The news, as printed onWednesday, September 1, 1926
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As printed: 12 Die, Scores Hurt as Quake Strikes Azores
ContextA quake hit the Portuguese island of Fayal in the mid-Atlantic at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning, flattening much of the port town of Horta, where about 20,000 people live. News from the Azores reaches the mainland only by cable, so this correspondent's account is the first detailed word of the dead and homeless.
ContextStrikers at the Manville-Jenckes textile mills in Rhode Island have been fighting police since strikebreakers were brought in on Sunday; last night a crowd of 1,800 tried to force the Blackstone River bridge to the plant. National Guard field artillery and medical detachments rolled in after midnight to reinforce state police.
ContextBettis won the 1925 Pulitzer air race at 248.99 miles an hour and was one of the Army's best-known pilots, assigned to exhibition flying at Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial Exposition. He flew into a Pennsylvania mountain in fog last week and was brought to Walter Reed hospital by ambulance plane with a broken leg and both jaws fractured.
As printed: SHORTRIDGE TOPS SENATE ASPIRANTS IN CALIFORNIA RACE
ContextCalifornia Republicans voted yesterday in a primary fought largely over whether the United States should join the World Court, with Senator Samuel Shortridge defending his seat against anti-Court challengers and Governor Friend Richardson facing Lieutenant Governor C. C. Young. Only part of the state's precincts had been tabulated by early morning, and both trailing men refused to concede.
ContextJack Dempsey, champion since 1919, defends the heavyweight title against Gene Tunney in Philadelphia on September 23 and is training at Atlantic City. Today he took a day off — with a black eye none of his eight sparring partners will own up to.
As printed: Friend Declares Rev. Hall Was in Fear Of Life with Mrs. Mills
ContextThe Rev. Edward Hall and choir singer Eleanor Mills were found shot side by side in a New Jersey field in 1922; the unsolved case was reopened this summer and is again filling the papers. A friend now says Hall feared for his life while he was seeing Mrs. Mills.
