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...forbidding foreign vessels to fish anywhere on Alaska's 100-mile continental shelf. Grumpy Alaskans appeared at committee hearings on the bill to testify that Japanese boats had been observed within the three-mile limit hauling in salmon with four-mile nets, that aviators flying over the Japanese fleet had seen as many as 20,000 salmon piled on the decks of four fishing vessels, that at the present rate Alaska's salmon would not last five years. The State Department, whose agreements with Great Britain and Japan settled the similar dispute over Bering Sea seal fishing...
...sure he could never lure sportsmen into an art gallery. Accordingly he displayed his 298 pieces-ranging from a bulging bronze called Shot-Putter (Why Not?) to a sentimental painting of ducks at dusk-in the Midland Club Hotel, posted them around a cellophane pond on which floated a fleet of wooden decoys. At the opening, two attendants at a long bar made the ruddy guests feel quite at home...
...dreams of Harvard sailors who have looked with envy on Tech's fleet of sailing dinghies appear to be coming true as announcement is made of an organization meeting in the Adams House Upper Common Room tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock for all those interested in yachting...
...thousand German troops piled out of a fleet of bombers which had just roared into Vienna's Aspern airport, the vanguard of motorized forces which did not arrive until later that morning. These troops were the escort of Nazi Police Chief Heinrich Himmler, who had arrived to take charge of the capital's constabulary. Herr Himmler found the regular Viennese police, already wearing swastika brassards, augmented by roving bands of Hitler Youth and Storm Troops. A great roundup and lockup of Socialists, Communists, labor unionists and Fatherland Fronters. the only legal party under Chancellor Schuschnigg, was instantly begun...
...small cruisers, four destroyers, about half the battle fleet of Leftist Spain put out from its Cartagena base in southeastern Spain one night last week and, 70 miles offshore, encountered three cruisers, four destroyers, almost the entire battle fleet of Rightist Spain. In a running two-hour battle the Leftist destroyers buried a torpedo in the 10,000-ton Baleares, flagship of the Franco fleet, which burst into flames as the oil tanks caught fire. The Leftists then put back to Cartagena, the Rightists high-tailed out to sea and two British antipiracy ships were left to pick up some...