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...flung radio network of the U. S. Navy crackled last week with messages of doom. The cruiser Pittsburgh, flagship of the Asiatic Fleet, heard its death-sentence at Tsingtao, China. Fatal news reached the cruiser Rochester, oldest U. S. fighting ship (TIME, Sept. 1) and flag-bearer of the Special Service (Caribbean) Squadron, at Corinto, Nicaragua. Lying at Philadelphia and Norfolk the battleships Florida and Utah received word that they were to be scrapped, the Utah taken to sea as target for aerial bombs and big guns. Sixteen destroyers were notified that their lives would soon be over. Twenty-five...
Died. Rear Admiral Albert Weston Grant, 74, chief influence for the building of the Navy's submarine force, crew captain at Annapolis in 1877, chief of staff of the Atlantic fleet sent around the world by Roosevelt, pre-War commander of the submarine force of the Atlantic fleet, recently commander of the Navy Yard in Washington; as a result of disorders of the stomach, at the Naval Hospital in Washington...
...fortified since 1846, had remained Federal during the Civil War. Southernmost U. S. port, situated on a coral island 60 mi. southwest of the Florida mainland (now joined by the oversea Florida East Coast R. R.), during the Spanish War it was concentration centre for the U. S. Atlantic Fleet, embarkation point for many a Cuba-bound soldier. During the World War it served as a Naval flyers' training station, since has been a repair port and operating base for submarines, destroyers. Last week the Navy Department, pursuing the Administration's rigid-economy plans, ordered this historic base...
...services wherever possible. For those reasons Aviation Corp. last week yielded its Cleveland-Chicago passenger service (Universal Division) to National Air Transport, which carries the mail. N. A. T., which recently acquired Stout Air Lines (its sister subsidiary in United Aircraft & Transport), immediately placed in service a new fleet of Fords, with streamlining and engine-cowling that boost the cruising speed to 125 m. p. h. Aviation Corp. meanwhile turned attention to the new southern transcontinental airmail route which (if Avco accepts the contract) it will begin to operate Oct. 15. Not improbably Avco will seek to extend its control...
Admiral Pratt was a full admiral by virtue of his being U. S. Fleet Com- mander. By virtue of his new, coveted office, he retains that rank. But Admiral Hughes last week kicked himself down a step in naval rating to rear admiral. Last week the Navy Department announced the appointment of a new full admiral to take command of the Fleet: Rear Admiral John Valentine Chase, whilom member of the Navy General Board, who plans to confer over the Treaty Navy with his new chief before hoisting his four-starred flag above the flagship Texas...