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Winds Reach 90 Miles Per; Hour; Move Toward Biloxi, And Mississippi RegionsTidal Waves Breach Seawalls As Lower Areas Are FloodedBAY ST. LOUIS, Miss., lt;/P)— Fifty-mile an hour winds began to buffet this Mississippi roaat town this morning ns a storm that streaked across southeastern Louisiana began tio bear down on Mississippi.Tides were rising higher and were threatening the Louisville and Nashville bridge. All trains were stopped as the water reached the level of the bridge floor.NEW ORLEANS lt;/P - A small, fast-moving gulf hurricane struck the southeast Louisiana coast at 3:30 a. m. (EST today, and headed In the direction of New Orleans.The U. S. Weather Bureau said the brunt of the storm would be felt here about 11 a. m. lt;EST with winds of 70 to 75 miles in exposed places and about 6o miles in the city.Moisant International airport, about 12 miles 10 the west, recorded winds of 55 miles per hour with gusts up to 75 miles at 4:30 a. m. lt;EST.The hurricane, ly yesterday ly swept 350 miles up erossed the shoreline miles south-southwest ofIt was moving north-northeast-# ward at about 18 miles an hour. Thousands of persons in the storm area left their homes to seek shelter in more substantial buildings or on higher ground.Order Residents Out As the wind increased, city officials ordered 2.700 residents moved from Our Town, a wartime housing project of light frame buildings on the eastern outskirts Df New Orleans. The municipal auditorium was made ready to house them.Lake Pontchartrain, north of the city, toee rapidly as the wind drove water in through passes connecting the lake with the gulf.The city itself is protected from the lake by a seawall, but waves were washing over an earthen embankment along the lakeshore in Jefferson Parish (county! immediately to the west.The hurricane of last Sept. 19 flooded 50 square miles there, drowning eight persons.The Weather Bureau said tides would be “abnormally high today east of the Mississippi river to Pensacola. However, forecasters ,aid the tides had moved so fast there was no time for a wall of water to build up before it.The coastal area where the center of the storm hit is a swampy. Bayou-studded, sparsely populated section. Most of the inhabitants are French-speaking “Cajuns.”1000 Leave Homes x Chief Deputy Sheriff G.L.Brous-sard of Terrebonne Parish, where the hurricane moved inland, said about 1,000 persons had left their homes in the Bayou area. They were housed in the parish courthouse and three school buildings at Houma.The Weather Bureau predicted the center of the storm would pass just east of New Orleans soon after daybreak and just west of Biloxi, Miss, before noon.That course would take the storm along the western Mississippi coast which was battered severely by a hurricane last September 19.Calls GOP Attack On Truman ’Red-Herring Smear'WASH INTON, lt;/P' A top Dem- ' ocrat today blasted a GOP statement linking President Truman with the Communists as a “blue- ' blooded herring designed to distract attention from the Republican inflation.”That was'the retort hurled by 1 Senator J. Howard McGrath, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, at his GOP counterpart. Rep. Hugh D. Scott, after Scott had called on Mr. Truman to say whether he accepted Communist support in the 1944 campaign.“It is/a blue-blooded herring. | said McGrath, because il is the creation of the gentleman who ; once boasted that the Republicans are the ‘best stock’ and therefore ‘should take over’ the government.”Scott accused the president yesterday of seeking to “snuff out” congressional investigations of Communists with “impetuous cries of ‘red herring.’ ”He went on to say that he wondered if there was a ‘workingwhich formed on-in the Gulf and rapid-to the coast, about 70 here.agreement’ in 1944 between the Communists and Mr. Truman, then the vice presidential candidate.To this McGrath replied i “The GOP national chairman i knows that Communist support j for' the Democratic party was repudiated in the 1944 campaign by the late President Roosevelt as the spokesman for the entire party.” He quoted Roosevelt as saying in a radio address on Oct. 5. 1944:T have never sought and I do not welcome the support of any person or group committed to Communism or Fascism, or any other foreign idelogy which would undermine the American system of goveernment or the American system of free competitive enterprise and private property.”McGrath assailed what he called Scott’s “smear statement” as “cheap political hypocrisy and irresponsible demagoguery. He said the Republicans were issuing “lurid statements” in an effort to “lull the public to forget the danger of high prices.Secretary of Agriculture Brannan said Gov. Hhomas E. Dewey had “openly launched a very sinister attack on the nation’s farmers. He told a news conference yesterday that the GOP Presidential nominee was trying to destroy the farmers’ price supports by blaming them for the “exhorbitantly high price of certain foQji*.”Dewey made no comment as he went to his Pawling .farm for the Labor Day week end.Gasoline In River Threatens To BlazeHALLO WELL. Me. Forty-nine thousand gallons of gasoline which leaked from a tanker moved seaward down the Kennebec river today as patrols sought to prevent ignition of the volatile fluid.The gasoline was part of the 250, 400 gallon cargo brought here by the 150-foot motor tanker Lucy Reinauer of Boston. The vessel’s bow plates were strained when the
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