Hurricane Stricken Area Death Count Nears 500 and Flood Waters Recede
The Associated Press reports the hurricane death toll in the North Atlantic nears 500 as floods recede and relief efforts surge. Connecticut and neighboring states battle widespread damage with thousands displaced, and a billion-dollar damage estimate looms amid rescue and recovery operations led by Red Cross and WPA crews.
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North Atlantic
Massachusetts
New Jersey
New York
New Hampshire
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Hartford
Clash Averted as Czechs Halt Sudeten Advance Near Frontier
In Asch Sudetenland tension eased after Czechoslovak troops withdrew one mile east from Ober Lomma, leaving patrols on the highway to Tirschnitz. Sudeten Germans, armed and in barricades, remained along the Eger Asch road as Prague ordered retractions of local agreements and a government set up at Eger was displaced.
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Melvin K. Whitefeather
Asch
Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
Thezechoslovak
Tirschnitz
Ober Lomma
Franzensbad
Eger
Konrad Henlein
Republic
Prague
Haslau
Army Plane Crashes Toward Hudson River Marsh
An Army observation plane crashed in a marsh at Mt. Merino New York two miles south of Hudson halting the New York Central line. Searchers found a wing fragment near the marsh while efforts to reach the wreckage were blocked by deep water. Officials feared the aircraft, overdue since takeoff from Albany with Captain at C Harper piloting, carried only one occupant.
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Hudson, WN. Y
Mt. Merino
New York Central Railroad
Mitchell Field
Albany
At C Harper
Known Dead In Hurricane Area
The Associated Press lists the death toll by region in the northeastern hurricane area. Rhode Island reports 247, Massachusetts 112, New Jersey 2, Quebec Province 2, totaling 483 fatalities.
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Associated Press
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Quebec Province
Canada
Total
Hitler Demand Breaks Talks Over Sudeten Crisis
Paris reports that at the Godesberg conference Adolf Hitler demanded immediate German occupation of a zone in the Sudeten region and refused any decision on the broader Sudeten issue until France and Britain agreed. He would leave frontier demarcation to Germany France and Britain and promised an international panel to fix the line if his terms were met. The Hitler envoy’s note to Churchill was described as provisional with a fuller reply promised later.
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Paris
Havas
Adolf Hitler
Chamberlain
Germany
Sudeten
Czechoslovakia
Hitler
France
Britain
Fuehrer
Japanese Drive Toward Linyang in Hupeh Theater
Chinese dispatches report heavy fighting along the Yangtze banks and near Macheng as Japanese forces push toward Linyang 100 miles north of Hankow to sever Peiping’s rail link to the capital. Japanese losses and casualties are described amid air raids on ships near Kiukiang.
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Shanghai
Linyang
Hankow
Peiping
Yangtze River
Hupeh
Macheng
Troops on France Frontiers Placed in Positions of Alert
France orders frontier troops to alert positions amid talks between Chamberlain and Hitler. Frontier engineers and mobile guards prepared near Thionville, with about 400000 on the Maginot line and anti aircraft batteries manned facing Germany Italy and Spain.
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Edouard Daladier
Chamberlain
London
France
Maginot
Germany
Italy
Spain
Soviet Poland tug of war over Czechoslovakia warned
Moscow warned Warsaw that Poland risks nullifying the Soviet Polish nonaggression pact if troops invade Czechoslovakia. Diplomats saw possible Soviet leverage or restraint, with observers split on Red Army capacity to wage large foreign war.
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Moscow
Soviet
Russia
Poland
Czechslovakia
Vladimir P. Potemkin
T. Jankowik
Two Executed by Gas at Raleigh
Two African American men, Tom Linney and T. J. Jefferson, were executed by gas at the state prison in Raleigh for the murder of Herman Fogleman in Forsyth County. Linney died at 11:07 following a 14 minute gas administration. Jefferson’s execution began at 11:09 and he spoke prayers and pleaded for his soul. Witnesses included Winston-Salem police officers and Forsyth deputies. both bodies were claimed by their families.
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Raleigh
Tom Linney
T. J. Jefferson
Forsyth County
Herman Fogleman
State's Prison
H. H. Wilson
Linney
Wilson
Fogleman
Felda Hightower W
Hin Dea
Jefferson
Winston-Salem
J. H. Lee, Jr
J. ©. Dooley
C. M
Godesberg talks stall as Chamberlain meets Hitler aide
At Godesberg a British envoy met J von Ribbentrop while Chamberlain sent a letter to Hitler and postponed their talks. Henderson and Wilson left the hotel to join the German officials amid fears the talks may break down over Sudetenland tensions and demands for concessions.
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Paul Schmidt
Hitler
Chamberlain
Petersburg
E.S.T
Henderson
Sir Horace Wnlson
von Ribbentrop
Godesberg
Fuehrer
Sudetenland
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Italy
Virginia Gayda
Roosevelt appoints Preston Delano as comptroller of the currency
The White House announced President Roosevelt named Preston Delano of Massachusetts to the post of comptroller of the currency succeeding J F T O Connor who resigned to pursue the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in California. Delano has five years in government service and currently serves as a governor of the Federal Home Loan Bank System. He was formerly general manager of the Home Owners Loan Corporation.
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Washington
White House
Roosevelt
Preston Delano
Massachusetts
J. F. T. O'Connor
California
Stephen Early
O'Connor
Delano
Federal Home Loan Bank System
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Litvinoff Signals Soviet Willingness To Aid Czechoslovakia
Maxim Litvinoff told the League of Nations in Geneva that Soviet Russia might volunteer to aid Czechoslovakia but insisted help cannot be forced as a duty. He affirmed Russia's position on Article 16 and pledged to support Czechoslovakia if France fights to defend it under their pact.
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France
Czechoslovakia
Malvy
Eric Phipps
Georges Bonnet
Foreign Office
Geneva
Maxim Litvinoff
League of Nations
Soviet
Russia
League Assembly
League
Litvinoff
Prague
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WPA
Harry Hopkins
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National Red Cross
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Fla
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Great Britain
Sarvestia
Soviet Union
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