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Ever since it was founded in 1869, Manhattan's great American Museum of Natural History has felt self-conscious about a gap in its collection of animal skeletons-the skull of the rare, nearly extinct Java rhinoceros, which has never been shown in any zoo on earth. Since 1920 the museum has sent many expeditions, financed by Trustee Arthur Vernay, to Malaya on fruitless searches for the shy beast...
Captain Rooks was commander of the cruiser U.S.S. Houston, lost following the battle of Java. He was listed as missing in action, and the award of the nation's highest war decoration was made by President Roosevelt...
...Java was a catastrophe in which...
forces played only a minor part. The Battle of the Java Sea was led and lost by a Dutchman. The subsequent loss of the Langley, sent by the Navy with planes to defend Batavia, was a creditable long-shot bet that failed to come...
...That President Roosevelt wanted the world to know that his friend Tommy Hart had not let his country down, even though he mysteriously resigned his command of Allied naval forces on Feb. 11, before the sea battle of Java...