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of Pan American Airways’ airport 
at Pearl City. 
Charles Maria, representative of 
the 19th lighthouse district. 
Returning- Colonists 
Colonists returning from the is¬ 
lands were James Kinney, Henry 
Medieros, Carl Khhealewai and 
Herbert Chang from Howland; Ed¬ 
ward McCorriston, Louis Suares 
from Baker; Henry Kaahea from 
Canton, Harold Kim from Ender- 
bury; Alexander Wong, Jacob 
Haili, George Akana and Joshua 
Wood from Jarvis. 
Lt. Cmdr. Frank T. Kenner, vet¬ 
eran of the first colonizing cruises 
to the islands, made the trip as 
navigation officer. 
Cmdr. Cotter, who inspected both 
Palmyra and Canton in connection 
with navy plans to use the islands 
for naval aircraft bases, declined to 
discuss his observations other than 
to report he was impressed with 
the -extent of the Canton lagoon. 
He intimated he was more favor¬ 
ably impressed by Canton than by 
Palmyra. 
Much Work Needed 
Mr. Boyle, who inspected the pro¬ 
posed site of the PAA base on Can¬ 
ton, said that considerable blasting 
of coral heads and other work will 
have to be done before the lagoon 
can receive commercial aircraft. 
He said PAA is expected to begin 
building on Canton early next year, 
but that no work has been done on 
the proposed PAA base except stak¬ 
ing it out. « .JV, 
Mascot Lost at Sea 
An otherwise exciting and pleas¬ 
ant voyage for expedition members 
ended with a minor note of tragedy’: 
when Brownie, a small dog which; 
had been a mascot on Baker and 
Jarvis, was lost overboard Thurs¬ 
day night. 
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Brownie, famed for having been 
bitten by a shark while swimming 
with other colonists off Baker, was 
thrown overboard when an un¬ 
usually large wave caused the cut¬ 
ter to lurch suddenly.. Because of 
the rough seas and darkness, no at¬ 
tempt was made to rescue the dog. 
One of the highlights of the 
cruise was the dedication bn Sunday 
of the Carl Kahalewai light on 
Jarvis. The light, one of several 
which colonists have constructed on 
the islands, was dedicated in mem¬ 
ory of the Jarvis island colonist who 
died in October following an at¬ 
tack of appendicitis when he was a 
resident of the island. 
The Canton island light was pre¬ 
viously dedicated to the late Capt. 
Edwin C. Mustek,and the Howland 
light to Amelia Ear hart. 
Replacements Made 
Replacements, were left on the 
islands for the colonists returning 
to Honolulu. ; 
The expedition encountered 
mountainous seas off Baker De¬ 
cember 2. Surf conditions delayed 
the expedition approximately a day 
and made landing operations ex¬ 
tremely hazardous/ 
Veterans of previous expeditions 
said similar conditions have been 
encountered at Baker on nearly 
BRING BACK BLACK BEARDS: Picture** m top photo are not mem¬ 
bers of House of David but youthful colonists who returned Friday from 
tours of duty on equatorial islands. Kneeling-, left to right: George 
Akana, Joshua Wood, Samuel Kahalewai, Jacob Haili and James Kinney. 
1 Standing, left to right, Harold Kim, Edward (Mike) McCorriston Alex¬ 
ander "Wong, Henry Kaahea, Herbert Chang, Louis Suares and Henry 
Medeiros. Bottom picture shows official personnel of the equatorial 
island cruise, from left to rijrht: Maj. James C. van Ingcn, army acrolo- 
gist, Capt. J. B. Newman of the 3rd engineers; Richard B. Black, field 
representative of the department of interior in charge of equatorial is¬ 
land colonies; Cmdr. C. H. Cotter, assistant district public works officer, 
•photoi. aPt ’ JameS P * Barney Jr * of lhe StH field artillery.—Star-Bulletin 
every trip. They recalled that i 
Harold Gatty, PAA agent in New ! 
Zealand, was nearly crowned in the 
Baker surf while attempting a 
landing with the Dana Coman ex¬ 
pedition which established a camp 
on the island in 1936. 
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