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TWO-TON BULL WALRUS
PROTESTS BEING MOVED BY
GOING ON HUNGER STRIKE
TOKYO, (ft — A two-ton bull
walrus is on a hunger strike, ap
parently in mute protest at being
moved from his native Mexican
waters to Japan.
A Kobe animal dealer, who
paid $6,000 for the animal after
it was captured off the Pacific
coast of Mexico, sard the walrus
had refused all food aboard the
liner President Arthur which
docked here yesterday.
The walrus was still refusing
to eat today.
The worried animal dealer said
his walrus was the second to be
imported Japan and sorrowfully
recalled what happened to the
first.
It was brought over last April,
also refused to eat, and died two
weeks later of starvation.
SNOWBALLS IN JULY
ST. LOUIS, W)—Sharon Shell,
who became 13 years old today,
has invited some friends over to
celebrate the anniversary with a
snowball fight. The snow fell last
February and is stored away in
the family freezer.
Man Buys Lighthouse
And Island for $2,500
BOSTON, <#)—Now, Arthur E.
Mari, 36, can go into lighthouse
keeping when he retires.
Mari, manager of a Boston tool
and die plant, Wednesday was
high bidder with an offer of $2,001
for Disc Head Light Station at
Castine, Maine.
His bid of $501 also was the
highest for Nautilus Island in Cas
tine Harbor.
He has never seen either the
lighthouse or the island, but said:
“J’ve always wanted to own a
lighthouse and an isLand so I
could be close to the ocean when
I retire.”
The government declared the
lighthouse and island surplus.
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Former Airman Indicted
In Theft of $25,275 Worth
Of Postal Money Orders
SAN FRANCISCO (JV-The fed
eral grand jury Wednesday in
dicted Allen Johnson, 19, former
airman at an Alaskan Air Force
Base, in the theft of $25,275 worth
of postal money orders from his
base post office.
The indictment listed five
counts of forgery and one of theft.
Postal Inspector John Van Me
ter reported to the jury Johnson
was arrested while attempting to
cash one of the 253 money orders
involved. He said Johnson’s home
town is Albany; Ga.
Bail was set at $5,000.
Compromise Foreign Aid
Bill Sent to Senate Is Less
Than Eisenhower Asked
WASHINGTON, UP>—'The House
passed and sent to the Senate yes
terday a compromise $2,703,341,
750 foreign aid bill carrying about
$560 million less in new funds
than President Eisenhower asked.
The action was taken without a
record vote.
The Senate has yet to act upon
the compromise as the total is
$500 million less than the Senate
i originally voted.
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36 Japanese Girls
Drown in Giant
Wave Near Beach
TSU, Japan, U!)—A giant wave
swept a junior high school swim
ming class to sea yesterday and
36 teen-age girls died amid con
fusion and delay in rescue work,
police said.
Forty-five girls taking their fi
nal swimming ability test were
swept seaward by the great break
er. Frantic teachers, fishermen
and other helpers recovered all 45
within half an hour.
But because of delays in giving
artificial respiration only nine
could be revived.
Police pronounced 36 girls dead
and took them to their tearful
parents’ homes.
The tragedy, Japan’s worst
swimming beach disaster, oc
curred on the Bay of Ise, about 45
miles southwest of Nagoya on
Honshu Island.
“Nobody called the police,” said
Taro Takino, police chief at Tsu.
“We saw an ambulance go by
and learned of the accident from
the hospital. The beach was isola
ted. There was too much delay in
administering first aid.”
The girls, all Japanese students
from the Tsu community, had
started a week-long swimming
course last Thursday. They had
gone about 35 feet into the surf
for their final ability test.
A mountainous wave broke over
them. Its powerful ebb swept
them seaward into deep water.
Shouts of fun turned to terror.
Hot—Even In North Africa
TUNIS, Tunisia, M — That
scorching Sahara wind the Sir
j occo—fired up temperatures in
Tunisia today rare even for
North Africa. „
A peak of 122 degrees was reg
istered at Ghardimou, a railway
village of 1,400 inhabitants in
the north near the Algerian
frontier.
In Tunis, water consumption
reached a near record volume as
European and Tunisians alike
tried to fight off a humid 113
degrees.
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