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...Somewhere in that wilderness plods a herd of 2,400 reindeer, all that remain of a herd of 3,500. With seven Lapp herders they are on their way from the Seward Peninsula to east of the Mackenzie River in northern Canada. They set out two years ago when Lomen Reindeer Corp. contracted to deliver the herd to the Canadian Government by next summer (TIME, Dec. 30, 1929). Four times so far, at six-month intervals, planes of Alaskan Airways have overtaken the drive with supplies for the lonely herders. Last week General Manager Arthur W. Johnson started home from...
...wait for clear weather. (LINDYS LOST IN ARCTIC SEA headlined the catchpenny New York Evening Graphic.) Several hours later they reached Nome, put their ship down on Safety Bay, 21 mi. away, instead of in the Nome River. There they dined on reindeer meat with Territorial Senator Alfred Julian Lomen; witnessed an Eskimo "wolf dance," performed for the second time in 20 years; heard oldtime wireless operators pay tribute to Mrs. Lindbergh as "a good ham [amateur operator]. Her signals were clear and nice." Colonel Lindbergh announced casually that from the Orient -he and Mrs. Lindbergh would fly on across...
...Education in Alaska, became worried about the Eskimos; they were starving. He imported from Siberia a herd of 1,280 reindeer, and some Lapp herdsmen to teach the Eskimos how to tend them.* The Eskimos, natural hunters and trappers, but with little talent for agriculture, were not successful. Carl Lomen noticed this. He wanted to try his hand with reindeer but found that by Government decree no white man could engage in the industry. He learned, however, that the Government would allow a certain contract, due to expire in 1914, to succeed to a white man. Lomen secured...
Today the Lomen family is separated. Two brothers are on the Alaskan ranges; two are in Seattle at the company's main office, while President Carl travels the country in charge of sales promotion. But he spends his summers with the herds...
...Carl Lomen at 48 is tall and slim with greying hair. His activities are many. He is a book and stamp collector, an ardent archeologist, but reindeer are his greatest hobby. His wife (they were married in October 1928) was Laura Volstead, daughter of the Father of Prohibition. Last summer she, now only passively interested in politics, spent her time flying from herd to herd with her husband. It is one of Carl Lomen's theories that reindeer herding can be done by airplane...