Police Crack Down on
Japanese Seal Poachers
Who Used Machineguns
TOKYO, OP)—Japanese police!
Tuesday cracked down on a plush
seal poaching operation which
they said netted its leaders some
200 million yen ($555,000) off
northern Hokkaido.
The newspaper Asahi said po
lice were tipped that the Obe In
dustry Co., Ltd. had bought some
200,000 sealskins from a band of
poachers in the last few years.
Asahi said the poachers had
been killing the seals with ma
chineguns off northern Hokkaido
since September 1949.
Seal hunting is regulated by a
pre-war international agreement j
signed by Japan, the Soviet Union,
the United States and Canada.
MARATHON GUZZLER
ALREWAS, England, (J*)—Tom j
Hill, 76, was presented with a
silver tankard Monday night for
drinking 11,000 gallons of beer.
Tom began his marathon guzzle j
in 1895. He boasts he hasn’t missed |
a night at the Crown Inn since—
and has drank precisely four pints
per night year in and year out.
It adds up to just under 88,000 j
pints.
Steve Chadwick, the inn’s pro
present owner, awarded the tank
ard to Hill.
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Hunters in Aircraft
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Caribou Supply
ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland, Iff)
—Hunters who stalk caribou from
aircraft in north Labrador threat
en to wipe out herds necessary for
the existence of natives of the
area, says a man just in from the
tiny outpost of Hopedale.
Rod Roberts, a civilian employe
of United States forces, said yes
terday the caribou herds ‘facect
serious depletion or extinction. In
the past, Indians and Eskimos
practiced strict conservation be
cause the caribou is their most
important source of meat and of
clothing.
3 JUNEAU STORES CLOSE
JUNEAU—Three Juneau stores
announced this week plans to go
out of business in the immediate
future. One, Sterling’s Tot & Teen,
closed Thursday night. A Mont
gomery Ward order office will oc
cupy that location at Second and
Seward.
Garnick’s Grocery on Seward
Street and the Mode O’Day on
South Franklin St. will close soon,
their proprietors said.
The Garnick location will be
taken by Reblyn’s store.
BRIDGES. HOUSES DAMAGED
IN JAPANESE EARTHQUAKE
TOKYO, Iff)—The Japan Meteor
ological Observatory reported a
moderate earthquake on northern
Honshu island today.
Police said the quake disrupted !
railway service. Three bridges
were damaged and one tunnel was
closed by a landslide. One Japa
nese was reported seriously in
jured. Thirty-nine houses were re
ported damaged.
Francis Scott Kay, who wrote
“The Star-Spangled Banner” in
1814, was a Baltimore attorney.
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Pink Salmon Pack
Tops 20-Year Average
SEATTLE UF>—American fisher
men reaped a harvest of 5,250,000
pink or humpback salmon this
year, the State Department of
Fisheries said Monday. The catch
was worth $8,861,000 at wholesale
prices, with the fishermen getting
about $5 million.
The 1955 pack, the department
said, was slightly above the 20
year average of 5,120,000, al
though it was considerably less
than 1953, which was 6,000,000.
The pinks run every tvPo years
on the odd years.
Touring Russian Newsmen
See ‘Sinister’ Wall Street
NEW YORK, UP> — Six touring
newsmen from Russia ventured
down to Wall Street yesterday to
see at first hand what Soviet
newspapers have long viewed as
a place of very sinister influence
indeed.
They came away saying they
had had a very nice time.
Keith Funston, president of the
New York Stock Exchange, met
the group and explained how the
U.S. economy operates to provide
the average $13,700 of capital in
vestment for tools and equip
ment used by each of the na
tion’s millions of workers.
One of the visitors wanted to
know why the United States has
not learned to control the busi
ness cycle. Funston replied that
a free economy, where prices ad
just on an open market, has ad
vantages that outweigh any dis
advantages from slumps.
INVITATION TO BID
Notice is hereby given that the
City of Nome will open bids for
water delivery to the City Hall
Building for winter season, 1955
'56 at regular Council meeting, to
be held in Council Chambers Oct.
24, 1955 at 8:00 p.m., upon the
following basis:
Hard water .... per gallon
Hard water .... flat rale per month
Soft water .... per gallon
Soft water .... flat rate per month
Bids must be in writing and the
City reserves the right to reject
any or all bids,
Carrie M. McLain
City Clerk
Fubl. Oct. 19, 21, 1955.
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