r.:r.,.~~ Ge• Orleans ha uperience today ~xtraord _ inary 0 t.11•• h, II:. o n ~ world's prominent citiea)The Louisiana aetropolia, aa e news has been blaring all day, waa hit by the hurricane - the ferocious blast of the wind, the driving deluge of rain. But that Wd&n't the astonishing part of it -- not the fury of wind, not the laah of rain. It was Just the II r8'ferae - quit and al cala 1 balay breeu and bri&ht akies, ~h•~••utiful weather caae suddenly, and people by the tens of thouaands flocked out of buildin&• and ahelters, thinkin1 the hurricane was over - •&app7 da71 are here again!•~he weather - ■an•a wer■ion of th~itty1 Ra.ll;:::3e ~aa a-11 18• ■ i1e •~•t ti 1P "•w• of \a1 h~rrftlae,=--ffi~ Stories of the sea are full of that wonder of the *•Jl■al tropical te ■ peat - the hurricane beiag--e y earealar wn4rlpeel if wlad • • ~ ~revolving with tremendous velocity 1~•d •i•loace •• the ri ■, but with little ■ otion • at the center. Ra~h•• \a e --011 t,a id I -&-II e1I"t-e-P-i t-h-a ff-1-y - aro • e a ~ jUBRICAI! - 2 Seafaring men of old marvelled at the weird fantasy of it, when their ship, lashed bf the hurricane, was swept into the dead center, taa •1•F ••• -- they'd suddenly find the ■ selves in cal■ weather,~ -t,A,-~ ........ ~~....,..lil....,.. ...... ~~- . ...-...--A.. the sk7 clear. a•"'- f:ti'elf■w■t= ,he ■, in ~al•• of ~h• tropical aaa ~at i\ 111•0• I•• ~,~ a.,,•••• t»e -a l:•rca ■atropalitan eitr, .. »- 1 ,lt happened L~bt_.r--~~ to lln 8rl!ean■; IA for hair aii'mr~aa::::ta the eye of th• hurr.icaae. lea l1lerne ca, in•• ea•i•lie peeiti•• had a hurricane since liaeteen fifie•n~,t.birty-two years So ~ ago,-Athe cityA__.. accusto■ ed to the atora demon of lest ,, "A A . ~ lndian waters. True, this J(»•aua, ••••lea ■• had been report£d for days, swooping down on Southern Florida, and cutting across to the Gulf of Mexico,- .... ~ . weather warnings had been urgent, ~yiDI ~A the teapeat ™ heading toward the northern shore of the Gulf. But law ,,,,/ Orleans didn:t expect to get the full blast, didn't JJBBI~Ali - .3 wai._~ ~ =t4. expect to be hit so squarely - that ~ ~ ~ • • • • ~ 1 ~~..._!_'~ ~ ~ - ~ 1t was only at the e\venth hour that hasty precautions were taken, 1az frantic activity laat -UM night, aoYeable objects gotA out of the way, windo•• boarded up. Durin& night, with a delu&• of raia heraldilll the approach of the hurricaDe, carpeatera labored in the downpour - boardiDg up the expensiYe wiadow of faac7 stores in the buaia••• district. Truckload• of lu•ber went ru■ bling through the rain - but there~•••** waaa•t enough. le• Orleans ran out of qulck 1upplies of lu■ber, and ■any an expanse of costly plate gl••• wa1 1■aahed-{,.~ battering of wind and rain today. Then, too, le• Orleans••• worri•d about flooda. The city, in the Delta of the l is aiaaippi BiYer, is actually below sea leYel, and there ia plenty of water nearby - ol~ ,!_an riYer hims ~ lf and Lake ~ontchartrain, o) the ~utskirts. Hurric a ~ have a way o f causing floods, and this one sounded exceptionally alaraing, as it caae ahrieki~ ~ u l f Coast. With the hurricane blowing A. lllBRlQAIII - 4 the water, the tides were huge at place 5 like Pensacola, Mobile1iloxi, ~t Biloxi the tide •as fro■ fifteen to ;twenty-five feet abov.e noraal. Pushing the waters in tha~ iaahion, the hurricane hit the mouth of the Misaiaaippi, •••••tr--fiYe ■ ilea below ■•• Orieana reports told how the 1iaat dri•• , of tbe wind was ahoYiD& back the waters ot Old Man Biwer, \: piling t&e ■ back for a ri1e of the atreaa. Meaniq flood• - the liaaiaaippi 1pilling over its baak1 aaa l•••e•· lould the le•••• at le• Orleans hold? That••• the atate of ■ ind, when the hurricane bore do · •n; 011 tla• crttJ: !h: wind and rain •••• a at a hundred-and-twenty. ■ ilea an hour. Sign■ ••r• knocked down, windows blowa out, a stora of,debri1 flying in the gale. Co■aunicationa N'N aaaahed, houaea •recked or damaged. On the out1kirta, one whole hou1in1 project ..,. wiped out. Lake Pontchartrain w:sa churning furiously., the water dashing over the levees. Flood waters pour~ f'.. •ilx into Bew Orleans streets - as the hurricane mounted to keep goi n g for a hundred miles or so before it ~reaks up. The latest tonight from New Orlean~: G~od new•. !he Red Cross reports: no loss of life, nobody killed - and the goQa news is . even better thab that • • infured badly enougb t , o g~ t~ a boapi tal. a climax. Then came the sudden change. Suddenly New lrleans seemed to be having one of the fairest of days, and people by the tllla of thousands were fooled. (1n old weatlier-beaten sailor of the tropical ocean would have known he'd have understood all about the eye of the hurricane. That beautiful weattier would have ■ ade bia shiver in his oil skins. But how were the land lubbers know? a~t they caae! Rejoicing! Right in the eye of the hurricane) Radios of the city blasted the w~rnings that it •as all a snare and a delusion,,that in the apace of ■ere minutes the teapest would start lashing again with renewed fury. Radio warnings dfd dlive people back indoors. ~h~n after half an hour of beautiful weat er, New '-'rleans was engulfed a ain by wind and deluge, •~en i was hit by the other rim of t e circular revolving stor➔ New Orleans they are cleaning u the debris, a t?a hurricane drives inland - toward Ar~ansas. eather authorities say the whirlin gaie will From Tokyo comes word of a series of vblent exploiions - blasts off by lmeri~an Troops; setting blasts, trying to save Tokyo. It~s all part of the continuing story of floods in Japan - floods following the devastating typhoon. Over there - the typhoon followed by floods that already have inundated one sixty of Tokyo. S!x hundred thousand pftople noaeiess - •1th the flood tl~eatening now to engulf the •hole city. So American soldiers today were dynamiting levees and enbani■ ents. Ordinarily, the flocd story is one of tr.7iing to save the levees and enbankments that keep the water out. But the situation in Toky,o is peculiar. The aenace ia fr o m the Naka River, which is in high flood; · the crest movin ~oward Tokyo. So American engineers were opening the river dykes some distance above Tokyo, to release the flood waters int a ow lyin plain -- and on the sea. Tonight we learn, that i u s u ite of all that labor bJ Aa~rican engineers, the banks of the Naka River bur _ t - cru b ir 0 l, 1 . ur f 'l er . or r To yo w mpe d t O u n o e U, rd e r r on in r . T e a iv r bro.11. i I. l, W l c et , . S s n V. ,. • t.he on-ru 0 t : e f 0 th ftm1 en inEB"s and th ir VO un te r civili n e t ta e t t e1r as sa ult b oat to s ve their l ~ v es . The latest wor is that more than to thousand Japanese may have perished with tens of thousands homeles The waters of the swollen Naka rtiver tonight £lowing unchecked into north eastern Tokyo -- only four miles the Imperial palace. Tod a y the re w s a ro in prices - w hich certa i nly sound s like news. On the exchan g es in the Midalewe t, . he pric of grains, instead of soarin g , went th other way. - t.-0-0-k d · -e-<an the Chica o ~oard of _irade, corn s bnk i g ht cents a bushel. That was the limit, - a1 l h rge a decrea e of quoted prices ~s i ~ permitted by With corn leading the procession,wheat declined, also for the liait - a drop of ten cents a . d . ~ bushel. Oats follow.A:_ai~ add so did livestock, butter and eggs. One reason is to be found in a report issued b7 the Department of Agriculture today - stating that the corn crop of the nation is safe fro ■ the danger of frost. Previously, it had been feared that an early frost would hit the twelve big corJ states of the Middlewest, but the weather indications are that the danger is past. U PRIClS ... 2 ------------- that this country b 6asically 1 a corn economy, founded on maize, the old American gr in the I\ the Indians. hit~ man got fro ■ I' The Pacific West Coat tonight is looking forward to labor peace. Peace in the troubled shipping industry, brought about by improv e ment of relations with the AF of L sailors, and possibly an understanding between the water front employers and the longshoremen. Tonight Barry LundP.berg, President of the Seamen's Union of the Pacific, told the press he is confident his union now can work o ut & new contract this, in spite of the closed ship ban of the Taft- Bartley act. This, after Lundeberg and Gray Harrison, Counsel for the Pacific American ship owners association, confeered with Senator Taft, co-author of the law that r ns the closed ship. The anti-closed ship provision of the Taft-Hartley act has been the maJor stumbling block in negotiations on the coast. Now they are ~aying *• in San Francisco that if the sailor• and ship own e rs association can reach ag · reement without clashing with this pro vis ion, then perhaps the waterfront x ■■,ixJ■ x• employers and the dock workers can also come to terms. In Italy the dan g erou q labor crisis, provoked by Com m uni s ts, has come to a sur p ri s ing end.Bne mi llion agricu l tural worker s on strike have agreed to return to w or k - un de r a settlement negotiated by labor off i cial s of the moderate, non-Com , unist g overnment of P remier De Gasperi. This, accordin g t-0 w ord from Rome, amounts to a major defeat for the Italian Com ■ unist Party ~ which called th e strike. The RedsAplanned to overthrow the non-Coamunist government by means of a labor crisis, and f o r ) ~ e situation had a revolutionary look, I pe I I in e, ,tempo'raril) ·' e will s nd au,Ar beet imper lleo · oy the political aspect - of the Co ■ aun t labor _,~· •1•t~i trlior agai , Jlst P / _ ~ / The Reds are now carrying on with efforts t is pro,..ote what they call - "A day of i; protests," This / --., / . I ./ o be hel tomorrow - / a prot~ agains ~ olY'tages and U.N. ------ To Y the United Nation had he aftermath of Vishinsky, the re ac ion to he horrendous b s he chief oviet Delegate hurled a ains the United St tes yesterday. The smaller nations had heir say, coming forward one after another, with their own opinions of the Vishinsky tirade. Many took side s bo~dly - Bra8il, Argentina, South Africa, Australia, Greece. They lashed baok at the Soviet Diatribe, defending the United States against the charge of trying to steam ur another World t War, end bitterly asseilv;the Soviet veto. A couple " of the smaller nations assumed a more neutral attitude, like Sweden and India. Support for t he Soviet was also a part of the proceedings. So what nation stepped forward to back un the violent Vishinsky asRault . agairst the United St . ates! The answer can be phrased in peculiar fashion - Russia wee supported by Russia. That - ~ is · - by white Russia. The - ~bite Russian,JJeleg te 1 echoed the Rus ian Delgate. The twister is, of course, explained. U.N. -2 _ ....... _ _ by the fact hAt he Soviets have three votes in the General As emhly of the United Nations. Mo co casting one, t he Ukraine another and 'bite Russia a third. Both the Ukraine and 1 hite Russia are parts of Soviet Russia, • tl. as much as V~rmont or Alabma are parts of the United xta A States. But Moscow insisted on having three votes; s:v ~ the fiction b that t.he Ukraine and White Russia ere I, ~ independent countries, an:d * tltq::-h~ the st.at us of na tiona 1, • Thus it was that White RuAsia supported Soviet Russia today, the !ltite Russian DeleP,ate poing into a fit of oratory that echoed Vishinsky. Whi+e Russia, for example, repDated the Vishinsky demand that war-,ongering against Soviet Russia be outlawed - a war-monger being one who talks against the Soviets end •••••••••xix denounces Communism. (Today, Vishinsky offered that sweet idea in formal fashion to the United Nation~ filinp a resolution t.o ••••• condemn the United States for fomenting war. / This anti-American resolution has, of course, not a sin~le chance of passing. But i 's U.N. --3 -- interesting -- espe~ial Y thP part which demands that anti-Sovie w r-mongering be made a cr"minal act. If you critici e the Soviets and Communism you go to jail - s n • by an Am~t'ican judgP to an :A ■l!i American jail. Of · course, you might even face an American fl ring sou ad • Th a t . , a s a pp 1 i e d t o t, he w b o 1 e "or 1 d , i s essentially the ~oviet pro~osal. Oh freedom ■ fx•,•••' of speech, where art thou? if the Soviets have anything to sey about it. If you think this is exRgg rat . ed, tt le ♦ , •s just refer back to Visbinsky's actual statement yesterday. He proposed +hat the world organization adopt the f following resolution. These are Vishinsky's words: •The United Na t ions Organization considers it necessary to urge governments of all countries, on pain of criminal punishment to prohibit war propaganda in any form, and take measures for the prevention and suppression ! of war propaganda as 8 soci . 1 ly dangerous activity.w We ll you n,~d only remember what h app ened in Soviet Russia to 8 lot of people who were guilty of what Stalin considered - "socially dan erous activity." And the United ati n is no called to inflict that sort of thin on all the countries of this eart t e soviet version of the freedom of speech. And So-Long- Ontil-Monday. And now Helson -- it' up to you. Freedom of the air. Freedom of speech. LTP.1947.09.19i.pdf LTP.1947.09.19ii.pdf