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...authority, to take appropriate action." In Berlin, high officials said that this was Adolf Hitler's naval doctrine too, and German warships in Spanish waters continued seizing and pot-shooting at Red ships, claiming they did this "in reprisal" for the Reds' continued refusal to release the cargo and Fascist passenger of the liberated Palos. In Berlin it was also said in official quarters that Der Führer had sent General Wilhelm Faupel, the "German envoy to the Spanish Government of President Franco" hurrying back to Spain with official assurances of further German support for the Whites...
Young Blake (Freddie Bartholomew), wharf-rat nephew of a Yarmouth ginshop hostess, and young Nelson (Douglas Scott) swear to take any dare proposed by the other. When they overhear a captain plotting to scuttle his ship after removing its cargo of gold, they agree to run away from home together to carry the news to Lloyd's. Nelson breaks the pact to go to sea as a midshipman on his uncle's man-o'-war. Blake goes alone to London, where a chimney sweep (D'Arcy Corrigan) directs him to Lloyd's coffee house...
...another section of Brooklyn last week another useful gas manifested its deadly potentialities. Carbon dioxide, condensed to dry ice, was used to refrigerate a cargo of cherries shipped from Buffalo to Brooklyn. Not reflecting that dry ice evaporates to carbon dioxide gas again, that carbon dioxide in an unventilated room displaces oxygen without which no man can live, and that it is therefore a modern occupational hazard, two Brooklyn stevedores descended into the ship's hold to unload cases of cherries. They had time only to cry alarm before they dropped unconscious. Three other stevedores who went...
...Royal Box, she was none the less occupying it, in the absence of King Edward in South Wales. With Mrs. Simpson was a large party of whom the ostensible hostess was Maude Alice ("Emerald") Lady Cunard. As usual, stately Lady Cunard was in full sail with her famed cargo of rubies. Mrs. Simpson, who was recently provided with a $750,000 emerald and diamond necklace (TIME, Oct. 12), wore last week only a new set of diamonds. Next morning London society columns omitted Mrs. Simpson but named every other occupant of the Royal Box. This sort of malicious snub recently...
...with native women, piled up a fortune of $35,000. During the Civil War the raiding Alabama destroyed his ship. He enlisted in the Union Army, took his son on a voyage running Chinese to Cuba after the War, fought storms, lost his boy when a plague struck his cargo, returned to the Cape to find that his wife had run off with his wealth...