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...University of Michigan fraternity houses is one of the best to date. Routed out of their beds by the government snoopers more than eighty undergraduates, including prominent leaders were haled sleepily to the Ann Arbor police station in the early morning hours. Quarts of seized liquor accompanied the patrol wagon, the students, and the police...
...hour's sail of the coast by the boats concerned. Well aware of the potential technicalities of the Josephine K. case, the board of inquiry had the captured ship ballasted with scrap iron, staged a race with the CG-145. The Josephine K. made 9.55 knots, the patrol boat 11.15. Again the evidence was favorable to the Coast Guard. Sea lawyers also remembered the "hot pursuit" clause in the 1924 agreement, but whether a hot pursuit is limited to within an hour's sailing, or whether it may extend onto the high seas is a moot point. Coast...
Lieutenant Commander N. G. Ricketts, of the United States Coast Guard service, filmed an extremely interesting and instructive picture on the subject of the international ice patrol. The patrol, which was established as a result of the celebrated Titanic disaster, is commissioned to sail up and down the shipping lanes of the North Atlantic, charting the location and drift of icebergs. Every spring about three or four hundred of these huge birds come drifting southward from the glaciers of Greenland. It is the duty of the international ice patrol to keep watch and give each vessel passing through...
With half the Marine patrol dead, Sergeant Palrang ordered Private Mack Hutcherson to crawl back, try to get reinforcements. He never got through - two bullets laid him out with a shattered...
Same day a band of 100 Nicaraguan insurgents twice attempted to raid the Guardia Nacional barracks at Quilali, were beaten off. Three days later a Marine patrol under Captain Ernest L. Russell, scouting for the band that had wiped out the repair crew, fought off an ambush of 150 outlaws, but not before two Marines had been wounded...