It struck Long Island and moved up the Eastern Seaboard at a speed of 47 mph. Maximum wind gust were 186 mph with 50 foot high waves.
It came at a time when Americans were slowly digging their way out of the Great Depression, but even so the unemployment rate jumped significantly.
It was also the year Orson Welles broadcasted his adaptation of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds on the radio and it creatied a nationwide panic when some listeners believe that aliens had actually landed in New Jersey.
In chess news, Samuel Reshesky went undefeated and won the US Championship a half point ahead of Reuben Fine who lost two games. I.A. Horowitz and Isaac Kashdan tied for the U.S. Open Championship.
On the international scene the AVRO tournament that was held in the Netherlands was a double round-robin between the eight strongest players in the world. Paul Keres amd Reuben Fine tied for first ahead of Botvinnik, Euwe, Reshevsky and Alekhine, Capablanca, Flohr.
The South American Championship took place in Montevideo, Uruguay. Alekhine finished first a point and a half ahead of Carlos Guimard.
Hungarian born Mary Bain (1904-1972, 68 years old) scores a nice win in the following game. One rainy night in 1938 while driving home in the rain from the A.F.C. Congress (the forerunner of the U.S. Open) in Boston, Bain, Mrs. Raphael McCready and Miss Edith Weart, were involved in an accident in which they struck a telephone pole.
Mrs. McCready suffered minor injuries, Miss Weart was pinned under the car and sustained a fractured shoulder and Bain fractured a vertebra. She was in a cast for eight months and was bedridden for much of the time and occupied her time playing correspondence chess.
Bain was Women's World Championship Challenger in 1937 and 1952 and was awarded the WIM title in 1952. She was the first American woman to represent the U.S. in an organized competition. She was also the U.S. Women's Champion from 1951 to 1953, losing the title to Mona May Karff.
This game is a very nice win over Zenas Leslie Hoover 1876 – 1963) who was Secretary and later President of the Correspondence Chess League of America (CCLA). He held a patent for one of the first versions of a flashing traffic signal. He died of heart attack in Montoursville, Pennsylvania. Hoover got a passive position and his poorly defended King went down to a pretty sacrificial attack by Bain.
Mary Bain–Leslie Hoover1–0D02US Continental Jubilee corrUSA1938Komodo Dragon 3
E04: Open Catalan 1.d4 d5 2.f3 f6 3.c4 e6 4.g3 c6 5.g2 dxc4 6.e5 b4+ 7.c3 d5 8.d2 b6 9.e3 9.e4 a5 10.e3 0-0 11.c2 8d7 12.xc4 xc4 13.xc4 xd2+ 14.xd2 e5 ½-½ Rotstein,A (2533)-Korneev,O (2559) Arco
ITA 2003 9...0-0 9...8d7 10.e4 e7 11.c2 0-0 12.xc4 xc4 13.xc4 e5 equals. Gaehwiler,G (2408)-Livaic,L (2572) Katowice POL 2022 10.e2 8d7 10...d6 11.xc4 xc4 12.xc4 b6 13.b4 b7 ½-½ De la Fuente Gonzalez,F
(2190)-Barria Zuniga,D (2423) Villa de Aranjuez 2009 10...a5 11.xc4 xc4 12.xc4 b6 13.a3 a6 equals. Kravanja,A (2028)-Titan,M (2117) Graz AUT 2010 11.xc4 d5 12.0-0 xc3 13.bxc3 e7 14.e4 Although black has no
weaknesses on his K-side white's greater space and black's cramped position
hints at what is coming. b5 15.e3 a5 16.fd1 a6 17.e5 b4 18.c4 c8 19.g4 White is ignoring black's Q-side activity and this move
should have allowed black to fully equalize. Bets was 19.a3 b6 20.ac1
At this point white's advantage is minimal, but black now misses an equalizing
tactical shot. c7 After this passive move white gins the advantage. 20...xc4 21.xc4 xc4 22.xc4 White has a B+N vs R+P but her pieces are the
more active and black's c-Pawn is a greater liability than white's d-Pawn. 21.e4 cd8 The losing move. Black is in dire straits after 21...Rfd8 but at
least it would have given his K an escape route. 21...fd8 22.f6+
...and wins! xf6 Taking with the P would have been even worse. 22...gxf6 23.g4+ h8 24.exf6 g8 24...xf6 25.h5 25.h4 g6 26.fxe7 e8 27.xg6 fxg6 28.f6+ g8 29.xe6+ h8 30.g5 mops up/ 23.xh7+!
xh7 24.h5+! g8 25.exf6 Black could safely resign at any
time. d7 26.fxg7 f6 27.h8+ f7 28.h5+ g8 29.gxf8+ xf8 30.f4 b6 31.d5 Opening up the position even more. cxd5 32.cxd5 e5 33.h6 f5 34.c6 b5 35.g5+ Black resigned. It's mate in 3. A nearly flawless game by Bain. 1–0
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