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Three weeks ago when the U. S. freighter Sundance docked at Ghent, Seaman Myak Wooker, 6 ft. 6 in. Esthonian, defied Chief Mate Leonard C. Adams, refused to work unloading cargo. He hid under his bunk. Mate Adams dragged him out. They fought. Wooker seized a fire axe. Mr. Adams drew his revolver, fired twice at close range, killed the sailor. Belgian authorities cleared Mr. Adams but when the Sundance reached Rotterdam he was relieved of his post after the skipper received a petition...
...Henry Ford, whose experiments on the water have not always been successful, prepared to send his new S. S. Edgewater on her maiden voyage from River Rouge, Mich., to Edgewater, N. J. Forerunner of a big fleet of cargo carriers, S. S. Edgewater is no ordinary ship. Tidewater tars would not recognize her as she passes, propelled by silent turbines, under the low bridges of the New York State waterway. Her pilot houses drop into shaft-like wells, smoke stacks fall flush to the deck, masts are hinged and lowered by hand-all extraordinary sights on a vessel...
Although it is expected that the express-chute will be useful in delivering perishable cargo wherever there is no airfield, its invention was brought about directly by the needs of the Moscow newspaper Pravda ('Truth"). Pravda prints local editions in Leningrad, Kharkov, Tiflis and Novo-Sibirsk by delivering matrices by airplane and dropping them by parachute. With ordinary parachutes the matrices frequently were smashed...
James ("Jimmy") Archer, oldtime famed catcher for the Chicago Cubs, is now a buyer in Chicago's Union Stockyards. Last week he saw two men tumble unconscious from the driver's seat of a truck whose cargo of hogs he was appraising. Aware that they had been riding in an enclosed cab, Buyer Archer guessed they had carbon monoxide poisoning, applied prone pressure (artificial respiration), revived both men in a half hour. The National Safety Council pinned its President's Medal upon Jimmy Archer...
...world flyer or bathing beauty but a flag-draped little Swedish freighter, the Anna, tying up at the Montgomery Ward pier. What made the Anna's arrival noteworthy was the fact that she, a half-loaded tramp, was the first ocean-going vessel to carry an overseas cargo directly into Chicago. Thirty-three days out of Antwerp, the Anna passed through the St. Lawrence and Welland canals, delivered 1,550 tons of fencing wire and farm implements without the customary transshipment at Montreal. President George Bain Everitt of Montgomery Ward handed Capt. Alf Jonasson a gold watch; Vice President...