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Entering Brazil, the explorers had been delayed by civil war (TIME, July 14 et seq., LATIN AMERICA) and occupied their time establishing schools for the natives on the Rios Branco and Negro. Threading up the Rio Parima, Lieutenant Walter Hinton, trans-Atlantic flier and air-scout for Dr. Rice, had sought trails from the Parima valley into the Orinoco country. He found none, but located a tribe of furtive, stunted "white" Indians, the Shiritanas, who exhibited neither fear nor curiosity at sight of the white men and their aircraft. The Shiritanas favored cocaine as a relish for their diet...
...special committee of the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions reported that numbers of foreign missionaries, including many of the older men, were weak in the faith. This was followed by a resolution offered by a Fundamentalist, the Rev. Walter B. Hinton of Portland, Ore., proposing that all missionaries should be obliged to affirm their belief in the Baptist creed...
That was the idea of Captain A. W. Stevens, official photographer of Dr. A. Hamilton Rice's expedition, and his pilot, Lieut. Walter Hinton, famed flier of the Atlantic-crossing NC-4. Back in Manhattan last week, Captain Stevens told how he aiid Hinton, the latter suffering continually from malaria, flew from Manaos, on the Rio Negro, up the Rio Branco to the Rio Uraricoera, to the Rio Parima, to the Parima's source, hitherto unvisited by whites. With an aerial camera in their seaplane, they mapped a 1,000-mile stretch accurately for the first time, returning...
...Davis then set out on another speaking tour in West Virginia. He spoke at Charleston, Huntington, White Sulphur Springs, Hinton, Thurmond, Ronceverte, Anderson, Meadowcreek, Quinnimont, Fayettesville, Bluefield†, Fort Gay, Crumm, Williamstown, Welch, North Fork. Some remarks...
...quite sure of what is here. To bring order out of this geographical chaos is the chief purpose of Dr. and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice, of Manhattan and Newport, and their party of ten scientists, who sailed March 29 in quest of the headwaters of the Orinoco. Walter Hinton, naval lieutenant who once flew the NC4 across the Atlantic, and James W. Swanson, radio expert, are members of the party. Hinton will take along a big seaplane for aerial exploration and to protect the expedition against the cannibals of the region by bombing, if necessary. Previous experiences of the Rices...