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Others on the casualty list who nevertheless will start in the weekend encounters are Al Colwell with a bad knee and Captain Tom Bilodeau suffering from a bruised hand. In the event that Sullivan is not able to patrol right field, Dick Grondahl will probably get the call...
...prior, 1,000 miles at sea, where the slow Atlantic groundswell sweeps across the edge of the Grand Banks, the Coast Guard cutter Mendota slid to a stop, engines dead, church pennant at masthead, to pay the annual homage of the Ice Patrol to the 1,513 dead who caused its creation. Rolling in the trough of the sea with a bleak grey sky above and the broken hull of the Titanic below, the Mendota lay at rest with her 90 officers & men lining her quarter-deck in full dress while Commander Henry W. Coyle Jr. read the burial service...
...more I thought about the matter the madder I got. On arriving at the Alabama State line I made a bee line for the nearest highway patrol station, asking what fees were necessary, I was told that the State was free to commercial travellers. They then asked if I had been swindled in Mississippi and told me that it was a sweet racket which had been going on since 1934. These Alabama highway patrol boys make it a point to warn all travellers from their side and told me that even so, many travellers are "arrested" WHILE ON THEIR...
...London Nonintervention Committee of 27 States, these will supply a total of 900 "agents" or observers to be stationed around the land and sea coasts of Spain, together with such equipment as warships for the agents to peer from, guards to ensure their reasonable safety. Although the international patrol was supposed to be all set to come into effect, little more had been made public this week than the fact that 260 agents will observe on the land frontiers, the rest on warships whose nationality has been fixed (see map). Undisclosed, apparently undecided, was exactly what the goo agents...
Admiral Byrd got out of Annapolis in 1912, out of the Navy in 1916. Re-enlisting during the War, he was put in charge of U. S. air forces sent to Canada to patrol the east coast against submarines. Out in civil life again in 1926, he put martial affairs behind him for good, took up exploring. It was while he was self-marooned in a hut at Advance Base, 123-mi. south of Little America three years ago with his now famed defective oil stove, that Sailor Byrd, deathly ill from monoxide poisoning, turned his thoughts full force...