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Federal District Judge Ernest F. Cochran of Charleston, S. C. last week saved the entire navy of Santo Domingo from being swept from the seas. The Dominican fleet consists of one ship, a lumbering motor tanker named Arminda. Last November the Arminda sailed from Charleston for home with a cargo and 39 Dominicans returning to their country after fleeing the hurricane of 1930. The tanker ran into dirty weather. It was forced to signal for help. Promptly the Norwegian tanker Norwold shifted her course, picked up the floundering Arminda and towed her back to Charleston...
...entitled to a sum fixed by an admiralty judge. Papers filed in a suit to collect such a sum are called by sea-lawyers a "libel" (Latin: libellus, a little book). To get their money the owners of the Norwold filed a libel attaching the Arminda and her cargo. Judge Cochran ruled last week that since the Arminda is officially a warship belonging to a nation friendly to the U. S., the Norsemen could not libel the ship herself. He suggested that they file separate papers against her cargo...
...Arctic Ocean. Aboard it, they believed, was "a million dollars worth of furs." Last week airplanes were sent out from Vancouver to hunt for the treasure-hunters, missing somewhere in British Columbia. Meanwhile Captain Sydney A. Cornwall, master of the Baychimo, arrived in Fairbanks and revealed that the fur cargo had already been salvaged by crew and natives, that he was sure his ship had since sunk...
...Street Settlement piped earnestly and well about the Hindemith city where children held all the offices (the Mayor was 7) and grown-ups were of secondary importance. Bob and Ted Maier. 5 and 6-year-old sons of Pianist Maier. played six of the pieces they wrote for Song Cargo (TIME, July 20). Rolf Persinger, 11-year-old son of Teacher Louis Persinger. played the violin in a Mozart program. "My son," announced the teacher of prodigies ahead of time, "is no prodigy." Rolf, a grave, curly-haired child, would like some-time to be a concert artist like...
...With a cargo of 1,500 lb., the tail end of the eastbound Christmas mail, Pilot Jimmy Johnson climbed out of Bellefonte, Pa., en route from Cleveland. About 14,000 ft. over Allport, Pa., the left wing of his Carrier Pigeon gave way, banged back against the fuselage, knocked the instrument board loose. Caught by the wind the instrument board was blown against Pilot Johnson's head, knocking him unconscious. At about 500 ft. Pilot Johnson regained sufficient sense to bail out, pull open his 'chute. Pilot: safe. Plane: wrecked. Mail: undamaged save for a few torn wrappings...