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...Passed a bill to allow the Shipping Board to use $25,000,000 derived from ship sales to install Diesel engines in various vessels...
...ship news reporter is a man who goes down the harbor on the pilot boat, rides back on an incoming liner and writes all about the people who are on board. Usually there are a great many people and most of them mean nothing from the standpoint of news. If there is one among them who has invented a safety pin or turned somersaults before King George, it makes a good story, and the ship news reporter writes all about him and strings a few desultory paragraphs about the other passengers at the end of his account...
...anything in his past which he wants to forget he should never ride on an ocean liner, because the ship news reporter will surely rake...
Riding on a liner was certainly an indiscretion on the part of John Kearsley Mitchell. The ship news reporter was a trial which he brought on himself by so doing. But incidentally he applied an interesting test to several Manhattan newspapers. He showed how far they were prepared to go in resurrecting a dead and largely unmerited notoriety which he had acquired some months earlier...
...Daily News (so called "gum-chewers' sheetlet") published his picture on its front page. Caption: "TRIED TO FORGET.?J. K. Mitchell 'heavy sugar papa' of slain Dot King, returned with wife from Europe yesterday. They're shown leaving ship here...