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September 16, 1928

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HOMELESS FACE FAMINE; TRAIL OF DEATH AND DESTRUCTION LEFT BY FURY OF THE TORNADO AT ROCKFORD, ILL. Word by Crippled Wires Tells of Great Porto Rican Devastation. TURK'S ISLAND BADLY HIT Nassau, With Barometer Falling and Communications Weakening, Prepares for the Worst. VIRGIN ISLANDS' LOSS BIG Bishop Colmore Is Missing-- Florida Makes Ready to Save Itself in Oncoming Gale. Headed for Shipping Lanes. Bishop Colmore Reported Missing HURRICANE KILLS FORTY IN PORTO RICO Extensive Destruction at Ponce. Five More Reported Dead. Porto Rican Lepers Homeless. Sugar Crop Badly Damaged. Ten Dead at Ponce. Southern San Juan Leveled. Shipping Wrecked at Turk's Island Nassau Prepares for Storm Goes North of Santo Domingo. Haiti Escapes With Heavy Rain. Florida Makes Ready. Tug Reports Ship in Distress. House Lifted From Its Foundations and Set Down in the Street. RUINS OF FACTORY DEMOLISHED BY TORNADO.

By Unknown Author

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EUROPE FEELS NEED OF AMERICA'S AID IN WAR DEBT PLAN; Leaders There Fail to See How Washington Can Keep Aloof on Adjustment. PLAN GENERAL SETTLEMENT Fixing of Reparations Total Likely to Follow Projected German Bond Issue. CABINET BACKS MUELLER Chancellor Will Answer Briand on Evacuation Today--Two Debtors Pay Britain. Not a Purely European Matter. Task of Geneva Committee. EUROPE FEELS NEED OF OUR AID ON DEBTS Proposed Demands on America.

By Edwin L. James. Special Cable To the New York Times

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Notable Births

Rex Trailer

1928Rex Trailer, American television host, actor, and singer (died 2013)[†]

Rex Trailer was an American regional television personality, broadcast pioneer, cowboy and Country and Western recording artist. He is best known as the host of the children's television show Boomtown which initially ran from 1956 through 1974.

1928Lady Gwen Thompson, English author and educator (died 1986)[†]

Lady Gwen Thompson was the pseudonym of Phyllis Thompson, author and teacher of traditionalist initiatory witchcraft through her own organisation, the New England Covens of Traditionalist Witches.

Patricia Wald

1928Patricia Wald, American judge (died 2019)[†]

Patricia Ann McGowan Wald was an American lawyer and jurist who served as the chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 1986 until 1991. She was the Court's first female chief judge and its first woman to be elevated, having been appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979. From 1999 to 2001, Wald was a Justice of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.