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...ketch with an engine so faulty that no one could sleep below on account of the fumes. Lashed to the hatch, they slept on deck through tropic storms. They say they spent one of the happiest times of their lives floating on a raft down a river in Borneo...
...Secretary of State Stimson and Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S.. signed an official document which added seven specks in the Sulu Sea to the U. S. domain. The specks were the Turtle Islands, southwest of the Philippines and some 20 miles off the North Borneo coast. The U. S. and Great Britain had at last agreed upon a boundary line between their possessions. Under the four-power Pacific Treaty of 1921, the U. S. is prohibited from using its new miniature archipelago as a naval base...
Average size of the Turtle Islands is 1 mi. by ¼ mi. Total population: 220. Products: a few thousand dollars worth of turtle eggs and copra yearly. The British North Borneo Co. will continue to administer Turtle Island affairs until the U. S. sends out a spick-and-span new government...
During the last nine years the pair have made four trips into the plains and jungles of Africa. Previous of this they explored every island in the Southern Pacific, as well as Borneo; Mr. Johnson has calculated that of their 20 years of married life they have spent only three in civilization...
Farm. Yet though it is the 101 Ranch Show that has carried the fame of the Millers from Tulsa to Borneo, it is the 101 Ranch itself which represents the Miller Brothers' greatest accomplishment. The Ranch today includes 110,000 acres, 45,000 of which are owned by the Miller family...