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BOYS RIDE TIDES
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rother Peter Keeps Morale Up as Houses Collapse
The “incessant pounding” of ;h tides caused most of the istline damage near Bay St. uis Friday, George Land, 14, ? St. Peter, a student at St. inislaus college there, said here inday.
foung Land spent all day and :ht Friday in the school with
•	other students.
‘Watching from the window.
saw two houses right next tc
•	school just disintegrate before
■	waters that came with the 'ricane winds,” he said.
“Debris along the "beach near e school was composed large-
of wreckage of the railroad j idge across the bay, but the :achers from the merchant jrine academy across the bay d lifeboats and oars were icked there, too.
The statue cf the Sacred Heart front of St. Stanislaus was led completely around and set k on its pedestal.
The boys from the school were ut the only ones police would w on the beach, because of so :h looting. We saw dead cattle over the beach, and down to-d Waveland and Clermont bor, there was nothing but ckage.”
iorge was high in his praises irother Peter, director of the >ol, who kept the morale of boys up during their stay, even had the school band for about four hours Fri-night to keep us from get-panicky,” he said, le Bay St. Louis telephone of-upstairs in a brick building the office of the Gulf Coast 5. town newspaper, was de-ted in the newspaper office n the second floor gave way, •ge said. The building aped almost undamaged on the ide. he said.
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The bt)dy of Frank Spreen, 68, assistant superintendent of foreign mails at the New Orleans postoffice, and that of his wife, were found near their Waveland, Miss., home late Sunday.
Mr. Spreen and his wife were drowned during Friday’s hurricane, which swept New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf coast, when their home was demolished by high winds and tides.
Spreen, brother of P. E. Spreen, assistant postmaster at New Or-l^ns, had resided at Waveland for the past six years. A native of New Orleans, he had been connected with the New Orleans postoffice for the past 44'years and had commuted via rail to the city each day.
Besides his brother. Mr. Spreen is survived by a sister, Mrs. H. J. Mura of Los Angeles, Cal. Mrs. Spreen is survived by a brother.
Funeral services were incomplete Sunday night.
SmiarsatPiy . St. Louis unhurt
All students at ^St. Stanislaus college and St. Joseph academy at Bay St. Louis were reported “unharmed in any way” although the hurricane and flood waters damaged the school.
Dr. Henry LaRocca- of Algiers j returned to New Orleans early Sunday afternoon with that message from Brother Peter of St. Stanislaus.
He said that the school will be closed temporarily for repairs and that Brother Peter asked that parents who can reach Bay St. Louis to pick up their sons.
Dr. LaRocca said,; “Damage was extensive. The school is in need of a lot of work, but the homes and buildings nearby are in far worse shape.”
Utilities Back In Service in Hancock County
Residents of Bay St. Louis, are working hard to bring some semblance of order out of the choas caused by the hurricane that hit them on Friday.
Lights, gas and water are now available, and residents, troops, Naval Reserve members and others are working hard to remove- debris scattered around the town.
Immunization stations have been set up*in the school and hospital.
A curfew law is in effect with residents being off the streets at 7 o’clock each night.
Inhabitants who need to come to the east side of the bay may come by boat or can make the trip by motor vehicle coming by way of Picayune and Hattiesburg or by way of Dedeaux and Lizana.
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Merchant Marine Offic
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Pass Christian, Miss., Sept. 2 —A retired Coast Guard cor mander Sunday credited a youi Keesler Field lieutenant and merchant marine officer wi saving his own life and that five others when 20-foot wav driven by hurricane winds smas' ed their beach homes to kindlin “We would all have probab lost our lives if it hadn’t bee for the bravery of these men Comdr. James B. Cobb told Mi bile Press-Register Reporter A try Greer.
He identified his benefactors ; Lt. Joe Marling of Bellaire, Ohi and a chief electrician from tl merchant marine cadet schoi here, whose name he did n< know:
Rescued were Comdr. Cobb an his wife; Comdr. L. E. Weyer an his wife, and S. W. Yeaman ( New Orleans and his sister, Mr Ida Clayton.
Comdr. Cobb told the followin story:
Waves 20 feet high bega smashing over the searwall at on homes on West Beach about a. m. Friday. Within 30 minute the Weyers were forced to leav their home which had collapse and to seek shelter in the Cob home. They were joined by Yea man and his sister.
The six crowded into one rea room as the lashing waves an floating timbers gradually battei ed the 12-room house to bits.
As the water was threatenin to wash them away, Lt. Marlin, and his companion salvaged small skiff, ploughed through th whirling tide and carried the si: to safety.
“A few minutes more and w all would have drowned,” Comdr Cobb said.