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...Henry William Greist, whose hospital is the northernmost on the American Continent, announced last week that after 16 years at Barrow, Alaska he and his wife must leave their stern post. Reason: ill health. Since 1920, Dr. & Mrs. Greist have been "outside" only once, eleven years ago. Now, after a visit with relatives in California, a visit to Monticello, Ind. where Dr. Greist left a private hospital to go to Alaska, a visit with their only child David at Stony Brook (L. I.) School for Boys, the Greists are going to Europe, perhaps to Africa. That is where Dr. Greist...
...Presbyterian Mission hospital at Barrow contains nine beds, accommodates additional patients on the floor. Dr. Greist solved the problem of water supply by connecting a large iron drum to the hospital stove. In the drum is kept a constant supply of melting ice. For help in the hospital Dr. Greist depended on Mrs. Greist and another trained nurse...
...Franklin Roosevelt at Georgia's ballot boxes. Dismayed, therefore, was "Gene" Talmadge fortnight ago when Seminole County Democrats took matters in their own hands, held a Presidential preference primary, plumped 5-to-1 for Roosevelt. Last week Harris County followed suit 27-to-1. Belatedly, Governor Talmadge got Barrow County to postpone its primary while the Talmadge-dominated Democratic State Committee tried to figure some way of avoiding a miniature Roosevelt landslide...
...Memphis Commercial Appeal George Williamson's cotton column is a signed department. Bylines also go to Oil Editor Claude V. Barrow of the Daily Oklahoman and the Dallas Morning News Oil Editor North Bigbee, whose column ot bristling jargon is incomprehensible to anyone except an oilman. The Milwaukee Journal's financial editor is Gustave Pabst Jr., son of the brewing house that helped to make Milwaukee famous...
Died. Humorist Will Rogers and Pilot Wiley Post; in an airplane crash; near Point Barrow, Alaska...