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LOUISIANA LIKE A A BATTLEFIELD

Hurricane Leaves 150 Dead 200 Missing

Lake Charles, La.,

June 30

The homeless survivors of hurricane Audrey turned today toward the huge and pressing job of burying their dead. Many will have to be interred in nameless graves.

The Civil Defence said 150 bodies had been found. Some 200 or more persons still were re-

TO-DAY 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 TO-DAY ported missing and

M-Q-M's

HOT

SUMMER

NIGHT

STAKING

LESLIE NIELSEN-COLLEEN MILLER

1. EOWARD AMDEEWA - WYR, ELOPEM

With Perspecta

Stereophonic Sound

AIR CONDITIONED

25,000 to 30,000 still were homeless.

President Eisenhower said in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, that his personal represon- THRILLS! tative, Val Peterson, who BUSPENSE} was on the scene, told him that at least 200 persons ACTION!

had been killed and the Hot

death toll might rise to 500. drams

Volunteers of a igangland hide-outi

STAR THEATRE METROPOLE

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CHARLES CHAPLIN the gold rush

Weiterested and Produced by CHARLES CHÈNEM

Red UNITED ARTISTS

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AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M. A MOTION PICTURE TO EX- OTTE AND IGNITE THE SENSES! A SMASH IT IN EVERY COUNTRY!

The

Kiss

That

ALAN LADD

Started ILAN!

CLIFTON WEBB

SOPHIA LOREN

BOY ON A DOLPHIN

CINEMA SCOPE

ISS BEFORE

DYING

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Kisa

The

That

Started It All

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CHISASCOPE ROBERT WAGNER.

SHOW

Officials sent an emergency call to New Orleans for shrouds in which to bury the dead, Car- penters were asked to volunteer for cofin malding. Tetanus, typhoid and gangrene serum Also was flown in from New Orleans.

Have you ever counted the dead on a battlefield," Maj. Gen. Raymond

Louisiana's

Huff, adjutant general and Civil De-

ience director, asked Orleans, "south west somewhat resembles field."

at New

Louisiana

u battle-

www cannot give specific figures of the dead at this time, they wouldn't be accurate if we did,

"Right now, the number of dead, we believe, in just under 200,"

President Eisenhower sold rescue operations were vir- tually complete."

Reconstruction

FINE ON THE SERPENTINE

The scene last week on the banks of the Serpentile in London's Hyde Park, as you may suspect from the picture, was a very hot day, not only in London but all over Britain. And at some places along the banks of the Serpentine you couldn't see the water-until you were in it.-Express Photo."

AND PEOPLE DID NOT

BELIEVE IT COULD

BE THAT BAD

Here is an eye-witness account by a Louisiana'rancher, of Hurricane Audrey and the accompanying tidal wave as it struck Grand Chenier, Louisiana,

By F. Y, BOLAN

Grand Chenier, Juhe 30.

We got it because we didn't believe it could be that bad.

:

I've lived here through three hurricanes and some high water at times, but I've never seen any- thing like Hurricane Audrey.

We had evacuatod most of Bul towns

Cameron, like

the women arul children the day Grand Chonier. Little Chenier, Holly

Johnson before just in case. But most Bench, and Bayou, below Lake Charles on of us just didn't believe wed

-be in any trouble.

the Gulf of Mexico, which were inundated by a nine-foot tidni

I left in the morning to milk wave cast up by the hurricane my cows. Buddenly, I could faced a massive reconstruction see the water coming -- just

Job.

Pitiful scenes were reported, out of the blue.

such as a dead mother who had

tied three children to her body with a rope in a vain effort 10 rave them.

SOME WIND

Oh, there had been kom

Most of the bodies being re- wind, but it didn't seem parti- covered were hung on debris or| cularly bad.

Workers burning

Lots

of people from the drowned because

here were the water

were burying. or thousands of cattle, which were drowned and were exploding in the hot run.

Mass Burial

L

LEMMY CAUTION BEATS TAXMAN

London, June 30.

EMMY CAUTION and

Slim Callaghan bent

the taxman last wook.

US JUDGE STARTS TOUR

Karachi, June 30. Globe-trotting US Supreme Couri Justice William O. Douglas arrived here today to start a 5,000 inile drive across the Middle East by station wagon.

Douglas and "my mechanic Mre Douglas, were greeted by Pakistan

oficials

ant US Embassy

Charge

· @Affaires Arthur Gardiner.

NAGY ON TRIAL SHORTLY?

Vienna, June 30.

Foreign Minister, Mrs Anna Kethly, said in Vienna. tonight, that she was convinced that formér Premier, Itare Nagy, would to the subject of a spec. tacular trial in Budapest: shortly.

Mrg Kethly said that two of her ex-colleagues in the Nagy government/ Defence Minister, Colonel Paul Maleter and Minia- ter of State, Gacza Lasonsky, might be tried along with Nagy. The former Minister, who was try to dissuade the 68-atterling. the International year-old Douglas from starting Socialist Women's Congress in

did not know whether Nagy was still in Rumanía at present or whether he had been transferred to

Hungary

would officials here said they

the 730-mile drive to Lahore, the Austrian capital, said she India, because of

of the worst heat wave in 100 years.

Douglas plans to spend two days

Ranchi, malink lectures, and attending dinners and receptions, say will be

in

Mrs Kathy meanwhile de- clared herself very optimistic

highlighted by the Karacal Barregarding the special session of the United Nations General Association dinner tomorrow

Assembly on Hungary, slated for hight.-United Press.

RUSSIAN AIR DAY OFF

Moscow, June 30. The Soviet Union skip-

The two detectives created by ped its traditional do

author Foter Cheyney are still Forces Day aerial show

five

earning money-six

after his death.

years

because of bad weather the oc- And a High Court jutge de today but used

elded that the royalties earned casion to boast its air. by Cheyney's books after his strength. death are hot liable to ihoon

tax,

KANSAS UNDER WATER

Kansas City, Miss,

June 80.

A driving rain storm with winds up to 85 milea an hour slammed Missouri and Kansas and left. two persons dead and a series of flooded crecks today.

Up to nine inches of rain poured down in the storm which struck during the night.

Missouri and Kansas State highway patrois reported numerous broker power lines and uprooted trees, Some roads havo been closed as heavy rains cent creeks surging over their banks.

FLOOD STAGE

In Kansas City, Missouri, k two-inch rainfall sent the Big Blue Creek. more than nåne feçi above flood stage. The creek blocked streets and roads and caused flooding in basements of saine homes.

At Bonner Springs, Kansas, a suburb west of Kansas City, a 54-inch downpour sent creeks out of their banka. The body of one man was recovered in that prea stud police believed ho drowned in backwaters from the high streams.

Mrs Ruth M. Reitz was killed

in a two-car collision during a blinding rainstorm rtcar Cameron, Missouri.

At Hermann, Missouri, 鐧 nine-nch downpour ported,

WBO

TC-

Haya, Kansas, was hit by winds up to 85 miles an hour but no damage was reported.---- United Press.

EMPIRE

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WHERE PASSIONS BLAZE BEYOND CONTROLI

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CORNEL MELDE DOANA REED

LEO

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RON RANDELL

electric wires. More than 600 volunteers, helped by bulldozers, cleared the debris streets Cameron, a town of came so fast they couldn't 3,000 residents.

anything about it.

every It post a foot

long minutes. It wasn't too before the ridge which is seme six feet above sea level-Was covered by water. Within BO

Authorities called off the air minutes it was over the ridge,

decision was heard by Mr show, an annual Moscow high- and kept coming Those of us

light, because of month-long Coroner Harry Snatic

Henry Charles Bathurs, 53- of in second-storey houses had the Calcasceu Paris (Lake Charles) best chance.

year-old second son of Vis-rain and a forecast for possible Fireworks, un count Bledisloe. Mr Bathurst stocats today. called off a mass burini of 30:

married Cheyney's American-alues and colebrations within

units born

marked the widow, Mrs Loretta Air Force Cheyney.

anniversary, Marshal The crime, writer, 53 when he

Vár- Konstantin, died in June 1981, left. £54,004 shanin, chief of the Soviet gross-£25,000 net, The bulk Air Forces,

血 said went to his widow. She died inst April, aged 12.

unidentified victims. He said he First thing, the water was six wanted to delay the burlal as feet up all around us, and the long as possible in the hope that waves were lapping at the roof, some may be identified.

some 10 feet higher.

get

But many bodies were beyond facial identification. Survivors Wo didn't have time to with inlssing relatives were ask to any central location. If we ed to look at watches, jewellery had, some of those who drown- and pocketbooks to determine ed would have been safe, for whether their missings were example, in my house. among the dead.—United Press.

PAYING DIVIDENDS

INSTRUCTED

CROWN APPEAL

Last week Mr Bathurst' (fhmlly

motto Hold to thy jalth) satif: as he left the court: "Yes, I suppose it is good news dar

Slavict Union "possesoca long range air- craft able to ay for many thousands of kilometres any time at night and In weather."

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The ASSOCIATES 104 ALDRICH DA FA JACK PALANCE- EDDIE ALBERT

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Into a store told the judge:

"I was drunk. I had lost thy the mail bag, but the whole mother-in-law and I wils Post Office, celebrating. Wis expecting

We're only beginning to cuunt sortie insurance; from ber the damage: It'll be more than because I had her insured eight $1,000,000. Why, I lost $70,000

not myself.-United Press.

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POLAND DROWNED

IN ALCOHOL.

Warsaw, Junks 30!' #Drunkenneme in Poland in päsuming." frightening propor- Hode, the Falice press ENCY

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