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...from a two-month trip to the Pacific Coast, emerged from a Cabinet meeting one day last week and, narrowing his sharp old eyes, summoned the Press. The President, said he, was thinking of moving the Battle Force from the Pacific to the Atlantic next year. Why? "Well, the fleet ought to know both oceans and both coasts...
...maneuver. Beginning early next spring the Battle Force, which has been in the Pacific, its normal base, since 1930, and the Scouting Force which went there during the Sino-Japanese crisis, will return to eastern ports until autumn, then go back to the Pacific. Meanwhile only a skeleton fleet of 15 destroyers, four battleships, half a dozen cruisers and submarines will guard the Pacific. The cruise will bring many of the 50,000 enlisted men and 4,500 officers home for the first time in three years, will cost the Navy Department...
...Soviet Union since it was founded. Obviously enjoying himself, War Minister "Klim" arrived with his ferociously bewhiskered colleague in arms, Cavalry General Budenny, and jovial Soviet Education Minister Bubnov. All three big Reds brought their wives. They sailed up the Golden Horn escorted by a squadron of the Red Fleet, disembarked amid thunderous salutes at Istanbul (once Constantinople) and went to sleep in a luxurious Wagon-Lit which carried them 300 mi. up to Ankara (once Angora), the hill-surrounded capital which President Kemal has built at a cost of more than $75,000,000. He never felt safe...
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Died. Stephen J. ("Steve") Farrell, 69, longtime (1912-30) University of Michigan track coach; of a heart attack; on the university golf course at Ann Arbor. Connecticut-born, he learned to run as a volunteer fireman, was a harness-mate of three fleet youngsters famed in later years as Princeton's white-polled Keene Fitzpatrick, Harvard's "Pooch" Donovan and "Mike" Murphy of Yale, Hill School and Pennsylvania, all track coaches. Never an amateur, Farrell became so famed a professional that U. S. backers sent him to England where he twice won the rich Sheffield Handicap. The Barnum...