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...gray, bright brass and Sunday "whites," the Texas, her captain & crew, will be waiting for the President at Key West to ferry him in six hours to Havana. A squadron of six destroyers led by the cruiser Memphis constitute the guard of honor. Captain Joseph R. Defrees is new aboard the Texas but his crew are well used to having glorified passengers aboard. The Texas is U. S. flagship and on her lives Admiral Henry Ariosto Wiley, commander of all the fleet.* When newsgatherers last week saw bigger & better portholes being built into the most sumptuous suite on the Texas...
...every Texas "gob" knew, however, President Coolidge was "going to hold a reception aboard of us. We'll be loaded to the gigs with swallow tails...
...aboard!" shouted the conductor, and Mr. Ziegfeld disappeared into the Pullman. Then Jack Donahue came flitting out onto the platform...
...Frederick William Young, 51, in London. He was responsible, as head of British Admiralty Salvage Section, for salvaging 500 ships before the war, and even more famed for directing the rescue of the British submarine K-13 when she sank near the Clyde in 1917 with 73 men aboard, of whom 42 were saved...
Authorities knew that the message came from a tiny emergency radio set aboard the Dawn. So many hours had she been missing that they knew she was down at sea. Rising, falling somewhere on the winter waves were Mrs. Grayson, Norwegian Pilot Oskar Omdal, Navigator Brice Goldsborough, Fred Keohler, Wright engine expert...