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...Lincoln Ellsworth, who piloted another airplane. Ellsworth, 45, son of an Ohio magnate, who first tasted the Arctic on an extensive survey for the Canadian Pacific R. R. in the Peace River area of Northwestern Canada, jumped to the tropics and reported on animal and vegetable life in Yucatan for the Smithsonian Institution, then north again to Baffin's Bay for the American Museum of Natural History. He taught Americans to fly during the War in the French school at Tours, "did a cross section of the Andes" for Johns Hopkins University and researches in Astronomy at Mt. Wilson...
...particles-to cause "the dance of the dead men," the "merry dancers," the Polar or Northern Lights, is undetermined by scientists. But two centuries of observation have indicated that sunspot years are aurora borealis years, the phenomenon, ordinarily confined to polar regions, being sometimes visible as far south as Yucatan in the Western Hemisphere and Gibraltar in the Eastern...
...Yucatan, work has been given up until after the rainy season in uncovering the great Mayan City of Chichenitza. A great mosaic floor, several reservoirs lined with stone, and the "court of the thousand columns" were partly cleared, but work is to be continued for perhaps ten years more...
Mexico. The civil war which has been raging in the United States of Mexico is officially supposed to be over, but fighting between Rebels and Federal troops occurred during the week at various points in the southern states of Tabasco, Campeche, Yucatan, Hidalgo. At all points the Federals were victorious. ¶ In Guadalajara, a plot to dynamite President Obregon's train was discovered. Two officers accused of being the ringleaders were killed while trying to escape...
Charles B. Warren, new U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, began to investigate seizure of American-owned property, the safety of Americans in Yucatan (scene of the present fighting), the question of double taxes levied on Americans by the Federal and revolutionary governments...