Brass bands played serenades'outside the newspaper offices and people gathered in throngs and cheered today as showers broke a long] drought which had seriously threat joned the welfare of agriculture and [business.all along the Pacific coast, Meanwhile, fearing that the show-ets may prove insufficient to give material relief from the electric} power shortage which has been brought about by the scarcity of} water passing its powerhouse turbines, the city of Tacoma is continuing its effort to obtain per~ mission to use the great aeroplane carrier Lexington to, generate power: for the city.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.