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As printed: RESCUERS WORKING FEVERISHLY TO AID ENTOMBED MINERS
ContextIronwood lies on the Gogebic iron range in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where the Pabst mine is worked by the Oliver Iron Mining Company. The cave-in came at midday Friday, and miners at the eighth level are about half a mile below the surface.
As printed: FLORIDA REPAIRING HAVOC WROUGHT BY BATTERING STORM
ContextThe West Indian hurricane came ashore at Miami and Miami Beach in the early hours of Saturday, September 18, and crossed the peninsula to Lake Okeechobee, whose dikes gave way at Moore Haven. The American Red Cross is the chief national agency collecting and distributing storm relief.
As printed: Harry Melosh and Mrs. Daniels Stick to Story in Aimee Case, But Prosecutor Is Sure They Are Fakes, Seeking Publicity
ContextAimee Semple McPherson, the Los Angeles evangelist who vanished from a beach in May and reappeared in Mexico in June saying she had been kidnapped, faces a conspiracy complaint; prosecutors say she spent part of that time in a Carmel cottage with Kenneth Ormiston, her former Angelus Temple radio operator. Asa Keyes is the district attorney of Los Angeles County.
As printed: NATIONS LEAGUE WILL SOME DAY BE UNIVERSAL
ContextThe League of Nations, created after the World War and seated at Geneva, admitted Germany to membership earlier this month; the United States never joined. Its assembly, where every member state sits, had been meeting since September 6.
As printed: CARDS' TRIUMPH 'FITTING CLIMAX' TO SENIOR RACE
ContextThe National League pennant winner meets the American League champion in the World Series next month. Rogers Hornsby is the St. Louis club's second baseman as well as its manager, and John A. Heydler has been president of the National League since 1918.
District Attorney Keyes says prosecution of the McPherson defendants begins Monday in Los Angeles, while double shifts at Ironwood dig toward the men on the eighth level.