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...capital ships within one year of the Treaty's effective date, and a third within six months thereafter. On the assumption that Japan would surely ratify, the Administration announced through the Navy Department that the battleships Utah, Florida and Wyoming would drop out of the fleet line Oct. 1. The Florida will be scrapped. The Wyoming, dismantled, will serve as a training craft. The Utah will be towed to sea, sunk in target practice...
...nightly are tugged municipal scows bearing tons & tons of New York City's garbage. Twenty miles south of Scotland Light they dump their burdens into the dark sea, return. Barge E of the city's Sanitation Commission garbage fleet last week completed her usual run, lay, supposedly empty, at her berth almost under Brooklyn Bridge. At 3 a. m. about 100 men appeared there with three big trucks, swarmed over...
...fact not often remembered is that there is a permanent U. S. fleet in Chinese waters, at present consisting of 41 warboats. The river gunboats, most active part of this fleet, are not only permanently stationed in China, most of them were built in China.† Water in the Siang-Kiang river was so low last week that destroyers could not navigate it. To rescue U. S. citizens the flatdecked little Palos which can float wherever it is three feet deep, nosed its way over the sandbars to Changsha. Bandit bullets ricocheted off her armored deck house, wounded five...
Last Spring no camp could have had prospects more pleasing than Camp Zakelo, Maine. Its director was Isadore Zarakov, celebrated onetime (1925-28) Harvard footballer and baseballer. Two of its counsellors were Alton K. ("Al") Marsters, last season's fleet Dartmouth quarterback, and Alfred C. ("Al") Lassman, husky All-American tackle for New York University in 1928. But gloom filled Zakelo a month ago. It was announced that "Al" Lassman had taken a canoe out at night in rough water, that the canoe had capsized, that Lassman had drowned (TIME, July 14). Director Zarakov did not deny rumors...
...smalltown Exchange Clubs, to demonstrate the dependability of aviation for passenger travel, Frank Goldsborough, 19, son of the late Brice Goldsborough,* took off from Cleveland for Keene, N. H. In the Green Mountains, he plowed into a peasoup fog. Unable to climb over it, he dove his Fleet biplane to 2,000 ft., crashed into the treetops near Bennington, Vt. Painfully injured. Goldsborough's companion, Donald Mockler, publicity-man for Richfield Oil Corp. tried to lift the wreckage that pinned Goldsborough, then stumbled through forest and swamp for five hours to summon help. Twelve hours later searchers located the plane...