Science: Diggers

Groups of men, well organized, with sound financial backing, roaming the four corners of the earth to uncover hidden remains of older civilizations, early mammalia, relics, fossils, digging out the traces. . . . In the recent months, the following work has been reported:

Carlsbad Cave. A bright young man prepared last week to probe big, black Carlsbad Cave, the vastest known cavern in the earth, and disturb the millions of bats living therein. Frank Ernest Nicholson, 28, Texas-born journalist-explorer, within the fortnight will take a typewriter, radio transmitter, telephone with lengthy wire,...

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