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Hunting over Sequoia National Park. Calif, for a stream upon which to alight an eared grebe spied a fine dark river with curiously straight and even banks. The grebe swooped, skidded down upon a wet. hard highway, died a few days later despite ministrations by kind park employes...
...present set is a Grebe Synchrophase-as good a set as I have ever tested-or heard...
...Virgin Islands, whither President Hoover was to go this week, got a new civil governor last week. The little minesweeper Grebe carried Dr. Paul M. Pearson, like the President a Quaker, into the harbor of St. Thomas while a Marine detachment shot off a 17-gun salute. The black population with its 5% sprinkling of whites massed in Emancipation Park to watch Governor Pearson take the oath of office, hear his inaugural address. They were all in good humor because the ceremony marked the transfer of their government from the Navy under Capt. Waldo Evans to the Department...
...further complication is found, particularly in the neighborhood of Lake Atitian, a mountain lake surrounded by peaks which tower 2500 feet above it Here live relief species of birds not found in the rest of the country, and Griscom reports a species of "grebe" or "hell diver" found nowhere else in the world. He searched, also, for nine days in order to find a peculiar genus of fly catcher, of which only two other specimens are known to exist in the world's museums. Here, too, he not only found this bird but rediscovered another species of fly catcher...
Four nations landed sailors and marines in Santo Domingo last week to help hollow-eyed President Rafael Trujillo scavenge his hurricane smitten city. Seventy-five Royal Marines from the British Cruiser Danae helped Dominican soldiers clear the streets, police the city. Sailors from the U. S. S. Grebe and a Cuban gunboat landed food, built a temporary wooden aqueduct to bring pure water into town. A score of Dutch sailors from Curaçoa threw a pontoon bridge across the Ozama River...