YANKEES TRIM CUBS 12 TO 6 ANDRE N SEES STORM DEATH TOLL
Hurricane roars toward Haiti as Puerto Rico reports hundreds dead and thousands injured. Governor Beverley puts dead at about 200 and injured at 1,000 with higher estimates likely. Debris cleared as Santo Domingo and Cuba coast add risk. coffee plantations and citrus crops suffer vast losses. Emergency relief orders mobilized. burial logistics limited by municipal control.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Santo Domingo
Haiti
James R. Beverley
San Pedro de Macoris
Caribbean
Havana
National Observatory
Port Au Prince
Oriente
Cuba
Observatory
Colon Straits
En Here
Beverley
Rafael Veve, Jr
Fajardo
Woodfil Buttem
Roosevelt Norris to meet in McCook amid campaign swing
Roosevelt en route from Colorado Springs to McCook Nebraska for a conference with Republican Independents' leader Senator George Norris after rallies in Colorado. The campaign traces stops at Brush Akron and Wray before Omaha and Sioux City, with Roosevelt asserting the fight is against party leadership, not the rank and file.
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Roosevelt
M’cook
Neb
Colorado Springs
Pikes Peak
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U. S
George Norris
McCook
Norris
Hoover
Bronson Cuting
New Mexico
Lamy Junction
Williams, Ariz
New York
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Key Pittman
Nevada
John S. Cohén
Georgia
Colorado
Walter Walker
Republican Party
Denver
Brush
Akron
Wray
Colo
Nebraska
Omaha
Hastings
Lincoln
Missouri River
Sioux City
Gehrig’s homer starts Yankees in World Series opener
The Yankees defeated the Cubs 12 to 6 at Yankee Stadium as Lou Gehrig hit a homer and Guy Bush's wild pitching helped spark a five run sixth inning. The game, opening the World Series, featured a detailed play-by-play through the seventh inning and highlighted Ruth, Chapman, and Lazzeri among key contributors for New York.
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Yankee Stadium
New York
Yankees
Lou Gehrig
Guy Bush
Cubs
Three British Cabinet Members Resign Over Ottawa Tariffs
London Sept 28 three liberal and labor members of Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald’s national cabinet resigned over tariff proposals agreed at the Ottawa imperial trade conference. Viscount Snowden Sir Herbert Samuel and Sir Archibald Sinclair quit citing free trade principles. The resignations mark the first major split in the coalition as the cabinet met in a tense session and prepared to announce replacements.
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London
Ramsay MacDonald
Ottawa
Viscount Snowden
Ickornshaw
Privy Seal
Herbert Samuel
Archibald Sinclair
Scotland
Great Britain
Free Traders
John Sharp Williams Former Senator Dies in Mississippi
John Sharp Williams, the longtime Mississippi politician known as the gentleman from Mississippi, died at his plantation home near Yazoo City at age 78. He had a striking voice and a sharp wit that energized Southern opposition to Wilsonian policies and the League of Nations.
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Mississippi Plantation
Wilson
Yazoo City
Miss
John Sharp Williams
Mississippi
Congress
Here
John Sharpe Williams
Heidelberg
South
Woodrow Wilson
Senate
League of Nations
Federal relief plans hastened in Washington
Federal relief measures moved ahead as Reconstruction Finance Corporation approved more than 13 million dollars in new loans. Comptroller General McCarl ruled the 10 percent spending cut applies to each project cost, not the total relief fund. Treasury plans to open bids for sites next week while expecting lower construction costs to offset cuts. Louisiana state bonds and Public Belt Line railroad commission funds finance a Mississippi River bridge near Gulf Port. Madison, South Dakota, also received a self liquidating loan of 105 thousand dollars.
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Washington
Reconstruction Corporation
McCarl
Treasury
Department
State of Louisiana
Public Belt Line Railroad Commission of
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Gulf Port
Madison
South Dakota
Weather roundup for Tennessee and Virginia notices
Tennessee reports include a cooler night with a pair of events tonight and Thursday. Virginia forecasts fair and cooler conditions tonight and Thursday with possible light frost in extreme destinations. Yesterday’s high was 71 and low 56, with rainfall of 0.15 inches and 0.01 inches a year ago. Readings taken at 6:00 p.m. daily for the preceding 24 hours.
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Virginia
Box Score Chicago N. Ab. R. H. O. A. FB, Herman 2b
New York rifled to a 12 to 6 victory over Chicago with Ruth Gehrig and Chapman keying a 12 run burst. Gehrig homered, Ruth and Dickey drove multiple runs as the Yankees offense exploded in 5th to 7th innings. Hartnett and Cuyler sparkled for Chicago but Ruffing held Chicago to limited scoring after rough early innings.
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CUBS
Hartnett
Koenig
Ruffing
Gehrig
Bush
Yankees
Herman
Grimm
Laazers
Dickey
Cuyler
English
Sewell
Crosetti
Stephenson
Combs
Chapman
Grimes
Hemman
Lazzeri
Combe
Ruth
Engbieh
Moore
Tony
Englith
Gudat
Koentze
Bob Srich
Sayler
Chicago N. Ab
Puatsh
AG Cuyler
Rf A. Ek Pe
Stephen
Beemer
Smith
New York
Stelen
Klem
N.L
van Graflan
A.L
Magerkurth
Martial law in Havana after five politicians slain
Havana faced martial law as police hunted gunmen who killed four Cuban political leaders and wounded a fifth, Dr Clemente Vazquez Bello, who died in hospital. Investigators said the killings were reprisals by foes of Vazquez Bello. road blocks and coast patrols were ordered to capture suspects.
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Havana
Cuba
Machado
Clemente Vazquez Bello
Senate
Gonzalo
Guillermo
Leopoldo Freyre de Andrade
Vazquez Bello
Augustin Alvarez
Miguel Angel Aguiar
Bustamente
Santa Clara
New York
Confession Claimed in Mooney Parade Bombing Case
Portland inmate Paul M. Callicotte a 32 year old Oregon mountaineer held without bond after police quote him saying he thinks he unwittingly placed the dynamite laden suitcase that killed 10 and injured 42 at the 1916 San Francisco Preparedness Day parade Callicotte reportedly said he took the suitcase from a man in front of the Industrial Workers of the World hall in Oakland carried it across the bay and handed it to a man in San Francisco who asked him to place it on the curb near the coroner's office
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Portland
Ore
Paul M. Callicotte
Oregon
San Francisco
Sten
Entire Middle West Utilities board resigns in Chicago
The full directorate of the Mid dle West Utilities Co. resigns and is replaced by a 10 member board of subsidiary presidents. Receivers Hurley and Mce Culloch say the holding company is solvent and 42 operating subsidiaries are in strong cash position. Samuel Insull and two heirs are ousted. Oliver E. McCormick remains treasurer. audits probe possible federal law violations in investment trusts.
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Chicago
Middle West Utilities Co
Samuel Insull
Edward N. Hurley
Charles A. Mce Culloch
Equity
Middle West
Ed States
Canada
Insull
Oliver E. McCormick
Grover C. Neff
Neff
Paris
Martin
Insu'l
Samuel Insuils
Marshall E. Sampsell
P. J. McEnroe
John F. O'Keefe
Insull - Utility Investments, Inc
Corporation Securities Company
U. S. Bureau of Investigation
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Nese
P. R
Bears
Martnett
Hartnett English
Curs — Moore
Harnett
Oenig
National Progressive League
Ganized
George W. Norris
Richard Washburn Child
Republicans For Roosevelt League
John S. Williams
Tennessee
Mooney Parade
Mountaineer
Insull Company
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