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89TH YEAR, NO. 20.959 On Oahu. Price 5 Cents Airplane Edition. 7 Cents 20 PAGES. "(Oil fT TTTT OOTTK Tl PTinTrrMillc! wTMnm Qacn I if tl ,4 1 1 tl ti it i i -n -ev ty t-tk By RAY COLL, JR i AL6 111111 lly llodap.llVDJl HILO, April 1 Little more than a week ago Pfc.

Francis Moku Malani flew 5,000 miles back to his home at Laupahoe- hoe from Ft. Benning, to be with his dying baby son whom The steadily rising death toll from the disastrous tidal wave he had never seen. Today Pfc. Malani entered the list of heroes when he com manded a small outboard motorboat and braved rough seas off (he Hamakua coast to rescue a school teacher and two children that struck the Hawaiian islands early Monday reached 79 early today, with indications it would climb still higher, but not reach the 300 total feared Meanwhile, conflicting reports regarding a new "100-foot wall or water speeding toward Kocliak island off Alaska and again threatening the Hawaiian islands' kept Coast Guard officials in Honolulu alerted through most of the The navy report relayed by the United Fres from Anchorage, Alaska, later was- denied bv the commander of the Alaskan nho had been washed out to sea after a tidal wave struck Lau-pahoehoe about 7 o'clock this morning. The teacher was a Miss McGuiness and the children have am jt-JwB--'iJCVXr t' Sea Frontier through CINCPAC headquarters at Pearl Harbor.

not yet been identified. In Water 9 Hours Accompanying Malani were David Kailimai. Dr. Libert Fernandez and a boy named Masaru. The teacher and her two frightened charges were clinging to a makeshift raft when they were Defense Act Invoked Here By Governor Casualties Totalled Meanwhile, as rescue parties dug through debris in search of more victims the following casualty totals in the islands were confirmed: Hawaii: SO dead, 40 of them in Hilo.

Thirty-two known miss ing in Hilo alone. Hundreds injured. Oahu: six dead, one missing and scores injured. Kauai: 12 dead, three missing and six injured. Maui: 11 dead, 15 missing and 125 to 150 injured.

When the report of the possibilitv of a new wave reached picked up and had been in the water more than nine hours. They were rescued off Ookala, which is north of Laupahoehoe. The condition of the trio could not be ascertained immediately. Malani, a native of the district, knows the coast line and the waters along the Hamakua coast as well as any fisherman. Calls For Volunteers When it was reported that the teacher and two children could be seen floating about two miles (Continued on Page 9, Col.

2) The, Advertiser, Capt. J. W. Ryssy, assistant district Coast Guard officer, took up a watch in his office. Shortlv, after 1 a.m..

how Governor Ingram M. Stainback last night invoked the Hawaii defense act to assist in policing the tidal-wave stricken areas. "I am invoking the defense act to aid the police in controlling the islands," the governor said. "More specifically, it will aid them to prevent looting of damaged homes. It will also simplify their control of traffic, enabling them to keep curiosity seekers away and to direct one-way traffic necessitated by many washed out roads." The act is termed the "Hawaii Defense Act Rule No.

148, providing for the safeguarding of life and property and the preservation ever, naval authorities at Pearl Harbor announced that no new indications of additional tidal waves or earthauakes had an. peared last night, according to word from Dutch Harbor. An alert was being maintained throughout the northern Pacific area, it was added. OAHU'S DEAD IN MORGUE Lying beneath blankets In the city morgue are bodies of the six who were killed on Oahu by Monday's tfSal waves. The rearmost slab holds the small bodies of the three Kanakanui children, aged 1, 2 and 3 years.

On the slab nearest the camera lie two other victims, while a single one rests in the center. (Advertiser Photo.) Just how high the casualty totals from the island of Hanaii will -mm- -m. of law and order in localities damaged by tidal waves or other action of the ocean, or by flood ori JTIFO IDE Warning Was Impossible Geodetic Chie Asserts There was no possible way to warn the people of the Hawaiian by fire caused by or following Mam Property DamqgeHeavy; 11 Known Dead By LILLIAN MOTT-SMITH (Special to The Advertiser) DEAD Army Barracks House 1800 Oaliu Homeless More than 1,800 civilians men, women and children of the Puna-luu and Hauula areas rendered homeless by the tidal wave are now living in tents and barracks yet up by the Army in its former jungle training camp in Hauula, Gen. George F. Moore, commanding middle Pacific, announced.

Col. William C. Saffarrans, former commanding officer of the camp, is in charge of the camp housing the homeless. Throughout yesterday a convoy (Continued on Page 9, Col. 5) islands that Monday's disastrous tidal wave would strike, Lt.

Cmdr. William D. Patterson, supervisor, Pacific district, of the U. S. Coast WAILUKU, Maui, April 1 and (jeodetic Survey, declared last night.

"I know of no manner by which anyone here or on the Mainland go will probably be determined sometime today. Dazed survivors and rescue workers had to call a halt last nisht when darkness fell because the Hilo disaster area was in darkness. Kauai Hard Hit Kauai totals climbed to 12 dead, three missing and six in jured earlv today with word that seven additional children bad been The three children of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Puulei of Wainiha and three children of Mr.

and Mrs. Ed Laamea of Haena met their deaths in the flood of swirling water. So did a child of Mrs. Rebecca Kalani of Haena. Another family was feared lost when Mr.

and Mrs. Chang Lung of Kalihiwai were reported missing. Their son llarry Lunsr, 25, was one of Kauai's 12 dead. Mrs. Iwa Mitsui, 57.

of Kalihiwai was killed and her husband, R. Mitsui, was in the Wilcox Memorial hospital in Lihue. A total of 190 families were homeless on the island. Nothing, however, could approach the tragedy on the Big Island, where an estimated 5,000 are homeless. Eleven Maui residents were reported dead and 15 missing" and in the wake of such damage, or by any combination thereof." Text of the Governor's order follows: Under and by virtue of the powers in me vested by the Hawaii Defense Act, as amended, and of any other powers in me vested by law, I Ingram M.

Stainback, Governor of Hawaii, do hereby promulgate the following rule: SECTION 1. Definitions. As used in this rule: 1. enforcement officer" (Continued on Page 9. Col.

7) -could have told that a tidal wave was going to hit Hawaii," Cmdr. between 125 and 150 injured while Patterson said. tiny villages all along the Maui coast line were completely wrecked. Private property dam OAHU The following dead are In the city morgue: Amoy Kanakanui, 1, Kahana, Oahu. Sam Kanakanui, 2, Kahana, Oahu.

Izaac Kanakanui, 3, Kahana, Oahu. Mrs. Kamaka Kikaha, 99, Puna-luu, Oahu. Ignacio Vino, 35, Waianae, Oahu. Navy Rescue Plane Picks Up Fishermen "Less than one in one hundred earthquakes result in tidal waves and you don't alert every port in the Pacific each time a quake occurs.

For instance, we didn't warn anyone when a big quake age was estimated at over $1,000, 000. The Red Cross issued a plea for hit Japan in December, 1944 donations of clothing for scores of families left homeless. A report from the Hana hos "Only a minor wave reached here then no one even noticed Four men in two tiny life rafts and a crew of a naval air sea flying rescue boat battled for their lives against angry seas at dusk Hilo Dazedly Blow Damage was heaviest at Hilo where the Disaster Council was in it. "Moreover, there are no ob Honolulu Weather pital states that there are nine known dead at Hamoa, and two known dead at Keanae and that casualties are being cared for at servers near the Aleutians the session, all bars were closed, and community life was a standstill as first place hit by the tidal wave Monday about 30 miles west of the hospital. "Our nearest observation sta Rescue workers are conducting dazed citizens wandered through tion is at Sitka, Alaska, which is wave-wrecked Hilo, the navy reported Tuesday.

At approximately 4 p.m. (HST) almost as far from the epicenter HILO Ah Hoon? Chow, Miss K. Ya-mada. Kura Tanaka, Miss Inouye, Miss Hirabara, K. Yamamoto, Jane Service, retired public health nurse and well known kamaaina, Mrs.

T. Maldonado, Philip Rivera, Sadao Uno, Toshi Yamada. Allison Leite (baby), Fred Naylor, well known kamaaina; Sarah Kau-ahau, Mrs. Ueda, Jack Sekimura, T. Kobayashi, T.

Arita, N. Yota. Mr. Matsuno, Anton Correa, Carol lligashihara. a search of the low-lying areas of the Hana district for other bodies or for wounded persons who may be trapped under the wreckage of homes.

as Hawaii. If the wave struck there, it must have hit only shortly before it did here. There just Honolulu and vicinity: cloudy to overcast skies, with light to moderate showers Tuesday and Wednesday; northeasterly winds, 16 to 24 miles per hour, with gusts to 30 miles per hour. Monday's weather: maximum temperature, 76 degrees; minimum temperature, 70 degrees; precipitation. humidity at 2 P- 56 per cent, wind, east-northeast at 12 miles per hour.

Monday a passenger on a naval air transport plane bound for Hono the wreckage of the main streets. Barracks at the Hilo naval air station were turned over to the homeless as Vice Admiral S. A. Taffin-der, USN, commandant of the 14th Naval District, pledged all possible aid to refugees there. The food shortage was critical.

The Hilo breakwater was re- (Continued on Page 5, Col. 2) Alfred S. Spenser, chairman of lulu after flying over Hilo with a wasn't time to get word here." The commander explained that the Aleutians are sparsely settled photographic party spotted the plane, a PBY (Catalina), on the and the average person there would not think of warning other PUHJ FOR THE FUTURE KOVJ Consult with us about your Refrigeration and Air Conditioning improvements. Anticipate your summer needs now. Modern ideas and equipment for: i Cold Storage and Ice Making Plants.

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Tidal waves travel at an aver She was headed into huge swells, her propellor churning just enough to keep her bow into the age speed of 350 miles an hour in the Pacific only 200 in the the Maui board of supervisors, disclosed that he had wired Delegate Joseph R. Farrington, urgently requesting that he immediately call on federal housing authorities to release all building materials in the islands so housing accommodations may be quickly erected to house the homeless. The territorial guard was ordered to help search for the miss- (Continued on Page 9, Col. 3) "Inflation has hit the Kona sea. As the pilot, Lt.

Cmdr. E. Hord, swung the NATS plane. Atlantic, which is shallower, Cmdr Patterson said. Took Five Hours MAUI (Hana district) Walter Hardy, 86.

Richard Apay, 5 months. Mrs. Mary Ann Dusson, 58. Robert Cnllen, 3 months. Mrs.

Mary Kahula, 51. Mrs. Helen Pau-a, 49. Giseku Ikemoto, whose was found at Paia. a 5-passenger Beachcraft, in a low The earthquake occurred off Mission Found Askew, Mule Electrocuted On Oahu Tour By ANNABEL DAMON An island-wide check of the damage done by the first tidal wave seen here since 1923 was made yesterday "by Police Chief W.

A. Gabrielson, Lt. Van Hubbard, USCG and" reporters. The check-up began at Haleiwa where we found wo ncivy 83-foot crash boats beached, a Jodo mission up-rooted from ita body the Aleutians at' 1:59 a.m. (Honolulu time) and it took five hours (Continued on Page 5, Col.

8) circle over the Navy sea plane, two small yellow life rafts came into view. One held three men and the other a single occupant. The plane on the sea had evidently dropped rafts to the men, apparently fishermen in distress, and then landed to complete the rescue. Lt. Cmdr.

G. J. Hoselton of the moorings, a neighboring build-i jr coast," Sol Plu- rlJ vius upped and i 4 said last night. KAUAI Harry Y. H.

Lung, KalihlwaL Mrs. Ewa Mitfui, 57, Kalihiwai. Charles Hada, KalapakL Akau Keawe, "0, Kalihiwai. One unidentified body. 3 children of Mr.

and Mrs. Ed Puulei, Wainiha. 3 children of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Laamea, Haena.

Leons Y. Chew, Haena. Child of Mrs. Rebecca KalanI, Haena. Picture Pages 'Three full pages of pictures showing tidal wave damage in Hawaii will be found in this issue of The Honolulu Advertiser, in addition to the many others throughout the edition.

Complete wire news will be found on page 11. NATS plane expertly dropped dye markers, placing them within a flock of ducks which were di? ging the still live fish out of the mud, and the children, who were wading waist deep in water try. ing to gather in the fis3 which had been left flopping about en the grass when the waters receded. As we drove slnng th we estimated the waters had (Continued on Pae 5, Col. 1) "ineyre paying three cents for rat tails, instead of two like last year.

Uncle Lau-Iau says no fur coat for Auntie km mg, approximately 20 by 40 feet, turned completely around and various small craft still floating about in the back water. Six sampans, still tied to their moorings, were demolished and numerous small craft had been washed ashore. Out of all the wreckage at Haleiwa, the only ones enjoying it and they to trUt utmost were a VOfJ HAAim-YOUriG CO. few feet of the raft and the sur ITT1, rTTTTl rounding 'sea was soon covered with vivid green and yellow patches to aid rescuers in spotting Pinan this year. He's darned if he's going to get skinned like that." the floating men.

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