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...atmosphere of secrecy hung over Norfolk Navy Yard last week. At rest there was the battleship Utah, silent, crewless. Aboard her were many work men, but no hammers resounded, no chips flew as they went , silently about their tasks. Skilled electricians and radio experts superintended every move of the delicate operation that will convert the Utah into the Navy's greatest experiment in radio-controlled warships. When the work is completed the Utah will carry not a man, but will steer herself, steam at slow speeds and fast, maneuver, lay down smoke screens - all directed by a distant destroyer...
Even so the Byng report and the Clydesdale holdup were enough for police chiefs to plan a revolutionary move, the arming of London's bobbies. Ever since their organizer, Sir Robert Peel, lent his nickname to the London Police, they have carried nothing more formidable than a short wooden truncheon. Last week the tradition of the incorruptible, unarmed British policeman (like the tradition of the invulnerable Bank of England) trembled in the balance. Twenty-five bobbies were up on charges of accepting bribes from publicans, bookmakers, and tradespeople...
...putting a tax of 1% on cash balances held outside France. The law is still in effect though the reason for it has passed. Conversion of the bills into cash and the cash into gold (which does not pay the tax) might just possibly be part of a move to have this old law annulled...
...first move was to send Chinese planes out over the district to make an accurate report of the extent of the damage. His second was to appoint John Earl Baker, U. S. adviser to the Chinese Ministry of Railways, an associate of the National Flood Relief Commission. Railman Baker has already had much experience in flood relief work. The Standard Oil, the British-American Tobacco Co. Ltd., the Bank of China, the Millers' Association offered to cooperate, helped with preliminary plans. From the Vatican Pope Pius XI sent some...
...native Iowa. At Dubuque there was great ceremony as the world's largest twin-screw towboat was named Herbert Hoover by Mrs. Thomas Q. Ashburn, wife of the head of Inland Waterways Corp., the Government-owned barge line. Driven by Diesel motors, the vessel will be able to move a 10,000-ton tow 4 m.p.h. upstream. After trials the Herbert Hoover will go to New Orleans, its home port, and ply between there and St. Louis...