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TODAY'S FEATURES Pae Editorials 6 Pad 15 11 Pride Buisle Call THE WEATHER TODAY ST. PETERSBURG AXD TAMPA BAY AREA Increasing; winds today reaching- a peak of 75 miles an hour this afternoon, diminishing; Friday. Details on page 2. PaF Radio School 11 Society 4 Sports 12 News 10 8-9-13 Theatres 13 Thompson, D. 6 Winchell 6 COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS, ASSOCIATED PRESS FEATURES.

UNITED PRESS AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICES ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1944 ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEMATS ACME TELEPHOTOS EIGHTEEN PAGES A Py MIL i nl n.Tllli. I 1 I I Li. ii Financial Public Opinion Max Lcrncr Local News M'ry-Go-R'nd National News Obituaries Politics Classified Ads 14-15-lfi County 10 Comics IS Crossword My Day 4 M. Childs 6 VOL.

61, NO. 87 iCscii III i ran? km AH Up State Storm cm IT ni Seeks Refuge I i in Beach Family Winds Up To 100 MPH Coming is IHIyrrkaDie Path Tyms Inland Winds up to 100 miles an hour and extremely high tides were predicted for St. Petersburg and the whole west coast area between Fort Myers and Tarpon Springs today as a rip-snorting hurricane headed up the Florida west coast. 1 I Assoult Ira West By ROGER D. GREENE WITH THE BRITISH SECOND ARMY.

(P) The great decisive battles of the war in Europe may be fought this year west of the Rhine, providing the Allies get an even break on the weather, a British staff officer told correspondents last night. Just what hour the full force of the storm would hit here was uncertain. But there was all indication of steadily increasing winds until a peak of between 75 and 100 miles per hour is reached this afternoon. At midnight the Coast Guard had recorded a wind of 50 miles an hour. It was accompanied by heavy rainfall.

The local barometer had dropped from 29.80 at 8 a.m. yesterday to 29.22 at 2 a.m. this morning and was still falling. The biggest drop was between midnight and 1 a.m. when it fell from 29.44 to 29.26.

FIVE CENTS i the Caribbean, played around the Grand Caymens for several days, nnauy siraigntenea out day before yesterday, swept across Cuba killing six and injuring 100, sideswiped Key West and headed north up the coast. As far as could be learned there were no casualties at Key West and damage was minor. The south part of the Florida peninsula was ready for the gales, and possibly winds of even stronger intensity, on the basis of repeated weather bureau warn ings that the storm was severe. Schools were closed. Several military bases were evacuated.

Almost all airplanes in condition to fly were taken out of Miami, and the city's great airport was virtually closed. National Air Lines and Eastern Air Lines reported service tem porarily discontinued to points south of Jacksonville. Earlier. Pan-American Airways said regularly scheduled southbound-flights which did not cross the storm's path would continue as usual pending late hurricane advisories. KEY WEST GETS 80-MILE WIND; NO CASUALTIES KEY WEST Winds up to 70 and 80 miles an hour whipped over this island city yesterday while the center of a tropical hurricane was passing some 40 miles to the west.

Thus the city escaped the full force of the storm. Key West reported by telegraph late last night that there were no known casualties on the naval base islands, where 35,000 persons were reported to have remained through the storm. Seventh Naval District headquarters at Miami said that their only communication with Key West for many hours had been by radio. No estimate of damage was available, but it was reported slight to civilian property at least. Will I VMH BEACH .4.

One of the first families to heed the warning to evacuate the beaches yesterday was that of C. II. Redmond, who himself remained on patrol as a member of Company Ii, Home Defense. Shown here, checking with Red Cross, which arranged to house them, are Mrs. C.

II. Redmond, her mother-in-law, Mrs. E. Redmond, and Irene, Margaret, 8, and Oscar, almost 10. Their home Is on Treasure Island at the head of Sunset Beach.

The dice are very heavily loaded in Allied favor, he declared, but -it still is too early to predict whether Hitler's reich will collapse suddenly, or crumble slowly into defeat. Explaining that a great Allied build-up now was in progress and that one day there will be a hell of a bang the officer gave this picture of the situation; The period we now are going through is a trying one for both the soldiers and the public, but they must realize the tremendous difficulties of supply to be overcome before the starting gong can be sounded for the next big drive. The build-up is gathering momentum every hour of every day, and the end is just around the corner. BUILD UP STORES At present Allied armies are in a slogging stage merely jabbing at the enemy and this stage is the price that must be paid after the whirlwind drive from Normandy. Gigantic stores must be built up and transported hundreds of miles from the main Normandy base to tjae front before the Allied armies can punch out again in a sustained major smash against Germany.

These jabbing operations such as at Aachen and Nijmegen are necessary, however tedious they may appear, in order to prepare a springboard. We will get all the fighting we want once we start the Allied juggernaut rolling to the Rhine, the officer continued. The enemy can be expected to fight tooth and nail to stop us from crossin; the Rhine and there is a probable chance that the major decision and final phase of the war will be fought out in the next 10 weeks. Hitler's armies are fighting bitterly, but their position is by no means healthy. The Nazi command must shift the same troops to meet each new Allied blow.

The enemy has no real strategic reserves left at all, and no longer has resources to switch from one This is the latest official advice on the storm: "Hurricane alert indicated 11 p.m. north of Fernandina to Ilatteras. "The hurricane is centered about 50 miles southwest of Fort Myers, moving northward about 13 miles per hour. "It is attended by winds up to 100 miles per hour near center, with dangerous gales over a wide area. "This severe storm will continue to move northward, with indications of a turn to north northeast.

"It should cross the west Florida coast between Fort Myers and Tarpon Springs early Thursday, and probably pass into the Atlantic near Jackson, ville Thursday evening, threatening flie coast northward to Ilatteras. "Gales to whole gale winds will be experienced over entire area of Florida east of the Apalachicola river, with winds of full hurricane force within a 30 mile radius of path of center along the Florida west coast and inland to central Florida. "Every precaution should be taken by all interests in Florida until the hurricane passes. "All interests along the Atlantic coast from Jacksonville to Ilatteras should be on the alert for further advices." Since the storm extends over a diameter of 300 miles, it was a safe assumption that 'his whole area, including St. Petersburg, would feel the blow.

At Tampa the weather bureau said: "Increasing winds Thursday will reach a peak of about 75 miles an hour Thursday afternoon, diminishing Friday. Continued rain squalls and extremely high tides Thursday and Thursday night along the Florida west coast to the right of the storm center." Naples, down the west coast below Fort Myers, reported a 70 mile an hour- wind at 11 p. m. last night and the police station said it was increasing. The peak was expected there between 2 and 3 o'clock.

Telephone communications were still open. Naples was prepared for the blow, At Fort Myers the police chief reported that all electric lights went out about 11 o'clock and service wasn't expected to be re stored until this morning. The Fort Myers News Press was en deavoring to get out its papen by other means. Fort Myers expected a 100-mile wind between midnight and 3 o'clock, indicating that the storm center might go inland there, In St. Petersburg, the coast guard reported a dropping ba rometer.

By hours i showed: 8 a.m 29.R0 10 a. in 29.82 12 noon 29.82 1 p.m 29.73 2 p.m 29.70 3 p.m 29.66 4 p.m 29.64 5 p.m 29.70 6 p.m. 29.70 7 p.m 29.57 8 p.m 29.54 9 in 29.53 10 p.m 29.52 11 p.m 29.44 12 midnight 29.44 1 a 29.26 2 a.m. 29.22 To be compared with the table above, in the storm which swept this area in October, 1924, the barometer went to a low of 28.84, and the following year when the tropical storm wreaked havoc along the Florida keys it dipped to an all-time record of 26.98 in that sector. The normal for October here is a fraction below 30.000 inches.

When the big blow hits here, St. Petersburg is ready. Most of the beach residents have been evacuated and many places in the city have boarded the windows and nailed down property likely to be blown away. (See stories of pages 9, 11, 13.) Schools will be closed today. The storm which originated in Watch Out For That Lull! Hurricanes are tricky, so don'I let this one fool you.

Keep your radio on and listen for late advisories from the weather bureau. Be sure that a window or door is open on the lee side of the house the side opposite the one being hit by the wind. This is to prevent a vacuum being formed by wind suction. If the storm passes directly over, there will be a lull in the wind lasting from a few minutes to half an hour or more. Stay in a safe place.

Make emergency repairs during the lull if necessary, but remember the wind will return suddenly from the opposite direction, frequently with even greater violence. Close the window which you previously opened and then open one on the opposite side side of the house. Watch for police and rescue squads after the storm if you need assistance. in City knocked flown 16 of the raiders. The planes attacking the Philippines were definitely off Third Fleet carriers the fleet that the Japanese pictured several days ago as badly defeated and limp ing away after a battle with Nippon warships.

Nimitz, previously listing two of his medium men-of-war as damaged, has said the Japanese fleet units, finding the fighting power of the Third Fleet unimpaired, fled instead of challenging. In a still incomplete box score covering the seven days from Oct. 9 to 15, during which Yank carrier airmen blasted the See PACIFIC Page 2 Col. 1. TOWN MEETING TONIGHT! Question: Should treaties be ratified by a majority of both houses? Timely! Stimulating! Tune in America's Town Meeting of the Air, sponsored bv The Reader's Digest.

WSUN. Adv. ves muu main front to another as danger arises. Much depends on the weather for success of Allied operations in the immediate future, but with average weather for the season we should see great events begin to unfold once more. Bad weather has been a big factor in helping the Germans by hampering Allied air forces in their task of paralyzing German rail supplies.

The Allies now have ex tremely long lines of communications, reversing the Normandy setup when we had the advantage of short lines while enemy transport had great distances to cover. Hurricane News Briefs The Florida Power corporation reported at 12:30 this morning that lights at the beaches north of Pass-a-Grille to Bay Pines were out. Pass-a-Grille lights remained on. In the city, 25 linemen were on duty repairing outages at scattered locations. The downtown, however, was not affected since it is serviced by underground cables.

Some outages may not be repaired because of the danger involved, it was said, until the storm emergency passes. Police blocked off a section of Twentieth street between First avenue and Seaboard railroad south shortly before 1 o'clock this morning when a large section of brick wall' part of the ruins of the Broquinda building which was razed by fire in June, 1942, was blown down making the street impassable. Lights in the police department went off at 12:26 a.m. and lamps were borrowed from the fire department so that direction of police activities might continue. fortress city of Metz.

Near the Swiss border, the American Seventh Army beat off German counter-attacks at Emermeniland east of the Parroy forest, while the French First Army checked similar enemy thrusts north of Bruyeres and scored new gains south and southeast of the city. Allied heavy bombers struck Cologne, Bonn and Kassel in Germany. With Allied armies beating against the reich from the west, east, southeast and south, Hitler established by decree the "volks-sturm" (people's army) composed of every able-boc'ied German man and boy from 16 to 60 and proclaimed them part of the German army under international law. Then Heinrich Himmler. commander In chief of the home front, addressing the nation from a volkssturm barracks in East Prussia, ordered the defense of Germany by "every village, every house, every farm, every ditch, every forest and every bush." Himmler was followed bv East Prussian Gauleiter Erich Kock, who fanatically pledged Hitler "we in East Prussia will not retreat an inch." Hitler's proclamation was read over the Berlin radio.

The fuehrer, whose voice has not been heard on the air since shortlv after the reported assassination! attempt July 20, was quoted as saying: "Just as in 1939 we are facing the enemy alone. In a first enormous effort of our German people's strength we succeeded then. Germany's second all-out effort must and will succeed Relying on our own force, we will not only break the enemy's will of destruction, but we will i Hitler Calls Men and Boys To Make Last-Ditch Stand Storm Stories Inside This hurricane has bad more publicity that a 3-ring circus. It wasn't like that in 1919. Page 9.

Lower Florida Beaches Are Evacuated, Army Takes all precautions, even circus secures wild animals. Page 13. Thousands of residents and visitors at Gulf beaches seek refuge in St. Petersburg from threatening high wind, tides. Page 9.

Damage reported severe as storm lashes Havana, Cuba. Six reported killed, hundreds injured. Page 11. St. Petersburg boards up and stakes down as storm approaches.

Page 11. Police, firemen, military units here put on alert. Page 13. Dewey Charges German Program Of F.D.R. Fails NEW YORK (TP) Thomas E.

Dewey declared last night that Americans are "paying in blood" on the battlefields of Germany for what he described as the Roosevelt administration's failure to have an "intelligent program for dealing with invaded Ger many. The Republican presidential nominee, addressing a non-political but applauding gathering at the New York Herald Tribune's annual forum on current events also attributed to President Roosevelt's "personal secret diplomacy" chaos in France and hunger and degradation in Italy. He declared: 1. That Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels has seized upon the absence of any official American plan for Germany to "terrify the Germans Into fanatical resistance." 2. That President Roosevelt's refusal to recognize the French De Gaulle government "is contributing to the increasing chaos behind our lines at a critical period of the war." 3.

That Roosevelt has failed to win Russian recognition of "those whom we consider to be the true government of Poland," despite his personal talks with Premier Stalin. 4. That a Soviet emissary signed last month's peace treaty with Romania in behalf of the United States, before the state department had a chance to study it. Dewey spoke before a crowd that jammed the Waldorf-Asto ria's plushy ballroom, which has a seating capacity of 1,800. Among those who come to hear him were the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

Declaring the German people have been told a program of de struction awaits them if they surrendered, the New York gov- erno" said: CHARGES SECRET DEAL "They are fighting with the frenzy of desDair. We are nav- ing in blood for our failure to have readv an intelliepnt nrn- eram for dealina with invaded Germany." The ReDublican Dresidential nominee said Roosevelt failed to obtain Russian recognition of th ToHsh government-in-exile al though he undertook handle this matter personally and secretly with Mr. Stalin." Citing also the cases of Italy. which he said is receiving an "improvised, inefficient auminis-traton" by New Deal alphabetical agencies. France and Romania, the New York governor said: "If we are to be successful In our future labors to bring about lasting peace, they cannot be the property of one part TALLAHASSEE JACKSONVILLE fiPfllAChlCOLfl Ik American Carrier-Based Planes Continue Heavy Philippine Island Raids CEDARV KEYS ORLANDO TAMPA By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Steadily advancing Allied and Russian forces exerted increas- 4 1 uig pressure upun mice-iuui ins of Germany's inner fortress last night, with multiple assaults which caused Adolf Hitler to call old men and boys "if need be women and girls" for a last-ditch defense of the fatherland.

While in Moscow Premier Stalin announced a new Red army advance across the Carpathians into Czechoslovakia from southern Poland, the Berlin radio told of massive and ex-! panding assaults on East Prussia and acknowledged withdrawal from Virbalis, near the frontier. American, British and French forces struck forward all along the western front, despite rain and mud-clogged roads. Events there caused German commentators to take a dreary view, and Capt. Lud-wig Sertorius said "the Americans have succeeded in encircling Aachen on the 16th day of battle, and these troops no doubt will attempt a breakthrough to either Cologne or Dusseldorf." Rain-soaked British Tommies, supported by American armor on the right flank and rocket-firing Typhoons overhead, cut deep into the enemy's Maas (Meuse) river salient in Holland aith a lunge toward the German border and the Ruhr valley. The advancing Allies captured the junction town of Venray, and two more Dutch villages beyond.

TROOPS NEAR METZ To the south, the American First Army smashed a new small counter-attack at Aachen Doughboys advancing slowly into Aachen had reached, approaches tr the city's center. The U. S. Third Army moved within four miles of the French By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS America's aerial invasion of the northern Philippines by carrier-based planes of the mighty Third Fleet continues without letup. Adm.

Chester W. Nimitz reported yesterday afternoon as he disclosed new sweeps across Luzon, major island of the archipelago. The admiral's communique told of the destruction of 19 Japanese planes and the sinking or setting afire of seven ships Tuesday, U.S. time. He said, "Action is continuing." The Japanese-controlled Manila radio, bearing out the Pacific fleet chief's statement, re ported raids Tuesday night.

U. S. time, by 80 carrier planes on the Manila area. It also announced new strikes against Clark field, big air depot 40 miles northwest of Manila, and Legaspi, important seaport on southeastern Luzon. The Japanese claimed their fight er planes and anti-aircraft guns ST.

PETERSBURG KEY-WEST i i -Mfdrt BEACH MYERS MIAMI XJ Keep Tuned to VVTSP For Storm News Arrows on 1 is map show the course of the hurricane Caymens and across Cuba, by-passing Key West, and the is expected to turn inland. which came out of the Grand two points between which it See HITLER Page 2 Col. 3. See DEWEY Page 2 Col. 1..