Word: deserted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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JUNE ROBLES FOUND ALIVE CHAINED IN DESERT CAGE...
With the Gettle story breaking in Los Angeles exactly 43 min. after six-year-old June Robles was found in the desert out-side Tucson, Ariz., the Press was in a frenzy. So warm was the Gettle story in Los Angeles that old Arthur Brisbane, visiting there, stepped back into his favorite role of reporter for the day. He went to the Hall of Justice, spent four and a half hours with the prisoners in the case, wrote live columns instead of one for his syndicate next day. After interviewing Kidnappers Kirk, Kerrigan & Williams (see p. 16), Reporter Brisbane...
...thousand miles away the New York Journal on successive days covered its front page with pictures of: 1) June Robles before the kidnapping; 2) her "coffin prison" in the desert; 3 ) June receiving "a warm kiss from her loving mother"; 4) June examining her school report card. The New York tabloid Mirror ran an interview, headed "TOT TELLS TORTURES." The interview went as follows...
...Saudi Arabia, advanced last week through the mountain passes of Yemen Arabia, converging on Sana, the walled white mountain capital of Yemen One moved eastward, from the Red Sea port of Hodeida that Ibn Saud's men captured last fortnight. One moved westward from the great central desert toward Sana. The third drove down from the border bandit land of Nejram on Sada key city to Sana. They came in armored cars, in camel corps and on horseback. And behind them able Ibn Saud solidified their gains by cutting the customs duties at Hodeida 50% last week. . Hard-pressed...
...Australia in 1605, he spends more time with James Cook who sailed intrepidly jp the east coast of the continent and won it for England. Yet he admires great explorers of any nationality, particularly Alexander the Great and Marco Polo. He las crossed the same fearful stretch of Persian desert where Marco found the water "so bitter that no one could possibly drink it; a single drop of it will purge a man violently...