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Reception in Java...
...Pacific, the tanker Java Arrow picked up 14 men from the helpless and drifting Japanese steamer Taishin Maru No. 3; flashed the message ashore: "Men uneat last 20 days, no water last five. Caught rats, made soup. Later caught no more rats; crew...
...only by human organisms that have not been out of the primeval ooze long enough to lose their religious adoration of the sun's life-giving light. In darkest Africa, where the shadow made its first appearance; in lower India, where it was next seen; in Sumatra and Java and in the southernmost Philippine Islands, over which it passed in turn -there were wild scenes. Pygmies and giants of the forest humped their ebon forms to shelter. Frenzied Hindus swarmed into the holy River Ganges to propitiate the demon that they could see obliterating the light of day. Borneans...
From India through Java, Australia and Africa, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, curator of the U. S. National Museum, scouted out new fields for scientific research. Returning last month to Washington, he reported several new species of fossil big apes in Siwalik Hills (Burma); a new place to dig in the Solo Valley, stamping ground of Pithecanthropus erectus, the Java apeman; two new cave men's skeletons from the Broken Hill country in Rhodesia, South Africa, source of the famed Taungs skull...
...advance. He lived mostly in forests, and fossils of forest life are always few. Human fossils have been found only in river beds (from drowning-infrequent), and in caves. Seven early types have been discovered: ¶Pithecanthropus erectus* A skull cap, thigh bone and some teeth were found in Java. They are probably not less than 500,000 years old. Study indicates that the creature walked partially erect, had a brain volume about half way between man and the gorilla. The skull recently found at Taungs, South Africa, is reported as of this general type. ¶Homo heidelbergensis. Two jaws...