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Labor Board, Defense Program, Under Fire
<fo <?> — ? 1
jURKE CALLS
INLRB MEN
10 QUIT POSTS
iivate Bankers Oppose
U, S. Loans to Utilities
for Expansion
OBSTRUCTION SCHEME
AID UNAMERICAN'
WAS;il\'(iTU.V. Nov. 26. (UP)
fcit,: : :: a \ebr., critic of
* MP.H suggested that
i'r::
' resign at once.
<: ^ • v relations could be
or: : ..ru-w aea:ii." he said.
• : «.• J.c:.us: a bitter senate
Ip^viT i:ie confirmation ot Don
i board mem
r ::i-! < are Chairman
Madden and Edwin S.
By MACK JOHNSON
ited Press Staff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, N '• 26. (I'P) |
rruto hankers art- • >sed to
it part ot Presiden: Roosevelt's
Ksot:a. ilt : r-'Cra::: which
jb for federal loans to utilities
r expansion of nationwide inte
!»tion. Wendell L. Wlllkie, presi
m\ of Commonwealth Jc South
Op.. declared yesterday,
le made his statement shortly
concluding two days of tes
f before the joint congres
c >mi: tree ;nv-.'<t:gat;ii_ t!.
feiawAe® Valley Authority, dur
which he condemned new deal
rer rate "yardstick" and Pub
Works Administration utility
struction policies as "cruel,
dttl. and unAmerican."
_ Inkers had written numerous
Ifcty executives that they were
■tided to make the loans for the
p&mi defense power plan, he
i Mr Roosevelt's plan envis
ts loans by the Reconstruction
lace corporation.
!it projrram calls for new con
fine n costing more than $1,
WB.OoO. with the federal gov
Hnut pottiaff up an initial
JSiOOO.OOO and a?«istine the pri
(onpanies in obtaining addi
-J capital elsewhere.
Tie bankers wrote that if the
■J are to be legitimate they
bbanks) should have them, and
tie utilities are being forced
» » position of accepting illegi
te loan*. it is time for the gov
_i«t to change its policies,"
l'_< e
Jiriier. an acrimonious dispute
in the committee when ,
p^er.tatives Thomas Jenkins,'
Ohio, and Charles A. Wolver
R.. X. J., accused the group's
Francis Diddle, of at
r-rii? to wrest information
■ WLkie that could be used by
T'A m efforts to purchase the
lessee Electric Power Co., a
nonwealth subsidiary. %
testified that in figuring
r price such factors as costs
•CQuisition, unrecouped sales
_ Motion costs, unrecouped in
costs, and the value a^ a
concern should be consid
*»Qt that David E. Lilienthal,
! "'Wtor. held a different
IV. COSBY
!IMAY
kident of Several Years
Here Exp ires Friday
Night in Asheville
J3HEVILLE. Nov. 20.—Char-1
[V Cosby. 69, died at his
here la. t nit?ht. Funeral ser
P* *'^l be held at the Brownell
^: -home Sunday af
rJ®on at :i o'clock.
U<iy »vill be taken to ;
CT'"'0r'-. L. , for burial. Mr.
fyy is survived by his widow.
t:',: lcV- ars he resided in
vinjf at the Am
PWor apartments.
®IS0N SUPPER "
AT M. i. CHURCH
AT 7 P. M. MONDAY
i*,r /• riison supper of
f.J" '.uss of the First
r. A ill be held on
al ? o'clock in the,
'he church. As in
Reese killed the
^ "s with him on the
T f a ' H. B. Kelly and
:xor' All men of the
^ are invited, 1
FRESH CREWS THROWN INTO
BATTLE AGAINST CALIFORNIA
FIRE IN PERIL AS WINDS SHIFT
FIVE MILLION
PLAN 24-HOUR
FRENCH STRIKE
Premier Is Expected to Dis
solve French Com
munist Party
PARIS. Nov. 26. (UP)—Pre
j mier Edouard Daladier today con
ferred with high military com
| manders and it was believed he
was pi-eparing strong measures to
suppress increasing labor and left
wing protests against his "reform" j
decrees.
More than five million workers
will cease work for 24 hours Wed
nesday in protest against decrees
which suspend .the 40-hour week
and the levy of taxes which hit
hardest the working class.
Premier Daladier was reported
to be considering dissolution of
the Communist party after the
powerful General Confederation
of Labor ordered its rive million
members to stage a nation-wide
general strike Wednesday in pro
test against the government's new
labor decrees.
With unauthorized sit - down
strikes spreading throughout the
nation and already involving morel
than 100,000 workers. Premier
Daladier used troops, police and
all the powers of his new decrees
in an effort to crush labor's revolt
and save his government from]
overthrow.
Kailroad workers tieu up an >
suburban trains in the Paris re-'
gion for a half-hour last night,
resulting in several arrests.
The railway workers, who will i
join the Wednesday strike, were
joined by sympathetic suburban
ites who shouted:
"Down with Daladier! Down
with the decree laws!"
Daladier conferred with General
Bourret, commander of the Paris
military district. General Decamps,
chief of the military cabinet, and
police authorities, indicating that
he was prepared to call out the
armed forces to cope wth general
strike paralysis.
Coincident with the labor con
federation's call for a 24-hour
general strike in protest against
the government's extension of the
40-hour week, the Socialist party
led by former Premier Leon Blum
issued a demand for Daladier's
resignation.
The Socialists, who comprise
the largest single bloc in the
chamber of deputies, decided in
emergency caucus to withdraw
from the Popular Front majority,
upon which Daladier has been de
pendent.
With the Socialists and Com
munists demanding his overthrow,
observers doubted whether the
"salvation premier" could remain
in power more than 30 days.
Faced with a 24-hour general
strike paralyzing the nation, Dala
dier took action designed to in-'
sure normal functioning of all
public utilities, railroads and serv
ices, either by mobilization of
(Continued on pasre three)
Fire Wipes Out
Tiajuana Block
Second Loss of Kind in the
Recent Past
TIAJUANA, Mex., Nov. 26—
(UP)—Fire that destroyed a full
block of this historic border town
was brought under control last
night.
Flames that raced through dry
wooden buildings caused damage
estimated by Fire Chief Jose Le
mu* at $500,000.
Regular firemen and volunteers
finally were able to check the
blaze in an alley and save the
postoffice, the telegraph agency j
and the American hotel. All other j
buildings in this area were de
stroyed.
Within two hours the blaze
swept through the cabaret district
bordered by Second, Third, Main
and Revolution streets.
All telephone communication!
was disconnected.
Equipment was rushed in from
San Ysidro and Chula Vista, a;
few miles away.
A similar fire razed a city block
in this historic border town sev-(
era] months ago.
Brush Blaze Remains Oui
of Control; Seek to
Save Homes
By LEO BARON
United Press Staff CorresDondeni
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26. (UP)
Changing winds hampered fire
fighters last night as they strug
gled to control a roaring brusl
fire which was attacking with new
savagery two canyons leading tc
palatial homes of movie stars anc
millionaires.
Fires already had swept the
Santa Monica mountain?, destroy
ing several hundred homes anc
cabins.
With unpredictable winds blow
ing first one way and then an
other. the ftre spread through drj
brush in Sullivan and Mandevillt
canyons just north of Sunset bou
levard between the exclusive resi
dential districts of Bel-Air and
Brentwood.
Fresh men were sent to aug
ment crews headed by Fire Chie£
R. J. Scott stationed at the two
canyone. Most of the reserves
were sent to the head of Mande
ville canyon, at the lower reach of
which stand the homes of Shirley
Temple and W. C. Fields.
Leaping out of Rustic canyon,
where firemen last night made a
losing stand, the flames crept over
the ridge into Sullivan and then,
carried by a shifting wind, roared
on into Mandeville, where firelines
were hastily re-formed.
Scott, worn from more than 48
sleepless hours, summoned an ad
ditional 100 men in an attempt to
repel the new danger.
Elsewhere in the southern Cali
fornia area, where brush fires had
raged for nearly 72 hours, the
situation was described as vastly
improved with most blazes under
control. Reports were denied that
Crestline village, in the San Ber
nardino mountains, where nearly
1,000 residents and refugees had
faced repeated threats, was men
aced anew.
Estimates of total property dam
age ranged up to $6,000,000.
In the Santa Monica mountains,
the fire was burning briskly over
a seven-mile front after earlier
denuding more than 10,000 acres
extending west to the ocean. Chief
concern was felt along the south
east front because of its proximity
to Brentwood, Belair and West
wood.
The swirling flames were a
source of constant peril to the men
fighting them. Deputy Chief Hen
ry R- Boone and 40 men were en
circled in a tract already burned
over between Rustic and Su'livan
canyons. Capt. Verne Howard and
five men were trapped at the bot
tom of Rustic canyon and had to
climb out on ropes dropped to
them from above by rescuers.
As the fire whipped into Rustic,
three homes lav directlv in the
path of the flames. Thev were
the residence of Stephen Gosson,
screen director; the mountain
lodge of Chester Unh?m, wealthy
oil man. and a small farm house.
The homes of Fields and Shirley
Temple, lying farther south to
ward Sunset boulevard, were not
immediately endangered, although
vans were ready to emptv both
residences at a moment's notice.
Earlier reports that the homes
of Madeleine Carroll, blonde Eng
lish star, and Director Frank
Lloyd, had been destroyed, proved
erroneous.
CONDITION 0F MRS.
HOSMER IMPROVED
Mrs. E. Hosmer of the Bellevue
apartments, who has been in Pat
ton Memorial hospital for several
days suffering from a bronchial
infection, was somewhat improved
in condition this morning. Mrs. E.
W. Ham, a daughter, of Pocomoke
City., Md., arrived here this morn
ing with Dr. and Mrs. L. B. Mc
Donald, who spent Thanksgiving
with Mr. and Mrs. Ham, to be
with her mother and sister, Miss
Ruth Hosmer,
FRIDAY
Maximum temperature, 39 de
grees.
Minimum—20 degrees.
Range—19 degrees.
Precipitation—.01 inch.
RESUMING BROADCASTS
Rev. J. Harold Smith, evangel
ist, will resume his radio broad
casts from station WSPA, Spar
tanburg, on Tuesday at 11 a. m.
POPE PIUS IS
RECOVERING
FROM ILLNESS
Body Wracked by 2-Year
Malady Withstands
Heart Attacks
SITS UP, RECEIVES
CARDINAL PACELLI
ROME, Nov. 26. (UP)—Vati
can City officials today reported
that at 6 d. m. this evening Pope
Pius had spent a quiet afternoon
and quoted him as saying, "I'm
quite well."
ROME, Nov. 26. (UP)—Pope
Pius XI is recovering rapidly from
a series of heart attacks, which
for many hours put him close to
death. The rugged constitution of
the Pontiff brought him through,
however.
Today the Vatican announced
he would resume normal activities
after several qays of rest. He
spent a calm and V-estful night.
This morning he\ was permitted
to leave his bed and sit in an arm
chair. He then received Cardinal
i Pacelli, papal secretary of state,
but no other audiences will be
granted until he has fully recov
I ered.
By RALPH FORTE
United Press Staff Correspondent
VATICAN CITY, Nov. 26.—
(UP)—Pope Pius XI slept serene
ly early today, according to an un
impeachable source, after he had
received the last sacrament of the
church, extreme unction, which is
. administered only to those who j
are believed to be near death.
Lorenzo Cardinal Lauri, head,
confessor of the church, adminis-1
i tered the final sacrament when he
called upon the supreme pontiff
Friday morning and received from
i the holy father his personal re
quest that the anointment with
holy oils be performed.
Information from Vatican City
at 2 a. m. today was that the pope
was sleeping peacefully after his
; personal physician, Prof. Aminta
' Milani, had given him new injec
tions of camphor oil.
A Vatican informant said that
"the situation in the Vatican is
entirely normal."
A bedside consultation shortly
before midnight was said to have
, revealed a fluttering of the heart
more serious than of early eve-!
1 ning and those close to the 81- J
year-old pontiff feared that he
i might be suffering in his last ill
ness.
His body wracked with the heart
attacks he suffered late Thursday
night and again early Friday when
he collapsed after morning mass.
The pope's personal physician,
Prof Aminta Milani, remained
throughout the night at his bed
I side or in an adjoining room,
realizing that everything depend
ed upon the heart resistance of
his patient, Enfeebled by the two
! years of illness.
A slowing down of the heart
overtaxed by years of hard work
I as the spiritual father of the1
world's Catholic devout was noted
j by Prof. Milani when he examined
, the pope at 8 p. m.
At 9 p. m. and again at 11:30
Prof. Milani and Prof. Venceslao
I Bianchi, famous heart specialist
(Continued on page three)
BOMB SO. AFRICj
NAZIS CUT OFF Jl
WILL ASK ROO:
<S
President's Offices in Get
ting So. American Homes
To Be Asked
JOHANNESBURG, South Af
rica, Nov. 26. (UP)—The syna
gogue at Benoni, near Johannes
burg, was partially wrecked by
^ombs last night in an anti-Sem
uic demonstration.
The bombing was believed to be
inspired by the discussion of send
ing German Jewish refugees to
South Africa.
BERLIN, Nov. 26. (UP)—A
new decree virtually cutting Jews
off public charity rolls last night
threatened to force thousands of
them into labor camps and road
gangs to perform "useful work"
under a plan being formulated by
Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph
Goebbels.
The new decree, announced by
Minister of Interior Wilhelm Frick,
revealed that indigents among
Germany's 700,000 Jews after
they have paid a S400.000.000 col;
lective "fine" and $200,000,000 in
riot damages assessed against
them must denend upon Jewish
charities. Jewish wealth already
has shrunk 50 per cent since No
vember 10.
Only in casifs where Jewish
charities are unable to aid will
German public welfare organiza
tions grant "a minimum of assist
ant," it was announced. Any al
low*" r%. received from Jewish
charities will be deducted from
public welfare doles.
At the same time the Reich stu
dent leader cancelled all loans to
Jewish students by educational or-,
ganizations and served notice that
outstanding loans must be repaid
within two weeks.
PARIS, Nov. 26.—(UP)—A
request to President Roosevelt
urging him to approach several
South American nations with a .
view of providing homes there for!
many of Germany's 700,000 Jews
was reported today to have been
decided upon in the Anglo-French
diplomatic consultations Thursday
in Paris.
United States Charge D'Af-!
faires E. C. Wilson visited For- j
eign Minister George Bonnet at
the foreign office a few hours af-1
ter British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain and Foreign Secre- j
tary Viscount Halifax departed]
for London.
Chamberlain and Premier Ed
ouard Daladier were said to have
discussed in detail during their
five hours of consultation, feasi
ble means of resettling Germany's
Jews abroad, including suggestions
for establishing colonies in South
America, and these were outlined
to Wilson by Bonnet.
Chamberlain was said to have
warned Daladier that unless
France puts her house in order
and builds airplanes and other •
armaments as fast as Germany.
and Italy, the London-Paris en- j
tente may be in a critical position
of inferiority by the end of 1939,
inviting further demands by the
dictatorships.
Chamberlain was believed to
have been alluding to Hitler's col
onial demands, shelved in yester-!
day's consultations because both i
premiers realized that public sym
pathy for Germany's Jery in
France and Britain would not
countenance any colonial conces
sions to the Reich at this time. j
Hull Has Hurried Conference With
Wilson Before Sailing For Parley
Latin Envoy's Baggage Missing, Departure of States
men for Lima Delayed Nearly an Hour
By JOHN M. VEBBEK
i United Press Staff Correspondent
! NEW YORK, Nov. 26. (UP)—
Headed by Secretary of State
Cordell Hull, the United States
delegation to the eighth Pan
American conference in Lima,
Peru, last night sailed aboard the
Grace liner Santa Clara after Hull
had conferred briefly on German
conditions with Hugh R. Wilson,
American ambassador to Berlin.
Wilson, who was summoned
home by President Roosevelt for j
special consultation on the Nazi
racial and religious persecutions,
reached the Santa Clara just be
fore sailing time. He had arrived j
shortly before from Germany i
aboard the United States liner i
I Manhattan, from which he was
j removed by special cutter, rushed
! up the harbor to the battery and
then escorted by police squads to
the berth of the Santa Clara..
The ambassador talked only 10
minutes with Hull, giving him on
ly the highlights of the sitlation
in the Reich. More detailed re
ports were reserved for the state
department at Washington and
President Roosevelt at Warm
Springs, Ga. He was expected to
see the president on Sunday or
Monday.
Wilson arrived at the Santa
Clara only 15 minutes before the
vessel was scheduled to sail. Af
ter he had departed and the gang-;
plank was about to be raised, it!
was dsicovered that the baggage 1
of Miguel Lopez Pumarejo, Col
ombian ambassador to Washing
ton who also sailed on the Santa
Clara, was missing. The sailing
was delayed 40 minutes while the
baggage was searched for in vain.
Wilson did not, however, re
turn for a further talk with Hull.
It was believed that Hull's con
versation with Wilson would form
(Continued on page four)
IN SYNAGOGUE;
EWISH CHARITY;
iEVELT'S HELP
SI®
AS TO GERMAN
JEW PROBLEM
Leaves Washington To
night to Lay Facts Be
fore Roosevelt
WASHINGTON. Nov. 26. (UP)
Ambassador Hugh Wilson, recall
ed from Germany by President
Roosevelt for consultation on de
velopments in the Reich, conferred
here today with Acting Secretary
of State Sumner Welles.
Wilson said he would have to
see the President before making
a statement. He planned to leave
Washington by train tonight for
Warm Springs, Ga.
TARHEEL HIGHWAY
PROGRAM PRAISED
WARM SPRINGS. Ga„ Nov. 26.
(UP)—President Roosevelt today
conferred with Marriner S. Eccles,
chairman of the board of the Fed
eral Reserve System. It was as
sumed. that the sneettng- wan in
connection with the formation of
a committee which is to study the
monetary and economic policies.
The President also will see to
day James Cromwell, husband of
the former Doris Duke, tobacco
heiress. His call is in connection
with the forthcoming fund drive
of the foundation for infantile
paralysis.
President Roosevelt, after stat
ing at a press conference yester
day that an increase in private
employment would not necessarily
mean a proportionate decrease in
relief rolls immediately. Friday
s^ent two hours at his pet project,
Pine Mountain Valley resettle
ment development.
The chief executive remarked
that relief rolls would not show
declines as fast as private employ
ment increased, when his attention
was called to labor department
figures showing re-employment of
900.000 persons since last June.
He said that production in most
industries increases faster than
re-emplovment and added that this
situation was a factor of labor
with which the government was
concerned. He explained that the
number of nersons seeking work
was increasing every hour because
of the natural increase in popula
tion.
Mr. Roosevelt believed that
Georgia, his adopted state, would
cooperate with the federal govern
ment in the public works program.
At the previous press conference,
he emphatically stated that Geor
gia would not get another red cent
of federal emergency money un
less it changed its laws so that it
mi^ht share directly in costs of the
projects.
The President hailed the North
Carolina road building program as
one of the most progressive in the
nation. He said that even before
the state's first highways were
completed that adjoinine real es
tate values had increased to the
extent of amortization of the
bonds.
SUITOR SLAYS
NEffYORKER
Rejected Man Then Ends
Own Life in Public
Corridor
NEW YORK, Nov. 26. (UP)—
A disappointed suitor pursued
Miss Marion Wheeler along a cor
ridor in New York Central build
ing, through groups of workers,
cornered her behind a desk and
killed her with one shot.
He then committed suicide in
the corridor.
The slayer was identified as
Jack McNeal, 52, of Yonkers.
Police said McNeal was a widower
and frequently begged Miss
Wheeler, 32, to marry him.
KILLED BY AUTO
CORAL GABLES, Fla., Nov.
26.— (UP)-John Stephany, 57,
Df Newport, Ky., was killed al
most instantly last night when he
was struck by an automobile while
crossing a street here.
Naval Airplane's
Wing Crumbles, 2
Occupants Dead
EL PASO, Tex., Not. 26.—
(UP)—A naval airplane from
San Diego, California, crashed
shortly after the take-off today
at Bigg* army airfield.
Two occupant* were killed
and a third injured.
Aviation Cadet L. T. Rowe,
Machinist Mate C. K. Wise,
both of San Diego, were killed,
and Howard Willis, Filipino
mess -attendant, was slightly in
jured.
The fliers were bound for the
west coast and were up about
SO feet when a wing apparently
collapsed.
LATE WARE
CONFERENCE
CONDEMNED
Alabama Women Demo
crats Want Investiga
tion of Session
! BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 26.
' (UP).—A meeting called by the
I Alabama . Council of Womea'a
; Democratic ■ clubs yesterday con
do«®*d tho r«e«nt eo»
i ferehce for human welfare, whwlh
j awarded a medal for liberal
! statesmanship to Associate Justice
Hugo L. Black, as being domi
nated by "left-wind agitators."
Black and Mrs. Roosevelt were
among the prominent speakers be
fore the conference. Dr. Frank
. Graham, president of the Univer
sity of North Carolina, was nam
ed chairman of the permanent or
ganization formed by the confer
ence to work for solution of the
social and industrial ills of the
south—the "nation's No. 1 eco
nomic problem" to President
Roosevelt.
Yesterday's meeting was at- •
tended by 200 women and men. J
They adopted a resolution urg-1
ing the congressional committee :
investigating un-American activi
ties to "ferret out all the facts ;
concerning this so-called southern I
conference for human welfare,
its sponsors and its financing.'"
Informed of the Birmingham
meeting's resolution, Chairman '
Marvin Dies, D., Tex., of the
house committee investigating un
American activities, said in Wash
ington, that he had "received a ;
number of protests about this 1
conference and we are going to j
look into them." He added the '
committee had an investigator in
Birmingham now.
The resolution condemned Au
brey Williams, National Youth
administrator, and Representative |
Luther Patrick, D., Ala., among
others. Patrick commented that j
those at yesterday's meeting were ,
"unduly excited."
Williams and other speakers at
the conference commented on
Birmingham's "Jim Crow" ordi
nance prohibiting white persons
and negroes from sitting together J
in public meetings. Several for- '
(Continued on page three)
Says His Brother
Suffers 'Empty
Pockets Amnesia';
MEMPHIS. Tenn., Nov. 26.—
(UP)—An "amnesia victim" held
bv Clarksdale, Miss., police since:
Wednesday was identified yester
day as Georere Raney, whose "dis
ease" was classed as "empty poc
kets amnesifl" by his brother.
Lieut. William Raney, of the
Memphis detective bureau, said
the 19-year-old youth was his
adopted brother and "he isn't suf
fering. from amnesia any more
than I am."
"This is about the sixth time
George has pulled the same stunt,"
Lieutenant Rainey said. "Every
time he gets broke or hungry ho
fakes an amnesia or fainting spell.
His idea is to arouse sympathy and
get food and probably money."
A Clarksdale specialist who ex
amined the youth last night said
he could not determine whether
the "amnesia" was pretense.
"If he is faking." the physician
said, "he's the best I ever saw."
Lieutenant Raney said neither
he nor his sister would go to the
youth's aid.
"He doesn't need it," the detec
tive said, "and he's pulled that
stunt just once too often."
OVEREXERTION,
FIRE, CRASHES
FATAL TO MANY
Thousands Are in Distress;
Skies Clear But Traf
fic Impeded
snow storsTone
OF HEAVIEST KNOWN
(UNITED PRESS)
A cold wave today settled over
the eastern seaboard in the wake
of Thanksgiving's snow and sleet,
storm that extended across ha'f of
the nation. Today it had caused
at least 71 deaths.
Temperatures ranged from sub
zero in the Adirondacks ard upper
New England to lows in the 20's
in New York City.
Skies cleared and the wind sub
sided but traffic still is impeded by
ice and snow drifts six feet deep
alon<? the roads.
The coast guard cutter Mendota
rescued the schooner Mars#la of
New York which lost two masts in
a gale off Cape Henry. V*. Twen
ty-flve members of the National
Nautical Academy were aboard
the stricken ship.
Frigid weather added to the dis
tress of thousands of persons who ■
ware digging out one of >th# heavi
est ihbw stormy in hiitort^
Ykwrard an
expected low of If aegfees above
zero during Friday night while
35,000 snow fighters struggled to
clear New York City streets of
drifts six feet deep in places.
Cold but fair weather was ex
pected until Saturday night when
more snow may fall
Snow storms reacmng Drzznra
proportions swept from New Eng
land to Georgia, disrupting traf
fic, clogging highways, endanger
ing shipping causing numerous
auto accidents. Twelve inches of
snow fell in the northeast sec
tion. Snow flurries and freezing
temperatures were reported in the
southeast.
New York City was blanketed
with a 7 1-2 incn fall, the heav
iest for November in 40 years.
The storm was marked by thun
der and lightning, 40-mile an
hour winds an da record low tem
perature of 17.5 degrees early in
the morning.
The toll by states was: N«nv
England, 24; eastern Pennsylva
nia, 11; upstate New York, 11;
New York City area, 11; New
Jersey, 4; Louisiana, 1; Indiana,
3; Georgia, 1; Iowa 2; Arkansas,
1; Alabama, 1, and Tennessee, 1.
Reports last night had listed
four dead in Connecticut—Geonre
F. McDonough, 63, Hartford;
Thomas Wickine, 81, Bridgeport,
and Frank G. Houck, New Brit
ain, all from overexertion, and
John Keating, 65, Hartford, in an
automobile crash.
Two more deaths, reported in
Westchester county, New York,
were Eugene Saunders, 45, of a
heart attack while shoveling snow
in White Plains, and Adolph Mey
ers. 41, negro, who died of a cor
'bral hemorrhage while trudging
hrough heavy gsnow in Green
>ureh. ™
The first sled riding fatality in
;he New York City area occurred
vhen John Brennan, 8, was killed
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^ MAS m tears ago—
America was sending a Christ
mas gift of 10,000 barrels of
flour to Belgian Relief. . . .
Though an estimated l/'OO.OOJ
were out of work in the U. S.
« . . Women's skirts fell to thi*
natep. . . . Bitter debate on
whether the U. S. should con
tinue to send war materials to
Europe. . . . Irving Berlin's
anti-war songs were popular.
• • • Elect/ic autoa ware going
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