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Last July VR6AY, Pitcairn Island, informed W21XY, Queens, Long Island, that ships were avoiding Pitcairn because of false rumor of typhoid, and that the islanders needed food and medicines. W21XY (Radio Amateur Dorothy Hall of Queens) got in touch with Manhattan' British Consulate, got help started for Pitcairn (TIME, Aug. 1). Since then she and W2KSZ (Victor DeGhett of Brooklyn) have kept in regular touch with the island...
...nights later, plump, matronly Amateur Hall stayed up until 4 a. m. to tell Pitcairners that Manhattan's British Consulate had cabled the High Commissioner of Suva, Fiji, to help them. Samaritan Mrs. Hall has talked to Pitcairn every night since. Said she: "I have never been anywhere, but my voice...
...years after British mutineers colonized Pitcairn Island in 1790 the islanders had only occasional contact with the outside world through visiting boats...
Last year the American Radio Relay League secured for this South Pacific speck a modern radio transmitter. One night last week Operator Andrew Young (VR6AY, Pitcairn) talked with Operator Dorothy Hall (W21XY, Queens, L. I.), told her that all ships were avoiding the island because of a false rumor of typhoid epidemic, that Pitcairn was in desperate need of medicines for inhabitants who were ill from other causes...
...completion of the film, the impresario hit upon a great publicity stunt. Errol was called back to meet, fresh off an island steamer, a woolly young native in a seagoing cap and carrying a hand of bananas. To Errol this young Polynesian was introduced as Fletcher Christian of Pitcairn Island, a direct descendant of Mutineer Christian, and Flynn's blood cousin...