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Last major Pacific sea games saw the capture of Hawaii in February 1932. Marines and infantry landed on Oahu. Unofficially, because referee findings must clear through the Navy Department, this year's defending Black fleet seemed to have won due to its air superiority over attacking Whites. Fortunately for Admiral Arthur Japy Hepburn, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. fleet and chief umpire in the Hawaiian games, the sinking of his flagship the Pennsylvania by a submarine was only simulated. Unfortunately for Lieut. Commander John F. Gillon and his mechanic, Glen Beal, the fatal plunge of their plane...
...Austrian front as usual but in Sicily, one of the island bases from which Italy would operate if she were out to control the Mediterranean; 2) Italy's new warboats, provided in the big new "defense" budget, will be designed to make Italy's fleet capable of operating beyond the Mediterranean, on the high seas which England now dominates...
...efficient, traveling in Denmark means a lot of ferrying. The new bridge, on the direct line between Copenhagen and London, cuts down by nearly 50% the time of the journey from Copenhagen to Esbjerg, Denmark's only important port in the North Sea. home of a large fleet of fishing vessels and westbound steamship lines. Irrepressibly ambitious about bridges, Denmark plans to open this summer the Storstrom bridge, even longer than that across the Little Belt, which will link Zealand to the east coast of Fünen. Two other projected bridges are a consuming dinnertime topic...
...before Coronation, Lord Amherst's Sovereign and his consort last week took a state voyage down the Thames from Westminster to Greenwich, famed for fried whitebait and the o° meridian. Queen Elizabeth wore fawn, King George the tight tail coat of an Admiral of the Fleet. Ocean liners, tramps and tugs were aflutter with bunting, and crowds stood six deep along the quay-sides. Eighteen years ago when King George V went down the Thames he rode in a gaudy gilded rowboat pulled by the blue-capped royal bargemen. George VI last week used a 300-h.p. green...
Married. David Field Beatty. Earl Beatty, of the North Sea and of Brooksby, 32, son & heir of the Wartime British Admiral of the Fleet, grandson of the late Chicago Merchant Marshall Field; and Mrs. Dorothy Power Sands. 34, once-widowed, once-divorced Virginian ; in London's Guildhall. His mother, the late Ethel Field Beatty, left...