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...plane which he allows to do double duty for his father's New York American and New York Evening Journal. Last week he sent it out, carrying a reporter and cameraman, to find a schooner missing in storm-swept Long Island Sound with eight men and two women aboard. The plane spotted the passengers & crew marooned at a lighthouse. Boasted the American: N. Y AMERICAN PLANE FINDS 10 LOST IN BOAT. Shouted the Journal: 10 TELL JOURNAL PLANE RESCUE. Of all other Manhattan papers, only the conscientious Times bothered to report that the plane was Hearst-owned...
...Battle Force when, in similar maneuvers, it was the "enemy" fleet trying to pierce the Scouting Force's defense of the same shoreline. This year he got the General Board's permission to reverse the problem, put the heavier fleet next to the land. As umpire aboard his flagship Pennsylvania he will follow the make-believe combat by radio, deciding which ship sinks which. When the engagement is broken off, he will summon all staff officers and ship commanders aboard the Pennsylvania for a critical discussion of Problem No. 14. He will announce no winner, no loser...
...Admiral Jehu Valentine Chase, who retired last week, was much better versed in ordnance. But "Reddy" Leigh has the all-around experience of the kind which made Capt. Alfred Thayer Mahan a magic name. He was born 62 years ago near the Mississippi delta. An Annapolis graduate, he served aboard a collier, later on a patrol boat, off Cuba during the Spanish War. He sat on the board of inquiry which failed to discover why the Maine sank. During the War he commanded all U. S. subchasers in European waters. He married his cousin, is childless. Ashore he putters around...
...emaciated, unkempt, aging man who looks more than his 50 years was taken out of prison in Prince Albert, Sask. one night last week, bundled hastily into a railway car. On the eastern edge of Canada, at Halifax, a ship awaited him. He would be put aboard, taken to his native Russia. There, he felt sure, waited Death. He was Peter Verigin II, leader of Western Canada's 17,000 Doukhobors. With him were government officials, to hustle him along, keep his progress quiet. When the train reached Montreal Peter Verigin II was hustled through the station so that...
When the three Doukhobors arrived in Halifax they pretended to be pessimistic about their chances of saving Peter Verigin II. But just as the Montcalm was about to sail, a sheriff rushed aboard, served the captain with a writ. Peter Verigin II was taken ashore. This week Canadian immigration authorities were to appear in court, show cause for his detention...