The news, as printed onSaturday, September 4, 1926
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As printed: Little Hope Held Out for Nine Miners Imprisoned
ContextA gas explosion tore through West mine No. 29 of the Superior Smokeless Coal Company at Tahona, in eastern Oklahoma's coal country, yesterday morning, shortly after more than 130 men had gone down on the day shift. Seven bodies have been brought up overnight and nine men are still shut in a blocked entry filled with gas and flame, with rescue squads cutting toward them.
As printed: COUNCIL APPROVES GERMAN ADMISSION AND 3 NEW SEATS
ContextGermany, kept out of the League of Nations since its founding, was promised a permanent council seat at Locarno last year, but the plan stalled in March when Spain, Poland and Brazil demanded permanent seats of their own. The council today adopted a reorganization report creating three new non-permanent seats and reserving a permanent one for Germany as soon as the assembly elects her to membership.
As printed: U. S. RESERVATIONS NOW SEEM LIKELY TO BE ACCEPTABLE
ContextThe Senate agreed in January to join the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague, but only with five reservations, and delegates of the thirty-eight member nations have spent the week at Geneva deciding whether to accept them. Four are now accepted; the fifth has been handed to a committee of fourteen, while at home two senators who voted for adherence say they are withdrawing their support.
As printed: BUBONIC PLAGUE IS NOT SPREADING IN AZORES
ContextTuesday's earthquake wrecked the port town of Horta on the Portuguese island of Fayal, in the mid-Atlantic, killing dozens and leaving the population sleeping outdoors. Bubonic plague has since broken out among the ruins — four cases, two of them fatal — and the island's governor is asking Lisbon for full authority to keep order as slight shocks keep bringing down damaged walls.
ContextGene Tunney, the ex-Marine challenger, meets champion Jack Dempsey in Philadelphia on September 23 and is training at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Three days in town and the place is fight-mad and solidly for him — though Tunney insists he learned to fight in Greenwich Village and only learned to box in the Marines.
Rescue crews are still cutting toward the nine men shut in at Tahona, and Geneva's committee of fourteen takes up the fifth American reservation before the assembly meets next week.
