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VOLUME 50—NUMBER 168 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1938 a

FRANCE TO FIGHT IF HITLER STRIKES

% % e % % 3 sh 5 ®» = 2 & 2 5%

New Floods Threaten as th Toll Nears 500

HARTFORD DIKE NAZIS HINT AT INVASION ~ SPRINGS LEAKS; { CZECHS GUARD FRONTIER; DISEASE PERIL) BRITISH SEND WARNING

Menace Is Believed Troops Called Out to | CHAMBERLAIN. Eased in New York, | Ei Massachusetts. re REICH LEADER

Retaining Wall Holyoke Split , | Capital, Wander a ay of Talks De- |

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pi id ers ns the Citnatel Court Room today to qemand reductions in he eS Budgets.

NEW BUDGETS

Ee N BU IN VOTE TRIALS:

500-mark ‘today Disrupt Criminal PERRI Governor's Foot ‘Guard, personal TEMPERATY 8

Dailey and Gilliom to Divide workers spurred ita wr rd, ersonall Noisy March at Court he BTA Hearings on m

efforts in the face ‘of Armed with rifles. they will ith - I med rifles, they will be st: House. 62 2 (Noon). Indictments. flood threats five postoffice stations > an 1 | ‘Another ‘company ‘of National = dioudiid bu De ltt SE the mumber of Guard was summoned for duty at A Na n i . bi . E Rocky Be Troops nt Bristol wha - could have get vour known dead th New England, inte ka rela marched on the ‘arrival ‘of ‘the ; . ‘New Britain were held in readiness tit al Fall Trdian New York, New Jersev and ss report at Hartford the Tn the Diet Sole. Soy it od Ron Nira} had Yes J LD south dike give was demonstration within ‘memory ‘of 3 i : : ; Qeelyet fae SOS I. Bt eRrly ThE Bree oon. it still oo public officials 4 : | when it was 11 a. Held & wi i 35 feet of Hood wh ors Ie Tht gn milling fhrough | That's when fall arrived, and Hoe BRINSt § 3 at Be. ad A simmer ‘enasc. That's when, ~ << ! nes ! 1 - un rid, second highest in ‘Connecticut ‘his in ‘other Words, [the sun

Taxpayers Demand Reductions

Fring Breaks Out at Border as Praha’s | Troops Resist Sudetens; Armored Cars And Machine Guns Reported. |

Guard Mails mn Danger Area.

SANDBAGS

at Homeless

RUSSIA SENDS THREAT TO POLAND

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500,000 Nazi Soldiers Reported Massed in South to Back Free Corps in Occupation of Homeland.

100,000 REFUGEES PILE

Pour Into

Fall Is Here! | Sun Starts Southward

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BUIAETIN PARTS, Sept. 28 (U. P.).=¥rance has gone the limit of concessions and will stand by her commitments if Germany invades Crechoslhovakia, Premicr Daladier announced tonight.

HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 23 Py —Troops were ‘called ‘out by Governor Wilbur LL. Cross todav to guard postoffices as the 'Connecticut River overflowed through the city ‘and ‘approached ‘the peak ‘of its flood rise, Adit. ‘Gen. F. Tadd, commander 5f the National ‘Guard, issued ‘orders for summoning of the

BULLETIN GODESBERG, Sept. 23 (U. P)~=Prime Minister Chamberlain and Fiaehrer Hitler agreed to meet again tonight. By WERB MILLER (Copyright. 1938, by United Press)

Canvright 1938 bv United Press) death ‘toll hurricane and mounted slowly

The from Wednesday's tidal waves toward the

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(Copyright, 1938, by United Piesy) Europe's desperate struggle for peace slipped to within Reg So bayonet-length of collapse today. ‘ GODESBERG, Germany, Sept. 23 | 3 ” ; LT. BP) Negotiations between | Fighting spread along the temse Czech frontier, and 24 [Prime Nrinister Chamberlain and negotiations between Prime Minister Chamberlain and uehirer Hitter stick a snag today | ga iki Hit ave n & oy AI n . ai B® gave, tense Atmosphere pre- Fuehrer Hitler at Godesberg seemed on the verge of breake vai. ing down. Tive scheduled second meeting he-| Herr Hitler was reported to have told Mr. Chamberlain tween them @id not take place this ire . “ . AN. that German troops must march into Czechoslovakia because hol are is no alternative.” The Fuehrer claims that the wa fe ours al § . N a new Government at Praha, headed by the pro-Soviet Gen.

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District Attorney, |'Gilliom, former Tndiana

than Dalley,

House today

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former U. S 1 Attorney

JHould largest 'taxvavers Tnstead, Wt. (General, were selected ‘today as Hitler a letter, Tt before Heifr Hitler iteplied, after with his Jan Syrovy plus the firmness of Czech. tr oops in the SudetenRhine Tom land have intensified the “Communist” danger in Czecho-

lepecial judzes te ‘try 24 primaty : bop as aie oko SHarsd’ Jeonstant consultation Court House corridors shortly ‘before (election predict worker entourage across the tory 4 hota The | ; uk stopped ‘coming motth, and jee 3 Thdinha SICtion Tews. Prime Minister began immediate Slovakia. He believes that disorders are inevitable. Chamberlain appealed for order, postponed this

10 ‘a. 'm., the ‘time set by ‘the County | |Tast week on Charges of Violating Wrr. Chamberlain's Tax Adjustment Board for ‘a public : ; { ‘began ‘going south. ; i | the Yep! | TH eather Sitienn ye. | EEG. oD, od eas letter, §t was! Mr. . . ; My in ‘thie cases Of 12 QeFONARNTS poe demanded a pledge in back Morning’s talk with Herr Hitler and asked the Fuehrer to [mie in IndCUMERts InYONING AT yng white that Germany would mot guarantee that he would not strike during the peace nego-

hearing ‘on 1939 budgets. | xv ‘minutes later, 't} ire Wl i I ae, ne ported To ‘material change in its forecast ‘or (‘continued |leged Trauds in Precinct 1, Ward 11, weve inte Crechoslovakia while he They worked against (and in Precinct 10, Ward 15. gotintions aire ih PIORIESS. tiations. is bow Hitler replied, German sources said that

building was ‘thrown into general into ‘court rooms where trials were wal'm, no noticeable ‘change in against an expected food As Tar as Mr. Gilliom, & Republican, Will Tiyeie was ho official confirmation, | the Reich found it difficult to

disorder as scores of persons surged tite — in ‘Session. its Instruments, and mo Tecrest ‘of | The ‘crowd ‘got ‘out ‘of hand and HLL i Pests. sd. fall 1 > oil more ‘than 35 feet sometime late ‘to- shoved its way into Criminal Cowr't,| IS TECOrAs are ‘concerneq, ral |preside in the tidal of 12 OUhers py semiofficial German source 8 Cr i Cou stats Sept. 1 | ih GHCOMERES CHAIRING | can et give such a guarantee under flood, Wiassachusetts author- 983 where Judge Frank P. Baker was tile {named in Indictments charg said: ities @ispatched state police to Scores of business and residential sentencing a ‘man to life imprison- The temperature at 118. ™. [regularities in Procinct 12, Ward 2, “Just how do you answer such 2 the circumstances but other ¥ndinha ‘to aid ih ‘the evacua- blocks on ‘the East Side ‘of the ment. rt 17, Which fis ‘exactly nor- and Precinct 9, Ward 20. [letter How can we guarantee mot | Ww elbinformed sources said tion ‘of refugees from south- city ‘were undsr several Teet ‘of Trial Disrupted } Le ts mas esd og X | to match into a country where ol : Pm : | Tie We Tesvity they believed Herr Hitler's reply would permit resumption of megotiations. The thieat of breakdown in the negotiations sent a mew war shudder

water. The ‘telephone building ‘was The Judge rappsd for ordec, bit | conditions prevail?” 40 JolLE i OK U, Futope. Tn France, Mesh

flood emergency was ening at Hartfo Workers Exhausted Himndreds of ‘exhausted workers tailed on a dike. ‘miles long. which vast 16800-acre resi-

today . r protected ® dential area

Governor Townsend wired Governor Charles Hurley of Massachiisefts an offer ‘of aid ‘in ‘the present New England storm ‘distress. During the 1937 Ohio River

ern cotnties,

Massach Paris on Alert for News of Godesheryg; Cabinet Tottering.

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the Armory and a Holy oke| Barely the south ‘dike acres intndate Guardsmen ‘ee the help from ‘sur

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in ‘two ‘or ‘three feet ‘of muddy Park no cows” contingsd to bane Oh | "Phe name of Harry O Chamber- Despite the difficulties, there = : lin, Republickn, former Circuit No Sign Of an actual break in th Three thousand Tamilies were . alien fod al Gi tides on alt Holvoke. Split We are payvmg Tor all ‘ol this. thie possible special judges, was| ‘German correspondents coms | }, at HON . SPRY | troops pouted into the great NMagilote of the names from the dist, ang An hour after Herr Hitler's 1eply | — All Rhine garrisons wete placed in Czech frontiers where Sudeten

River water; several hotels watched : S : dv by, 22 in 1 nibs doors and surged toward his ‘bench, nsetts bhalieved she water creep to ‘their ‘doorsteps; the Sistuptine the oral] Coit fudge, Who was named by negotiations betwesn Mi. Et SrUpimg tie trial. > JURORS, Tain and Herr Hitler, and some hope sides W Criminal ‘Court 1 : the J eo: “We are 't Xpavers: control with one ex- he Judgt e tre the thXpRyers; Saturday ‘mm the panel of today. routed from the South Side lowlands , ' TE 3 " tah wr : Ia “Find ‘out who those peopl } 4 . d during ‘the hitht and herdsd to pone oo ina ry Ah gr stricken from the list by Deputy from Herr Hitler's hotel said they | cracks two Teet ; yr . Prosecutor Haward BH. Knight. understood Herr Hitler's 1eply to | mo Line along the German hrontier Srringdale dike May tional ‘Guardsmen ruled. FUftesn (oo (oil wittnche o Una 4 | (to put defenses at double strength. hundred refuges ‘were 'huddlad in OR Hr I ea ed pe Army Flier. |fense attorneys, declined to strike sible the Tesumption of negotiations. school buildings sds. od Sach Lana . aSeiats i dei life here, ‘and there ‘must be order. . ; Seni ditt | ‘ , engineers notified save itself —a Break) ie Gna finally Became quister, HUDSON. N. Y., Sept. 98 (U7, pp) [Judge Baker then instructed the had been received, the British dele- 500000 troops massed mear the bit FR } rowd fi . JDSON, ay )¢ with Cle: 1 Wavear Wilham would flood 1600 din ‘outside ‘the court g. | Court Clerk to do 0. regarding its mature a state of alertness today. « . Free Corps” fighters already are in National conflict with the Czechs. raered to ‘evacuate he threatened area.

although —Anh airplane believed to be a TU 3000 ‘homes— 3 3 na hea Tas et inti iin SIE . . a : room ‘echoed throughout the build- Army ship crashed on Mt. Nrerine, was besiegad with ‘calls for New York river their crests and started

the

. railroad station was ‘cut on two ois " : 5 rampaging Tivers O5E Sine cut ‘Of ‘on Several in the crowd shouted at Juege Frank P. that they might be resumed late ] Baker Tast the ‘center 'of the ‘city where 500 N&- no ois Lio Is Believed to Be ! those remarks,” Judge Baker said | Walter NIvers, representing six @e- Nr. Chamberlain would make pos- | Japse at any inate,” Alm) NANCY, France, Sept. 23 (UT. P) Repors were that Germany had . gation had mo statement to make Dery, de ia an Instead of striking one hame, the

anda d : ; : . ; : Then Sir Nevile Henderson and | Soldiers Th War uniforms, With Terk, Francis Biemer, struck Mi . : D's rE ih he ches Of rl Sir Horace Wilson of the British Tull equipment including gas masks, the defendants, and Mr Gilliom’s | (CN on Page Six) WE the advanced POSE of ie nate lin thie other halt Maginot Line on the Rhine.

Nr. Gilliom, When asked if he THREE RAI DS MADE Boa A a

would &ocedt, said he wished to | BY YOUNG BANDITS because (he Government feared

think it over. Nr. Dailey could mot . ; " be vexched. TT they should decline , jo a a. ihe LL State Police searched mere Today | he resignation of the new 'Czecho-

to serve, an additional panel would lovak Binet it BE be named by Judge Baker. for two youthful bandits who last ‘Slovak Cabinet because It wal

Nreanwhiles, the Grand July con- night robbed thie Ailing stations | headed by an Army general. tinued investigation of alleged ir- ih Morgan and Hendricks Counties| Troop Movements in the frontier regulatities ih Other precincts. Ar- in rapid succession | bases of Nancy, Colmar and Strasthur Brown, 952 Tecumseh Place; | The bandits, one of whom was be- | hour, and ih other secondary posi- Me : Robert Crime, 13th and Pennsyl- lieved to be 15 and the other 13, got [tions proveeded throughout the Clashes and Kidnapings by Nazis. vania Sts. ord Joseph C. Wilson, $20 at Crown Center, $20 at Peck | Right. By a’ dole stron i ti 2 1 Ave y wer anh 0 str |v ronver, | : Shes oc= 2230 Kenw ood Ave. testified. a. burg and | 32 25 at Jamestown fn. | ere manned at do ne CIEE Hort Fave Cots va ree STRASBOURG. France, Sept. 93 Czechs. Machine gums, rifles and . LT. P.) —Nrachine puns Were sot up armored cars weie involved in the today at the bridges over the Rhine NEhUNg. River as Framce redoubled defense| In Berlin, German official circles [precautions on the German Dron- SRY Ye Prah Calvier and ew Tongland a jor. Reports ciiculated that the VNTeatened that German, Polish and et ag LR SL on : : “8 bi i also had bean re | Hungarian Free Corps would move The known dead by states" a : a EE & Be ; 3 x: " a k linforeed Coss the fiontier. melas | a A Sint i ; J | Artillery positions six miles behing | 11 Moscow, Russian officials ads Rhode Island b | Strashouig were reinforced. | Vived Poland that any invasion of M hasetts Trenches were being dug in the Czechoslovakia in support of Polish assachas

minority demands would tate the

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ounthit towh Nich ing one and a half ‘miles south of ‘this roOvn 1 RNS Ww ni " . a . had Iba . re mg towns WICH | Weare than 500 persons unable ta Hudson River City today after ap1 yor ror ] oh - s : ¥ x Til: aa iL, Oi TION R COM= wet into ‘the courtroom milled parently exploding in midair ee 5 the hurricans . . z in Since the Nrican®. impound the corridors, shouting for A searching party found a man Hib he Mv Rr Ral: HE aT ey VIN ENN believed to have been the sole ocrefugees, ‘many ‘hvsterical, had to - y t ‘of ‘ & wat - care for themselves while sll Woman Takes Bench i the plane. H = A here were ‘concentrated against After the Judge completed his nS New Jersey the Hosd. ins ua i Le Trial, ‘the crowd pushed its way clear | MITCHELL FIELD, N. Y.. Sept. . > They wandered through the ‘cit, climbed over ‘tye jury 23 (TU. P.).—A Spokesman safd today were u water. dazed, homeless, carrying cats, ‘dogs. chairs, tables and that Army headquarters here hag There were 100.000 refu- chickens, ducks and bundles of finally filled ‘every foot of ‘the large ho information regarding the crash i'n L ’ ELE Clothing court room. of an airplane at Hudson, N. Y. He gees, Chev Judge Baker attempted to address said ‘Capt. M. 'C. Harper, who had N y rah v sheltar at + Stat ital bn NERY et Node. 3 Ot ’ 5 . PN , x The threat of disease and SC at the S ate Capital. the crowd on taxes, but his words left Albany to Tx to Mitchell Field, 5 : . % " he hurricane’s toll in ‘this state were drowned by ‘the roar of the Was overdue and his whereabouts Tamine hung ‘over Thousanas (Continued on Tage Three) (Continued on Page 28) had not been reported. of refugees Rhode Island, : SEE the state worst hit by the hurricane Which tore &cross Long Island and wp through

resid a I'eS1aeT Soviet Warns Poland

At Praha the mew Government adopted a firm attitude. President Benes appealed to ‘the people to maintain oder and to put their faith in the defensive ability of the 'militaty. Czech soldiers moved back: into Sudetenland sectors previously

taken over by Sudeten Free Corps men and ieporied a long series of

enelrcode. gies Right ES honak to ‘the bench,

nae? box, stood ‘on

stragmed th for food and

WATERS INUNDATE DOWNTOWN HARTFORD:

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Connecticat New York New Hampshire New Jersey \'ermont Quehee 4 Estimates of New England property damage ranged as high as £300,000,000. Whole communities had been wiped (Continued on Page Three)

TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES

RES «o.vnns 15 Jane Jorden iy “ 18 Johnson ircle ony 14 Wiovies one UCLA | AT NES. Penguson Oomies 30 Obituaries ... Crossword RN Pagler Clirrious world 8h Pyle Eaitorialk ... 18 Radio : Fashions 51 Nis. Roosevelt Financial 81 Serial Story Fivnn 18 Saciety Forum _ 18 Sports 25, 2, 2 2 Grin, Bear It. 80 State Deaths. on IREDIS ove 10, Wiggsm while

ins Of & yi building, one of struck,

destroyed by fires in New An air of the floodxd riverfront and downtown: section of Martiord, ty re |

France Strengthens [Frontier Fortifications | PARTS, Sept. 28 (U. P). (put its German frontier defenses at maximum Strength today learning that a hitch had occurted in the talks between Prime Nhinister {Chamberlain and Fuehrer Hitler at Godesherg. Nir. Chamberlain sought and obtained the approval of the French

Godesherg as a letter—which he sent to Hitler today.

said to include: Army divisions to FBastern Czechotheir subsequent demobilization.

“military” Government. The Government here, it was said

moved to put the Maginot Line at

its limit of sirength at once. Dispatohes from frontier cities told of troop movements throughout

mals and motor trucks.

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France |

after |

Government to a note—geseribed at |

2. Renunciation hy Crechostovakia | of what Herr Hitler called its new |

the night, of requisitioning of ani-

Soviets to denounce their nohage gression treaty with Warsaw Both Poland and RNungary are |Vigotously pressing their demands (that they get a cut of Czech torrie tory hy return of their minorities coincident with surrender of the Sudeteniand to Germany In Rome. tens of thousands praved in the Catholic churches for peace,

WILLIAMSON PREDICTS —

Detroit will beat . . . «+ « Purdue

Butler will stop. . . «+» Ball State

DePaww will defeat . . + « Franklin

At least, that 1s the way P. B. Willigmson has it figured. See his first «of « the - season forecasts on Page 28.