Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 September 1938 — Page 3

"FRIDAY, SEPT. 23 1088

season

Hurricane Death Toll Mounts:

Water Laps at Hartford Dike; Rivers Receding in New York

Threat in Massachusetts

Passing; 100,000 Are Homeless,

(Continved from Page One) out, dwellings swept into the sea, ships wrecked, blocks destroyed, highways and tracks washed out and communication lines severed. The Connecticut, New

Jargest river, and the were brimming their banks and a

flood crest rolled upon Springfield, § two million An army of men labored |

Mass, cracking a new dollar dike. 16 Keep the collapsing.

leaking wall from Authorities had moved 6500 residents from low-lying areas. Authorities hoped the dikes would hold and only a small section of the | ity would be flooded. The river crested at Springherd | at 25.75 feet, one-fourth foot under the disastrous 1936 flood peak. Hartford was next. A flood crest was in the mack, rolled past Nashua, There, tédo, it was believed the dikes, reinforced under orgency conditions, would hold The Connecticut River crest was) at Hartford momentarily and | there was 16 certainty that it would Ot cause a major flood. Residents had been forced to leave their homes and emergency conditions prevailed. In New Jersey, Rancocas Creek rose 14 feet In 24 hours and flooded eight towns. No one was drowned, but hundreds were homeless. In upper

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Mohawk Rivers were ‘ebhbin slowly after passing thei Juring the night. Before the threat passed, ovever. hundreds evacuated Ir Tow-lving sectl of Trav, Waterford, Albany Rensselaer Refugees Main Task presomt were the needs the sufferings of thousands crowded Hy refugee camps in New England, particularly Rhode Island They had no homes to go to because they Nad been wrecked by huniIn Many cases they were on rations Because communications been © partially restored threatened wit disease.

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IN INDIANAPOLIS ON PAGE 10 OF THIS EDITION

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NEW GALE HITS WEST HAMPTO

50-Mite Wind and Raging Of Seas Threaten Colony Already Devastated.

ST : AME You. N. Y., Sépt. 23 A new storm stick this en today, adding peril to the sea Yoh for victims of the hurricane and tidal wave which al"ost obliterated the town Wednesday night. A 30-mi Brought

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Te Wind and a driving rain threat of Mew foods & The stort started carly and comtindd Tor several hours, piling Wp high waves which pounced the devastated beach area. 1 was a shortage of water was being haunled 20 miles Toned. THers were no lights: few telenhones. State troopers gvatrded the that Nad Been cleared d fallen keeping ‘ont Jiehtdeers. Men combed the Heals and Mm vodl THe death toll was 19 Nad Been missmg Tor 36 Hours, sine? the Battering Winds and great tidal Waves swept mn the Atrantic Tt Was feared Host Of them were dead. m all, 49 wert known Goad ang 36 were Missmg nM the région of New York City, Which Tiong Tslanad adJoins and supplies With an expanse of ‘open, beaches for summer homes and resorts From West Hampton eastward £0 | té the tip of the island of Gebris was almost unbroken x the ‘casualties AY families ang their

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SAS Hartford, the CAPITA]. Aad Other towns ang the conpectictt River, Crest awe at HATIOMG Where 500 men were sands baging the dyke. Approximately S000 176s MOVER Ont Of SRetions of ford QRATTRIed I SOROS aroifes. Rea Clogs, State Health Department $00 National | GUATATHYSR Myantai orden At Midaletown, 150 families eae: ated Nom OXWIANGs ang taken to ATIOTY. WaT VRteIans pation shies No @Mectiie power in Myddietoxn and MOST Hartrord No canitation 00d wolst Stick town eared GbE Dom streets Fires Slatted BY the Duin caned as Meh Gamage as the Wind Twenty mhTRSTng ANG All foaled Goad. Hos Pitals Aled With Miuied. No water He ERCHTeItY, Ne TeNPhone Levies

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Dead, 3. Niiksing $8 Homeless D000. Wath Hampton, Summer play RIOUNE On TONE RRE and vidi: ty hares hit, with 19 Gead Seene of Gettiction extends © MINS along Death Where Raycnheys Hl Bunting 28 Rated dead Nm ORGS hosed Light and watery Service suspended and drinking Water REWRE to Suivivers. Niany paTahal estates dactioved. Fashion: able West Hampton Beach Club WERE at MOIeYe New York City, wheve wings ate ASE Only ll gale FOIee, Coumts 10 ead. Fue Rand, south of Long roland, evacuated after me COHARR WHOOKed and Wo Kkilhad. Nnlk short age thicatened Mm New York City as 1oadt WO fAiW artes remained ber

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Refugees Streaming Into Connecticut Capital Impede Relief.

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Iwas 55 dead, 20 missing, thirty y million dollars damage. The river was lapping at the tops lof the sandbags. A rise of another | foot was predicted before it crested [this afternoon. | Policemen and foremen had gone through the South Side during the (night, rapping on every door and calling: “leave your homes at once, | thee dikes may go. Some refused to

Yeave. They

{ moved to the second and then to

the third Roors of the larger houses as the waters rose. Authorities were too busy te force them out. The water was seeping in through leaks in the dikes, and i some places was only 50 feet from the main street. Scoras of business and residential blocks were under several feet of water. The city was without lights in most districts, Trolley service was suspended and trains were available only to the West. Highways were blocked by fallen trees and communications were out to many nearby towns which were devastated by {the hurricane.

New Dondon Hit Again

{ From New Iiondon, where for three hours Wednesday night fire, hurricane winds and tidal waves rageq at the same time, came re- | ports of new devastation. Three detachments of Nt Guardsmen, sailors from the London submarine base and Gonst| (Guardsmen maintained order and aided the mined and homeless. | Governor wilbur I. Cross ok [AN emergency meeting of the of all State departments ana je stricken Cities to plan relief Ae for Hartford, Willithantie, New Pondon, Rockville, Stafford | { SPrings, Putnam, Gla {ton, Thompsonville, Saybrook and | Norwich. | Army Engineers were coming here

from Providence, R. IT, and national | Red Cross officials from Washing |

ton to help supervise the rehabilitation | Engineer Saves Train

| communications finally estab: lished with Norwich by short wave | radio brought the report that the | tons business section was @estroyed, that the community was without electric gorvice and that the AS Supply was 16%, Fishers Tsiand off New ondon yeMAnNed cut off and Stafford Springs’ only connection With the World Was an eight-inch plank bridge over a roaring stream At Stonington, 4 Quick-thinking engineer savéea more than a score of passengers on the a YorkBoston train of the New Haven RAI08A from possible Goth, Harry aston was easing his train 4 trestle when he felt the WNdAtions sag. He sent word back | for the passengers in the ast Ue coaches to move forward transfer ha@ just been Competed when the thiee ears plunged thon BS the trestle

SPRINGFIELD DIKE CRACKED BY FLOOD

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Inundated, Prisoners, Guarded in Gym.

SERINGF! SD, Nass. The food © River surged Springfield todas TRG-MITTTON “dolTal and rolled on conn ATthotgh bagged the

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nactient Noth Bia dike, toward Hartford,

WPA workers Teaking wall, National Gatasihen outed out 3300 oecupants. They Waie QUuartered in Private homes, hotels, schools and public Buildings Some 3000 occupants of the South HA Wee ErAChAted Previously As steels were Wwn@er rout eet of water Stidres awellings, 1% ChWTehes and the county Mil were ROGAE. Prisoners were quartered WHART heaty guard in the Id EyMmnasium THE Her 1eathed a peak of 2575, TeAINed at that Rva for four | hous, and then began to op STO The 1936 Rood crest was 26 feet Protectdta By the North md dike, Ue Main Business eetion Still was Ary. FeCthie power still was une

sand

toning Except in Nill weetions, whee |

Wires Were Bown Gown Gay's hurricane. Storm damage 10 the City Wat estimated at two mil Ton Collars, mostly Dom the huis cane From Holvoke came word the Springdale dike cracked hom SNA 0 end ast night, Mbuing tee Women DAES prevented its coliapwe. Nove than 1500 jecidents weie evasuated Prevident Rowell Gray Ham of Nount Holvoke Collese in South HAdRY announced that the Duy Cane TAG Camel only Minor damage 1 colleee huiddings No students were mined. Clases continyed

in Wednes-

DRCKEI By @Gebris Propeity damage 30 million dans

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Dead, 13. Nhssing 20. Homeless 2500. Flood crest of Meivimack River patted Nashua without causing Seve Gamage, but 2000 yeddents had been evacuated hom low-lving sections. Some huiricane-wieeked communities still olated=—metably Canaan wheie a dam MOOAed part of the town. Governor Francik P. Nurphy ap-| Pealed © President Roowevelt for Federal financial assistance. saving it Was necessary 9 “restore ow States life © normal” Property Gamage ostimated at 20 million QolaNs

NEW JERSEY

Dead, 3. Homeless, 1000 Fight ows around Mount Helly thieatened by rising waters of Rancocas Creek. Mount Holly nas four feet of water in sheets ORSERVE 92D BIRTHDAY Nie Satah EB Billings yesterday celebrated the 92d anniversary of Dey Dirt. —_— yeeeived Ee at her home, 381 © Washington Biv

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES |

U.S. Agencies Speed Relief To Retugees

WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 (U. P) —Government agencies spurred relief aid to stormstricken New England eities upon receipt of American Red Cross reports that 60000 families are homeless in the devastated area. With river floods adding to suffering, Red Cross headquarters reported 75 field workers on duty in the region The Federal Surplus Relief Commodities Corp. notified Rép. Citron (D. Conn) that additional supplies are being sent to Connecticut sufferers. Red Cross headquarters veported Hadley, Mass, had been ev apuated because of flood waters and that T7000 Hartford, Conn. residents had been removed to safety becanse of the expected flood crest of the Connecticut River later today. The Works Progress Admin= istration said Administrator Hopkins will confer with President Roosevelt on the storm situation and will then hold a conference with New England governors, probably Monday in Boston. Acting Administrator Aubrey William announced more than 100.000 relief workers are now at work in the area with additional crews going on the job hourly. Dr. Williamh de Kieine national medical director, left Washington to check health conditions with authorities in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island

MOUNT HOLLY'S DIKES OVERFLOW

Residents Flee to } to High Land; Eight Central New Jersey | Towns Paralyzed.

MOUNT HOLLY, N , Sept. 23 (U.P) =—The Rancocas River went out of its banks across central New | Jersey today at a 14-foot flood stage that paralyzed eight cities and towns Residents fled to higher ground Stores, homes and Factories were fAooded to the second stories. Ans cient structures, many dating from colonial days, threatened to ¢ol-

{ TADS <8. The Rancochs rote 10 fest above the four-foot river retaining wall mere. It Rooded the Dusiness see thon with four feet of water over an area of 24 ¢ity blocks. A gerions water shortage threats ened. Officials urged residents to evacuate. The Red Cross and fire: Men transported food and other supplies to 120 families marooned in their homes

and the Gevernment's Parliaments ary majority. In addition to the conflict in the

| Cabinet, eon Blum, Soeialist lead- , led a party attack on M. Dala= aie the Communists redoubled heir eriticism, and many Radicals ee restive despite official indorsement of M. Daladier by party executives, In order to save the Cabinet, M. Daladier put before each minister who threatened to resigh the argu= ment that the maintenance of unity was urgent. He also warned that he would not resign himself. “he press stressed the disparity (between the moderate British coms= | munigque covering the Godesberg [talks and information given French newspapermen in Germany that in= |sisted the German Army now had

MAGINOT LINE IS REINFORCED

Paris on Alert for News of Godesberg: Cabinet

Tottering. i"

(Continned from Page One)

ficial dispatches from Praha today reporting that German troops had | penetrated Czechoslovakia with the

GEE Fras uu | the right to enter the Sudeten area. Premier Daladier faced protests NOWSpapers were Wnanimous in| as he strove to avert a crisis whieh | | warnifg that France was comm ¢ , the talks between only to the cession of Sudetenlan might eri and after peaceful delimitation of the uehrer Hitler, | frontiers, and would not tolerate a pefticts and leaders of the Gen- single additional concession. fal Confederation of Labor ape 1ne Godesberg correspondent of peated to ‘workers to demonstrate | he Agence Radio, semiofficial Freneh outside factories despite a Governe | NEWS ageney, reported that te! in ment ban on assemblies. | Geten question was completely se Communists and Socialists de<| “hl Leases aid the following] manded that the Government be re- points had been decided: placed by a National Union coali=|" 3 cee upation today of the Sus tion “to return France to firm col-

3 Bal : deten region by the German Army. lective security.” meaning support) 3 gpxehange of populations in cers of Czechoslovakia.

{fain distriets Temporarily, M. Daladier had| 3 Cancelation by interested eouns= saved the Cabinet from collapse by iries (Germany and Czechoslovakia) | dissuading at least six Ministers of all mobilization measures taken| from resigning. during the emergency. A serious conflict threatened both | 4 Application of all among the members of the Cabinet Within ‘ohe Ww ad

measures

Strauss Says:

THe water pumping plant at PemsPerton broke down

knitting mill extinguishing boiler fires and inundated the Albert y Wood tapestry mill. ! The Mount Holly Nrunicipal buiiding was abandoned. A meeting of the township committee was forced adijontn last night when Heed Aters reached the town hall

PANESE STORM

~ WALLS OF HANGSIN

Spans h Rebels Avanos in Gounter-Offensive.

SHANGHAL Sept. 23 (0. BP) Japanese Shock Hoops penetrated | deep nto the outheastern inner defenses of Hankow today and stormed the walls of Hangsin, Chi: nese shonghold 70 miles from the! officially abandoned capital North of Hankow, Japanese moterized units came Within striking distance of Sinyvang on the militayily important Peipmg-Hankew ail: road 100 miles away. The nal phase of the Japansse drive wast: ward to the railioad (fom AnRwe; Provinee had Begun.

Loyalists Admit Two Positions Lost

HENDAYE French-Spanish Frontier, Sept. 28 (UV. P) =Rebels began a counter offensive on the NmanFafa Mont today, redapturing ev: eral heights. A Davalist communigue admitied the loss of two positions. National: | ists said Dovalist dead and wounded | numbered more than 2000 |

7 FEARED DEAD IN FT. PECK ACCIDENT

FT PROGR. Mont. Sept 38 (UB) SEVER An Were missing and feared dead today in the debris of!

Water poured | inte the basement of the Aneoeas!

an carne collapse at FY Peek Dam, the Worlds laigest di Billed

Gam | Albert Stoewey, 23. |

The body ef Park Grove, Mont, alieady had been 100 men

| Tecovered Thioughout the nignt, worked in the marshy soil at the Cam's ede, NOPINg (D yeseue the Missing. Huge wweaichiights played apon the lake and dam © aid the Ree Workers Twenty other workmen injured Mm the collapse weve given frst awd treatment. None was hurt seriowsty. |

CHURCHMAN HITS LEGALIZED LIQUOR!

| ATLANTIC CTY, Sept RN © P)=The Nethoditt unification plan, scheduled to become effective next April 1. was deseribed today at an opportunity to “hammer the |eensed guer tiaffle into oblivion.” | The Rev. Di. Rawin Foriest Hann, uperintendent of the Camden disfret, ld the annual New Jeysev conference of the Methodist Episeopal Church that unification would Dring tozether eight million Methedicts “like a huge burning glass” by meant of which the ohureh cold “turn the white heat of God's ndgment thyone fh these mod eh evils” The Methodists, he said.

“Must hammer the ‘traffic into oMivion.”

CZECH TROOPS

|forces are entering

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GUARD BORDER

New Cabinet Seeks to Keep Order, Denies Sudeten ‘Invasion.’

PRAHA, Sept. 23 (U, P) =Czech troops are standing guard along the frontiers, it was announced officially tonight, and will quell any uprisings. Shortly after the announcement the Government extended martial

law to the distriet of Kaplitz on the Austrian border. The Government, however, denied | officially that Sudeten Free Corps the Sudeten

areas. The announcements came not long after President Benes had iss sued a proclamation te the Army| exhorting it to remember that the] | people depend on the armed forces Hop protection. The President made his appeal as| he yeceived the new Cabinet, headed by Gen. Jan Syrovy, ones=eyed Army Inspector-General, The Cabinet members met President Benes at the Presidential Pal-| ace at noon. They took an oath of allegiance to the President and | Czechoslovakia. The Government! proclamation tol

the

outbreaks houses and other official buildings

people promised that if calm was maintained, “the Government will do all in its power so that the present diplomatic negotiations be= tween Great Britain and Germany will not be disturbed.” Nevertheless, there, were many of fighting. Customs

were attacked by gunfire, official sources reported. In many cases Czech officials were kidnaped. The Chief of the French Military Mission to Czechoslovakia, Brig. Gen, Louis Eugene Faucher, notis fied the French Government today

lof his resignation and placed hime

self at the disposal of the Czech Army, The new Cabinet was as follows) Premier and Defense = Gen, Syrovy. Without Portfolio—Stanislaus Bue kovsky, head of the Sokol gymnastia organization; Peter Zenkl, Lord Mayor of Praha; Hugo Vavrecka, former propaganda Minister, Foreign=Kamil Krofta. Public Works -= Gen. Frantisek

| Husarek,

Finance==Josel Kalfus, Justice==Viadimir Fajnor, Supreme Court President, Interior=-Jan Verny, Governor of

| Moravia.

Schools==Dr, Ogbert Subrt. Railroads=Jidrich Kaminecky. Posts=Karel Dunovsky: Commerce=Jan Tanacek, Unification==Dr, Jan Fritz. Social Welfare == Dr. Viadimie | Horak. Publie

Health — Dr. Stanislav

{ Mentl.

Agriculture=Dr, Edvard Reich.

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