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...mother ship" 1,075 miles due south to Kingman Reef, first stop on the new route. Second stop was established at Pago Pago, Samoa, 1,538 miles farther south, where the clippers are prepared for the 1,798-mile jump into Auckland. Last week, flying his 19-ton. Sikorsky Samoan Clipper a steady 135 m.p.h., P. A. A.'s taciturn, 43-year-old veteran Captain Edwin C. Musick uneventfully traversed this route. This week he will begin scheduled fortnightly service (mail & express only) between New Zealand and Hawaii just in time to save the franchise. Airmail time between...
...lack of sufficient white teachers the use of the English language is very limited and is nothing like what it should be after 35 years of American occupation. . . . Money expended per year, per pupil, $9.42. . . . The agricultural school . . . has not proven successful, the Samoan boys disliking hard work of farm life without pay, and remaining but a short time. . . . The experiment, therefore, has been abandoned. . . . Similarly a saw mill provided by the Department of Agriculture has not been a success, not a single board being sawn to order of the natives. . . . As it was rapidly deteriorating and becoming nonusable...
...which President Grant alone used a fork, the others pitching into the food with fingers. At Hilo President Grant planted a banyan tree on a drive where banyans have been planted by Franklin Roosevelt, Vicki Baum, Cecil B. De Mille, Babe Ruth. Sun Fo. In Honolulu they attended a Samoan feast, a Chinese dinner. Then they set up the stake, which embraces 5,000 Mormons on the island of Oahu. Stake president: Ralph E. Woolley, Honolulu contractor. President Grant dedicated the site for a $200,000 stake tabernacle, departed in another burst of alohas...
Telling of her recent trip in the South Sea Islands, she said, "A native woman kissed Mr. Pinchot while saying that he was a replica of a recently deceased Samoan chieftain...
Always fascinated by the sea, he induced the Steel company to build its own fleet. He himself owns & operates the Tusitala (Samoan for Tale Bearer), one of the last clipper ships under the U. S. flag...