Star Tribune from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 5

Till-: MINNKAPqUS TKIKI'NK: TUESDAY Vxv.t Legionnaires9 Relief Trainin 1 1 LilOKE CAo Jill TORNADO? TUFA' ALL DROVE OUT TO SEE IT. leje Once Were Homes VETS PHEPARED 1 ALL TIES' Leave Meeting When Storm Strikes to Take Over Until National Guards Arrive, i I i i i Flit i i Hundreds of Anoka residents were thankful to see the uniforms of American Legion volunteers as the legionnaires moved to the task of aiding in restoring order after the tornado swept through the town. But few residents realized the systematic organization that was in back of the legionnaire's efforts. i Buff Photo. "'ki The Anoka tornado brought out the curious ho I- jammed highways leading into the storm area and i Jt hampered the work of police and volunteer workers i Mi, 7iT" 1 who were aiding in rescue work.

This line of cars stretched two abreast for more than mile on the The tenth district legion was having a meeting in Anoka at the River road and the St. Paul cut-off. They were time the tornado struck. A few moments later the legionnaires stopped by highway patrolmen. The jam was ao great that traffic could not move in either direction.

were at work, speeding the process of bringing order out of confusion and aiding in activities until the MUST EAT TO WORK national guardsmen arrived. The Relief Agencies Join speed with which the legion units x- -r V' set to work was explained Monday night by Russell F. Bertelsen, commander of the fifth district American Legion, who attended the Anoka meeting. Belief Corps Members. In Tornado Clean-up WPA Maket $25,000 Available to Stricken Area-Red Crots and Salvation Army Take Part in Rehabilitation Work.

i i. 4. All members of the American Legion, he said, are members of the legion emergency relief corps. They are organized and trained for such a situation as was created Sunday. The organization has been active since 1932 when it was to Anoka Monday, said the first step would be to determine the ex Private and governmental relief agencies joined Monday in the founded under direction of Oscar Youngdahl, who was then district work of rehabilitation in the Anoka act wants and financial situations of those who suffered property commander.

Purpose of the corps Is to "pro losses in the storm. Red Cross' Fart. J' .51 vide a thoroughly organized unit to furnish immediate assistance in Rehabilitation work of the Red Cross, varying with individual case of a local major disaster, in cases according to need, will in volving injury or loss of life and property, until such a time as the elude repairing and replacing of homes and other damaged or de proper authorities may be in position to assume the Photo. All of the 3,400 legionnaires of stroyed property, Mr. Schaeffer said.

Three Red Cross disaster workers, Gertrude Force, Frances into Tribune Staff Treserved fruit remains. 15. M. Eastman and Mrs. Iiessie Hunt gazed ruefully Monday this Anoka basement which, up until 3:30 p.

m. Sunday, had a house over it. i iy the fifth district, comprising Hen nepin county, are available for Blackburn and Nonie Heffernan, relief work, Bertelsen said, and were on their way from St. Louis 1,500 legionnaires could be present and Hennepin county tornado area. WPA made $25,000 available immediately under an emergency disaster project approved by Howard O.

Hunter in Washington following telephone conversations with Linus Glotzbach, Minnesota administrator. Two hundred men were sent into the storm area by WPA. John G. Alexander, third district Minnesota congressman, in Washington asked that the $25,000 allotment be doubled. State WPA offices also said additional funds would be requested if a survey showed more money is needed.

Necessities Ordered. Directions to place all needed cots, tents, trucks and other army equipment at the disposal of the Red Cross was ordered in Washington by Brigadier General George P. Tyner, assistant chief of staff in charge of supplies. General Tyner informed Congressman Alexander that orders to make the equipment available had been sent to Fort Snelling and to to Anoka Monday night. at any scene within an hour's The Hennepin county Red Cross notice.

said that it would need funds for Immediate Action, relief work and that contributions should be sent to Theodore Wold Colonel Charles A. Green, in charge of the national guardsmen treasurer, at the Northwestern Na 1 1-v A Ul 1 IK i'Ii AlWllll-IMBMMlMMMMiMWilialMl in the storm area, is general chair tional bank in Minneapolis. Funds from the national Red Cross were assured because the tornado hit man of the fifth district emergency relief corps. Three hundred legion naires went to work bunday as more than one county. mi- -A soon as the tornado passed by.

Important aid in the storm area also was given by the Salvation The corps has its own supply officer who handles food, clothing and housing for both victims and Army, which sent 40 men and eight trucks loaded with food to Anoka from Minneapolis soon after the storm struck. Monday the men from workers; a transportation officer me eignm corps neadquarters who directs vehicle activities; Omaha. the industrial division of the Sal medical committee in charge of The Red Cross, which aided in the preliminary work Monday, will arranging for medical supplies vation Army assisted in clearing finance officer who handles the away debris. Major Lorin Corliss, funds, a communications officer division commander, said the trucks Tribune Staff Photo. Private R.

L. Iluckins of the 151st field artillery, storing op provisions in the commissary set op in Anoka to feed the soldiera ho are quartered there to preserve order and help with the rev cue work. who directs communications, and begin its permanent rehabilitation program Tuesday. R. T.

Schaeffer, assistant to the manager of the midwestern branch office of the Red Cross in St. Louis, who went will be used Tuesday to haul home patrol officer who is in charge less families and their possessions to new quarters. of patrolling a stricken area. SALVATION ARMY COMES THROUGH Old Anoka Hospital itff ft'1 'f rVkL-w WsjL -V "trW Is 'Horn 'forRefu gees Tribuiif Stuff Photo Three families were residents of this dwelling In Anoka before the tornado btruck. Two of occupants, George Bauer and Harry Havers, on ladder, found this wreckage of the home when of the families returned.

The third family, that of Victor Anderson, was visiting in North ota. I the two Sixteen tornado refugees, made building were Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Harrington and their three children, Warren, 9, Philip, 11, and Dako homeless by the storm, had dinner Monday evening in the old V5 Bessie, 7, and Mr. and Mrs.

Clar Kline hospital in Anoka. They ence Bradway and their five chil dren, Artis, 20, Delmon, 18, Otis, 16, Russell, 14. and Marietta, 12. were the first of about 60 men, women and children who will be housed and fed there. 4 4 Both families had lived in seven- At 2 p.

m. a clean-up crew mov room houses in Anoka, the Har ed into the long-vacant hospital, l-A j.JZ ringtons at 636 Johnson street, and the Bradways at 2903 Seventh avenue north. Both houses were the large white building set back from Ferry street near the Mississippi river. Except for a grandfather's clock that was cleaned and Ray Milne in Charge. Ray Milne of the state relief 1 started, there was little usable furniture in the place.

Every room was deep in dust and littered with refuse. agency was in charge of the pre paring of the Kline hospital for Beds Moved In. Four hours later the clean-up occupancy by homeless residents of the storm area. Holt Warn was in crew, made up of 25 men from the Minnesota valley transient camp 1- Pit vuv near Savage, had completed its "A 1 work. Beds had been moved in r.

-6 and made up, other necessary fur 1- -aA r' n5. niture was installed, and Harry stalled as superintendent. The rapid transformation of the property, Milne said, was possible because under orders from Governor Stassen the Minnesota valley camp recently was reorganized for emergency work. Furniture and other fixtures used at the Kline hospital were brought from the camp, Milne said, but clothing and food for the refugees will be bought locally. Kiefner, the cook, had a pork chop dinner ready to serve.

Among the first to move into the Tribune stall Photo. Tribune Staff Photo. -i ii 1 1 I 1 1 1. Salvation Army crews and trucks were on hand to help stricken residents of Anoka to move their belongings from storm-wrecked homes to other places. This group is taken on a load of salvage from a demolished house.

L.lKe war refugees, inese victims patneu wiiai oeionRings iney coil Hi irum ine wreciv of a farm home near Champlin. Left to right: Florence Kuszer, Mrs. Elmer Bulow and Frank Kuszer, farm owner. in HAS A i PASSES ISSUED-NOT TO SIGHTSEERS DEATH TRAP FOR 1 SCOUTS PROVE VALUE STOHMYTIMEOFIT While the Anoka tornado will be recorded as one of Minnesota's bad ones, there have been several that were worse. Some of the worst: l'A' Sr -sA A A The tornado that struck Lake Pepin above Lake City July 13, 1890, and capsized the steamer Sea Wing with loss of 97 lives.

1 sf5 -i St. Cloud, April 14, 1886, with 70 'f fit -4 1 killed one of the earliest fatal tor nadoes on record. ANS Vr MV LiV A A'. -A! -Q, asj. Us v-- 4 Fergus Falls, June 22, 191955 killed.

Tyler, August 21, 191830 killed The much-recorded St. Paul 1 1 twister of 1904, which carried off a portion of the high bridge, killed only four persons. The Rochester storm of 1883, which brought the 's v' 1J Mayos there to form their clinic, injured many but killed none. A few of the more damaging tor i- V.T .3 1 1--. i fc1 i 'lima a Jk v.

ex It. bur. stall Pboto. nadoes of recent years include: Carver county and vicinity, June 2, 1925, five dead; Austin, August 20, 1928, six dead; Randolph, Minn, to Menomonie, Wis, June 13, 1930, six dead; northern Minneapolis to Clayton, April 5, 1929, eight dead. Four Minneapolis persons were killed when Sunday's tornado hurled this car nearly 1,000 feet and scattered the occupants over a field a mile east of Corcoran township.

The dead are Mrs. Anna Freeman, her two daughters, Miss Ellen Freeman and Mrs. James Bradley, and her son-in-law, James Bradley, all of 3011 Yt'cbt River road. Boy Scouts from troop 112 of Coon Rapid distributed pamphlets ta residents of Anoki Monday telling them where find various relief agencies set un in that community. Left right are Robert Franke, Paul Doty and Mrs.

A. A. Meyer. Trtbun Ptff Photo. National guard soldiers issue passes to Anoka citizens and others having business in that storm-stricken community so they may go through guard lines.

The passes were issued at offices in the undcmolishcd part of the armory building..