22 Sep 1938
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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1938
Page
1
In Godesberg Hitler presses for concessions as Paris and London watch. Reports say Reich leader may demand the resignation of Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes and seek broader rights for minorities in Czechoslovakia while Chamberlain and other leaders discuss peace terms.
Reports from Godesberg outline Britain's aim for a peaceful Europe through a Czech surrender of Sudetenland. Paris and Prague governments face cabinet revolts and military shifts as Daladier and Benes navigate peace plans, while Hungary Romania and Czechoslovakia weigh minority rights and demobilization. Talks expected to last at least two days amid scattered protests and rising pressure.
President Eduard Benes and Premier Milan Hodza faced pressure to form a new government amid protests against the government’s surrender to an Anglo French plan for Sudeten land. Crowds in Prague demanded a military dictatorship while police tried to contain demonstrations. General Jan Syrovy loomed as a favored successor figure.
Weather bulletin notes generally fair conditions. Tonight and Friday see fair skies with light warming trends. Virginia and North Carolina follow similar patterns with cool to mild temperatures and fair conditions.
London reports a surge of diplomacy as Neville Chamberlain flies to Germany to negotiate with Adolf Hitler over the Sudetenland, while former premier Earl Baldwin visits the king. Anthony Eden and Earl Winterton urge prudence amid mounting criticism and perilous global tensions.
Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain met for the second time in a week at Godesberg to seal a peace plan by redrawing Czechoslovakia. The talks followed a formal arrival, escorted processions, and signs of German demands as British and French leaders faced new proposals.
Major General Oscar Westover and his personal pilot Sergeant Sam Hynes died in a crash near a residential area. Brigadier General Arnold became acting Air Corps chief as three inquiries begin: army board of inquiry led by Lieut. Col. Burwell, a federal civil aeronautics authority review, and an inquest set for Monday. Roosevelt sent condolences to Westover's widow.
Czechoslovak soldiers and police began retreating from the Sudetenland toward the language frontier as Germany prepares to annex the region. Sudeten free corps, organized by Konrad Henlein, entered from Germany while all remained orderly. Reports say only tanks moving toward Eger caused excitement, but they were exiting the territory. Crowds celebrated as evacuation spread.
Ten masked bandits ambushed a Marseille Avignon freight train, wounded a crew member, and seized 395 pounds of gold ore en route from the Belgian Congo to Belgium. They loaded two crates into a car and fled, the ore worth hundreds of thousands of francs.
The Tennessee Valley Authority announced seven equipment contracts valued over 350000. Newport News Shipbuilding will supply an 80000 horsepower hydraulic turbine for 268830 for the Hiwassee plant. Woodward Governor Co. charges 26240 for governing system. GE supplies step down transformers for Guntersville yard at 45181. Waterworks filtration equipment contracts go to International Filter 7112 Municipal Service 1165 Norwood Engineering 900 E W Bacharach 760.
In New York on September 22 cotton futures fell as October liquidation and hedge selling continued. Dec contracts declined from 8.03 to 7.94 by midafternoon with a 3 to 5 point net drop as traders awaited European developments.
The New York metropolitan area endures a tropical hurricane with 110 to 120 mph winds. At least 29 dead and hundreds missing amid widespread damage across Fire Island and Manhattan. Power outages, stalled subways, and mass wreckage follow. Coast guard led relief efforts with planes and cutters. 40 missing persons reported. state police continue searches.
Governor Carl Bailey denounces the practice of paying officials a fee upon misdemeanor guilty pleas as wrong in principle. A state police inquiry cleared J. C. Cherry prison farm of peonage charges but found no justification to pardon 72 prisoners from four counties. The case arose after a Helena attorney urged freeing inmates at the Cherry plantation, arguing they faced bondage-like labor.
GODESBERG Germany September 22 Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain discussed changes in the map of Europe for more than three hours and agreed to resume talks tomorrow. PRAGUE September 22 President Eduard Benes said he did not fear for Czechoslovakia as Europe undergoes regional changes. BARCELONA September 22 Spanish government army volunteers and other foreigners are expected to depart the trenches and return home by the start of the new year.
Moscow’s assessment in Prague dispatches shows the Soviet press lamenting the European outlook. It notes Czechoslovaks offered little gratitude for Soviet help and expresses a somber mood in Moscow about regional dynamics.
President Roosevelt orders Navy Coast Guard and Civilian Conservation Corps to provide aid along the northeast coast. An army of 2500 coast guardsmen and Red Cross workers mobilizes to rescue and relief efforts with patrol planes surveying damage from Long Island to Maine.
Cape Cod suffered a vast toll from the hurricane with 17 dead and seven missing as relief efforts reach Buzzards Bay Woods Hole Wareham and Falmouth. A three person household perished when a house washed into the Cape Cod Canal. A Boston Globe staffer’s staff and others were among the victims.
Samuel R. Howell says Johnson City residents may withhold tax payments in protest of a tax-rate increase from 2.70 to 3.00. He accuses the city commission of funding political debts by hiring friends, urging strict economy in city operations.
The Public Utilities Commission approved the three way merger of East Tennessee Light & Power Co Tennessee Eastern Electric Co and Tennessee Realty Co to streamline holdings and lower electric rates in Johnson City Bristol Erwin Greeneville Elizabethton and nearby towns Economies tentatively estimated at about twenty five thousand dollars with further reductions expected as consolidation proceeds.
A New York dispatch recalls how September hurricanes travel from the Caribbean yearly. It lists major U S. strikes from 1926 Florida to 1932 Alabama and Cuba, with death tolls and damages including 370 dead in 1926 Florida, 85 million dollars in Puerto Rico, and multiple regional blows.
The hurricane's toll neared 250 dead across Massachusetts Rhode Island New York Connecticut New Hampshire Vermont and New Jersey with vast property damage and widespread homelessness. Rescue efforts mobilized coast guards Red Cross and volunteers as floodwaters and fires cripple communities from Cape Cod to Long Island and Ontatio border.
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