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...atmosphere of secrecy hung over Norfolk Navy Yard last week. At rest there was the battleship Utah, silent, crewless. Aboard her were many work men, but no hammers resounded, no chips flew as they went , silently about their tasks. Skilled electricians and radio experts superintended every move of the delicate operation that will convert the Utah into the Navy's greatest experiment in radio-controlled warships. When the work is completed the Utah will carry not a man, but will steer herself, steam at slow speeds and fast, maneuver, lay down smoke screens - all directed by a distant destroyer...
Twenty-seven warships, like large grey mice, crept out of Narragansett Bay early last week and headed southwest into a grey squall. At their head was the new cruiser Chester flying the three-starred flag of Vice Admiral George Ralph Marvell. Aboard the 27 ships of the Navy's scouting force were 5,000 officers and men. Also aboard was gloom, for behind them in Newport were their wives and many a sweetheart. Forty miles to Long Island's tip slowly steamed the fleet, to drop anchor in Fort Pond Bay, sheltered by the curve of Montauk Point...
...Board had contributed for the occasion the old wartime freighter Mt. Shasta which was towed 60 mi. out to sea. In heavy weather an Army bombardment squadron headed out from Langley Field, flew around for four hours and returned to make a forced landing 25 mi. from home. Observers aboard Coast Guard craft near the target declared the Army pilots never even found the Mt. Shasta. The bombers retorted they found the freighter all right but did not try to sink her because of bad weather...
...chief yachting fixture. The regatta started with tragedy. Just before the first race the Britannia, King George's 38-year-old cutter journeyed for position by the starting buoy off Calshot Head, proud of her new Marconi rig with its towering hollow mast. King George was aboard, snugly dressed and eager for the day's sport. A squall struck the Britannia's vast mainsail. She heeled over and nosed into a grey comber. Right before King George's eyes the wash swept Second Mate Ernest Friend overboard. Sailors threw him a lifebuoy immediately. The ship luffed...
...honorary chairman, two vice chairmen, a secretary, 52 honorary vice chairmen and 56 plain committeemen was formed last week to safeguard the Freedom of the Press. It was created under the auspices of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and made public at a meeting of newsmen and Foundation leaders aboard the S. S. He de France in dock at Manhattan. By telephone from Chicago, Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick, whose 51st birthday it was, formally accepted honorary chairmanship. Chairman is Claude Gernade Bowers, editorial writer of Hearst's New York Journal, late of the Evening World, keynoter...