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Show Saturday, Nov. 11. I have been buisy writing most all day. had a nice letter from Janath from Toronto Canada. No Personal Injuries Reported After Quake 200 MILES RADIUS Pavement, Brick Walls Cracked, Mains Broken SEATTLE, Nov. 13 King County Assessor Rob B. Misener said today that damage from a midnight earthquake may reach 1,000,000 in Seattle alone. The quake was the worst recorded in the Pacific northwest in 33 years. Misener said buildings suffered damage to partitions, windows, ceilings grand walls that could easily cost 1,000,000 in repairs PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 13 The most violent earthquake in the memory of inhabitants alarmed thousands of persons in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia shortly before midnight Sunday night. The tremors, which racked pavements, brick walls and plaster, were felt as far north as Vancouver, B. C., and south to Oregon City, Ore., 12 miles south of Portland. Property damage was not serious and no personal injuries were reported, but the quake was sufficiently severe to dislodge the needle on the University of Washingtons seismograph. Late Bulletins LONDON, Nov. 13 A British reconnaissance plane which attacked a German submarine is believed to have made a direct hit, the air ministry announced today. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 President Roosevelt today continued in force the American policy of non recognition of the Italian conquest of Ethiopia by addressing King Vittorio Emanuele III on his birthday today merely as King of Italy. BERLIN, Nov. 13 Official information tonight said that Germany will respect the neutrality of The Netherlands and Belgium as long as Britain and France respect this neutrality and as long as The Netherlands and Belgium show themselves capable of preserving their own strict neutrality. SEATTLE, Nov. 13 Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Hall said their hens became so frightened by last nights earthquake they scuttled off their roosts and huddled in a corner of the henhouse. Thirty were suffocated before they could be put back on the perches. LONDON, Nov. 13 New defiance of British policy in India by the Indian national congress was forecast today in a telegram sent by Jawaharlal Nehru, congress president, to Krishna Menor, his representative here. |