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191 Wilmington, Delaware, Saturday, August 13, 1955 26 Pages Price Five Cents Connie Dwindles to Harmless Final Edition storm Freak Twister Batters Bethany Beach Area Swirls Into Passes Wilmington One Cottage Is-Smashed; Power Cut 10 Persons Drown As Chesapeake Bay Storm Sinks Vessel i(il i' 1 15 75 Miles 1 lr IrIM, I I I I II II II 13 I I I Ill I Highest Winds Clocked at Airport Are 53 MPH Gusts; 34 Known Dead, Property Damage High in Wake Four From Pleasure Schooner Missing; 13 Rescued as 0 1 Craft Breaks Apart Most of Victims Are New Yorkers 1 Hurricane Connie what was left of her swirled harmlessly into Pennsylvania today about 75 miles west of Wilmington. Behind her was a wreckage-strewn path running from th Carolina! to Chesapeake Bay. Thirty-four persons are known dead, and at least seven others are missing and presumed dead. Connie, who started out as a lumbering giant with 135-mile-per-hour winds, had worn herself down to no more than an overgrown gale when she passed just west of Baltimore at about 8:30 a. m.

The highest winds clocked during the night at the weather station at New Castle County Airport were 53 mile per hour gusts. There was a steady wind of 35 miles per hour. The airport control tower, some 70 feet above the weather station, clocked a gust of 60 miles per hour. Connie, surging along at a steady 20 miles an hour, crossed into Pennsylvania at about 10:30 a. m.

She was spreading over an ever- 1 Lubltsh Buniari. EVERYTHING BUT THE GONDOLIERS North Claymont Street between Fifteenth and Sixteenth Street looked like a Venice canal this morninr, with water reaching the hub caps of passing automobiles. Watching from the steps of their home as this car slushes Its way down the street, are James and Harriett Morris. Wilmington Area Loss Lightf: turning widening area with weakening winds. Portuguese Charge India-Trained Gang Plans Coa Invasion NOVA GOA, Portuguese India, Aug.

13 W). Portuguese police said today they broke up a gang of "Indian-trained Goan terrorists" in a series of night raids in which one youth was shot dead, another wounded and 12 arrested. The action came as tension mounted in Portuguese India. Next Monday, Indian Independence Day. hundreds of "non-violent" demonstrators plan to march into Goa.

Portuguese authorities have declared force will be used if necessary to repel the threatened invasion. Joaquim Pinto Braz, acting police chief, showed sacks of weapons, including rifles and a hand-grenade, which he said had been seized from the gang. Soviet to Cut Army, Navy By 640,000 Dec. 15 Lifted as Target Date for Move To Drop International Tension' MOSCOW. Aug 13 tfl -Citing a "certain reduction of tension 2.

JC SU u.f r.n L-Vk ii awv wj ivvv, The official Soviet news agency Tass said the government decided on a reduction as a further step to lessen international Few Power Lines, Trees Down Strand Basements Flood, I lipn KrPriP! Rainfall I Passes 6.5-Inch Mark; 'Fair, Warm' Tonight Hurricane whittled down to just another rainstorm, passed by New Castle County this morning, on the way to blow itself out over southern Pennsylvania. No deaths or serious injuries were attributed to the storm' Rhee Drops Ouster Limit To Truce Unit MidnightfTJeadline For Team lo Leave Lifted Asks End of Violence SEOUL. Aug. 13 tP). President Syngman Rhee tonight lift ed the midnight deadline of his ultimatum demand for neutral I i J) Jgng SwillffS, Path 1 a Heading West Fourth Tropical Storm Becomes Erratic And Winds Pick Up Speed MIAMI, Aug.

13 In Gordon Dunn, chief fore- Many Homes Unroofed In Three Resort Centers; Refugees Spend Night In High School Shelter A freakish twister blamed on Hurricane Connie roared ashore at Bethany Beach late yesterday afternoon and cut a swath of destruction through that community, Ocean View and Oak Orchard before expiring north of Millsboro. Only one minor injury was reported, but one1 cottage at Bethany was demolished, and about a dozen others were unroofed. The Indian River Yacht Club at Oak Orchard was severely dam aged, and power throughout the area was cut off for about six hours. Bethany Beach was evacuated night, but residents were re today. About 300 refugees spent the night in a Red Cross emergency shelter at the Lord Baltimore High School in Ocean The twister, sucking up a sil very pular of water, hit just south of Bethany's residential area at 4:20 p.

m. The waterspout disintegrated when It hit the beach, but the twister kept bearing inland pretty closely following the highway and struck Ocean View. Crosses Indian River Then it veered northwestward, crossed Indian River, and lashed Oak Orchard. -At Bethany Beach, a small cot tage occupied by George Steele was "reduced to kindling" by the storm. Steele escaped with minor cuts and bruises.

The nearby home of Carl Le-kites, owner of the cottage where Steele was living, was unroofed. So were several others over a wide area of the community. The twister raced westward, cutting a 30 or 40-foot path through trees and shrubbery. At Ocean View, two miles Inshore from Bethany, 16-year-old Robert Hitchens was trying to The wind tossed him 20 yards intn fiPM Donald Wilgus, talking -on the telephone in a cottage nearby, never saw the storm coming. He before the wind, dropped the phone and looked outside.

He See TWISTER Page 4, Col. 8 U. S. to Export Atomic Fuel Friendly Countries, Will Get Supply Only For Production of Power GENEVA, Aug. 13 ().

The United States was reported today to have decided to export to certain countries atomic fuel of a grade sufficient to operate atomic power stations: This information came from a highly qualified source who said Belgium probably would be the first nation to get such fuel. Up to now the United States has not shipped any atomic fuel abroad, but it had agreed to supply 27 countries with enough 20 per cent enriched uranium to operate one research reactor. Leading atomic scientists-including Dr. H. J.

Bhabrra of India, president of the current See ATOMIC Page 3, Col. 5 here. (Hurricane Diane, whirling 113- In Its wake was a general: mile winds around her center, to West PreDaredness jl For Connie Among Best C7 Solid Front Thrown Up By Several Agencies1 Was Set for Disaster If Hurricane Connie had hit Delaware with destructive vio-i lence, it would have found one of the solidest fronts of interagency emergency preparation in the history of the state. Built around the Delaware Chapter of the American Red Cross, the organization included civil defense on the state, county, and community level, the Delaware National Guard, state and city police, fire companies, food distributors, veterans' organizations, granges, and private individuals standing by in readi ness to go into action at any moment. The key to the operation was civil defense participation and the state-wide radio communica tion it offered.

Last year, dur ing Hurricane Hazel, this was not available because state laws still prohibited civil defense from taking part In operations in anything but war-caused disaster. This year, however, the four- year, efforts of D. Preston Lee, state defense director, bore fruit, and the General Assem bly wrote the civil defense laws See AGENCIES Page 5, Col. 6 Milkman Hurt In Accident Several Minor Crashes Occur, But Blow Keeps Most Drivers at Home Several minor accidents were reported in and near Wilmington last night and early today, but for the most part, the rain and threat of heavy winds kept cars pretty well off the roads. A milkman, Francis P.

Earley, of 205 Hazlett Road, Farncrest, a driver for the West End Dairy, was slightly Injured this morning when his truck hit a washout section of Beverly Place In Hlllcrest. Police said a sewer line had recently been put in there, and that section of the road washed out. Earley did not see it in the dark and driving rain, and was thrown against the steering wheel when the truck went in. See ACCIDENTS Page 5, Col. 5 nations truce supervisors to get clearing, which will bring fair, became erratic over the Atlantic out of Korea.

He advised against I and warm weather tonight and 'tbout 1 200 miles east of Palm violent demonstrations. tomorrow to an area drenched Rhee said he acted on assur-j almost continually with the rain ffach' Fla" today- ls show-ance from assistant Secretary of since tendencies of swinging State Walter Robertson that the! Damage throughout the coun- toward a more westerly course. tension and establish ity was slight and scattered, with most of it affecting power lines of the Delaware Power Light Company. A few large trees were reported down, both in caster In the Miami Weather, put a new battery in a friend's Bureau's storm warning service, 'car. said Hurricane Connie had i Wind Tosses Youth Sailing Ship, Built In '91, Was Raeing Connie To Annapolis Haven When Blown on Side By Associated Press NORTH BEACH, Md.

Aug. 13. An ancient schooner off on a pleasure cruise was pounded to pieces in the storm-lashed Chesapeake Bay, leaving 10 dead and 4 missing today. Thirteen others were rescued yesterday by firemen, police, National Guardsmen and civilian volunteers who poured into this beach resort 30 miles southeast of Washington, D. C.

Six of these 13 were rescued by two men who went down to the beach "to see if we could lend a hand" and stayed to ferry them two at a time in a 14-foot skill through waves as a man. There was nothing left of the boat, the Levin J. Marvel out of AnnannlW Mri ovronf a fro a. ment of her cabin and debris hlch Jittered the sand "I didn't see a bit of wreckage bigger than a door, said one Police officer, "She must have taken a terrific beating." The 10 dead included 6 men, 3 women and a 9-year-old girl. Most of them were from New Eight bodies weYe taken to Baltimore, two to Annapolis.

(The ship was built at Bethel, in itm ana was used as a freighter before being turned See BOAT SINKS-Pg. 5, Col. 1 (Men Are Unimportant. Claims Spinster, 101 Mirv ini cwu7 Mlss Mary KelIy' 101 vester(iay, -t remained if ni ii in single "Men are all right In their own way," she opined, "but there's no reason to think that they're all-important." SI Pay Floor Bill Is Signed Eisenhower Also Inks Free Polio Serum Plan; Nears End of Task Washington a PriHnt nagc ailU 11 JJU11U vaccine, and neared the end of the hundreds of bills Congress sent to him. Only three bills were left day in which action was pend- mgion transit strixe, land for a Colorado River project, and continued stockpiling of some domestic minerals.

Aides said the President wanted more information on them. No exact account of bills signed or vetoed has been made See BILLS 1 SIGNED Pg.S.C.S U. S. government "will make ef- forts soon" to seek peacefuL. withdrawal of the four-nation truce commission.

I He said Robertson assurance in a letter. gave the, "Our people at this time! should be patient about every- thing," Rhee said. We might be misunderstood i if the demonstrations continuedj nwiuiiKioii ana in rural from th SM tmi taVinw until all the members of Hazel caused last Octo-Neutral Nations Supervisory 1 ber. Commission leave Korea." I High tide levels shortly after The Philadelphia weather? U. tha ttmm WA11 rl roll up past Harrisburg before disintegrating entirely in Pennsylvania's hills.

Ahead of the storm weaic squalls and heavy rains were adding to the already major flood damage in Pennsylvania, New Jarsey, and New York. One Injured in State' In contrast with last years Hurricane Hazel, which was credited with 1 deaths in DeU' ware. Connie got by without killine anyone. Only one injury was reported in the state. George Steele was cut and bruised when a Connie-spawned twister blew down his cottage near Bethany Beacn.

Delaware will probably be several days In counting up its damage. Most of it came in the Bethany Beach-Ocean View area of Sussex County where the twister struck yesterday afternoon. Coastal areas of Delaware and Maryland weathered the storm with little difficulty. Gusts Lash Beaches Gusts up to 70 miles per hour hit Ocean City, and Re-hoboth Beach was lashed by winds estimated up to 60 miles per hour. The dangerously high tides that had been predicted, however, never arrived.

Tides reached a peak of from five to eight feet above average yesterday afternoon, according to Coast Guardsmen, then started receding. The early morning tide today was only two or three feet above average. Seas were heavy, but the Ocean Highway from Re-hoboth to Ocean City was never Impassable. A report from the lightship off Delaware Breakwater last night informed the Lewes Coast Guard Station that waves were running up to 18 feet high. Rehoboth, Lewes Escapes No damage was reported in Rehoboth, Lewes or Ocean City.

Even the northern stretch of Lewes Beach, which frequently jeopardized during storms, got by with little or no wave-wash erosion. Coast Guardsmen said the wind veered from northeast to southeast about 3 o'clock this morning, saving the beaches from any danger of an extremely high tide. Year-round residents of the beaches discounted the storm, and lamented its effect on the summer trade. Most of them rode it out, but week-end vacationers fled the beaches. "It was a dry run," said Col.

John H. Ruckman, retired Army See CONNIE Pate 4, Col. 5 Talc of Connie into a special hurricane warning circuit, would clatter briefly. The printed line would read was located at 242 degrees from the station and was 54 miles away A uke tht one concerted pllsh fnr tha anA 'Am pencil. A few seconds of fig- See WEATHERMAN P.

5, Rhee's statement, broadcast in Korea two hours before the midnight deadline, was released by the government office of public information. It followed three mob assaults on the Wolml Island truce team See KOREA Page 5, Col. 3 Eisenhower Resting At Gettysburg Home GETTYSBURG, Aug. 13 President Eisenhower rested today at his country home here and made ready to leave tomorrow on a long vacation in Colorado. The President arrived from "asningion late yesterday alter motoring 85 miles from Washing- cane Connie moving along the Atlantic coast.

Eisenhower plans to drive back in Wtorilnrfinn JnmAxriMii 4 a 4 L- i among nations. The actual strength of Russia's armed forces has never been dis closed officially. A British spokes- man in London today estimated total' armed forces at 4, 750, 000 men. He listed the strength as: Army, 3,200,000: Air Force, 800.000; Navy, 750,000. Th a i A DnnAiinnflmATit i said: "Recent developments, In par- ticular the results of the Geneva Conference show that a certain t-onierence, snow mat a certain See RUSSIA Page 3, Col.

4 British Order 6 Queer Planes LONDON, Aug. 13 INS. The British Ministry of Supply announced today it has ordered six strange-looking Lobelle monoplanes for military test purposes. The new plane, which the morning press called a "Flying Mattress," is freakish looking a cross between an air ship, balloon, and airplane. The plane is a small two-seater, equipped with 40-foot wings, and made of a secret material which is pumped up like art automobile tire.

It is powered by a rear 65-horsepower engine driving a pusher airscrew and is capable of a speed of 45 miles per hour, with a flying range of 100 miles. 4 Exchange Students Drown After Crash WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 Ml. Four exchange students from Thailand, three them vacation ing in Washington, were drowned last night when their automobile plunged into Rock Creek after a collision. Park police said the car side-swiped another, went out of con-( trol down a 20-foot embankment and into 10 feet of water.

The creek, which runs through a wooded parkway In downtown Washington, was swollen by heavy rains in advance of Hurricane Connie. The four bodies were found In the car when it was lifted ashore by a crane. Capital Parking Free, But Motorists Forget WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 W1. Tarklng on downtown Washing ton streets has been free since nas uten uco aiatc the cuyj iransii sumc July 1 But forgetful motorists are still feeding coins Into the park- ing meters.

In fact they spent $12,150.44 unnecessarily that f0Und a trough leading her hm and other mid-Atlantic states, The neculiar behavior known the Fukiwhara ffprt ha thrown Diane off balance, and; path toward the north-north- See DIANE Page 4, Col. 8 Blessed Event Gets Deduction On Rent ELLENDALE, N. Aug. 13 (iP. House hunters plagued by that sign "no chttdrenr wanted" would love Bell.

Bell currently is building six new houses and plans three more next year. He says that anytime a couple renting from him has a blessed event he will give them a month's free rent. Bell feels the first few years are the toughest for a young couple. Then, too, he's the father of 16 children, Soviets, Italy Sign Agreement on Trade MOSCOW. Aug.

13 I). Russia will send Italy oil, oil products, timber, anthracite, and other goods under a trade agreement signed here yesterday, the Soviet press reported today. Pravda, Izvestia, and other papers in the brief announcement said Italy would send Russia artificial silk, fruit, and hoisting gear. They did not mention the value of the exchanges. A Storm Here's How You By WILLIAM SCHMIDT "Yes.

ma'am, this is the Weather Bureau. No, we don't know just what time Hurricane Connie will arrive here. "Yes, we are still forecasting hurricane winds for Sussex County and gale winds here. Gale winds? They run up to about 50 or 55 miles an hour." That's what the people at the weather station at New Castle County Airport said over and over hundreds of times yesterday afternoon. They said It cheerfully and willingly amid jangling telephones, rattling teletype machines, and a room full of people, all talking at once.

If you stood back at one side and watched the scene, you won dercd why some one didn't say: but with the winds overnight running only about 35 miles an hour and up to 52 miles an hourl in gusts, there was none of theii wholesale destruction that Hur-, 8 o'clock this morning were re ported normal in the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, although in New Castle, the Delaware River made its usual storm visit to cellars of homes on the Fiver side of The Strand. The only reported concentration of tree damage was on the property of M. G. Milliken, a former vice president of the Hercules Powder Company, who lives on the Lancaster Pike at Wooddale. Five large -trees crashed down there during the See COUNTY Page 4, Col.

7 British Army Post Raided IRA Band Overpowers Guards, Steals Arms, Ammunition and Flees READING, England, Aug. 13 11. An armed band of about 20 men, identified as members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army (IRA), raided a British Army barracks today, and seized a quantity of machineguns, rifles and ammunition. Scotland Yard gave chase, warning: "These men are heavily armed and desperate. They Aiu ngnt for their lives." All police throughout the country were alerted.

Guards were rushed to all big seaports and air fields, and other precau tions were laxen against a possi ble wave of IRA terrorism. IRA See ARMY POST Page 3, Col. 3 1 Bus Driver Spanks Rider, Gets Fined LONDON, Aug. 13 (IP). A r'," a 19-ycar- gin passenger wno nan com- plained about the service.

"ven'i lawyer said the con. had regarded the lncl Havens lawyer said the con- dent "harmless fun," is a thing that Is often done between a young man and a girl," he said. Hits the Weatherman Denver about 4 p. EDT. He Probably will stay there until sometime in October.

Games Postponed National League Philadelphia at Brooklyn, rain. Pittsburgh at New York, rain. American League Nur Vnrk it RilMmnrii ti-at grounds. 10 of other crewmen bailed out a B-29 over North Korea. Schmidt's 2V-year-old son.

1 Aff of Harold Berliner. Una's attorney, for the reunion. After a three-hour meeting. with his wife, Schmidt said he Were Told the i why don't you turn on your radio? We're busy out here." AirmanSchmidtAsksPrivacy After Futile Talk With Wife But, they didn't, ana the long someimng ukc whs: and tiresome Job of keeping an HAT 121308E EYE 24254 eye on Connie went on without aTERF RAD FIX. hitch as the rain poured down As translated by Guy C.

An-outside and the wind sighed and'derson, metereologist-in-charge, whistled around the airport; that meant the weather station terminal. jat Cape Hatteras on Aug. 12 at This was the nerve center 13:08 hours (1:08 p. had got-the most important place In the ten a perfect radar fix on the state yesterday while Connie eye of Hurricane That tried to make up her mind Just cryptic 24254 meant the eye Today's Index Page Amusements 14 Answers to Questions 12 Church 15 Classified 21-22-23-24-23 Comics 2t Culbertson on Cards 17 Death Notices 21 Editorials 12' Financial 21 Obituary 21 Radio and Television 19-26 Society Sports 18.19 Women's Interests had nothing to say now. He judRe flnec bus conductor Doug-said he would remain in this cr an NEVADA CITY, Aug.

13 Airman Daniel C. Jschmidt, disturbed and irrl first time, and held a lengthy but Inconclusive conference with his remarried wife today. The meeting was neld In private, and ihe 22-year-old flier, vii laavfc 110 OVU iUl HIC a y.wuuci ui mc viunese ugin- a pruoner of the Chinese Com- u.ui..i iui muuuis, SB1U ne would nave three or four more meetings with his wife before making any decision on his mar- riage. The wife. Una.

savs she mar ried logger Alford Fine, 21. last September In the belief Schmidt had been killed when he and Pftmmunltu until thl. thlnff wnrkpri Anri I w. C. T.

a I Vl rcV base ne ar San Francisco ffint tZ lu 1 us nl' asked lelfvlsion nd new, See SCHMIDT Page 3, Col. 2 what she was going to do to i Delaware Out of this small office flowed the "official" reports that kept, Dclawareans up to he minute on the hurricane situation. Here's how you found out the story of Connie I A teletype machine, hooked I way last month. The 44 cents came from pen nies put in by.