ISLES OF ROMANCE
A BAND OF CRUSOES. AIR LINE PIONEERS. SPANNING THE PACIFIC. (By a Special Correspondent.) SAN FRANCISCO, March 20. Far out in the Pacific basks little Wilkes Island, uninhabited, lonely, sometimes washed over by the sea. By mid-summer it will be a busy colony, an important port in America's pioneer trans-Pacific airline. This and other specks strung out across the ocean will be the stopping points for great sky liners which late this summer will be roaring between California and Shanghai.
One hundred and iifty men sail from San Francisco on Wednesday, March 27, to get these airports ready and to build their own self-supporting colonies— romantic pioneering of sea and sky and land. Junius Wood, globe traveller and war correspondent, is going out with this expedition to radio stories describing the life led, the obstacles met and overcome, the progress made by this bachelor band of Robinson Crusoes on their lonely isles.— (N.A.N.A.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 102, 2 May 1935, Page 5
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