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...latest fleet to arrive is composed of 16 vessels and lies between Block Island, off the Rhode Island coast, and No Man's Land. It supplies New York via Long Island with about 20,000 cases weekly...
Many buildings collapsed at Sarajevo (Bosnia) and the sea-coast towns of Cattaro and Ragusa ( Dalmatia). A tobacco factory was destroyed at Mostar (Herzegovina). No reports have been received as to the number of lives lost...
...working to perfect a system by which radio messages will be received only by the persons for whom they are intended. His experiments, extending over a considerable period, will soon be put to the acid test on his specially fitted yacht Electra, on which he will cruise down the coast of Europe and Africa. Messages will be sent from Wales and other distant places to test his theory. The secret is being closely guarded, but the method is said to depend on a new kind of receiving instrument, whereby stations can tell the point of the wave's origin...
...latest chapter in polar exploration may be written when Ronald Amundsen, the Norse explorer, hops off from Wainwright, on the north coast of Alaska, June 20 or shortly after for an airplane flight across the North Pole to Spitzbergen. In order to notify watchers and emergency rescue parties in Spitzbergen the news of his departure will be flashed thither by radio from Noorvik, on the west coast, the nearest transmitting station to Wainwright. Word will be carried over the intervening 400 miles by a chain of giant bonfires every fifteen miles, each tended by a team of Eskimos who will...
Walter Hagen, British open golf champion, created a world's record for tournament play over a links of recognized length when he turned in a card of 62 in the third round of the Florida West Coast open championship. [Hagen is shortly to begin work at the Fine Arts Studios in Hollywood as star in a cinema comedy entitled, The Man Who Cheated...