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WASHINGTON--The United States will fuse more than 125 naval vessels and an undisclosed number of airplanes operating in the Atlantic into a now patrol force which will be periodically expanded, the Navy announced tonight...
Officials said the objective is to "increase efficiency in the operations and training of the vessels." The new patrol force will include units of the Atlantic Squadron, the neutrality patrol, and plane forces. It will be under Admiral James O. Richardson, Commander of the U. S. Fleet, and Commanded directly by Rear Admiral Hane Ellis, now chief of the Atlantic Squadron...
After an hour or two, with a rapidly rising temper, Ludwig called the police. Right on the job came a patrol car with the usual "what's-the-matter-here" attitude. Finally deciding, since the coupe's rear end extended all of a foot and four inches over the side-walk, that this constituted an offense, Patrolman No. 129 called headquarters to have the car towed away...
...them were completed after the war, and some did not technically become over age (16 years old) until 1938. Small (314 ft., 1,190 tons), lightly gunned, fast (35 knots), they were designed for the use to which the British presumably will put them: long-range convoy and patrol...
...began to come off the ways.* The Navy gradually retired its oldsters, but kept them greased. By last week, 123 were in service. Some have been converted into mine layers, some are being made into troop carriers and anti-aircraft batteries. Most were assigned to safe and stodgy neutrality patrol. The Navy last week had 78 modern destroyers, 57 more under construction and 74 planned. Even before the building program was stepped up the Navy expected to have 61 additional destroyers in service by 1943. That rate of increase will certainly be bettered, may be doubled...