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...April 28 the Shipping Board offered its entire fleet for sale. The Shipping Board considered most of the bids made as unworthy of consideration. Others are still in negotiation. One of these bids was that of the Admiral-Oriental Line for ten 535-ft. steamers operating between the Pacific Coast and the Orient. This line is controlled by the Dollar interests. So when Stanley Dollar, son of Robert Dollar (TIME, May 28), went to Washington, it was assumed that he bore a further proposal in regard to these ships...
...that the adult flea does not usually live through the Winter in cool climates. The species is prevented from dying out by the ability of the larvae to exist for long periods in a sort of hibernation. Dr. Robertson advocates a flea survey of the cities of the Atlantic Coast to verify the details of the life cycle of Bacillus pestis, the causative organism. If fleas are relatively abundant on rats at all seasons of the year in this region, the absence of plague must be wholly accidental. But if there are few or no fleas during the cold months...
...Santa Catalina and San Clemente islands, off the coast near Los Angeles, and at San Diego, Ensenada, Mexico and other Lower California posts, the sky was obscured by heavy clouds practically throughout the eclipse. At Los Angeles the clouds parted just long enough for the watching thousands to see a thin crescent of shadow on the disk in the early phase. At Mexico City the clouds were more polite, and a good view was obtained, though as the Mexican capital was just outside the belt of totality, with an obscuration of 99.4%, none of the major expeditions had stationed themselves...
Died. John B. ("Dots") Miller, 37, until recently manager of the San Francisco Club of the Pacific Coast Baseball League, at Saranac Lake, N. Y., of tuberculosis. He played second base for the Pittsburgh Pirates (National League) in 1909, when they won the pennant and defeated the Detroit Tigers in the World's Series. He contracted tuberculosis after being gassed...
...into the semblance of important entertainment by the brilliant playing ot Lynn Fontanne. MERTON OF THE MOVIES-Reveals what is likely to happen when Main Street migrates to Hollywood. Glenn Hunter has made the movie-struck youth a byword in America. TWEEDLES-The old curiosity shop of the Maine coast made the setting of a satire on the futility of first family ways. It much resembles Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. POLLY PREFERRED - From the lobby of the Biltmore to the lots of Hollywood in quest of the non-stop record for making a movie star. Genevieve Tobin...