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6A MIAMI DAILY NEWS, Thursday, Oct. 19, 1944 HURRICANE Suluan Called Good Base For Raids Against Luzon Choose the Best ENROLL NOW CROP DAMAGE PLACED AT 75 IN HOLLYWOOD Growers Blame Rainfall For Losses; Tides Topple 3 Villas, Lifeguard Station The Miami Dally Krn Hureau HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 19. Hollywood reported Thursday a 75 per cent storm damage to crops in the area on the basis of an estimate by leading growers. The damage to crops, consisting largely of tomatoes, cabbage, beans and peppers, was Hit 4 elevation of 125 feet would make it suitable for construction of landing strips from which bombers could operate either against the island of Luzon or Leyte island, 80 miles to the west.

The Japanese have at least four airstrips on Leyte island. Leyte island lies 300 miles southeast of Manila at its closest point and extends 125 miles south. Its coaata are high with good natural harbors, with inland topography irregularly rising to an elevation of 1,400 feet, It is 20 miles wide at Leyte gulf, expanding in hourglass- fashion to the north and south. The population is about 270,000. Samar, north-northeast of Suluan and separated from Leyte by the narrow San Juan- i a.

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3-26IT 4W MORNING AFTER Occupants of thV Miami Edison hurricane shelter suffered a slight "hurricane hangover" of fatigue, hunger and disarray, but theme of their story is thanks that the storm passed them by. ico channel, represents an unlikely landing site with its high, ateep coastline and densely forested mountainous terrain. It Is traversed from northwest to southeast by a mountainous chain ranging in elevation from 1.800 to 1,800 feet. The populations is about 223,000. Piles Gel Relief How Millions Of sufferers In thm last 40 years have found wnv to get quick relief from the iicning and smarting of piles.

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Miami Edison high school, for instance, could welj have doubled as stage-set for such a London-based movie. Three entire floors of classrooms were turned over to the public as their "hurricane attributed to the rainfall. Other damage reported by Hollywood included the uprooting of three villas owned by Edward P. Naus, located at the corner of Jefferson st. and the beach.

The villus were washed tay the tide and strand ed on the beach. Damage to the villas was estimated at $10,000. The life guard station at the beach was toppled by the wind. The storm picture in Holly wood rrvenlcd Oernn drive Mubmr-rfed In almoal a foot of water spilled' over from the inner coastal canal. Seaweed, uprooted palms and shrubbery festooned the drive and sidewalks.

Refugees who sought shelter in the Hollywood bank build ing, the Great Southern hotel, the City Hall and the VFW Foxhole had almost complete ly evacuated the shelters by a. m. Thursday, it was learned. No casualties were reported for the area. Monroe Must Alter Ballots Th.

Miami rtallv RurCBn) KEY WEST, Oct. 19. Bal lots for the general election In Monroe county. 10,200 of which have been printed already, will be reprinted to conform with two changes outlined by Sec retary of State R. A.

Gray, it was said Tuesday by J. Frank Roberts, chairman of the Monroe county commis sion. Roberts, Ross C. Sawyer, county clerk, and J. Lancelot Lester, county attorney, arranged for the changes, after the last named had conferred with Gray.

Amendment 10 will be taken out entirely, and amendment 5, characterized as the "Right to Work" amend ment, will have the wording changed slightly in the last two lines. Removal of amendment 10, Gray said, which pertained to the consolidation of certain of fices in the city and county governments of Dade and Orange counties, was due to the ruling of the supreme court that It should be stricken from the ballot because it dealt with more than one subject. Monroe's ballot Is 33 Inches long, too large to be printed here. It was printed in Miami, where the revised copy will be reprinted. SCREENS Replaced and Repaired STORM SHUTTERS Guaranteed Work No job too largo or too small Estimates Cheerfully Given I PHONES 3 0844 3-69J4 ENGEL NTS PHONES 4-75547517 mm GGOD OXTIM ED FROM FAGE ONE) ricane was entering the Flor ida mainland.

Business houses and stores were taking down shutters and improvised window braces preparatory to doing business as usual and the winds had subsided to 10 mles an hour at 11 a. according to weather bureau bulletin. Xo Casualties Damage to all areas extend ing from Sarasota to Tarpon Springs, which felt the brunt of 100-mile-an-hour winds was light" and there were no re ported casualties at noon. All of the known casualties were reported from Havana, which placed the dead at seven with 300 injured. The hurricane ripped through Havana Wednesday leaving a known death toll of sfvrn, morn than 300 injured and property damage in the millions.

Virtually all of Havana was left without electric power as the terrific winds battered the city for a record eight hours. Store fronts were smashed, the presidential palace, the American embassy and other buildings were flooded with debris. Homeless Cubans were given food and shelter in refugee camps set up at the University of Havana and Atares fortress, training school for army officers. Tides In Streets-The i a e's center missed Key West but the Island city was buffeted by strong winds which sent tides up into the streets. There were no casualties reported on the keys.

The Red Cross reported that approximately 10,000 Mi-amians used emergency shelters during the night, includ-Ig the corridors of the Federal building. Sixty schools and other public buildings were pressed into service by the Red Cross. Three thousand persons jammed into three floors of Miami Edison high school, with between 900 and 1,000 each in Miami High and Andrew Jackson. Schools were closed Thurs day but classes will be re sumed Friday, the board of education announced. Telephone service in the downtown Miami area held up well under force of gale winds.

The Southern Bell Co. reported only 62 phones out in the downtown area and no major failures in cables. Workers Recalled The following government Installations announced Thurs day morning that their em ployes had been instructed to return to work on scheduled shifts: AAf regional hospital, Coral Gables; Army Ground Forces redistribution station, Miami Beach; Miami Air De pot and Navy and Coast Guard units. AAF redistribution sta tion No. 2 on Miami Beach, however, told their employes not to report to work Thurs day.

During gusts of the high wind Wednesday lone spar row flew inside a Miami Beach rime store on T.inrnln rnnri llltte.4 cvit431, -m i Ka More and finally perched on the head of an ornamental senUie dog. It later flew away. Miami river was lammed with hips und small boats of every description, including army and navy craft, which took rr- fuge on its winding length and In its creeks and basins from the mouth of the river to Hla lean. A terrific traffic jam was expected later Thursday when the boats begin their exodus down the river to the bay, keeping bridge Up from 27th ave. to SE First ave.

Nazis Surrender Isle To Cruiser ROME, Oct. 19 (if) The Nazi garrison on Santorin island, TO miles north of Creta in the sea of Candia, surrendered Wednesday to the British cruiser. Ajax, Allied headquarters announced Thursday. The naval command said carrier planes sweeping in from the Aegean destroyed 3 locomotives and 36 trucks in the vicinity of Volos, 85 miles southeast Larisa on the Greek mainland. The same planes also took a heavy toll of enemy shipping in the Sporadea islands in the Aegean northeast of Athens.

A German armored vessel containing 200 German infantrymen was sunk in the same area Oct. 16 by H. M. S. Argonaut while the destroyer Termagant accounted for a Siebel ferry loaded with enemy equipment.

Some survivors were picked up. (mmm arnrrr.arrrnrn. mmi rYfH 'ff 1 1 1 1 "JIM 14 KEY WEST: Floods It I AY home." When Mr. and Mrs. Miami arrived usually late Wednesday afternoon, at the school, they were registered in, assigned to one kof the rooms in charge of a supervisor chosen from among the occupants.

The hurricane village boasted a census of 3,200 to 3.500, according to Mrs. D. H. Mc-Cluney, captain of Civilian Defense Casualty station No. 13.

On duty since 1 p. m. Wednesday, Mrs. McCluney Thursday morning still faced a hard day's work. Cafeteria space at the school was given over to "casualties." "We had 12 maternity cases who were actually in labor," Mrs.

McCluney declared, but she added that although six SPAR nurses' aides, eight members of the Red Cross Mobile unit, five registered nurses and eight stretcherbearers were on hand to usher the newcomers into the world, no baby was born. Names of four victims of heart attacks were registered on the casualty charts. How ontini from rnr. onki Landmark Hard-Hit KEY WEST, Oct. 19.

The Vining Harris home at the tip of Key West, the southernmost dwelling and property in all of the United States, although a Texas hamlet calls itself "South-most," suffered considerable damage in the hurricane. Visited annually, before the war, by hundreds of tourists, the estate was formerly the home of the late Judge Vining Harris. It ia now owned by Al Mills, who operates part of the structure as tl Casa Cayo Hueso club. Wednesday night and early Thursday the waves, driven by high winds, pounded a 250-foot seawall until It was reduced to rubble. The grounds were flooded until early Thursday, when the water receded, leaving flattened palm trees and seaweed on the spacious lawn.

negro churches and USO cenlcra. The Key West chapter of the American Red Cross provided cots for the storm refugees, most of whom appeared with their own blankets and carrylnn bags of food. Captain Atwell said that during the height of the hurricane, at about 2 p. m. Wednesday, breakers from the Atlantic rolled across Roosevelt boulevard, buffeting coconut palms bordering the road and sending salt spray Into the air to a height of 20 feet.

Many of the palms were flattened. A tour of the naval operations base revealed but little damage. Very few light structures were down or damaged and moat of the installations weathered the storm well, The navy however announced that considerable damage had been done to the navy hospital there, but no casualties were reported. 120 Mril Wind Captain Atwell reported that many of the trees uprooted had withstood hurricanes as far back as 1909. He said he had been informed that the wind reached 120 M.

P. H. velocity. An auto, bearing a Miami Daily News reporter and photographer, arrived in Key West at 3 a. m.

Thursday. It was the first vehicle to arrive in Key West since the hurricane struck, police officials here said, expressing surprise that the roads were passable. WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 Leyte gulf, which the Japanese radio reported Thursday waa the site of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's return to the Philippines, ts ideally suited for aerial operations against enemy holdings at Manila and Corregidor.

Tiny Suluan Island, mentioned by the Japanese as the point of actual landings, lies at the eastern entrance to the gulf and approximately 415 airline miles from Manlja, to the northwest. Its maximum Lenk Refused Habeas Writ Judge John W. i Holland Thursday denied the motion for a writ of habeas corpus to prevent the extradition to Maine of Frederick William Lenk, Miami Beach taxicab company operator, on federal lottery charges, and refused to set an appeal bond. On Oct 9, Lenk was ordered removed to Portland, Me to stand trial on an indictment brought against him there Sept. 20, charging conspiracy in a trl-state lottery reported to be netting its operators $1,000,000 annually.

He posted a $5,000 returnable in Portland on Nov. 1. Attorneys for Lenk said Thursday they were undecided whether Judge Holland's denial of habeas corpus would be appealed in the Fifth Circuit court, or whether the indictment would be attacked in district court in Maine. Utilities Keep Travel Going Here At 2 p. m.

Thursdav Mi ami's situation with respect to transportation and other utilities was: PLANES Pan American Airways back on schedule except in flights to Havana, where roads to the airports were impassable: Eastern and National Air lines were not operating Thursday but officials reported they expect to renew flights schedules Friday. TRAINS FEC nd Seaboard officials said service had continued throughout the. atorm threat and would remain on 'schedule ao far aa they knew. BUSSES Local bus lines were all back In operation. Florida Motor lines reporter that service to Key West began again at p.

m. Servie from Jacksonville stopped at 1 r. m. Wednesday and has not yet been resumed. Service to Tampa stopped Wednesday and has not yet been renewed.

PHONES The telephone company reported trouble in several parta of the area, caused by falling trees or branches or sagging power lines. Service is being restored as speedily as possible. Officials said they hoped to have all phones in order by Friday morning, POWER Failure of power In many parts of the county is being remedied by maintenance men, Florida Power Light Co. officials aaid. Crews will work night and duy until homes and businesses In the area are being serviced again, they said.

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Relief from pain and Irritation, new strength and vlgir will he your reward. iiet the helpful compound tn keep kidney sound: EBREY'S HERB EXTRACT The senthing, harmless, liquid medicine ft' A ever, no serious results were incurred. Minor falls caused slight injuries among the refugees and kept the staff well occupied. An army doctor, one of the evacuees, put his services to use when the various emergencies required it, the captain of the casualty station revealed. One classroom was set aside for army personnel and their families; one.

for navy men who "came aboard" the safety station. Prerequisite of the room designated as old folks haven was anywhere from T9 to 88 years. According to one evacuee, the lights had flickered on and off after 2 o'clock, completely blacking out at 4 a. m. Daylight found some of the occupants of the shelter still asleep on the floor or With heads pillowed on desks.

An expected debris of newspapers, paper bags, blankets and stubs of candles terraced the floor. Some refugees were busy packing, others already on the move homeward. Recede The Daily News car met no cars coming from the direction of Key West after passing Homestead, en route from Miami, and neither passed nor was passed by any car headed for the Keys. Terrific hlasts of wind almost swerved the car from the road into ditches or against girders of the many bridges over the keys on several occasions and one stretch of road just north of Bahla Honda bridge was covered with branches and other debris. Including seaweed washed up by the ocean.

The road was awash at aevera) points late Wednesday night but was passable. Animal Dasml Hundreds of small birda and animals darted across the road, apparently bewildered by the terrif io gales which shook them out of trees and underbrush. Torrential downpours swept some sections of the overseas highway while other sections were so dry that dust arose as the car paaaod. Seagulls committed suicide by the score as they flew into the radiator grill of the car after being swept In from the ocean by the hurricane. All through the keys at Key Largo, Matecumbe, Marathon and all along the linethere was not a light to be seen except at the power station in Tavernier.

The Key residents had battened down their doors and windows and apparently taken refuge on the mainland. Forty miles north of Key West a Lincoln Zephyr bearing Florida license 38-W-295 was in a ditch at the water's edge, empty. False Alarm Bids Firemen To Picnic FA.YETTEVILLE, Ark. Fayetteville firemen received a surprise recently when they answered an alarm. Instead of a fira they found a picnic lunch awaiting them at the home of Allan Banks, chairman of the city council's fire committee.

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'jn-jicr- nlflaat ifatf tf- in! L3 chasers, a sub chaser and two auxiliary mine sweepers. Thirty-one men aboard a tug previously reported missing were found to be safe Thurs-lay when the tug re-established radio communications at noon with the Key West base. The ug hadtpicked up 21 men from an abandoned light-ship. An estimated 5,000 persons were temporarily homeless, including 3,500 white occupants of two large housing projects which were inundated to the extent of more than three feet when the Atlantic ocean rose over its beach and crossed Roosevelt blvd. Key West, except for naval installations, has been without electric light or power or gas for cooking since 7 p.

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no storm injuries had been reported to him. The office of Sheriff Berlin Sawyer of Monroe eounty reported only two minor injuries tip until the same time. Hundreds of trees, many of mammoth proportions, were down, some of them blocking main traffic arteries. One house was blown from its foundation and scores of dwellings suffered storm damage. Sheds were ripped from the sides of stores and dwellings and scores of cars were in water up to their engines.

Stock island on which a joint U. S. and municipal hospital project la located was partially under water, A woman who lives on the island who was evacuated said that late Wednesday, when she was taken off, the water was "knee deep. The Poinciana housing development, a federal project housing about 2,500, and Mac-Arthur homes, a private development tenanted by approximately 1,000 persons both were under water from two to three feet in depth early Thursday. 16 III Kvacuatrd Captain Atwell evacuated 16 ill persons in these developments Tuesday.

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