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As printed: Desolation Spread Over Large Area, Turning "Playground" Into Wilderness
ContextThe hurricane that struck southeast Florida late Friday night raged for some nine hours across Miami, Miami Beach and the coast to the north, and the first full accounting is only now coming out over restored wires. Miami had been the boom town of the decade, its beaches and hotels sold as the "playground of America."
As printed: AIMEE IS STILL ILL; MOTHER RELEASED UNDER $2500 BAIL
ContextAimee Semple McPherson, the Los Angeles radio evangelist who vanished from a beach in May and reappeared in Mexico in June saying she had been kidnapped, is charged with four others in a conspiracy complaint; illness has kept her from court all week. Her mother and business manager, Minnie Kennedy, went before the court in her place, and Kenneth Ormiston, the former Angelus Temple radio operator, is still missing.
ContextJack Dempsey, heavyweight champion since 1919, defends his title against Gene Tunney in Philadelphia on Thursday and is finishing his work at Atlantic City. His former manager Jack Kearns has sued for an accounting of the champion's earnings, and Dempsey's lawyers are due before the New Jersey vice chancellor tomorrow.
As printed: JUDGE GOES ON BREAD, WATER DIET HIMSELF
ContextCounty Judge W. F. Bryant of Cedar County, Nebraska, 75 years old, has been sentencing liquor law violators to spells of bread and water, a punishment critics call cruel and inhuman. He said he would find out for himself, starting this morning.
Dempsey's lawyers face the vice chancellor in New Jersey tomorrow while the champion trains behind closed gates, and in Los Angeles the court waits on Mrs. McPherson's physician to say she can rise and plead.
