The Nome nugget., 1924-06-21

stem all dameed bucking ice.
 Will bc m Nome d day or 30
 and then will leave for King Island
 tp pick up d crew of natives and CS"tatn may take the wIulc village with Us. Then wc will help the Bear if possible and then into our walr1s and whale and polar bear. seal, geese. bird life and anything else of il tereSt Expect To get shots with ', Capta.n Ian" the public has never seen yet on the Silver Screen"
 The following was taken from the San Francisco Chronicle of May 26: Final arrangemnts for the sail i ing of the Arctic vessel Herman 1 from San Francisco for an all-sum- raer motion picture hunting expedi- tion into the Bering ice packs have been concluded. according to an | announcement mad" yesterday by H A. snow. African big game hunt CT naturalist and curator of the Oakland Natural History Museum.
 The ship will sail from Pier 23 on Wednesday. il is planned. Snow's 1 sen. Sydney. will command the hunt ing and motion picture enterprises 1 Of the voyage and Captain Louis Lane veteran sailor of the Far North. will act as ship commander and guide 10 the ice pack territory. SHOW plans 10 join the expedition at Nome. Alaska. in August. Valuable Prizes Sought snow has already visited the fringe of the territory he plans to explore and after securing l5.o0O feet of motion pictures of wild fife ard collection of specimens of Arctic game he declares himself convinced that he can secure from the top of the world d mate to his African big game film
 Prizes he hopes to film and cap ture are rare duck, and geese which breed on Wraneel Island. notably the cider duck; gtant polar bears. particularly the blue glacier grizzly, sad to be he rarest kind of bear in the world; wild herds of reindeer. carbon Alaskan goats and sheep and moose.
 Camera Platforms
 "Platforms proiectine over the water from tn" sides of the vessel will he used to photograph whales, bears on the .ce and iu the water, seals and other spe mens il. aquatic surroundtng~,
 This expedition will srt mater iti never before filmed for several rcasons,' says Snow. We have the ro-operat.on of Cautafu Lane who is cre of the authorities on the conn '"y We are visiting. through a quar- ter century of -ervtc" in il We have boat rigaed for the tc". with c, stem ou the bow. shcot.ne or the sides. ~taunch wooden hull. and ] record for having penetrlteI into p, cry par. or the H-~,np Arctj, re rack
 Camera Mau Praised
 We have fearless and ccr,pe- tent camera man who has pr"yan hi~ ~ki! ard roura2" in Africa And v,' are h,Ckrd up hy H. L.en"5 x Co. the greatest anl most w'gfpi fur gathering orgauzatiou .a the Alaskan Northern waters.
 The Herman. which ha, hnnn in use by the Liebes fur trader, for years and which was the ship 'l,ed at the time of the discovery of he blond Eskim"s. will loIl9w the break up ol the Arctic ice first ca:I- ing al Wrangcl Island. Or and about the island. the bulk of the polar bear geese and duck pictures are to b" obtained. Also the largest whales in the world are said to Da in the waters around this island Polar Bears Haunt
 snow says that an Eskimo who vas with him on his previous trip saw between forty and fifty polar bears feeding on the carcass of bowhead whale frozen in the ice. From the island the snip will pro- oeed to the haunts of walrus and seal Besides animals Snow hopes to get typical scenes of arctic topog- raphy.
 After Snow joins the expedition at Nome the plung. into the Boring Sea and along the North Canadian. Siberian and Southern Arctic conti- mental coasts will be made A ctew of fifty men will be taken from San Francisco. at St. Lawrence is-- l; nds twenty Eskimos will be added and at Nome Snow will recruit ten