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...hoot of the owl drifting on the nocturnal air above the drone of countless insects and the croaking of frogs made the night forbidding. . . . [One pioneer's account] : 'On one occasion I was out with some other gentlemen, John Montgomery, Morgan Thurston and Alex Wilbert in search of a hog which I owned and which was missing, when we were brought face to face with a large she bear and two small cubs...
Story of the search for La Verne Moore and the arrest of John Montague was as simple as the fugitive's career had been fantastic. Last month, one of the innumerable accounts of the famed Montague v. Crosby golf match finally caught the eye of someone who knew La Verne Moore and was interested in finding him. This was Police Inspector John Cosart of Troop D, Oneida, N. Y., who clipped the article, sent it to Inspector Joseph Lynch at Malone, N. Y. who sent Moore's fingerprints to Los Angeles...
When word that the Earhart plane was lost reached the U. S., Husband Putnam wired an appeal for a Navy search to President Roosevelt. But even before the message reached Washington, Secretary of the Navy Swanson had ordered the Navy to start hunting. By last week the search was costing $250,000 a day. The battleship Colorado hove to off the Phoenix Islands, catapulted three planes from its deck. The flyers skimmed over Gardner and McKean Islands and Carondelet Reef, saw nothing but ruined guano works and the wreck of a tramp freighter. Thousands of startled seabirds fluttered up, menacing...
...claimed to do so, but could not convince sceptics. Dr. MacDonald appeared at Chicago last week with X-ray and documentary proofs that he had made female rats incapable of bearing children simply by whacking their spines out of shape. He performed his experiments at the Scottish Osteopathic Re-search Institute, an affiliate of the University of Edinburgh headed by the Viceroy of India, the medically-minded Marquess of Linlithgow...
When it became apparent that the plane was down, the Itasca steamed hopelessly to the search without any idea where to look. Experts believed that the plane would float a long time if undamaged in landing and if the weather was good. But a Navy flying boat that set out from Hawaii was turned back by a severe, freakish ice storm. Then came the first faint radio signals, which soon were reported by amateurs in Cincinnati, Wyoming, San Francisco and Seattle, by the British cruiser Achilles in the South Pacific, by Pan American Airways in Hawaii. Though all that could...