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FORECAST: Intermittent rain through tomorrow. Little change in temperature. Low tonight, 64; high tomorrow, 68. a. PRICE FIVE CENTS

sours —sowaro 60th YEAR—NUMBER 206 .

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1049

Without the day nursery, what would become of these families?

obless Mout As Strikes Spread

End of Week May Find 1,250,000 idle

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 4 KUP)—

Unemployment mounted rapidly | today as the impact of thie steel!

and coal strikes spread by the hour. The number of men idied b

y the strikes may well hit '1,250,-| 000 by the a of the Bit 230. | agures that are meaningless and do not tell the story.

2 million by Nov. 1 if the strikes continue,

" In Washington, top secret conferences between federal mediators and Presidential Assistant John R. Steelman were believed to have laid the groundwork for renewed efforts to setile the strikes. Some government ac-

tion, perhaps from the White warmth and the good smells of help me and I

House itself, was expected{by the end of the:week. }

Hope for a Break

: i till exist, the CitizensSome vernment officials the two smaller children, the boy. | former husband and that I was{shortstop for the Yanks. | Some conditions criticized in the survey s . | President Truman today watched Were out on Imes to looked for gen “break (in the|7, and the girl, 8, romped in and simply at the end of the rope 4l-| Baseman Tommy Henrich will Child Welfare Study Committee reported. /top-secret combat equipment of Texas City, Tomball and La- - deadlocked “welfare” dispuges as|out and chattered about what had| though I had tried to keep the bat second, an Yogi But it said these were mostly due to budget and in general The Southwestern Bell

soon as the public feels the! pinch of short supply, Neither side, they pointed out, can withstand too much public*hostility.

Officials of - the United Mine [ning dusk and at the table sat| workers, meanwhile, returned to studying the oldest boys, 16 and!

the conference table today with the Southern operators at! Bluefield, W. Va. Contract talks with Northern and Western operators will resume tomorrow at nearby White Sulphur Springs. On the eve of the negotiations, new outbursts of gunplay in the

coal fields were reported. Non-|cannot get from figures.

union coal miners ambushed a

oup of union men at Pikeville Mrs. Smith and her husband were|

enn., wounding three of them

with rifle and shotgun fire. Two Mrs. Smith realized that she now|

other union men were reported missing after the encounter. ‘ Probe Slaying of Driver At the same time local officials at Grundy, Va. were investigating the killing of a nonunion truck driver, He was crushed by a boulder that crashed down from a mountainside. Police said they suspected foul play. In Pennsylvania, warrants were out for the arrest of eight men after a band of 110 pickets over-

- turned a supply house and dam-

aged equipment at a nonunion strip mine in Elk County. The steel front was quiet as the strike of 514,000 steelworkers entered its fourth day. Only independent steel mills and those which have signed contracts with the union were operating. Pro-

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Entered as Second-Class Matter st Postofiee | ' Yell at Correspondents in Southern Lines; Sut down the rvad We assed an Hurl for Yanks —Korea where there is actual fighting with Communists instead |Pétween guerrillas and police at| ; | 138 Phone Cables" Newcombe Likely | By JOSEPH L. JONES, United Press Staff Correspondent There are 1wo kinds of Shing] { 3 (the far more serious stabbing! T The Weather Man forecast rain | OC: $—Some 500 yards across the valley, Communist troops (UP) — A small but savage Te ote They are in a blockhouse atop a little hill and we are! There may be 20,000 troops and Galveston today, driving lw : ; Great Powers cut Korea in two homes and causing an estily cloudy with some rain. The It is a national holiday, |

Indianapoits, Ind. Issued Dally 2 . 1 nm, Stengel Picks Korean Reds D Americans Hui engel PICKS Korean Reds Denounce Americans {lITicane i | f Th M h {ambulance with three dead. And, i i r onths 12 hours earlier, according to na-| Fighting Has Gone On or ee tional police, 75 were killed and| ’ Shotton Won't Nome of diplomatic maneuvering. The writer is vice president and gen- 'F0San. in the far south. going on in Korea—sporting at-| Out of Operation BULLETIN i : raids of guerillas inside Southi for tomorrow’s opening day of of North Korea are yelling at us, but not shooting. struck Houston | Etbe atfected. in the front trenches of the Korean Republican troops. Be- facing each other across thei 00 persons from their | for 170 miles fr: the Yellow Sea dam . Weather Bureau said the rain {broadcasting station at Pyong- ‘the Se males $2 milion ages

Rev During Lull in Northern Battle Ab It Reynolds to Abates as | The following dispatch is from the front lines of the cold war 25 seriously wounded in the clash Schools Reopen; His Pitcher; Roe or | eral manager of the United Press, now on a tour of the Far East. { Two Kinds of Fighting | PAEKCH-ON, ALONG THE 38th PARALLEL, Korea, tacks along the 38th parallel and! HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 4 NEW YORK, Oct. 4 (UP)— | Korea itself, hurricane the World Series, but said he | t : : parallel, which by decision of the! The forecast called for most- [tween us is a scattering of houses and truck garden patches. y \which may be why nobody is yang, the northern capital. on the west to the Sea of Japan.| No casualties were reported.

A probably would come in the | There are upward of 25.000! a | afternoon but that indications working in that pleasant no-| The little noncommissioned of-' guerillas are rya Korean. Re} The Sropisal statin hut the Sule ., | were that it might not be |... ang ificer at my side listened and public itself. They are not all ac. Coast at Freeport, Just west

steady enough to cause postponement.

By LEO H. PETERSEN

“Soldiers of South Korea,” the turned away. tive at the same time. They make Galveston, with 100-mile-an-hour |distant voice is shouting, “why! “They read that from script,” raids like the one at Posan, kill-| winds, and then moved inland to |do you show the Americans your he said. ‘ing - police; burning houses and puffet Houston with winds up to bit bt so tater _renches® Why do you serve that| A minute ater. one of the meniahooting up town. The dead! go mies an hor. | traitor, - 8 sr v NEW YORK, Oct. 4—The| OF of gman Korea)? Your away at the northern emplace-'the last three months. In its wake the blow left damNew York Yankees today | commanding officer has run back ment on the skyline. Everybody, Col. Limb believes that the 28¢8 estimated at hundreds of named 17-game winner Allie/to Seoul. ducked, and there was a spatter'present job of the regular Com-|thousands of dollars to Duifdings s Re n Ms t n the World! “Why do you consort with the of fire from both sides before munist troops is to keep the Re-|POAts, piers and bulkheads along ynoids io ope . {Americans? You ought to workithe Indian summer quiet re- publican Army busy in the north|the coastal cities, and loss to rice |Series tomorrow, but Man-ifor the common people. Come, turned. 'while the guerrillas upset the farmers alone was expected to

Sm lager Burt Shotton of the over and join us.” { In jibing at the Americans, the country internally. {exceed $1 million. The Times herewith presents another in a series of stories | Brooklyn Dodgers refused to re-' Polite, Leather-Lunged | Communist speaker overlooked, Unquestionably, it is having about Red Feather agencies to help YOU prepare a winning entry {veal his starting pitcher. The speaker was polite, if another civilian in the party—the some effect. There is an 11 p. m.{| The hurricane began losing its for the Community Fund Contest . . . the contest in which Genera Shotton said he would not an- leather lunged. He addressed the. foreilgn minister of Southern curfew in Seoul, the capital, anf steam as it roared inland from Motors Dealers of Marion County ure offering a mew De Lux» | nounce his selection until “just Southern Korean troops as “‘gen-| Korea, Col. Ben Limb, who spent the most usual estimates of Po-| Freeport, but heavy rains inflicted Chevrolet Sedan among the 50 prizes worth more than $5000. | vetore game time.” |tlemen.” He did not even call Us many years in American exile litical prisoners, including guer- more damage on crops than the —————— By EDWIN C, HEINKE | However. it was virtually cer- Vigito rs “imperialist American while Japan ruled Korea.

\rillas and accused subversives, are winds. At Palacios and Port Are UPON THE surface of the Community Fund are cold facts and tain that either lefty Preacher Pastards” as does the official! Tt all seemed rather unwarlike. around 24,000. thur the 48-hour rainfall was in {Roe or Negro Rookie Don New-

ng excess of 10 inches. Galveston Then just at a level lower are the agencies that are the external combe would draw the assign- FAAS " ch d oO ' Ch e ck Pp ond Ss U | had 6.07 inches and Houston 5.32, evidences of the operations of the Community Fund, but you still do,ment for the Dodgers in the open-| 4 Pp riman nspec S not have the story. : ing game of the series at Yankee ° * . a eee ens GANGES in Juvenile Aid Secret Weapons

Houston's 750,000 residents huddled in cellars or in public So you must probe further before you can determine how deep Stadium. DENdinEs 25 oe hurricane Suck ; — | . m. dian ime). x = = larated and sent to homes and we; Manager Casey Stengel of the . : . . vy The Red Cross reported little INSIDE the kitchen in the would be split up forever. {Yankees named his starting line-| Hails Especially End of ‘Dumping shabby little house on the shabby, «Then somebody told me thatup, but had to include three al-| : : . little street there was life and’ maybe the day might |ternate selections because he did Problem Children Into Their Court . Views War Games went over and|not know whether his team would By DONNA MIKELS At Ft. Bragg Base By MERRIMAN SMITH | rhe Som put 138 underground United Press Staff Correspondent peration in HousFT. BRAGG, N. C, Oct. 4—ton and 145 long distance circuits

Keeps Little Family Intact After Father Fails to Aid

Without the Day Nursery, It Would Have Been Scattered, Mother Declares

Losing Its Steam

School classes continued as usual

damage to buildings in the city. today. d Radio Set Up evening cooking. {talked to Mrs. Graham. I ex- be facing right or left handed “Watchdog” committees appointed to follow up the 1947 Child | Aproned Mrs. Smith, as Weiplajned that I was divorced and Pitching. jHeltare Survey in Mirion County today reported ‘generally im-| shall call her, bustied about as wag getting no money from my| Phil Rizzuto will lead of SH Poved conditions in’'gity and county child welfdre agencies. { rst!

.e i 4 : the Army Field Forces in action; margue. Berra third. Joe DiMaggio will be {were overshaffowed by improved fat war games staged for his bene-| Telephone Co. said a radio trans-

{fit here. mitter was sent to the LaPorte

happened that day at the day! 1 r. : Ly on Lockerbie St. > Jramiy. aster listened and iP his familiar cleanup spot. [practices patterned on survey duct his agency in accord with The glow of the lamps in the|, ald, “Well, Mrs. Smith, that's! Behind him comes either left. recommendations. - jsusvey Soong Atos. 4 . The Chief ‘Executive. accom-|area to provide communications living room shone into the eve-| hn for: 40 tak | Nanded Bobby Brown or right-| The Citizens Committee was ut it sa e was hampered Y| bani ed by Army Secretary. Gordon] At Galvesto the . what we're here for, ® C8T% hander Billy Johnson, depending|formed to follow up the wide- being unable. to help select his y Army TY. veston, the hurricane "lof children who really need it and i id Gray and Gen. J. Lawton Collins,| threw a big tide over the city's upon the Dodger pitcher. In the spread complaints that the sur-|aids. is 10, . think that you need help. I onlyiN, g spot will be Johnny Lindell|yey report for which the county| The committee also “viewed AMY chief of staff, came here by|seawall, flooding two federal 14, and the oldest girl, who is 10. ysh we could give it to you'o, Gene Woodling and next in| iq i 0 ounty failure of the Plane this morning. {housing projects, 100 private

{with concern” Mrs. Smith gave the stew a An ' {paid $10,000 had been dumped in| ¥! I” After reviewing an honor guard, stirring and dropped in a pinch of 2% res : ry ’ jorder Cliff Mapes or Hank Bauer, joc drawers and forgotten. | Board of Safety to replace retir-! g gu homes and 12 business houses

| ; ki ! _/at Pope Field, the President drove, under one to e 3 salt and came back to the table. wROM that day on life aT Ea EE oe Praises Juvenile Court iB DoliSewomen. I se aso immediately to Army Field Forces according to Sree oan, where we talked. This is her ¢,. mrs. Smith. The oldest boys with Reynolds last. | One major improvement,praised| "© gp SD eaenl eats as. Board One, a research center| ceived by the Red Cross disaster story, which, too, is the story of ,,u14 take care of themselves, Dodger Lineup |by the Citizens Committee wgs | sign ng Nie. {where highly secret radar and ar- headquarters in St. Lous. the Community Fund that you after school and the three small-| Shotton announced the Brook-|the increased ‘use of proper; =, reorganized Marion C ounty | tillery firing devices were Semon First reports received by the {est ones were sent to the day lyn lineup as Pee Wee Reese, agencies suited to a child's in-| |strated for him. Red Cross over im ; 3 , » {Department of Public Welfare, | er. an improvised After 17 years of marriage, pyrgery. shortstop; Johnny Jorgensen, dividual problem, and decreased.) "4 ow severest criticism of SO Secret was the demonstra-| network of amateur radio sta. 47 anal. My troubles vanished likethird base; Duke Snider, center- Saumping", of, problem children | agency in the survey, won| tOR that White House reporters tions indicated that no one was | . . Yi , att ok A a 58 tw vel mor of (ld, Jick Sobre, Fen Suva Gr pr fo he mheomtce sy To Ee 0 ari rom nt uy ody” i ; , ; “ # rsons were forc had the sole responsibility fOr|" qi. amily is together and get-|Carl Furillo, right; "Gil Hodges, was made of the Juvenile Court in Sy Ot sone philosophy ad qucted his inspection. Fev anion oy] Tom rearing the brood. Her husband; along fine on Mrs. Smith's first; Roy Campanella, catching,|1948. The court in turn, made PH ca) tiie t said ¢l1ar¢| Reporters stood with Army post, As the storm began to abate was supposed to give her money|gan’ 5 week. The older boys are and the pitcher. {more use of private agencies. P op: ’ report. sald, { school children and watched huge| the Weather Bureau at New Ore but, like a lot of fathers, he g aviro to be ical en.| The umpires designated are! It referred only 46 children to oo encies reported On|yestner balloons sent aloft with! id it would { es | ying to mechanical en-| joy were Catholic Charities; Chil-| : eans sa. would issue no more dant. gineers and they, are making 201OF fete i Ee | delinquency institutions, _€OM- 41ers Bureau; Children’s Institu-| 5. t.crin8 metal attachments advisories. uy 8.8 | ~|Ca ubbar ehin e plate, that number ; C -1 | : good - grades under their moth- .'ipared to three times th; um io MOTHER said we coud Cs wyohrar oe. Jann [Beane earton of the Ra Lu" Lota: and only S07 10. toe wet Hons The Guarana Home, Gen” ve wi er so the six of us| g ; | s : | The three smallest American | [are department, half the 1046! + Lutheran - Child Weltare| non radar screens were seen |p,

{ children! moved into her house” stated ip 4y r is th {Passarella of - the [total. But use of private agencies f urning slowly to follow the upMrs. Smith. Hinic fhe nursery ia: the most | jumped from 21 ye |Home); Day Nursery of Indian-| ward path of the balloons. The winds there reached 100 {apolis Family Service Associa- y

'wonderful place in the world. So| --oSue at second base, and Lou ; il hour, knocki t “I got a job right away in al4,.5 Mrs Smith because i of the National League at| The committee estimated that 4d 8 |, Mr. Truman left Washington a ae IY es ne grocery store and mother Was gne goes to sleep at night her! re 2 kees| collections of unpaid support|- on: and Social Service Depart- 7:45 .a. m.. (Indianapolis Time) \cvstem failed almost working nights cleaning down-| e odds still had the Yankees) {ment Public Schools. land arrived at P Fiel ystem fa almost as soon as 8 [children are all under the same favorites from 2 to 1 down to|™Oney could be doubled if ‘the cat Pope Field at {, storm struck. Cars were She tried ro6¢ with her. 8 to 5. But New York book.|COUrt could afford one more case-| - 18:57 a. m. ; ;

i : ! hed by falling trees to get her sleep in the day time| nN | worker. { - - smas : and keep an eye on the children,! “WITHOUT the day iureery my| Makers reported that thus far, Soverdst Criticism Tucker Plant 32 DIE IN ITALIAN STORM About 600 townspeople and I dows; money showing for the short end! Severest criticism was leveled Returned to U. S.

too, until I got home from the family would have been scatter od, oe seemed to be more Brooklyn] Ls XN APLES, Italy, Oct. 4 (UP) Yarmene 00% gen the newly ocery. | j -two Tr { 3 go XY art Working: ont very| Now ch oh Sogsthep done than there was Yankee backing by iE subcommittee on Juvenile ICAI. Ort. 4 TUrh eal Io y. te 2S Sons ere i hey The absence of casualties in the good for any of us. I had tosaid Mrs. Smith as she called the > f2VOrite odds. It praised Lt. Forrest D. HIgES, Tucker Corp. lost its huge war MISSIN today in the worst storm Path of the storm was attributed

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Figures showed that more in|

Hardest Hit Hardest hit was Freeport, 50 {les to the south.

Across a broad grassy field, |

work seven days a week at the prood together to sit down at the

grocery. Mother wasn’t getting her sleep and she was getting

kitchen table and eat their supper. . .

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who was appointed at the death to hit this section of Italy in re-|l0 early hurricane warnings which

. . plant today as President Preston permitted Texans to take shelter W f Capt. Golden Reynolds for {cent years. . Big orld Series roo nitg tanhIuliy to con-| Tucker Sr. and seven associates — a... 8

a Suclion as down to 8.2 per cent|greadfully nervous and the chil- Those are the roots of the Com- Jo Diaz went to trial for alleged fraud in 3 of capacity. dren were beginning to get out on/munity Fund. Oe 11 2390 ne & . Al the $28 million financing of a 3 : the street®more and more and| The second level—The Day Nur- 1 e inside story of . am ; | x ! ; earTires Index : mother couldn't watch them and sery Association of Indianapolis, the World Series. use tat never musements. 8 Othman .....11 sleep, too. operating two nurseries on Lock- Hi . As the mail fraud and conspirBridge reeves: S1PALLAYN. uuu 5! “I tried to ease the situation ajerbie St. and Fletcher Ave. Joe Williams OF : aborts] acy trial began before Federal Comics .....19|Radio ...... 9|little bit by getting a job where Mothers, some of them divorced. | arp i er [ Judge Walter J. La Buy, in anCrossword ..13/Ruark ......11|I only had to work five days alsome of them deserted. some, umnist. 3

other courtroom Federal Judge

EdMorials ,..12|Scherrer ....12 Michael L. Igoe signed an order

week but that didn’t help much/whose husbands are dead, come! John Carmichael . a

Forum ......12|Society ..... 4 and mother finally said something|early in the morning and leave bid Paschal reporter Moderate to Heavy returning the sprawling Tucker Hollywood .. 8 Sports ...14-15 had to be done about it. She|their children for a day in this ¥ "| Rainfall Tonight plant to the War Assets AdminInside Indpls. i Weathet Map 13|couldn’t go us a efficient, well-run economically, , . | LOCAL TEMPERATURES istration the plant , er B® Bar! Yiison.. z “THERE was only one thing to a HON vesr wo Little World Series 6am... 10a. m... 66 |est under a. ors Jars. Movfes ...... 8 Your Home., 7/40: I made up my mind that the day nursery received and spent! . 7a.m... 86 11 a. m... 88 (shattered - Tucker's dream of My (Day .... 5/Your Job....10/family would have to be seP-| i qv $49031 for the hundreds of| Eddie Ash . . . 8am... 65 12 (Noon). 86 [revolutionizing the automotive in- £ 2a other Mrs. Smiths in Indianapolis| dean of Hoosier Baseball 9a. m... 68 1pm... 66 |dustry with a radically new car.

[ristmeu sim an at rn moms mw se Jo = Sr. ——

writers. Bill Eggert . . .

comes home with our Indians.

All EXCLUSIVE IN THE TIMES.

It al j Hoosier weather will be wet but block on PUL an bing mild through the remainder of|to reprganize the firm. | the week, Weatherman Paul Mill- signed the order on the {er said today as he predicted driz-|recommendation of his |zling rain in Indianapolis would appointed’ Tucker trustees.

in their brave efforts to preserve family and home.

Three Killed in ‘Czech

Street Shootings

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Oct. {4 (UP)—Three men were killed ’ and several others injured ina Woman's Attacker

series of street shootings here . Saturday hight, it was BS is Sought by Police {said. Showers were expected to bugs building. today by persons who said they| State police this afternoon were end Thursday as skies clear over were eyewitnesses. searching the area west of the most of the state. - A police officer at the Nusle|Speedway near High School Road| Light showers last night|of $170 million. District - headquarters confirmedifor a man who assaulted a brought .21 inch rainfall to down{there had been “some shooting” married woman: {town Indianapolis, and .13 inch ‘It Never Rains—' Police said the attacker was was recorded at Weir Cook AirPITTSBURGH, Oct. 4 (UP) — It never rains but

MARION COUNTY GENERAL MOTORS DEALERS’ CONTEST

I ; FREE ENTRY BLANK—Mail it Now to i |COMMUNITY FUND CONTEST

P. 0. Box No. 1681, Indianapolis, Ind.

i | (Complete the following statement in 25 additional | words or less)

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but said “it was nothing very imbelieved to be armed. He was port.

portant.” One victim was quoted by eye-| gescribed as 25 to 30 years old,| In other parts of the state, 1.50 six feet, wearing a light blue coat|inches was reported at Scotts-

witnesses as saying before he

* died: SL arin 2 Naat it outs at the Griser - 8 “es i appearance. burg, 1.17 ‘at Portland, 1.03 at ousehold in Pitcairn, Pa. ; ti uray, WHY have you.done rr Bluffton, and .64 inch at Kokomo. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur

WINN ‘ABOUT THE SAME’

LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct: 4 (UP), 2ioWide Tains lomorrow

early Thursday and showers over

Griser, who already have 14 children including four

Lauder Unchanged — Col. Matt Winn, president of tne week-end will average near| sets of twins: today anName STRATHAVEN, Scotland, Oct.| Churchill Downs, ed in Bione inch, the Weather Bureau| nounced the birth of trip- : 4 (UP)—Physicians attending Sir rious condition today at St.sald. - : lets. : Address Harry Lauder, 79-year-old Scot-{J0seph Infirmary where he has| Temperatures will range from The new arrivals, two

A — nit, nn pot, -—pee >

tish minstrel, said today there Submitted to twe operations since 48 to 74 in the north and from change in his condition. SePt. 9. A hospital spokesman 52 to 80 degrees in the southern| total to 17 children during said Col. Winn “is just about the portion of the state through the * the couple's 15 years of ; i ysamas x © Aweek-end. ; 4 marriage, sd

boys and a girl, brought the

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court- ing through the streets of this Un-{small town at dawn today to {become moderate to heavy to-|der the order, the trustees are assess the damages caused by the {night and last through tomorrow.|8iven 60 days in which to try tobig blow that came out of the The mercury will drop to a mild |8€ll Tucker's 10-year lease on the gulf with plenty of warning. They 64 tonight and rise to 68 tomor-|Plant, his option to buy it for $30 found, to their relief, that there row in Indianapolis, forecasters million, and machinery inside the was practically no property dam-

| e plant was built by the gov- jage ernment during the war at a cost]

Eyewifness—

Hurricane Warning Avoids Loss of Life in Texas Town

By ANDY ANDERSON | | Written for United Press | | FREEPORT, Tex. Oct. 4 {Maybe disaster workers would be counting bodies in Freeport today {had not hurricane warnings sent {the townsfolk to shelter. | The big blow is over now, and

ithe people of Freeport say that)

/this howling 100 - mile «an - hour {hurricane that’ whistled through {here late last night is history. | Freeport citizens started mov-

Had Moved Out of Town The people of Freeport began imoving out of town in large num|bers about 7 p. m. (Indianapolis {Time) Monday. Some of them {went to nearby Angleton, and, at {one time, cars were lined, up !bumper to bumper on the highway to Houston.

(Andy’ Anderson, columnist and roving reporter for the Houston Press, a Scripps Howard newspaper, has returned from a hurricane assign ment on the Texas gulf coast, Here is his account of what he saw as a 100-mile-an-hour hurricane moved through the small coast town of Freeport into the interior toward Houston.)

Those who remained in Freee port just took the blow for granted and waited until it ‘Hlew itself out. As far as I know, the most serie out damage was done to my new Lincoln. .I tried to open the door and the high wind caught it and swung it open violently. The result was a sprung door, and it made me ill. In riding into Freeport, I saw only four houses showing lights, and one of these was a beer parlor, ' Evans

Drug Store, the only

| The wind assumed hurricane/place to eat, stayed open all night, Deorville Evans, proprietor of the drug store, and one boy volunteer served hot coffee to those who

proportions about. 11:45 p. m., with gusts belting Freeport at a velocity of 90 miles per hour. Power and telephone lines tumbled. n, 20 miles away, bore

Angleto! the brunt of the storm. Citizens waded through the streets, anxious to get 500 refugees back home before starting to check

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