ADVENTUROUS SCIENTIST.
KILLED IN NEW GUINEA.
P.A. Special.
SYDNEY, Cct. 24.
Lieutenanu Bruce Fahnesfock, the elder of two wealthy adventuring American brothers, was killed lastSunday in New Guinea at the same time as Byron Darnton, the New York Times war correspondent, lost his; life. Lieut. Fahnestock's brother, CajDtain Sheridan Fahnestock, is stationed m Australia. The two brothers sailed their three-masted auxiliary schooncr Director II. into the South Seas in 1939. Along with a party of 17 scientists they were collecting rare Pacific; birds and recording primitive native music for the Helen Fahnestock Hubbaid Foundatiori in New York The brothers had made; two earlier trips through the Pacific islands. Lieut. Fahnestock was 31 years of age.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 251, 24 October 1942, Page 5
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115ADVENTUROUS SCIENTIST. Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 251, 24 October 1942, Page 5
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