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VOL. 37. No. 190. NOME, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUG. 11, 1936. Per Copy 15cta
Greist Says Eskimos Are Starving
SOVIET FLIERS ARE ENROUTE FAIRBANKS
Workers At Cordova Are on Sixth Day of Strike
GREIST SAYS ESKIMOS
BRINK STARVATION
AT POINT BARROW
(By The Associated Press)
POINT BARROW, Aug. 11, — Dr. Henry Greist
said that five hundred Eskimos of the Arctic rim are
on the verge of “actual starvation”, in a special message
relayed to the states today.
One native has already succumbed. Others are now
eating shoes, boots, skin coverings from their boats and
tundra animals which have been dead for a long time.
He said that Joe Arney, the dead native, succeeded
in saving his wife and children after bringing them
from the interior to the coast where other Eskimos div
ided their bread with them.
“Many others now exhausted from hunger, and
would have been dead long ago but for eating their
sled dogs,” Greist said.
Government reindeer superintendent Frank Daugh
erty said that the Office of Indian Affairs is doing all
that it is possible to do to aid the Eskimos.
The winter and spring ice conditions made seal
hunting and fishing impossible, and inroads by wolves
on the reindeer herds has seriously cut that supply
said Daugherty. The lack of supervised management
of the reindeer along the Arctic rim is responsible for
the scarcity of meat, which is the Eskimo’s food main
stay, it was declared. Dr. Greist noted the pending
danger of epidemics due to the low resistance of the
Eskimos at that point. ____
Council Meeting
Held City Hall
Last Evening
City Warehouse, Liquor
Problems Occupy
Attention
The Nome City Council met in
regular session last evening with
all councilmen present. Records
of previous meetings, and ac
counts against the city were read,
and all bills approved by the fi
nance committee ordered paid.
Under the head of communic
tions a letter from the U. S. En
gineers at Nome was read which
informed the council that the city
warehouse would have to be
moved out of the way so that the
pile driver could place a line of
steel piling along the revetment
| f at that point. The warehouse
was to be moved by September
* 17th. The council reverted to the
H old arguments, some wishing to
E preserve the building as a city
I warehouse and others wishing to
I tear it down. A motion to recon
I sider the former action of calling
:>R for bids to tear it down was lost,
V and specifications set for adver
pHstisement.
# The offer of S. W. Taggart of
j the Nome Lumber Co., of $100
for four lots located near Snake
River Harbor was accepted by
I the council.
The report of the fire chief and
j chief of police was read. There
i were no alarms turned in dur
! ing July. Fourteen drunks were
arrested during the month of
July and fines and serving fines
in jail reported.
A letter from the Board of Li
quor Control at Juneau reporting
that the sum of $3,231.82 had
been turned over to Nome as its
share of revenue in connection
with the collections on revenue.
The letter also listed numerous
complaints which had come to
the board from all over Alaska,
and again asked the city gov
ernment to maintain municipal
control.
This subject again elicted much
comment, the majority of the
councilmen and city attorney
feeling that it was in the nature
of a slap in the face, especially
following on the heels of recent
complaints by the city as to the
handling of alleged liquor viola
tions occurring in Nome.
Chas. Kennedy, who was pres
ent, spoke of having talked with
Liquor Enforcement Officer Ro
nan regarding conditions in the
northern sections and that they
were of the opinion up there that
Continued on Page Four
Loyalists Claim
More Victories
In Civil War
Loyalists Claimed They
Control Large Party
Throughout Spain
REBELS MASSING
Government Warships Are
Hindering Transport
Morocco Troops
_
(By The Associated Press)
UNDATED, Aug. 11, — Loyal
i.s-.. laid a deadly barrage of shells
'and bullets in the south today,
with their objective partly achiev
ed of stopping the rebels’ drive
1 on Madrid.
Apparently repulsed for the
time being at Guadarramas, the
north Madrid gateway, insurgents
concentrated their attack against
loyalist-held communities along
the northern seaboard,
i San Sebastian and Irun rebels
'are apparently trying to consoli
date and control a movement
from Guadarramas to the ocean.
The government has captured
,the town of Adamuz, 21 miles
! northeast of Cordoba, although a
fresh Cordoba onslaught is ini
minent.
Government warships are hin
dering General Franco’s plans to
transport troops from Morocco to
the mainland.
A recapitulation showed that
the government had cut a scim
itar-shapped aisle through rebel,
territory from Madrid to the
Mediterranean.
The Franch government de
cided today to invite the United
States to join the European na
tions in the proposed neutrality
accord, respecting Spain’s civil
war.
Article on Staking
Of Mining Claims
Beginning Today
Appearing on pages two and
three today is a continued story
dealing with the mining law re
garding the staking of claims in
Alaska.
Part of the account is included
today and the final part of it will
appear tomorrow. This article is
appearing in print in answer to
many public inquiries regarding
the regulations and laws govern
ing the staking of mining prop
erty.
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SOVIET FLIERS ARRIVED AT
JUNEAU LAST NIGHT, LEFT
AT NOON FOR FAIRBANKS
— BULLETIN —
JUNEAU, Aug. 11.—In a hurry to get to Nome
so that they can prepare for their long hop across
Siberia to Moscow, the Soviet airmen in their
Vultee specially-designed ship, hopped oft from
Juneau exactly at noon today for Fairbanks.
(By The Associated Press)
JUNEAU, Aug. 10, — The Soviet fliers Levanefsky
land Levchenko arrived here in their specially built Vul
I tee plane equipped with pontoons, at 5:46 P. M. local
jtime from Ketchikan.
They made the 225 mile hop in one hour and
Jurty-five minutes.
The Soviet plane was tied up to the Pacific Alaska
Airways landing ramp and' the fliers invited up town.
They said they expected to leave for Fairbanks at 10
A. M. Tuesday, weather permitting.
The plane was serviced .last night while Levanefsky
renewed old acquaintances, with a number of friends
here including Clarke Bassett, P.A.A. traffic manager,
Whom he met formerly in Fairbanks.
Future Airplane
Industry Bright
Says Committee
National Advisory Committee
Says Cargo Will Be Carried
In Wings
(By The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, —
Still larger airplanes carrying
greater loads in the wings and
more powerful aircraft engines
were forecast in the report of the ,
National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics released here recent
ly
Citing research along these lin
es during the past year, Dr. Jos
eph S. Ames, former president of
the John Hopkins university and
the chairman of the N A C A said
“Large airplanes, both of the
landplane and seaplane types, of
fer the advantages of increased
aero-dynamic and structural effi
ciency. Many of the researches
conducted during the past year
had as their object the improve
ment of the aero-dynamic and
structural characteristics of large
seaplanes and the improvement
of engine and propeller perform
ance.”
Pointing out that the cruising
speed of bombing planes and
commercial transports has nearly
doubled in the past few years
the N. A. C. A. report added,
“Speed is one of the most im
portant factors in increasing the
relative importance of military
airplanes and in extending the
use of aircraft for commercial
purposes."
Listed as outstanding achieve
ments in the past year were in
creases in engine performance
both in horsepower and in per
formance with supercharger. The
successful development of the con
trolluble-pitch propeller, giving
high efficiency at high altitudes,
also became a factor.
, Large airplanes”, adds the N.
A. C. A. report, "probably will
be either of the two or four en
gine type. The modern-type air
plane with its increased aero-!
dynamic efficiency and high
speed characteristics is just as'
important. A high-lift device
should be effective in improving
the takeoff as well as the landing
characteristics.”
Diesel Engine Study
Diesel engines for aircraft, con
tinues the report, have a definite
place in aviation for the long
range airplane where fuel econ
omy is of particular importance.
Research by the NACA engineers
is to be continued on this prob
lem. Already investigations have
produced “results that give pro
mise of the early development
of an engine if this (diesel) type
in the United States.”
The program of the bureau of
air commerce to develop a light
airplane for use by the private
flier received the endorsement of
the NACA.
“In the opinion of this commit
tee” reads the report, “this de
velopment is of importance, as it
will offer new and enlarged op
portunities for the aircraft in
Workers Strike
Cordova W liich
Nearly Isolated
Workers Union Cordova
On Strike Now Has
City Isolated
FREIGHT UNJIAXDLED
Ship Workers Refuse to
Pass Car^o Over
Picket Lines
(Bv The Associated Press)
CORDOVA, Aug. 11. — The
strike of transportation w >rkers
(Union of the Copper River and
Northwestern Railway, which has
virtually isolated Cordov, as far
as freight shipments arn concern
ed, went into its sixth day.
The entire railroad crew, check
ing clerks, even to the section
men, Struck last WcdnesdV morn
ing over wage disagreements.
Although longshoremen are not
affected, the strike stops the hand
ling of freight over the docks, as
the checkers arc employed by the
railroad company, and '.he steam
er crews refuse to pass freight
over the picket line,
Alaska A\ i I! Do
Work oil Natives
(Rv The Associated Press)
WASHINGTON. Aug. 11.—Dr.
James G. Towns, nd, Health Di
rector of the Bureau of Indian
Affairs, said today that estab
lished dentists in Alaska com
munities hereafter would provide
dental services for the nativves
throughout the territory.
The Bureaus two traveling
dentists have been withdrawn
from the field under the change
in policy.
“Local dentists will treat the
natives under contracts. Under
the new program better service
will be provided at a lower cost,”
said Townsend.
dustry, and in effect creates a
new industry, with attendant op
portunities for increased employ
ment in connection with the pro
duction, the maintenace and serv
ing of such aircraft.'*
In the W-l plane, the commit
tee revealed, a light pusher type
plane has been developed which
has highlift factors that make
possible slow landing speed and
rapid take-offs from small fields.
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