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...Pedro, Calif., cash became more plentiful when U. S. paymasters distributed $500,000 pay to the 30,000 men and officers of the U. S. fleet. At Calexico silver pesos from over the border supplemented the currency available. In Michigan, Canadian money helped out. Elsewhere street car tickets and telephone slugs were...
...Fleet Problem No. 14, and the Scouting Force, Black raiders, met off California last week, went through 36 hours of terrific mimic fighting. The Black fleet of cruisers and carriers were strong aloft, weak afloat. The Blues had all the battleships. Black bombers from a divided force peppered San Pedro and San Francisco but heavy Blue guns (firing 1-lb. blanks) took make-believe toll on the Lexington and Saratoga. Most unexpected occurrence in the "war" was a flash from the Navy Department in Washington ordering the battleships Arizona and West Virginia to consider themselves suddenly torpedoed...
...years to bring the U. S. up to treaty limits. Last week Chairman Vinson of the House Naval Affairs Committee announced preparation of a naval building bill which would require $600,000,000 in ten years. Also last week the Navy began a survey of California's San Pedro harbor with a view to establishing there a base to accommodate the entire U. S. Fleet. Declared Admiral Leigh: "The need of base facilities should not be confused with a Navy yard. We already have too many Navy yards...
...Havana, Rosa Cannavaciolo was married to Ignacio Florencio Octavio Leopoldo Enrique Carlos Pedro Luis Joaquin Ramon Salvador Manuel Lorenzo Esteban Modesto Jose Boada y Marin...
Last week, Albert Einstein stepped ashore at San Pedro, Calif.; Auguste Piccard stepped ashore at Manhattan. While Professor Piccard allowed his twin brother to talk about left-handed twins (see p. 23), the balance of scientific attention tilted to Professor Einstein. For an hour before debarking he had been scowling through field glasses at U. S. warships in San Pedro Harbor. They annoyed him, made him exclaim: "More than ever before, I wish on this visit to promote international goodwill." German-American inter-relations is the subject of an international radio broadcast which he will make Jan. 23 for Philadelphia...