Show East Coast Set St For Hurricane WILMINGTON N N. C C. Av UP UP-An UP An Atlantic s I scheduled to strike the Nort IO olina coast Monday night a atTl navy ordered 47 ships in inthe r the battleship Missouri to tot d for the open sea The seasons season's first hurricane whose mile hour milc an winds were beginning to pile up high tides on the North Carolina capes was vas located miles south of Cape Hatteras at noon A special weather bureau bulletin bulletin bulle bulle- tin ordered hurricane warnings displayed from Wilmington to Cape Hatteras and storm warnings warnings warn warn- ings elsewhere from the Virginia capes to Charleston Danger from I Wilmington Wilm ington southward was diminishing diminishing dimin dimin- as the disturbance headed I north Planes on Patrol Coast guard planes patrolled the isolated beaches of the Carolinas Caro Caro- linas Monday dropping notes to outlying settlements settlements' and boats which lacked communications As a precautionary measure navy planes along the entire Atlantic Atlantic At At- lantic coast were ordered moved inland The air force also alerted all Its east coast fields ordering pilots to stand by for a mass evacuation of planes The slender chain of islands bordering the mainland mainland- with Cape Hatteras at the point point point- See Sec Page 2 Column S 3 HURRICANE Continued from Page One wil wiH ilI probably take the brunt o of the blow if the erratic storms storm's dIrection direction direction tion does oes not change again as it often has since it fir first t showed up in th the south Atlantic off Puerto I Rico last Wednesday I Winds of gale force by after- after noo and nd hurricane force by early M Md night were forecast for forthe the North the North Carolina seat front r- r Wilmington north to Haten Hatte Hat- Hat te en j Telephone communications to Hatteras were already spotty by midmorning As the mig mighty ty winds curved nearer the coast these preparations were made for the impact 1 North Carolina coastal residents resi resi- dents who have faced far more hurricane scares than hurricanes took the news of the oncoming storm calmly Red Cross meetings were scheduled to brief emergency emergency emer erner- gency workers Small boats sought refuge in inland waters Short wave radio facilities were set up at Wrightsville Beach N. N C. C Aircraft Aircraft Aircraft Air Air- craft at the Cherry Point N. N C. C marine corps air station were evacuated Alerts All Stations 2 The Red Cross alerted all aU stations stations stations sta sta- from Charleston to Elizabeth City N. N C. C and sent 35 disaster workers into the area 3 Hundreds of military planes based in North Carolina and Virginia Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia were fl flown wn to safe havens inland The navy and air force said it was a routine procedure Effects of the storm were al already already already al- al ready felt as far north as Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts Massa Massa- where long swells created by the disturbance to the south kept week-end week bathers out of the water |