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Man, Wife Hope to Finish 
I.G.Y. Project on Jarvis 
A La Jolla, California cou¬ 
ple are here, on their way to 
Jarvis Island in the Central 
Pacific, where they will re¬ 
sume a project started by 
the late Otto Hornung. 
The couple— A1 Allanson, 
42, and his wife, Sybil, 34 
-—hope to complete a Scripps 
Institute of Oceanography 
project for the Internation¬ 
al Geophysical Year involv¬ 
ing measurements of the 
Earth’s magnetic field. 
They arrived Tuesday 
night on a United Air Lines 
plane out of Los Angeles, 
and will fly to Christmas Is¬ 
land on a British Royal Air 
Force plane. 
From there, they will go 
the 180 miles to Jarvis on a 
chartered schooner. 
Jarvis, 23 miles south of 
the Equator and 1.200 miles 
south of Oahu, is two miles 
long and a mile wide. 
The couple is staying at 
the Edgewater Hotel for two 
days: 
Before leaving Los Ange¬ 
les, Allanson told the Asso¬ 
ciated Press he and his wife 
would be at Jarvis about two 
months. Their only shelter 
will be a small, three-room 
shack. 
“Our food will consist al¬ 
most entirely of canned 
goods, and much of our wa¬ 
ter, will be distilled from the 
sea in three primitive solar 
stills,’' Jarvis said. 
The couple recently spent 
several weeks on San Miguel 
Island off the Southern Cali¬ 
fornia coast studying the 
habits of the sea otter. 
Hornung, 57, a long-time 
Pacific island hermit, died 
recently on Jarvis. 
Former Honolulan Hies 
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On Lonely Pacific Isle 
Otto Hornung, onetime Ho¬ 
nolulan who refused to let the 
threat of H-bombs bother his 
love of solitude, lies buried now 
on tiny 1 Jarvis 
Island. 
He suffered 8®^ 
a heart at- If 
tack Satur¬ 
day while 
preparing a 
weather t @ - 
port. British 
sailors buried 
him in the 
coral sands of 
the tiny island Hornung 
that lies almost on the equator 
south of here. 
He died alone except for a 
single companion who did not 
know how to operate Jarvis’ 
radio. 
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HORNUNG would have been 
56 today. He was on the island 
as an employe of the Scripps 
Institute of Oceanography. 
His body was found this week 
by the crew of the British land¬ 
ing ship Narvik. The Narvik 
was sent to Jarvis after radio 
messages from Hornung to his 
headquarters stopped on Fri¬ 
day. A British naval officer 
conducted services. 
Hornung was in the news 
here early last year. At that 
time, he was the entire popula¬ 
tion of Palmyra Island, 960 
miles south of Honolulu. 
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HE ALSO was the American 
closest to projected British H- 
bomb tests in the South Pacific. 
*Tm not too worried,” Hor¬ 
nung said then. A former Ad¬ 
vertiser reporter, he had lived 
for years on various South Pa¬ 
cific Islands. 
A brother, Robert M. Hor¬ 
nung of Kailua, is one of Hor- 
nung’s survivors. 
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V. 
Traces of Second Crusoe 
Found on Pacific Atoll. 
LONDON, June 12 (UP) — 
British scientists in the Pacific 
for the recent hydrogen tests 
parently lived on the island dur-H 
mg World War II, Air Force! 
sour ffs said. They landed fromj j 
SB-cSp 
of their adventures. 
Informed sources said high 
ranking Royal Air Force offi¬ 
cers in London were studying a 
The original Robinson Crusoe, 
immortalized in the novel by 
diary found on a' loneif ‘coral j a sai,or ' vRo 
.i»u 200 mil., soulh ,h. ’’S! 
. . . Iff, . adventures of Alexander 
\ THE DIART, kept by a Scot' * klrk ’ a Scottish seaman ma¬ 
ll amed Adam McCulloch, showed if 0 , 0 . on Juan Fernandez is- 
its owner had decided to “shpi In the ® ar kr'1700s. j 
the shackles of civilization” ana 
head for ‘ the peace of a tropi¬ 
ca! island” around 1850. 
r I men who iande d on the 
island io establish an observation;;* 
post found a number of ani-jl 
iwais resembling pigs roaming!* 
the island. Further inland thev' 
found a rotting hut and signs 
f> - L past habitation. 
In the hut itself was the diary, 
hound in black leather, with the 
name Adam McCulloch on the 
flyleaf. A careful search turned 
up no trace of McCulloch’s re- 1 
mains.. * 
JAPANESE navy men also ap- 
Line Beacons 
To Be 
Installation 
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nsta 
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the ,100-candle* 
power. 24-inch flasher beacons on 
Howland, Baker and Jarvis islands 
will be undertaken on the next 
quarterly cruise of the Coast 
Guard cutter Roger B. Taney 
scheduled • to depart from Hono¬ 
lulu for the Line islands on pr 
about February l. > 
Richard B. Black, department of 
interior administrator, announced 
the tower of the Amelia Earhart 
light on Howland island is finished 
and that the coral-block towers 
on Baker and Jarvis were hefSr 
completion. 
Frederick A. Edgecomb, district 
superintendent of the Us light¬ 
house service, is scheduled to be 
aboard the Taney when she leaves 
here under the command of Cmdr. 
E. A. Coffin on the 15 to 18 dav 
voyage. 
In addition to supplies for the 
men stationed on the three islands, 
thp cutter will carry 300 bags of 
topsoil, and will call at Palmyra 
for seedling coconut palms which 
are to be transplanted on the three i 
now barren islets. One man will | 
be taken on the cruise to relieve 
one of the radio operators now on 
duty in the islands. 
