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VOL. 37. No. 199. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUG. 21, 1936. Per Copy 15cta
Gov. C. Martin Offered Assistance
DR.GREIST SAID WRONG IMPRESSION MADE
U. S. Refuses Join in Mediation Spanish Revolution
BARROW DOCTOR SAYS THE
ESKIMOS TO EAST STARVING
NOT ONES AT PT. BARROW
Greist Says Daugherty Is
To Blame Embarrasing
Situation
(By The Associated Press)
POINT BARROW, Aug. 21. —
J. Afl Ford, archeologist of the
Smithsonian Institute, who has
been doing research work this
summer at Cape Prince of Wales,
is now excavating the site of his
former labors four years ago,
when he first came up the coast
in a skin boat powered by an out
board motor. w ■
He leaves for the states after
the Office of Indian Affairs steam
er North Star arrives at Point
Barrow.
Correcting what was said to
have been an erroneous imures
sion, Dr. Henry Greist said that
the natives at Point Barrow are
not in want, but that the suffer
ing is at Barter Island and ad
jacent coastal points where there
are no edible reindeer left, no
sealing, no caribou and little fish
ing.
Greist declared that Frank
Daugherty, reindeer superintend
ent, had caused the embarrass
ment by reporting that the na
tives would not proceed with the
roundup because the Eskimos
feared ambush from the Indians,
who some time ago attacked a
boy near the Endicott Moun
tains, although Tom Brower, who
is now here after a prolonged trip
into the interior, reports that he
has heard nothing of prowling
Indians since last winter.
$50,000 In Cash
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Carrying $50,000 in cash, Ray
C. Larson and A1 Belson left An
chorage recently with Pilot Steve
Mills and were expected back
soon “broke.”
Mr. Larson is making the trip
as paymaster for the Associated
Fisheries of Alaska. It is the
fourth consecutive year he has
presided over the gold pot at
the payoff for fishermen of the
firm in Bristol Bay.
A1 Belson made the trip for
pleasure.
The two men said they would
live aboard the floating cannery
Redwood, and would not be near
any areas infested with typhoid
fever.
Mr. Larson carried the money
in five, ten and twenty dollar de
nominations. \
Nation’s Deposits
26Billion,200 Mil
lion Dollars June
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. — J.
F. T. O’Connor, ' comptroller of
the currency, announced that the
national bank deposits as of June
30th, the last bank call date,
stood at $26,200,0000,000.00, an in
crease of one billion three hun
dred and forty million dollars ov
er the previous call March 4th.
The treasury department said
that the June 30th figure estab
lishes an all time record. ,
Rooseyelt Sends
Invites to Come
Drought Confab
(By The Associated Press'
HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 21.—
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
sent invitations to Governor Alf
M. Landon of Kansas, and the
governors of the states of Iowa,
Nebraska. Missouri and Oklaha
ma, to meet him on September 1
at Des Moines for one of a series
of conferences regarding the drou
ght conditions.
No Passenger List
Yet Of Derblay
Now Way Nome
(By The Associated Press)
SEATTLE, Aug. 21. — The As
sociated Press reported to The
Nome Daily Nugget today that
the Alaska Steamship Company
said the passenger list of the S. S.
Derblay had been lost and that
there were no duplicates. Re
peated efforts, said the Associated
Press, failed to obtain the list,
and that they were sorry they
were unable to wire it to us.
Joe Harnish, Nome agent of
the Alaska Line, declared, when
he heard of the inability of the
AP to get the passenger list, that
he had never heard of one being
lost befdre and would wire the
office in Seattle to furnish the
AP with the list as soon as pos
sible. ,
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U. S. Declined To
Interfere Affairs
Spain’s Civil War
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—The
United States rejected the pro
posal to participate in the at
tempt to mediate the Spanish
revolution, instituted by Uruguay,
| with the statement that it did not
feel warranted in departing
from its established policy of non
interference in the affairs of oth
er nations.
The Uruguayan government, in
a note to the U. S. State Depart
ment dated August 17, suggested
that the American countries of>
I their services in attempts at me
diation of the Spanish difficulties.
Cardinals Game
And Half Lead
National Leag.
(By The Associated Press)
CINCINNATI, Aug. 21. — The
gas house gang of Cardinals,
aparked by Dizzy Dean and Pep
per Martin, pulled a game and a
j half in front of the National
League Park by coming from be
hind to down the Cincinnati
: Reds by a score of four to tw'O.
Dizzy chalked up his 21st vie-1
lory by holding the Reds to sev-j
en hits. He drove in one of the;
three runs which the Cardinals1
shoved across in the ninth inning
spree to put the game on ice.
Martin led the attack with three
! hits.
SCIENCE DETERMINED DON’T
NEED SOIL TO BE A FARMER.
GROWS IN CHEMICAL WATER
(By The Associated Press)
BERKELEY, Calif., August—
For seven years Dr. W.F.Gericke
of the University of California
has been demonstrating that you
don’t need a farm to be a farmer.
Using tanks of chemically treat
ed water instead of soil, he has
produced fruit and vegetable
yields 10, 20 and even 50 times |
as great as those from ordinary
truck gardening.
Now his new plant growing
process, which Dr. Gericke says
will revolutionize agriculture,has
passed the laboratory stage and
is being launched on a commer
cial scale.
He has installed his equipment
in tomato greenhouses in Capi
tola and Montebello, Calif., and
has arranged for nurserymen in
other parts of the country to try
it with varied crops.
Tanks His Garden
For his water gardens Dr. Ger
icke uses tanks 10 feet long, 2Vi
feet wide and eight inches deep.
Over these he places a screen of
ordinary “rabbit wire” and cov
ers these with excelsior, straw or
coarse sawdust and shavings.
This layer serves the double
purpose of supporting the plants
and helping maintain the tem
perature of the water at 70 to 85
degrees Fahrenheit.
Seeds or shoots are placed on
the excelsior, covered with an
other layer of the same material
and left to sprout and grow.Their
roots go down into the water to
draw not only moisture but nur
ishment.
‘Food’ Dissolved in Water
The nutrient elements which
plants normally get from the soil
are dissolved in the water. Bot
tles containing a mixture of ten
or more chemicals are placed in
the tanks for slow dissemination.
The nutrients, Dr. Gericke says
are the same as are found in the
soil, but the composition of the
mixtures has not been revealed.
Dr. Gericke has grown toma
toes yielding ripe fruit for eight
to nine months of the year. The
plants have grown 25 feet in len
gth, with heavy trusses of fruit
through their entire length. The
local fruit markets, he says, have
graded them as superior.
Tomato Yield Heavy
His tomatoes, Dr. Gericke says,
have yielded 10 to 14 pounds per
square foot of tank surface.Trans
lated into acreage figures, this
would mean production of 200 to
300 tons an acre,whereas the nor
mal yield is five tons.
In his own greenhouse on the
University of California campus,
Dr. Gericke has grown beets, car
rots, lettuce, beans, tobacco, po
tatoes and other crops—all with
out benefit of soil.
He also has produced gladioli
and gardenias by the water
growth method, and now is ex
perimenting with tropical fruit.
Potatoes have been produced
at a rate of 3.4 pounds per sq.
foot of surface, or roughly twen
ty times the normal rate. Tobac
co, later, analyzed and found of
high quality, has shot up to a
(Continued on Page Two)
GOVERNOR CLARENCE I).
MARTIN, RADIO ADDRESS,
OFFERED IDS ASSISTANCE
—
Portugal Feels
Uneasy Due To
War In Spain
(By The Associated Press)
PARIS, Aug. 21. — Amid whol
ly unconfirmed reports of trouble
in Portugal over the protested ar
rival of a Paris newspaper corre
spondent at Lisbon, revolt broke
out in Portugal because telephone
communication had been inter
rupted It might have been caus
ed by Spain’s war where a fascist
rebel plane dropped five bombs
on Henrani, a small village near
the border, which wounded one
child and caused apprehension
that such occurrences would pro
gross to the small Atlantic nation.
Fish, Seaweed Are
Said To !5e Good
Diet for Indians
A diet of fish, seaweed and wild
fruit makes strong teeth for Alas
ka natives, while the white man's
diet brings early decay and fre
quent toothaches, Dr. T. J. Pyle,
director of dental work for the
Bureau of Indian Afiairs, told the
Anchorage Times recently.
Dr. Pyle has been in Alaska
the past five years and has visit
ed practically every small settle
ment in the territory in caring
for the teeth of natives.
“Indians living in villages have |
much better teeth than do those
living in towns and natives in
this part of the country have bet
ter teeth than those living in
southeastern Alaska, as there
they live almost entirely on a
white man’s diet,” he said. The
main difficulty in doing dental
work among the natives is get
ting them to care properly for
their teeth.
“We might not be punctual in
the care of our teeth though if it
meant going outdoors when the
temperatures were 50 and 60 de
grees below zero to get a cup of
water for brushing them,” Dr.
Pyle commented.
In towns where school teachers
cooperate in having the children
brush their teeth at the school
house, a marked improvement is
visible.
(Continued on Page Three)
Martin Declared He Would
Help End Strike Which
Is Now On
(Bv The Associated Press')
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 21.—
Governor Clarence D. Martin in
a radio address last night offer
ed his services “toward a better
understanding and peaceful set
tlement” of the Seattle Post In
telligencer strike, but declared
there was no need for a state pa
trol or the national guards be
cause any emergency exi.ts, “be
cause the strike in the Seattle
newspaper plant should not be of
statewide concern, but should be
confined to that particular plant
and would be settled with frank
negotiations between the employ
ees and the owners or th 1 rop
l'esentatives.’*
Families Alaska
Realize Value
Fanned Salmon
SEATTLE, Aug. 4. — Declaring
that every family in Alaska has
a vital interest in the future of
the canned salmon industry in the
Territory, E. A. Rasmus, -n, pres
ident of the Bank of Alaska, in
an interview today commended
the steps the industry is taking
to protect the quality of its pro
duct and to establish a stable
market based on increased con
sumption of canned salmon in the
United States.
“If the canned salmon industry
furnished nothing more than the
tax revenue it now pays into the
territorial treasury, it would still
be of tremendous importance to
the welfare of all Alaska,” Ras
mussen declared. “Anyone inter
ested in education in Alaska real
izes that about 75 cents out of ev
ery dollar spent for this purpose
in the incorporated towns comes
from the territorial treasury,
which derives about three-quar
ters of its fund from taxes paid
by the fishing industry. Thus
the books, and so on, as well as
salaries of teachers who educate
children from the homes of mer
chants, miners, fishermen, profes
sional men, bankers, or whatever
the occupation the residents may
be engaged in.”
Mr. Rasmussen pointed out that
the real value of these tax reve
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