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GUIDE TO FEATCklS Book 5 Financial 18 Bridge 18 Obituaries 19 Calendar 18 Port 16 8-12 Society 18 Classified. 19-28 Sports 13-15 Comics 17 Star Gazer 17 Crossword 17 TV-Radio 18 Deaths 19 Theaters 6, 7 Dr. Crane 17 Twistagrani. 18 Editorials 4 Women 18 M0E M. WEAR IT NOW SATURDAY Sunny, near 50.

SUNDAY Snowrain. High Tide 11:29 a.m. 11:43 p.m. Sun Rises Sun Sets 5:31 6:05 Full Report on Page 20 28 PAGES 10c MORNING EDITION Re. U.

S. Pat. Off. SATURDAY, MARCH 28, 1964 TOL. 1H5 NO.

88 1964 By GLOBE NEWSPAPER CO. Telephone AV 8-8000 flit i Alas! Massive Earthquake Smashes Anchorage Flat; 50300 Die NOMfc't lANCHn FAIRBANKS UL i-w r. DAWSON IkodiakIv xceez- island SSHS5ITKAWJUNEA'V FORT SS-Hft NELSON JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) A vicious earthquake smashed through Alaska Friday night, leveling the main street of Anchorage, and killing at least 50 persons. The casualty figure was given to Gov. William A.

Egan by Gen Andy Lipscombe, chief of the' Army's Yukon Command here. The governor's office reported 30 persons missing at Valdez. The toll seemed sure to climb. More than 50 homes were reported to have tumbled down a cliff in Anchorage when the ground sloughed off beneath them. Civil Defense headquarters here said a report had been received that Valdez was wiped out and much of Seward was on fire.

A 17-foot tidal wave was reported sweeping up 'Cook Inlet, at whose head Anchorage is located. Warnings were issued of a tidal wave today all' the way from San Francisco to Hawaii. The Fish and Game Department here said one of its mobile radio units in Anchorage estimated the dead there at between 50 and 300, with injuries in the hundreds. The earthquake hit the Fairbanks area at 5:37 4 4, V- 2 p.m. (10:37 p.m.

E.S.T.). It apparently picked up in intensity as it rolled southward. Gen Lipscombe reported the main street of a modern city of 48,000 persons and the state's largest, "completely flattened." Six bodies were reported recovered from Tur-nagain Bluff homes. The cliff is the site of several luxurious homes owned by some of the city's most prominent people. Civil Defense headquarters at Fairbanks said that between Third and Fourth sts.

in Anchorage the heart of the city 50 percent of the buildings were destroyed and that 90 percent of them were down between Second and Ninth sts. Roads had huge cracks and residents were warned to stay at home. Injured were being cared for at Providence Hospital where officials reported they were running short of water. All utilities were cut off and the city was in darkness. The missing persons were said by a ham radio operator to have been standing on the dock at Valdez when it collapsed.

Two bodies were recovered there. A spokesman at national headquarters of the American Red Cross in Washington said Seattle would be used as a marshalling point to rush personnel and supplies to Alaska. Nurses had been alerted, he said. At McChord, Air Force Base, Tacoma, six Globemasters were standing by to take off with any needed supplies. A KC135 was en route to Juneau to pick up the governor and other officials to take them to Anchorage.

The plane will take six doctors, 18 nurses and other personnel to the stricken area. The seismologist at the University of Washington said the intensity of the earthquake was about the same as that of he San Francisco earhquake. He said it appeared centered in the bay across from Seward, about 1500 miles northwest of Seattle. QUAKE PajeS WHERE QUAKE HIT First ricfaZ Rofs into Hawaii HONOLULU (AP) The first of a series of tidal waves washed into the most northerly of the Hawaiian Islands Kauai about 10:30 last night. The waves were only about one to two feet above normal.

But Civil Defense officials said conditions indicated that more and bigger waves were coming. Reports from Honolulu said staying on beaches to see the 150,000 Hawaiians were headed wave. for higher grounds. The plush Waikiki area was Police drove through the also evacuated. Residents of streets with loud speakers, beach hotels were moved to blaring warnings for residents upper stories safety.

"Sc -K7 to leave their homes. There was no panic and the main problem was to prevent sight-seers from MAIN STREET, ANCHORAGE FLATTENED BY QUAKE TIDAL WAVE Page 3 Half Million Paid To Indicted Pair By ROBERT B. HANRON The state Department of Public Works has terminated its contracts with two men indicted Wednesday with state Public Safety Comr. Frank S. Giles on larceny and conspiracy charges.

Total payments made to the pair by the D.P.W. reportedly amounted to more than $500,000 over the past few years. The action was taken by James D. Fitzgerald, D.P.W. commissioner, after the Essex County Grand Jury indictments were made public, according to a department spokesman.

The spokesman identified the men as Kenneth D. Brennan, Newton, and Michael J. Beshara of Anchorage a City in Ruins FAIRBANKS, Alaska Yakutabay, about 350 miles Grocery clerks opened their (UPI) A destructive, death- to the southeast. doors and handed out food to dealing earthquake of "dis- The temperature was repor- crowds gathered outside, ac-astrous" proportions destroyed ted at 7 degrees above zero. cording to radio reports, nearly half the city of An- Police cordoned off the hard- Another problem arose when chorage.

est hit areas of the stricken a diesel turbine which gives State Civil Defense emer- city and arrested persons who Anchorage its power ran out gency radio network reported refused to leave the area. of fuel. An urgent call was the temblor killed at least six Civil Defense reported 90 broadcast for fuel which would persons and possibly hundreds percent of the buildings along operate the power plant, in Anchorage. one street destroyed. All major roads to and from The Civil Defense officials The Civil Defense authorities Anchorage were impassable, estimated that 43 percent of in Anchorage put out an urgent said the Civil Defense radio.

Anchorage was destroyed by call for transistor radios and Incoming traffic was halted by the shock, epicentered in household flashlights. deep crevices in roadways. 3000 Miles Away-La. Rocked Cheers Welcome Arrested Pastor By CHRISTOPHER LYDON More than 100 parishioners of The Methodist Church of Lexington broke into sn impromptu cheer as their pastor, Rev. Landon Lindsay, walked smiling into Logan Airport Friday night, four and a half days after he set out for Williamston, N.C., to protest segregation there.

Rev. Mr. Lindsay was the third of four Greater Boston men to return from the most recent expedition to the stoubbornly segregated little community. Rev. Thomas E.

MacLeod and Rev. John P. Fitzgerald, curates at St. Brigid's Roman Catholic Church in Lexington, returned Thursday evening, and Richard H. Rowland, a social worker at the Judge Baker Guidance Center in Boston, expects release Saturday from the Martin County jail, where they had been held together.

For Mr. Lindsay, the trip south may have had a special and personal irony, for he was born and raised in Winston Salem, N.C., 175 miles from Williamston, and he attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. His wife, Betty, who greeted him with a proud kiss, was born in Atlanta. Speaking with a gentle Southern accent, Mr. Lindsay described his brush with North Carolina justice.

MINISTER Page 2 Methuen, both of whom had team survey work parties with the D.P.W. Brennan reportedly had a contract for work on Rte. 495 in Boxboro and Littleton and Beshara two jobs on the same highway in the Lawrence-North Andover area. One payment to Beshara of $1568 was made on Thursday, the day after the indictments were returned. Meanwhile Gov.

Peabody Friday formally asked Atty. Gen. Edward W. Brooke for a ruling on whether he has the right to suspend Frank S. Giles, indicted head of the Massachusetts State Police.

Peabody asked the following questions: "Do I have the power to suspend Comr. Giles by reason of pendancy of any one or more of the aforesaid indictments? Do I alone or with the concurrence of any other body have such power? "May Comr. Giles by his sole act take a voluntary leave of absence without pay for an extended period or would such action, to be effective, require the approval of any other authority, and if so, which authority or authorities? NEW ORLEANS (AP) The 6-foot tidal wave was surging IV 'ic' i. Lafourche knocked several boats onto docks and smashed them up. Similar reports came from other coastal areas below New Orleans.

Roads in some areas down the Gulf Coast. Residents of all low-lying areas were warned, especially those on Mustang and Padre Islands. "The water rose about six were quickly covered by ris- feet above normal all at once," ing waters earth moved slightly over southern Louisiana Friday night, churning sudden waves up to six feet in rivers and bayous. Some small boats were overturned or smashed, but there were no reports of injuries or major property damage. The earth movement, more, of a rolling action, occurred approximately the same hour as the major earthquake in Alaska 3000 miles away.

And in Houston, boats including a loaded grain LOUISIANA Page 3 GILES Page 2 Out of Southern Jail REV. LANDON LINDSAY said O. C. Boxton, night watchman at New Orleans' industrial canal. "It was one of the wildest scenes I've seen in a long time," he said, "The water was rolling, barges began to move in and out and the lines (holding the barges) began to turn and break." Festival of Passover Begins Christians to Hail Resurrection In a final day of fasting and denial, Christendom prepares today for the most triumphant moment in the church's calendar.

Seder services in Jewish homes Friday evening1 as families gathert .1 around the table marked the beginning of Passover the Festival of Freedom. The Lafourche parish ship, tossed violently as me sheriff's office reported five Fatherhood of God." Weather Bureau reported a and six foot waves on Bayou iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin Mrs. Kennedy Tries Skiing on Snow trials of the Israelite, th rassover commemorates all the oppression encountered by the Jews during all of their history. At Passover, children assist parents in polishing kitchen utensils usoH rlurins 1hi the Passover Seder, Rabbi Joseph S. Shubow in Temple Bnai Mo.she, Brighton, said: "Each person nnift realize that during his lifetime he must be constantly on guard against alluring temptations As the 40 days of Lent approach their climax at midnight, the meditations and prayers of the faithful turn to the central mystery of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from death and its meaning for the modern world.

"The Resurrection of Christ from the dead," Cardinal Cushing declares in his an- Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy made the transition from water to snow skiing successfully Friday. Along with her daughter, Caroline, she took her first lesson on the slopes Tonight Seder will be observed again, preceded by brief synagogue services. As the faithful opened their observance of the eight-day holiday (seven days for Reform Jews), they were reminded that the story of the Exodus which marked the liberation of the Children of Israel from Egyptian bondage, has not ended. nual Easter Message, "should give us courage, confidence and hope to arise from the tomb where the love of pleasure, wealth and pride have buried us.

"The glorious feast of His Resurrection should give us wisdom and confidence in meeting error with the God-given truth; slavery with freedom born of the Brother The Easter Message of Rt. Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, proclaimed on Friday: "Easter reaffirms the central fact that Jesus lived and died, and rose again. EASTER Page 2 wnicn may mane mm or ner a time; in removing all leaven. slave to his passions and lust.

at Stowe, Vt. Attorney General and Mrs. Robert Kennedy as well as other members of the family also went skiing. For story and photos, see Page 6. If lIllltlllllltlllllltlllltltlllllltltlllllllllllllllllllllltlllllMIIIIIIIIIllllIM lllltlllllltlllltltlllllllllllltllllllllllllllllll ing; in stocking the special Passover foods notably mat-lohs, the unleavened "bread of affliction" which replaces bread for the holiday.

and a slave to an unholy mode of life, and to a degrading manner." As, well as marking the Referring to the symbols of hood of man under the What Is It? 37 See Slayer Stab Woman Again and Again Do Nothing 3TV cm Austin street. Miss Genove.e struggled to her feet. The lights went out. The killer returned to Miss Genovese now trying to make her way to her apartment. The assailant stabbed her again.

"I'm dying I'm dying," Miss Genovese shrieked. STABBING Tage 3 MOORING COVERS boat topi to 7-ln. width with hrdwri curtain and canv renalri, fasteners The WRltham man who placed this Want Ad in The (Mar. 22) aid mooring covers are put over boats when they are not being uxed. He fcaid a canvas hint top is used as protection auainst the nun when boat in at sea, and is folded up when not wed.

The man Mid he wait astonished by the response from the ad. He estimates he Mold worth of mooring covers and boat tops. To Plare a Classified Advt. in The Globe Call AV 2-1500 mittcd him to a hospital for mental observation. The Times, which published a detailed account of the case today, said in part: Miss Genovese noticed a man at the far end of a parking lot where she had left her car.

Nervously, she headed up Austin street. The man grabbed her. She screamed. Lights went on in a 10-story apartment house. Windows were opened and voices punctured the early-morning darkness.

Miss Genovese screamed: "Oh, my God, he stabbed me; Please help me; Please help me!" From one of the upper windows in the apartment house, a man called down: "Let that girl alone." The assailant looked up at the man, shrugged and walked down NEW YORK (AP) Thirty-seven respectable citizens according to a police court looked on but did nothing as a killer stalked and stabbed a woman in three separate attacks in the Kew Gardens section of Queens. The sound of the householders' voices and the sudden glow of their bedroom lights interrupted the slayer twice and frightened him off. He returned each time, sought the woman out and stabbed her again. No one telephoned police during the assaults. One witness phoned after the woman was dead.

Asst. Chief Inspector Frederick M. Lussin, in charge of police detectives in Queens, says he still is shocked by the events of two weekj ago joday. Lussin, a veteran of 25 years of homicide investigations, told a New York Times reporter: "As we have reconstructed the crime, the assailant had three chances to kill this woman during a 35-minute period. "He returned twice to complete the job.

If we had been celled when he first attacked, the woman might not be dead now." The victim was Catherine (Kitty) Genovese, 28, a bar manager, who was stabbed to death as she returned home from work at 3:20 a.m. Six days after the slaying, police arrested Winston Moscly, 29, and charged him with homicide. They said he admitted he killed Miss Genovese because he had an urge to kill. Two days ago, a judge com-, i I i V. 1 ENJOY YOUR EASTER DINNER CATHERINE GENOVESE (AP).

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