CATASTROPHE: After the Storm

After a four-day investigation, during which he queried Weather Bureau officials, Relief officials, camp officials and residents of the storm-wrecked Florida Keys, State Attorney George Ambrose Worley last week came to the conclusion that no one was responsible for the failure to evacuate veterans on relief before last fortnight's hurricane killed 458 (TIME, Sept. 16). "There will be no indictments or recommendations of indictments," said he, bundling up his report and speeding it off by automobile to Governor Dave Sholtz at Jacksonville.

These findings may have satisfied the Miami Chamber of Commerce, the...

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