Hurricane Near Florida Coast Threatens Atlantic Seaboard
Tropical cyclone with winds at least 75 mph moves from southeast toward the coast. Forecasters warn it will affect the Atlantic seaboard from Southport North Carolina to Atlantic City New Jersey with evacuations and maritime danger Ahead four ships reported in danger and coast guard units mobilized for rescue operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Seaboard
Southport
N. C
Atlantic City
N. J
Wilmington
Manteo
Maritime Exchange
Norfolk
West Texas
Southern Steamship Line
Houston
Whipple
Standard Fruit Company
Cuba
Ashworth
Brazil
Karranger
New Orleans
Weather Bureau
Torvanger
Puerto Rico
Cape Hatteras
Norfolk Weather Bureau
Cape
North Carolina
Virginia
Raleigh
New Bern
Beaufort
Elizabeth City
Early Hurricane Warnings Reach Atlantic Coast
Washington reports the season's worst hurricane forecast to strike Cape Hatteras around 2 a.m. with the center near the Virginia capes by Friday. Wind at Cape Hatteras reaches 68 mph as 1,500 residents along Hatteras banks are warned to evacuate. Coastal towns brace as boats imperiled and CCC camps abandon sections. Coast guard aids El Almirante after a 5,000 ton freighter incident. Norfolk prepares for 50 mph winds and beaches are deserted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Newport, News
Hampton Roads
Richmond
Portsmouth
Chesapeake Bay
Virginia
Manteo
N. C
Civilian Conservation Corps
Sweet Water
Coast Guard
Cape May
N. J
Miami
St. Petersburg
Fla
Charleston
8. C
Jacksonville
Washington, D. C
Weather Bureau
Cape Hatteras
Virginia Capes
Modo
President Urges Private Welfare in Mobilization Drive
President Roosevelt outlined a 1936 mobilization for human needs as a public private effort. He cited a planned 10 percent rise in Community Chest goals and set mobilization to begin November 6 after the election. Public health and welfare agencies would continue with private support, Roosevelt noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
America
Roosevelt
Gerard Swope
General Electric Company
White House
Executive Mansion
Harper Sibley
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Thomas Parran
Sibley
Parran
Government must act as distress reaches limits
The speaker notes that essential work deferred during low mood years must be resumed. They assert that when human distress requires help, government at local state and federal levels must and does respond with available resources to provide assistance.
Digest Straw Ballots Being Received Here
Voters in Winchester and nearby areas submit Literary Digest straw ballots in a national poll of over 10 million to forecast the next U. S. president. Virginia results join a nationwide tally, voting is secret, and cardboard ballots deter tampering while tracking shifts since 1932.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winchester
Literary Digest
United States
Virginia
Tragedy as 45 Drown in Flooded Nile Near Cairo
Seventy ducks? Drowned. Forty five Egyptian workmen perish when their outing steamer collides with a sailing boat on the flooded Nile near Cairo. Only four survive as rescuers struggle against the swift current during full flood conditions.
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Cairo
Egypt
Nile
Tidewater Prepares for Impending Tropical Storm
Tidewater Virginia braces for a powerful storm. Newport News terminals shift merchandise from piers. Fire and police shifts stay on alert. National Guard artillery and naval reserves mobilize. Red Cross mobilizes disaster relief teams as sandbags await at power plants. Fishermen move gear, and coastal counties prep in advance.
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Rem Sherk
Oes
Peninsula
Newport News
Chesapeake and Ohio
Joseph C. Biggins
National Guard Service
Hampton
Huntington Rifles
Naval
J. K. M. Lee
Red Cross Disaster Relief Committee
Fox Hill
Messick
Poquoson
Yorktown
Gloucester
Mathews
Red Cross
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Florida
CCC
N.C
Atlantic Beach
NEW York—Shipping Lines
Chesterfield
Digest
Pine Motor CO. Grad & Ceci
Sts
Tidewater
Ayu
Prett
Firestone Auto Supply & Service Store
Firestone Auto Supply
N. Loudoun St
Firestone
WEAF
Cammertire
al Tata Braddock & Boscawen
Liscurr & Mrmas Tonacco Co
Leonemisel
Tronperterion
O. K
Viking
Packard
W. B
Chevrolet
Thenandoah Motor Co., Inc
John W. Rosenberger & CO
FORD
Dodge Panel
DODGE
Pine Motor Company
Braddock
Cecil Sts
Plymouth
Phony
Winchester Furniture
Heatrolas
Coleman
John S. Miller & CO
Sherwin-Williams Paints
Bickers
China
Clowe’s Jewelry Store
Westinghouse
Northern Virginia Power Co
H. W. Ebert
Berry’s Ferry
Millwood
Clarke County
C. J. Brumback
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