club
Harry Wills
Tadlina
Ths
Pennsylvania
Tunney
Richard
Indiana
Dempsey-Tunney Fight Report By The Times Tonight
The Times will announce a round by round report from its Market street office in Philadelphia tonight. Preliminaries start around 7 o clock EST with the main bout not starting before 7 45. The paper will relay blows to Kingsport within seconds of occurence and invites the public to listen to the live coverage.
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Times
Market Street
Philadelphia
Kingsport
Dempsey
Tunney
Times Office
Liberty Bonds Key Link in Daugherty Miller Case
A $10,000 liberty bond traced to Thomas W. Miller’s brokerage account marks the first direct link touching the defendants in the trial over a fraudulent $7,000,000 claim against the alien property custodian. Witnesses testified bonds and payments involving Harry M. Daugherty, John T. King, and Richard Merton, with defense challenging the bond-number connection.
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New York
Harry M. Daugherty
Thomas W. Miller
Miller
Buckner
Daugherty
Merton
Richard Merton
John T. King
Connecticut
American Metal Corporation
Howard J. Sachs
King
John Bailey -O’rourke
Sachs
Julian W.mack
A. Mitchell Palmer
Alien Property Custodians
Weather snapshot for Virginia and Tennessee
Partly cloudy tonight and Friday with possible showers in northern and western areas. Virginia shows slightly warmer tonight with light to moderate southerly winds, while Tennessee faces possible Thunder Showers Friday and cooler conditions by Saturday in the west. High yesterday reached 90, rainfall yesterday was .00 inches.
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Virginia
Tennessee
U. S
C.ly, Bunn
Movement of Refugees and Efforts to Locate Dead
Sanitation and rescue work dominated the Hurricane Wilma era efforts along the Florida coast. Vaccination against typhoid was ordered for all in the affected zone to prevent disease while crews searched for bodies and delivered medicines and serum. Moorehaven faced heavy losses, with 110 bodies recovered and estimates suggesting up to 200 more deaths, potentially surpassing Miami.
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Associated Press
Florida Coast
Davies
Moorehaven
Dake Okeechobee
Miami
T. J. Lowry, Jr
Tampa
Construction Under Way On 200000 Sub Station Here
Construction of a 132000 volt sub station in Kingsport began with grading and a 700 foot side track from Clinchfield Railway. The $200000 project will sit on an 11 acre tract north of the tunnel, with G E Hyle directing the Appalachian Power Company work and A Turner supervising. The new station will supply about 50000 horsepower, greatly surpassing the current 18000 HP plant, and the existing plant will be kept as emergency standby.
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Kingsport
Clinchfield Rairoad
Kingsport Farms
G. E. Hyle
Appalachian Power Company
American Gas and Electric Company
Clinchfield Railway
Tennessee
Appalachian Electric Power Company
Turner
Switchback
W. Va
Saltville
Bread and Water Diet Trials by Nebraska Judge
Hurtington Nebraska reports Judge Wilbur W Bryant a bread and water jurist who imposed this diet on himself seeks self discipline. On the start of his fourth day he admits the diet is severe and says he will continue for the planned five days. He notes dreams of bountiful feasts and studied the diet scientifically years ago.
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Wilbur Bryant
Nebraska
Hurtington
Neb
Wilbur W. Byrant
Elf
Bryant
Court delegates favor adopting U. S. reservations
Geneva reports the world court delegates conference adopted the committee report on accepting American reservations to membership and allowed future withdrawal of approval on amendments to court statutes and advisory opinions. A separate Virginia circuit court special grand jury investigated the kidnapping of Reverend Vincent D. Warren, with proceedings held until September 30.
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Geneva
World’ S Court Delegates Conference
Princess Anne County
Vincent D. Warren
Florida Rebuilds After Destructive Hurricane
Rescue and relief efforts surge in Florida as Red Cross mobilizes and Mayor designates relief, with 400 reported dead and up to 750 feared in Biscayne Bay searches. Homeless exceed 50 000, property losses top 150 000 000 across three states, while Miami records about 100 dead and Everglades towns suffer severe damage.
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Miami
Fla
Florida
Red Cross
Frank B. Shutts
Miami Herald
Romp
Wharton
American Red Cross
West Palm Beach
Lake Okeechobee
United Public Health Service
Miami Missing Persons Bureau
Biscayne Bay
Bahamas
Bimini
Everglades
American Automobile Association
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Lenglen
Common Pleas Court
Crown Prince
Leopold
Brussels
Tarre
Suzanne Lenglen
Ty. Dempsey
Mr. Tunney
Mrs. Dempsey
Paris
Mr. Dempsey
Suzanne
Daugherty and Miller
Liberty Bond
Hollywood
Progresso
Fort Lauderdale
Pensacola
Mobile
Gulf Coast
Alabama
Mississippi
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