Tokyo Death Toll Soars As Fire Sweeps City
Washington reports 60,000 cremated in Tokyo by midnight September 8 with Yokohama casualties estimated at 110,000. Among 300 foreign residents in Yokohama, 100 killed including 50 British and 20 Americans. Names of Americans reported killed or safe appear in dispatches from Kobe and Tokio.
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Washington
Tokyo
Yokohama
Dickover
Kobe
Ambassador Woods
Tokio
Amrine and Child
Paul R. Cannon
Albert Mandel Andson
Paul E. Jenks
L. P. Jenks
H. K Miller
A .B. West
Pennsylvania
Foreign Office
Japan
Sanitary Corps
Wilson
Imperial Palace
Jossen
Hankone
Kakagaki
General Electric Company
Truscon Steel Company
American Capital 15
Navy Wright Fighter Sets Unofficial Speed Record
In Mineola New York on September 12 the navy Wright fighter, the plane to represent the United States Navy in a Pulitzer race at St Louis in October, set an unofficial world speed mark over a measured course at Roosevelt Field. It achieved 233 miles per hour with Lieutenant I H Sanderson U S Navy at the controls.
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Mineole
N. Y
Navy
Wright
United States Navy
Jno
St. Luis
Rongevelt Field
I. H Sanderson
U S. Mo
Must Pay More for Coal Chief Beneficiary Says Pennsylvania
Byron St Newton former assistant secretary of the treasury told the New York State Coal Merchants Association convention that anthracite mine suspension settlement will cost the public about 35 million dollars with Pennsylvania as the chief beneficiary. He warned the public will pay from 70 cents to more on each ton of coal. A separate Pittsburgh report says two robbers on a bridge threw John Smallade into Pine Creek when he lacked money, and a police rescue found him severely injured.
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Treasury
Pennsylvania
Gloversville
No X
Byron St Newton
Pittsburgh
John Smallade
Sharpshurz
Pine Creek
Smallade
European Girls Morals Decline Amid War Aftermath
Rev. Dr. Frederick H. Knubel, head of the United Lutheran Church, returned from Europe reporting that European girls show worse morals than American youth. Educators cited widespread decline since World War I, with few remedies beyond theater bans urged by Chancellor Stresemann. Knubel attended a world congress in Posen, Germany.
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New York
Frederick H. Koubel
United Lutheran Church
United States
Canada
Stresemann
Knubel
Posenbach
Germany
Fatt Colorings Trend Through Fall and Winter
Black appears set to dominate the season with sturdy appeal. Nasturtium shades shift toward brown as the next popular choice, signaling a muted transition in color palettes for fall and winter.
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Yokoham
Aere
Tokina
Everett True
Ea Seni
Newa
England
G. L. Fruit Biscuits
G. L. Baking Company
G. L. Fruit Biscuit
E. B. Measell
J. Clark
Devilbiss
J. L. Houff
Paul B. Rhodes
F. W. Staub & Sor
G. & W. Grocery
Harry L. Ebert John E. Null Bohn
E. Patrick
N. Market
N. Bentz St
Patrick St
Patrick
Dorothy
Dan
Dean
Seather
Geo.t C Bell
City Opera House
Mon
America
DE Wolf Hopper
Baltimore
Frederick
Opera House
Jesse &. R
Wanson Lasky
Gloria
Theodore Roberts
Paramount
Gpiclara
Wagenhall and Kemper
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Avery Hopwood
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