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...bluejackets ranged themselves abreast the same ship. Among them were two machinists' mates who had been in her crew since November 1924 when she was christened U. S. S. Los Angeles by Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. Commander Fred T. Berry, master, read aloud orders from a paper. Capt. Harry E. Shoemaker, commander of the station, did likewise. Then up stepped an orderly who hauled down the commission flag, a long, thin pennant which hung beneath the Los Angeles' snout. The training ship Los Angeles was now decommissioned after eight years. Reason: to save $280,000 a year...
...have joined the army of those who would hang the identity of "Cappy Ricks" on the late Capt. Robert Dollar (TIME, May 23). We who have a personal recollection of the business life of Peter B. Kyne before he ever started to write know better...
...Cappy Ricks" is a composite character embracing the exploits of two men. One of these, John Dolbeer, long dead, was a New Hampshire Yankee. The other, Capt. A. M. Simpson, died not long ago, well into the go's. He was a Maine Yankee. Both of them were astonishingly shrewd lumbermill operators and vessel owners, and neither of them ever took a bad dime...
...Capt. A. M. Simpson there are innumerable stories extant in San Francisco's lumber and shipping world. In his way he was as striking a figure as Dolbeer. When Kyne tells about the manipulations of "Cappy Ricks'' in the pine business, chalk down a story about A. M. Simpson...
This is no disparagement of the late Capt. Robert Dollar, a wire-edged Scotch trader if there ever was one. Having known all three men I have often wondered what would have happened if they had engaged in a tripartite deal and who would have brought in the bacon. A venturesome bookmaker might have laid odds at 21/2 to i and take your pick. My money would have gone down on Dolbeer, with many mental reservations...