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REVERE BEACH, FLA—POWER LINES HIT BY HURRICANE—An emergency crew of electri
cal workers as they tackled the job of repairing a high-voltage power line which endangered
the highway after the violent hurricane snapped a pole at its base.
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This is a scene along the debris-littered beach at West Palm Beach early yesterday eve
ning after the storm passed over. Palm trees were blown down and many highways were blocked
to motorists. ,
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Communication Lines
In Florida Still Out,
But Travel Resumes
fty lh# Associated Preil
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 18 -
South Florida, lashed by a vicious
tropical hurricane, remained iso
lated lor the most part early today
insofar as land communications
lines were concerned.
Transportation into the storm
bufTeted strip across the lower end
of the peninsula, also halted yes
terday, was being resumed to some
points. Reports from the interior
Of the State and from the lower
west coast, however, remained
sparse.
The situation briefly:
Telephone—Service on the east
coast as far south as Fort Pierce,
57 miles north of Palm Beach: on
the west coast to Tampa, but inter
ruptions from there south to Ar
cadia, Sarasota. Fort Myers.
Telegraph-Lines out below Ti
tusville, 46 miles south of Daytona
beach, on the east coast and below
Tampa on the west coast.
Trains—Resuming normal sched
ule of departures for east and west
coast points, including interior
areas. Incoming trains expected to
get through but probably will be
late.
Buses—Service down the east
coast halted at Daytona Beach and
no vehicles coming through from
the south. West coast runs were
stopped and resumption of sched
ules uncertain.
Planes—Eastern Air Lines and
National Air Lines dispatched their
first flights since Tuesday night to
Miami. Service to west coast and
Tampa still halted.
Hurricane
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spots and citrus and vegetable
growing farmlands alike With winds
up to 120 miles per hour. Damage
still was uncertain, but promised to
run into manv millions of dollars.
10.000 Flee by Train.
Ten thousands persons fled by
train and automobile from their
homes in the flood-menaced muck
lands around Lake Okeechobee—
terrified lest the storm repeat the
1928 catastrophe in which 1,500 were
downed by w'ind-blown water.
Early today 5,000 refugees were
clustered around Sebring. And the
Red Cross called on the Navy at
Jacksonville to send food for 15,000
meals. Upward of 200,000 others in
the hurricane's path found haven
during the frightful night in emer
gency shelters near at hand.
Coast Guard and Army planes
were criss-crossing coastal waters on
both sides of the peninsula today,
searching for small boats which
might be in distress.
Ferocity of the storm w as generally
regarded as equal to that of 1928,
1930 and 1935. but unlike those hur
ricanes, there was only negligible
loss of life. Early reports indicated
one man fatally injured in a high
way accident near Tampa, an
other was electrocuted by a fallen
W'ire at Palm Beach, and one was
shot to death in Miami while at
tempting to loot a damaged store.
In 1928 a total of 2,500 persons
were killed or drowned in the West
Palm Beach-Everglades area, while
in 1935 a storm killed 500 in the
Florida Keys. The 1930 disaster
took 2,000 lives in Santo Domingo
and Haiti.
Rea Cross disaster experts and
local city officials credited improved
weather forecasting, stringent build
ing codes and general public aware
ness of hurricane danger with pre
venting an appalling death toll.
Heaviest damage w'as suffered by
j citrus growers and truck farmers,
orange, grapefruit and lemon groves
I in the storm's path wfere devastated.
Tomato fields were mashed and
other crops cut to pieces, even far
to the north, citrus damage was
considerable.
Millionaire resort spots also suf
i fered. At Pompano, just north of
Miami, two luxurious estates and a
big casino were said to have "dis
appeared into the ocean." leaving
only their plumbing. Elsew'here
roofs were peeled off, windows shat
tered, trees leveled and beach ca
banas carried aw'ay.
Okeechobee Dikes Hold.
Conditions in the Okeechobee dis
| trict were reported serious, but#tlie
multi-million dollar dikes held
! against pounding lake waters and
spared the lowlands.
Palm Beach, Miami, Fort Lauder
dale, Fort Myers and hundreds of
smaller communities were mauled
mercilessly' by the storm, but al
though they suffered heavy damage
in many cases, there were no catas
trophes.
Many hours later there was no
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i on strap, left in taxi bet. Union Station
land Star Building last Friday. Sept. 12
Reward. Call TE. 1220. —20
j UMBRELLA, yellow plastic, at lunch at
Lansburgh’s Tuesday, will give price of
finder. Box 407-E. Star. —10
! WALLET, in cab or in vicinity of Harring
: ton Hotel; contains only papers valuable
; to owner. Reward. Call HI. 5721. —18
WATCH, iauy's. Gruen. with black band:
i sentimental value. Call NA. 7074 before
ft- TA. HP4P after 5._—IP
WRIST WATCH. Crosby. m»tal case and
band. Deale Junior High School Play
grounds Sept. II: reward. EM. 2040.
FOUND.
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medal, found or 3500 block of Center «t.
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Some of the 1,500 hurricane refugees from Lake Okeechobee, Fla., who were herded into a 32-car freight train shown leav
ing the train at Sebring yesterday. —AP Wirephotos.
D. C. Red Cross Lists
Numbers to Call for
Hurricane Area Data
The District Chapter of the
Red Cross announced this aft
ernoon that Washington area
persons seeking information on
friends and relatives in the
hurricane-stricken area should
call the chapter's home sendee
department.
Telephone numbers are Re
public 8300. extension 760, and
Republic 5275, Extension 125.
A spokesman explained that
with communications blacked
out in many Florida cities, Red
Cross officials are depending on
Army, Navy and Coast Guard
communications, as well as
amateur radio operators for
disaster information.
direct wire communication with
Bradenton, Clearwater, Sarasota,
Fort Myers, Fort Pierce, Fort Lau
derdale, West Palm Beach and
Miami.
Yesterday’s hurricane scattered
havoc and hardship from shore to
shore. Still with its uncounted mil
lions of dollars of damage, it appar
ently spared the rich and populous
lower peninsula the wholesale dev
astation that had been feared.
Terrific losses were suffered by
the citrus growers with their $100,
000,000 crop and the vegetable farm
ers of the fertile Okeechobee muck
lands. Citrus groves heavily loaded
with fruit were reported smashed
down in sickening destruction.
Millionaire resort cities, citrus
groves and vegetable farms alike
were raked by tremendous winds In
their 150-mile course from east tc
west coast. Trees, plants, less se
cure buildings and other property
were battered by blasts up to 12C
miles an hour.
The earliest report of widespread
damage came from Fort Lauder
dale, where Karl Reiser of the
Red Cross reported 27 buildings,
some of them small, were destroyed
and 188 damaged. Mr. Reiser said
only one person was injured. He
added that the Red Cross had
sheltered nearly 5,000 from the
storm but that these were returning
to their homes.
Eleven persons were stranded In
two disabled vessels in Gulf coast
waters. Aid was hurried to them.
Six persons including three chil
dren and an 86-year-old invalid man
were reported missing from sea
swept Cape Florida Just south of
Miami The Coast Guard ordered
a search for them by plane and sur
face craft at daylight.
A hurry appeal for food and other
supplies for 5,000 refugees at the
inland town of Sebring was radioed
to the Navy at Jacksonville by tfie
Red Cross. These were among those
who fled northward from the haz
ardous Okeechobee region. Tht
Red Cross message said:
“We expected 1.900 but the. train?
brought'over 5,000. Food for 15.00C
meals is urgently needed. ’
Donnelly Succeeds Corrigar
AsU.S. Envoy to Venezuela
Sy th« Associated Press
President Truman has accepted
the resignation of Prank P. Cor
rigan, Ambassador to Venezuela
who will become political advisei
on Latin American affairs to the
United States delegation to the
United Nations.
The White House said Mr. Tru
man has appointed Walter J. Don
nelly, now Ambassador to Cost?
Rica, to succeed Mr. Corrigan fn
Venezuela.
Mr. Corrigan has been in the
American diplomatic service since
1934. He served as Minister to El
Salvador and Panama before going
to Venezuela January 20, 1939.
Mr. Donnelly has been in Costa
Rica since June. He has served
eight years in various diplomatic
posts, including Brazil, Peru and
Panama. Before that he was in
foreign service for the Commerce
Department.
Honorary citizenship in the repub
lic of San Marino was conferred on
Abraham Lincoln in 1861.
100 Radio'Hams'Here
Organized to Contact
Hurricane-Swept Area;
Up to 100 amateur radio operators
in the Washington area were being
j organized today to open their wave
j lengths to Florida’s stricken hurri- j
j cane regions in case other means [
! of communications fail.
The service is being directed by I
I Donald McClennor. of Beltsville,
Md., for the Washington Radio
Club—the "ham’’ organization in
! this area.
Meanwhile, about six of the
Washington amateurs are keeping
| their receivers open all day to aid:
[ the American Red Cross in receiving j
[messages from the devastated areas.1
1 No personal messages are being sent
1 by radio from here,
j The job of the local “hams” is to
i pass on information relayed by
Florida amateurs to the Red Cross
or residents here.
Operators on duty most of last
night reported that several times
they asked Florida "hams” fori
Washington messages, but got “no j
message” replies.
Mr. McClennon explained that the
Southern “hams” have organized a
Florida emergency network, which
has been in operation where other i
i Florida communications have failed.
! With their private, low-power gaso
line transmitters they relay mes
sages to each other and, eventually,
j to normal communication areas.
1 Another “ham.” Maj. Burke Ed
wards of 302 Lynn drive, Chevy
Chase, Md., told of hearing many
first-hand reports of the heavy
I property devastation during the last
! two nights from the Southern5
; broadcasters. At times the broad
casts suddenly died, indicating thatj
the tremendous winds had put the
stations out of commission, he said.
“But our big job is to keep out of;
| the way and keep our receivers
open," Maj. Edwards said.
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Social Worker Needed
I :
In Court, Judge Says
“At a loss" as to how to handle the
lease of a 51-year-old deaf woman
{charged with vagrancy, Judge Ar-,
mond W. Scott yesterday deplored
the fact that public aid agencies,
here do not assign social workers
to the courts.
“The court needs assistance from
qualified workers to take care of
vagrants who are unable to take
care of themselves,” the judge de
clared.
I “People like this defendant are
blameless, even though they are
i technically guilty," he added. “I feel j
helpless trying to act alone in a!
case like this.”
The defendant was Mrs. Elizabeth
M. Kudlow, who was found living in |
| an empty Capital Transit Co. re
'pair shack near Georgia and Alaska'
{avenues N.W., according to Pvt. W.
A. Schubring of No. 6 Precinct. The,
II policeman testified he disliked
{“hounding” the woman and said he
{only wanted to help her.
! Judge Scott continued the case
to Monday after asking Andrew
Thomas, lawyer appointed by the
court, to investigate and to offer a
possible solution at that time.
The Welfare Department said to
day that Mrs. Hudlow is on relief
rolls, but has not received her check
for September. Officials said she
aserted a relative had put her out
of her house and that when they
offered to place her in a home for
the aged at Blue Plains she refused.
The department said it did not
have sufficient help to assign work
ers to the courts.
Palm Beach Loses Trademark
As Winds Level Royal Trees
By Hal Boyle
Associated Press Staff Correspondent
PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept, 18.—
If there is sadness in the death of
trees, then Palm Beach is a sad
place today.
Boarded and empty, the stately
homes of this winter social capital
of the Gold Coast still stand in
tact, blit its pavements are littered
with the corpses of famous fallen
trees.
They are the royal palms known
to millions of American tourists—
tall, slender trees that take the
wind as gracefully as a bending
sail.
Now they lie like granite road
blocks across Royal Poinciana and
Royal Palm boulevards—two of the
world’s beautiful streets. They are
down by the hundreds and probably
thousands, beaten to earth and up-;
rooted by winds whirling at more
than 120 miles an hour.
The hurricane struck in full power |
yesterday against Palm Beach, a 12- ]
?quare-mile sea emerald linked to j
the mainland by three causeways.
The island is valued on tax rolls
it $63,000,000. '
most mansions suu t loseci.
But few of the millionaires who!
come here to rub elbows with multi
millionaires were in their mansions, j
still shuttered and closed until the
winter season. Palm Beach is pop- I
dated chiefly by caretakers, police
men and firemen. No lives were lost
here.
A predawn motor tour of the
oattered island this morning found
t locking pretty much like a dowager ;
with her hair caught in an electric
trier.
Every side road was blocked with i
trees. The car lights were blinded
at times by heavy rain squalls. High
velocity winds sent torn palm fronds
skittering across black pavements,
teserted except for police patrols.
Worth avenue—the “Fifth avenue”!
of society shoppers here—was!
tightly boarded and only a few
windows in its store fronts were
U. S. Named to Assist
Indonesia Settlement
Ky th« Associated Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 18—The
United States was chosen today to
serve with Australia and Belgium
an a three-member United Nations
commission to assist in negotiating
a settlement of the Dutch-Indo
nesian conflict.
The selection of the United States
was announced in a joint statement
bv Premier Paul-Henri Spaak of
Belgium and Dr. Herbert V. Evatt
Australian Minister of External Af
fairs.
They said the United States had
agreed to serve on the commission
Its'creation originally was proposed
by Herschel V. Johnson, deputy
American delegate in the Security
Council.
The commission is authorized to
broken. Winds had ripped dowr
the bouganvillea vines and they
rose and fell lilke disturbed snakes
Green coconuts rolled crazily in the
streets like bowling balls on a spree
Everglades Club Safe.
A flashlinght gleaming spectrally
on the Spanish-type Everglade;
Club, whose members must have
blood bluer than blue, showed nc
signs of damage to that haven oi
the social elite.
But the erosion of wind anc
waves, although sparing both ol
the business sections of Palm Beach
caused considerable destruction on
the island section facing seaward.
"It will take several days to learn
the full extent' of the damage,'
Frank H. Young, police desk ser
geant, said.
"Most of the clubs have lost their
bathhouses. The bathhouse north
of Palm Beach pier is gone and the
pier itself is in bad shape. So is
Ocean boulevard.”
scenic noan namagea.
The sea for years has been un
dermining sections of this famous
coastal scenic drive. Patrolman Ed
J. ‘Williams said heavy waves
crashed over the sea wall and lit
tered the boulevard with boulders
and cracked the pavement in a
number of places. The mansion of
former Ambassador Joseph E. Davies
which cost millions is in this area.
Tree-blocked roads prevented ap
proach to many estates and to the
Bath and Tennis Club and the
Sun and Surf Club, two exclusive
retreats which were reported to have
lost many beach cabanas. The Ever
glades golf links and the Palm
Beach Golf Club looked like a series
of salt water duck ponds.
Money built the fabulous homes
and playgrounds of Palm Beach and
money can repair the hurricane
damage to them. But it will take
years to replace the ruined royal
palms cut down in a few hours along
the stricken thoroughfares they
once made green with a beauty that
became a Palm Beach trademark
remembered by every visitor.
: offer its "good offices" to the Dutch
and Indonesians.
Rail Passengers Increase
Railway passenger miles in the
United States reached a peak of
42,676.579.199 in 1918 and a low of
16.340.509.724 in 1933 hut rose to a
new peak of 95.549.090.472 in 1944
under ■wartime pressure.
Iraq Plans Rural Movies
i Iraq will send motion picture
sound trucks into agricultural com
munities to promote a program of
health and sanitation improvement
Seeking New Connection
Advertising Executive. Formerly copy
chief sizable New York agency and
account executive on two of worlds
largest, businesses. Entered Army
Private; exited Major. Broad selling,
merchandising and public relations
experience. Currently radio station
promotion director.
Evening Stor—Box 168-D
Milan Spanish Consulate
Bombed by Five Cyclists
By th* Associated Press
MILAN. Italy, Sept. 18.—Milan
police said today they were looking
for a man who bicycled up to the
Spanish consulate last night with
four other cyclists and tossed an
Italian-made hand grenade at the
building.
There was no damage, and no
one was hurt. Witnesses said the
grenade-thrower shouted “Down
with Franco, Spain's ruin.”
L'Unita. the Communist news
paper, said it hoped the men would
be found, declaring that the action
was “counter-propagandist" and
“provocative.” and adding: “It is
not by launching hand grenades in
Milan that one can fight Franco.”
Hurricane Refugees
Returning to Homes,
Red Cross Reports
American Red Cross headquarter*
here reported today that thousands
of refugees who have spent one .or
more nights in Red Cross shelters in
Florida were now streaming back
to their homes in the wake of the
hurricane.
In Dade County, which include*
the City of Miami, close to 20.000
persons were fed and housed over
night by the relief organization
which had set up shelters in strong
buildings, schools and churches.
A spokesman said the Red Cross
had received no reports of deaths or
serious injury as a result of the
storm. However, crop and property
damage was heavy.
Three Areas Hit Worst.
Reports from disaster workers in
dicated the worst damage was suf
fered by Delray. Pompano and Boca
Raton.
In St. Lucie County, high water
produced by heavy rains drowned a
large number of cattle, workers re
ported .
The Fort Pierce area reported "tre
mendous'' citrus and tomato crop
damage.
A trailer camp at Hialeah in Dade
County was said to have suffered
I Hundreds of telegrams to the Red
.Crass from persons seeking informa
tion on friends and relatives in the
stricken area were flown by air to
Miami this morning and were being
processed there. The messages could
not get through yesterday because
of blacked-out communications.
Okeechobee Area Escapes.
A Red Cross worker reporting on
the situation in the Lake Okeecho
bee area said conditions were not,
critical and that, damage was held
to crops and roofs of homes.
The American Automobile Asso
ciation, meanwhile, announced here
that all highways in Florida south
of Sarasota. Sebring and Vero
Beach were closed until further
notice.
The Red Crass said it had given
shelter to 1,500 persons in Fort
| Pierce, 975 in Martin County, which
includes Stuart, and 750 in Indian
River County.
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BRACELET, flexible, with woven gold wire
lost Wed. afternoon between 13th and
11th on G st. n.w . or in Murphy's: keep
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COCKER SPANIEL. black-white-brown,
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GLASSES, bifocals, in soft leather case;
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GROCERIES—7 lbs. cheese. 12 lbs. beef.
5 lbs. bologna, ige. jar mayonnaise; re
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PACKAGE, lost on 7th st. between Kann's
Dept. Store and Lansburgh's Dept. Store.
containing white gloves._WO. 4733._
PURSE, lady's dark blue; vie. Columbia
rd and Mintwood. with change purse,
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RING. Masonic inscription: lost vicinity
5th and Kennedy n.w. or Ga. ave. and
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6UITCASE. labeled Cunaid White Star
Line H. containing lady's dresses and
child* clothes, between Jefferson Village.
!%118 Church. Lee bivd. and t’nion Sta
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SUITCASE, man's brown canvas, containing
several suits, etc., porter's tag 124. may
be letters in pocket (Lindfors Fort Lau
derdale- Florida': Sept. 10. 7:30 am.
at Union Station Statler Hotel or another
hotel; by a Diamond rab Reward Call
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