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September 21, 1926

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Notable Births

1926Don Dunstan, Fijian-Australian lawyer and politician, 35th Premier of South Australia (died 1999)^[†]

Donald Allan Dunstan was an Australian politician who served as the 35th premier of South Australia from 1967 to 1968, and again from 1970 to 1979. He was a member of the House of Assembly (MHA) for the division of Norwood from 1953 to 1979, and leader of the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party from 1967 to 1979. Before becoming premier, Dunstan served as the 38th attorney-general of South Australia and the treasurer of South Australia. He is the fourth longest serving premier in South Australian history.

1926Donald A. Glaser, American physicist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)^[†]

Donald Arthur Glaser was an American physicist and biologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1960 for his invention of the bubble chamber.

1926Fereydoon Moshiri, Iranian poet and critic (died 2000)^[†]

Fereydoon Moshiri was one of the prominent contemporary Persian poets who wrote poems in both modern and classic styles of the Persian poem.

Notable Deaths

1926Léon Charles Thévenin, French engineer (born 1857)^[†]

Léon Charles Thévenin was a French telegraph engineer who extended Ohm's law to the analysis of complex electrical circuits.

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Headlines from September 21, 1926

COOLIDGE OPPOSES COMPROMISE PLAN ON WORLD COURT; Mere Accordance of Equal Standing With League Council Members Not Acceptable. DOES NOT MEET OBJECTIONS President Still Believes the Fifth Reservation as It Stands Will Win in the End. WILLIS BACKS HIS VIEWS He Says the Senate Will Maintain Its Position as Interpreted in the Reservations. COOLIDGE OPPOSES COMPROMISE PLAN

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Pres Coolidge opposes compromise plan according U S equal standing with Council members as substitute for 5th reservation; statement by Sen Willis

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FONCK AGAIN READY TO HOP OFF AT DAWN; Rushes Fuel and Provisions to Plane After He Gets Final Weather Report.

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Fonck again ready to hop off at dawn after getting final report of fair weather

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SMITH AND WALKER LAUNCH RELIEF WORK; Committees Are Named to Speed Aid From State and City to Stricken Florida. GOVERNOR'S PROCLAMATION General Haskell Heads Relief Body -- Civic Organizations Issue Appeals. SMITH AND WALKER START RELIEF WORK

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PISTOL SALE TRACED TO WILLIE STEVENS, INVESTIGATORS SAY; Dealer Said to Have Kept Silent Four Years, Fearing He Would Be Implicated. WILL CONFRONT PRISONER New Set of Fingerprints Is Found -- Gorsline Fails to Add to His Story. HE BEMOANS HIS TROUBLES Garage Man Sought Who Washed Henry Stevens's Car -- Mrs. Clark Too Ill for Questioning. PISTOL SALE TRACED AS HALL CRIME CLUE

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Pistol sale traced to W Stevens, who will be confronted by dealer in trial; new set of fingerprints found on calling card set against rectors body; Gorsline fails to add to his story; garage man sought who washed H Stevens's car

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Borough President Guider Operated On After a Sudden Attack of Appendicitis

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Operated on for appendicitis

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Finds Boys Here Improving Though Church Care Wanes

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Survey of Kiwanis Club for N Y C

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Latest Figures on Casualties in Florida

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MIAMI PUTS DEAD AT 325; Other Estimates Range Up to 1,500, With 4,000 Injured.

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MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 20 (AP). -- The known dead in Florida's storm area as a result of Saturday's hurricane and tidal wave stood tonight at 325. The number of injured was estimated at more than 4,000. The property damage was placed at $50,000,000. Approximately forty persons were missing.

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PRESIDENT APPEALS FOR RELIEF FUNDS; Coolidge Asks for Generous Contributions to Red Cross -- $100,000 Sent to Florida.

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. -- President Coolidge today issued an appeal to the country to aid, through the American Red Cross, the hurricane-visited areas of Florida, and instructed the Army and Navy Departments to cooperate with Florida authorities in every way in temporary relief work.

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No Word From Pensacola.; STORM RAVAGES CITIES ON THE GULF

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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 20 (AP). -Pensacola was completely isolated tonight...

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PENSACOLA IS CUT OFF; Mobile Streets Are Filled With Debris-Interior Towns Wrecked. LOSS OF LIFE IN ALABAMA Five Reported Killed at Jackson, and Several at Other Places in State. GALE AT 82 MILES AN HOUR Hurricane Curves and Rages Seaward at Mobile -- Wires Down, Trains Abandoned.

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NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 20. -- After sweeping with diminishing force along the Gulf Coast from Pensacola, Fla., where it struck Sunday night, the tropical hurricane was subsiding tonight as it spread over interior Alabama and parts of Mississippi and Louisiana.

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