Show STORM SPEEDS TOWARD LOWER FLORIDA COAST Residents Near Ocean Urged to Seek Safer Ground PENSACOLA Fla July 30 AP Army AP-Army Army and navy posts here joined civilians today in taking precautions against a tropical storm moving across the Gulf of Mexico off the northwest Florida coast While hile residents of coastal towns were urged to seek seck refuge from rising tides naval air station personnel personnel personnel per per- placed several sc hundred planes in hangars and suspended them to escape possible damage damage dam darn age from high water Fort at the entrance o othe of the harbor was evacuated and Fort For Barrancas on the mainland was boarded up The latest reports from the Jacksonville Jacksonville Jack Jack- sonville weather bureau indicated the storm storn possibly of hurricane force at aUts its center was proceeding Ina in ina ina a northwesterly direction about 80 SO miles mUes ot off shore opposite the area between n Apalachicola and Pensa- Pensa cola At Apalachicola winds of 34 3 miles I Ian an hour with gusts up to 40 miles heralded the approach of the tho disturbance disturbance disturbance dis dis- dis- dis aro around nd noon Hurricane Pictures on rage Page 2 warnings remained up from Cedar Key to Pensacola la and weather observers observers observers ob ob- ob- ob servers predicted the e storm would swing into the coast later today The Tho Alabama coastline west o of Pensacola was warned that winds o of gale force might be felt there to to- to night Small bo boats ts were moved docks were cleared and residents of many beach communities in the area went wen to higher land while the disturbance swirled toward them Southern Georgia was told to expect expect ex ex- poet rain and possibly gales when the disturbed mass o of air moved in in- in land It was the second attack by the storm on Florida's coastline Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day night it crossed the extreme southern tip of Florida At that time its maximum winds were only about 60 MPH Floods resulted in Everglades City and near by sections when the disturbance disturbance disturbance dis dis- dis- dis poured heavy rain upon the area and brought high tides in passing Turns Northward Once in the Gulf GuJ of Mexico it generated new force torce reaching hurricane hurricane hurricane hur hur- intensity and curved slowly toward the north One death resulted directly from the storm and another indirectly A negro deckhand was lost yesterday when a boat overturned at Hibiscus Island near Miami A lineman pre paring jaring for the storm in Miami was burned lo 10 death Tuesday as ns two hIgh ligh tension wires were touched P Panama City and Port St. St Joe on 01 the tho west coast moved small boats and sent advices to beach bench residents that hat the storm approached A number num- num her ber jer of Tallahassee residents at beach resorts returned to the city |