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BEAC MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS LARGEST DAILY CIRCULATION IN PALM BEACH COUNTY, JL VOL. XXV: No. 207 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1933 DAII.T, FIVE CEKTS SUNDAY, TEN CENTS HE PALM POST Real Hurricanes Are Week-Enders EVERGLADES HASlEast Coast Hard Hit STORM'S DAMAGE CHECKED IN CITY ttr ni nui nihnrn By Hurricane Winds; Storm Across State Jupiter, Hobe Sound, Stuart, Fort Pierce All Suffer from Heavy Blow Out of West Indies Trees, Shrubbery and Roofs Suffer Most from Hurricane Winds PIREWARNED and hurricane-conscious, West Palm Beach merged from Its first severe storm sine 1928 with a minimum ofma-terlal harm except for damage to trees, shrubbery and Bom houses. Six persons are known to have suffered minor Injuries in the West Palm Beach area. The Ocean boulevard was washed out in two places.

The beach was eaten into in a number of places. Five bridges were temporarily out of commission in the county. The music portable at the high school was blown Portable Radio on Truck Gives Reports of Damage from Storm By TOM PENICK Instead of covering the waterfront it was an assignment of covering a deluge, chasing the slow-moving but fast-blowing hurricane of Sunday night with a portable naval radio unit outfit. The outfit, a truck containing the radio, and a sedan left Central fire station about 4 o'clock Monday morning, headed north for the storm center to form a communication link. The wind was still raging several miles north of here but no especial damage appeared until near the Winter club, a couple of quick twists of the wheel were needed to dodge a fallen high line pole.

We were getting in the "storm country." First evidence that we were nearing the center of the hurricane came on Federal highway near Olympla where telegraph and electric high line poles were blown down, stretching Across the road from the east. It was raining in torrents at this time with gale winds blowing. Near the center of Stuart fallen poles practically blocked the highway. The portable radio unit traveled from Jupiter northward in the latter part of the hurricane lashing Stuart and Fort Pierce. Gusts were blowing rain in sheets and it was estimated that the wind force was abou 60 or 70 miles per hour at the time.

Stuart was Just beginning to shake out of its daze and investigate its damage. Hopes of reaching Fort Pierce appeared bad at the Stuart bridge dver Indian river but they were revived quickly when American Telephone A Telegraph linemen cut scores of wires from two broken poles, and opened up traffic. By this time the sun had been up more than an hour but only three cars were seen on the highway, the storm-chasing sedan, a telephone truck and a private car. Near Fort Pierce high. winds had uprooted more telephone poles, almost blocking the highway again.

Roofs, plate glass, twisted and torn trees and foliage, and a debris-strewn river front with small craft parked hap-hazard by the wind, marked the path. At Fort Pierce no 'one was injured. When residents reported that the wind had blown in from the northeast, shifting southeastward, and there was no lull whatever, it seemed as though the northern area of the storm had been touched. Returning to Stuart the first train in hours was encountered, puffing southward. With an emergency crew on the tender and a trackman riding'the cow-catcher, the delayed carrier was feeling its way south, taking no chance with damaged roadbed.

It took about ten minutes for the train to traverse the Stuart bridge. Back at Stuart. Floyd Hermanson In charge of the naval units portable radio, had set up his outfit and was attemping to get "outside" when J. Mr Tapscott, relief operator and investigator returned from Fort Pierce with the correspondent. Stuart wasleft behind shortly after nine o'clock Monday morning and the return southward started over the old Dixie highway.

Storm Passes Inland, Striking HURRICANE winds which lashed the east coast oi Florida coast line over a 100-mile front late Sunday night and early Monday morning, centered their attack at Hobe Sound and Stuart, a check of the area revealed Monday morning. Fort Pierce came' in for its share also. Monday night the wetJEiorida coast felt storm winds. One death was reported as a direct result of the storm, Henry Corneil, negro of Gomez. Mrs.

Fred Powell, of Olympia Beach, suffered three broken ribs. Telegraph and telephone wires, high tension wires, and -poles law strewn over the Federal highway north of here by the hundreds. North of Vero Beach, between down; a irame garago ipiuui on 'Sapodilla at Evernia, containing gSfci coupe, was virtually demolished; Vs corrugated iron garage on Olive 'at First was razed; a green frame structure across from the Alba hotel was wrecked, and several other scattered buildings partially destroyed. Roofing paper was torn from many residences, resulting in water damage. Several boats in local waters were washed ashore, and local docks partially submerged.

Scattered plate glass win- dows, tipsy looking signboards snd minor damage to numerous buildings, all bore witness to the fact that there had been a storm. But primarily in the West Palm Beach district, the outstanding evidence of the vicious buffeting the community had received lay in the widespread damage to the shrubbery, trees and plants, the extent of which could not be estimated. Coconut and royal palm trees tat had weathered even the 1928 hurricane in many cases, snapped in two rare with these trees that usually survive with stripped and mutilated fronds, long the Ocean boulevard three of the municipal palms were broken off, two topped, and all were severely battered. Outstanding examples of the broken trees were noted on the courthouse l.wn. the Holy Trinity church Much Diminished LITTLE DAMAGE FOLLOWING BLOW Sections of Road and Railway Washed Out; Area Was Evacuated Before Storm WITHOUT any casualties being reported and apparently no lives lost, the washing out of a number of bridges, section of Con-ners highway north of Canal Point and a stretch of the Florida East Coast Railway company tracks along the same section marked the principal storm damage in the Everglades Sunday night and Monday, according to word arriving here Monday evening.

Residents of the 'Glades were evacuated by the state late Sunday. Telephone and telegraph communication was almost entirely disrupted, S. T. Gray, manager of the Belle Glade branch of the Western Union, said last night and Pahokee and Canal Point were virtually isolated. The 'Glades communities also have been without power since Sunday night and are in total darkness.

Several houses were blown down at Pahokee and Canal Point, but there were no casualties, as far as he could harn, Mr. Gray said. Meanwhile, the communities are almost deserted, large majorities of the population having moved out of the lake region on receipt of advices early Sunday night. Most of the residents last night were expected to return home today. Rising waters over Conners highway made the roadway impassable and a bridge on the highway was Aashcd out near Canal Point.

A considerable section of the highway north of Canal Point went out because of rains and rising lake waters which also washed out a long stretch of railway tracks. Three bridges to islands, described as among the most fertile areas in the 'Glades, were washed out and Kramer Island was under two feet of water. The island's 75 inhabitants had evacuated Sunday. The bridges were between Kramer Island and the mainland. Kramer and Torrey Islands and Rabbit Island and the mainland.

High waters will probably delay plantings for another two or three weeks, Mr. Gray said. A number of farmers had put in bean crops last week and. another 2,000 acres in the vicinity of Belle Glade had been prepared for plantings this week. One hundred twenty-five convicts aniline employes at the state prison farm near Belle Glade left before the storm struck Sunday night and were sheltered- at Okeechobee.

C. Bridges, office manager and bookkeeper, remained at the farm. Heavy which began Sunday night were continuing to fall last night, but there were indications of a let-up later in the evening. ARE HOISTED IN TEXAS By the Aeeoeiaied Prene Brownsville, Texas, Sept. 4.

Along a 200-mlle front, the Texas coast Monday was bracing itself against what Is expected to be one of the worst hurricanes ever to blow in from the Gulf of Mexico. Many residents of the area between Corpus Christi and Freeport, which was reported to be in the path of the center of the wind, had evacuated with the hoisting Sunday night of hurricane warnings between the two cities Late Monday night the blow was reported to be moving inland between this city and Corpus Christi, nearer Brownsville. Eight men were reported marooned on Brazos island off Point Isabel. Reports said they had been cut off from the mainland by the rising tides. Cities along the entire Texas coast from Port Arthur to Brownsville were preparing for violent weather.

Hurricane warnings were displayed, Brownsville to Corpus Christi and northeast storm warnings were being displayed north of Corpus Christi to Freeport. The sector between Freeport and Corpus Christi sparsely populated and most of the residents had retreated Inland. Evacuation of Freeport reportedly was In progress all day Monday. Ambulances had removed patients from the Freeport hospital to Houston hospitals. With Velocity The hurricane that swept the east coast Sunday night and Monday morning, passed inland during the day with its velocity apparently much diminished, and last night was about 60 miles northwest of Tampa.

Sources at and near Tampa, by short wave radio and telephone to this city, believed that the storm was curving and would go north up the state. The Tampa Tribune told The Post by lQng distance last night that a 47 mile an hour wind was the highest there and that little damage resulted. The Washington weather bureau last night issued the following advisory: "The tropical disturbance that passed over Florida peninsula is now about 60 miles northwest of Tampa moving west northwestward about 13, miles per hour attended by shifting gales. Center will pass oui of Apalachicalo, early Tuesday morning. Storm warnings remain displayed north of Key West to Mobile, Ala.

"Hurricane warnings displayed Brownsville to Corpus Chrlsti, Texas and northeast storm warnings north of Corpus Christi to Freeport. Center of tropical disturbance approaching coast between Brownsville and Corpus Christi but nearer Brownsville." grounds, the Royal Worm no. lklawn. The lessons the community had learned In 1926, 1928 and 1929 in hoarding up and general storm preparations were held responsible for the lightness of. the material II FELT I Center Reported to Have Been Close to Hobe Sound and Olympia WITH Hobe Sound and Olympia close to the established center of Sunday's tropical hurricane, high winds and damage extended from slightly north of Fort Pierce to West Palm Beach and Lake Worth.

Although this section received its full force of the storm shortly before midnight, Stuart and Fort Pierce were struck about three hours later, getting about the same velocity of the blow as received here. By comparing wind directions obtained at Fort 'Pierce and Stuart as well as Hobe Sound and Jupiter, with those registered here it was estimated that the storm center passed close to or over Hobe Sound about one a. m. Neither Stuart, Fort Pierce nor this city had any respite from the fury of the blow until several hours after Its start. At Hobe Sound Fred Powell said there was about a five minute lull shortly before midnight.

One report made at Jupiter declared that community had a 30-minute lull but this could not be substantiated. Fort Pierce and Stuart were damaged by hurricane winds blowing from the northeast shifting to southeast, Hobe Sound got the brunt of the storm from the east, and here, damage was done by west and southwest-winds. Fire Chief A. P. Sadler checked barometer readings during the gales Sunday night, the check being made with the' government airways Instruments at the Southboro lire station operated by Charles Caesar.

The story is told In figures, starting at 8 o'clock Sunday night with the barometer at 29.59. Half an hour later it recorded a nine-point drop, slowly going downward until the low of 28.78 registered at 11:45 o'clock Sunday night. This figure is 14 points higher than that registered by the weather bureau barometer at The Post. At 11:45 o'clock the city was being swept by west southwest winds averaging 80 miles per hour or more, with hurricane gusts pushing the wind gauge around a 100 mile or more average for several minutes. Such Is the story of winds here.

At Stuart and Fort Pierce no au-(Continued on Page Three) LAKE WORTH CHECKS The Poet Lake Worth Bureau Storm damage amounting to several thousand dollars as a result of the tropical disturbance of Sunday night was estimated in a survey of the city, Monday morning. This included paper roofing and tile torn from numerous homes, broken windows in homes, and plate glass windows in the business section, unroofing of H. M. Varney storeroom, in which a full car of lime and cement had just been unloaded; the smashing in of the front of Lane's cafe, by flying debris, and broken windows at the West Grade school building, Many streets of the city, under which run storm sewers, have been weakened by the heavy rainfall and several cave-ins were reported. The eastside approach of the bridge leading to the ocean was undermined and washed out, causing the bridge to be closed to traffic.

Lake Worth residents who did not care to stay in their homes were housed in the school building, fire department, Gulf Stream hotel, Florida hotel, F. E. C. and S. A.

L. Railway freight houses and the Telephone building. Precautions taken by the city held Its loss to a minimum. No accidents of any kind were reported to the police. One ambulance call was made by the Lake Worth Funeral home to remove an elderly lady to the High school building.

Most of the other damage throughout the city was to an occasional Improvised garage or poorly built buildings. Trees and Bhrubs were badly twisted and In a number of cases uprooted. Because1 of numerous light poles snapping at the base in the tropical storm of Sunday night, Lake Worth was mostly without light and power Monday, so far as a distribution system is concerned. Workmen under the direction of Charles DeVault, line foreman, completed a number of connections Monday, giving the business district light early Monday afternoon. A part of College Park also got lights.

It will be about Thursday before all the city consumers will again have light and power, Ward Randolph, superintendent, said last evening. Under what Is known as the "double emergency fund of the R. F. C. a crew of 40 wqrkmen will be put to work this morning on pole replacement.

It is expected that the southeast section of the city will have light and power by this evening. Other sections will be taken care of as sdon as possible, Mr. Randolph said. No serious damage was done at the light plant but the distribution system was considerably disrupted officials said. NO A.

P. WIRK AVAILABLE No Associated Press wires to The Post were available last night, due to interrupted service caused by the hurricane. The baseball scores in this edition were obtained from the Tampa Tribune by telephone. Service from the Associated Press Is expected to be resumed tonight and the usual complete newa of the world is expected In time for Wednesday'i issue of The Post. 1 OVER LARGE AREA ALONG EAST COAS that city and Wabasso, trees HEAVY CI1JS DAMAGE IS SEEN ALONG COAST AFTER STORM PASSES Figure of $1,500,000 Fixed as Probable Loss as Result of Blows A $1,500,000 damage toll has been taken from the citrus industry of St.

Lucie county by the last two tropical disturbances, both of which passed Inland off the Atlantic almost directly over the section. An estimate by a citrus fruit expert Monday night, placed the loss at that figure. It was estimated that the "blow" of four weeks back destroyed approximately 50 per cent of the trees in the county. Sunday night's storm took toll of 90 per cent of the remainder. An estimate of St.

Lucie county's citrus crop for the coming season had been placed at 1,000,000 boxes of various kinds. At a price of $2 for each box, the $1,500,000 figure was fixed fori the loss. FORD STILL SILENT ON HISN1A. PLANS By the Atmrialcd Preae Washington, Sept. 4 Henry Ford was Labor day's chief N.

R. A. holdout. The Detroit manufacturer, silent about his plans, has until Tuesday to join the blue eagle hosts by subscribing to the automobile code. While awaiting Ford's decision, N.

R. A. officials surveyed their accomplishments to find: President Roosevelt has promulgated 18 codes. administrators were drafting reports on 30 more on which hearings have been completed. The troublesome soft coal code was one of the chief still unsigned.

Hearings were set for 20 recommended codes Over 250 temporary wage and hour scales were approved. Hugh S. Johnson, administrator, estimated virtually all employers were operating either under codes or Presidential agreements. Officials estimated 350 codesi would be needed to sign up all in dustries. Postal Workers' Furlough to End Washington, Sept.

4. C4) Labor day brought good news to postal employes their payless furloughs will be suspended Sept. 30. The announcement was made in Atlantic City by Postmaster General James Farley, who said he was doing It because he believed the nation is on the road back to prosperity. Last June the order was Issued prescribing a nine-day furlough without pay for employes in the postal service, during the three-month period from July 1 to Sept.

30. If it doesn't strike here over the week-end, it's no hurricane here. At least, that's what local observers were almost inclined to believe Monday following the passage of the tropical disturbance here Sunday night and early Monday morning. Local residents recalled that the 1926 hurricane struck Miami Saturday night and early Sunday. The 1928 hurricane struck here Sunday afternoon and during the night.

And the latest one arrived here Sunday night, the southern ex- tremity of the disturbance causing widespread minor damage here and less major damage. And apparently, the more severe of the disturbances do reach here over the week-end. NEW SUII IS FILED FORECLOSURE MOVE Everglades Club Is Named Defendant in Litigation in Federal Court Suit against the Everglades club company and Spitzer-Rorick Trust and Savings Bank of Toledo, was filed In United States district court in Miami Saturday by Elizabeth Diana Metzger and her husband, George L. Metzger, of New York, seeking foreclosure of a $1,500,000 bond issue on the Everglades club of Palm Beach and the appointment of a receiver for the property. The Toledo firm on August 24 filed a suit seeking the foreclosure of the bond issue.

Its action followed the filing of a previous suit in federal court in which the firm is named defendant. Allegations were made that more than $50,000 had been paid out "fraudulently" from the club company's funds to the Toledo firm for services. This suit also asks the appointment of a receiver. The plaintiffs are Cecil Singer and Paris Graham Singer of England and the Devon and the Vosges syndicates of Canada. Cecil Singer is president of the club's social organization and Paris Graham Singer and the two syndicates are holders of bonds, stocks and notes of the club company.

Their suit asks that H. C. Rorick and his Toledo firm be removed as trustees of the $1,500,000 mortgage and bond issue of February 1, 1928; asks that an accounting be made, and that the Toledo firm be restrained from taking payments for services. The suit filed Saturday by Mr. and Mrs.

Metzger is based on their holding of $25,000 of bonds. The bond issue is alleged to have of the total yet due and outstanding. Mr. and Mrs. Metzger are repre-(Continued on Page Three) Belle Glade, Sept.

4. With the town in darkness, residents Monday night were returning to their homes to find water has damaged floors, furniture, and the like, and the wind has caused minor damages to trees and roofs, after the hurried departure Sunday night because of late reports concerning the tropical disturbance. Due to a mis-understanding concerning the whereabouts of the storm and its probable course trains expected to Carry refugees from the eastern shore of the 'Glades did not materialize, and a short train cojnposed of six freight cars and two coaches pulled by the engine due to pull the Monday morning regular train carried ap proximately 500 refugees, mostly negroes, to Sand Cut, where the engine cut loose for the purpose of getting water several miles north at the St. Lucie canal, and before It could get back the water had caused washouts so that it could not return to the train. Consequently cars loaded with refugees were separated from their engine by the wash out.

The refugees were returned to their homes, however, by means of trucks furnished by farmers of the 'Glades, augmented by trucks of the Prison Farm and those of the Roebllng estate of Lake Placid. Water on the surrounding lands will delay the planting of the early fall crops that were contemplated, growers said, as most of the land, including the usual "high" land is soaked. It seems that from Canal. Point north, the wind did considerable damage to trees and buildings. A great number of tho 'Glades residents went to LaBelle and to Fort Myers, but those who went to Sebring in order to get to high land ran directly into the storm.

No persons, as far as was reported were injured by the storm. JAY-CEE MEET OFF Today's luncheon of the Junior Chamber pf Commerce, scheduled for the annex of the Congregational church, has been called off by officials of the organization. Arrangements were being made for J. Mark Wilcox, congressional representative, from this district, to speak before the organization. Representative Wilcox is expected to apeak at next Tuesday's meeting.

STORM SIDELIGHTS Meager reports of the damage left in the wake of the tropical disturbance of Sunday night, which went across the Florida peninsula Monday, were available last night. One report picked up by short wave radio, through Forrest Dana and "Red" Hollis, at their Palm Beach station, told of the derailment of an Atlantic Coast Line freight train between Sebring and Lake Placid late Monday afternoon. The report said a flagman by the name of Davis was killed as eleven box cars and the engine left the track, weakened by high waters. The hurricane was reported by radio as having passed 25 r.iiles north of Tampa, but before hiltinfj the Gulf of Mexico, had recurved to the northeast. Later it recurved again and was reported to have passed over Inverness around 8 o'clock last night.

Jacksonville and northeast Florida- may expect some part of the hurricane which swept this section, according to word intercepted by J. I. Cook over short-wave radio W4AO. The storm, according to the message, recurved northeastward after approaching the west Florida coast in the vicinity of Tampa. Winds near Childs siding early Monday were reported blowing with a velocity of about 75 miles per hour.

box at the Paramount theater in storm, being completely blown down. wmcn ien across ine iukii- way, nanea trainc aunng the early hours of the morning until they could be cleared away. Stuart citizens after dawn surveyed their damage and found trees down all over the city, many buildings damaged and others completely demolished. The Woman's club building Was a total wreck. The three story building which housed Derr's bowling alleys was decapitated, tne top floor being sheared completely off.

Roy Lain's garage was flattened. The Chevrolet garage and the Lester Tire Service garage wert both pariiy demolished. Practically every building west of the railroad tracks at Olympia Beach- was either destroyed or damaged considerably. The second floor of the Olympia Beach Drug company was torn off with a loss of all furniture upstairs. The drug stock, however, escaped serious damage.

Yates Filling station was blown clear across the highway. The majority of the residents of Olympia Beach gathered at the old Olympia Inn. It was not such a good point, however, as the wind almost destroyed It through tha night. Across the tracks over on the Island at Hobe Sound, the damage was. confined mostly to the shrubs and trees that adorn ttie esttt.t.p-.-::t the winter visitors tij' that locality.

Trees that were grown there from small plantings, and which have stood other tropical blows, were scattered. Shrubs were uprooted. Damage to the homes in this vicinity, however, was comparatively slight as most of them are well built residences. Corneil, the negro who was killed at Gomez, lost his life in the shack which he used for a home. Warned farlier in the evening that he had better leave for safer quarters, he refused.

An investigation Monday morning found his shack flattened and his body almost buried in tha debris. The roof of the Olympia Beach ice house was torn completely off and tossed on the Florida East Coast tracks directly opposite. A wrecking crew was rushed to tha scene early Monday morning and although trains were late during the morning hours, the debris was cleared away in record time and transportation was moving steadily Monday afternoon. A part of the debris and wreckage at this point was caused by tha runaway box car, which was pushed from a siding in West Palm Beach, out 'on the northbound mainline track. The hurricane blew the car 30 miles to the north.

It was derailed when it smashed into the ice-house roof, and slid 30 feet on its side in the ditch at that point tearing off both of its trucks. Sheriff Christianson of Martin, county and his deputies were busy throughout the early morning hours of Monday, checking the county. They found very little damage at Salerno, and all of them reported that they were of the belief that most of the storm damage in the county was centered at Hobe Sound and Stuart. Hobe Sound reported a lull In the storm of five minutes. At Jupiter a 30-minute lull was reported which caused storm experts to offer the opinion that the center of the storm must have passed inland at that point.

Jupiter, however, didn't suffer the storm dam. age that was seen at other quarters. The bridge at Stuart was closed to traffic temporarily, but was opened early Monday morning and one of the first cars, across carried a Post reporter on to Fort Pierce. The bridge over the inland waterway from the mainland at Olympia Beach over to the island, was partially destroyed, but a car could get across with difficulty, L. A.

Griffin, bridge tender, had a hair-raising tale to tell of the storm winds, which buffeted him about all night long as he clung to tha (Continued on Page Three) At Your Front Door Plvprv day your cop? of THH PAI.M BKACH FORT lays the news of the world at your feet. Part of thin news mighty Important part, too consists of IhJ oppnrinnilies which our Classified Columns prespnt to add to your comforj anil satisfaction In life. Ton ran nulclily find what yon want in T1IK HOST CI.AS.SI MKD SKCTION. The mire than 100 dif-fprpnt classifications, selPPtPd to covpr pvpry nppfi. are anil numerically arranged, and are clearly listed in tho Index on lb first classified page.

There Is No Substitute for Circulation The baby sea turtles that have been disporting themselves In the patio pool at the Sun Surf club are having to accustom themselves to fresh water, since the storm rains filled their pool. No check-up had been made Monday morning, but it was hoped that no fatalities were occasioned by the numerous coconuts that fell Into the pool. "Labor day" Is assuming new significance in West Palm Beach. In 1932 practically all laboring men were at work boarding up for a threatened hurricane, and Monday instead of enjoying a holiday, everyone was busy picking up the debris and trying to restore order. Through the resourcefulness of "Red" Hollis, amateur radio operator at the town hall, the police force In Palm Beach was able to go through its storm duties without the handicap of lack of lights.

A small gasoline engine supplied the hall and station with lights after the general power was turned off about 10 o'clock Sunday night. Some Indication of the force of the wind may be gathered by a twisted steel flag pole crumpled on the Alba hotel grounds. The Poinclana golf course is virtually all water hazards at the moment, the greens being completely flooded. damage, though such lessons cuum (Continued on Page Two) HAS HEAVY DAMAGE Special to The Poti Fort Pierce. Sept.

4. The Fort Pierce area suffered heavy property damage from the latest tropical left the river front a mass of wreckage, communications and utility lines badly crippled, scores of buildings damaged, shrubbery tattered and the citrus fruit crop, already greatly reduced from the storm of a month ago, a heavy loss. There was no loss of life, nor were any injured reported. The causeway bridge across Indian rivr was wrecked, fish and snrimp nouses wen ueniuiieucu, seawalls were damaged and small craft were battered. Telephone, telegraph and light poles were twisted and tangled in broken lines and service was only partially restored Monday.

Numerous roofs were damaged and dozens of garages and other such buildings destroyed. A few flimsy resi-, dential structures were wrecked. The fruit loss in exposed places was almost complete, but it was believed that the loss would not be found so extensive in the more protected areas. Shrubbery, which had about recovered from the damage previously sustained, was again almost denuded and many trees were uprooted. storm raged from 10 o'clock till daylight, but struck with greatest force'around 3 o'clock, with the wind reaching an estimated velocity of 80 to 90 miles an hour, shifting from northeast to south.

Low barometer reading here was 29.14. The plant of the Conrad Lumber company 'was burned during the itorm. No estimate of the amount of damage from the storm could yet' be made with anything like accuracy. Post Gives Steady Service During Blow Maintaining constant 24-hour ser vice for the benefit of the public during the approach, striking of an edge of the hurricane and its passing, The Post last night completed a 48-hour stretch of uninterrupted servlct in giving out information on the tropical disturbance. Thousands of telephone calls were received at The Post over three trunk wires during the two-day period for information about the hurricane.

The trunk lines were kept constantly busy Sunday and far into the morning Monday when The Post Informed Inquirers the barometer, which reached a low of 28.64 Inches at 11:55 o'clock Sunday night, was slowly rising and apparently the hurricane had struck north of here and passed inland. And with the departure of the hurricane. Monday, the telephones were In constant operation during the day giving out information on the passing of the disturbance and reassuring Inquirers tht hurricane had passed. Tls an 111 wind Large numbers of the negro population could be noted, especially in Palm Beach, Monday picking up the coconuts blown down. Orphans of the storm Include two hives of bees, and a number of pigeons, for Morey Dunn, attorney of 718 street, has no Idea where the wind carried his beehives or his pigeon house.

And still the rumors grow a family of npgroes came to the courthouse late Monday afternoon seeking.shelter from another storm "they heard'' was on the way. According to George M. Taylor, courthouse custodian, who has the general supervision of the building's guests on hurricane scare nights, there were fully twice as many housed there Sunday night as in the 1928 storm when there were 600 counted. The National Whirligig NEWS BEHIND THE WORLD'S NEWS The fragilly perched starter's Palm Beach was a casualty of the Wallace Benedict, chairman of the general bondholders' committee, was the only bond representative to remain In West Palm Beach after the recent conference, and to experience personally one of the storms of which he has been told so much In discussions of local properties. He left MondRy for Miami.

The whistling buoy at the Lake Worth Inlet has now become a traveling buoy. When last seen Monday morning, it had broken from its moorings of cement and steel cables and had already passed the Palm Beach Countrv club properties headed soutn. Beautlfication advocates received what miy be a boost In their work, when hurricane winds damaged practically all signboards in and about the community. Three-way, "storm-proof" signs, were noted, twisted along the highway. Although highway signs in the main withstood the winds, the majority of danger blinkers became traffic menaces, being blown all over the roads.

Washington General Johnson's troubles with industry and labor over the open shop have been passed on to Secretary Ickes. Heretofore embattled manufacturers and union leaders have concentrated their fire on N. R. A. Now shots are pouring in the direction of public works administration.

Ickes made an oral interpretation of the public works regulations governing employment to a group of manufacturers at a recent star-chamber session. With blood in their eyes the manufacturers told Ickes nevertheless they still feared discrimination in favor of the unions. They asserted the interpretation didn't jibe with the language of the regulations. As the employers read the formal statement of labor policy union locals are given a 48-hour break in supplying both skilled and unskilled labor for public works projects. If the locals don't come through with workmen in that period then and then only will employers be permitted to engage men through employment agencies without regard for union affiliation.

Ickes denied this. He maintained "local custom" would be followed. If contractors had used union labor in the past they would be expected to give the on tout) One of the hardiest survivors of the hurricane was reported on Fifty-fourth street, which went through a veritable snow-storm of coconuts. On one lawn the hulk of a coconut palm stood against the sky. stripped of fronds, completely denuded except for an unscathed cluster of coconuts, Several flat-bottom boats were pushed down the road from the water east of Riviera, to a point where they were almost on the Federal highway.

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