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I The Palm Beach ost THUMBNAIL EDITORIAL Friday's hurricane won't soon forgotten years hence they'll still be debating as to which was worse the 1928, 1947 or the 1949 "blow." TED Times TODAY'S WEATHER Partly cloudy, few showers to Monday. Warm. Moderate to fresh southwesterly winds through Monday. VOL. XVI: No.

31 THREE SECTIONS WEST PALM BEACH FLORIDA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1949 SECTION ONE 28 PAGES TODAY PRICE 10 QENTS osses Over $6 Million torm Here -EDITORIAL- INVENTORY The most valuable of human commodities is liberty. Like any other commodity, it must first be produced, then continuously conserved and delivered. Sometimes the extent of Liberty rises. Sometimes it falls. That which most quickly cuts the supply of Liberty is war.

That which most quickly increases the supply is Peace. who deal in Liberty, as we do, should take in ventory frequently. We should keep a constant eye on vv til a our sources of supply. We should never get all our eggs in one basket. We should keep caretut cost accounts, All Agencies Turn To Care Of Hurricane's Victims As Cities Emerge From Wreckage By FRED VAN PELT Post-Times Staff While the Palm Beaches were earing for the needy and cleaning up after Friday night's hurricane, Red Cross, city and county officials were unanimous in the opinion modern weather operations and equipment per- Congressman Here On Survey Rep.

Dwight Rogers and Col. James F. Pearson, Jacksonville, US district engineer, will make a survey of hurricane damage from West Palm Beach and Vero Beach through the Glades area, it was learned last night. Rep. Rogers flew into Miami from Washington Saturday 1 night and will meet Col.

Jackson here this morning. Their report is to be submitted to Army Engineers in Washington. mitting advanced warnings and detailed preparations, played a big part in keeping casualties to a minimum. There were no fatalities and on- bo that we may be sure no monopoly will take over ana channel our. Liberty away irom us.

The Congress has done good work toward this end by its treatment of the military aid appropriations. Slashing that monstrous financial drain, spells out into far more than dollars. If we take inventory of our assets in this area, we unearth some highly expressive facts. IW." i "VMk.i First, it was the House which stepped forth to do com bat against the raiders. It was the House, not the benate Why? Because the House accounts to the people every ly 50 minor injuries reported in this area two years, while the Senate is ensconced for six years.

Best proof of that is, that those Senators coming up soonest for re-election, stood with House members in combatting the ambiguous, vague and costly aid program. There has come into being in Washington a process of circumlocution by which the Congress is by-passed, that the Bureaucrats may usurp unintended but devas "This advance knowledge," said E. Tinsley Halter, Red Cross coun could have been loss of life and much heavier property damage." A Red Cross committee of architects and builders, under Chairman George Votaw, Saturday night estimated property loss in West Palm Beach at J4.224,- (ContinuM on Page 10, Col. 1 ty chairman, "permitted everyone to prepare their properties as best as possible and to seek proper shelter before the blow arrived. Without this knowledge, there tating control.

Just such a Bui as the President military aid proposals, is called into use. It is drawn in such manner as to give color of Law but its deliberate loopholes actually replace Law with powers delegated the Executive. You will see these delegations of power Super Hurricane, Now Less Forceful, Roaring In Georgia TAMPA, UPi The monster hurricane which staggered Florida with a multi-million dollar blow Saturday MIAMI, The US Weather Bureau Issued the following hurricane advisory at 10 pra Saturday: The hurricane, much weaker in intensity, is centered at 10 pm near Valdosta, Ga at latitude 31.0 north, longitude 82.9 west. It is moving northward about 16 to lg mph and curving slowly to the Northeast. Strongest winds in squalls range only up to 50 or 60 miles per hour.

It is expected to accelerate somewhat in forward movement as it moves northwestward. night was thrashing about South Georgia in its death throes. But it was dying hard, flinging out angry winds of 50 miles an hour or better unAf twherever there appears uncertainty of the wisdom ot the proposed Legislature. The inventory taken by the House is a blessing to the Republic. The grab of dollars was bad enough, but the attempted grab of powers was deadly.

The frustration of this grab, is a milepost in the fight to restore our government. It is a detour around the pitfall of slavery. Artfully, the incompetent and the avaricious, laid their trap. Wisely and patriotically, the House sprung that trap, leaving the megalomaniacs, the brief case bandits and the five percenters, as nearly empty-handed as could be hoped. We commend the Congress.

We pray that it may stand strong and fearless. We urge the House vote among our people to join in the sane and long overdue resistance to the mendacious devices of the Square Deal. Take inventory. Count our blessings, as well as our liabilities. That which could destroy the Republic is not in Europe.

It is right here at home. Uproot it. Cast it out. Let the world know that you will Vote, Vole, Vote. Your vote is the inventory of Liberty.

CHARLES FRANCIS COE beating the pine flats with a driv ing rain. The reeling giant passed through Valdosta, about 9:30 pm, after twice raking Florida with maniacal fury. Weather Forecaster George One person was drowned, nearly three score injured and the damage was counted in the millions. The Miami Herald estimated the destruction to property at Some estimates ran even higher. In its march across Florida, the storm mounted winds of 125 miles to 162 miles per hour, raking savagely at 250 miles of the nation's beach resorts.

The 162-mile mark was hit at the Jupiter Lighthouse, 18 miles north of West Palm Beach. At that point the Coast Guard's ane-meter failed. The previous sus Clark at Valdosta said the storm had increased its forward speed and was dissipating its forces Twice the hurricane thundered Ripped Roofs, Broken Glass Litter Resort After Storm across Florida like an apocalpytic horseman of destruction. The first assault was mounted tained reading was 150 miles. from the Atlantic Friday and then, after driving clear across the rich interior of the playground peninsula, it veered north to scour the region around the moss-hung Suwannee River.

Hurricane warnings still were up however, from Carrabelle to Cedar Keys, while storm warnings flapped from Fort Myers to Panama City. the County Sunset Ave. and Bradley Place area, and shop along the latter place suffered. Hardly a section of the resort was without its reports of broken windows, partly torn off roofs, leaks, broken doors, overturned cabanas on the ocean front, partially destroyed walls. Near the extreme East end of Palm Beach Pier, only a gaping Damage At Palm Beach Airport Set At Upwards Of $1 Million Photo bV Sam Qulnrev.

Staff Phntmrmnhpr I Minus i strip of S. Ocean Palm Beach emerged from the hurricane with a littered landscape resembling that of the 1947 storm and countless reports of damage from broken windows and partly dismantled roofs. Telephone calls kept the wires hot as far-away owners sought frantically to check on their properties, and police strove to answer all possible Inquiries, with crews out investigating througout the day. No estimate of the damage was possible, though everything appeared to indicate the majority of large palatial villas, strongly barricaded, came through well. But even shutters failed to protect many of the smaller homes and countless shop windows.

Along Worth alone, 10 cav-in plate glass fronts on shops, all shuttered, were reported by mid-afternoon, while pharmacies in tween tne lanu ot its newlAFTER THE STORM WAS OVER Debris and wreckage littered the lake front at Trinity PI. In the top photo a sunken vacht wallows in' the entertainment facilities, ana tnej churning waters as the wind and rain blow shortly after dawn Saturday morning. Streaks are from the wind-blown rain running over the camera's Iense. Lower photo shows visual proof of the havoc wrought to loeal aviation Interests. Wreckage of 18 planes, mangled when the faim Beacn Aero corp.

west nangar went in fnaay atlernoon winds is shown. Next door the east hangar suffered some damage, and five planes sustained partial damage though nothing like the tangled mass shown above. Both hangars withstood the 1947 blasts. (Additional hurricane pictures on pages eight and nine) By E.MIL1E KEYES Poot-Times Staff Planes both piled in tangled masses and strewn over both sides of the Palm Beach International Airport Saturday from hurricane winds bore mute testimony to what is probably Palm Beach of United Services for Air big C-46's to remain at their moorings on the north side. Thirty-seven craft were totally or partially destroyed by Friday's winds, which smashed one hangar, severely damaged a second, tossed aircraft about like leaves and crushed the roofs of several garages on the south side of the field.

Wright Vermilya, head of the Palm Beach Aero was reported en route by car to an In No immediate check was available on the resort's big hotels, but it was learned that the new pool and cabanas under construction on the west of the Palm Beach Bllt-more suffered some damage. Palm Beach's club centers in the main seemed to have fared better than in 1947. The Bath and Tennis North Sections Storm Provides 1st Real Test Mow To Citrus Club, reconstructed after that (Cnnllnnpd on Pair 10, For Okeechobee Levee System County's worst aviation disaster. Officials involved were unwilling to estimate the extent of the damage, but unofficial estimates guessed at upwards of a million dollars worth of aircraft strewn over the field as the result of the collapse of the Palm Beach Aero Corp. west hangar on the south side of the field and the failure diana vacation, and had not been contacted late Saturday.

Theodore Hardeen, his associate, is in the North, probably at his summer home in Wisconsin, on PfMl 10, Col. 4) Lake Worth Reports Damage Is Less Than In 1947 Storm JACKSONVILLE, (fP) The US Engineers District Office here safd Saturday that the hurrcane which has just swept over Florida provided the "first real test" of the Lake Okeechobee levee system. The office said the present blow "operated against the levees for a period three times as long as any previous storm and with greater intensities." The office said the following were the highest recorded winds at engineer stations around the lake and nearby: 128 miles an hour at St. Lucie, 122 at Belle Glade, 120 at Canal Point, 100 at Okeechobee, 98 at Lake Harbor, 81 at Moore Haven, 62 at Ortona Lock. The report said that at Belle Glade the levees withstood wind forces varying from 75 to 122 miles an hour for seven hours, that only minor damage from erosion resulted and that there was no levee failure.

The' huge dike system was built to protect surrounding areas from floods after the huge loss of life in the 1928 blow. Flying Glass Hurts Palm Beach Woman Despite heavy property and landscape damage, Palm Beach reported only one human storm casualty. Miss Alice Zerve, Seaglade Hotel, was admitted Saturday morning to Good Samaritan Hospital for treatment for cuts on her arm. According to police report. Miss Zerve was hurt Friday night by flying glass from a window as she entered a room, but could not be taken to the hospital until next morning.

At High Mark Million Dollar Loss Is Estimated TAMPA, UP) Hurricane winds handed Central Florida's rich orange and grapefruit belt a million dollar olow Saturday. Grapefruit, heavy with juice, were torn from their stems by 75-mile-an-hour winds in Highlands, Polk and Pasco counties. Oranges, hardier and smaller, withstood the beating better. They were damaged more than in any other storm in many years, however. Fred Johnston, general sales manager of the Citrus exchange, said: "The loss is going to run into millions whether one million or several millions it's too early to say." Later, he added: "The situation is worse than I thought earlier." The crop is estimated at close to 100,000,000 boxes.

Its normal LAKE WORTH While the Weather Office Denies Report Of Third Hurricane MIAMI, UP) The Westher Bureau said Saturday night there is no new storm developing in the Atlantic. (It referred to a new disturbance reported forming off the African Coast Friday. "A hurricane hunter plane flew; over the area today and there is no weather out here," Chief Storm Forecaster Grady Norton said. "By that I mean there is nothing to report. We have never said there was a new storm in that area." Troops In Bolivia Block Outbreak Storm Raked Stuart, Salerno And Oilier Areas Hit Hard By BETTY HARRIES Post-Times Staff Hurricane winds north of the Palm Beaches did heavy damage, according to Sam Quincey, Post-Times staff photographer, who toured the area to Stuart late Saturday.

Starting at Riviera Beach, he reported similar destruction to buildings and foliage. The Seminole Golf Club water tank, which perched 60 to 80 feet above the ground and furnished water to the Club, was flattened by the winds, he said. Tourist cottages and cabins on the ocean front showed evidence of the destructive force which tore through the coast Friday, Mr. Quincey said. "Damage to the buildings was great and some even looked as If they had exploded," he said.

"There was considerable beach erosion and in fact some narrow strips have dwindled down to mere streaks of sand." At Hobe Sound, Mr. Quincey (Continued on Fftse 10, Col. 8 tropical hurricane that struckl rpYjrr here Friday night caused property Vr IjA 1 liLll damage tnai cannot yet be accurately estimated, there was no HUTHKK TABLE (Aug. 21, 1041)1 (14 Houri Ending at Station H. Precip.

.9 Storm Cuts Wide Path loss of life, only two persons were injured slightly and "there was no widespread' suffering at this time in this locality," according to Red Cross and city officials. Although in many quarters the recent storm was compared with the destructive 1947 storm, R. E. Branch, co-chairman of the local American Legion-Red Cross Storm and Disaster Committee, said following receipt of the survey com 04 Riviera Power Cut Riviera Beach residents will have city water only from 6 am to 9 pm daily until the emergency condition ends, according to Charles Dick, water works superintendent. With electric power off, an auxiliary gas pump was to be used to supply water during those he said.

value would be around Asheville Atlanta 4 Atlantic City 82 Birmingham 89 Boston 97 Buffalo 8.1 Chicago HP Cincinnati 9(1 Cleveland 91 Denver Drtioit 89 Kl Paso 9a Fort Worth 94 Galveston 86 Jacksonville Kansas City 8:1 Key Went 89 Los Aneeles 97 Louisville 91 Memphis 93 Miami 84 Minn. -St. Paul 81 New Orleans 94 New York 91 PhllarielDhla 9:1 Towns Lashed By Hurricane Report Millions In Damages Reports of hurricane damage to Florida cities as assembled by The Associated Press: 000. The most severe damage seemed .07 1.08 .10 2.00 mittee report, "There is far less 61 7(1 72 71 6S Ij4 67 SR 7(1 68 7(1 70 7.1 71 74 70 67 69 73 66 72 70 68 67 69 74 71 67 5S 52 73 73 IS to be in the Winter Haven area of Polk County, the State's biggest citrus producing county. damage than first thought." .10 .11 .70 .19 In that section, Johnston said, reliable reports indicated 50 percent of the grapefruit on the ground, 25 percent of early oranges and 10 percent of late The city spent $66,000 to clean up streets and debris following the 1947 storm, but City Manager Frank Clark and Mayor M.

C. Baker said late Saturday the cleanup this time would be far under this figure. Between 30 and 40 families. Phoenix 107 Pittsburgh 90 Portland. Me LA PAZ, Bolivia, (1 Airborne troops were rushed to Coehabamba Saturday night to finish off an armed rebellion against the government which broke out in four cities before dawn.

Reports said an undetermined number of persons were killed and injured as the revolt, led by army and civilian Nationalists, flared up in Coehabamba, Oruro, Potosi and Santa Cruz, A few hours after the uprising began, the Bolivian government announced the rebellion had been crushed in Oruho, Potosi and Santa Cruz. Today's Radio Programs On Page 18 IS .06 St. Louis 91 San Antonio 91 San Francisco 68 Seattle 78 Tampa 82 Wahinglne 90 2 90 WOULD YOU LIKE FOR US TO MAIL TODAY'S PAPER? Extra copies of this edition are available at The Post-Times. Papers will be mailed anywhere in the US at no extra cost if addresses are furnished when purchases are made at The Post-Times business office. Extra copies are limited, so FIRST COME-FIRST SERVED.

Off Aq'in, On Ag'in Police Officer Leonard K. Greene, tired and wear after a full night of hurricane duty, was relieved at 10 am Saturday and made the comment: "I've had nothing to eat since yesterday noon, and I'm tired." SSgt. Leonard K. Greene, Florida National Guard, was recting traffic at 11 am at Datura St. and Olive Ave.

Same Leonard K. Greene different uniform. WEST PALM BEACH Damage set at more than $4,000,000 by Red Cross as city dug itself out from beneath tons of debris. Twenty-nine persons treated in hospitals for Injuries, five of them classed as serious. Some 2,000 of city's 7,000 homes damaged.

More than million dollars worth of planes damaged at West Palm Beach International Airport, Including six C-46 cargo which tossed into twisted mass of metal and wires. Two companies of National Guardsmen called in to prevent looting. Winds hit 155 miles per hour unofficially and 196-foot radio tower blown Into Lake Worth. PALM BEACH Streets mass of faen wires, trees, shattered glass and splintered boards. Ocean dumped tons of sand onto front lawns of ornate villas along Ocean Blvd.

Two sections of that well known highway slid into ocean between Joseph P. Widener estate eHiUnul on FMe 8. Col. 1) West Palm Reach 84 many residing in the area west of this city, applied for Red Cross emergency relief af the headquarters in the Civic Auditorium Saturday. The reports were generally "roof off, no food, wet cloth ConiiiiiHsion To Meet Regular meeting of the City Commission will be held at 3:30 pm Monday in municipal courtroom, City Manager Keith R.

Chinn said Saturday. Agenda for the meeting will be drawn up Monday, Mr. Chinn said. Rainfall "to 6 pm. l.l.'l.

Barometer at pm, 30.00. Humidity, 84. Winds, hlsh. SE SO (Est); low, SE 10 Prevailing wind. SE.

Sunrise. 6:02 am: set. 6:54 pm. Moonrise. am: set, pm.

INLET TIOKS TOKAY High, 12:11 am and 12:42 pm. Low, 6.11 am and 6:47 pm. ing, Mr. Branch said. They applied for roll roofing, food or-(Coattnued on Fate 10, Col.

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