Soldiers Stationed In
Aleutian Islands Had
I Fewer Mental Breakdowns
[ SEATTLE, (A*) — Second World
\ War soldiers stationed in the
bleak Aleutian Islands had fewer
mental breakdowns than their
comrades elsewhere.
Dr. Charles H. Jones, superin
tendent of Northern State Hos
pital at Sedro-Wooley, attacked a
common belief among servicemen
when he set forth the above fact
in an article for the current issue
of “Disease of the Nervous Sys
tem,” a medical journal.
During the w’ar, the average
• serviceman had the same feeling
toward Atka, Adak, Amchitka,
Shemya or Attu as a Russian
would have toward a Siberian
labor camp.
That is, until he got there, ac
cording to Dr. Jones, who for 18 i
months was the only psychiatrist
on the island of Shemya. He was
a major in the Army Medical
Corps.
He said the old-timers immedi- j
ately would convince newcomers:
that conditions used to be worse, j
This approach seemed to work
wonders in keeping the mental
disability rate low, he said.
On any day during the war, an
average of 0.6 per cent of the
total army was confined to a hos
pital or quarters for neuropsv
chiatric reasons. On Shemya, the
average was only 0.1 percent.
Personal prestige rested solely
on the length of time a soldier had
spent on one of the small, barren
islands, he said.
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Funeral Services Held For
Famed “Nanuk’’ Survivor
SEATTLE, Aug. 8, </P)—Funeral
services were held today for the
“Nanuk” girl who won the atten
tion of the world in 1929 when she
and her father were marooned
nine months in an ice-bound ves
sel off the Siberian coast.
She was Mrs. Essler Ferguson,
39, the former Marion L. Swan
son, who died in a hospital here
Saturday.'
She was a 17-year-old high
school girl when she and her
father, the late Capt. Olaf Swen
son, Seattle fur trader, embarked
on the trading schooner Nanuk for
the Siberian Arctic. It was the
first time a girl had made the
Arctic trip.
On September 15, 1929, the Nan
uk became frozen fast off North
Cape, Siberia. In March, 1930, she
and her father finally returned to
Seattle by plane and ship.
Doing business without adver
tising is like winking at a girl
in the dark — you know what
you’re doing, but no one else does.
: Baby Born In
Fairbanks Taxi
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, (/P) — A
young Fairbanks mother gave
birth to a baby early Monday in
a taxicab while being rushed to
Ladd Air Force Base hospital.
Cab driver Bill Thompson said
he was taking Mrs. Mildred Ham
to the hospital when suddenly he
heard her shout “The baby’s
here!’’ The father, Corp. Wilton
Ham, was in the front seat with
Thompson.
Mother and six-pound son are
doing fine, the hospital reported.
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