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...fired three shots across the fleeing power cruiser's bow. Still she paid no heed. The next shot pierced the vessel's pilot house. She hove to. Running alongside, Mate Schmidt found she was the Josephine K. out of Digby, Nova Scotia with 500 cases of liquor aboard. Unconscious in the cabin lay her captain, William P. Cluett, smashed by the Coast Guard shell, which had split the ship's wheel. Capt. Cluett was taken ashore where he died without regaining consciousness...
...became known that when Sir Hubert Wilkins takes his old Navy submarine, rechristened the Nautilus, under the Arctic ice to seek a new way to the North Pole, there will be aboard one Jean Jules Verne, rechristener of the ship, a young Rouen lawyer, grandson of Author Jules Verne (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea). Said Jean Jules Verne last week: ". . . My grandfather's dreams are being realized in more ways than...
...from New York last week for Bermuda, Azores, Paris. Instead of a radio the plane carried a small cargo of advertised foodstuffs for "the first payload flight to Europe." In "rocking" the plane off the still water the flyers knocked to the floor their sextant - only navigating instrument aboard - but instead of turning back they elected to guess their course. Navigator MacLaren guessed right at first, picked up two steamers about halfway; guessed wrong thereafter and turned back to safety at Norfolk...
...Fred A. Meyer, immigrant from Berlin, proudly exhibited in Manhattan a sketch of Albert Einstein which he had made aboard the S. S. Belgenland last fortnight and to which Dr. Einstein had affixed, with his signature, the following rhyme: Dieses fette satte Schwein
After four busy days in port, Dr. & Frau Einstein steamed away aboard the Belgenland via Panama for San Diego, Calif, where Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan will meet them. Their California hostess will be a pleasant, greying woman who also knows what it is to be the wife of a famed scientist, Mrs. Robert Andrews Millikan. Born in Oak Park, Ill. she married Dr. Millikan 28 years ago. When she has time, she goes to meetings of Pasadena women's clubs, is active in the Pasadena Drama League, Community Playhouse Association. But of first importance to her is her husband...