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As printed: 150 HOMES DESTROYED.
ContextThe West Indian hurricane season runs into late autumn, and southern Florida was wrecked by a hurricane just a month ago, in September. The Weather Bureau in Washington is the federal forecasting service; a falling barometer, measured in inches of mercury, signals an approaching storm center.
As printed: MRS. MILLS' BODY WILL BE EXHUMED
ContextThe Rev. Dr. Edward Wheeler Hall, rector of a New Brunswick, N. J., church, and Mrs. Eleanor Mills, a singer in his choir, were found shot dead on a lane outside the city in September 1922; the case was reopened this summer and a grand jury returned murder indictments. Exhuming a body requires a court order and the county physician's cooperation; an accessory after the fact is someone who helps a killer after the crime.
As printed: SENATE COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE INDIANA POLITICAL CORRUPTION
ContextD. C. Stephenson was the Indiana Ku Klux Klan grand dragon convicted in 1925 of the murder of Madge Oberholtzer and is serving a life sentence; a Marion County grand jury has been hearing evidence in secret on corruption in state politics. The Senate campaign funds committee, headed by Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, investigates money spent in elections, and Indiana votes on November 2.
As printed: WELCOME QUEEN AT WHITE HOUSE
ContextMarie is the queen of Rumania and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, touring America with her son Prince Nicholas and her daughter Princess Ileana. Calvin Coolidge is president; the Blue Room is the oval reception room on the White House state floor, and a legation is the residence and office of a country's diplomatic representative.
The storm is expected at Key West, the Middlesex grand jury is to be asked to indict accessories in the Hall-Mills case, and Indiana's two state chairmen are due before Senator Reed in Chicago.