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September 24, 1928

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15,000 ILL OF FLU; PORTO RICO FEARFUL; Five Thousand More Have Other Diseases--Campaign to Check Malaria Starts. FIELD HOSPITALS PLANNED Meanwhile Food Situation Is Well in Hand and Red Cross Sends Supplies to Victims.

By Harwood Hull. Wireless To the New York Times

Relief work complicated by outbreak of Spanish influenza in Porto Rico

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MOB SURROUNDS JAIL OF HAWAII KIDNAPPER; Firemen Turn Hose on Throng Threatening Japanese Slayer of 10-Year-Old Boy. "I AM NOT INSANE," HE SAYS Killed Before Asking Ransom-- Had Read of Leopold and Loeb and of Hickman.

By Unknown Author

Mob surrounds jail where Fukunaga is held; dispersed by fire hose; crime likened to Hickman's

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Spanish Prisoners Hear of Amnesty on Radio; Hundreds of Them Reaching Madrid Daily

By Special Cable to THE NEW YORK TIMES

Prisoners hear of amnesty through radio; hundreds reach Madrid

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SMITH WILL ATTACK THE OIL SCANDALS AT HELENA TONIGHT; Accepts Hoover's Statement on Party Organization as Showing Republican Responsibility. AIMS AT PROGRESSIVE VOTE Colorado and Wyoming Democrats Tell Governor Speeches Appeal to La Follette Group. CHEYENNE GIVES HIM CHEER Candidate Declares He Has Been 'Agreeably Surprised' by the Receptions on His Tour.

By From a Staff Correspondent of The New York Times

Smith satisfied with results of western tour

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MRS. WILLEBRANDT RENEWS HER ATTACK ON SMITH AS A WET; Appealing to Ohio Methodists She Denies Religious Bias in Her Campaign. SAYS HE DREW CHURCHES IN Calls Governor the Greatest Force for Disregard of Prohibition Laws in Nation Today.ASSAILS TAMMANY RECORD Assistant Attorney General Declares Some of His Faith AreAgainst His Stand.

By Special to The New York Times

Mrs M W Willebrandt urges defeat of Smith in a before N E Ohio Meth Conf; accuses Smith of misinterpreting her in Okla City s; Repub hdqrs seek to recall advance text of s

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