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ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK. ALEXANDRIA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, PAGE IHKtC pATeachersof NEW LAFAYETTE CHARITY HOSPITAL Vernon Baptist Croup Will Meet Near Leesville Man Locked in; Forgets His Floor PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 27. (By A.

Two patrolmen scampered up and down 12 stories of fire escapes on a downtown building, but they weren't chasing a burglar. Harry Rothman, a tailor, telephoned he was locked in but forgot to say what floor he was on. Located at last, he wailed: "What can I tell my wife?" France Answers Hitler by Calling Troops to Colors Cabinet Goes into Session for Survey of Conditions PARIS, Sept. 27 (By A. France has answered Adolf Hitler's threat against Czechoslovakia by calling additional troops to the colors, sources close to the government said today.

This disclosure of the French reaction to Hitler's speech at Berlin last night came as the cabinet was called into session for an urgent survey of the crisis. Some sources predicted the cabinet meeting might result in a call for a special session of Parliament, whose consent is necessary for a declaration of war. Semi-official sources still saw hopes for peace, but such hopes were dependent upon Hitler's easing conditions of his "last definite offer." There were indications that the government wanted to be in a position to act if Hitler carried out his threat to take action if Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland were not handed over to him peacefully by Saturday. Adult HucationM taroieniiiu.a La Sept. 27.

a. teachers of i.cation in RaPides Parish 24 at Glen- fault on KW)i for a one day fc Hlh rf. Nina B. Mo- istitut upcrvisor, directing nf teachers acting demonstration nut ine. wnnifc 3 This was louowea pinners forum on "How to organ- Urt Needlework targe stock of wool yarns.

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Just ask for "An old friend cl the family P5F IV II SITES OFFERED FOR PINEVILLE P. 0. INSPECTED Federal Department Agent on Tour Action in 30 Days Prospective sites for the new Pineville postoffice are being inspected today by Roy H. Caulcy, site agent for the federal postoffice department. Mr.

Cauley arrived in Alexandria yesterday, and with Mrs. Mary Hunter David, postmistress, and F. E. David of Pineville immediately began the insoection tour. Mr.

Cauley advised last night that it would probably be some time Wednesday before the inspection is completed as efforts are made to consider the probable location from every point of view. It will be probably 30 days before definite action on the proposed site is taken. Mr. Cauley will make his recommendations to a joint interdepartmental committee of officials of the postoffice and treasury departments, and this committee will make the final decision. Recently, advised Mr.

Cauley, the committee has been giving quick action to site selections, and rarely is more than 30 days required after receiving Mr. Cau-ley's recommendations before llw definite location is selected. Alexandria Elks Plan Dutch Lunch An "old-time Dutch lunch" will be a feature of a party to be given by the Alexandria Lodge, No. 546, B. P.

O. Elks, at 8 p. m. Thursday for the entertainment of formir members of the organization. Member Elks are being asked by W.

S. Johnson, exalted ruler, and E. J. Ganel, secretary, to "invito, anyone who ever belonged to the Elks anywhere to come. No meetingjust a good time." Mr.

Johnson, who is manager of the local office of Postal Telegraph, has telegraphed invitations to special guests. SHOES DYED Any Color Factory Method Rapides Shoe Repair Shop Phone 359 We Deliver 27 Washlniton St. ize a rural adult in which the entire group participated. Reports on work being done in amerent communities were given by teachers. Those from "cut over" sections reported improved methods in farming due to the cooperation of teacher and parish farm agent.

Land is being terraced and fertilized, winter feed crops planted, and breeding stock bought through community organization. Interesting stories were told of adults learning to read and write. One student of 58 years had just voted for the first time without assistance. Others have learned to read their Bible and write letters. A community house has been established as one place and plans are going forward for reading ciuds ana otner activities, Plans were made for setting up a work shop where teachers will meet to prepare class work and discuss problems arising in their work.

Among the interesting articles of class work displayed were letters written by men and women who have recently learned to read and write; a collection of baskets made of native pine straw and articles of clothing made in the home making classes. Posters and charts emphasized the practical value of using inexpensive materials at hand in all WPA adult school work. Special Service at Church of Nazarene On Wednesday evening at 7:30 a special service will be held at the Church of the Nazarene, 106 Bolton Avenue. Rev. Elbert Dodd of Tulsa, Oklahoma, who is superintendent of the Louisiana District, will be the special speaker.

Rev. Dodd is a very forceful and spiritual minister of the Gospel and all members and friends of the church are urged and cordially invited to attend this ffejy nw till i- rfr If I It 111 mMk ''V The new Lafayette Char- K. wf ity Hospital will be for- I iVs mally opened at a cere- jrrf fa' mony Thursday afternoon, I I ''fcL 1 September 29, at three I jkJ fr SSHJ o'clock at the hospital iyt t- I IjwPa when speakers will include ltuefc Gov' Ricliard w- Lcche fe 1 i Vftiv left). chairman of the Vl I State HosP'tal Board, and tL'V Commissioner of Public A Welfare A. R.

Johnson, Vt' K. wh is director of the 'f- jS board. This is the first of VNtK the regional hospitals plan- JS' A I ned by the governor to 1 give medical and surgical jjr care to ne ncec)y of Lou- LEESVILLE, Sept. 27. (Special) The 34 churches in the Vernon Baptist association expected to be represented at the 67th annual meeting of the association to be held with the Simpson Baptist church, 15 miles east of Leesville, on Friday and Saturday, September 30 and October 1.

Night sessions will be held on both days. With one exception, the Vernon associational meetings have been held on Friday and Saturday before the first Sunday in October for 60 years. Rev. W. B.

Huntsberry of Leesville, moderator of the association will preside at the two-day session. Rei C. T. Bowdcn, a former pastor in the association who now resides at Dry Creek, will give the introductory sermon when the meeting opens Friday morning. In addition to the introductory sermon, the Friday morning program will consist of regular routine The Friday afternoon program follows: Report on children's home, by Sam McKinney, of Gardener; report on christian education by Rev.

C. G. Wells, of Sia-gle; report on W. M. work by Mrs.

E. Davis, of Alco; report on law enforcement by Rev. E. H. Blackburn of LaCamp; report on publications by Van O.

Craft, of Leesville; report on state missions by Rev. E. A. Woods, of Gardener; home missions by Kev. Sherman, of Pitkin; and a report on foreign missions by Rev.

Branch Jeane, of Leesville, Saturday's program will include a discussion of ministerial relief and annunity, led by Rev. J. S. Johnson of Sicper; report on obituaries by Rev. J.

O. Fountain of Burr Ferry, association secretary; report on hospitals by Rev. W. B. Huntsberry, who is a member of the state Baptist hospital board; report on cooperative program by Rev.

R. E. Miller of LaCamp; report on sacred music by Rev. Pratt McCloud, of Leesville, and a missionary sermon by Rev. Sam McKinney of Gardner.

The Leesville church and the local W. M. U. societies are expected to be represented by a large delegation on both days. Lafayette Hospital Opens This Week BATON ROUGE, Sept.

27. (Special) The new Lafayette charity hospital, first completed unit in Governor Richard W. Leche's program to provide free medical care to the needy will be formally opened to the people of southwest Louisiana this week. Medical authorities agree it is a model of modern hospital construction, Attention has been paid to every detail of convenience and necessity in the building or the institution which will be formal ly opened Thursday, September 28 with ceremonies at which Governor Leche, Lieutenant-Governor Earl K. Long, Welfare Commissioner A.

R. Johnson, Dr. J. A. O'Hara, president of the Louisiana State Medical Society and others will speak.

The Lafayette hospital Is a three-story, fireproof building 70 by 203 feet, with a ground floor area of 11,400 square feet, and a total floor area of 31,000 square feet. The Treasury building at Washington, D. was built between 1836 and 1839, and is the oldest of the government office buildings in the capital. Continuing Our Sale of Britain Faces Danger of War Within 96 Hours New Plea for Peace Is Issued; Tri-Power Pact Holds LONDON, Sept. 27.

(By A. Great Britain faced the danger gh A Reed and Barton Fine Sterling Pattern i 3Off Regular Prices Throughout the night telephone and telegraph lines virtually were taken over by the government as orders were sent out to local authorities to call up reservists in dividually. There were no formal mobilization orders such as were issued last Saturday. Authoritative? sources said, however, that France was putting under arms an increasing number of troops to add to the 2,000,000 ready, for immediate action. Advices from the south of France said many troops were being sent to the Ifalian frontier, where an estimated 150,000 were holding mountain passes.

Through the south rolled train loads of troops and guns. Many of these trains carried mountain artillery units and sturdy pack mules. Some sources suggested that the government had not issued further mobilization orders in order to avoid having other nations particularly Italy follow suit. Premier Mussolini declared 'Sunday that mobilization measures in neighboring countries would be met in kind. The quickly changing international situation in the light of Hitler's speech was before the ministers at their meeting with President Lebrun.

The position of France, where wartime conditions were clamped down, was that a day without war was a day in which to work for peace. Should these efforts fail, France would fight, and France's efforts were concentrated on settling the crisis by negotiation. STORM VICTIMS GET AID WITH 110 'RED TAPE' Emergency Appropriations for Region Approved BOSTON, Sept. 2. (By A.

The federal government opened its purse strings wide today to help New England recover from what WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins called "the worst hurricane disaster in any region of our country." Discovery of nearly a score more bodies in Rhode Island sent the six state list of known dead in New England to 478 as Hopkins announced he was "cutting red tape" to permit each state administrator to allocate funds to projects without further administration approval. "Any one of them will be able to do anything I could do," he explained, adding that more than 100,000 WPA men already were at work. As the death toll continued to rise, the. Red Cross announced it expected to aid 60,000 families. HARTFORD, Sept.

27 (By A. Oovernor Wilbur L. Cross summoned municipal officials to an emergency conference at the state capitol today to map a program of relief and restora tion in Connecticut's flood and hurricane damaged areas. Waters inland and along the debris-laden coast of Long Island Sound yielded additional bodies which sent Connecticut's list of known dead to 74. Between and 16,000 disaster victims were being succored by the Red Cross, and official estimates bolstered unofficial tabulations of property loss well above CEMETERY WORKING On Saturday, Oct.

15, there will be a cemetery working at Spring-hill church near Ball, La. On the same day at 11:30, the pastor, Rev. J. T. Garrett, will preach his last sermon at the church for the conference year.

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One You'll Widow Accused of Killing Husband AUBURN, Sept. 27. (By A. Mrs. Viola Penney, a buxom, dark-haired widow offered a reward for the arrest of the slayer of her 52-year-old husband, John, when he was found fatally bludgeoned in his filling station May 19.

Today she found herself accused of the crime. She was arrested last night on a secret indictment. Floyd Hamilton Given 25 Years DALLAS, Sept. 27. Floyd Hamilton, 30, West Dallas "bad man," was found guilty of robbery with firearms and sentenced to twenty-five years in the penitentiary by a district court jury here Monday night after testifying that he was hiding in Caddo City, a mile north of Oil City in northwest Caddo parish, on June 9 when two Dallas men were held up and robbed of their auto, Hamilton was calm when sentenced and told Judge Grover Ad ams "that may be more than I.

can do." During his testimony Hamilton told of his brushes with authorities and declared "they always turn loose the guys who pull the jobs and stick charges on me." He admitted having aided his younger brother Raymond Hamilton who was executed after a criminal career. "That's the man there," A. L. Cody, one of the robbery victims, said as he pointed at Hamilton, Cody said Hamilton was the unmasked bandit who pointed a gun at him and his companion and took his automobile. Masonic, O.

E. S. Party Friday Night Masons and Eastern Stars are being invited, with their families. to a Masonic Temple party on next Friday in the auditorium at 7:30 p. m.

honoring the grand high priest of Royal Arch Masons of Louisiana J. Luther Jordan, and the personnel of his office, with their families. The honored guests will be Mr. and Mrs. J.

Luther Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Derrick, Mr.

and Mrs. Guy A. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. R.

B. Fogle, Mr. and Mrs. J. N.

Aver-ett, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Anderson, Mr.

and Mrs. H. C. Reding, Mr. R.

E. Lee, Mr. W. E. Dee, Mrs.

Treble G. Douglas. Mrs. J. C.

Boring, Miss Hesper McCall. Mrs. Lessie Kelley, worthy matron J. T. Charnley Chapter, No.

197, O. E. Mrs. Louise Walden, worthy matron Electa Chapter, No. 10.

O. E. with L. W. Harris, secretary Masonic bodies, have ar ranged a full evening of enter tainment which everyone will enjoy.

In addition to a program of entertainment, the party would not be a success were it not for Mrs. James F. Thompson, associate ma tron of J. T. Charnley chapter, and Mrs.

C. O. Wilson, associate matron of Electa chapter, being in charge of refreshments. Masons and their families, Eastern Stars and their families are cordially invited to meet the grand high priest and his jurors Served, Forks and Spoons Missing HARRISBURG, Sept. 27.

(By A. A restaurant where a Dauphin county jury took its meals billed County Controller J. Mont- gomery trace for ten forks and three spoons. The restaurant said the eating utensils disappeared from a basket used in serving the jurors. Exhibitors Will Have Banquet Here on Saturday Night One of the largest banquets to he given in Alexandria in many months will be tendered visiting buyers by the Exhibitors Association on the night of Sunday, October 2.

The feast' will be held in the Venetian room of Hotel Bentley at 7:30 in the evening, and the prospects now are that between 150 and 200 mer cantile representatives of Central Louisiana will be in attendance, advised Henry Ingerman, secretary of the association, today. The Louisiana Exhibitors Association will give their third semiannual showing at Hotel Bentley, Sunday and Monday, October 2 and 3, and the entire fourth floor of the hotel has been reserved for the displays. Business representatives from Chicago, New York, New Orleans, Dallas, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Houston, Atlanta, Boston and other large cities will be present with displays of their respective firms. The Exhibitors Association was organized for the special benefit of the retail business men of Central Louisiana, in order to give them, the opportunity of inspecting salesmen's samples from all over the country at one time.

It not only brings these merchandise exhibits together at a given point but offers an opportunity of saving thousands of miles of travel on the part of the buyers. At the banquet Sunday night Mayor V. V. Lamkin will welcome the visitors to Alexandria. Henry Ingerman will act as toast- master and music will be furnish cd by the Chet Steadman band.

Tioga High School Enrollment Is 701 The enrollment of three new pupils Monday brought the enrollment of the Tioga high school up to 701. This is the first time the enrollment has ever reached the 700 mark. Of these 701 pupils, 212 are In high school and 489 in the elementary grades. The school has 22 teachers. The black-browed albatross of the Falkland islands lays eggs as big as dinner plates.

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The next steps appeared to be Hitler's renlv to the note Sir Horace Wilson, Chamberlain's ad visor, took to Berlin yesterday be fore the speech. A broadcast by Chamberlain to the nation. Tomorrow's opening of Parliament, to hear Chamberlain's exposition of the crisis and what he has done to maintain peace. Chamberlain in the after midnight statement said: "We regard ourselves as morally responsible for seeing that premises (to cede Sudetenland to Germany under terms of an English-French agreement) are carried out fairly and fully With all reasonable promptitude. "I trust that the Chancellor will not reject this proposal." Hitler charged that President Benes of Czechoslovakia "now holds in his hands peace or war." London saw in this an ominous sound.

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