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Nursing a broken leg received in the plane crash which cost her husband's life last month (TIME, Jan. 20), self-reliant Explorer Osa Johnson declared in a Los Angeles hospital that she would resume picture-taking in the African jungle, would next trek through the Belgian Congo. Said she: "I am quite capable of managing an expedition by myself...
...agreement last year by demanding a bigger quota, came into line with an allotment of 18,000 tons yearly. Other annual quotas: Britain's Malay Peninsula, 71,940 tons; Britain's Nigeria, 10,890 tons; Dutch East Indies, 36,330 tons; Bolivia, 46,490 tons. The Belgian Congo, however, was given 13,200 instead of standard 7,000 tons. Tin is currently worth...
Even better off is foreign copper, among whose chief producers are the Congo, Rhodesia and Chile. Purchases by Europe are currently holding foreign demand nearly to the rate of 1935, when the Continent consumed 1,215,000 tons, an all-time record. Chief U. S. copper companies to cash in on the foreign market are Anaconda and Kennecott, which operate big mines abroad...
Last week Religionist Rodeheaver turned up in Manhattan, told newshawks about a trip he had made in the Congo with Methodist Missionary Bishop Arthur James Moore. Inviting his interviewers to call him "Reverend Trombone" or at least "Homer," Mr. Rodeheaver explained that Negro spirituals had taken him to Africa. Raised in Jellicoe, Tenn., birthplace of Soprano Grace Moore, he knew black amoor harmonies and rhythms early, claims credit for popularizing them as early as 1917. In the Congo, in which he traveled 1.500 miles by Ford, bicycle, canoe, litter and on foot, Missionary Rodeheaver played hymns and spirituals...
...surprised I got nothing to sell. So I sell them, for nothing, the Negro spirituals. I got no chart to show, no list of converts, no promise of future missions." But Missionary Rodeheaver estimated he had reached 10,000 people. He would, he said, have brought half a dozen Congo boys to U. S. for musical training had not the Belgian authorities declined to let them leave...