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...Fortescue and her son-in-law hired able legal counsel, refused to make any statement. Because Hawaiians milled menacingly about the city jail, the three defendants were turned over to the Navy for safekeeping aboard the U. S. S. Alton. The Navy Department ordered that Lieut. Massie and Seaman Lord should not be released to civil authorities unless it was so directed. Should civil authorities demand custody of Mrs. Fortescue the Navy would be without jurisdiction...
...trip he started last week is a three-month world cruise arranged by Raymond-Whitcomb aboard the Norwegian Stella Polaris. Four dozen other Americans will be in the party. The ship, as it lay moored to a Brooklyn dock last week, contained 5,000 bottles of spirits, kegs of beer piled deck high, 55,000 bottles of vintage wine...
...Woman from Monte Carlo (Warner), contrived as a vehicle for the U. S. debut of German Lil Dagover, is a jerky little melodrama of continental intrigue and the War. A lady married to a captain in the French navy finds herself aboard her husband's ship and in a cabin which belongs to one of his subordinates. Before her husband discovers her predicament, the ship is torpedoed and lost with all hands, except those essential to the foolish sequences with which the picture ends. In these, the lady's husband is court-martialed. His wife, by confessing her evening...
Schevill writes: "We waited about twelve hours aboard the ketch Era, whose name well reflects the leisurely ways of her personnel, while the fishermen sobered up and got ready for sea, and finally landed here after a ten hour trip spread over a day and a half.--We hope they come back for us before we have to take to distilling sea water.--Dr. Allen and I have enjoyed ourselves muchly--this seems rather like breaking the hotel hoodoo--and I think we're getting a pretty fair collection, at least of the land Vertebrates. . . We have managed enough...
...beach; in the mean time we continued to collect, and got a few more reptiles--some in Dr. Allen's traps. In fact, we rushed out and shot and skinned one last wallaby while the Era was feeling her way through the reefs, and then went aboard as soon as she had anchored. The fishermen were actually in a hurry, and weighed after only twenty minutes at anchor, soon driving on to a sand bar in their haste. Luckily, we didn't stick there long, and after a rather rough passage fetched Geraldton shortly before daylight yesterday...