Seward daily gateway., 1925-08-22
ANADYR REPORTS MANY DEATHS
 FROM SCURVY
SUPPLIES SHORT AND STORES NOT ALLOWED OPERATE
 WILL SEIZE TRADERS
Maud Buries One of Party
Plane Smashed in lce--Many Moving Pictures Taken by Party-Eski-
 mo Deserts the Ship

NOME, Alaska, Aug. p (P)-The schooner Blue Sea, Capt. Pollister, which arrived in port Wednesday, re- ports sixty cases of scurvy occurred at Anadyr, Siberia, last winter, with several deaths. The Soviet govern ment stores at Anadyr are short of supplies and no other stores are al- lowed to run in Anadyr. This ruling does not apply at other places on the Siberian coast.
 Tell Eskimos to Eeize Traders
 The Swenson Company discovered several new trading posts along the Northern Siberian coast. but through a concession from the government, was allowed to trade along the coast with a motorship. The governor at Whalen has issued instructions to the Eskimos that the cargo of any vessel captured by them without a proper trading license is the property of the captors.
 N. E. Galkin, representing the So- viet government in connection with trading activities, came to Nome on the Blue Sea, and was with the ves- sel on her recent trading trip. He is much interested in Nomes and it's mining activities.
 No Friction with Russians
 Pollister said he had no friction on his recent trading activities with the Soviet government, whose officials were courteous everywhere. He de- clared that the Soviet government was within it's rights in the arrest of Malsage, as he had taken furs out it. legally. Two other prisoners taken to the port at the same time were Russians who were caught in the act of stealing a row boat
 Captain Jacobsen, with reference to his visit to the Maud said that he learned the Maud had many thrills in the Arctic ice before the attempt to drift across the Pole was abandoned. The vessel was caught in ice jams and lifted 15 or 20 feet in the air from the squeeze. The vessel was special ly built to withstand the ice pressure. being built like saucer, with rudder and propeller removable. The party took many still and motion pictures of their adventures, some showing the Maud of top of the ice. Capt. Weis- ling was forced to use much powder to make openings in order to get the ship back into the water.
 pr. Sverdrup Has Much Data
 Dr. Sverdrup, the noted scientist with the Maud plans upon his arrival Outside to go to the Carnegie insti- ute with numerous treasures and valuable scientific knowledge obtain ed by the expedition, among which are charts showing the drift of the Maud in comparison with drifts of other Arctic vessels which never re- turned. Jacobsen said that s. Syver- son, assistant engineer, was the first white man to die on the trip, he pass ing away the first winter. Funeral services were held on the ice, the body of the dead man being draped in the Norwegian flag. Capt. Weistding preached the funeral sermon, after which the body was lowered in a mau- soleum cut in an iceberg 100 feet high.
 Biplane Is Wrecked
 The Curtis biplane was tried out in the mid-Arctic, a runway being made on the ice fields, but the plane did not get good takeoff and crash ed amid the rugged ice. The plane was taken back aboard.
 An Eskimo, who deserted the Maud, took with him a gun and a scoop