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...route from Kobe to Manila, steaming down the rock-strewn coast of Formosa to avoid the Japanese-controlled war zone in Taiwan Strait, the Dollar Line's 21,936-ton President Hoover grounded last week a few hundred yards off Japan's Hoishoto Island 500 miles north of Manila. There, with 1,000 passengers and crew safely ashore and on other ships, the $8,000,000 liner was slowly being battered to pieces...
...left here on the President Hoover. I took them to the Customs Jetty. Their departure was heralded by a Chinese plane and Japanese antiaircraft fire. Virginia today received a phone call from one of the remaining American sisters who stated that the evacuees had left for the States from Manila on the President Hoover which you know was bombed. One of the sisters died in San Francisco the day after landing...
...factory here for finding the truth," he says. It is a highceilinged, barnlike room in a remote corner of Teachers College, with a little office in the back where Dr. Thorndike sits in a high-backed chair at a rolltop desk. The factory is crammed to the ceiling with manila-wrapped bundles containing tests and data. Dr. Thorndike knows what is in every last one of them...
...staff of the museum during the past year has cooperated in research for the Bishop Museum of Hawaii; the Bureau of Science, Manila; the Catholic University of America; Depauw University; Estacion Experimental Agronomic, Cuba; the Field Museum of Natural History. Judson College, Rangoon, Burma; the New York Botanical Garden; the Smithsonian Institution; the University of California; the University of Michigan; The Yale School of Forestry; the Geological Survey of Brazil; and the American Museum of Natural History...
Last week, their work done, the U. S. members of the Joint Investigating Committee were en route back to Washington where their Philippine colleagues will join them presently to prepare a report which President Roosevelt should receive by next January. Meanwhile, in Manila last week, a few days before a typhoon caused an estimated $4,000,000 worth of damage on nearby islands, Shadow Boxer Quezon stepped through two characteristically fast rounds against his own plan for advancing the date of independence...