The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 2, 1946, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LXVIL, NO. 10,234 JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1946 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS e, PRICE TEN CENTS SEISMIC WAVE LASHES PACIFIC AREAS VETERANS AID BILL FATE IN LAP OF HOUSE Senate Adohpl_s—Conference‘: Report Which Includes Election Good, Mid-A!Igrnoon' |SENATE PASSES PORK MEASURE; Propose St Seven Hundred and Twelve of Registerd 1552 Cast Farmers fo Organize; op Seeding As P:olesl on Strikes | NEWARK, O, April 2—Seven |Anderton, promoter of a proposed ifarm strike at Edgar, Nebr, an- |nounced last night that the event had been postponed until more REECE IS NEW SCORES DIE | CHAIRMANOF | AT HILO IN REPUBLICANS WAVEMASH! Tennessee Representative Chosen Successor to Herbert Brownell | | | 'Destruction Wrought Over| Hawaiian Islands Runs Into Millions Dollars Five Shocks SCOTCH GAP LIGHTHOUSE DESTROYED | Ten Lives EsTiH{ated Lost as Tidal Wave Sirikes Are Recorded 0ff Alaska Earth Motion Caused Tidal Wave - Explanation Is i Given by Seismologist farmers could be organized. His organization, The American| Sales Tax Feature i i Ballotfs at 3 P. M. West A@Ea Coast | | | HILO, Hawai, 2—The | At 3 o'clock this afternoon near-/ |ly half of the registered vote had |been cast at the three precincts in Ithe city election f At that time, voters of a reg- istered vote of 1552, had cast their Finally reaching agreement after ballots at the precincts as follows: days of consultation on a dozen! First precinct, City Hall, 264 had BULLETIN—The House, by a vote of 22 to 1, Gill veting mo, accepted the free conference report on the Veterans measure this afternoon. § HOUSE REFUSES Two Revenue Bilis Ap- proved by Upper Cham- |Farmers Vigilante Committee, had set April 1 as the date on which farmers in the Edgar vicinity would |stop seeding their lands in protest |against industrial strikes. ] Anderton, who came here to help jorganize a group of farmers, as- :serted at least 20 percent of the | ‘WASHINGTON, ‘April 2.—Harold ‘E. Btessen sounded a discordant note tos in Republican praises for' the G.OP. National Commit- |tee’s choice of Rep. Carroll Reece of Tennessee as the party’s new chalrman. Stascen, who is almost avowedly' April death toll in the Eastern Pacific's worst seismic wave disaster reach-! ed 93 today and a naval officer estimated the loss of life in Hilo— chief victim of the botling seas—| might total 300. ! Damage ran into the millions of WASHINGTON, April 2—George- | town University reported todnyI that it recorded five earthquake | shocks between 7:39:45 a.m., (EST) | yesterday and about 1 am. today,| and figured all must have centered | off Alaska. | The first quake recorded was the | BULLETIN—Ketchikan, Alas- ka, April 2 — Coast Guard Headquarters has attempted to charter the course of the tidal wave which it said~is sweeping toward Southcast Alaska, 40 feet high and traveling about 35 miles an hour. The wave i ber "'IIS Momiflg {farmers must strike to produce any in [ e race for the 1948 presiden- dollars. most severe, and there was some | A submarine earthquake, which! | has been spotted by an air- principal points of difference, the voted. Free Conference Committee on the Veterans Bill reported to the Al-, aska Senate.last night. | The Committee's report was, adopted by the Senate, by a 14 to, 2 vote, leaving the fate of the bill | in the lap of the House as this| special session of the 17th Alaska ! Legislature convened for the final| day this morning. | All three merui~is of the Senate! delegation concurred in the Free, Conference report. Two House mem- bers concurred; one dissented. This split in the House group was indi- cated by the fact that the Senators won out on the major peint at is- sue—inclusion of the sales tax as the cpecific mieans of finaneing the loan-bonus provisions of the Veter- ans Bill. House dissenter Almer J. Second precinct, Gastineau Hotel, 214 had cast their ballots. Third precinct, Juneau Dniries,!ate this morning attempted to dole the vote was 234. fout “pork” in its purest form—but The vote has been steady at the|the attempt went for naught when precincts but no rush has been made | the House, by a large margin, re- at any time. fused to accept Senate Bill 19, the Last year the vote cast at 3 o'clock [ measure in question. was 422, also with two tickets in! S.B. 19, allocated $50,000 for con- the fieid. No comparison of the|struction of airfields at Naknek vote by precincts can be made asjand Dillingham. The measure, crit- changes in the precincts boundaries | icized as a “special appropriation” have been made for the present! prohibited by the Organic Act, sur- election. | vived an attempt at indefinite post- The Royal Blue Cab, taking vot- | ponement while in Second Read- ers to the polls free of charge re-|ing Monday, and got past a “tab- port calls made during the forenoon ! ling” effort when up for final pas- and early afternoon were not num- sage today. erous but they began to pick up at| mpe yoll cau en passage showed 3 o'clock and it is expected there ., ynysugl division of the upper will be a heavy call especially|poqy with the two authors of the around 5 or 6 o'clock. By a 9 to T vote, ihe <a Sen- | bill, President Edward D. Coffey reffect. 10 CHANGE GOVERNMENT FOR GREECE ‘New Cabinef fo Be Set Up . by Right-Wing Popu- ‘ list Party tial nomination, declared it is “well- | known that I do not approve of geologists called world-shaking, ! Chairman Reece’s stand on many sent giant swells fanning out from issues in the past.” the North Pacific at 400 to 500 The former Minnesota governor’s Miles an hour early yesterday.' staement left little doubt about his Beaches on Hawall, the Aleutians, pointment over the commit- and California were lashed by 10| § action in naming Reece, cl | l | | | i a to 100 foot waves. ! political associate of Semator ~Lne deal toll: | | Robert Taft and former Governor Hawailan Islands—60 bodies re-| {John W Bricker of Ohio, over two <Oversd at Hilo; nine on Oahu, other candidates. Reece succeeds S°VEn on Maul and six on Kaual 'Herbert E. Brownell, Jr, who re- slands. | d, to devote full time to his On Aleuttans 'New York law practice. Unimak, the Aleutians—Ten men ; In his victory talk to the confi- swept to sea from Scotch Cap light-/ dent party members, Reece asserted house. i that & “New Deal monopoly” has California-~One man swept to sea ib:en in charge with resulting “sec- from the Santa Cruz beach. ‘rct" and “bureaucratic” government. Many were missing in Hilo and | Yas Republicans, we want labor in rural Laupahoehoe, but the num—l' and agriculture and the people geri- ber was not known. | erally to have their full rights,” the At Honolulu, William W. Mona- | overlap of the subsequent shocks | which were marked at about noon; | a very strong one at 2:07:27 pm, ! yesterday; a moderately heavy onei at 11:23:3¢ pm. (EST) last night,| and a fairly stronz one at about | 1 am. today. ' EXPLANATION OF WAVE | PASADENA, Calif, April 2.—-{ Here’s a seismologist's cxplamuom‘ of the tidal wave, from Dr. Charles F. Richter ot‘ California Imtlmtei 24 hours. Prof, Cocmbs sald of TeshuMogy the tidal wave reported head- “The wave seemed somewhat out | ing toward southeast of proportion to the shock itself. |‘ might be in the nature of a “Apparently conditions of earth-; packwagh of yesterday's major motion, the locality, depth of water; ... but i could ‘causé much at the point of the shock and other! damage. factors ‘caused an unduly heavy wave, which fanned outward, pro-! bably traveling as fast as 400 mh.p. | plane. The wave is moving slower than ‘the one in the Bristol Bay disturbance. BULLETIN—Seattle, April 2. Between 40 and 50 quakes in- cluding five major ones, all centering on the southeastern side of the Aleutians, is re- perted when the University cf Washington seismographers ex- amined the records of the past IULLII'IN-—-;M&MKNI. Al- aska, - April 2.—Fourteen per- Peterson stated that his refusal to, . There are two tickets in the i indications the earth- | concur was based upon mclusinn:fleld, each headed by a candidate, of the sales tax. |for Mayor with three councilmen. sons_have been evacuated from and Grenold Collins also Senator! ATHENS, April 2—The Right- naw chairman said. {han, chairman of the Hawalian in deep water. t i Middleton Island in the path of - Joé Green, deserting the so-called wing Populist party, leader in Sun- i T L sl |Red Cross estimated that not more Lhere were majority “bloc” to team with the day's parliamentary elections, ac- 'than 4,000 refugees asked for shel- duake, first registering here at, nlfl»l'lnwummqfl ‘Though Goyernor Ernest Gruen-;'rhere is one independent candi- ing ‘publicly statvdeabatedic (thinks datc for the council” and” enly one | the Vets bill “is- a splendid piece cdndidate for School Board Direc- minority for passage. i Voting for the bill were: Brown- cepted today a request by Regent | Archbishop Damaskinos to form a of legislation, nevertheless, passage of the bill with the sales tax will be somewhat of a defeat for his policies, as the Governor’s. Message to this extraordinary session was outspoken in opposition to a sales tax. As reported back by the confer- ence group, the revenue provision: of the Veterans Bill is almost iden- ! tical with that which originally! passed the Senate; including auto- matic repeal when the amount set | for the Veterans Revolving Fund| is reached. ‘That amount is one point of compromise reached by the confer- ence. The original Senate figure was set at $3,000,000. The House, added another half million doliars| (Continted on Page Two) The Washington Merry - Go- Round tor. The polls will close at 7 o'clock this evening. \ e, : FREIGHT FROM TWO VESSELS HERE NOT BEING DISCHARGED Two steamers are In port today but not a pound of freight, includ- ing needed perishables, had been discharged up to 3 o'clock this af-| ternoon. ! In Juneau it is said the Long- shoremen are asking $1.727% cents an hour gnd $2.59 for overtime. Steamship officials are powerless to act it is said, also the unions, { pending instructions from Seatile. | The local longshoremen assert Al- i askan unions are not bound by the recent coast agreement. H An Associated Press dispatch! frem Seattle says shipping officials | there said last night they under- | stood the ports of Ketchikan, Ju- | i | .and Coffey. ! dispatched ell, Collins, Gordon, Green, Gunder- new government. sen, Lyng, McCutcheon, Nerland ... .ncement of the acceptance ifollowsd a meeting this morning With the porcine measure ONCE poiyoen the Regent and four lead- the Senators Bave oy o (he party, which numbers speedy npproval to four other acts many persons who favor the re- this morning, two of them revcnue‘mm of King George II to the raisers: Greek throne. Passed with several amendments, rpemistokles Sophoulis, a middle- ment devices, pinball and slot ma- pamaskines to remain in office for chines. Changes written by the 5 “couple of days.” Senate are: Reduction of the li-1 ygte counting in the election was cense fee per machine operated hajted last night by the Interior from $50 to $30 (th stamp tax on Ministry after Constantin Tsaldaris, each pinball or slot machine re- chief of the Populist party's Royalist mains at an additional $150); in- division, said that the government’s jcrease from five cents to 25 cents figures were biased. Tsaldaris said the largest coin allowed to be re- the Populists would announce their quired to operate; removal of the own figures, restriction not allowing operation The last totals announced by the within' 100 yards of a church (still Ministry, from 1550 of Greece's prohibited within that distance of 3,200 voting stations, gave the By DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON — Reminiscences of a Reporter—It's been a long time since the Sixth Pan-American | Conference in Havana, 1928; but| that Conference has certain sim-| ilarities with what's brewing in New York today. Calvin Coolidge made a special trip to Cuba, the| first time in years a resident set foot on foreign soil. Charles Evans| Hughes, ex-Secretary of State, dominated the U. S. Delegation. Frank B. Kellogg, his guccessor as Secretary of State, also fretted and fumed in the background. A big, important U. S. delegation, calcu- lated to impress the Latin broth- ! i neau, Seward, Cordova and Sitka in Alaska were involved in a smkel by the International Longshore- men’s and Warehousemen's Union | (CIO), which has about 400 Alaska} members. They said six Seattle vessels were[ delayed in the Alaskan ports. ! Steve Glumaz, the Union’s north- west representative, said ‘he had no details, but the issues were “viola- tions of contract by the employers in refusing to pay wage increases! and retroactive pay ordered by me[ War Labor Board.” i COASTAL AIRLINES permitted to operate. The bill passed with only Sena- tors' O. D. Cochran and Andrew Nerland voting against. H.B. 48, passed without amend- ment, provides for collection of ex- cise on liquor shipments consign- | H AS 2 AIR”"ERS ;ESKI “-or’m HlNG ed into the Territory and increuefl | INHERE MONDAY - gy | ANTERNLIGHT; The Alaska Adrlines starliners} |s uN|OUE SIGH' Fairbanks and Juneau arrived in! Juneau yesterday with the following | passengers from Anchorage: John Van Ginhoven, Art Doerr, Jim Lam- anuzzi, T. J. Southerland, Mrs. Tina Kelly, Ernest Beaudin, Phil Senour, Mrs. M. Lockett, Rod Lock- the Rev. A. Bergman, Mrs. A. Bergman, Bill Herdman. R. T. Anderson, E. Wakkuri. Jones the whiskey levy from $1.60 to $2 per gallon. Senator Cochran ten- tatively offered an amendment to {up the whiskey tax to $3 but was | swarmed under by objections. !"ive} Senators voted against passage: Brownell, Collins, Gordon, Walker and Coffey—all five have previous- 1y opposed increases in the whiskey Passed unanimously and without | amendments were Senate Bill 30 and House Bill 21. §.B.. 30, by Mc- Cutcheon, is'a rewrite of the 1945 session law requiring certificates of |rcad Liberals, 72,390; and the Zer- |vas party 22.907. ——————— |ALASKA AIRLINES {ter in &ll of the Hawailan Jslands. WA" 'o "AME |Of these, 1,800° Were 6h Oahu dnd 'NEW AMBASSADOR ™ & o e ARGENTINA NATIO ; Robert Lindsey, chairman of Red Cross Disaster Relief here, said 60 bodies had been recovered from the WASHINGTON, April 2—Dis- there will be more.” H closure that resident Truman in- Territorial Gov. Ingram Stainback tends to appoint a new ambassador invoked the Hawatian Defense Act! {wreckagz in Hilo and “I expect {was H.B. 28, which sets flat license of_the.road Liberal, resigned yes- to Argentina stirred wide specula- “for the safeguarding of life and| jfees and stamp taXes on amuse- erqay ps Premier, but was asked by tion today whether the United property and the States i3 relaxing its stiff policy law and order” toward the Buenos Aires govern- areas. ‘ ment. Casualty reports appeared to be A State Department spokesman complete from pil damaged areasi told reporters last night that an except the island of Hawaii, oni ambassador would be named “later which Hilo was its 25,000 population' in the week.” He declined to iden- is located. tify the prospective envoy, but sald | Saved Frem Waters his name already had been submit-. There was some hope that Hilo's ted to the Argentine government for'death toll might mnot reach the approval. inaval officer's 300 estimate. A! The name most often mentioned 'score of persons previusly report-| in recent speculation has been that ed missing had been saved from ghe! preservation of in wave-ravagsd | schools); increase from 18 years Populists 268,498 votes; the Nation- of William D. Pawley, present am- waters off Hawali by Army and {to 21 years the age for persons al Bloc, 118,740; the middle-of-the- bassador of Peru. Navy air-sea rescue planes and ‘This country has had no flm-!uma]l surface craft. One, #21-y2ar- | bassador in the Argentine capital old school teacher, Miss Marsue Mc- | ;smcc Spruille Braden left that post;c,]nnls, was rescued after eight nearly six month ago to become hours in the water. i |Assistant Secretary of State for; There was hope also that the! 4:38 am. (PST) yesterday, may, . Alaska. have hadits eplcenter in-the Aleu- :‘, g - m tian deep, which at places plumbs men of (’l\'fll Aeronautios 15,000 feet below the ocean’s sur- Admlnhu‘:l:&. face. Dr. Richter added that such KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 2.— phenomena are not uncommon af- A tidal wave crashed down on the ter submarine quakes and this par-: ajeieian d of Unimak yester- ticular one was only moderate 1n‘ day, demol g the Scotch Cap strength. | lighthouse there with an estimated peoo loss of 10 lives, . but apparent CHILEAN PORT STRUOK spent its force in the mpb?mn I’t’ IQUIQUE, Chile, April 2-~A 100- yeached Dutch Harbor, 120 miles foot tidal wave struck this north g Chilean port early today, destroy-; “mpne Commander of the Alaska ing several boats and causing penic g. prontier said a minor wave among 300 inhabltants of the Ca- entered Dutch Harbor at 5:30 a.m.,. vancha Peninsula. No casualties’ n0roximately an hour after strik- were reported, and damage on the ing Unimak. It carried away ferry mainland was slight. 'barges that connected the base Peninsula residents, with the aid i) the town of Unalaska and of taxis, were moved to hm’“mmed small boat landings and ground. The waters receded In| pilings, the report said. houl an hous, It was not felt along the Wash- \ B.C.PUTS UP QUARANTINE (Continued on Page Eight) —————— TIDAL WAVE DIDN'T HIT % | | i | American Republic Affairs. waves might not recur today, as| 'I'heI Ifenred for a time last night. 4 [commandu of the Alaska Sea Fron- ON SEATTLE | KOTZEBUE, Alaska, April 2—A local pilot returning to Kotzebue |reported yesterday he had sighted a jtler, at Seattle, emphatically denied (as “grossly exaggerated” reports that ? a 100-foot tidal wave was rushing| VICTORIA, B. C, April 2—-A| along the Aleutian Island Chain|new Canadian quarantine order, is- today toward Kodiak. He added sued today and effective immed- that no new wave wes forccast. | lately, for control of importation of i smallpox into British Columbia now | Damage Enormous | affects not only boats from Seatule | Hawalians “dared not estimate|pyy all land ard air travel into| {the damage, except in the milllons|pritish Columbia from Seattle or | ‘ KODIAK AREA Erroneous Report Sends . Residents Scurrying fo Snow Covered Hill lett, village of nearly 100 tents on Kobuk {of dollars.” Herbert C. Shipman, Lake last night, each lighted by'Hilo sugar planter, said $700,000 a lantern inside and giving a!worth of raw sugar was swept into somewhat weird effect. the ocean with destructions of | Eskimos are on the frozen lake Territorial wharfs. fishing through holes in the ice for{ Tens of thousands of dollarai King County. i The order applies as far east as! KODIAK, Alaska, April 2—An the Alberta border and Canadian :;’;:';‘93':‘"“:‘:. report t:l::‘ mnln::; customs authorities are being noti- only fied. . away and the sounding of sirens last night shortly before midnight 1 ownership of motor vehicles. The Barrett, Douglas Jones, Hogan Duty, sent residents of Kodiak scurrying {new measure clarifies pmvisions‘]wal!er Adams, William Head, Mrs. shea fish, a fat fish which at times ELLIS AIRLINES ON ‘fi,emn for the desire to impress | the brethren: Worry | over American troops on Nicara-| Worry over Ameri- | can troops on Haitian soil. . . . Worry about the right of American troops to intervene in various coun- tries such as Mexico to protect U. Virtually the same prob- iem at issue in New York over Iran. Memory flashes: Charles. Evans Hughes, sedate, bewhiskered, im- pressive, buttonholing Latin dele- gates. He made a great picture, did .a beautiful job of organizing a bloc of pro-USA nations. . . Cuba, Panama were to us as Po-| land and Yugoslavia are to’ Russia today . . .Hughes' objective: To prevent any discussion of inter- vention. In other words, the USA| reserved the right to land troops| on foreign soil without being haul- | ed before the public court of Pan- | Americanism. . . .Hughes won out. Our interventions in Haiti, Nicara- gua, were successfully barred from the agenda. We didn't have to —_— (Continued on' Page Four) {for Tenakee, | son, FLIGHTS DURING DAY | | Ellis Airlines this morning brought in the following passengers from Ketchikan; E. E. Tillingswat- er, Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Lane, James Reed and Charles Goldstein. Leaving for Ketchikan via Alas- ka Coastal Airlines were Joe Guy, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ellis, Phil Sen- our, R. F. Peterson and Virgil] Burke; for Sitka, L. B. Blake and | Mrs Charles John- Incoming via ACA from Sitka! were Alice Wright, Peggy Rigling, relating to conditional sales. H.B. 31, consolidates tax collection in the Department of Taxation. The Senators took their last noon recess until 1:30 o'clock this after- noon when they were to consider House Bill 1, expected to be highly controversial. H.B. 1, liberalizes un- employment compensation benefits. WSCS Meeting Is Tomorrow Night The WSCS of the Methodist | Dorothy Head, Herman Tredway, {Mrs. Rose Ladin, and Mrs. Pearl weighs 68 pounds and furnishes the bulk of the native diet and is used | (for dog food. Each tent is pitched worth of food in warehouses was! destroyed. | It was estimated that Hilo had only four days of food avallable. To STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 2.—Closing Flint. From Cordova: M. A. Dean and | Russell Peterson. | On the return flights, the fol- lowing left for Anchorage: An- drew Austin, Jeff Wiggins, Albert Depue, Iylo Scott, Willlam H. Ward, Isabell Ward, Don Roush, George Johnson, John Dodds, Fern Marsh, Norman Graham, Ruth Graham, Mary McFadden, Al Miech, Ed Fal- Proves Old Adage, | *rank Sorrel, i 1. Hewstss, SNOW Must Go On Miss D. Gabriel, All Huffman, Wal- | ter Cramer, Mrs. Gay McCullom,! HOLLYWOOD, April 2—Wallace Mrs. LaVonne Colwell, George Col- Beery, his voice showing none of well, Col. Leon Delong, Roy Cook-|the tears that were in his eyes, over a fishing hole. Pious Eskimos filled the local church a week ago to ptay for a heavy Yun of the shea, which is caught only in this localify in North America. Wallace Beery \conserve the supply, residents were| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | limited te the purchase of $2 worth ' stock today is 87, Alleghany Cor- ‘of food at one time. . iporation 6', American Can 93%, Navy dispatches from Midway: Anaconda 46%, Curtiss-Wright 7%, | and tiny Johnston Islands reported ' International Harvester 93%, Ken- | major damage to communications necott 54%, New York Central facilities but no loss of navy Per- 271;, Northern Pacific 31%, United jsonnel. New equipment and radio corporation 5%, U. S. Steel 82%, technicians were dispatched (0 the|poung 4031 | islands immediately. Sales today were 1,140,000 shares. No Distress At Sea { Dow, Jones averages today are There were no reports of ships at' oy foows: industrials_199.83, rails sea in distress. One geologist s"‘d;u, utilities 41.70. * the vast length of such waves, | : TROLLERS MEETING i | | | into snow-capped hills. The Navy radio corrected the re- port a few minutes later, and the people, some of them carrying bed- ding, straggled back to their homes. The Commander of the Alaska Sea Frontier sald no new wave was ex- pected to reach Alaska or Kodiak Island. E The popiilace had been warned a | recurrence of the tidal waves which yesterday swept up on island and Alaska beaches was possible, It was prearranged that a Navy broadcast and sirens would signal the danger {if a new .wive approached Chiri- kof island, 80 miles southwest of | Kodiak. When the alarms went off, cars Wm. Dick and May Lokke; from|Church will meet tomorrow night Tenakee, Gordon Blanchard. at 8 o'clock, with devotionals in the e e little chapel, led by Mrs. Ronald WRANGELL VISITOR | Lister. . Esther Bacon of Wrangell is at, The business meeting and pro- Hotel Baranof. lgram to follow will be held at the - |parsonage. Mrs. George Washing- CALIFORNIANS HERE ton will be the speaker on the pro- Mr. and Mrs. Merle Chase and gram hour, and Mrs. Leroy West their two sons, San Francisco, are and Mrs. Don Miller will be host- guests at Hotel Baranof. esses, {ston and Rey Ferch. To Cordova: John Sooter, Frank Barbeau, Adolph Bedparik, Willilam Walser. ‘To Yakutat: Maggie Harry, John Adams, George Adams, Thomas George. To Gustavus: A. V. James, Mrs. A. V. James and infant. Aderson, Rex Charles and Chlrlw! difficulty. { A minor wave wrought damage at Dutch Harbor. Tokyo reported no disturbance of Only hours after his elder brother, gny gort, : Noah, died in his arms of a heart A¢ East Island, on French Frigate attack, Wallace and his adopted gnoal, 450 miles northwest of Hon- |daughter, Carol Ann, made 8 oy, the glant seas swept clear scheduled radio broadcast of, “Bar- oyer the island, the Coast Guard nacle Bill”, with another actor in the role Noah was to have played. {proved again last night the thea-; |trical adage that the show must go on. slight (Continued on Page Fight) | and trucks loaded with passengers, i some of them partly dressed child- from crest to crest, would enable| TOMORROW NIGHT ! | e — ren, headed up roads leading to |vessels to ride them out without The regular meeting of the Unit- | Pillar Mountain, landmark on the ed Trollers of Alaska, Local 56, west edge of the city. will be held tomorrow night at 8| Kodiak people recalled their pre- o'clock in the CIO Hall, and all|sent city was built after the first members are urged to attend. Im- Russian settlement further south portant matters are on the pro- on the island had been destroyed + gram, it is reported. by a tidal wave.