Birthday Ball Head
Calls Nation To
- Fight Paralysis
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“Although the money raised last
year by the birthday celebrations
for the President has done unlimit
ed good,” he said, “perhaps more
good will come from the fact that
the work has focused the spotlight
on infantile paralysis and revealed
how the task of preventing it and
rehabilitating its victims has been
neglected. Speaking in the most
conservative terms, the disease is a
peril whose gaunt hands annually
bring death or physical destruction
to thousands of American hordes,
steal more than a third of a billion
dollars of the nation’s wealth every
year, and costs its survivors hard
ships that can be overcome only af
ter years of effort.”
The need for funds to fight it, he
pointed out, is best summarized in
a statement made by the late Will
iam H. Woodin, former Secretary of
the Treasury, who said: “To be
very, very conservative, infantile
paralysis costs the country each
year in impaired individual earning
and buying power some $300,000,000.
Furthermore, this costly sum repre
sent the millions of dollars of an
nual outgo which afflicted people
must pay in the fight for recovery.”
“Again being radically conserva
tive,” Col. Doherty stated, “this last
expenditure can be estimated by
multiplying the estimated number
of victims—200,000 for the nation—
by the cost of caring for each of
them during a year.. Put the figures
at $300—a ridiculously low sum—
and you have an annual curative
cost of $60,000,000. No wonder the
President has so generously loaned
his birthday anniversary in 1935 to
another nation-wide party dedicat
ed to financing the war against the
disease!
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LOCAL NEWS
The Northern Air Transport, pilot
Brown, is scheduled for a flight
north tomorrow weather permitting,
to Deering, Candle and Kotzebue,
with express and possibly passen
gers.
The special committee appointed
by Chairman Judge J. H. S. Morison
to consider and make plans for the
President’s Birthday Ball in Nome
is to meet in ,his office with him
this evening, to discuss plans and
arrangements. The meeting is call
ed for 7:30 pm.
Pilot Hans Mirow of the Mirow
Air Service is scheduled to take off
for Teller, Deering, Candle, Bald
win and Kotzebue tomorrow morn
ing and will return here in time to
take off for Fairbanks either Sun
day or Monday.
Pilot Jerry Jones of the Pacific
Alaska Airways, arrived Nome this
afternoon with the U. S. Mail, from
Fairbanks. His flying time was re
ported as 2 hours and 46 minutes, es
tablishing a record in the flying
time between Fairbanks and Nome.
The previous record was held by
pilot Robbins of the PAA, of 2 hours
and 55 minutes.
According to a wire received
from M. J. Walsh from Fairbanks,
the next southbound train will not
leave Fairbanks for Seward, until
Tuesday, dan. 29th due to the fact
that the S. S. Victoria sustained
damages on its recent trip north
from Seattle and was forced to re
turn with its passengers and freight,
and another vessel was sent in its
place.
Personal Items
Mrs. Clement Bahr, who was brot
to Nome from Unalakleet for surg
ical care, is reported to be improv
ing rapidly and will soon be ready
to return to her home there.
Tfrorulf Lehmann, Nome merchant
for the past thirty-odd years, who
has been suffering from arthritis for
the past six weeks, is reported to be
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improving and will soon be up and
about again in his new store.
Tom Brookley, known familiarly ,
as “Russian Tom,” who suffered a
stroke about three weeks ago, is re
ported to be in about the same con
dition as for the past few weeks, in
the Maynard-Columbus Hospital.
Pioneers of Alaska
Intend To Build
A regular meeting of the Pioneers
of Alaska Igloo No. 1 was held last
evening in the offices of the U. S.
Marshal, Thos. Gaffney, Vice-Presi
dent officiating in the absence of
President Harry Lomen, who is in
the states.
A good attendance was present.
Several communications were read
and other rounttne business trans
acted, having to do with the wel
fare of the pioneers.
The most, important transaction of (
the meeting was the matter of re
ducing the dues from $6.00 to $3.00
a year. A committee was appoint
ed by the chair for the purpose of
amending the constitution and by
laws and reported favorably on the
reduction of dues and the cutting
of salaries and other expenses. The
Pioneers are contemplating the er
ection of a small, commodious hall
as a social center for their members.
Much spirited enthusiasm was man-|
ifested on this proposal.
The following nomination of offic
ers for the ensuing year was made:
Aimer* Rydeen President, Henry
Burgh 1st Vice-President, W. E. H.
Cremer 2nd Vice-President: Jack
Starr Secretary; A. Polet Treasurer;
Lige Ketchison Historian, Nels Swan
berg Chaplain, Harold Stokes Ser
geant at Arms; Charles Calkins
Trustee and Pete Larson Doorkeep
er.
94 Miles Per Hour
At 7,500 Feet Alt
What is believed to be a record
wind velocity aloft for the Nome
district was recorded yesterday by
the U. S. Weather Bureau in Nome,
C. L. Prucha, Assistant Meteorologist.
94 miles an hour was recorded at
an altitude of 7,500 feet, from the
East The maximum velocity on the
surface yesterday was recorded at
3:20 a.m., at 35 miles an hour from
the Northeast, during a five minute
period
The balloon run made at 11:30 a.m.
yesterday registered the record wind
velocity aloft.
When Man Bites
Bug That Is News
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If it is news when a men bites a
dog, Bob Woolsey deserves front
page headlines for the strange feat
he performs in the midst of the
dark and treacherous jungle which
he and Bert Wheeler invade in their
latest Columbia comedy, “So This
is Africa!” showing Friday at the
Dream Theatre.
For Woolsey goes one better and
bites a huge fly that lights on his
neck and starts to drill an oil-well
through his skin. For a moment or
two in this laugh-provoking scene
Woolsey can’t feel the fly’s bite, be
cause of the stiff collar and boiled
shirt that he has chosen for his Af
rican garb. But when he does, this
famous comic takes thb fly by sur
prise and bites him viciously in the
back That’s a unique method of
attack.
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