Japan Air Force to
Slaughter Swarm of
Offending Walrus
TOKYO, — Japan’s air
force last week was ordered to
machine gun invading swarms of
walrus hampering fishing opera
tions in the North Pacific.
• The defense agenCy ordered the
action to meet appeals from fish
ermen who claim the huge mam
mals caused $55,000 loss in
wrecked nets and lost fish last
year.
— Date of the first attack was not
set. Two strikes are planned this
month and three in April, a
spokesman said.
The attack site will be “Todo
Iwa” Walrus Rock, one-half mile
off the southern coast of Japan’s
northern island of Hokkaido.
Previous attempts by the coast
guard to scare the walrus or scat
ter them with shotguns have
failed.
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Committee Counsel Tells
Of Anonymous Threats To
Blind His Six Children
WASHINGTON, LP) — Threats
that acid will be thrown into the
eyes of his six children have been
received by Robert F. Kennedy,
chief counsel of the Senate Labor
Management Committee.
It was understood the FBI has
been informed.
Kennedy declined any comment
on the threats reportedly made
by an anonymous telephone call
er over a period of weeks — most
of them last December.
Kennedy told the committee
about the calls at a closed door
meeting Tuesday. However, he re
portedly did not ask the com
mittee to take any specific steps
to protect his family.
An acid throwing incident —
the blinding of New York labor
reporter Victor Riesel — set off
the labor-management herfrings
early in 1957.
Acid was hurled into Riesel’s
eyes minutes after a broadcast
in which he denounced labor
racketeering.
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15 Runaway Railroad Freight Cars
Wreak Havoc In Downtown Olympia
Hawaii Celebrates
With Hula Show
HONOLULU, (jP — Hawaiians
who have Saturday jobs reluc
tantly returned to work last week
end, concluding a two-day official
celebration of the island’s state
hood.
The holiday closed with a mam
moth variety show for which 30,
000 jammed Honolulu Stadium.
The program included Hawaiian
pageantry and Samoan and Ta
hitian dances as well as hula
girls.
Admitted to the Hospital: Louis
Chasse, David Otton, Mary Mc
Cray, Edna Kingik, Clara Kingik,
Charles Nershak.
Discharged: Gloria David, Mar
jorie Nagaruk, Jerry Daniels, and
Myrtle Segock.
FAMILY NIGHT AT LWY
A family night party will be
held at the LWY Recreation Hall
on Wednesday, March 18, at 7:30
in the evening. Teen-age girls
will be co-hostesses. Children un
der 12 will not be admitted-un
less they are with their parents.
WORLD WAR II JAPANESE
FIGHTERS STILL HOLD OUT
ON PACIFIC ISLAND
MANILA, W) — Two Japanese
wen.t into the jungle Sunday in
an effort to get two World War II
holdouts to surrender, but their
answer was a volley of shots.
The holdouts took refuge in the
jungle of Lugano Island after the
end of the war.
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OLYMPIA, (/PI — “It sounded
like a dynamite explosion,” said
William Crane. “Then the freight
cars hit.”
Crane had been sitting in a res
taurant in the path of a speeding
string of 15 runaway freight cars
which hurtled through downtown
Olympia Friday night, killing one
person, injuring 15 others, and
demolishing a quarter of a city
block.
He and his wife were in the
cafe wrecked by the cars after the
freight* thundered off the end of
the track and crashed through a
brick depot. Two of the cars
rumbled 350 feet and came to rest
inside a building across this capi
tol city’s main street.
Railroad telegrapher Kenneth
A. Dilly, 36, was killed when the
juggernaut plowed through the
middle of the -Union Pacific
station.
The freight cars, 12 of which
were loaded with plywood and
plasterboard, tore out a dead-end
railway bumper guard and ripped
into the depot. The two lead cars
smashed on through and across the
street. Four others piled up in
side a building directly behind the
depot, wrecking a cafe, tavern food
shop and auto parts store.
Police estimated the damage as
in excess of a million dollars. It
would be several days before a
close accounting of the damage
could be made, they said.
Gas mains were shattered and
police roped off the area. The
jumble of railroad cars, parked
automobiles and rubble blocked
the main thoroughfare.
Thurston County Coroner Hol
lis Fultz said the freight cars were
cut loose from a locomotive dur
ing switching operations at Turn
water, about two miles south. They
started rolling down the grade
toward the state capitol, with the
locomotive crew in vain pursuit,
he said.
Notice To Real And
Personal Property Owners
The Common Council will sit as
a Board of Equalization on March
16, 17, and 18, 1959, from 8 p.m.
to 9 p.m. in the City Hall.
Real and Personal Property
holders have this- opportunity to
make adjustments on their assess
ments.
Nome Common Council
By Robert F. Scott,
City Clerk
Publish March 13, 16, 18
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‘Be Prepared for
War if Necessary,’
Advises U. S. Gen.
By JOHN H. AVERILL
WASHINGTON, UPi — The So
viet Union can be deterred from
“a final showdown at this time,”
predicts Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor,
if the United States is determined
“to go to war if necessary for
Berlin.”
“We must be willing to go all
the way down the road,” says the
Army Chief of Staff. “We can’t
turn back at any point.”
Taylor advocated this stand
Wednesday in top secret testi
mony before the Senate watchdog
Preparedness Subcommittee. A
heavily censored transcript of his
remarks was released Friday night
by subcommittee chairman Lyn
don B. Johnson.
Asked if this country has clear
cut plans to meet the Berlin crisis
in any eventuality that may con
front us,” Taylor said:
' “The Joint Chiefs of Staff do.”
Taylor, himself a member of the
joint chiefs, expressed conviction
the United States and its European
allies have the strength to carry
out those plans.
Recalling the Soviet’s blockade
of Berlin in 1948, Taylor testified
that many top military leaders
now regard the U. S. Berlin airlift
as a mistake. Force should have
been tried, Taylor said, when the
Soviets blocked ground routes
into Berlin.
“Instead we yielded to a chal
lenge which may well have been
a bluff, Taylor said. “We will
never know to what extent the
U-S.S.R. would have gone to main
tain the ground blockade by
force.”
NOME GIRL SCOUTS ENJOY
SATURDAY THEATER PARTY
The Girl Scouts were treated to
a theater party by their sponsors,
the Home Arts Club, last Satur
day morning.
This was made possible through
the generosity of one of its mem
bers, Mrs. Virginia Brown, who
furnished the theater and film for
the party.
The Girl Scouts, through the
Nugget, wish to express their ap
preciation to the club for the par
ty, and to Mrs. Virginia Brown,
for her thoughtfulness and gen
erosity.
Fin* Job Printing At Th* Nugget.
Nome Directory
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets Every Monday Noon at
North Star Dining Room
Jerry Manning, President
ALASKA CHAPTER HO. 1
Order of Eastern Star
Doris Wilke
Worthy Matron
Helen Dunbar
Secretary
Meets First and Third Mondays
ANVIL LODGE
No. 140
HERB JENKS, W.M.
Norv.n v~. Lewis. See.
Meets First and Third Thursday
of Each Month
NOME ROTARY CLUB
Jim Blanning
President
Bob Grant
Secretary
Wednesday Luncheon
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