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Cliristians Around the World To Mark Triumphant Holy Day Earthquake, Tidal Wave At Glance Report Downtown Anchorage Virtually Destroyed; Other Coast Cities Are Hard Hit There also will be the tradi tional Easter egg hunts in many communities and the Easter pa reservoir in Irvington, just north of New York, and at Alto 111., where a 111-foot 'cross will be dedicated. Construction of the cross be- i gan five years ago. It's the work rades of new, spring clothes The forecast for New York's Fifth Avenue parade was for of the Rev. Wayman Presely, a fair weather with tempera Jtures in the 40s and 50s. retired Methodist clergyman.

Pope Carries Cross in Procession; Condemns Communist Persecution By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Christians around the world prepared today for Easter Sunday, the most triumphant Holy Day of the year. The penitential mourning of Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion of Christ, will ive way to the joyous refrain cf "Alleluia, the Lord is Risen." Across the United States, churches planned sunrise services to celebrate the Resurrection. The traditional service will be held aboard the USS Constitution. "Old Ironsides," in Boston Harbor and in Red Rocks Park near Denver, where work crews had to shovel nine inches of snow from the seats. In Alabama, worshippers will make a predawn trek to Mound State Monument for the pageant "The Road to Calvary." It will be staged on three of the largest mounds, which were built by Indians centuries ago as places of worship.

There will be sunrise services at Oklahoma's Wichita Mountain Wildlife Reservation, at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, at a placid pine-rimmed ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) The heart of this metropolitan city was virtually destroyed by an earthquake that rocked Alaska Friday night, leaving a death toll that may reach several hundred. The quake struck here at 5:36 p.m. 10:36 p.m. EST at the height of the rush hour. Hundreds of people were caught on the streets or en-route home in cars.

Huge cracks opened in the ground. Two in the downtown area were from 6 to 12 feet deep and ranged from 6 to 50 feet wide. In the center of the city of concrete buildings-many of them quite new tumbled or caved in upon themselves. Some were reported a total loss. Other Major Earthquakes By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The last major earthquake before Alaska's was one that took about 80 lives in the Kashmir Valley near Srinigar last Sept.

2. last Sept. 2. Six weeks previously, the earthquake at Skopje, Yugosla By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A capsule summary of the violent Alaskan earthquake and tidal waves around the world: Alaska ANCHORAGE Heart of this metropolitan city virtually destroyed; death toll may reach several hundred; huge cracks opened in ground; city center's concrete buildings tumbled or caved-in. KODIAK Swamped by a 17-foot tidal wave.

Casualty figure may go as high as 50. Downtown area demolished. VALDEZ Three persons reported dead and 26 missing. Dock collapses. SEWARD Three deaths confirmed; 20 reported missing.

Waves 10 to 15 feet high reported. Oil tanks ruptured and burned through the night. JUNEAU Gov. Egan holds emergency meeting with his cabinet; asks President Johnson to declare Alaska a disaster area. WASHINGTON Earth tremors still continuing at 7 a.m.

EST in Alaska, the military command reports to the Pentagon. WASHINGTON Pentagon says no casualties reported to VATICAN CITY (AP) The Roman Catholic Church turned i today to the special rites of Saturday and its prayers of promise for the coming East-'er dawn of Christ's resurrection, i Pope Paul VI carried an eight-foot wooden cross in a penitential Good Friday procession at the ancient Colosseum Friday night. Vatican history via, killed more than 2,000 persons and injured 2,000. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906, the only other major one in the United States, took 452 lives. The major quakes of the 20th Century and the reported dead: Messina, Italy, 1908, 75,000.

Avez-zano, Italy, 1915, 29,970. Kansu, China, 1920, 180,000. Tokyo, Ja- Area Residents In Quake Zone Plane Carrying Nine Reports Engine Afire SAX DIEGO, (AP) The Coast Guard said today a Honolulu to-Los Angeles passenger flight with nine persons aboard reported an engine on fire 1,000 miles southwest of San Francisco. The Coast Guard in San Diego said two long-range planes from San Francisco were en route to intercept toe distressed DC-4. The report was received at 6:05 a.m.

PST that the plane was in trouble, but it did not say the plane was ditching, the Coast Guard said. The Coast Guard said the plane was closer to San Francisco than Los Angeles and might attempt to reach San Francisco. Continued on Page 2, Column 2) I (Continued on Page 2, Column 3) A number of former Hazleton Six Killed in Bomber Crash area residents and members of the armed forces are in the Alaskan areas hit by last night's earthquake. Seme have telephoned local has no record of a Pope ever before bearing a cross in a religious procession. In a speech Vatican experts called the strongest papal denunciation of Communism in years, the Pope condemned Communist treatment of Roman Catholics as a modern-day crucifixion.

It was his most dramatic appearance in the solemn rituals of Holy Week, and 100,000 people crowded into Colosseum Square in a light rain to see him. A moral but heavy crucifixion is still going on, the Pope declared, and Christ could ask His "modern and able persecutors" of today why they are persecuting Him. "The body of Christ is crucified even today, morally but relatives while word from others is lacking due to the breakdown of communications. Mrs. Francis Palermo, 680 North five minutes of ground "kicking up" and several water mains sprung from the earth's upheaval, but otherwise there was no serious damage.

All communications are being handled through Fairbanks as other areas have been affected by the quake. Mrs. Zietler and her husband, Eugene, both work for the Wein Airlines, the former as a clerk and the latter as a mechanic. Eddie and Leonard Mehalick are in the real estate business and have been in Fairbanks about six years, (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) Gov. William A.

Egan asked President Johnson to declare portions of Alaska a disaster area. 'Urgently request designation major disaster area." Egan wired the President, "Complete evaluation of damage and loss of life not yet available, but information presently at hand confirms likelihood of damage which could easily reach minimum of quarter billion dollars through widespread area." Anchorage stands at the head of Cook Inlet and as the shock and tidal waves rolled down the sound, they brought death and destruction to coastal cities. Three persons were reported dead and 26 missing at Valdez. Three deaths were confirmed at Seward, where 20 persons were reported missing. Tower Cut Off Anchorage was plunged into darkness when electric power went off, and rescuers struggled in the ruins with only emergency lights to guide them.

A lire broke out but was extinguished. Regular communications with other cities were not established until more than 8V2 hours after the earthquake hit. Damage was reported extensive in other cities. Oil tanks erupted. Fires broke out and firefighters were hampered by the lack of water.

Tidal Wave Hits Kodiak Kodiak was swamped by a 17-foot tidal wave and the Locust street, received a telephone silence is still the suffering Mk I Jjjt:" VXmmm call this morning at 7 o'clock from Fairbanks, where her daughter, Mrs. Frank Zeitler and brothers, Eddie and Leonard Mehalick are residing. They informed Mrs. Palermo that Fairbanks had about four or church, the patient church and, in some places, the suffocated church." His denunciation of Communist oppression led some observ- Continued on Page 2, Column 3) heavily, in many parts of the world," he said. "The church of JACKSONVILLE Ark.

(AP) An Air Force B47 bomber crashed in a cascade of flame shortly after takeoff Friday, killing four crewmen and two children. The boys were playing when the huge plane slammed into the ground less than 50 yards from the home of one of the victims, Richard Butler, 9. The second child, Gary Davenport, 10 died this morning. The Buter boy was apparently killed by fire which spurted from the plane, and the Davenport boy was critically burned. The Air Force identified the crewmen as: Lt.

Col. R.W. Hurdis, 43, of Providence, R.I. the pilot. 1st Lt.

L.V. Christian, 27, of Dallas, copilot. 1st Lt. M.B. Keller, 24, of Atlanta, navigator.

Lt. Col. L.M. Dykes, 43, of St. Petersburg, a passenger.

One of the crew ejected from the low-flying plane. His body fell in the back yard of a home across the road from the Butler house. Xm I til I Tidal Waves From Quake Cause Widespread Death, Destruction AI0112 Coast Easter Joy of Christians In Israel Shared by Jews Celebrating the Passover 1 By THE ASSOCLATED PRESS jup a nearby creek and then JEKUSALEM (AP)-This is a memory of those who perished time of joy for both Christians at the hands of the Nazis and 'I Death dealing tidal waves from the Alaskan earthquake smashed harbor facilities and rolled bacK down tnrougn tne community of 3,000 on the northern California coast. Del Norte County sheriff's a place at the table was left and Jews in the Holy Land. As Christians prepared to ush-! mayor sent out a call for help, The Navy had evacuated its station before the wave struck, and most of the residents also I had moved to higher ground.

1 A section of Turnagain Bluff, where many of Anchorage's I finest homes are located high above Cook Inlet, reportedly crumbled and many homes er in the dawn of Easter, hailing the risen Christ, Israel's two million Jews celebrated the News Index empty as a reminder that the Jews in the Soviet Union are discouraged from religious observances. At the Basilica of the Dormi-tion on Mount Zion in the Israeli sector of Jerusalem, Roman Catholics will celebrate a solemn high pontifical Easter vieil touched off explosions and fires along the Pacific Coast from Canada to California Friday night and early today. The surge caused flooding in the mid-Pacific Hawaiian islands and was noted even in distant Japan. At Depoe Bay, a wave rolled over a Tacoma, family sleeping on the shore at Beverly Beach State Park. One child drowned and three others were missing.

deputies said five bodies were recovered and it was feared several other persons were washed out to sea. No identifications were immediately available. Hospital officials reported that 59 people were treated for injuries and nine were hospitalized. Five storage tanks at the Texaco Co. bulk gasoline plant exploded and flames later snread to the Union 76 bulk tonight.

The service was rein 0 i li troduced by Pope Pius XII. The basilica's prior, the Rev. second day of Passover. By a quirk of the calendar, Passover coincides this year with the Easter season. The ancient Jewish festival commemorates the flight of Moses and his people from bondage in Egypt.

Like their brethren around the world, Israeli Jews observed Passover with the traditional seder, a family gathering at which the head of the household retells the story of the exodus from Egypt. In many Jewish homes, a cup of wine was left untouched in tumbled down the cliff. Johnson Gets Word President Johnson was alerted to the disaster at his Johnson City, home, where he is spending the Easter vacation. Reports were given him periodically throughout the night. Disaster agencies around the country were informed and the Benedict Stolz.

"We are Page Home-Builders 3-4-5 Freeland 6 McAdoo 6 Churches 7 Editorial Social 1 12 Comics 14 Television 1-16 Theaters 17 Sports 18 Classified 20-21 celebrating Easter in the Holy Land this year with a feeling of n. WMF 1 M''Lmmm aWMf plant, a garage and a body and renewed nope and optimism." His comment reflected the fender shop. A series of six waves washed At Crescent City, at least five persons were drowned and the entire downtown business area was ravished when tidal waves washed Pope Paul VI walks KOpe in OOmber OerVICe 10 main Altar after removing his shoes and his Papal ring during Good Friday service in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican. (AP Wirephoto by cable from Rome).

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