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Newspaper Page TextFTON MARKET oUNG e 1 os % F}, No. 189 FULL Associated Press Service. FTORMS RAGING UP ATLANTIC COAST IS. Joms Fight Agamnst Sleeping Sickness EEN DEAD AND JEW SUFFERERS 7 LOOIS AREA nment Expert Sent Sene as Death Toll isNew U. S. Record | uDY CARRIERS STUL al Experts Believe sease is Spread by asects, Not Water LOUIS,—(/P)— Science ra.l-‘ \\'e(il'."»“i"‘)' to an intens“ied‘ against sleeping sickness, jous malady which has killed ons and attacked 182 others Louis and vicinity. .g\'-vrmné’nl expert rushed here Washington and went to work | attempt to determine if in-‘ gread the disease, Mean as three deaths in the last ' cwelled the fatality “list ,(“ i$ the disease broke out in] other mid-western communi th from this virus disease.‘ h ccience knows so little about, ween reported at Wichita, Kansas City, Kas.,, and War wrg. Mo., while the illnesses ients at Maryville, Mo, and ozee, Okla., have been diag-, i as encephalitis. ¢ seriousness of the epidemic i, Louis and St. Louis county flected in the mounting list ring the last 24 hours the ber of victisns of the epide in §t. Louis and \(Louis county fected in the mounting list of ming the last 24 hours the s of an elderly woman, a ile-aged man and a 3-year-old i rought the number of vic of the epidemic—in less than weeks' time—=to within one of fatalities in the Spokane, h, outbreak from 1919 to 1921, n nineteen lives were claimed, ina three year period. Breaks [Record eviously, the federal public th service had regarded the kine outbreak as the country’s % but the number of patients ¢ did not compare with those ady ill here. addition to the deaths here, number of reported cases has nto 182, of 146 are in St. Louis nty and 37 in the ‘city of St he United States Public Ser , recognizing the outbreak as largest “ever reported in the i in any one given place,”’ has atched a third scientific ex r. L L. Williams, Jr,, medical omologist, joined Dr. J. P. Leak Dr, Charles Armstrong, public ith physicians who are aiding lautherities in an effort to find ause, carrier, preventive or cure the disease, shorting to headquarters in shington that he felt sure the tad of the disease was not due Water, but that he wasn't cer he could exclude insects as a * Dr. Leake asked for Dr. Hlams whose specialty is insects ssemiators of disease, stacles in Path OfNRA, Talmadge Asserts in Chicago sser HCAGO —(#)— Governor Eu ¢ Talmadge of Georgia says ¢ national recovery act won't td until prices of raw prod -20 up in proportion with Reg ¢ spoke here Tuesday on the ¢ day program of the Cen ¥ 0f Progress exposition before To%d that included more than thousang residents of his state. lawding President Roosevelt madge said the people will be o work themselves out of a ieult situyation but urged wide il cooperation to that end. The governor was accorded a ltary welcome #®hd paraded Pigh the hall of states @ccom "“d by his own staff of 21 lieu it colonels, state offielals and e I."_'.'lx] infantr_v band., Roy LeCraw of Atlanta, mem ' of the Georgla state commis "to the world's. fair, fntro *“d the governor's staff and L “we brought the military " 10 repay a call by a chap "l Sherman who Mmarehed Mugh Georgia—but we won't % in our wake what he did in :‘r Richard B. Russell, jr. ' Wis a speaker on the pro “ A reception and ball for she mrm and his party closed the ATHENS BANNER-HERALD Sought in U. S. Kidnap Roundup B S 5 P S o B e 3 B : e R e B RO ST e A e RoW R O R SR G e P . oy e NN e SR i R o B 0 A 5 e §% P s o g R B R e i ""s,? % e B 4583 i g 7 s B B B BT Soouponto Sl e BB R o BR R R g i oy i S T e g R A R o A i G Pl R Y e B e kR R e RA 2 B : R B 3 3 | :?:3\\:3:':}33s:' Ko R 3 i S S 5 2 R e St bk B e iﬁ B e ? g B : 3 = } s R k! & B R TR ¥ B A R : T, SRR g Authorities say™-George Kelly, above, was one of the gang that eluded 300 officers in Chicago who made a spectacular but unsuccessful attempt to trap the kidnapers of John Factor. BODY OF EDITOR FOUND IN RIVER Ohio Publisher Is Found Murdered; Had Been Missing For Two Days COSHOCTON, O.,—(#)— Bound and weighted down with a ham mer, a plow point and lead slugs, the body of Fred S. Wallace, 61 year old missing newspaper pub lisher, was found in the Muskingum river two miles from here Tues day night. Dr, F, W. Craig, county coroner, withheld his verdict, while Prose cutor Russell E. Lyons began a study of the publisher’s disappear ances three day ago and the cir cumtances of his death. Wallace, who was publisher and editor of The Coschton Tribune, was last seen alive when he left the newspaper office early Sunday morning, apparently to walk to his ‘home, one block away. For two days his family feared ihe had suffered a lapse of memory ‘due to an illness for which he had 'been under treatment. Tuesday his 'son Robert a Cleveland newspaper man, asked authorities to make a state-wide search for his father, | Found By Campers ’ Two young men camping along the river found the body on the .edge of the stream. The head bore ‘cuts over the right eye and the right ear, his ankles were bound with baling wire, a plow-point was fastened to his clothing, and a hammer had been stuck in his belt. The pockets contained slugs simiar to those used in printing offices, Wallace’s watch, and a spectacle case. At the Tribung office employes reported the pub lisher's bill-fold and other valu ables had been left there. County authorities said Wallace's car had not been removed from the garage at his home. The campers who found the body told police they saw an object they thought was a log floating in the river Monday and suggested they might have seen 'the man’s body at that time. COTTON PACTS TO BE ENFORCED Federal Agents to Be Em powered to Force Keep ing of Agreement WASHINGTON — () — Cotton farmers who have agreed to re duce their production this year must comply and federal agents ‘will see that the specified acreage js “plowed up” if necessary, farm administration officials have point ed out. If the contracting farmers fail to do the plowing, agents vested with authority of the farm adjust ment act will take steps to de stroy the cotton for them. That was the purpose of the signed contracts, the officials said. There are only a few isolated instances in which farmers have refused to fulfill their contracts, said Chester C. Davis, director of production for the farm adminis tration. The great majority of the cotton growers are cgfaplying to the letter in plowing' up the cotton they agreed to destroy, he report ed. FOUR BIGGEST JOB: OF NRA TAGKLED BY RECOVERY WORKERS Coal, Auto Codes, Labor Status and Competitive Problems Are Studied “CHISELERS” FLAYED Small Retailers Branded Source of Unfair ‘ Competition By JAMES COPE | Associated Press Staff Writer ‘w WASHINGTON —(AP) — Four of its biggest jobs were the NRA's tasks Wednesday—the tasks of tin ishing fair practice agreements for coal and automobiles, solving the retailers’ competitive problems and untangling labor’s status in tho recovery movement. At the same time, recovery offi cials were set to dig into a code for the women's dress industry newly drafted in New York by Grover Whalen, the arbiter who brought together warring factions in that trade to compose a strike. Also in the mill for development was an enterprise of Administra tor Hugh S. Johnson to loosen through the federald reserve and Lthe reconstruction corporation, the commercial bank credit necessary to finance higher overhead which factories, plants and store are as suming under NRA compacts. Fresh credit has not yet broke available, he said Tuesday, but he was confident that a break would |be made. _ Hints Authority Overnight, the administration had acted to keep local Blue Ea gle drive committees from assum ing authority to remove the Blue Eagle posters from windows of merchants violating terms of the voluntary agreement. Thomas S. Hammond, director of the campaign, issued an official statement that local groups have not that power, but are invited to try to get the violator to mend ' his ways voluntarily, If he refuses, the question must pe referred to Washington. Hammond also denounced perse cution of merchants who operate their stores long hours, pointing ‘out that local agreements to limit store hours are contrary to the NRA purpose, which is to make more employment by cutting work ers’ hour and hiring more people to round out the remaining time. The retail store issue uppermo t as hearings were reconvened on the agreement embracing all but food and drug dealers, was the need for working out hour and wage levels to protect on a compe titive basis, small establishments both in outlying areas of big ci ties and in lesser communities. : i Union Question The union question had been brought to such a pass by the bi- Xuminous coal and automobilf codes, with their open shop formu las, that Johnson promised an ear ly statement to clarify just what imay and may not be said in indus trial pacts beyond the mandatory ireservation to labor of a right to free organization for collective ' bargaining. The administration has repeat edly asserted that nothing may go into a code which can be interpre ted as curtailing this right. It also has refused to lend itself, or its influence, to unionization of any qndustry. The steel industry, after ’submitting an elaborate company ‘union plan withdrew it, but with a definite statement that it intended to pursue the policy anyhow in an attampt to have each plant deal with its own men and not with ‘national union officials. ‘ CALLED “CHISELERS” WASHINGTON —(AP) —Small retailers, whose investment is not more than SSOO, were called tke sources of unfair competition Wed nesday by A. Linco‘n Wisler, pres ident of the United Business ‘Men’s association of Chicago, at the resumption of hearings on the retail code. Wisier, who said <‘here wers about 42:5,00¢ such storeke:pers, described them as “a cancerous growth that has been gnawing at the vitals of good, hongst and fair retailing.,” Wisler said he represénted 10,000 stores in Chicago, “These small storekeepers are some of the chislers who are un derminding business in every local ity and neighborhoods,” he said. “#The unfair competition that ex ists Wednesday in retailing comes from this type of merchant. He never joins his chamber of com e — (Continued on page six.) ‘Athens, Ga., Wednesday, August 23, 1933 Armed Patrols Guard Negro In Huntsville Attack Trial As Mob Is Repelled Twice Third Attempt to Take Man Threatened by Would-Be Lynchers DEFENDING PRISONER Grand Jury to Investigate Lynching of Negroes In Nearby County HUNTSVILLE, ALA,, AP~ Patrols armed with guns and tear gas guarded the Madison County jail tcday against promised third attempt to mob a Negro charged with attacking a white woman, Twice yesterday mobs were re pelled by the sheriff’s department when they tried to reach thé Negro and the second time the unsuccess ful party left the jail with a decla ration they would return last night “a thousand strong” to get the pri soner, Sheriff Ben Giles immediately ordered ail deputies to duty ond the National Guard was alerted against an attack on the jail. | Early today, however the scene was quit and the sheriff said, “The. Negro is still in jail and I intend to see that he stays there. The Negro, Thomas Brown, 23, ‘was identified by a mother of se 'ven children as the man who held a knife at her throat and attacked \her at Decatur in adjourning Mor-. gan county. Meanwhile, Judge James BE. Hor ton ordered the grand jury into session at Decatur Monday to in vestigate the attack upon and slay ing of James Royal, another Ne lgro, near where Brown was ar rested. Royal was shot from a pasging car. Another grand jury is investi gating the lynching of two Negroes wounding of a third in Tuscaloosa county. The three in the case were accused of killing a white girl. PATRON OF 4-H CLUB WORK DIES Eugene Blumenstein, of Bainbridge, Sent Many Boys to Athens Sessions BAINBRIDGE, . Ga.—(#)—FEugene Blumenstein, prominent Bainbridge business man for the past 35 years, died in a hospital and will be buried here Wednesday, He was 64 years old. Mr. Blumenstein was a native of Bavaria, Germany, and lived at various times in Chicago and Cin cinnati. He was senior partner of the clothing firm of Blumenstein and Parker. He was also a director of the Citizens bank and was active in civic club work. He had a hobby of assisting farm boys in their 4-H club work and defrayed the expenses of many to the club’y encampments at Ath ens, One thing in which he took great pride was that he started a youth, Hansel Poitevint, in the hog rais ing business. Hansel won a trip to Washington this year as Geor gia’s representative in 4-H club work, : Roosevelt Pays Visit To Camp of Boy Scouts ENROUTE TO TEN-MILE BOY SCOUT CAMP, N. Y— (#)—ln a drizzling rain, Presi dent Roosevelt motored across New York state Wednesday to visit the Boy Scouts from New York city, mobilized in the Ten Mile river camps near the Pennsylvania border, Mr. Roosevelt sped along after an early start in order to reach nis 80 mile destina tion in time for lunch wtih the boys. LOCAL WEATHER Fair Wednesday night and Thursday.! Not much change in temperature. b TEMPERATURE Highest.i aass neh one. s 95.0 LoweSt.es s vees cses sesss. 8.0 Mean. ... cess gr-~ gasens..7s.s MOOMBL. .5y ssciniinena 65T 0 RAINFALIL, Inches last 24 h0ur5........ 0.00 Total since August 1......., 2.82 Deficiency since August 1.. .63 Average August rainfall.... 4.68 Total since January 1.....24.45 Deficiency since Januay 1 10.45 —ESTABLISHED 1832 The Humorous, the " Tragic and the Odd in the News By The Associated Press KANSAS CITY —(AP)— A mail order house asked its employes to tell yvhat they did with the increas ed wages they received under the NRA. Four replied th epay hike had enabled them to marry; an other said he filed hitherto delayed diverce papers. BEER BOOKS BOOM NEW YORK—The progress of the repeal movement has caused a boom at the New York public li brary. Requests 4re pouring in for beooks on the manufacture and sale of beer, wing and whiskey. BACK TO TRENCH NEBRASKA CITY, Neb.—World war trencheg furnished an idea for Lawrence Gibbs, war veteran, when he lost his job. He found a likely gite in the side of a river bank and dug out a neat little shelter. With a stove, bunk and a few utensils he aims to keep cozy all winter. HE!S INDIGNANT -} BUDAFEST — Andreas Kiss is disappointed, upset and indignant. He bought a rope to commit sui cide, but just at the crucial mom ent the rope broke. So he sought out the man who had sold it to him and preferred a charge of swind ling against him. r T LOOKS LIKE WARM WINTER ' ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Bal tic avenue is—or was—paved with wooden blocks. The recent storm Lrought an 8-inch rainfall which worked underneath the base of the blocks © and thousgnds of thera floated awayy Residents donned bathing suits and worked all night in the storm, laying in next winter's fuel supnly. It will cast SIO,OOO to repave the sireet, ‘t _i Al Franklin County Is Benefitted by Plan To “Live-at-Home” CARNESVILLE, GA. — (P) — Franklin county has added its name to the list of Geoigia counties profiting under a “Live At Home” farm program. The county, - which imported nearly 700,000 pounds of pork and pork products in 1931 now has an ample supply of its own due to the success of a program carried out by County Farm Agent E. K. Davis. He siarted placing purebred sows with 4-H eclap boys and farmers two years ago, financing the scheme himself. ; Each boy or farmer taking a pig ‘to raise into sow gave him half the firgt litter of pigs keeping the sow and the vremaining pigs. He centinued the plsn through 1932, }placing 112 purebred sows in the county. These sows to farrow in the spring of 1933. “We dont think there will have to be any meat or pork products imported in the county this win ter,” the farm agent said Wednes day furthermore, we have for the first time in the history of the county an ample supply of pure bred pigs, In fact, we have so many pigs in the county now that you can hardly give them away.” ‘ MATHATMA GANDHI TAKEN TO HOSPITAL POONA, India. — {#)— The Mahatma Gandhi broke hig fast, shortly after he had been unconditionally released frein cusicdy Wednesday by the government. The frail nationalist leader was in the eighth day of his fast in protest against the government’s refusal to grant him priyileges to carry opn his campaign in behalf of the untouchable class. Because he steadily was growing « weaker, he was re moved to the civil hospital re cently from Yeroda jail, where he had: been serving a one-year sentence for civil disobedience. It was reported previously that. should his illness become critical he would be released as would any prisoner under the same conditions, IF ‘PAP’ HAD THE WINGS OF AN ANGEL HE’D STAY WHERE HE IS—IN PRISON! By NEA Service PARCHMAN, MISS, — A. J, Tabor, 90, always wanted to be able to relax and take things easy when he grew old, ; His life’s wish is being fulfilled —although he is a convict serving a life term for murder in the state penitentiary here. Tabor likes it, and wouldn’t leave, He has, in fact, declined two full pardons from two gover nors since his conviction for first degree murder 18 years ago. “Pap,” as he is known, cele brated his birthday recently, and there was a real party. Fellow convicts, and relatives and their wives, attended a banquqget at which the old man was the hon ored guest., Almost any day ‘lPap” can be found at one of the nearby bayous or lakes fishing. Ed, a negro prison it'rusty, always goes with him and baits his hook. ’ Ed is Tabor's ‘valet’ He looks after Tabor's well-furnished room ’ln the prison hospital and waits on him. ' “Pap” is sorry he had to come to prison, but says he lis happy hecause hes made the best of it “Why, I have’more comfort than [any of those rich people down around Biloxi and Jackson,” said [Pap. “They’re worried about the istock market, but I'm not.” GOVERNMENT TO FIX FLUID MILK PRICES Average Increase of One Cent Per Quart Is Con sidered Fair by Officials WASHINGTON .—(#)—The gov ernment is about to fix the price paid for the miik that Is set on neatly every door-sill or porch in the country. | The plan so far as is just tenta.-‘ tive as to details and s belng{ written by farm administration officials and dairymen. At most, the officials feel, the result should be an average increase jin cost to the consumer of one cent a quart. ' It would work this way: . For the country as a whole, ithere would be a central blan}(et agreement, covering all fluid milk and outlining policies and fair trade practices, Codes then would be drawn for each milk shed, each area producing and consum ing its own milk. These would fix the farm, wholesale and retail prices of milk. If a majority of fluid milk pro ducers and handlers accepted the blanket agreement, it and its sup plementary codes would be ef fective on all. Allowed Appeals Individual areas, however, which held price adjustments necessary because of special conditions, would be allowed appeals. If their appeals were convlnclng,' the prices could be changed. Also included in the plan is the idea of limiting to 5 or 6 cents the difference between what the cow owner gets for his milk and what the drinker pays for it, thus restricting the middleman’s profit. the “spread.” Some of the smallest communi ties, where the producer also dis tributes his milk, would be Jex cluded. There ig involved, likewise, a plan for controlling the omount of milk produced and sold. With out that, farm administrators say. the blanket and supplemental agreements would be no good, for the tendency toward over-supply, with consequent low prices, would be unchecked. ) The farm administration is striv ing to have this plan ready for ac ceptance within two weeks, TALMADGE WILL BE WITNESS IN OUSTER TRIAL OF MANGHAM ATLANTA.—(#)—A special dis patch to the Corstitution from Chicago said Governor Talmdge plans to take the witness stand next Monday in Haralson Superi or court at the ouster hearing against Chairman J. J. Mangham of the State Highway board. J. W. Barnett, removed by Gov ernor Talmadge from the chairman ship, is challenging Mangham's right to succeed him as a mem ber of the board. “If I find time”, the governor was quoted as saying, “I will stop in Washington. However, I must be back in Georgia next week to appear as a witness at the Bar nett-Mangham trial.” The Mangham ease is to be glven a hearing at Buchanan. ‘ A. B. C. Paper—Single Copies, 2c—s¢ Sunday. E . e ] = @ Ty P NEE SR Ry g | R ‘{@ e B G @ Bao e ege e A 3 B e _ o ol | : b i G : \~ 2 3 | : e v ¥ 3 S : 3 L : ¥ 3 »¥ o B N L ~ R ﬁa | 4 \‘\‘ T 7 ‘ “:. ]/ , \/,‘ ’ NN I é’// PR &5 ‘ a4y % * -M R A e T ] B, % . . g : N A -’ 2 s ’/‘r",r i ) LL@ v 3 - O — e . ———— A, J. Tabar .. . . This. “Hite enjoys his fishing "too much to accept a pardon. THIRD VIGTIM OF SHOOTING DEAD Gainesville Woman Dies Tuesday Night After Killing Husband, Mother GAINESVILLE, Ga, —(#)— Mrs, Lena Wilson Palmour died at her home here at 11:50 o'clock Tues day night of a self-inflicted bul let wound after she killed her husband, B, C. Palmour, and her mother, Mrs. Fannie Wilson, in their sleep. ' Neighbors attributed her act to ‘mental derangement caused by the ipains of arthritis and despondency over failure to find relief.’ } After writing notes, directing that the bodies of her and her mother be buried in Georgetown, Ky., their former home, Mrs. Pal mour shot her husband In his bed early Tuesday, killing him instant ly. Then she went to Mrs. Wilson's room and shot her through the arm and brain and fired a bullet into her own head. Funeral arrangements have not been made pending the arrival of Mrs. Palmour’s brother, R. A Wilson, of Deland, Fla. \ Palmour, 60 years old, was o founder and former president of the firm of W. J. and E. C. Pal mour, Gainesville department store. ; Mrs, Palmour was 58. Prior to her marriage 20 years ago she was a dietician at Brenau college in Gainesville. Her mother, 84, came here from {(veorgetown pnany yedrs ago to live with her daughter. CHARGES FATHER DROVE SON AWAY Ten Year Old Boy Says Father Drove Him From Home With Whip OKLAHOMA CITY — () — A motherless &n-year old’s story of being whipped into exile from home resulted in the detention Wednesday of his father, E. W. Wilkes, a junk dealer. The boy, Calvin Bennle Wiles found near here, told officers his tfather had taken him 15 miles from town two weeks ago, and, after whipping him with a “black snake,” warned him ‘never to re turn home. Jailed a few hours later, the father said he had “heard” that Calvin ran away from home and added: “A man can't help it if his kids run off, can he?” Calvin said he lay by the side of the road “with my back so sore I couldn’t sleep much,” dur }ing the first night of hiy alleged exile and for a week slept in the !woods, begging food st farm ‘houses. Later, he was sheltered by a farmer. - Authorities said the child, whose back was scarred, might be offer ‘ed for adoption. No charges have ‘been filed against the father, VESSELWITH D 0 ABOARD SENDS OUT FAINT SO CALLS Coast Guard Cutter Coes - To the Aid of Liner in . Mountainous Seas 300-Foot Pier Is Washed Out at Cape May, and All Lines Are Down ' NEW YORK. —(AP)— The steamer Madison, in distress . off the coast of Virginia, re ported its position at 11:30 a. ' m. eastern standard time, as 20 miles northeast of Chesa peake Light vessel and said that its housing was breaking. The message was picked up by, | Mackay radio. ‘ ——eeee ‘ By The Associated Press ) Caught between a raging north easter amd a tropical hurricane blowing up from Bermuda, the Atlantic seaboard found no respite Wednesday from five days of storm and gale which already have wrought death and destruc tion over a wide area. An SOS from the O:d Dominion liner Madison with more than 90 persons aboard sent a coast guard 4 cutter ploughing through high seas to her aid off Cape Charles, Va. The faint call for help said the forward deck house of the coast wise steamer was washed away and that the craft wag in immedis ate need of assistance. The ship left New York sos Norfolk Tuesday. ; Reports from along the eastern seaboard told of thousands of dol- Jars worth of damage by the hurri~ cane and the possible loss of life, No Communication Communication along the entire Maryland shore was cut off at an early hour, At Norfolk winds of 70 and 80 miles velocity, accompanied by heavy rain, marooned vacationists and flooded low-lying sections. = | The North Carolina coast alsa was being pounded by mountain ous waves and an unknown four masted schooner wallowed help= less off the shoals near Maneto while coast guard craft stood by unable to give any assistance. * New Jersey, which received the brunt of the storms of the past . four days. continued to be buffets ed. The 300-foot municipal pier at Cape May was washed away and telephone and electric lines were blown down. ] The body of one of seven known victims of Sunday's storm washed up on the shore near Atlantia: City. New York city missed the brunt of the gale promised for Tuesday, 'but heavy rains continued. : Along the coast the heaviest rain for August in many years was reported. ! “MOST DISASTROUS . NORFOLK, Va. — (#) — The Hampton Roads area and nearby ’resorts was swept by the most ‘disastrous northeast storm on rec< . ‘ord here Wednesday, forcing hun dreds of persons to flee from high tides backed in by winds of hure ricane force. » ( Cottage at Willoughby and in, some sgections of Ocean View were ' flooded and at Virginia Beach the tide was swirling five feet deep ' along Atlantic avenue, the princi-i pal street. Calls were sent to the navy and the coast guard for tha = rescue of about 100 persons wha had taken refuge in the ferry ters minal at Willoughby and cottages nearby. [ Water was as much as six feet ;ln some of the cottages and the ‘tides, gathering force from the storm, were terrific. » Rkl At Virginia Beach 350 persons took refuge in the Cavalier hotel . as water forced them to flee their ‘ocean-front houses. AT ~ Other families went to the sec ond floors of their homes and were left without food when the tide cut off retreat. e The only fatality reported was the drowning of Oscar Dockery, of Norfolk, who went down late . Tuesday while attempting to tow a skiff ashore, A Norfolk Demoralized Ty Every form of business and in dustrial activity in Norfolk was demoralized and the city was cut off from communication by rail, bus and ferry. Docks along the en tire water front were covered by ‘%he itide and bay line steamers ‘had not afrived. Shipping . wiag paralyzed, It being impossible for incoming vessels to land at ‘the docks. ; 3 3 Plate glass windows in stores were~ smashed by the wind which reached a velocity of 56 miles an hour in the city with occasional gusts of 70 miles an hour. Calm weather followed the worst blow, which was about 7 a. m., but the (Continued cn Page Six) u