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...Shipping Board, sitting in Washington, is still vainly trying to solve the problem of the Government's merchant fleet-" the disposal of a liability at a profit." Shipowners and operators object vociferously to the plan of Government operation (TIME, June 18) announced by Albert D. Lasker before his retirement as Chairman of the Shipping Board. The Board in turn is willing to accept none of the owners' and operators' counter proposals. A fragment of the solution was achieved, however, by two sales to private owners...
...dense fog; nine o'clock in the evening; the Santa Barbara Channel; 19 vessels of Destroyer Division 11 of the Battle Fleet speeding southward, bound from San Francisco to the San Diego base; 20 knots speed. Suddenly the leading boat struck the rocks, then the next, the next, the next. . . Seven were aground, piled on the rocks and beach, neatly at intervals of about 250 feet. The Delphy's siren warned the other twelve from the rocks...
...Navy Department received a telegram from Rear Admiral Sumner E. W. Kittelle, Commander of the Destroyer Squadron of the Battle Fleet: "Seven vessels landed on Pedernales Point [75 miles north of Santa Barbara]. Fuller, badly on rocks, listed 20 degrees starboard; Woodbury, same, listed 40 degrees port; Chauncey, high up inside rocks, and upright; Young, on beam end, three-quarters submerged; Delphy, on beam end, three-quarters submerged and broken in half: S. P. Lee, on beach under cliffs, listed 20 degrees port; Nicholas, broadside on beach, listed 20 degrees starboard...
...British point of view Italy has violated the neutrality of Corfu; for this reason the British Government warned Italy last week that if the League of Nations had not existed she would be bound to take action against her; for the same reason Britain placed part of her fleet at the disposal of the League...
...intervals previously mapped out between Santa Barbara and San Lower California. Each plane was manned by a pilot and a photographer. Lieut. John Macready, transcontinental non-stop flyer, and George Stephens, the Army's crack photographer, ran into a heavy rainstorm and secured nothing. But aviators from the battle fleet squadrons, under command of Captain V. Marshall, secured satisfactory photographs of the eclipse, including the sun's corona...