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Everybody In Broward County Reads THE Inside The Newt A complete round-up of the news created through the state by the hurricane which is now sweeping across the peninsula will be found on page 5-A of this newspaper. The big storm, which it still raging, swept across many cities leaving destruction in the wake of winds which topped 100 miles per hour. Lauderdale Daily Smile In The Newi MIAMI. AP) The midnight weather report from Lake Placid, 1b central Florida, read thl way on the Miami bureau's teletype: "Wind indicator blew away. Palm trees blown down.

Observer will blow away if he foes out to estimate winds." Halt an hour earlier he reported a wind Telocity of 80 miles mm hour. Fort ews FULL NEA SERVICE AND TELEPHOTO MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND EVENING SENTINEL PRICE: FIVE CENTS Dial 2-3711 12 Pages FORT LAUDERDALE. FLORIDA. SATURDAY. AUGUST 27, 1949 38th Year.

No. 300 J1 AfPlml Qi LMJA IN IN IN (rW A-Nr fcn UJ 125-Mile Winds Pompano Gets Hurricane Clouds As 'Big Blow' Moves Northward Hundreds Homeless In Wake Of Blow; Destruction Heavy Worst Of Blow; Houses Rocked Storm Lashes Palms, Pines In Hollywood By JOHN HOPKEVS Daily News Staff Writerl Palm trees and Australian pines Twentv Nine Houses Destroyed At Pompano Beach By SANDY BROWN Daily News Staff Writer During Friday's Blow Broward county, bowed slightly but not beaten by Fri Damage Estimated At Many Millions Of Dollars; POMPANO BEACH Most of Broward county may think today West Palm Beach Hit Severely MIAMI. (IF) A renegade tropical hurricane whirled out that Friday's blow wasn't much of a hurricane after all but people don't think that in Pompano got a break in Friday's lashing hurricane since the big wind blew almost constantly from the west and gave them a slightly new look in contrast with the traditional "westward ho" lean. day's grinding hurricane, began the cleanup task today while the howling winds roared northward through Florida northwest of Tampa. The leaden post-hurricane clouds parted briefly this morning and the sun beamed down on stricken Pompano Beach hardest hit Broward county community before retiring behind the clouds to let the Beach.

over the Gulf of Mexico for a second punch at Florida today leaving one dead, hundreds homeless and property damage in the millions in the state's rich resort and citrus areas. They say the winds reached 155 miles per hour, and after spending most of Friday afternoon driving Such minor items as these as Somewhat tamed as it crossed land, the freakish storm was around the Pompano Beach. Deerfield Beach area, I would sumed major importance in south Broward county where only superficial damage was sustained. rain beat down again. The hurricane unleashed its full fury at Pompano Beach, scene of last October's twister which destroyed 29 houses in south Pompano.

No damage agree. So would Josh Fuller, negro, who was sitting in the living estimates were available. The northwest winds which reached a maximum sustained velocity of 125 miles an expected to resume hurricane strength in a six to eight hour crossing of the gulf probably to the Apalachicola-Talla-hassee area. "Winds will continue to increase in northwest Florida," said W. R.

Davis, Miami storm forecaster. 4The center will cross the coastline again around nightfall, possibly a bit earlier or later, according to the storm's behavior now that it is over water again." Davis reminded residents in the old south section of Florida: "You are under hurricane warnings. These warnings have been hoisted from Cedar Key to Carrabelle and of course extend to inland hour with gusts up to an estimated 158 miles an hour, ripped and tore through Pompano Beach Friday afternoon and evening. Three homes in the city's negro section were de Calmness generally prevailed although there were several Instances during the early part of the afternoon when some automobile drivers appeared to feel that they could beat the winds in a race to some where or that the emergency gave them license to break all rules of highway safety. Early in the afternoon, a tour room of his frame house next door to the police station at the height of the storm.

"All of a sudden the house began to rock," Fuller said. "It rocked back and forth on molished, two lost tools. A wing the foundations, and then the of Avondale apartments on state road A-1A was blown away. The roof came off and the wind roared in, tearing at the walls," he re Orange Bowl restaurant on Fed of Dania Beach blvd. revealed that police had barricaded the beach calls.

era! hwy. at Atlantic blvd. was Lucky Break Keeps Damage crannied. On end of Internation Fuller grabbed his wife and points behind this coastal area. No new formal advisory Is planned until 4 pjn because the area now is under hurricane warnings.

Persons in exposed places are urged to heed the warnings." Once again, evacuation of planes and persons from danger spots was under way, just as it was Friday on the Florida east coast. The storm cut park road and white caps were even then spilling over the high baby and rushed through the al warehouse on Hammondville rd. was blown off. Plate glass screeching winds to the safety of ridge like" sun bathing area, one the police station. a wide swath of destruction on windows were blown out of sev eral buildings.

The station itself was none too of the "highest" in the county. Metal road signs standing on slender iron stems began their its way across the peninsula af AREA HIT BY HURRICANE Communities on east coast of Florida located between two black lines were hardest To Minimum comfortable. Water was spewing Wind-Driven Despite the havoc created by the battering winds, no injuries in under a door, the-roof leaked, storm antics during the early gales the building trembled in the big were reported. Occupants of the hit by Friday's hurricane that slashed its way across the 4 state an entered the Gulf of 5eyr in the Cedar Keys by doing intriguing "twist and gusts. and the radio -transmitter fast grind dances" only to in collapsed houses escaped un hurt.

By PHILIP Wf IDLING (Dally News SUif Writer) was out. ponce kept in touch- witn many Instances end up later in weird, maneled shaDes and tied ter pounding the east coast and searing the Lake Okeechobee region. It Wept thro'ugh Florida's rich citrus belt and was last reported by the weather bureau over Pasco county on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico above Tampa. Stuart Red Cross disaster of the outside world" with the Thorough preparations, effici area at 1:30 a. m.

today. A pictorial review of the storm racing through Broward county is recorded on Page One of the Second section. Pompano Beach was Isolated from the rest of the county as Dirty Ocean Lashes Coast radiotelephones in the patrol cars. down by police who tired of their ent administration, and a wonder I left the station at 4 p. far as communications were con disrupting actions.

I iui break which saw all the highest winds come from the just as the storm was coming in cerned when telephone service HIGH, DRY The Hollywood Beach hotel at full blast out of the Atlantic. west, kept both damage and dis Reporter Pinned Down Driving east along Atlantic blvd. went out during the height of the storm. Service was restored at 6 d. m.

today. comfort to a minimum in Ft. the height of the storm was stand watched palm fronds and sev ficials reported at least 500 homeless In the east coast city. Lauderdale during the hurricane ing high and dry with no turbu eral whole pine trees sail by across The maximum sustained wind which struck the city Fridav. lent, crunching waves battering By LAWSON E.

PARKER Daily News Staff Writer A dirty brown ocean lashed Ft At west Palm Beach the Red the road ahead. Exactly how hieh the wind hW the structure as high as the second Objects kept striking the car floor as is usually the case when nere is not known, but the wind Cross estimated more than 2,000 of the city's 7,000 homes had been damaged. The baseball Dark Lauderdale famous beach as a dismal, gray dawn broke today. winds come out of the east. Richard Wright, hotel general gauge located in the Lauderdale Beach hotel broke at 100 miles pebbles clanking off windows gave you the annoying idea that the next object would be a rock, and grandstand collapsed.

Storm Forces Slash Pompano For Two 'Long' Hours Friday By LUKE WARREN Daily News Staff Writer POMPANO BEACH. I was pinned down by the grinding steam The sun refused to shine on the hurricane-whipped city covered by manager, cooperated witn 'ine per hour, and Lee Wagener, in Two companies of national that it would come at you through cnarge, estimated that this was velocity of 125 miles per hour was recorded at 8 p. m. The lull came 9 at 10 p. m.

Within half hour the wind was shrieking and wailing again, continuing until It died down at 2 a. m. today. The highest recorded wind velocity in Broward county was reported as 158 miles an hour at Hillsboro light house over which the eye of the storm passed. The hurricane did not follow guardsmen patrolled the streets a leaden sky.

the windshield. Daily News staff men in getting photographs. Wright took Photographer Charles Ralston and well before the peak was The streets were littered with me ract that the winds wprc The object that did come was garbage can. It came bounding to prevent looting of stores whose windows had been smashed. West Palm Beach Sheriff John F.

Kirk fallen trees, thousands of coco irom western points of the com nuts, palm fronds, tree limbs pass, added to the fact that they said they were needed to curb broken plate glass, twisted signs roller of a full-fledged hurricane here Friday afternoon at Hillsboro came at wnat would normally and other debris. this reporter to the seventh floor. A screen was removed from a south corner room window so Ralston could snap a coast line shot and one almost due west showing the wind battered panorama of the Intracoastal canal and South Lake residential vandalism in the city's badly hit business district. BRIDGES IMPASSABLE nave Deen low tide, held damage at the beach to a minimum. the usual pattern In Broward But, in the early morning hours of the day after 1949's w.

county. Although the storm blew first hurricane, scores of motor at me from the left, slammed my left rear mudguard, and took off across a field. WENT SWIMMING At the ocean, the wind was bowing against the incoming surf, taking the top half right off the waves as they curled up and over to break. I stayed here long enough to hear about the two fellows who had gone swimming a in from the ocean, the top winds A number of bridges were im wagener estimated that the eye of the storm passed this city only six miles at sea at about Inlet, and for two full hours, saw, felt, heard, tasted, and smelled the monster roar north along the beach with a speed registered at 158 miles per hour at the height of its passage. I saw Hillsboro lighthouse, one of the largest and strongest south of Cape Hatteras, shudder and shake in the cluch of the giant's hand.

Another steel structure at the U. S. Coast Guard light station, a 130-foot high radio tower, was twisted by the storm's fury. m- here were from the west-north passable because of washouts and wind damage. west and the west, instead of the p.

m. At this time waves break east. The hurricane was preceded ists were headed for the beach. Beachcombers by the tens marched up and down, crawled on hands and knees looking for valuables uncovered by the Continued on Page 6-Al Two bridges were imDassable ing on the second reef, a half by strong north-northeast gales mne out, were sending a white around Lake Okeechobee. But the lake itself big killer of the 1928 Friday morning.

pan or spray 40 feet into the air, Old-Timers little while before. The Friday night high tide did wind. me strong west wind was nurncane behaved like a lamb as the hurricane swept past. U. S.

Army engineers said water was However, the beach, except for not force the ocean over state road A-1A at Pompano Beach as Damage to buildings at adjacent Hillsboro ciun was at a minimum following preparations for the blow by veteran storm-wise Lutber Isier, caretaker for the exclusive club. But glass windows, screens, shingles, afid roofing were whipped away into the dim gray light to be entagled with the matted debris of hundreds of trees, shrubs, vines and wreckage. the lack of sunshine and clean expected. However, the oceanfront They apparently had a lot of fun bathing in the 10-foot waves and boiling surf, but left when they couldn't find a dry towel. I drove up A1A, skirting fallen water, looked much as it usually well below the danger level.

That took the pressure off at the start. does. Although the surf was heavy roadway was blocked from Ft Lauderdale to West Palm Beach Recall Winds Of Yesteryear from a southeast wind this morn The Coast Guard station, itself, was securely battened down by said, fallen trees and shattered ing, Friday's hurricane blasts came under direction of Chief Warren Bennett, commanding officer. utility poles. pines which half blocked the road and easing through foot-deep water.

Here I saw flying coconuts. from -the west and littered the Stuart reported six casualties and Fort Pierce two. The only deajth to date was the swimmer drowned off Miami Friday. Red Cross and national truard Florida Power and Light co. ported Its greatest damage west of An automobile driven by Town Marshall Amo Ageletti of Hillsboro Mile was engulfed by two large rubber trees which fell directly onto it as it was parked in the lee of the club's recreation hall, our beach with land debris, reversing the usual hurricane procedure lamng trees, ana a VFW emer By MARGARET TWIGGS (Daily News Staff Writer) Pompano Beacn.

me twisting gency rescue crew, which had iicKing the tops off the waves as they approached shore and sending spray and foam back out to sea. The effect was spectacular. The huge swells came in with majestic deliberation, and broke into foam with little shoreward sweep, although a number of times they did reach out over Atlantic blvd. The east wind that would have resulted, had the "eye" been on the landward side of the beach and would have caused a sweep that would have torn up much of the roadway, according to observers. tne Red Cross headquarters, 719 SE Second ct, order prevailed wind felled 15 poles on West units teamed up to evacuate 60 stopped to help out a driver with As Broward countians set about haven of safety.

TREES FALL Dixie north of Hammond storm refugees in West Palm a stalled car. cleaning up after 1949s first ville rd- and 20 transmission line Beach when winds whipped off the poles between Pompano Beach rooi or a hurricane shelter. That would be a bad place to be stalled, when you knew the ocean might come right up over the stimated 100 mile Der hour Florida hurricane today memories of hectic moments Friday mingled with those of storms of yesteryears. Whether these memories will As the trees fell, our windows at the club were blasted out with the soured of a cannon. Isler and his wife, Ruth, snatched up their two small girls and we struggled and stumbled into another building.

Food, dry clothing, water, and other necessities were abandoned to a flood of wind and rain which swept into the shattered windows and enerulfed the hall instantly. Seven negro employes of the and Highland rd. The only storm injuries report winds broke a skylight and blew mgnway in a matter or one or ed occurred before the hurricane. off a section of the roof of the two hours, and when you could Two men were treated at Broward that flattens the beach and piles the sand to the westward. Sand from Friday's high tide closed Atlantic blvd.

a half-mile north of Sunrise blvd. causeway. Access to Harbor Beach was barred by drifted sand across the depression at old New river inlet. Atlantic blvd. in front of the Frederick Bartletf estate south of the causeway, ordinarly covered by several feet of sand after a hurricane, was littered instead today with pine tree limbs broken off by the fierce gusts out of the west.

be blown away like a leaf if you Conniston school four miles from downtown West Palm Beach. General hospital for minor in leit tne car. temporarily closed club shared our new haven. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6-A juries suffered in preparing their Rescue units boarded an emer homes for the blow. Two were in Meanwnue, me nurncane was thundering to the north, ripping into Deerfield Beach.

Boca Raton, and the Palm Beaches. I decided jured in pre-hurricane accidents gency bus and drove through the storm to the school. The refugees formed a hand-to-hand chain to ujiuuguuut me storm as a corps of volunteer drivers remained on the alert. Emergency supplies were routed out quickly where- rank Friday's storm in the same category as the ones of '26 or '47 only the future can tell. But Friday old timers were placing It right along with the "grandaddy of them aU, the one of '26! That is they were up around Pompano Beach where at times the fanatical gusts of wind were whipping up toward 150 miles in Hollywood.

Two other persons to find out what it was doing up were treated at Hollywood hospital for injuries suffered in a reach the bus. They were taken to the county court house for shelter. THE WORLD TODAY NEWS BULLETINS ever neeaea. tnere, ana started north on Fed eral hwy. bar brawl.

Another 200 refugees at the mil In. Ft. Lauderdale, the county itary trail shelter were moved to About halfway to Deerfield FAIRLY DRY Telephone service remained unimpaired throughout the emergency, although a staff of amateur radio men were located at the headquarters, ready to go into Beach I started to rationalize, and per hour. weather station operated at Lau derdale Beach hotel by Lee Wag On the whole, the city was fair decided I couldn't make it. You In the early afternoon while the winds were under 50 miles WEST PALM BEACH DIGS OUT WEST PALM BEACH.

UP) Damage in a three mile area in this Florida east coast resort city was estimated at couldn't see the white line more ener, reported a maximum sustained wind velocity of 80 miles ly dry despite the steady rain through the hurricane period, last night and this morning. The city's than 10 feet ahead with an hour I left American Red An auxiliary plant suDnlied bright lights on. On top of Cross headquarters at 719 SE different part of the building when water and wTind damaged the structure. At 10 a. m.

the U. S. weather bureau pinpointed the hurricane 50 miles north northwest of Tampa, moving in a northwesterly direction about 16 miles per hour. Hurricane warnings were lowered on the east coast south of over $4,000,000 today in a preliminary survey made by the trunk drainage system completed during the past year at a cost of Second ct. with Bud Hyatt on an power for the headquarters when the Florida Power and Lieht co an hour with gusts up to 100 miles van hour.

The top south Broward county winds were gusts of 100 miles an hour in Hallandale and Dania and 90 miles an hour in emergency call to Lauderdale-by (Continued on Page 6-A) Church Opposes about $300,000 paid dividends. The area around Broward Gen the-sea and Pompano Beach. (Continued on Page 4-B.) Red Cross. As the city dug out from beneath tons of debris twisted metal, shattered glass, foliage and neon signs there were no reports of any deaths and comparatively few injured. cut its master switches at about 4:45 p.

m. Power was turned back on in most sections of the city during the night. eral hospital was dry. There was Hollywood. no water in the downtown area, Legal Gambling Melbourne and around Lake Okee The wind In Ft.

Lauderdale dropped to 45 miles an hour at along NE Seventh ave. and in the Brown Hyatt, chairman of NE Third ave. drainage bowl. 10 p. m.

when the hurricane warn First evidence of organized op NEW STORM BREWING The northeast and northwest me Broward county disaster preparedness committee remained chobee. Southeast storm warnings went up from Melbourne to St. Augustine. The weather bureau advised caution against hurricane winds ings were lowered from here to Miami. Lowest pressure here was MIAMI.

Iff) Word that a new storm threat was de streets near Andrews aye. which generally were flooded during (Continued on Page 5-A) position to any further legalization of gambling in this state to show up locally appeared today in a resolution adopted by the pastor similar rains were dry and pas in the Apalachee Bay area and said heavy gales would continue sable. There were no reports of PHONES DELAYED The Southern Bell Telephone veloping in the Atlantic arose while forecasters were heavily occupied today. The weather bureau acknowledged the report to this extent: A Pan American airways forecaster stationed in Dakar, on the west African coast, reported to and memoers or tne Northside 28.94 inches, at Dania 29.15 inches and at Hollywood 29.18 inches. The rain was steady, but not as heavy as in 1947 and 1948 hurricanes.

The maximum fall recorded was 3.6 Inches. any houses under water. DROWARD COUNTY news broadcasts are heard over over the remainder of northern Methodist church. The resolution declares that gambling, legal or However, many streets In scat Florida the rest of the day. co reported today that there is a "three to four hour delay" on WTTL 14001 and WGOR-fm tered areas were under water Hurricane warnings are now up not, is morally harmful and adds the U.

S. weather bureau that a tropical low had moved 106.5 Monday through Saturday where there are depressions. These calls from here to Deerfield Broward county Red Cross east of Carrabelle to Cedar Keys, that no permanent solution of at 8 a. noon, 5 p. m.

and are local conditions which the into the Atlantic from the African coast with storm warnings elsewhere economic conditions can be ac Beach. The delay is caused by heavy traffic, however, and not 6 p. m. Complete weather reports drainage system does not attempt from Fort Myers to Panama City complished through legalization. to cure.

by hurricane damage itself. Phone on the west coast. CITRUS LOSSES REPORTED HEAVY are included in all county newscasts. Mostly cloudy this afternoon with Continued on Page 6-A service to Pompano Beach was STOVE ABLAZE LAKELAND. UP) Grim citrus growers today were sur A legalized gambling bill is expected to be presented to the state legislature in a special session to begin at noon, Sept.

7. restored in full at 6 a. m. today. preparedness and disaster committees headed by C.

Brown Hyatt reported all shelters, which housed a total of 1,200 persons, weathered the storm well and without any trouble. Babies and persons who were ill were taken care of by trained ARC personnel. SHOW POSTPONED veying groves hit a terrific blow by the hurricane which few showers this afternoon and tonight, becoming partly cloudy on Sunday. Diminishing southwest to south winds becoming moderate on Sunday. TEMPERATURE REPORT a.m., 74; 9 a.m., 75; 19 a.m., 76; 11 a.m., 78; HOLLYWOOD.

The free flight SPONGE ACT WASHINGTON. IS) A bill swept the heart of the interior citrus belt today. Industry spokesmen estimated that the damage would be in the mil model airplane meet scheduled by PUBLIC HEALTH JACKSONVILLE UP) it's up the Hollywood Optimist club for asking $250,000 for the interior department to conduct research and experiments in natural Supplies of blankets, mattresses noon, hi; i p.m., gz. SUNDAY'S TIDES (Port Evereladet Ft. Lauderdale firemen who didn't have a call during the hurricane, were summoned to 716 SE 24th Saturday when an alcohol stove in use because power was not on flared up.

The occupant, Mrs. A. Majada, had the fire out before the trucks arrived, firemen said. Perry field on Sunday has been postponed for a week, it was an to the people of Florida to decide how much money they want to spend for public health, said Dr. lions.

Just how high was anybody's guess at this time. In this area, principal damage was to the early grapefruit crop, which would have been ready to market in another and beds for shelters brought here in a truck convoy from the Army airfield at Orlando. nounced today by Jack Jones. sponges has been introduced by Senators Holland and Pepper inlet) High tides, Will a.m., 11:42 p.m. Low tides, 4:51 a.m., 5:27 p.m.

MONDAY'S TIDES (Port Everglades Inlet) High tides, 11:50 p.m., 12:11 p.m. Low tides, 5:43 a.m, 6:28 p.m. Wilson T. snowder. state health chairman or the club's meet com (D-Fla.) officer.

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