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...battle of Einstein is raging on all fronts more fiercely than ever. Scarcely had Dr. William Wallace Campbell, director of the Lick Observatory, announced that photographs taken by the Crocker expedition at Wallal, on the northwest coast of Australia, during the solar eclipse of last September, confirmed the predictions of Einstein's theory of relativity as to the bending of star rays out of their normal paths by the sun's influence, when Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, U. S. N., astronomer at the Mare Island Navy Yard, issued a statement regretting Dr. Campbell's action...
...using the navy for enforcing prohibition laws. Navy officials, however, object to the use of line officers for such a purpose, so it is probable that if the plan is put into effect the rum chasers will be manned by petty officers and placed temporarily under the Coast Guard...
...first successful contour map of a portion of the ocean bottom has been completed by the hydrographic office of the U. S. Navy Department, and covers an area of 34,000 square miles on the west coast of North America from San Francisco to a point in Mexico. It will aid the study of earthquakes on the west coast...
...hundred miles off the coast of Mexico the ship Kinnecott steamed through a school of turtles for more than 80 nautical miles...
Booth Tarkington's Bristol Glass (comedy of life on the Maine Coast) will open at the Blackstone Theatre, Chicago, April 9, with Frank McGlynn (of Abraham Lincoln], Gregory Kelly, Ruth Gordon and Frederick Perry in the cast. The piece is scheduled for an autumn opening...