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...aviator before and during the World War, Fritz Wilhelm Hammer in the years that followed made for himself a place in German civil aviation equivalent to that occupied by the late Captain Ed Musick in the U. S. In South America he established and flew lines in Brazil and Ecuador. When Dornier needed a pilot for its mammoth DO-X, Fritz Hammer was recalled to take the great twelve-motor airplane on its long transatlantic trips. Last week from the rocky Cordilleras came the details of 49-year-old Captain Hammer's last flight...
With three companions he took off from Guayaquil, Ecuador, rose 12,500 ft. to skim the bare mountain hump en route to Quito. Had Fritz Hammer climbed 15 ft. higher he would have cleared the granite peak. Instead he and his companions crashed to death. When found, the plane was strewn over half a mile of mountainside, the four bodies were 200 yards apart, all stripped naked by Indians...
...spectacled bear from Ecuador, and several pugnosed Peruvian sea lions, one of them ten feet long and weighing half...
Four weeks ago President Enriquez tackled the problem of press censorship by announcing that complete freedom of the press had been reestablished, appointing an annual Newspaper Men's Day, anniversary of the founding in 1792 of Ecuador's first paper, The First Fruits of Culture of Quito...
...needed (see p. 7), he decreed that private concerns must give raises of 15% for all employes earning less than 300 sucres ($24) per month, 10% to all earning 300 to 500 sucres. In the streets of Quito cheering, barefoot peasants wildly waved the "Panama" hats that are Ecuador's chief export manufacture...