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...Cruiser. With a great splash the U. S. S. Chester, flagship of the "treaty cruiser" fleet, took the water from the ways of the New York Shipbuilding Co. at South Camden, N. J. Third to be launched of the eight 10,000-ton cruisers authorized in 1924 (the first two: Salt Lake City, Pensacola), the Chester set a record for laying-launching time-one year, 59 days. Scheduled for completion by June 1, 1930, she typifies the long-range U. S. fighting craft which is most objectionable to Great Britain...
...postponements and pleasant hypotheses. Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium who, at Geneva in May, first told the world about President Hoover's Yardstick (TIME, May 6), headed for London to confer. Waiting for him. Ambassador Dawes, like any tourist, lunched at the Cheshire Cheese in Fleet Street, sat in Dr. Johnson's chair, ate two helpings of veal pie, smoked a long churchwarden pipe...
Joseph E. Widener, Philadelphia sportsman-financier, ordered his two-acre Elmendorf Farm in Lexington, Ky., to be converted into a cemetery for the Widener thoroughbred horses. The central monument will be a large statue of Fair Play, sire of famed, fleet...
Hatless, breathless, he rushed to the cable office and signaled the world that the Spanish battle fleet of Admiral Cervera, long sought, imminently expected by nervous mamas at U. S. bathing beaches, had been found. The Spanish gunboats coaled and departed to face U. S. Admiral Schley. U. S. citizens looked for Curaçao in their atlases, found it off the coast of Venezuela, a tiny button in the bottom of the Caribbean...
Died. Sir Cecil Burney, Bart., 71, of London, Admiral of the British Fleet, second in command at the famed Battle of Jutland (May 31, 1916), in London. His son, Commander Charles Dennistoun Burney. designer of Airship R-100, succeeds to the baronetcy...