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...moon and the planet Jupiter seemed to indicate earth disturbances "in islands northeast of Australia" for July 11 and 12. Early last week he wrote letters to newspapers repeating this prophecy. When July 10 came round Krakatoa, a volcanic island with a dreadful record, between Java and Sumatra, suddenly started erupting at two-minute intervals, hurling lava spume a half-mile above the rim.* When he heard of this Prophet Greenspan cried: "Gosh, that's wonderful...
...Anglo-Saxons, Joseph Conrad and Somerset Maugham are the authorities, as far as novels go, on the East Indies. For Dutchmen, Madelon Lulofs tells the tale. Born in Sumatra, she writes of Holland's "other world" with first-hand knowledge...
Rubber Year. A sprawling giant is U. S. Rubber Co. which makes rubber in Sumatra, tires in Detroit, footwear in Naugatuck. machine belts in Passaic, hot water bottles in Providence. Tires are the principal product, but its salesmen will accept orders for engravers' gum and fruit jar rubbers. It has so many subsidiaries that most statistical services do not bother to list them all. Last week there was hardly a stir when U. S. Rubber announced that it had dropped 16 subsidiaries last year, was preparing to drop 15 more, bringing the total down to 31. Simultaneously President Francis...
Every Dutchman fears that Japan may some day seize the large island oil reserves of Java, Sumatra, Borneo and Ceram in the Netherlands Indies. Last week Dutch planters and oil men rejoiced to learn that Queen Wilhelmina is resolved to defend them to the last. Dutch Defense Minister Laurentius Nicolas Deckers, orating before the Dutch Parliament, declared that Japan will never dare to send more than one-tenth of her fleet to attack Borneo which is 3,000 miles from Japan...
...when he was at Columbia University, six years ago. After he secured his Indiana post and other psychologists applauded the idea, the Kelloggs agreed to have a baby to companion an ape. Their boy, Donald, was born Aug. 31, 1930. His parents at first wanted to take him to Sumatra to find a foster brother or sister among the orangutans. But they lacked the money. No U. S. zoo would loan them an infant ape. The Kelloggs felt frustrated until Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes, Yale's ape expert, offered to loan them Gua, 7½-month-old, tan-faced...