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DEATH TOLL IN EASTERN COAST MOUNTS TO 600 20,500 Refugees Homeless; Immense Property Damage Done (Copyright 1936 by United Press) New England's disaster from hurricane, tidal waves and floods came into full realization today tor the first time. The deud numbered almost 600. The damage i 1350,000.000; the homeless refugees 20,500. These tolls were growing rapidI iy as the first semblance of order was reestablished Already, the known dead numbered 585. and the search of a 500-mile stretch of ruined shoreline still was far from complete. A thousand coast guardsmen patroled the coast where historic villages from Newport, R. 1., to Cape Cod were wrecked, and famous resorts and landmarks i obliterated. Jn the interior, 500,000 rescue and relief workers had begun the rehabilitation of Rhode Island, Connecticut. Massachusetts, NewHampshire and Vermont. Their! first task was the caring for refugees who crowded armories, public buildings and schools. National guardsmen ruled in most cities. There were acute ■ i shortages of food, clothing and serums; dangers of disaster and of fires breaking out as soon as the great heaps of debris had dried. There had been looting near Cape Cod. National guardsmen fired on one gang of looters last night. Watch Hill, R. 1., still was (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) FARM PROGRAM GIVEN PRAISE Gov. Townsend Irouds Democratic Farm Policies Atica, Ind., Sept. 24 — (UP) — Gov. M. Clifford Townsend praised Democratic legistlation designed to aid farmers during the last five years In a speech here last night - opening the Fountain county Dem- ' ocratic campaign. “Never before in the history of America have the farmers received such sympathetic attention as they have during the last five years of , Democratic government,’’ h* said. Indiana farmers paid IS 500.000 i' less in property taxes plus gross income taxes In 193* than they paid property taxes alone in J 932, he said. ; He pointed "with pride to the fact that Indiana leads in the number of miles of rural electricifation lines” and reported that the income of Indiana fanners was 117 percent greater in 1937 than 1932 “As a farmer I resent any efforts of political partisians to mislead the farmer, and I resent the deception being practiced by Republican politicians,” Townsend said. 1 would like to know when his party has ever in the last quarter century done anything constructive for the I farmer, has ever really sincerely I thought about the farmer’s welfare. “If the farm legislation of the New Deal were wiped off the -books tomorrow, as he would do, the price for farm commodities would shoot down to the low levels of 1932 and j (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) OAmericans .Asked To Leave Czechoslovakia , Washington, Sept. 24— .American Minister Wilbur J. Carr ' today Informed the state department he is exerting all possible effort to remove United States nationals from Czechoslovakia. j o i Jay County Woman Dies At Hospital II Mrs. Volney Steiner of Portland , rural route 4, died Friday night at 'he Adams county memorial hospi- '! tai In this city, where she had been confined as a patient. i TEMPERATURE READINGS DEMOCRAT THERMOMETER N 8:00 a.m 64 10:00 a.rn 72 J 9:00 a.m 68 11:00 a.m 78 > I WEATHER , Generally fair tonight and Sunday, cooler tonight and in south portion Sunday.

New London Waterfront Shattered by the Hurricane L’ ‘W* * atf wprmSMßffHH if 7 .’TBtJr*4-*Jt*33Kh& is BIMI — 1

Taken from an Eastern Airlines plane, this photo shows the chaos I of shattered boats and othei wreckage that littered the waterfront I at New London, Conn . after a tropical hurricane tipped the East |

Plymouth Workers Threaten Strike Evansville. Ind.. Sept. 24—<U.R> ' —Officials of the Plymouth assembly plant here withheld comment today on the action of local 265 United Automobile Workers, which announced it will call a strike in , _u«i Ito jihjmlax. jwlea& 1 nutes with the management^re r settled before then. Plymouth officials have not fe--1 ceived formal notification of the union's decision. Support for the proposed strike has been promised by union members at the Briggs Indiana corporation factory here and other members in Indianapolis and Detroit, Michigan. Chrystler plants, according to McKinley Arty, president of tne local union. PLACE LIGHTS IN AUDITORIUM Workmen Putting Finishing Touches To New School Auditorium The gymnasium-auditorium of the new Decatur junior-senior high school was rapidly rounding into completion today as workmen put finishing touches to the various phases of construction. The new lights are being installed in the gymnasium ceiling. The | lights are of the latest type, are flush with the ceiling and of the diffused ray type. Fourteen of the Tights are set into the accoustical ceiling of the structure, in addition to thd lighting facilities on the stage and in the lobbies. The hardwood floor has been | completed and is ready for sand- , ing. Workmen were also expected ' to complete laying of the stage floor this week. Meanwhile carpenters, woodworkers and painters are going ahead in ihe school proper. Doors, ■ door frames and casings and other woodwork, including cupboards are being installed. The decorated w'doden frame entrances have been placed by carpj enters. Carl Schinner, of Schinner ; & Truemper, contractors of the j project, stated that the building would undoubtedly be completed next month. Democratic Campaign Will Open Tonight The official opening of the Democratic campaign in Adams county j will be marked with the holding; of a smoker in the Democratic headquarters over the Democrat of-; tice at 7:30 o’clock this evening. J. Fred Fruchte. Democratic can-1 didatef or judge will be the principal speaker. County candidates will be introduced. The public has | been invited to attend. [

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Decatur, Indiana, Saturday, September 24, 1938.

CLUB WOMEN TO HOLD MEETING Club Women’s Institute At Manchester College Tuesday i North Manchester. Sept. 24 — A club woman’s institute will be held at Manchester College next Tuesday for 250 federated clubs in ; Northern Indiana. The institute is > the first of its kind to be sponsored by the Wabash County Federa-1 tion of Clubs in co-operation with 1 Manchester College. The College Woman's Club will be hostess., i Professors A. W. Cordier. J. Raymond Schutz. R. H. Miller and A. , R. Eikenberry will lecture. The sessions will open at 10 a. i m. and continue until 4 p. m. “The j Challenge of a New Day" will be the theme for the day s study. At 9:30 a. m. registrations will be made in the administration building. Mrs. A. W. Crow will preside at the opening of the day's program in the chapel at 10 o'clock. Miss Alice Doner. Manchester Coll- ■ ege dean of women, will give the welcome, Prof. Paul Halladay will sing and Professor Schutz will talk on “Eugenics of Democracy.” At 11:30 o'clock. Professor Eikenberry will speak on “The Possibilities in the Field of Mental Health.” Luncheon will be served at 12:30 p. nt. in the college dining hall. Mrs. Edwin Miller, of Peru, member of the adult education committee of the national federation, will preside. Mrs. Edwin Poston, president of the Indiana Federation of Women's Clubs, will talk. Mrs. Os(CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX)

Two Decatur Couples To Mark Golden Wedding Anniversaries

The observance of a golden wedding anniversary In the city of Decatur has always been a noteworthy occasion, but seldom in the city's history have two coupler commemorated the event on the same day. However, this Sunday, two of the city’s more prominent couifTes will mark 50 years of happily wedded life. The couples are Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lange and Mr. and Mrs. James Harkless. Mr. and Mrs. Lange were married in the morning of September 27, 1888 and Mr. and Mrs. Harkless were married in the evening. The Rev. Father Theodore WilkI en, former pastor of the St. Mary’s Catholic church, performed the Lange-Smith rites at 9 a. m. Mrs. 1 Lange was formerly Kathryn A. Smith, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Michael Smith. j Mr. Lange, a veteran Decatur [tailor, is the son of the late Mr.

coast. A series of fires in New London added to the horror of the storm, firemen lieing hampered by flood and failure of power. The number of dead has not been completely estimated

Sopomores Name Class Officers Officers were announced today . for the sophomore class of the Decatur high school. The president is ! Paul Hoile; vice-president, Law- , rence Rash; secretary. ler and treasurer, Lydia Frosch. | I Harold Mumma has been chosen [the class sponsor. ZION LUTHERAN PLANS SERVICE Annual Mission Festival To Be Held At Church Sunday ! The annual mission festival of I the Zion Lutheran church will be held Sunday at the local church, with special services during the 1 morning in commemoration of the | event. The Rev. G. Christian Barth, pastor of the Concordia Lutheran church at Cincinnati, directing i member of the Missouri Synod Lutheran church and former president of Concordia college at Milwaukee, will be the speaker at I both services. The first service will be held at 8:30 a. m. Sunday, followed by the main service at 10:30 a. m. The public has been cordially invited to attend the service anil is promised an unusually interesting address by Rev. Barth, who has gained nation-wide tame as ar. orator. A collection will be taken with the funds to be used in aiding missionary work of the church.

and Mrs. Bernard Lange. He has been actively engaged in the tailor business here since 1876. and at present is the tailor at the ' Holthouse Schulte & Co., clothing store. Both Mr. and Mrs. Harkless are prominent residents of the city. Mr. Harkless, a veteran bank employe, is at present cashier and bookkeeper of the Schafer store. He was employed at both the Old Adams County and the Peoples Loan & Trust company banks here. Both of the couples are planning quiet celebrations in honor of the day Sunday. A dinner for the immediate family Is planned by the Langes, while a similar event is scheduled to take place at the Harkless home. All of the four are apparently in good health and expect to be busily engaged over the weekend, receiving the felicitations and good wishes of friends and relative

STATE DOCTORS PLAN MEETING Indiana Medical Association To Hold Meeting Next Month Indianapolis. Ind., Sept. 24 —| What is expected to be one of the most important meetings ever held ; in the history of the Indiana state ; medical association will take place i at the Murat Temple in this city | October 4, 5 and 6. Although the l vast majority of the 2500 visiting physicians, their families and gpests who attend the meeting will be interested principally in the extensive scientific programs arranged for them, the house of delegates, council and executive committee, the three major governing bodies of the state associa-i tion, will be busy discussing and acting upon the program of medical care which was adopted by the American medical association at its recent special session at Chica- j go. Many recommendations of the I Chicago meeting, especially those I having to do with preventive measures in treating disease, already are being carried on in this state under the program of cooperation between public health officials, and individual practioners. This j program, which is known national-1 ly as the “Indiana plan,” bears the stamp of approval of the American medical association. For several months a special committee composed of forty-eight physicians of the Indiana state j medical association has been studying intensively the subject of medical care in Indiana. This committee has held several meetings and it is understood that it will present recommendations along with those of the American medi-1 cal association to the house of: 1 delegates for consideration. The first meeting of the house l of delegates will be held at the ! Murat Theater Tuesday afternoon, October 4. at 4 o’clock, following a preliminary meeting of the council. Dr. Herman Baker, of Evansville, president of the state association, will preside at the house of delegates meetings, while Dr. M. A. Austin, of Anderson, chair-1 man of the council, will head the meetings of that body. Reports of the officers and the thirty-one standing and special committees of the association will be made at the delegates' meetings. These reports and all resolutions presented by representatives of the various county medical societies will (CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX) , ' o , Regular Legion Meeting Monday ’ There will be a regular meeting ■ of Adams Poet No. 43 of the Am- • erican Legion at the Legion Home ; [Monday evening at 8 p o>, I

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DECATUR M. E. CHURCH PLANS FOR CENTENNIAL First M. E. Church To Hold Month’s Observance Os Centennial The Centennial Rally of the First Methodist Episcopal church in Decatur, in commemorating the 100th birthday of the church will open in Decatur on October 1, the Rev. Ralph Waldo Graham, pastor of the church, announced, today. Plans for a month-long observance of the event have been formulated and all but a few of the minor details have been completed. The observance will officially open on Saturday, October 1 with a carry-in supper for the congregation and families in the evening. Each Sunday is to be designated as a special day in the observance, with each organization of the church giving special attention to the Centennial in their regular monthly programs. Special direction will be given, the Rev. Graham stated, to the re-establishing of a new church loyalty among the members. Most important of course of all phases of the celebration, will be the Sunday services. The first Sunday. October 2. is to be known as Rally Day with a special Rally Day service. Golden Age is to be the title of the second Sunday with the Rev. Charles Pinkham, former pastor of the meal church and A. B. Ginn, of the Fort Wayne Goodwill Industries. as the chief speakers. The third Sunday. October 16. will be featured by the address of the Rev. I’. S. A. Bridge, also a former pastor of the local M E. church. The fourth Sunday. October 23, will be membership Sunday and family day. The last Sunday of the month will be featured by the address of Dr. Fremont E. Fribley, Fort Wayne district superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal churches. A number of programs and further details are to be listed by the pastor early next week. o RURAL SCHOOL TEACHERS MEET Annua! Teachers' Institute Is Held Here This Morning “High school reading failures are results of poor teaching in most inetances,” Frederick Neel of Bloomington told 100 teachers at the annual rural teachers’ institute this morning in the high school building.

County superintendent of Schools i Clifton E. Striker presided over the meeting and conducted the business sessions, at which matters of importance during this term of, school were transacted. One of the speakers was Miss, Thelma Gasser, speech specialist of Fort Wayne, who told of methods' of correcting faulty speech. Shej said in most cases, faulty speech, j such as stammering, Is caused by incorrect diets, Illness or change in habits. Sometimes poor speech is due to bad habits or incorrect teaching and may be cured by proper training. At other times, the treatment may be possible only through medical attention, she said. Mr. Neel, who is principal of a Bloomington school and does research work in the school of education at Indiana University, talked on “Reading a Crucial Problem” in his first address, and “Reading a (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) __o Townsend Pension Meeting Tonight A meeting of the Townsend old age pension adherents is to be held tonight in the city hall. The purposes and principles of the plan are I to be explained by the speaker. The I public is invited to attend.

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Britain Is Preparing For Instant Mobilization Os Troops If Czechs Refuse Demands. OTHERS PREPARE London, Sept. 24 -Great Britain completed preparations today for instant mobilization on land, sea and in the air if Adolf Hitler’s "final” memorandum is rejected by Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain returned by air from Godesberg and began discussing the memorandum with his inner cabinet. All concerned have agreed that the issue of peace or war is now clearly defined. The British high command has taken every necessary step to make sure Britain is ready for war if it comes. Army barracks are filled with rifles and uniforms for reservists. The royal air force stopped all leaves and distributed bombs to all main air force centers. The crews of bombing and fighting planes were given instructions as to the precise airdromes in Northern France where they would take up their stations, in accordance with the decision of the recent British-French staff talks. It was understood civilian employes of the air ministry were ordered to stand by in their homes this afternoon. The navy was fully ready. Britain’s preparation became known simultaneously with news of the partial mobilization by France and Belgium, and preparation for mobilization by Roumania where the war ministry took over all industry. In his final conference with Hitler, which ended early this morning, Chamberlain had agreed to subimt a new set of proposals to the Czechoslovak government, regaruing the method oi surrendering the Sudeten minority area to Germany. Without awaiting the approval of his own cabinet, Chamberlain submitted the proposals direct to Prague, I learned—or sent them there. The fact was that Prague was cut off from nearly all European capitals by telephone. When I left I asked Sir Horace Wilson, chief industrial adviser to the British government and Chamberlain’s chief aide here, whether the memorandum had already reached Prague. “You know, it's difficult to communicate with Prague,” he said, “but the memorandum is ott its way." Submission of this memorandum to Czechoslovakia was a concession to Hitler. But there seemed no doubt that Hitler had made definite and important concessions of his own this time, and at least had agreed to take no military action against Czechoslo-

vakia for the moment. Hope was held that peace might be preserved. But there was ominous anxiety lest it prove a brief reprieve, and that even a I tew days of peace might be unI easy ones. Some British newspaper cor. respondents, representing opposition newspapers, called Chamberlain “Hitler’s messenger boy.” i They predicted violent reaction in I Great Britain. Chamberlain held his tongue to ■ address the cabinet in London and the British parliament next week. All he said as he left was one sentence into a German radio microphone: “I am exceedingly grateful to you for the welcome which yon gave me in your country.” He looked somewhat fresher than he had early this morning but he showed clearly the strain he had been under here. The great hope for peace was in the long talk which Chamberlain and Hitler had during the night. They had at least given each other a frank exposition of views —• or Europe might even at this hour have been plunged into a war whose aspect was almost too hideous to visualize France Mobilized Paris, Sept. 24— (U.R> —Franco ordered partial mobilization of ; her army, navy and air force reserves today. Immediately afterward Gen. I Marie Gustave Gamelin, chief of . staff of the fighting forces, prei ’ sided at a meeting of the superior , j council of national defense, the I (GONTINUL'D ON PAGtf lUWiS).’