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FULL PAGES OF HURRICANE PICTURES ON 7, 2, 3 SECTION AND 7 SECTION FINAL EDITION MI AM THE WEATHER Miami Decreasing winds with few rain squalls early in day but becoming partly cloudy by the afternoon. U. S. weather table, page 4 A. I DAILY NEWS TEN CENTS FOUR SECTIONS PHONE 3-1 191 MIAMI 30, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1945 oj oj fry rp (c p3 a IV7I iPn til VAiiltilBuCS JL lit fill 1 I II I 1 UULJVC L-JLTU Aircraft VOL NO.

275 r. I. Lost; 5 At Elichmon mm Dama Kl I IS up the debris. northwest and northward. It will continue to curve, probably terminating in a northeastern movement.

Winds on the west Florida coast from Fort Myers northward to Tampa will increase rapidly within the next few hours. Hurricane warnings remain displayed over the entire Florida peninsula. Interests on the Georgia and Carolina coasts should remain on the alert" for futrher advisories." At midnight last night wind velocity over Miami, officially recorded at a peak of 99 miles an hour at 6:32 p. m. yesterday, and which Ernest Carson, chief of the weather bureau here, said unofficially had exceeded 100 miles, had slowed to less than 40 miles.

One man died in the early hours of the storm. He was Chief Engineer Cecil Wedder-burn, 44, of the two-masted schooner, Icaros, Miami-bound from the Bahamas. The Icaros went around yesterday morning at 96th st. and Collins ave. Jackson Memorial hospital reported less than a dozen casualties in the storm, most of which were minor.

Patrolman V. F. Fairbanks suffered fractured ribs when he was bowled over by the wind near the courthouse. A survey of Greater Miami failed to show any considerable damage to homes or business property. Damage to trees and shrubbery caused greatest anguish among Miamians.

Torn roofs and broken windows generally Tnra Pace S-A: MIAMI Stri 1(6S Worth THE RAGING SEA BREAKS OVER THE NORTH BAYSHORE DRIVE SEAWALL NEAR MIAMI WOMAN'S CLUB Wind Mile 99 Homestead Takes Brunt Of Hurricane By GRACE WING (Special The Miami Daily ew) Homestead lay a wreck in the darkness that followed yesterday's hurricane undoubtedly the hardest-hit of any Florida city. A shortwave broad cast about midnight to the Dade county Red cross neaaquarters by County Commissioner Preston B. Bird was the first communication from the South Dade area since power lines went down about 4:30 p. m. Bird described damage to Homestead as "tremendous," and said the very center of the hurricane was believed to bave passed over the city about :30 p.

m. He added that damage to the keys was believed slight Mobile canteen units and army field stoves, to be used in preparing food for refugees from the keys and shattered homes, already were on their vay to Homestead before midnight, Maj. Gen. Henry W. Baird disaster relief chairman, reported.

When I left Homestead with Harry Elmore, a Daily News photographer, about 10 p. the city was in complete darkness. Krome ave, the main street, was under water, as was the main floor of the city hall and fire department, where a lone Florida highway patrol car was making vaia attempts to establish communication with Miami. In the darkness it was impossible to determine what damage had been done in the residential sections, but a few venturesome citizens who drove into town through tha wreckage-strewn streets reported not a house kft undamaged. Two Couples Rescued Army medical corpsmen rescued two couples from apartments in the three-story Horn Hardware bldg, on Krome ave, after winds blew in the back wall and immediately exploded a side wall outward.

One of the women, an expectant mother, was given first aid by army doctors at the city hall. Old timers recalled that tha Home bldg. was almost identically damaged in the 1926 hurricane, and that it also had caught fire at that time. First official casualty of tha storm was the Homestead police chief, Homer Sullivan, who suffered a broken finger when the wind blew a car door Tara Pace S-A: HOMESTEAD DAILY NEWS INDEX Allen Morris 5B Amusements 6-7D Anne Mergen Cartoon 4B Births 3C iVflOves Miami; Opening Of Dade Schools Postponed Until Tuesday Monday's scheduled opening of school will be delayed until Tuesday, Dr. James T.

Wilson, superintendent of public instruction, said late yesterday. "We have abandoned the idea of holding school Monday, but we will attempt to start Tuesday," Wilson told The Miami Daily News. Dade-county school personnel all who could conveniently do so were asked by Dr. Wilson to report to their schools Monday morning to aid in cleaning up the schools which were used as storm shelters. "Every time the schools have been opened, we have had to take about a day to restore the classrooms.

This request is not mandatory, but the school board would deeply appreciate all the help that we can get to keep from losing too much school work." Daily News Photo by Hamilton Heavy Hourly Readings Barometer, Wind Friday Search Ruins For Possible Fire Victims By WILLIAM H. BISCHOFF (Miami Daily Staff Writer) A roaring fire, vying in fury with the hurricane winds on which it fed, swept away the three giant hangars at the navy's Richmond, world's largest blimp base last night in a conservative ly estimated $50,000,000 blaze at the height of the hurricane. Destroyed with the three great hangars, valued at each, were 366 airplanes and 25 big blimps. Fanned by a 126-mile-an-hour wind and fed by the high test fuel in the tanks of the stored aircraft, the three gi gantic structures, said to be the largest wooden structures in the world, together with their multi-million dollar contents, were swept away within two hours. Two marines were reported to have lost their lives.

But officially, no fatalities have yet been announced. Capt. Frank I Worden, commandant of the base, said 10 search parties continued to probe the white-hot ruins for dead. Captain W7orden dispelled early reports of 200 or more casualties in the disaster. He said there were 50 injuries, but of a minor nature.

Word of the fire brought a score of ambulances to the scene. Several theories as to how the fire originated were advanced this morning. But Captain Worden said an official investigation of the catastrophe was already underway. Power Lines Blamed F. W.

Wiggins, operations manager of the Embry-Riddle aviation interests, which had 87 planes stored in the Richmond hangars, attributed the fire to collapse of No. 1 hangar under pressure of a wind he said was blowing at 125 knots. Wiggins said the falling structure ignited fuel tanks of the stored planes from broken power lines. R. C.

Ivo, Dade county patrolman, believed the No. 1 hangar was ignited when a small plane moored nearby broke its moorings, crashed into the structure and burst into flames. Others believed static electricity induced by the terrific storm had started the conflagration. The three great structures, Turn ta Page -A: RICHMOND Navy Offers Aid In Cleanup Here City Manager A. B.

Curry announced today that Vice Admiral Walter S. Anderson, commandant of the Seventh Naval district had offered to provide upward of 300 navy enlisted men to aid Miami's public service department in clearing the streets of storm debris. Cost of this job was estimated at $35,000. With such aid. Curry said, streets should be cleared of torn trees, shrubbery and other debris within 24 hours.

The navy work volunteers, he added, would be paid prevailing wages for such labor. After a four-hour tour of the city with Safety Director Dan D. Rosenfelder early today. Curry declared that the hurricane had caused "remarkably slight" property damage. He attributed this to the strict building regulations laid down after the 1926 hurricane.

Considerable damage was caused by the storm, however, to the yacht basin and fishing boat docka. Near Tavernier Telephone Poles, Trees Block Overseas Highway By MILT SOSIN (Miami Daily Krai Staff Writer) Smashing an area between Tavernier and South Miami with full force, a tropical hurricane last night left large sections of Homestead a shambles. Telephone wires were strewn across the Overseas highway like matchsticks, their wires snagging cars, the drivers of which had attempted to beat Center Of Hurricane Narrowly Misses City Hurricane-harried Miami climbed out of its storm shelter today and heard with, relief, but neighborly concern, that it was now North Florida's turn to wrestle with Old Man Wind. The metropolitan area assessed its 'loss in life and property at a relatively small figure as it moved Power Crews Repair Lines Phones And Water Being Restored By ELIZABETH LEITII (Miami Daily Ptaff Writer) Local crews of Florida Power and Light Co. went to work last night to restore power to pump water into empty city mains while awaiting arrival of 25 out-of-state crews who will aid in restoring city-wide electric service.

storm knocked out 48 cf the city's 50 main circuits, most important of which feeds pumps in Miami's Hialeah water plant. Power failure there early yesterday afternoon stopped flow of water into the major portion of the city's water mains and by 6 p. m. caused a shut-down of the incinerator pump station, leaving the entire city without water. Superintendent W.

Black, who stood by with double crews at the Hialeah plant until current could be restored, said there was still water in the seven reservoirs throughout the storm, but it could not be pumped to needy residents. The four steam-driven pumps at the incinerator station, 20th to Pace S-A: POWER to repair damage and sweep But if civilians escaped al most unscathed, the navy didn't. Single greatest tragedy of the hurricane in the Miami area was the destruction by fire of three huge, wooden hangars. 366 airplanes and 25 navy blimps with an estimated 50 casualties at the naval air station in Richmod, 20 miles southwest of Miami, at a cost of $50,000,000. Chief cause for reassurance after yesterday's 18 hours of pelting rain, flood waters and winds as high as 100 miles an hour was a conventional weather bureau forecast of: "Decreasing winds Sunday with rain squalls; Monday partly cloudy with showers." The weather bureau's hurricane advisory at 2 a.

m. today, climaxing a day of meteorological sleuthing as the tropic disturbance roared across the Atlantic to the Florida mainland, said: "The hurricane is now central about 35 miles southeast of Fort Myers. It continues to move in a direction between $100,000 Fire Razes Plants Damage estimated at more than $100,000 was caused by a fire last night which destroyed the Sunshine Products, furniture manufacturing plant at 2115 NW 17th and the adjoining Venetian Tile Marble Co. Fire Lt. E.

V. Tuttle said that one of the owners of the tile company reported his plant's loss would run approximately $75,000 for building, equipment and stock. The blaze was discovered about 9 p. m. and the terrific storm winds soon spread the flames throughout the two structures.

Firemen arrived on the scene to find water mains without pressure and were forced to use pumpers and nearby fire wells. Due to this hindrance and the high wind the fire quickly burned out the buildings. Body Of Flier Washed Ashore Police reported that the body of an army flier was washed up on the county causeway during the storm last night. Army authorities took charge of the body. No identification was announced immediately.

A basic traini.ig plane crashed into the sea two days ago off Miami Beach and two fliers, reported to be recently returned from a war area, were said to have been In the plane. Man Drowns Trying To Save Dog By DOYLE CLAY (Miami Daily Nt Staff Writrr) The chief engineer of a Ba-hamas-to-Miami schooner went to his death in the gale-whipped waters of the Atlantic at 96th st. and Collins ave. Saturday morning as he sought to rescue a pet dog from the beached craft. Cecil Wedderburn, who with six other crew members of the two-masced schooner Icaros had waded safely ashore, attempted to return to the ship against the captain's orders and was drowned withfn sight of the others before he could reach the ship.

Henry Dixon, nephew of Capt. Bonnie H. Dixon, was taken to St. Francis hospital with a smashed ankle, and Seaman Lennie Smith was treated at the 95th st. Surf-side police station for cuts about the head.

Capt. Dixon, of Grand Cayman island, Bahamas, said that the Icaros (Honduran registry, owned in Miami by J. W. Metzler) set out from Bimini in the Bahamas at 5 p. m.

last night and sailed into the full fury of the storm. The veteran skipper, who said he was torpedoed four times in Wrorld War II and had seen some "wild nights," related that he had never been through an experience to equal the fury of Friday night's storm. He explained the apparent rashness of embarking Torn to Pas S-A: SCHOOXEB the storm. Scores of Australian pines which formed a windbreak west of Florida City fell crisscross on each other across the highway to Key West a city which was scheduled to feel the full fury of the hurricane but which escaped unscathed. Boats were smashed to bits in the keys or driven aground, some of them virtually on the Overseas highway.

Sheets of salt spray leaped the highway, stalling cars, flooding the road and endangering the lives of occupants. The swank Caribbean club at Rock Harbor, once Henry L. Doherty's pet project, suffered damage estimated by Tom Hanley, operator of the club, at "more than $10,000." Station Wrecked The railroad station at Goulds broke in half, and at least one packing house there was wrecked. Fire apparatus, ambulances and evacuation busses en route to a disastrous fire at Richmond blimp base threaded their way through a dangerous maze of downed telegraph poles, wires and trees which slowed their progress to five miles an hour and threatened decapitation of drivers and relief workers. I saw five cars stalled in raging winds between Tavernier and Homestead, and from one of them Walter Davis, Daily News staff photographer, and I picked up two Miamians who worked in Key West and were trying to get Tnra to Pace S-A: KEYS Barometer Wind Wind Hour Reading Velocity Direct.

12 noon 30.01 15 mph SE 1 p. m. 30.01 14 mph ESE 2 p. m. 30.00 15 mph ESE 3 p.m.

29.99 18 mph ESE 4 p. m. 29.98 20 mph ESE 5 p. m. 29.96 15 mph ENE 6 p.

m. 29.97 7 mph ENE 7 p. m. 29.98 8 mph ENE 8 p. m.

29.99 10 mph ENE 9 p. m. 30.00 4 mph NNE 10 p. m. 30.01 3 mph NNE 31 p.m.

30.01 4 mph NNE 12 mid. 30.03 4 mph ENE Saturday 1 a.m. 29.97 Calm 2 a. m. 29.93 10 mph NNE 3 a.

m. 29.90 6 mph ENE 4 a.m. 29.88 2 mph NE 5 a. m. 29.91 7 mph 6 a.m.

29.91 22 mph 7 a. m. 29.91 20 mph 8 a. m. 29.92 24 mph NE 9 a.

m. 29.90 26 mph ENE 10 a. m. 29.86 36 mph NNE 11 a. m.

29.84 45 mph 12 noon 29.81 55 mph ENE 1 p.m. 29.75 41 mph NE 2 p. m. 29.67 56 mph NE 3 p.m. 29.54 62 mph NE 4 p.m.

29.46 71 mph NE 4 :36 p.m. 29.29 89 mph NE 5 p. m. 29.28 88 nph NE 5:11 p.m. 29.28 82 mph NE 6:32 p.m.

29.21 99 mph NE 7:02 p.m. 29.22 97 mph SE 8:15 p.m. 29.30 70 mph SE 8:44 p.m. 29.43 77 mph 9:29 p.m. 29.47 74 mph 9:50 p.m.

29.52 58 mph 10:22 p.m. 29.57 57 mph 11:00 p.m. 29.62 42 mph Boating-Fishing Books Classified Crosswords Deaths Divorces Editorials Fashions Frank Colby Horoscope Leonard Lyons Louis Bromfield Marriages Marquis Childs Miami Muse Movie Time Table Music 8B 4T 4-5-6-7C 7B 3C 3C 4B 5D 5A 4D SB SB 3C 4B 40 SD 4D S3 SD SD SG 1-2-3-4-5D 6-7-SB 3G Credit For Pictures Photographic credits in thin Uftue are due: Walter Davin, who ua the firat photographer out of the keys with picture taken at the height of the storm. Harry Elmore, who was stationed at Homestead, near the center of the atorm. Ted Lucas, who covered Miami Beach and the Icaros sinking.

Ralph Willits, who photographed Bineayne blvd. from the News tower, and supervised assignments. E. X. Hamilton, who brought back Richmond Blimp baso disaster shots.

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