Japanese Quake,
Tidal Waves Kill 31
Undersea Quake Held
Biggest in Half Century
By Oiin Clemens
TOKYO, (/P) — A powerful
earthquake and tidal waves 12
feet high killed an estimated 31
Japanese in northern Japan yes
terday and left thousands home
less.
Driving snowstorms and bitter
near-zero cold hit the area Tues
day night.
The quake, centered deep under
the Pacific Ocean off Hokkaido
Island, was one of the greatest
shocks ever recorded cm the
world’s seismographs.
It stirred up tidal waves that
battered coast towns, crumpled
flimsy fishing villages and tossed
small boats. The rumbling shocks
knocked down buildings, started
landslides, caved in coal mine
galleries. Unofficial reports said
more than 2,500 homes were de
stroyed.
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Japanese police said five trains
were derailed, and one turned
over. Three bridges fell.
Three schools and eight build
ings were wrecked, police said.
The quake was general north of
SECOND LARGEST U.S. CITY
OBSERVES 115th BIRTHDAY
CHICAGO, (i*P)— Chicago ob
served its 115th year as a city
Tuesday—without fanfare.
On March 4, 1837, the date it
was incorporated, Chicago had a
population of 4,170, and 10.18
square miles of territory. Now
the city covers 212 square miles
and is the nation’s second largest
city, with a population of about
3,700,000.
Tokyo. Tokyo itself was not dam
aged.
Seismologists at American uni
versities reported it was one of
the most severe in the world in
half a century.
Columbia University said it was
the worst since August 15, 1950,
when a quake shook Assam, India.
That was the biggest in 50 years.
The Japanese quake was about
the same intensity.
In Massachusetts Weston Col
lege reported it “the strongest
earthquake” in a decade. Univer
sity of California scientists called
it “tremendous.”
American seismologists said the
shock was centered 6 0 miles
below the floor of the Pacific
Ocean.
Tokyo meteorologists located
the center as 43 miles east of
Cape Erimo on south central Hok
kaido.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Commerce.
Weather Bureau
Continued clear tonight with
increasing cloudiness Thursday.
Light variable winds becoming
NE T5-20 mph. Thursday. Low
temperature expected tonight -15,
high tomorrow 10.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: Temperatures: high
5, low -18. Max. wind 25 mph.
from the NW. Sunrise 6:56 a.m.,
sunset 5:32 p.m.
Temperatures one year ago to
day: high 10, low 2. Extreme tem
peratures this date since 1907:
high 34 in 1940, low -30 in' 1922.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow -20 Part cloudy
Pt. Hope -8 Clear
Kotzebue -11 Clear
Wales -14 Part cloudy
Gambell -8 Clear
Nome -18 Clear
Unalakleet -16 Clear
Bethel -18 Clear
McGrath -40 Clear
Anchorage Snow
Fairbanks -5 Snow
Whitehorse ‘ -19 Part cloudy
Edmonton 10 Clear
Juneau 33 Cloudy
Ketchikan 33 Cloudy
Seattle 41 Cloudy
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