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...Secretary Wilbur four days to show cause why the injunction should not be granted. Meanwhile, preparations went forward for sinking the Washington off Cape Charles, Va., without any marks of perturbation on the part of the Navy Department. The plans called for planting bombs in the water around the ship and exploding them in imitation of airplane attack to see just how well modern armament could withstand such shocks. After several days of such tests, scientifically conducted, if the Washington were not yet sunk, the battleship Texas would be at hand to use her for target practice...
Shipwrecked owes more to Science than it does to Shakespeare. By an ingenious combination of scenery and electricity, a burning ship at sea crackles before the audience's eyes. The rest is melodrama...
...inflamed past which seems to be no fault of her own. She dives into the Hudson River to rescue the hero and he takes her to sea on the Corsican. The moment after she has hammered the drunken and predatory captain on the head with an ivory tusk, the ship bursts into flames. Boilers explode...
...gasoline, while the new boat will have a range of 2,600 mi. Incidentally, this is the greatest range ever embodied in any airplane. True, Macready and Kelly flew 2,600 mi. non-stop across the Continent and still had gas to spare in their Fokker monoplane. But their ship was stripped bare. The new seaplane, when making a single hop from San Diego to Honolulu, will carry not just gas, but a full crew of five men and powerful fighting and bombing equipment...
...SLAVE SHIP?Mary Johnston? Little, Brown ($2.00). David Scott happened to be so born that he quite naturally fought for the Stuarts at Culloden. For that culpable error in prenatal judgment he was arrested and condemned to be shipped as a political slave to Barbados or Virginia. David Scott, however, was a lad of spirit, decided against the King and the King's men, broke jail, was not recaptured for some time. Sent to Virginia, he worked in the forests and fields oi the new country in a capacity only nominally above that of the African slaves, his coworkers. Again...