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HUNDREDS DROWNED BY|Quiz Program [Charles Walterson | HUGE SEAS; DYKES ARE:.jAt ls Js |Completes School DESTROYED IN TRAGEDY|N WEATHER BUREAU WARNS THAT HIGH WINDS TODAY MAY CAUSE MORE DAMAGE} AMSTERDAM, The Netherlante’ (Huge seas driven far inshore by hurricane winds left at least 478 persons drowned and hundreds missing today after a terror-ridden weekend in the lowlands of Bel- giumi, The Netherlands andy England. The pounding waters yesterday | morning ruptured dikes and sea walls which had stood for centur- fes, sweeping over fertile acres— much of them reclaimed from the sea — where millions lived and farmed. To the mounting toll on land were added deaths at sea — 132 drowned in the hurricane-sinking of the ferry Princess Victoria off Northern Ireland Saturday and 15 men lost aboard a trawler which baie ca off the Hebrides yester- ay. AU. S. Third Air Force spokes- man said the known dead in Eng- land included six Americans—an airman, an aifman’s wife and four children — all drowned at their homes in the area of the U. S. bomber base of Sculthorpe, near Hunstanton on the North Se aCoast of Lincolnshire. The spokesman said eight other Americans were missing, seven in he Biuaptanton area pee a ser- ar geant at Bentwater base near Ip- swich:, There was also an uncon- firmed report that a 14-year-old “***~ od American boy was missing in the} LITTLE MISS KEY WEST of Bentwater, area. the | 1953 is Linda Smusyn, daugh- | The Air. Force withheld ; nai2s Of alkthe dead and missing, | fer'of Lt. G.g.) and‘Mrs.:N. W: She was chosen for pending notification of next of kin. | Smusyn. 3 tere’ in Holland and Belgium, | this honor recently in an event the death roll mounted rapidly last | sponsored by St. Paul’s Episco- as the strigken little nations | pal Church. — National Studio ered all théir resources to} photo, meet mounting dangers of disease ap? starvetion. Search’ teams still ‘3 Unable to contact many ‘ad ares. : e Dutch weather bureau} od: that hgh ~ winds. today “1 leontinue _ to 1 bia a hisiand residents clung to roof ‘oat or trees for hours until they were |saved, or fell, exhausted into the turbulent waters. ican servicemen and rescue teams. Bie": | worken ariund the clock to remove: Stending removed from coastal towns, a southwest suburb of Reports of horror, death and“de- struction came from all along the East Coast. Snettisham reported 20 missing and five known dead. Forty were believed drowned at 1 Entant. grt -faced: officials d that many e residents ‘aq fhe Eastern Cosst had been , “t €cE AN sca, > FrOr ‘ost of the week-end of {%e worst in | Felixstowe copnted 17 dead. v's rercct'ns F'story'— ran| A Lincolnshire police —superin- Yons of dollars, | tendent estimated homes of 5,000 s historic ,to 6,009 people had been flooded :, the flood |on a 20-mile stretch of coast. The Much as .waves carried away concrete and us. Hardest ; Steel walls 20 feet high. of Zes'and | nt. isle of Texel, Farauics s of hard damaged SEARS ROEBUCK ANDCO ed that areas million Dutch #zions were flooded. ters poured south into “sium, flooding even wider arects of Fland d turning the great port of Antwerp into a city of confusion. Te! nes and elec- | trie lights were knocked out. Ships | in drydocks were overturned j More than 50. cities and towns messa; for emergency aid, Many ‘others could not even be | contacted. Emergency radio cir- | cuits erackled with a confused | jumble of calls for aid. | In. Gravendeel—population ae, — 5 wére reported dead Both Holland and Belgium pro- | claimed a state of emergency as | thousafids tried to plug the gaping | holes in the dikes with sandbags @r fought their way through the swirling, near - freezing waters seeking survivors. Many drowned | in their homes before they could escape U. S. Army forces in Germany sent a group of engineers and a small survey team to the flooded area. Lt. Gen Eddy U.S. Army comr n chief in Eccope, planned allow up with a flying visit to see what help his ferces could give Premier Willem moned the Dutch emergency session report to F jament aster tomorre’ Across the channel lowlands from Thames porth land called Eas Drees sum Cabinet into He planned to neetl right how. on the dis ight z the English th of the re — the — were help you find what you for you and moil it. SALE ENDS FEB. Thousands of British -and Amer: *‘ The flood even reached Putney, i London: > Sonthary | RT eT: Novel Feature \The regular dinner meeting of Kiwanis Club was held at the La Concha Hotel, at.6:45 p. m., Jan- uary 27, 1953. A new high in at- tendance occurred, with only one member absent. }2New member, Contractor Jim | Staples, was introduced to the club. Father John Armfield, Program Chairman, provided a novelty by devising a. quiz program in which the questions concerned tourist at- ‘tractions im the State of Florida, {with particular reference to Key West. . The team of Lefty Reagan and Gene Anheir defeated Truman Amy and Sam Lawrence by a close mar- Among the guests present were ‘the following: Floyd Simms, Ocean City, New Jersey; Al Griffin, St. Louis, Missouri; Vern Moser, Wichita, Kansas; E. T. Watson, Miami, Florida; John Van Dam, Holland, Michigan; R. E. Warner, Pittsburgh, Penna.; H. H. Rahn, [Berewya, ” Iinoi ; Dick Jeffries, ! Miami scene Paul Avery and jira Silberary, Key Club, Key West, Florida. iNavy Engineers, | Pilots Train On Huge Transport BURBANK, Calif. ww — Sixteen _ Navy pilots and flight engineers _ began a three-week cours: today ,on. how, to fly the Navy's new oeean- -hopping transport, the R7V1. The Navy said the program at Ha Lockheed ‘Aircraft Corp. here marks the most extensive initial flight training on a new plane to be conducted by -a plane-produc- pees company at. the point of man- ufacture. The R7V1, a military version of the Super Constellation on order ;by 13 commercial airlines, has a speed officially listed as ‘‘ap- proaching 400 m.p.h;" First deliv- ery of the military craft for opera- oe use is scheduled for early | Api HOW TO FIND | Survivors. Tens of thoysands were i Hunstanton. 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