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...Abram Kean is no gaffer doddering over his memories by a cottage fireside. Last week from the desolate ice fields off Labrador flashed the news that Captain Kean, having piled 4,000 sculps aboard his ship Beothic that day, had become the first skipper in history to bag 1,000,000 seals...
...March 12 the Optimist, a tiny German freighter of only 318 tons, warped into a quay at Rotterdam from Hamburg. Dutch stevedores hustling aboard some additional cargo got a good look at the cargo already aboard : cases of rifles, cart ridges, hand grenades, several rolls of barbed wire and a camp forge. After two weeks in port, the Optimist was joined by a party of ten German Nazis and a small dark man with a little chin beard whom they called alternately Schaefer and "der kleine Schwartze." On March 27 the Optimist cleared for the Canary Islands off the west...
...Aboard S. S. Roma, Sicily-bound out of New York, Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, assaultee in Honolulu's great 1932 rape case, divorced two months ago, slashed both her wrists with a razorblade, moaned: "I wanted to die." Sewn up, she was hospitalized, landed at Genoa. Hospitalized ashore, she smiled at her doctor: "I am going to die. You may stop me now. But I will show you. I might cut my wrists again...
Because of that feeling, the owner of the Nourmahal is always glad and proud when Franklin Roosevelt comes aboard. It was so last September when for a few brief days the President found time to cruise from Hyde Park to Washington. It was so the February before when the Nourmahal carried Franklin Roosevelt through the fish-filled waters of the Gulf Stream to give him rest before taking up his duties in Washington. After that cruise, when the party returned to Miami, Madman Joe Zangara emptied his revolver at the President-Elect, mortally felled Mayor Cermak of Chicago who stood...
...dropped anchor in the Bosporus off Leander's Tower. Later Stavro Chelebides, agent for the Maiotis, brought out from shore potatoes, macaroni, meat and salad greens for Mr. Insull who had been desperately sick in the Aegean on a diet of boiled chicken. Fresh water was taken aboard so the Maiotis could sail that afternoon...