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...seasons, Mr. Kidder has been working in the Venezuelan area, at Lake Valencia, 70 miles west of the capital, Caracas, and among the caves of the Andes. Two distinct cultures have been unearthed and there seems to be evidence of a third...
...culture in the mountains is different. Here the people lived in caves, painted their pottery, and practiced "secondary burial. The archeological material in this area is seant because the caves where the remains are found have been sacked by the natives as a source for curios. It is the opinion of Mr. Kidder that the caves of the mountainous region were used as places perhaps of refuge by the people of the plains and not continually inhabited...
...each plate. The plates are then divided into quarter-inch squares, and the observer looks through a pair of binoculars to count the images within each square, finding as, many as three or four hundred in each. In this work, the large telescopes are useless since the greatest area it is possible to photograph with a 100-inch instrument is about one-tenth of a square degree...
From the White House went a statement that the report "establishes a yardstick on rates for the Northeastern area of the U. S. which can be applied to every city, town and rural community in connection with the development of the St. Lawrence River as a public power project." That statement left no doubt about the real purpose of the Walsh report. When President Roosevelt brings up the St. Lawrence Waterway treaty again next year, the Walsh report will serve as a rolling barrage of statistics to clear the ground for Senate ratification...
...name of Duke Kahanamoku. The onetime (1912, 1920) Olympic swimming champion, surfboard rider, swimming instructor and Waikiki Beach figure was simply christened "Duke," is no member of the islands' decayed nobility. But as a result of last fortnight's election, Duke Kahanamoku became peace officer of an area far larger than any dukedom. Democratic votes put the brown-skinned native in as Sheriff of Honolulu County, "world's largest," extending from Oahu Island 1,300 mi. northwest to Midway Island. Vehemently anti-New Deal because of resentment over the Territory's sugar quota under the Jones...