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...long leaf pines. The Forest Rangers had water hauled from deep wells in cities, trying to stop some of these fires, but found that their work was too feeble to battle with the flames. So there have been in the near counties of Clinch and Lanier 10,000 sq. mi. burned over, according to the report sent in to our local paper Valdosta Times last week. I have been an interested reader of TIME several months, so decided to report this longest dry time which the oldest or middle-aged inhabitants can remember experiencing in this locality. The river Withlacooche...
...release by Brazilian authorities, who had arrested him for flying "out of bounds'' (TIME. Nov. 30), Hinkler was out over the South Atlantic in his little 90-h. p. Puss Moth, alone as Lindbergh. Behind him lay the port of Natal; ahead of him a 1,600-mi. span to Africa which no airplane had yet flown eastward. In moonlight darkened by occasional squalls Pilot Hinkler flew 22 hr., sat down at the little colony of Bathhurst, British Gambia, with an hour's fuel in his tanks. He refuelled, flew on to Dakar. Why he undertook...
...plane, under eight inches of snow, only ten miles from the Salt Lake airport. His mail cargo, scattered about, was recovered. Pilot Potter's death was the second in United Air Lines' five years operation of the Chicago-Oakland route, in which 15,000,000 mi. have been flown...
...Louis Schneider: the automobile racing championship of the U. S.; by award of the contest board of the American Automobile Association. He won the 500-mi. race at the Indianapolis speedway last...
...Guinness lent a yacht. Unfortunately the yacht had been sold, had to be returned to its purchaser by a certain date, so they had only one week actually on Cocos to find the treasure. But Capt. Campbell had very specific clues, thought a week would do it. Cocos. 400 mi. off the Colombian coast of South America, is a small island (six nautical miles each way) but mountainous, covered with dense undergrowth. The clue, naturally not divulged, was supposed to lead to a large rock which formed the door of the treasure cave...