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From Our Own Correspondent HONOLULU, March 1.

MR. H. B. HENRY, of Newport Beach, California, is tired of the glamor ous life of southern California which is overshadowed by super-glamorous Holly wood.

This week Mr. Henry decided to make a move. He penned a letter to the com missioner of public lands, Hawaii, and asked if there is an island for sale upon which he could make his dreams come true, his dreams of peace and bliss.

The commissioner tugged his beard, combed his files. None in the Hawaiian group is for sale. Next best, the com missioner discovered, are the Palmyra Isles, 52 of them, clustered 1,000 miles south of Honolulu and near Kingman’s Reef, and north-west of Fanning Island.

Fifty of the 52 are for sale. They be long to Mr. and Mrs. Fullard-Leo, of Honolulu, who, up to date, have had offers from an American nudist colony, a gambling outfit with ideas of estab lishing a mid-Pacific Monte Carlo in the exotic isjes, and so on, but the high pressure schemes folded up.

The Fullard-Leos report that if city sick Mr. Henry has the right price, the isles will be his. Price is something like 75,000 dollars for the 50. (The re maining two belong to the Honolulu estate of the late Judge Henry E.

Cooper, prominent in kingdom of Hawaii affairs.) The Fullard-Leos admit a New York firm is dickering for the isles, and this is said to be Pan American Airways, who, as early as 1934, started conver sations for the Palmyra deal. The com pany is said to be dissatisfied with ex posed Kingman’s Reef as an air base on the route to New Zealand from Hawaii, but Pan American want the Palmyra price lowered.

The Palmyra isles, incidentally, are within the city limits of Honolulu, of which famed Duke Kahanamoku is il lustrious sheriff.