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Scuipes “HowARDY VOLUME 50—NUMBER 167 ie THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1938 Ft Swank oie, Seine

STORM DEATHS MAY EXCEED 300: NEW ENGLAND AREA HARDEST HIT

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NCH EVER I . . : A Negro, suspected by police as GODESBERG—Hitler, Chamberlain talk 2; hours. being the leader of a chicken theft

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— ® x = 5 4 = S————————— ' TRAP SUSPECT [Rivers Pour Into Main | \precedented AY Cr - our nn O * WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (U. P)—U. 8S. Weather Bureau of- |! 9 . . which swept the East Coast W est Ham ton 1n Panic yesterday was unprecedented Pp in the history of Weather Bureau records. : ; : Forecaster Charles L. Mitch=~ Fire Adds to Devastation New York Town Tries to | ©! said the storm increased in 1 : intensity as it moved north- , | At New London; Insane Identify Its Dead; Ward from Cape Hausas.yes50 Police Surround Woods; : : erday. He regarded this as ; Stage Riot. Children Saved. phenomenal because records of One Man Captured, > past tropical disturbances show . Third Escapes. HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. 22 (U.| WEST HAMPTON, N. Y. Sept.|| minished in force as they |! : wl — P.) —The Connecticut River poured 22 (U. P.).—Coast Guardsmen, state|| moved northward. Extent of Death And Property Toll Is Unover its banks into the central and police and local authorities counted storm yesterday developed ; . i east side business districts of Hart-/a mounting toll of dead and missing higher winds over some points known; Communications Systems DePRAHA Military dictatorship expected vi " : : ARA—I : v . ng, was reported surrounded in & had just gone through the hurri-| ‘ . ’ LONDON-—Nation asked to delay judgment. woods this afternoon two blocks east | cane, to evacuate. colony ‘where a el wave and hur- (| S€a. stroyed; Emer gency, Is Declared. PARIS—Three Cabinet members ask to resign. of Sherman Drive near Prospect St. | yong ars Snowy Sen jnpHicane A Cyaan ywoynes i Ee us to believe that such winds 5 Ney ‘ ; the state as result of the hurricane ried an un = yi i i BUDAPEST—Poland and Hungary demand share. by more than 50 City and State Po- "= = 2 © 2 1€0 a youl J Tipwrishasd in. New BERLIN—Sudetens police Eger District lice and deputy sheriffs, damaged the state. B i i He pointed also to a b - Rest icati i ; § ; 3 D s . Sra . : vy midmorning, 15 bodies had pointed also to a barom estored communications in storm-lashed New England VIENNA —Germans prepare for Sudetenland entry. Another man believed a member) Hundreds of families were being peep recovered along the five-mile|| eter reading of 28.10 in New 2 | WARSAW-—Poles occupy Czech town of Teschen. as involved |, The Park River, which runsithese were identified; the others|| Pected and unpredictable feaPn 8 Lieve DESH sibien, Was involved liweough he teiter of ine City, awaited identification at the West | ture of the disturbance. SL 0s . third suspect | .; : : P ‘ : : By WEBR MILLER | BULLETIN wah i St. A third suspect cipal business houses, : Estimates of the missing, which! England was 261. Another 35 were added in New York, svright. 1935. by United Press) | PRAHA, Sept. 22 (U. P.).— os caps Ii Newioes Were sighted Telephone Buliding Dusicaded ‘had ranged from 25 to 60, dropped | New Jersey and Queb %i the total 2 GODESBERG, Germany, Sept. 22.| President Benes announced Loy City Detectives John Welch and | ricados fos eh uv Ing put bar- when it was learned that 25 children sey uebec, making the total 296. : Prime Minister wah today that a new Cabinet had Howard Sanders. As the ack | Windows $2 Jsegen piling sandbags (Greene home, were safe. They were " " ® The reports, coming over patched-up telephone Cire ehrer Hitler discussed details of | a : ON SPR GAAS y = In Iront o € daoors. € Walter first believed to have been swept i . . — ; ; Vermillion, 28, of 815 ; cuits, confirmed that R sl rartition of Czechoslovakia to- jgaiven bY my Je A IO st | lapped at the doorstep. laway with the Greene home, but Mr. | 2 : h hode I: and bore the brunt of the hile the Sudeten German PRAHA, Sept. 22 (U. P)—The > Ave, | The National Guard was called Greene, a New York broker. said all ‘hurricane. The tidal wave which followed the storm swept ' army and German po- Cabinet of Premier Milan Hodza (out to maintain order. ‘had been removed safely from secr the Sudeten area. eMmor of Moravia, began negotin- | Me re. mired PU mittee sat continuously. The Red Providence and numerous coastal resorts, including such s S , > . Dy g ks of the Rhine, 'lon government including AMY... couth and one east. The de-|0ld State House. we | Pull force of the tidal wave was fashionable summer colonies as Watch Hill, Newport and 13 hours leaders tectives asked civilians in the neigh-| The city slowly was being isolated. centered along the stretch of beach| (0ast Guard, Red Cross ? Wp ist that &n early hour, NOr Cerny to attempt to form a han 15 minutes eight squads of Section of the state was closed. ang residents here were swept away. Mobilize Forces. ; Bell row, must be set for NeW Cabinet after the Hodza Gov- city police, seven cars of State po- Southward and northward the river| A situation verging on near panic ot Bodies of many of the victims were taken by Coast % Guards, polic ivili i nd troops were re. Of surrender of the Sudetenland 10 were dispatched to the accident! Only to the west were the roads|the storm sought missing relatives] WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (U. P).| » police and civilians today from the still turbulent begun to leave the Germany and the protests of thou- point. open. land friends. A heavy detail of —President Roosevelt today person-| ocean along the eastern and southern Rhode Island shores. t night. Tt was em- Shas of demonstrators shouting: | Wools Surrounded New London was desolated. Fire state police, assisted by authorities ally issued orders to all Federal : when the German TIVe us arms! i | followed the storm and raged for of neighboring communities, main-| agencies to give every possible as- Fear Even Higher Death Toll r th } } othe su 't parties i j~ : i or than the Czechs have IBpOrt of Six parties in a coali- welch, who was holding the cap- control. | work . : {tion Government in which the mili- al | iv < Communications and transporta-| asti i! ricken areas in New York and : 3 : . hata fad tured man, that Detective Sanders u ons sp { Trusties at the Suffolk County Jail New England, heights in the populous, four-state Connecticut River Vale amberiain Seems Tire {President Benes had made Gen. Jan . ; towns. The Connecticut River made i |, The Chief Expcutive called upon |ey iti y ave : : distance away. Police then sur-| !owns. The ® beach to aid in the rescue work. | ley, authorities feared the death toll wou - Hitler and Mr. Chamberlain SYTOVY, one-eyed Army inspector- a the area. The captured refugees of thousands. The threat coast Guardsmen, on water and in| the Army, Navy, Coast Guard and | / ld mount even the second time, with the fighting, his first choice for the hy , ‘munities. : tvors. | WPA and Red Criss to furnish their ‘ riding the high tide of suc- Premiership but pressure from nach 18 City niga for Wesief for wreckage and possible survivors. ry); facilities to aiy in relieving dis- Death totals by states at noon (Indianapolis Time) : the British Prime Mister “foreign” sources forced him to ment 3 : ities traffic ighways ej : gain time for orderly de- abandon selection of the general. | City Police said they suspected munities, and trafic on highways eight patrol boats and three sea-| pis orders were es by tele- Rhode Island—138, It mn hn : : : i |Guardsmen — were searching the i o Massachusetts—72 o the Reich in the bargain tions wit = alter in the theft last night of more debris . : u $ g (of the White House, where he had . yat he and Herr Hitler made Jat enfin h party leaders after Peter than 300 chickens from a farm near __The Connecticut State Hospital at waters of the sound between Cape received reports of the disaster. Connecticut—42 boi bls in _. nounced that it was impossible for : : ‘throughout the night. Insane pa-| Shortly before noon, firemen from 2 Chamberlain, who had flawn wie he ; CC heabima| State Police said they arrested’ : Fe Se rom sued, the Coast Guard and the Red New Hampshire—9, Cologne from London, crossed "Mm 10 form a Cabinet by breaking ,), ce ‘other Negroes last night after lients rioted at the height of the surrounding communities arrived Cross were mobilizing. The Works B ye 1 : ‘ the Pittsboro theft. : , fae and motored along the Rhine bank A radio announcement said that ,_... y sed today by the corridors as the hurricane ripped tation work. tion and had promised additional to the Dreesen. He looked gray and Gen. Syrovy was certain to be a Coucve, the three chased today by) ™ gentinued on Page Three) Full force of the storm was re- aid, p New Jersey—1. ey t n ing. ; vas in contrast to Herr Hitler's all constructive elements of the the BUC TID aie (Continued on Page Three) supplies into stricken areas, the sn arrival a few hours ear- State would be represented. Con- BANDITS ROB TRAIN ORDER EVACUATIONS {Interstate Commerce commission The full horror of the storm as it swept northward 12 roadway were almost com- dent Benes and party leaders. - : . for railroad car and freight service | over Long Island and New England did not become appars nt as he drove bv. Herr Premier Hodza and his colleagues OF MILLION IN SOLD; IN MISSISSIPPI PATH Know n Dead in /in New England. rol 1 t Thi 3 | MARSEILLES, France, Sept. 22 eee . ‘the ICC termed the situati “ : . sciing in the IR dent Benes at his palace as the | € situation “an y y Ss anamg Im he Iront owds marched back and forth (U.P). —Ten bandits robbed a train | Hurricane A rea emergency which requires immedi- tween Boston and Rhode Island, the state hardest hit by the re 1G CT EINS permitted to fight against the dis- ; ; : Already on an emergency basis va UCE HALTS STRIKE I A rit today. | Clinton, la., Hard Hit. By United Press with relief workers in the field, The New England toll had been recorded at 134, but { : | seilles-Avignon freight train near | i iviti A aay (Continued on Page Four) oy : F larea are: its activities. The Coast Guard had ” : : i ‘ PS Syne Dw hig =i = | St. Barthelemy and held the crew| ROCK ISLAND, Il. Sept. 22 (U. 2500 of its full personnel of 9000 as- started pouring in from Rhode Island and a short time of truckmen re- SOMEWHAT WARMER. attempted to draw his gun and was | ing Upper Mississippi River today Mrs. Margaret Delehanty, 59, The Works Progress Administration bs wounded The bandits then un-| swept southward toward the tri-city Point Lookout. | was organizing to assign WPA em- Hundreds Missing, Thousands Homeless i | press packages, from a car into lowland residents to leave theix| Mrs. James Pinks, West Hampton. ita In addition to t NOW 1 i ’ TIMES FEATURES | TEMPERATURES | their waiting trucks and escaped. | homes and “not wait for last minute| Mrs. Schlater, West Hampton. habiliistion, B nfo the known dead in the hurricanes path : 44 ’ L AN 1 AWS aid.” ON INSIDE PAGES "mm. 52 11am... 686 BRAKEMAN ASSUMES | The fiood crest centered around Hampton. i tS temut Dispatches pouring into Red hundreds were injured. Property damage estimates rose | 54 12 (Neon). 67 inton, Towa, today, where a high | Carl E. Dalin, West Hampton, Cross headquarters included: IT 90.000.000 lv tod to $150,000,00 d high ms Tem. % BLAME FOR COLLISION Ee a I Yh Loont ar Bae Suttons for $00,000,000" carly today Lo S1S000000 and: higher ! However, a sharp drop in the rate : ‘by midafternoon. Movies 20, 2 he weather will conti ~ of rise Jed Weather Bureau officials Sailboat overturned off Asharoken, Mass. chapter that 30 persons were, yi . Movies ....20, 21! The weather will continue to be | se le ureau officials | , o o. (believed dead in that area, 100 were | Whole communities were devastated, many remained 4 Obituaries ... 10 settled tonight and tomorrow but —1Ine brakeman who said he threw ;g feet. way Beach. New Bedford, Fairhaven, Dart- Cut off from the outside world. - 18 will be somewhat warmer, the 'he switch that sent two crack] On the Jowa side, the Clinton] Oliver Raynor, Eastport. | mouth, Wareham and Marion “badly As the extent of the disaster began to be apparent 16 Que 15 re pa fe pr Paar ae into a collision said today he would county Emergency Relief office were chanie. Perry B. Duryea, superintendent governmental agencies, the American Red Cross and volun. 13° Radi 25. NONFARM PAYROLLS RISE [like to take the place of one of the prepared to assist those forced t SLAN : : yea, a : 3' Radio .. 25 | prepa ssis ose forced to FIRE ISLAND of East Hampton, L. I, reported teer groups rushed to the work of rescue and relief. Serial Story.. 24 —Secretary of Labor Frances Perk-| Leonard Jacobson, 64-year-old organizations reported no serious| Mrs. Haas Saltaire ; |“of collapse,” and conditions “des- President Roosevelt ordered the Coast Guard, the CCC, perate.” the National Guard, the WPA and other arms of the Federal

. f ' S t S f H a Y t I 0 XY d ° ficials said today that reports eC 10N O ® indicated {he tropical storm they always before have diAlso contrary to rule, the | “rn | . (ford today, forcing hundreds whol,,jav in this Long Island summer || on land than were reported at “There was nothing to lead which hit late yesterday and heavily sons to death by drowning. England,” he said. eb . of the same gang was captured evacuated in taxicabs, trucks, busses) iin of sandy beach between West || Haven—lower than ever before ||disclosed today a major disaster resulting from yesterday's rer Loe : ios § ’ % {Strip y beach between We , y BARENSTEIN, Germany—Border fighting reported. | ion their car, said by City police | and any other conveyances at han [Hampton and Speonk. Twelve of | recorded there—as an unex- ||ynnrecedented hurricane and tidal waves in an accident at Sherman Drive | backed up and began flooding prin. | myer enifcation at the By midafternoon the number of known dead in New | : its first-floor | attending a party at the Norvin been formed. pursued the car, it struck a truck & and Sherman Drive. The police] ed the order to march in resigned today and Jan Cerny, Gov- |S3I, Crashed into the wreckage. The Mayor's emergency relief com- ong story windows in a boat. a fifth of a mile inland and was responsible for the heavy toll, the Dreesen Mons for formation of a new coali-|™“\reo hile one of the Negroes CrosS opened headquarters in the Jail Trusties Aid in Rescue Takes Personal Charge as ans said Herr Hit-| President Benes directed Gover- yorhood to call for help and in less| The bridge to the entire eastern known as the “Dunes,” and homes Westerly, were engulfed. t into Sudetenland. ®Imment had resigned as a result Jjce and a number of deputy cars Was closing in. |prevailed as colonists who escaped they will not attempt! Governor Cerny decided to seek | They were told by Detective hours before it was brought under tained order and aided in the IesCue sistance to food and hurricane With flood waters rising toward record breaking itary would be an important element needed help in the woods, a short ion lines were disrupted in a dozen were liberated and taken to the! the Dreesen Hotel, face to EPneral and veteran of World War rounded charged with vagrancy and Of disease hung over stricken com- the air, searched Long Island Sound of, Civilian Cdnservation Corps, higher before the water receded. Power was tut oF In many com- They revealed that eight Cutters, {tress in shokon o cas. : 2k and city streets was blocked by = | ning over Sudeten-. Governor Cernv began negotia- (ne Negroes of having participated y 3 d bY planes manned by 500 Coast phone from the sedpnd floor study Lord Mayor of Praha, an- Pittsboro. | Middletown was a scene of horror May and New London, Conn. Even before his orders were isiver by ferrv from his hotel 3%Way from the coalition parties Thev said they Storm and ran screaming through here and were assigned to rehabili-| Progress Administration was in ac- New York—32. ity i e be I ; member of the Cabinet and that City Dolice are other members © | vealed when it was disclosed that Acting to expedite movement of Quebec (Montreal) 2 ds lining the terraces sultations continued between Presi- suspended all rules and regulations presented their requests to Presi-| The suspension was ordered when | €Nt until telephone communication was re-established be- (( Li ~ : . | : ” . - . riinued on Page Four) outside, ‘demanding that ney be of 168 gold bars valued at $1,890,000 11000 Crest Sweeps South; [Si% action. worst disaster of the region's history. 1av truce becam todas mm tns| The Cabinet ministers asked the | The bandits attacked the Mor. The known dead in the hurricane the Red Cross prepared to broaden |the figure rose to 250 within a few minutes after reports at revolver point. An express agent | P.).—The flood crest of the rampag- LONG ISLAND signed to rescue and relief work.|later to 261. IS FORECAST FOR CITY loaded the gold, contained in ex-j area as relief officials warned ali| Clarence Frieddel, 55, Inwood. | ployees to assist in relief and reRR | Four unidentified women at West | Gets Disaster Report hundreds were missing, thousands were homeless and other mark of 185 feet was expected. a Robert Pries. 45. drowned when . A report from the New Bedford, 5 Mrs. Ferguson 16 partly cloudy and occasionally un-! BRAWLEY, Cal. Sept. 22 (U. P.).| to believe the crest might not exceed| Fairfax McLaughlin, 50, Rocka- |, omeless, martial law in effect and 15 Weather Bureau predicted today. [Southern Pacific passenger trains County Red Cross unit and the] Marshall Hawkins, Raynor's Me- crippled.” Roosevelt 15, WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (U.P). |11 who died in the wreck. leave their homes. Officials of both Mrs. Bazinet. Saltaire, several lives lost, utilities in a state 5 Society ...... 12 ins reported today that nonagri- brakeman of 18 years experience,| trouble other than the inconven-

19 cultural employment increased 320.- took full responsibility for the wreck | ience suffered by flood victims who NEW JERSEY The Pittsfield, Mass., chapter re- 3 . Lo 10 000 in August, while payrolls rose in a statement made prior to to-| had to remove themselves and their] John Buettner, 37, Bayonne, ported an “acute” situation with 400 Government to go to the aid of stricken communities. Thou-

Jan an.. 1 . 16 nearly $12000.000 a week. {day's inquest. possessions to higher ground. (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Three) sands of relief workers were mobilized and sent to scores of communities. MIDWEST ALSO TROUBLED BY FLOODS . ¢ « ¢ & « ¢ « ¢ Bieri a Comitonitiy. Sue Loni Rn, Corian r ! ; a NE Emm Rhode Island and Massachusetts escaped the hurricane, | : 5 i RN which appeared to gather intensity as it sped northward. New Hampshire, upstate New York and New Jersey felt the storm to a lesser degree.

Storm Called Unprecedented Federal weather experts in Washington were surprised by reports from the storm regions. : Forecaster Charles L. Mitchell said “there was nothing in the behavior of the storm as it progressed northward to lead us to believe that such winds would be experienced in New England.” Great stretches of the countryside remained cut off, and authorities were hampered in their attempts to learn the fate of many stricken communities. As communications were re-established with isolated storm centers it appeared likely the figure would rise higher. More than 100 persons were reported missing and it seemed improbable that many of them would be accounted for. Losses in the five states hardest hit by both wind and flood were estimated at $100,000,000 to $125,000,000. The speed with which the Connecticut River rose gave inhabitants along it and tributary valleys in New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut little time to sure NEE vey the damage caused by the wind. National Guardsmen

With floods adding te the toll in the storm-swept East, the Midwest also reports troubles. The Dubuque, Rushing waters of the Connecticut River, washing out part of a road at Higganum, Conn. a short dis- made haste to evacuate families from threatened lowlands. Iowa, airport is shown under a 20.5-foot Mississippi crest, highest since 1921, tance from New Haven, adding to 100 million dollar damage, : - {Continues on Page Three)

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