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25 Dead, 350 Hurt in Charleston Tornado
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PEACE AGREED UPON
RELIEF RUSHED
TO DEVASTATED
CAROLINA CITY
Troops Ordered
To Stop Looting
At least 25 persons were killed
and mote than 350 injured when
a tornado struck historic Charles
ton, S. C., today, causing property
damage that may run into mil
lions of dollars.
So serious was the situation
. that President Roosevelt ordered
soldiers and sailors, as well as CCC
and WPA workers, rushed to the
scene.
Norman Davis, national chair
man of the American Red Cross,
called at the White House, con
ferred with the President, and an
nounced he would call a meeting
of the Red Cross directors imme
diately to make plans for rushing
relief to the stricken city.
OUT OF CONTROL
President Roosevelt ordered
Federal assistance after Acting
Governor J. E. Harley of South
Carolina had wired him that “the
situation has gotten out of con
trol.”
All sailors and marines at the
Charleston Navy Yard were rushed
into the city to assist in rescue
work.
Two companies of the National
Guard were mobilized and started
patrolling the city to check loot
ing, which was reported to have
broken out.
TRAPPED IN WRECKAGE
Scores were reported trapped in
the plant of the Charleston Paper
Company, and firemen were using
acetylene torches to cut through
the wreckage to rescue the scream
ing women workers trapped inside.
One man wak killed in the an
nex of Sacred Heart Church when
that building was struck by the
twister. Historic St. Michael’s
Church, one of the oldest ih the
United States, was badly dam
aged, while the nearby City Hall
was almost demolished.
One school was reported
wrecked, but because of the early
hout (the storm struck about 8
o’clock this morning) there were
no children in the building at
the time.
SLAVE MART DAMAGED
The old Slave Market, one of
the most historic edifices in the
country, was reported as badly
damaged, and several persons
were killed in that vicinity.
Fifteen big warehouses along
the waterfront collapsed and
many were killed and Injured in
„ that section of the city. The post
office and other municipal and
Government buildings were also
damaged.
All telephone, telegraph and
power lines were down, and the
only means of communication was
by Navy radio.
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International News Photo
COMPOSITE PHOTO OF HOW THE FOUR-POWER MEETING AT MUNICH PROBABLY APPEARED
This Picture, Reconstructed on the Base of the Photo of the First Conference Between Chamberlain and. Hitler Purports to
Show (1.-r.) Premier Edouard Daladier of France; Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain; Fuehrer Adolf
Hitler of Germany, and Premier Mussolini of Italy. Heads of Daladier hnd Mussolini Were Superimposed on Figures of
Others Who Sat in on the Berchtesgaden Conference.
POPE ON RADIO
MAKES URGENT
PLEA FOR PEACE
VATICAN CITY, Sept. 29.—1 n
a voice that seemed choked with
grief, Pope Pius XI today broad
cast a worldwide appeal for
peace and for the “salvation of
the world.”
Speaking from the Vatican, His
Holiness referred to the “immi
nent danger of war” and the pos
sibilities of “unexampled slaugh
ter and ruin.”
The Pope called on the world
to pray for peace and expressed
the hope that the prayers would
give strength to “those who gov
ern” to reach a peaceable settle
ment of the present crisis.
Wife, Child Slayer
Faces Chair Tonight
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., Sept. 29
(I.N.S.).—Henry Noelke, 32, Boon
ville mechanic, who killed his wife
and child in August, 1937, will die
in the electric chair at the State
prison here tonight.
G. 0. P. Selects Dewey
For Governor’s Race
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y.,
Sept. 29 (I.N.S.).—District Attor
ney Thomas E. Dewey, of New
York, today was nominated as the
Republican candidate for the gov
ernorship in the fall campaign.
Tonight he will make a dra
matic appearance before the State
convention to accept the nomina
tion.
Dewey is reported to have dic
tated a plank in the party’s plat
form declaring against political
affiliation with criminals.
(JEhMES
Czechs Meet Hitler Halfway,
Accept British Peace Plan
Regarded Vital
Contribution to
Conference
’ By H. R. KNICKERBOCKER
PRAGUE, Sept. 29 (1.N.5.).
' Determined not to be left be
hind in Europe’s new scramble
for peace instead of war.
Czechoslovakia today agreed
.to meet Reichsfuehrer Hitler
half way and accepted “with
reservations” the latest British
' proposals for gradual Czech
evacuation of the Sudetenland.
An official communique is
sued by the government of
Premier Jan Syrovy as the
Ifour - power conference got
under way in Munich declared
Czechoslovakia “accepted in
1 principle and with reserva
■ tions” the British plan of
! evacuation.
> The British proposal, it was
> stated, was transmitted in the
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This plank, sure to be adopted,
would give Dewey an opportunity
■ to inject the celebrated Hines
: trial and its mistrial climax, into
the forthcoming campaign. Dewey
. recently achieved nation wide pub-
■ licity by his efforts to prosecute
: James J. Hines, powerful Tam
many district leader, on the
charge of having conspired with
the late “Dutch” Shultz mob in
the operation of the 520,000,00-
. a-year policy racket in New York
City.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1938
HOUSE OF LORDS
PRAYS FOR PEACE
LONDON, Sept. 29 (1.N.5.). —The House of Lords
adjourned today until Monday with a prayer for peace.
When the upper house assembled for a proposed de
bate on international affairs, Lord Stanhope suggested \
adjournment with the words:
“We trust that under the guidance of the Almighty
God that the four statesmen at this moment meeting
in Munich will be guided to a settlement which is just :
and lasting and that Prime Minister Chamberlain will
have his tremendous and unceasing efforts crowned
with success.”
U. S. CONFIDENT
OF PEACE PACT
By ROBERT G. NIXON
(1.N.5.), The American Gov
ernment looked from afar on the
momentous four-power peace con
ference at Munich today, with a
quiet confidence Europe has been
saved from a suicidal war, and
with unconcealed optimism that
forces at last have ben set in
motion to guarantee lasting peace.
No American statesman sat
down at the peace table, for the
problems to be settled were those
of Europe’s making, and Europe’s
alone.
President Roosevelt emphatic
ally barred the door for American
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12 MILLION LEFT
FOR FLOOD LOAN
(1.N.5.) The RFC and its dis
aster loan corporation are ready
to make loans for rehabilitation in
the areas swept by last week’s
huricane, RFC Chairman Jesse H.
Jones told Prudent Roosevelt
today.
The loan corporation, capital
ized at $20,000,000 after the disas
trous Ohio Valley floods, still has
$12,000,000 left with which to
make small loans for rehabilita
tion of homes and the like, Jones
said.
Support of America
Backs British Pound
(1.N.5.) Official American sup
port for the British pound was in
dicated today in Treasury quarers.
Secretary Mongenthau pointed
out the fact that the tripartite
currency pact had been operating
“extremely well” during the past
Jew days. Yesterday the pound
I dropped to $4.60 but rose 15 cents
PRAGUE SENDS
‘OBSERVERS’ TO
MUNICH PARLEY
PRAGUE. Sept. 29 (1.N.5.).
Three Cezchoslovak diplomatic
delegates will fly to Munich this
afternoon as observers at the four
power conference, it was officially
announced here. Reports that
former Premier Milan Hodza
would make the trip were denied.
The Czech delegates will merely
act as advisers to the Franco-Brit
ish mission and will not possess
powers to negotiate or accept any
new demands.
Czech Diplomats
Fly After Delay
LONDON, Sept. 29 (1.N.5.).
After being held at the Croydon
Airport here by failure of the Ger
man government to give them per
mission to land at Munich, mem-
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Treasury Condition
(I.N.S. Treasury balance as of
Sept. 27, $3,040,406,373.70: In
ternal Revenue, $3,948,608.05;
Customs Receipts, $25,313,680.63;
Receipts, $1,482,236,256; Expendl
tures, $2,147,949,424.
before the end of the day, indicat
ing that United States support was
provided. Under the currency
agreement, the United States,
Great Britain and France coop
erate in stemming widespread
fluctuations in each others cur
rencies.
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Conferees Report
Full Accord on
Sudeten Issue
(Copyright, 1938. by International News Service)
LONDON, Sept. 29.—Reichsfuehrer Hitler has
agreed to military occupation of the Sudeten
towns of Eger and Asch on Saturday and post
ponement of occupation of the rest of the terri
tory claimed by Germany until October 7, it was
reported in a dispatch from Munich this evening.
By PIERRE J. HUSS
MUNICH, Sept. 29.—“ Agreement has been
reached on all main points of the Sudeten
problem,” a high Nazi official informed this
correspondent tonight as Europe’s momentous
four-power conference in the Fuehrer House
went forward at full speed.
“Details are now being worked out,” the
spokesman continued.
The details “being worked out” presumably will gov
ern the actual amount of territory the Fuehrer may seize
the day after tomorrow.
The spokesman’s announcement was made at 6 p. m. (noon,
E. S. T.), after Hitler had been in private conference with
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Premier Mussolini and
Premier Edouard Daladier for an hour and a quarter.
At that time, Gen. Wilhelm Keitel, chief of the German gen
eral staff, and his assistants were called in for consultation
over maps of Czechoslovakia.
Earlier the statesmen had held informal conversations
for two hours in the Reichsfuehrer’s private study in the
Fuehrer House before adjourning to their hotels for
luncheon and rest.
Premiers Return Smiling
All were smiling and in good spirits when they re
turned to the conference room but the smiles faded
quickly when Hitler, without preliminaries, warned the
British, French and Italian emissaries that—
Come what may, with international approval or not, peace
fully or otherwise, Nazi troops will march into at least part of
the Sudetenland on Saturday,
The problem laid before Mussolini, Chamberlain and
Daladier was to work out some method by which this may
be done without war following in its wake.
Hitler and Mussolini had canvassed the situation as con
cerned themselves thoroughly during a train ride to Munich
from Kufstein, where the Fuehrer met II Duce in a pageant-
like setting.
The sounding out process be-*
gan without any loss of time at
12:45 p. m. (6:45 a. m., E.S.T.),
when after tasty cuts of meat,
tea, coffee and crunchy Bavarian
cookies had been served. Hitler
buttonholed Daladier for a long
and earnest conversation.
Chamberlain got the ear of For
eign Minister Joachim von Rib
bentrop and Mussolini parleyed
with Field Marshal Herman Wil
helm Goering. Close observers
said all faces were long as the
four kingpins finally started up
stairs to sit down beneath swas
tika banners and mementoes of
Hitler’s early “beer hall” days in
Munich in the privacy of his own
study.
There was a growing feeling
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Errol Flynn Gains
In Pneumonia Fight
HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 29 <I.N.S.).
Physicians attending Errol Flynn,
film favorite, said today he had;
shown slight improvement in his
fight against a threatened attack
of pneumonia. Flynn was placed in
a hospital here suffering a strep
tococcic Infection of the throat.
THREE CENTS
DALADIER
PROPOSAL
MUNICH, Sept. 29.—Token
occupation of Sudetenland by
German forces on Saturday
in two of the troubled areas,
Asch and Eger, with occupa
tion of the remaining terri
tory to stretch over a period
of weeks was believed to have
been suggested at the con
ference here today by Pre
mier Daladier of France.
Other proposals submitted
were believed to have been
occupation of the disputed
territory by French, British
and Italian troops during the
proposed plebiscite; that the
Godesberg memorandum be
the basis for future discus
sions and that a new iron
clad agreement with the
major powers guaranteeing
Czech neutrality be adopted
doing away with the need of
forts on the Czech border.