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TWO fHE JOHNSTONIAN - SUN, SELMA, N. C. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 Selma ManY Son W rites From Alaska Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Broad well Get Letter From Their Son, John Broadwell Tells of Many Experiences In Alaska. Kotzebue, Alaska October 28, 1942 This will be a more or less complete story of my trip since leaving Nome. We travelled from Kotzebue with Seig Wein to Barrow and now are back in Kotzebue again. I saw the greatest display of Nor thern light I have ever seen, last night. The moon was shining brightly but these lights were so vivid that the moonlight made little difference. At times all the colors of the rainbow were to be seen and the streaks of lights danced vividly back and forth - with a swirling motion or a straight line or a side thrust or in fact any type of direction you can mention. -The streaks appeared to be just out of reach above your head and at times I could hear them swish. We left Nome Oct. 17 for Kotzebue- on this trip. Kotzebue had already as- sumed its winter covering although there was no snow on the ground in Nome at the time. Otto Nelson, the foreman at Kotzebue, was instrument al in providing us with a lot of diver sified entertainment. We went into the home of one of the better class Eskimo families where they were do ing some skin sewing for Otto. It was quite interesting. The house has only one fairly large room and in this house the father and mother occupied the only double bed. A married son and his pregnant wife slept on a blanket thrown in one corner of the room. A married daughter and her husband apparently used a single cot to sleep on in the other corner. The stove was located in the other corner, Three smaller children apparently slept in the bed with papa and mama. Maybe you are wondering how know so much about their sleeping places; the answer is that we went in at night and they were all loung ing in their "spots" because they . didn't have any chairs on which to sit. The entrance to the house was through a cache in which about enght dogs reside, This same night we also visited the home of a white family. They had run a fox farm on the Noatak River about fifty miles from Kotzebue but the low selling price of fox furs had forced them out of business. The lady has some very rare and interesting curios from this section. She has a wall picture about 2 feet by 3 feet, made by Agiapuk, theEskimo artist She also has a clear jade necklace and bracelet made from Kobuck River jade. Incidentally, I have flown over this solid mountain of Jade on the Kobuck on my way to Shungnak. The mountain appears green. We also visited the hospital and heard the Doctor (Bauer from N. Y. City) tell about his various profes sional experiences. Then we were in vited to the school teacher's home for ice cream and cake. In making these rounds I had consumed a glass of na tive blueberry wine, a cup of coffee and a piece of apple pie, the ice cream and cake and a cup of cocoa; some mixture, eh! The next night in Kotzebue the natives staged an Eskimo dance, and they really did get Tnto their dancing stride. It was similar to those in Nome, but somehow these dancers seemed to put more into their dances. A couple of men did some dances which required seal and that inspiring. Some of the dances had eigh or ten men and an equal number of women, in addition to six drum mers and six or eight chanters. : We took a one-day trip to Shunar- nak and spent about two hours on the ground Up there. I made a few movie shots which you can compare with . those 1 made up there this summer I didn't take any boat rides this time and I didn't go fishing, but apparent ly fishing is .ptill gpod up there since some of the natives were still engag ed in it. We also had a one-day trip to Can- die and went into their reindeer stor age cellar where they keep the dress ed deer frozen for years, if necessary, It is a hole dug into a hill and the walls and roofs and floor are solid frozen all year long. The dredges were still running although they had to break a lot of ice in the ponds. We left Kotzebue on October 22 and arrived in Barrow the same day. The trip on a clear day like that is quite uneventful at this time of year since Be Quick To Treat Bronchitis Chronic bronchitis may develop if juur cuugu, cnesc coia, or acute oron- Vlttl oannnt n ford to take a chance with any medicine ieso puiew. man ureomuision wmcn goes right to the seat of the trouble to ucip wusca ana expei germ iaaen Phlegm and aid nature to soothe and beal raw, tender, inflamed bronchial uiuwus inemoranes. Creomulslon blends beechw.xxl creo sote by special process with otixr time ,1 in.JI... 1 n . i any wild life that might be running around blends into the snow and can not be seen from our cruising heights (5000 to 6000 feet). We did spot a couple large herd of reindeer and a few carribou. ; The weather was nice when we ar rived in Barrow and we fully intend ed to leave early the next morning, but first one thing and then another conspired to keep us grounded until Monday, and although I had a sense of duty impelling me to return to Nome, I still am glad that I could stay four days in Barrow. The ten or twelve white people who live there are hospitable and it is well that they are, because a traveler is dependent on them for food and shelter. The nurse at the hospital has a cabin with an igloo for a bedroom and she very courteously gave us her cabin and moved over to the hospital while we were there. She is a most interesting person since she has been in Alaska for 20 years and has been on travel duty the greater part of the time. She has been called "The angel of the North." The stories she tells are hair- raising and yet she has a sense of humor that makes them sound very commonplace. If I were to repeat half the stories she and others told in Barrow, I would probably end up with book-length manuscript. She told how they build ice houses or snow block houses when a howling blizzard catches them on the trail at 40 below zero. She says her dog will dig her trom under any snow drift if she does not arise in the morning when it is time to go. Her territory extends from Point Lay to Demarcation on the Canadian boundary and she is sup. posed to cover it once in the summer and once in the winter but since she is the only one there (nurse) she can't get away at all now. The Presbyterian minister and his wife had us over for several meals which we enjoyed very much. On Fri day night we had dinner with them and saw him perform an Eskimo mar riage. It wasn't unlike a white mar riage except that nobody kissed the bride, but they did wish them happi ness and all that After the wedding friends and young people, including most of the white population, gather ed in the school house to play games, The games were mostly school-like, "tog" and "skip", etc. They went home about 10:30 after having a good time. On Saturday Chan and I rented a dog team and went out towards Point Barrow on official business, but didn't quite get there. We did get to where the natives wereWtting their winter supply of ice. Thdy cut it at this time of the year before it gets too thick to handle. It was about ten inches thick at that time. I made some movies on that trip but the light was prettv dim, so they might not be too good. i took some pictures bear cubs in ligious, but when the job needed the men to work on Sunday, enough were available to keep things going. . One thing I enjoyed, because it was unusual, was being able to go into one of the sod igloos which Banks had rebuilt. It is a bit ironical that a man from North Carolina should be engaged in building sod igloos at Point Barrow. The house has such a narrow doorway that I could barely squeeze through with my raccoon coat, and the head room inside just wasn t there. A very small stove with very little fire is all that is required to keep the place warm. The furnish ings are frugal but a very pungent odor of walrus, seal, dog, etc., assails your nostrils when you enter therein. We left Barrow on Monday and stopped at Wainwright and Point Lay. We spent the night at Point Lay, and I feel safe in saying, saw a native, village which would be just like villages were hundreds of years ago, if the school house weren't there. The Wilsons, who taught there last year, had left and a native from King Island is the teacher there now. He treated us very nicely, providing ns with good food and sleeping places in the school house. The village is on the edge of the ocean with a lagoon in behind. Most of the houses are sod igloos except three or four. Most of the natives were out fishing throuah the ice on the rivers. One interesting tning we saw was a newly made wal rus hide boat which used whale bones for ribs and sinew for holding it to gether. We arrived in Kotzebue day before yesterday and now this day is too far gone to travel back to Nome. We couldn't have safely crossed the mountains into Nome yesterday or today. Maybe I had better tell you that all my travel has been on official business and that it wasn't merely a pleasure cruise, although I have avoided any reference to my work. ject to their recommendation. Where rations have already been issued for the full year, compliance with Amend ment No. 7 necessitates the notifies tion of applicants that rations will be recalled unless non-convertibility is proved. The same Technical Commit tee should review evidence of non convertibility and make recommenda tions to the Board as to cases where rations should be recalled. The Fuel Oil supply situation is now so critical that above instructions must be is sued and acted on without delay." Rations For Other Than Private Dwellings In view of the seriousness of the fuel oil supply situation. Washington has just issued by telegraph the .instructions quoted below which per tain to the issuaye of rations for other than private dwellings. f lease notify local Boards that tney must find equipment of appli cants on Form 1101 convertible un- less satisfactory proof of non-conver tibility is provided. Since the answers to the questions on Form 1101 are normally insufficient to warrant a determination as to convertibilitv. the Boards will have to find them con vertible and issue a ration only until the earliest date conversion can hi completed, not for more than heating periods 1 and 2.: Experience hal shown that, generally, applicants wiltt require rations for periods 1 and 2 to1 enable them to complete conversion. Where this is the case, rationn afinnM be tailored by the- elimination of periods S, Marine Corps Will Take Boys At 17 Raleigh, Dec. 12. Seventeen-year-olds may now enlist in the U. S. Ma rine Corps, it was announced by state headquarters of the Marine Corps Re cruiting Service today. Following President Roosevelt's or der of a week ago, freezing enlist ment of men 18 to 38 years of age, the. Marine Corps also froze enlist ments of 17-year-olds. But now the ban on the 17-year- old boys has been lifted, and these boys can apply for enlistment at Ral eigh, Charlotte, Asheville, Winston Salem or Greensboro. Smith: "Those auto engineers are certainly geniuses at making driving easier." Jones: "How's that?" Smith: "1940, no running boards; 1941, no gear shift; 1942, no car." A pound of scrap might save a boy. Wife; "John, I'm, writing a paper on calendar reform for our Club. Do you know- which Pope gave us our present calendar? Husband: "Pope? Good heavens! I thought it came from our grocer. A pound of scrap will stop a Jap. Peggy: "I'm divorcing Charlie. You don't know what I've gone .through, living with lum." Anne: "Well, everybody says it was an he had." Latest product to come from indus try is a new -piastic glass," 20 or 30 times harder than other clear plastics. A pound of scrap will stop a Jap. Have Oil-That Good Gulf HIGH-TEST AND REGULAR ALSO GULF PRIDE OIL ' . (World's Finest) Bring Us That Gar For Repairs and We'll Guarantee You A Good Job. Washing and Greasing A Specialty DOD WARWICK'S GARAGE PHONE 108-J SELMA, N. C. TTdp tfDumr (DtmsitdPiimieir's o o 4 and 5 counons and an. plicants informed that or two polar I tion will be issued until noil -non vorfi- a wire pen. They were hilif.v ia i?:j x 1.1. i a r11"'' uriuciiLi; as to nnn- we same ones as I too last summer convertibilitv submits h j OTffssvaiibB inr TiiirnAv ntin,n l u i .. wuiMjpeop.e viewed by local Board Technical Ad itner at the school for Dine Done Ivianrs M.n,iu . ... , X1UI1I M16 1181 IOr waraeo to each Board, and i Sales Effective December 14, rtment will be our Deoa the gather at the school for ping pong ana dancing. We had lots of fun and everybody dances except Miss Keaton, the nurse. The reason being that she froze two toes off her foot at one time. On Sunday we all went to church service. The church was packed. Thev all wear their parkas during church, so they have very little if any fire in the one little stove. The minister de livered a very interesting sermon them to bark as a w"ich he had written down on paper, was somewhat awe- After he had finished speaking, his hrst ass.stant translated his sermon to Eskimo, repeating the entire ser mon. They sing in both Eskimo and English,, but most in English.' The Eskimos of Barrow are quite re- 18- suance of further rations made sub- - 1942, open following hours: Monday's through Fridays 8 A. VL to 5 P. T.I. r CLOSED ALL DAY SATURDAYS Positively No Sales Except During the above hoars Carolina- Packers, he . SMITHFIELD, N. C. A "sCm Know 1 about A Have ' nil-"-0" - When In Smithfield Make IEflDdDD IEmODSo MUG STOUaiE YOUR HEADQUARTERS Here You Will Find Many Items Suitable For Christ mas Gifts PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY Buy Furniture For Christmas A LASTIiJG GIFT Having just returned from the Furniture Market, I was successful fn getting several items we will positively not be able to get again during the duration. ' LARGE SELECTION OF LIVING ROOM SUITS AND STUDIO COUCHES WITH SPRING CONSTRUCTION Bedroom Suits Odd Chairs LAMPS Pictures Mirrors, Rugs . Buy On Hub's Easy Payment Plan and Make Mother and Sister Happy.' Fwiitare C jiinuuun w cuugoo. it conuuns no narcotics. . Mo matter how many medicines you ... xu your druggist 10 sen you 3 ui Licuuiuuuoa wiui me unaer- ITAn'iinffvnii mutt Ulr IA - SMITHFIELD, N. G. C. HUB BROWN, Mgr. SELMA, N. C IT tiie cough, permitting rest and r o u iNtve jour money
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