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Treasure Hunt. Few weeks ago Pilot William H. Graham and Mrs. Edna Christofferson, widow of the early barnstormer Silas Christofferson, took off from Seattle to seek the Baychimo, icebound, abandoned, somewhere in the Arctic Ocean. Aboard it, they believed, was "a million dollars worth of furs." Last week airplanes were sent out from Vancouver to hunt for the treasure-hunters, missing somewhere in British Columbia. Meanwhile Captain Sydney A. Cornwall, master of the Baychimo, arrived in Fairbanks and revealed that the fur cargo had already been salvaged by crew and natives, that he was sure his ship had since sunk...
...ever given. It was the fourth annual "Round-the-World-Columbia Night." broadcast this time over 81 U. S. stations and to the rest of the world over two short-wave stations. Similar dinners were also taking place in Paris, London, Berlin, Geneva, Mexico City, Havana, Moscow, Manila. Aboard the 5. 5. Resolute off Bombay, and the S. S. Reliance in the West Indies were more dining Columbians. In Shanghai, Columbia men were determined not to let Japanese shot & shell spoil their...
...Messrs. Gibson and Davis already in Europe, Delegates Woolley and Swanson sailed from New York fortnight ago on the President Harding. A troop of advisers, technical experts, aides and clerks accompanied them. Also, several peace organizations sent along unofficial delegates of their own. Peace petitions were signed and loaded aboard. When the ship sailed Aviatrix Ruth Nichols flew round the masts clad in a purple leather jacket, went aboard at Quarantine and presented Delegate Woolley with two large bunches of spring flowers. The Federal Council of Churches gave the delegates its blessing and called for a nation-wide...
...submarine service in Britain's Navy. His wife had the days marked on a calendar. Last summer when the Poseidon sank off the coast of China with 20 men, Able Seaman Morris saved himself by jumping over the side as she went down. Last week he was aboard the M-2 off the Bill of Portland in that part of the English Channel known as "Dead Man's Bay" because of the number of ships wrecked there during the War. At 10:30 one morning the M-2 radioed H. M. S. Titania that she was going...
...work. A group of worried Chinese merchants last week called on Mayor Wu Teh-chen, begged him to disown the boycott society. Chinese, they slyly added, could still boycott to their heart's content, privately. Meanwhile, Mayor Wu temporized, Chinese troops began barricading the city, the Japanese marines fretted aboard their warships, eager to get ashore and have some...