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September 22, 1938

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1938Gene Mingo, American football player^[†]

Eugene L. Mingo is an American former professional football player who played in the American Football League (AFL) and National Football League (NFL). He played several positions including halfback, placekicker, and return specialist. He is widely recognized as the first African American placekicker in football.

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Headlines from September 22, 1938

CITY IS HARD HIT; Many Areas Darkened and Tube and Harbor Traffic Halted 8 DIE IN WESTHAMPTON Many Are Reported MissingFloods Threaten Rivers All Over the East Ferry Boat Now Believed Safe Subway is Tied Up EASTERN SEABOARD SWEPT BY STORM Thousands of Trees Felled Passage of Storm Bus Lines Are Retarded Air Lines Finally Halt

By Unknown Author

Manhattan and Wash Hts trains delayed by power failure caused by storm

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DEMAND OF POLAND IS SENT TO CZECHS; Hungarians Also Expected to Seek Part of Czechoslovakia When Sudetenland Goes Defense Council Meets DEMAND OF POLAND IS SENT TO CZECHS Hungarians Make Demand Factions Unite in Budapest

By Jerzy Szapirowireless To the New York Times

Hungarians demonstrate in Budapest

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Stalwart Czech Men Sob in Prague; People Tear Up Papers in Disgust; Many Are Incredulous at First Over 'Betrayal'-- Britons Relieved but Uneasy--French Are Divided on Settlement CZECH MEN WEEP AT NATION'S FATE Men Sob in Public Chamberlain Is Booed Traffic Is Interrupted Sees Too Much Given Away Britons Still See Perils Prefers Humiliation to War Paris Opinion Divided Germans Trust in Hitler No Demonstrations Reported

By Emil Vandnaywireless To the New York Times

Gen J Syrovy cheered

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Storm Batters All New England; Providence Hit by Tidal Wave; Six Feet of Water in Streets of Business Section--Many Homeless in Area Woonsocket Also Suffers ALL NEW ENGLAND IS SWEPT BY STORM Old Ironsides Damaged Rutland, Vt., Hard Hit

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Seeks Fed aid for Mass storm areas, telegrams to Roosevelt and Hopkins

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GEN. WESTOVER DIES IN FLAMING PLANE; HEADER AIR CORPS; Officer Burned With Sergeant in Crash as He Attempts to Land in California EXPLOSION IGNITES HOUSE Expert's Unfamiliarity With Air Currents Near Burbank Given as Possible Cause Say Plane Went Into a Spin AIR CRASH FATAL TO GEN. WESTOVER General Piloting Own Plane Tricky Air Currents Stressed Arnold to Be Acting Chief Roosevelt Expresses Regret Two Mentioned for the Post PIONEER IN ARMY FLYING Westover Was Made Chief of Army Corps in 1935 In Aircraft Production Post Bennett Balloon Race Winner WRECKAGE OF PLANE IN WHICH AIR CORPS CHIEF WAS KILLED

By From a Staff Correspondent

Tribute to Maj Gen O Westover

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CZECHS ARE BITTER; Throngs Rally Against Government, Hailing Army and Benes RESISTANCE IS DEMANDED Cabinet Assents to Loss of Sudeten Areas as Agrarians Bar Direct Plea to Soviet Prague Crowds Demonstrate

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Czech Govt agrees provisionally to accept Brit-French plan

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Spanish Loyalists to Drop Foreign Fighters; Invite League to Watch Execution of Plan; LOYALISTS TO DROP FOREIGN FIGHTERS

By Clarence K. Streitspecial Cable To the New York Times

Premier Negrin, in League Assembly session, announces Loyalist decision to withdraw foreign combatants; invites League internatl comm of inquiry and verification; assures policy of natl conciliation

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