| Summary: | Small Launches Were Ready Here Today. BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 11 (AP) Small launches we're ready here today to rush emergency supplies eastward along the Arctic rim to starving Eskimos numbered at 500 or more, but a delay must ensue before supplies to carry them through the coming months arrive. The cutter Northland, with limited supplies aboard, was due today at Wainwright, 80 miles southwest of here, on a rush trip here from Nome on orders from Washington. Barring bad ice conditions, the trip here would take only a few hours. "The Northland, however, will have only limited supplies aboard," Frank Daugherty, government reindeer superintendent, said. One Eskimo Dies "The North Star will bring the additional ones needed. The bureau of Indian affairs office is doing all it possibly can to aid the Eskimos." With at least one Eskimo dead from starvation, Dr. Henry W. Greist, Presbyterian medical missionary, had reported at least 500 were on the verge of actual starvation. The victim was Joe Arney, who, had brought his wife and children) to the coast to safety and food which other Eskimos divided with them before he died. The North Star sailed front Juneaug in southeastern, Alaska, Sunday, with orders to pick up additional supplies at Seward and Dutch Harbor art meet the liner Derblay, out of Seattle at Nome. The Derblay does not leave Seattle until Saturday, carrying 25 tons of flour, canned meat and milk ordered rushed north by the government Doubt that the Point Barrow, Alaska, Eskimos were facing starvation was expressed here yesterday by Bill Brower, Portland golf expert and son of Captain Charles D. Brower, resident of Point Barrrow. "I had a letter from dad only a few weeks ago," he said, "and he didn't say anything about a famine condition. There is a herd of 50,000 reindeer within 60 miles of where these natives are said to be starving, and it would take them only a few days to get there. I believe that the reports of Dr. Henry W. Greist (Presbyterian medical missionary, who made the report,) are exagerrated.
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