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As printed: SMITH AND 'DRY' QUESTION ISSUES
ContextAlfred E. Smith is the Democratic governor of New York and James W. Wadsworth, jr., its Republican United States senator; the Volstead act is the federal law enforcing national prohibition, which has been in force since 1920.
As printed: NEW TROPICAL STORM ON WAY, MIAMI WARNED
ContextThe West Indian hurricane came ashore at Miami and Miami Beach in the early hours of Saturday, September 18. Richard Gray heads the United States Weather Bureau office at Miami; "Porto Rico" was then the standard American spelling of Puerto Rico.
As printed: SEVERAL WITNESSES SAY MRS. McPHERSON WAS THE WOMAN IN COTTAGE AT CARMEL
ContextAimee Semple McPherson is the evangelist of Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, who vanished from a beach in May and reappeared in Mexico in June saying she had been kidnapped; Kenneth Ormiston was the temple's radio operator. A preliminary hearing is where a judge decides whether the evidence is enough to hold the accused for trial.
As printed: $40,000 IN BONDS TRACED TO SMITH
ContextHarry M. Daugherty was attorney general under President Harding and Thomas W. Miller the alien property custodian, the official who held property seized from enemy nationals during the World War, including shares of the American Metal Company. Liberty loan bonds were the government war bonds sold to the public from 1917.
As printed: CARDINALS AND YANKEES GET READY FOR SERIES
ContextThe Yankees won the American League pennant and the Cardinals the National League's; Miller Huggins manages New York and Rogers Hornsby plays second base for St. Louis as well as managing it. Grover Cleveland Alexander pitched for the Philadelphia Nationals in their 1915 World Series.
Richard Merton sails for Germany tomorrow after his last cross-examination in the Daugherty-Miller case, and Washington waits for further word on the disturbance reported north of Porto Rico.