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Andy Bahr is a tough, squat, nut-brown little Laplander who is reputed to know more about reindeer than any man in the world. He was past 60 and settled down to running a Seattle apartment house when Carl Joys Lomen, "Alaskan Reindeer King," went to him one day in 1929 with a problem. On the barren rim of the Arctic Ocean in northernmost Canada some thousands of Eskimos were in a sorry fix. Banging away with white men's guns, they had killed off or scared away most of the caribou and walrus on which they lived. Unless...
...politicians who cynically asked "Who wants to kill Santa Claus?" Republican Ogden Mills last week replied: "Granted that no one ever shot Santa Claus, is there any reason why the entire population should take to believing in him? Isn't it about time to realize that reindeer are not bringing these billions from the clouds, but that they'll be paid for . . . in taxes or inflation...
...Manhattan, 4,000 mi. away, Carl Joys Lomen, son of a late Alaskan judge, brother of an Alaskan Senator, husband of Andrew Volstead's daughter Laura and supersalesman of reindeer meat, announced that he was off to Washington to get help for his fellow-townsmen. "The lack of shelter for the 700 to 900 whites who usually winter in Nome will be hard to overcome," said he. "But the most urgent need is for food, medical supplies and the like which cannot be brought in from the outside in quantities after the freeze...
...aware that not more than two round trips could be made to Nome before the Arctic winter clamped down, cut rates on food and building material in half. Luckiest break for Nome, however, was a Lomen boat which had just come down the coast with a load of reindeer meat destined for Seattle...
Died. Gudbrand J. Lomen, 80. Mayor (1917-19) of Nome, Alaska, federal judge (1921-32) of the Second Judicial Division of Alaska, father of five sons who on his advice founded Lomen Reindeer Corp.; of paralysis; in Seattle...