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Devoted To The Interests Of Nome And The 2nd Division
NOME IS THE STRATEGIC WORLD FLIGHT AIR BASE—FOR COMMERCIAL AS WELL AS MILITARY PURSUITS IT CAN BE BEACHED BY LAND OR WATER
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THE NOME NUGGET
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VOLUME S3 No. 81. NOME. ALASKA. TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1«34 r>Mr CW- 10 orn,s
ARMY PLANES TO PHOTOGRAPH NOME AREA
JEWS AND FRENCH CAUSE RNITING IN ALGERIA
TWENTY-FIVE ARE !
KILLED HUNDREDS
ARE INJURED
RIOTING IN ALGIERS
(By The Associated Press)
ALGIERS, Algeria, Aug. 7,
Twenty-five were reported killed
and hundreds injured following
two days of rioting in Constan
tine where Moslems and Jews bat
tled throughout the city, after
Jewish and French soldiers had
desecrated a mosque,
Rioting did not subside until
after the arrival of three train
loads of troops. Furious natives
beat thq. soldiers and then ran
through the Jewish quarters of
the city attacking the inhabitants.
In cases where the Jews barri
caded themselves in their homes,
the Mohammedans set Are to the
buildings, whereupon the Jew.i
rushed into the streets armed with
pistols, knives and clubs, to do bat
tle with the ruffians.
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SURETY BOND FORFEITED
IN LIQUOR TRIAL
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE. Aug. 7. The one
hundred thousand dollar surety i
bond of George Relfel. Vancouver, '
> B. C.. brewer was ordered for
feited when he failed to appear in
I
|the federal court here on an in
'dictment charging liquor smuggl
ing and a conspiracy against the
United States. The court granted
his father, Henry Relfel. a contin
uance until August 20th.
Arrangements are being per
fected toward providing enter
'tHMiment for the tourist.) when
they arrive Nome ahoar 1 the S. S.
Victoria of the Alaska Lire, on
its cruise into the Arctic Ocean.
The preparations are being con
ducted by the Northwestern Al
aska Chamber of Commerce.
DR. LEVINE, PROF. DAUER
OMAHA SCIENTISTS
STUDYING ESKIMOS
REHKAKCH CHEMISTH HERE
STUDYING ESKIMOS
In Nome doing research work
on Eskimos now aTe Dr. Victor
B. Levine, professor of biological
chemistry and nutrition In the Cr
eighton University school of Med
icine in Omaha, Nebraska and
Charles W. Bauer, Professor of
chemistry In the School of Phar
macy of the same University,
Hhe work of .the two men con
sists In making physical measure
ments of Eskimo children, deter
mining their nutritional status
and also their basal metabolism.
, They are also running teats to
determine the susceptibility of Es
khno children to tuberculosis, to
diptherta and to scarlet fever.
Leaving Seattle on the steamer
Aleutian, Dr. Levine and Profes
sor Bauer went to Seward, where
•they took the Alaska Railroad to
Nenana. Prom ther# the two took
M river boat down the Yukon, mak
ing their first stop for observa
tions on Eskimo children at Ak
ulurak. After .leaving there the
scientists obtained valuable In
formation In reference to tbe nat
ives at Hamilton. They went on
to St. Michael, where they con
tinued their research, and then
came to Nome on July 24th.
During thetr first week In Nome
Dr. Levine and Professor Bauer
spent a good deal of tTteir time
in the office of Judge Charles W.
Thornton, where they examined
records of births and deaths for
Cape Nome Precinct from 1916
to 1933, Inclusive. Following
their work in the Recorder’s Of
fice, the research chemists start
ed to make physical tests of 80
King Island children.
Looking over their completed
records. Dr. Levine and Profes
sor Bauer have come to the con
clusion that Eskimo children are
one hundred percent susceptible
to tuberculosis, and 'that, accord
ing to the records of deaths wBlch
they examined, fifty percent of Es
kimo deaths are due to tubercul
osis.
The life span of the Eskimo Is
20 years, according to the cal
culations of the visiting chem
ists, and' the importance of this
ftgure can be seen when it is tak
en into consideration that the av
erage life span of people in the
United States is 68 years.
That tuberculosis is fast killing
off the Eskimo and that it will
not be long before the whites in
contact with natives- will suffer
from the plague to as great an ex
tent as the natives are now do
ing, are the beliefs of the Creigh
ton University chemists.
Concerning Nome, Dr. Levine
and Professor Bauer said, "We
like Nome Immensely. In all our
travels we have never been to a
city where the people are as
friendly, open-hearted, gracious,
kindly and hospitable aB in Nome."
This year marks the first of a
series of annual scientific trips to
Alaska by the scientists from Om
aha. They Intend to leave; here
on the Victoria which Js due Jlo
leave Seattle on August 8 for
Nome.
WIPE OF JACK I-ON 1)0* HURT
(By The Associated Press)
SANTA ROOA, Calif., Aug. 7.
Mrs. Charmalne London, widow of
Jack Lodon, celebrated author was
seriously Injured at her ranch whea
the horse she was rldlng'^alumblsd
and fell, pinning her to the ground.
FRANCE REFUSES
TO HELP JAPAN
DISCARD TREATY
FRANCK TURNS DOWN OFFER
OF JAPAN FOR THE
ABROGATION OF TREATY
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, Aug. 7, Prance denied
support to Japan's offer concern
ing the abrogation of the Washing
ton 1921 Naval Treaty. Prance
■a/nnounced its intention to ad
here to the Treaty provisions
pending ‘‘some change in the Ku
ropean situation.” Japan has re
ptatedly proposed to foreign na
tions that the treaty be abrogat
ed, and has announced publicly
to the world that she does not
intend tci remain under those pro
visions of limitations as regards
her naval strength.
INFLATION IN MARKET
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK, Aug. 7. An infla
tion bug buzzed into the stock .
market today checking the ra-|
ther sharp decline which depress
ed several issues to new lows for
the year! Most of the early loss
es were regained as non-ferrous
metals rose from one to five points
in a quiet session. ^Iie close was
irregular.
GRAINS LT» IN CHICAGO
(ay The AssoelataJ Pres*)
CHICAGO, Aug. 7, Grains swept
upwards to new highs for the year
on reports of increasing danvage to
corn and Canadian wheat. The
latter rose to a peak of one dol
lar and thirteen and one-half
cents: up four and tive-eights
points from Saturday.
SUBSCRIBE FOR THE DAILY
THEORY ADVANCED
THAT RADIUM IS
CAUSE LIGHTNING
SHOW Kits OF KADll'M
(N'ew York Times.)
The rocks are full of radium.
From them come rays which are
forever colliding with air atoms,
wrecking them and thus making
them electrically sensitive. For
over a generation physicists have
been aware of this effect-—''‘ioniza
tion.” Attempts to measure it
led to th0 etrang discovery that
lnatead of decreasing at great
heights it actually increased. The
physicists shielded the instruments
with lead to cut off the rays from
the rocks. Still the effect Increa*
ed With the altitude. At last It
was concluded that not only Is
there radium in the rocks to elec
trify the air, but also some pow
erful outer radiation. Thus were
the cosmic rays discovered.
Just how radium was able to
charge the atmosphere is a mys
tery that seems to have been
cleared up by Drs. G. R. Walt and
A. G. McN’lah of the Carnegie In
stitution at Washington. It has
been assumed that not only Is
there a direct smiting of the air
as it swept against radium-bear
ing rocks, but that radium atoms
are torn loose and blown abou*.
For this guessing Walt and Mc
Nish substitute more definite In
formation. They find that radium
is rarried up into the atmosphere
only to rain again in the showers
that attend lightning storms. Since
not enough radium would thus fall
Into a catch-basin even as big »ti
an ordinary lake. We must accept
Inferences—In this case readings
of measuring devices correlated
wltih thunderstorms. The aggre’e
ment is son good that a case for
radium rain is made out.
All this dovetails neatly with
the discovery, made a few years
ago in South Africa by Drs. B.
F. J. Schonland and J. P. T. VII
Joen, of electrons which spout
from volcano-like thunderclouds
and which are almost as powerful
as the cosmic rays. The clouds
are tense with electricity—a gen
eric name for electrons. Radium,
lifted from the earth In much the
manner pictured by Drs. War
and MoNish, bombards the air
molecules of the clouds with an
Incessant fire of particles. It Is
as If a match had been applied
to kunpowder. The tense cloud
can no longer contain itself. A
terrific flash follows and with a
fountain of electron plays, with
ARMY PLANES PLAN
TO PHOTOGRAPH
NOME SECTOR
8KTS RKPORD PHOTOGRAPHING
IN ALASKA: ARMY PLANKS
DI K HOP NOMK
(By The Associated Press)
FAIRBANKS, ^ug. 7. A world’s
record '•was established Sunday by
Colonel Henry Arnold of the', Air
Corps Army flight when 8821)
square miles of Alaska were
photographed fj’om thg,, air. This
.s the t rst time mass photography
has been attempted. By the use
•f 'his system more was accomp
lished in one day than otherwise
would have taken a month. The
Fairbanks and Anchorage sectors
were completed.
The next work will l>e on the
Fairbanks N'om^ sectors. Arnold
said he hopes to hop from Fair
banks’ to Juneau August 10th and
thence, to Seattle.
IvXKI.V PATKNTS SHOW
MODKHX Tit AIN TURN'D
Air conditioned and streamlined
trains were conceived before the
Civil War. Patent Office records
show, according to the Associat
ed Press, that one inventor
1 885 took out a patent on air
cooling and still another in 1865
obtained rights on a streamlined
car design. The first attempt to
introduce air-cooling is credited C
-T. H. Barry, of Philadelphia.
In 1X65, S. R. Colthorp. of Iton
l»ury, .Mass., took out papers to
patent the streamlined ear but it
is huly within the past year that
such designs have been put into
practice. The Associated Press
quotes Charles L. Howard, Assist
ant Central Counsel for the West
ern Railroad Association, as ex
plaining tlie reason for the elapse
of time.
He explained.Jt in this manner:
Barry and Calthorp took out
the first patents in their field arid
were far ahead of their times.
For many years following their
days comfort and speed of travel
were not the important, things. It
was only necessary that we ho
moved from place to place with
out loss of life and limb.
%
Today it Is different. tt'v le
maud, .in addition to safety, the
utmost cdmfort .and a mile or two
a minute speed, and we are get
ting it. Barry and Calthorp plant
ed the seed for air-conditioning
and streamlining of trains, but it
took tile opportune moment and
skilled engineers to cultivate the
seeds to the successful growth they
have attained.
Calthorp cited retarding of spe^d
caused by wind resistance in his
application, and added: “To dim
inish this atmospheric resistant:®
is the object of my invention.”
The speed he believed attainable
was not estimated, but from draw
ings It resembled closely the mod
ern bullet-shaped train.
Barry's application stated how
he “Invented a new and useful
machine for effective ventilating
an<J' cooling other closed vehicles,
and for ventilating and cooling
public and prlvate buildings in
whole or in part, steamboats,
steamships and sailing vessels."
sprays of penetrating rays tumbl
ing back not on the earth Im
mediately below but on areas hun
dreds of miles away.
Schoolbooks must now be re
vised to explain the origin of
lightning in, acordance with the
new physics, and the philosopher
will have occasslon to marvel anew
at the complexity of nature and
the nlce balance of her forces.