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Rumor kept the country acutely Capone-conscious. Upright citizens vigorously protested the attention the U. S. Press was giving this disreputable Under-worldling. The Press, however, continued to swing its spotlight around in search of Capone, contending that he was news- worthy, that it was in the public interest to find and keep...
...hitherto unknown planet, the ninth of our solar system, has been located beyond Neptune by astronomers at the Lowell Observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona, according to an announcement made yesterday by the Harvard College Observatory. It was in search of this planet that Percival Lowell '76, an older brother of President Lowell, spent the last years of his life. As an interesting side-light, it was learned yesterday that the date of the discovery would have been his seventy-fifth birthday...
...give various excuses for their wanderings. When Explorer P. H. Fawcett, with his son Jack and Raleigh Rimell, trekked into the Xingu (pronounced: Shengoo) country of Brazil in 1925, they intended to investigate rumored traces of a lost civilization. When they had not returned nearly three years later, a search party was sent out under Explorer G. M. Dyott. With him went four inexperienced white men. In Cuyaba, last outpost of civilized Brazil, they picked up five camerados (porters). This book tells what the relief expedition accomplished...
...Dyott arranged with Aloique to be taken to the scene of Fawcett's death, Aloique promised, then one night disappeared. News of the white men spread. Indians swarmed to their camp, demanding presents. It began to look as if the Dyott expedition too would some day need a search party. Then Dyott, after telling the Indians they would give presents next day, then start upstream, escaped with his party in the middle of the night, paddled downstream for 14 hours, got away. Says Explorer Dyott: "That Colonel Fawcett and his companions perished at the hands of hostile...
...Author. Commander Dyott, 47, was born in Manhattan but is an English citizen. During the War he served with the famed Dover Patrol of the Royal Naval Air Service. He is married to an American, Persis Stevens Wright. The expedition in search of Fawcett was his ninth to South America. Last year the Royal Geographical Society, of which he is a member, gave him the Gill Award in recognition of his explorations. Among his idiosyncrasies: he likes work, likes photographing wild life, likes to pun in print. Other books: Silent Highways of the Jungle, On the Trail of the Unknown...