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...Captain van Toch, blue-eyed, beery Dutch mariner, trading for pearls along the coast of Sumatra, made the first discovery: he found, in a little-visited bay on one of the islands, a family of giant newts that walked erect when on land, could be taught to use a pearl-diver's knife and other tools, and could even, with coaching, learn to talk. Finished rubbing his eyes, simple-minded van Toch planned merely to use his pets for pearl-fishing, but he had to get capital to do it, and once capital got involved in the thing there...
Died-Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams, explorer and lecturer, wife of Franklin Pierce Adams, onetime counselor of the Pan-American Union; in Nice, France. Mrs. Adams headed expeditions in Haiti, Africa, Siberia and Sumatra, made a threeyear, 40,000-mi. journey through South America starting in 1903. In 1916, she was the first woman War correspondent to visit the front-line trenches. In 1925, she organized the International Society of Woman Geographers...
...specimen of the world's largest known flower last week bloomed in the U. S. for the first time. Custodian of this prodigy, whose scientific name is Amorphophallus titanum and which is called krubi by the islanders of its native Sumatra, was the New York Botanical Garden in The Bronx. Only five times before had Amorphophallus titanum bloomed outside the Sumatra jungle-twice in London's Kew Gardens, once in Holland, once in Germany, once in a botanical garden in Java. During last week's excitement Assistant Curator Wendell Holmes Camp observed that The Bronx...
...rubber company standing to profit most by bigger quotas is U. S. Rubber Co., which gets one quarter of its annual needs from its own plantations. Since its acres are in Sumatra (Dutch) and Malaya (British), U. S. Rubber has to submit with good grace to all of the I. R. R. C.'s schemes. No. 1 manufacturer in the industry-Goodyear-gets only 10% of its supply from Goodyear-owned plantations. Firestone's Liberian acres furnish only 5% of the company's requirements and Goodrich owns no plantations...
ZEST FOR LIFE-Johan W011er-Knopf ($2.50). Sumatra again, as remembered by an esthetic Dane, who, 30 years ago, a copy of Keats's poems in his pocket, participated in the last of the native wars which from 1872 cost the Dutch forces over...