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VOL. 37. No. 202. NOME, ALASKA TUESDAY, AUG. 25, 1936 Per Copy 15cts
W.TLopp 1 st Reindeer Man Returns
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Hawkesworth Making Tour Indian Bureau Stations
NORTH STAR IS AT j
NOME ON VOYAGE
TO POINT BARROW
The Office of Indian Affairs
vessel North Star, Captain Frank
Whitlam, arrived here this morn
ing and commenced discharging
of freight for the Indian Affairs
Office activities here. The vessel
is to sail tonight for Kotzebue &
then return to Nome to meet the
S. S. Derblay of the Alaska Line,
before commencing its long voy
age up the Arctic Coast to Point
Barrow.
Aboard the vessel are Chas. W.
Hawkesworth, Alaska head of the
Office of Indian Affairs; W. T.
Lopp, historically known reindeer
authority. Mr. Hawkesworth is
making a general tour of all the
stations in the territory visited
by the North Star, and Mr. Lopp
is in Alaska in the interests of
securing information concerning
the native reindeer situation.
For Barrow are Rev. and Mrs.
Frederick Klevecopper, Dr. and
Mrs. Mauer, for the hospital
there; Miss Mary Ellen Speen
berg, nurse; Sergeant and Mrs.
Stanley Morgan, government op
erators and their two children,
Severely and Barrow Morgan.
For Kotzebue are Mr. and Mrs.
Starling, teachers; and Miss Val
eria Pawlek, nurse.
For Deering, Mr. and Mrs. O.E.
Arnold, teachers.
Disembarking here was Glenn \
Briggs of the reindeer service,'
who it is reported will fly to Kot
aebue where he is stationed.
Misses Anna Bernhardt and Ca
therine Smith, also came ashore
at Nome.
Others aboard who are making
the trip to Barrow include the
Misses Barbara Wynn and Louise
Jeschein of Juneau. Miss Wynn
is the daughter of that well and
favorably known Southeastern
Alaska Attorney, Grover Wynn.
Miss Jeschein, formerly reporter
on the staff of the Alaska Daily
Press of Juneau, is assembling
information and it is reported
she will at a later date write a
book concerning what she has
found out about this section of
Alaska.
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hinkley are
teachers for Gambell on St. Law
rence Island, and are accompan
ied by their daughter Teddy
Lenore Hinkley. They will pro
ceed aboard the North Star to
their station in the middle of
Bering Sea.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Payne &
son John, are teachers who dis
embarked at Shaktoolik and Miss
Lampke, nurse also left the ves
sel there to go to Mountain Vil
lage.
City Council
Meeting Last
Evening
The City Council last night
met in regular session, listened to
the reading of the journal, ap
proved payment of all bills owed
by the city and Oked by the fin
ance committee, and received
communications.
Father Thomas Cunningham of
the St. Joseph Church in a letter
to the council expressed his ap
preciation for the lumber given
the church by the city so that a
sidewalk could be constructed.
Fire Chief W W Laws, reported
after an examination of the wir
ing in the present temporary fed
eral building, that the building is
now a serious fire hazard, declar
ing that the wiring was extreme
ly dangerous. The council under
new business took action by whi
ch they would offer the old
• school building for the use of the
federal offices. A motion was
ent building owned by the Ham
mond Company as a fire hazard.
The offer of Ben Gillette of $50
for twenty feet of a lot near his
home for the purpose of construe
ting a garage was accepted by
the council.
The report of Engineer Robert
E. Lyle concerning a preliminary
survey of a proposed revetment
along the south side of Nome was
read in which it was said that
some of the details had been com
municated to Colonel Wild of the
U. S. Engineers while in Nome.
It was said in council meeting
that Colonel Wild had declared
he would be unable to further
the project thru his department
but would suggest the matter be
taken up directly with Delegate
Dimond and he would communi
cate in several ways advising
them of the necessity of such a
project at Nome.
The request for approval of a
wholesale liquor license by the
Nome Liquor Store, H. Green
berg and Sol Lewis, was referred
to the liquor Committee by the
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W. T. Lopp Of
Reindeer Fame
On Alaska Trip
W. T. Lopp, known for many
years in the Nome and Cape
Prince of Wales section, and for
that matter, intimately by near
ly all old timers of the Seward
Peninsula and northern sections,
who is a passenger aboard the
North Star of the Office of Indian
Affairs, which arrived at Nome
today, told of some interesting
experiences which he has had in
connection with reindeer since
his departure from Alaska tweive
years ago.
In 1925 he said, he made a
special trip to Baffin Land, far to
the north and west o-f Green
land, to inspect the feeding con
dions for reindeer on that island,
for the Hudson Bay Company,
which was interested in estab
lishing reindeer in that vicinity.
He declared that the company
had spent about a quarter of a
million dollars to ship reindeer
from Norway to Baffin Land and
that they were dying off. The
company wanted Mr. Lopp to ex
amine the feeding conditions. Ee
fore he arrived there, he said, the
reindeer were all dead. He spent
the winter there, investigating all
parts of the huge Island and re
ported to the company that the
reindeer moss on the island was
so scarce that it would be impos
sible for reindeer to exist there.
The venture was then giveen up
by the company, following his re
port.
His present trip to Alaska, said
M<. Lopp, who had charge of
reindeer here in the early days,
is made possible by the Indian
RightsAssociation of Philadelphia
wfiich is financing his trip. He
said he is to look into the rein
deer situation and attempt to find
a feasible way in which to bring
chaos out of the industry for the
natives. Mr. Lopp declared he
would contact as many natives
interested in the reindeer situa
tion and obtain their attitude to
ward the return of the reindeer
exclusively to the natives and the
exclusion of the white man from
the reindeer. Also he said he
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HAWKESWORTH, HEAD OFFICE
INDIAN AFFAIRS IN ALASKA,
IS ON A NORTHERN TOUR
Chas. W. Hawkesworth, Alaska
head of the Office of Indian Af
fairs, with headquarters at Jun
eau, is making a general tour of
all Bureau Stations as far north!
as Point Barrow, investigating
conditions among the natives &
the activities of the Office of In-;
dian Affairs, he said today, while,
ashore visiting the Nome office
and Sullivan Coan who is in
charge here.
“I want to see just how things
are going, and if there are means
of improving the present activi
ties of our office as it affects the
Natives in these sections,” said
the director. “We are anxious to
keep in touch at all times with
what is being done for the Eski
mo and Indians in Alaska and
what is being done for them. In
this respect it is my purpose to
see if possible if the general con
ditions cannot be improved, and
also if there are any means by
which we can further the policy
of the Office of Indian Affairs in
its work for the natives,” he said.
Referring to the advantages
which are possible under the
provisions of the WheelerHoward
Act, Mr. Hawkesworth declared
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officer of the Office of Indian Af
fairs in Alaska to help organize
the natives and see if there are
not many worthwhile projects
which could be established under
the cooperative business activities
provided for in the above men
tioned act.
“It is of far-reaching benefit to
the natives, Eskimo and Indian,
of the Territory if advantage can
be taken under this act to set up
their own organization of busi
ness activities, where such possi
bilities exist. A greater meas
ure of self support and advance
ment are certainly possible un
der the Wheeler-Howard Act &
it will indeed be a fine thing if
such business activities can be
established for them,” declared
Mr. Hawkesworth.
In respect to the reported star
vation condition of Eskimo east
of Pt. Barrow, Mr. Hawkesworth
declared he hoped to be able to
survey the reported condition
and find means of relieving the
situation if one exists. Another
feature which he hoped to look
into was the suggestion that 3
department schools be establish
ed East of Point Barrow—namely
at Cape Halcket, Barter Island &
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LANDON IN A POLITICAL
ADDRESS POINTS VALUE
OF EDUCATION IN U. S.
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Queen Mary’s
Kitlien Vpex
Of Culinary Art
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.. Latest Kitchen Inventions Are
Used in Helping Chefs
on Queen Mary
(By The Associated Press)
NEW YORK,—A “housewife’s
dream” is the apt descriptive
term applied to the Queen Mary
by those who have inspected the
kitchens and pantries of the new
liner.
Keeping house aboard the big
ship is a tusk of magnitude, but
relatively simple, despite the fact
that more than 50.000 meals must
be prepared and served u“v n2
each voyage.
The kitchens are what every
housewife would wish her kitch
en" to be, the nes plus ultra of
modern culinary science.
Equipped electrically 100 per
cent, the kitchens represent the
last word in labor saving. Nearly
every detail of the work is ac
complished by mechanical de
vices. A turn of the switch and
the meal soon is ready.
Mechanical Molly
In the Queen Mary the kitchen
hands have no irksome duties to
becloud their routine. All they
jhave to do is to place soiled dish
es, silverware, china, and trays—
and there are many thousand
pieces in the ship—in the “Me
chanical Molly.” This newest
contrivance for washing dishes
does the rest. This robot is cap
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Soviets Announce
Execution Of 16
Charged Plotting
(By The Associated Press)
MOSCOW, August 25—Sixteen
men convicted of a plot to over
throw Dictator Joseph Stalin and
the Soviet government have been
executed, was officially announc
ed today. Terse statements said
that the Central Executive Com
mittee of the Soviet Union declin
ed an appeal for mercy and that
all sixteen men convicted and
sentenced early yesterday, had
been already shot.
(By The Associated Press)
Chataugua, New York, August
25—Governor Alf M. Landon, re
publican candidate for the presi
dency, said in a speech here that
the “widespread use of machin
ery and the federal government
to maintain its present adminis
tration of power” represented a
“danger” to American education,
adding, “today both at home and
abroad men were striving for
power through leadership p£ '•he
mob.”
The presidential nominee told
the audience at the birthplace of
the Chautaugua movement, that
“because of this I believe our
educators should make more than
a normal effort to see that our
youth is given a background of
our heritage of tradition and fun
damental understanding of the
form of psychology of *’'r. govern
ment, if this be done, we need
have no fear of allowing our
youth to study any and all sys
tems of government to which
their curiosity ]••; cl- them, that
only through ignorance or bigo
try can we be destroyed.”
Trio To Fly To
Karrow Soon On
Survey l ii'iht
j C1
Sidney Rood, in. charge of the
U. S. Reindeer S rvice with head
quarters at Nome, today announ
ced that bids were being called
for from airplane companies for
a flight from Nome to Point Bar
row and thence Eastward to De
marcation Point, and return to
Nome.
Mr. Rood said that the purpose
of this flight would be to deter
mine the feasibility of placing
more reindeer in the coastal re
gions East of Barrow and the es
tablishment of the proper super
vision thereof. The flight, he de
clared would commence August
28th or thereabouts.
■Flying from Nome to Barrow
would be Sergeant Stanley Mor
gan, Chas. W.Hawkesworth, head
of the Alaska Office of Indian
Affairs, and Sidney Rood, at the
head of the U. S. Reindeer Ser
vice, stationed at Nome.
Sergeant Morgan would leave
the plane at Barrow’, where he
will resume his office in charge
of the U. S. Signal Corps, and
Messrs. Hawkesworth and Rood,
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