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...turn of No. 3 Nazi Goebbels to enjoy his personal triumph in Vienna Lat week, following those of No. 2 Nazi Göring and No. 1 Nazi Hitler. Arrests were reported to have reached a total of 34,000 in Vienna alone. The day by day suicide rate continued to climb...
First a newsreel cameraman had himself lowered from the top of the cliff. Then So-Lat-Dowanee, a Mohawk Indian "chief," came dangling down in full tribal regalia, and began making passes with a lariat. The deer plunged perilously back & forth on the ledge, sending small stones rattling down into the gorge. Chief So-Lat-Dowanee, who had been confident of succeeding where the white man had failed, was ignominiously hauled back. He announced that he would go into seclusion, write a poem about the deer...
...Westphalen cleared the port of Bremerhaven last week with a curious destination on her logbook: "Long. 25° W. Lat. 5° X." There, in the South Atlantic. just above the Equator and midway between Africa and South America, the Westphalen was to drop anchor and remain indefinitely as a way station for transoceanic aircraft. Onetime freight steamer of the North German Lloyd, the Westphalen has been rebuilt for seadrome purposes. Most ingenious device is the landing apron, an enormous sheet of tarpaulin criss-crossed by wooden laths. The apron trails in the water from the steamer's stern...
Actual El Dorado is bleak, barren, devoid of game, but infested with "mosquitoes an inch long-armed with weapons which seemed capable of penetrating the stoutest khaki cloth, and were." The place is at Lat. 2:25:30 North, Long. 63:45:31 West, in Brazil just east of the Venezuelan boundary. It is due south of Halifax, just above the Equator, and about 2,000 mi. from the Orinoco delta...
...number of years back while holding down my first job as a ship's officer, on a voyage from Hilo, Hawaii, to Salina Cruz, Mexico, in the vicinity of the Revilla Gigedo Islands, (Lat. 18°20' N., Lon. 114° 44' W.) approximately, on a placid spring day I noticed not far distant from the ship a considerable surface disturbance of an otherwise calm and listless...