Evening star., 1936-09-17
Curve to North Less Pro.
nounced and Forecasters
Fear Force May Strike
Carolina and Virginia.
PLANES FROM LANGLEY
COMING TO BOILING
Norfolk National Guard Troops
Ordered to Stand by-40-Mile
Wind Reported, With Seas
High Along the Carolina
Coast.
Py The Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
The Weather Bureau today ordered
hurricane warnings displayed from
Wilmington to Beaufort, N c., ef-
fective at noon, Eastern standard
time, as a severe tropical storm ap-
preached Cape Hatteras section of the
Atlantic seaboard.
Two hours earlier the forecasters
at the hurricane reporting station at
Jacksonville, Fla, ordered hurricane
warnings displayed from Beaufort to
Manteo and storm warnings displayed
from the Virginia capes to South
port, N. c.
The storm, described by the weather
observers as of full hurricane inten-
sity, winds of more than rs miles an
hour, continued to move closer to
the mainland without slackening its
speed or losing any of its fury.
The noon advisory said: Warn
1ngs changed to hurricane north OF
Wilmington to Beaufort, NJ c. Hurri-
cane warnings now displayed forth
OF Wilmington to Manteo. Storm
warnings elsewhere from the Virginia
capes to Southport, N. C.
May Hit Cape Hatteras.
Forecasters said early morning indi-
cations of a north-northwest curve
in the hurricanes movement appeared
less pronounced in later reports. This
means, they said, the storm center
may hit the coastline in the Cape
Hatteras area instead of north of
there.
The entire coastal section covered
by the hurricane and storm warnings
probably will be swept by heavy
squalls and unusually high tides, they
added.
Meanwhile Langley Field, Va.
planes began to leave their base for
Boiling Field, Washington, Mitchell
Field, N. Y. and Wright Field, Day.
ton, Ohio. The planes we're ordered
out as precaution against the ap-
preaching hurricane. Red Cross work.
ers have been ordered to stand by
for any emergencies.
40-Mile Wind Reported.
Cape Hatteras reported at 10 am.
q northeast wind of 40 miles an hour
with the sea surging over the beach
in low places from Oregon Inlet to
Hatteras Inlet.
Barometers were falling and winds
were becoming stronger. Some places
had rain squalls.
The hurricane-first reported east
of the Leeward Islands last week.-Mrs.
moved slowly northwestward. 1t
caused serious damage to one steamer
about 500 miles northeast of Puerto
Rico and fog time threatened to
advance on the British resort island
of Bermuda, $50 miles east of the
North Carolina coast.
A change in its course to the west
northwest saved Bermuda, but headed
the hurricane toward Cape Hatteras
As it neared land it increased its for
ward speed.
Virginia M0bilizes Troops.
Mobilization of certain units of the
Virginia National Guard to stand by
for possible storm rescue work was
ordered this afternoon by Col Will H.
Sands, commanding the 111th Field
Artillery of Norfolk, acting on in
structions from Gov. Peery and Adjt.
Gen. S. Gardner Waller.
Gen. Waller will 60 to Norfolk to
direct National Guard activities should
the troops be called into action.
Units ordered to report to their
armories at o'clock this afternoon
were the Regimental Headquarters
Battery, Battery B and the Medical
Detachment of Norfolk, the 1st Bat
talon Headquarters Battery and Bat
terry c of Portsmouth.
Hampton and Newport News artil-
lery units and Maj Frank H.
Bondurant of the 1st Virginia In
fantry have been ordered to be ready
for call if necessary.
Hundreds of residents of Willoughby
ISoo CTNDH pono o.