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...inquiry, insisted Big-Navy men, would reveal the weak condition of the fleet, would hasten reforms?and new ships. Lobbyist Shearer was in the thick of that agitation. He began issuing what were supposed to be the Navy's military secrets: 1) the U. S. had had a spy aboard a British warship during maneuvers, who reported on secret methods whereby British guns could outrange those of the U. S. fleet; 2) maneuvers in miniature at the Naval War College at Newport had demonstrated that the British fleet could destroy the U. S. Navy in 80 minutes...
Capt. Leopold Ziegenbein of the new, speedy German liner Bremen, was perturbed as he bustled his third shipload of passengers across the Atlantic, bound for New York. Some thief was stealing jewelry from the passengers' cabins; $25,000 worth was missing without a clue. With 600 stewards aboard, most of whom were as yet unknown to the officers, it looked like a hopeless case. Capt. Ziegenbein assembled 50 stewards whom the officers did know by sight, formed a ''vigilance committee." Before the Bremen docked, all the jewelry was recovered from the clutches of one Hans Barklage, a shrewd thief...
...Chalbaud, leader of the rebels, and General Emilio Fernandez, defender of Cumana. Minor generals on both sides strewed the sand. When a government airplane flew overhead, raking the landing party of filibustered with machine gun fire and dropping bombs, General Chalbaud's surviving son and followers climbed back aboard the Falke, fled from Cumana as fast as leaking engines would drive...
MacCracken Angry. William Patterson MacCracken, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, after two months in Europe, was lunching on the Leviathan in New York Harbor last week. A stupid flyer, to welcome some one aboard the ship, capered and stunted so close to her that passengers fearfully ran below decks. Mr. MacCracken was angry at the foolish flyer. The incident contained irony. The Assistant Secretary had prepared a speech on flying safety to deliver over the radio. Later he did speak, declaring that the U. S. Government takes more pains to protect the flying public than any other nation...
...final race of a German-U. S. series off Marblehead, Mass., aboard the U. S. entry Oriole, Designer Paine pulled ropes, gave advice, helped 18-year-old Elizabeth Hovey to win. Futile was the victory, however, for the German yachts had piled up a lead in four earlier races, captured the President Hoover cup (sponsored, not donated, by the President, who, no yachtsman, hears about yacht doings from Secretary of Navy Adams...