Show Richest Eskimo Dies as Plane Is s Bringing g A Aid 1 1 d NO I Alaska April G 6 APil P- P White man and and- Eskimo on en ice ice- locked St S1 Lawrence island ICO miles southwest of here In the JL vea today mourned the de death th of David aged reindeer r king and richest Eskimo in fn Alaska and science science ence abandoned its ita projected airplane air air- plane race to the place after receiving re re receiving word of his passing The rescue plane Which had covered covered covered cov cov- ered miles of the race lace beginning begin begin- nine ning at Anchorage was head he tl off here Just In time to avoid the peril peril- perilous perilous ous flight to St St St. Lawrence who was so 80 ill that only expert medical attention wo would ld have ha saved him was being cared for by Mrs T T. S S. S a v white nurse on Instructions radioed d from Crom here ery e hour by a Nome ysl IH clan This method of treatment was kept u up I in th the hope that thit would live until the pan plane and bore him back bac t to Nome leading figure of of theis the Island Is Is- land and was was' first taken ill v ith a stomach disorder last fall after fter n the close of navigation and offered Nd 5 to any vessel which could battle its way through the rapidly forming Ice and take him to Nome ome for an 1 operation 1 No one me dared darell to attempt the hazardous trip and c on- on became gradually worse on I throughout the winter |