Today is Friday, Sept. 24, the 268th day of 2004. There are 98 days left in the year. The Jewish Day

Today is Friday, Sept. 24, the 268th day of 2004. There are 98 days left in the year. The Jewish Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, begins at sunset. On this date in 1789, Congress passes the First Judiciary Act, which provides for an attorney general and a Supreme Court.
In 1869, thousands of businessmen were ruined in a Wall Street panic after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the gold market. In 1896, author F. Scott Fitzgerald is born in St. Paul, Minn. In 1929, Lt. James H. Doolittle guides a Consolidated NY-2 Biplane over Mitchel Field in New York in the first all-instrument flight. In 1934, Babe Ruth makes his farewell appearance as a regular player with the New York Yankees in a game against the Boston Red Sox. (The Sox win, 5-0.) In 1955, President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack while on vacation in Denver. In 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers play their last game at Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0. In 1960, the USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched at Newport News, Va. In 1963, the U.S. Senate ratifies a treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union to limit nuclear testing. In 1964, the situation comedy "The Munsters" premieres on CBS television. In 1996, the United States, represented by President Clinton, and the world's other major nuclear powers sign a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
September 24, 1979: Four men wrestle a guard to the floor and escape from the Lawrence County jail and remain at-large despite a search by city, state, county and township police.
Ohio homeowners have only a few days remaining to file for a 21/2 percent savings in their porperty taxes. The total savings to homeowners statewide is estimated at $30 million.
September 24, 1964: Twenty-six police officials from nine foreign countries spend a day in Youngstown observing modern police methods as applied by the Youngstown Police Department. The visit was sponsored by the International Police Academy.
The Safety Council of Greater Youngstown says Mahoning County's traffic toll in 1964 has reached 32, with eight of those deaths coming in September, the most for any month.
September 24, 1954: A dynamite bomb rips a garage at the home of Joe and Sam Sanfrey on Maryland Avenue, Warren, causing $1,000 damage but no injuries.
Members of the Mahoning County Bar Association unanimously endorse the proposed $940,000 bond issue to build a new county jail.
September 24, 1929: E.L. Morgan, prominent Youngstown merchant, joins the B. McManus Co. as vice president and merchandise manager. He started work at the Fordyce Co. for the modest salary of $8 per week.
The B & amp;O Railroad says it will begin work on a $1.5 million terminal and roundhouse near Division Street at the same time as work begins on the Division Street Bridge.