The Daily Alaska empire. [volume], September 10, 1934, SECOND SECTION, Page 4, Image 12

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NOTED DOCTOR
VISITS JUNEAU
ON WAY SOUTH
Creighton University Scien
tists Return from Eski
mo Health Survey
Dr. Victor E. Levine, noted scien
tist, stopped off in Juneau Satur
day on his return from the Arctic,
leading a scientific expedition to
study medical problems among the
Eskimos. Dr. Levine was a south
bound passenger on the Victoria.
He is a physician of national
reputation, and is a professor at
the School of Medicine in Creigh
ton University, Omaha, Neb. Dr.
Levine is also a major in the med
ical department, United States
Army. , _. .
His trip to the Arctic is the first
of a series of scientific investiga
tions on health problems relative
to the Eskimo. Next year an inves
tigation will be made at Kotzebue,
Walnwright, and Point Barrow.
Started in June
Dr. Levine and his party started
out from Seattle early in June, and
Galled to Seward. From Seward
he took the Alaska Railroad to
Nenana, where they boarded the
river steamer and sailed down the
Yukon. They made observations
of the Eskimos at Hamilton, Akul
urak, St. Michael, Unalakleet, King
Island, Diomede Island and Nome.
The research undertaken con
sisted of taking physical measure
ments of Eskimo children, determ
ining their nutritional status, and
their basal metabolic rate. Blood
samples were also taken in order
to make quantitative determina
tions of important constituents. In
addition, tests were run to deter
mine the susceptibility of the Es
kimo child to tuberculosis, diph
theria and scarlet fever.
Dying Race
The Eskimos are fast dying off,
according to Dr. Levine. In 1837
a terrible epidemic of smallpox
started and raged for four years. It
spread all along the coast. Thou
sands upon thousands of Eskimos
■were numbered among its victims.
Many villages were almost com
pletely depopulated.
Hardly had the Inuit, as the
Eskimos call themselves, begun to
recuperate from the ravages of
smallpox, than fresh misfortunes
fell upon them. In 1848. an Amer
ican whaling vessel commanded by
Captain Roy. first passed the Ber
ing Straits and penetrated the icy
■jfastrifess of the Arctic Ocean. The
result of this bold venture proved
so very rich that in a few years
the remote region became the reg
ular cruising ground of the whal
ing fleet.
Villages Shrink
The inroads made by the whal
ers upon the food supply of the
Inuit in the slaughter of the whale
and the walrus and the dreadful
effect produced on the natives by
the introduction of disease, have
helped considerably to cut down
the population. Prior to the advent
of the white man, villages having
from 500 to 1,000 inhabitants were
thickly dotted along the entire
coast. Now the villages are very
small indeed.
The influenza of 1918 took an
extremely heavy toll in Eskimo
lives. At the present time it is tu
berculosis that is ravaging the Es
kimo. Every village visited by the
expedition disclosed two or three
in the last stages of tuberculosis
and in a dying condition. It was
not unusual for members to go
into a village to find that someone
had Just died of the disease.
Highly Susceptible
In the susceptibility tests, it
■was determined that 97 per cent
of Eskimo children are susceptible
to the disease. As for scarlet fe
ver, the susceptibility runs as high
as 87 percent. A very high per
centage of the children tested also
showed susceptibility to diphtheria.
Examination of the records of
more than 2,000 Eskimo deaths dis
closed that 50 percent of the deaths
were due from tuberculosis alone.
Short Life Span
Calculation of the average life
span of the Eskimo showed that at
birth, the average Eskimo can ex
pect to live but 20 years. The birth
rate is not high enough to offset
the losses due to death, and Dr.
Levine declares that unless im
mediate and stringent measures
are taken for the preservation of
the Eskimo, he is doomed to speedy
extinction.
Professor C. W. Bauer of Creigh
ton University accompanied Dr.
Levine, and assisted in the survey.
In commenting upon present
health programs in effect. Dr. Le
vine praised the work of the gov
ernment physicians who are work
ing among the Eskimos, in the
highest terms, saying that they are
accomplishing marvels, considering
the handicaps they are forced to
work under.
Imbibers Not Safe
in Woman’s Company
WINNIPEG, Sept. 10.—Contend
ing it was not lair that money
which she could use to good ad
vantage should he squandered on
liquor, Mrs. Mary Sicker told Judge
H. Whit la in county court that she
merely sought to equalize things
by removing money from the pock
ets of intoxicated persons. She was
sentenced to six months in jail.
Fall Mode? Sweep of Color, Black Right in From
Black, an outstanding color cf the winter mode, makes Ihis wool coat with a close fitting neck
line finished wi'.li a gie.it “newer” of black bieits• hwanz. It is worn with a simple black wool frock
whoso high neckline is rimmed with red and purple fringe llewer:, following She seewn’s trend to
accent black with colors* 'She black .toque is fcalhesed in aigrette:. Design by Maggy Rouff.
Balks Blackmail Plot
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Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers
(above), Standard Oil multi-mil
lionaire and father of the former
Millicent Rogers, was the intended
victim of a blackmail extortion plot
by a former chauffeur for the oil
king. New York police said the
chauffeur, John Cvaniga, confessed
when arrested. (Associated Press
Photo) -
Co-Eds Taking Course
in Designing of Homes
AUSTIN, Tex.. Sept. 10.—No long
er will the male of the species
have the final say—if he ever did
—on architectural details of a
home, when 25 co-eds of the Uni
versity of Texas complete their
education.
A course in home designing is
offered to home economics classes
at the university. The girls are
taught to prepare plans for an
ideal home, down to the minutest
detail of floor planning, lighting,
color combinations, materials and
eost. Making financial arrange
ments and provision for upkeep in
the family budget are included in
the course.
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Ancient Dog Left Mark
CHICAGO.—The troubles of con
crete layers with people who leave
tracks of freshly-laid sidewalks are
nothing new. The some thing
bothered King Sargon of the Hit
tite empire in what is now Turkey
in 720 B. C. A clay tablet on
which Sargon’s seal hafl been im
printed and left to dry also bears
the footprints of a dog which ran
across the tablet before it had
hardened.
SHOP IN JUNEAU!
Old Papers for Sale at Empire Office
BUTTE DOCTOR
IS IMPRESSED
! WITH VACATION
Declares Chambers o
Commerce Should Ad
vertise Alaska More
i -
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Moon
have been in town for the past fcv
'days, registered at the Gastineai
Hotel. Mrs. Moore is the only
daughter of the late Ben Bullarc
of Taku, who was buried in Maj
cf last year.
Dr. Moore was greatly impressed
with his trip and with Juneau
which he likens to the Butte
Mont., of many years ago, when
the population was "just like one
big family."
| Dr. and Mrs. Moore left on the
steamer Alaska this morning for
Butte, where he has offices in
the Metals Bank Building, and
where he has been a practicing
physician for 20 years. On leaving,
he said that it is his intention to
make more of an effort that he
had ever previously thought worth
while, to get back to Alaska more
often in the future,
i He believes that more of an ef
fort should be made by Alaska
Chambers of Commerce to inform
the world, and particularly the
residents of the drought stricken
areas ef the Middle West of the
wonderful farming and stock rais
ing possibilities of Southeast A1
aska near the centers of popula
tion.
Bar German Refugees
HAVANA.—The Cuban govern
ment has refused to grant permis
sion for 2,000 German Jews to set
tle in the island, not only because
present laws would have to be
amended but also because a new
immigration law in the making
would bar them. The applicants
claimed to be technical men, mos
of them with college training.
Giant Elk's Head Found
DUBLIN.—The head of a giant
elk believed to have roamed Ire
land some 20,000 years ago during
the first part of the glacial pe
riod has been dui out of a bog in
County Dublin. It was found by
members of the Danish expedition
headed by Prof Knud Jessen, Co
penhagen scientist. The head is
about three feet long and in a good
state of preservation.
SHOP IN JUNE"U!
GARDEN PATCH
DIRECT FROM PRODUCER PRICES
TOMATOES, Fancy Ripe, pound .10c
POTATOES, Dry Land Washingtons, 9 lbs..25c
CRABAPPLES, Very Good, 4 lbs.-.25c
LEMONS, Large, Fancy, dozen.30c
FRESH PRUNES, Italians, 3 lbs. ,.25c
SPANISH ONIONS, Dry Kiln, 3 lbs.10c
EGGS, Large, Fresh, Standards, dozen.32c
BETTER, A-l Grade, prints, lb.33c
HOUSEHOLD POLISH, OAj*
bottle.ZUC
A regular 50-cent size at AN INTRODUCTORY
PRICE
Garden Patch
PHONE 342 Prompt Free Delivery
W hite House Gets Painting
of T. R.’s Ancestral Home1
irrar—Ttgy ' M lair rrw ■ i miii—«—jm
Bulloch Hal!, h' me c f Thi-Jorc K -cvclt’s mother, is the sub
j -ct cf lh.s painting by a CWA a-riisl, Mis. Francis Lee Turner
cf Re will, Ca , ulie e the he ; stand:;. The Franklin D. Roose
velts selected Ihe j/ie me (o har t i.i iile White House.
POGWEMj Ga.. °.rpt, 10.—An
rtist’s painting of Bulloch Hal1,
utebellum home of President Theo
ore Roosevelt’s mother. Martha
'.ulloch, has gone from here to
ang in another great White House
1 the nation’s capital.
Mrs. Frances Lee Turner of De
ltur, Oa.. mother of seven chil
dren, did the work and sent it to
Vashington for exhibition.
President Roosevelt, whose wife
; a niece of Martha Bulloch, recog
red the old mansion immediately
nd ’equested that the picture be
ransferred to the White House.
All of that has served to freshen
he many traditions of the time
\ ’’heodore Roosevelt, Sr., the for
ner President's father, came here
rrom New York by slow train and
slower stage coach to woo and wei
l®swell’s beautiful belle. She met I
him while visiting friends in Phil
adelphia and the legends say it
was a case of mutual love at fir..t1
sight.
Bullocn Hail was built in 1840, at |
the peak of the Old South’s agrt- 1
cultural prosperity. Time has dealt
gently with it, leaving nothing but I
the style of architecture to indi- j
cate its age. j
Pipe Lethal Weapon
BUDAPEST — Because he beat j
his mother-in-law with the cherry
wood stem of a huge Hungarian
pipe, Istvan Banyai is spending
three months in jail.
n.
WILD HOG HUNTERS
FIND BOW, ARROWS
DEADLY FOR SPORT
SAVANNAH. Ca„ Sep:. 10.—It
has become the fad to hunt with
bow and arrow aiong the Georgia
coast—and the deadliness of that
weapon is evinced in the bagging
of wild hogs.
Ralph Conze'.man. spori. man of
Detroit. Mich., was among the
first to make a kill while hunting
on v..»s saba .v Island. He drove one
arrow 14 inches into the shoulder
>f a 220-pound boar and it dropped
lead in its tra-ks.
Others have hud luck but only
loneelman enjoyed the success of
completing the kill with a single
arrow.
Tract in Business Center
Lined with Hitching Posts
LATTA, S. C„ Sept. 10.—Horses
ana mules haven't capitulated to
the automobile after all.
For the convenience of farmers,
who come to town in great numbers
on Saturdays, citizens of Latta set
apart a tract near the business
:enter and lined it with hitching
oasts.
Just so t,here will be no naistak
ng, the lot is identified by a big
sign that reads “Free Landing
Pield for Horses and Mules.”
rWIN PINCH-HITS
FOR ELECTED KIN
ILLINGTON, N. C„ Sept. 10.—
Pred Thomas recently was elected
;o the State Legislature and party
eaders called a meeting to cele
orate.
Business affairs kept him from
attending but he sent his twin
orother, Ed, as a pinch hitter. The
:rowd called on him for a speech.
\nd Erother Ed responded with ;a
•inging oration.
When the tumult died down, a
party chieftain suggested “Fred
rhomas is the greatest orator Har
nett County has produced In a
generation.”
Fred and Ed kept their secret
awhile, but finally it leaked out.
Daily Empire Want Ads Fay!
■*--«»— -‘“-**1
Gash Talks
Real Close Out
Bargains
GLOVES, Capeskin, pair, NOW.$1.50
Values to $2.50
GLOVES, Fabric, NOW.50c
GIRDLES, Lastex, Special .$1.95-$5.75
DRESSES, Values to $10.95,
NOW.$1.95 and $6.95
HOUSE DRESSES, Very Special, NOW... .$1.00
HOUSE FROCKS, Voile Trims, NOW ... .$2.25
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PURSES, a choice lot at.$1.00
RAINCOATS, Misses’, your pick.$1.50
RAIN CAPES, rubber, NOW.$1.95
SILK HOSE, Worth More, 2 pairs.$1.75
DRESSES, Children’s, sizes 8 to 14 . .65c to $1.25
SWEAT SHIRTS, Warm Colors, each.75c
ALL SALES FINAL AND/OR CASH ^
Juneau Sample Shop
“The Little Store With the Big Values’’