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...fleet, the line of foreign ships. Italy haughtily boycotted the review, and Leftist Spain, which had reserved an anchorage for the little destroyer Ciscar, was unable to send it because of pressing engagements with Generalissimo Franco, but 17 other foreign ships were present, starting with the little Estonian submarine Kalev and ending with the head of the line, the modernized U. S. battleship New York, flagship of the U. S. fleet during the World War. For a day retired Admiral Hugh Rodman, naval delegate to the Coronation, was back on her quarterdeck, flying his four-starred flag at her masthead...
...Each Estonian condemned to death at Tallinn has been led out into the nearby forest by eight soldiers and there shot, always in a different part of the forest. To give condemned Estonians a choice, President Päts decreed last week as follows: "One hour before the scheduled time of the execution, the condemned shall be taken to a death cell, where the state prosecutor will read the death sentence and ask the prisoner whether he is willing to commit suicide. If the answer is in the affirmative, the prosecutor will hand the condemned a glass of poison...
...Appointing three members of a new National Mediation Board to settle railway labor disputes: 1) William M. Leiserson, Estonian-born economist, who on the day of his appointment resigned as chairman of the Petroleum Labor Policy Board to return to his job as Professor of Sociology at Antioch College. 2) James W. Carmalt, longtime legal adviser to the Interstate Commerce Commission and now adviser to Railway Coordinator Joseph B. Eastman. 3) John Carmody, onetime mediator for the National Labor Board, now chief engineer for Federal Emergency Relief Administration...
...Synod of which he is president, Rev. Dr. Samuel Geiss Trexler urged formation of a Lutheran "Church of All Nations" in New York. Services would be held in English and 15 other tongues spoken by Lutherans-German, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Ukrainian, Spanish. Hungarian, Slovak, Wendish, Italian, Polish, Latvian, Estonian and French...
...dented him painfully, did no real damage. When the President retreated to his car, Front Soldiers seized the off side mudguards, jounced Herr Tonisson severely, nearly turned his car over before police interfered. Next day, pale with fury, the President summoned his Cabinet at Reval on the Baltic. Declaring Estonian democracy "menaced," the Cabinet put Dorpat under martial law, dismissed half the town's police force as tainted with Front Soldier ideology...