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...appreciably eased Federal court burdens. Prohibition cases had simply been replaced by liquor revenue cases. As of June 30, declared the Chief Justice, some 2,400 fewer cases were piled up in Federal district courts than at that time last year but that was because judges had stricken many an inactive civil case from their lists. Criminal cases were up nearly...
...Catfish Row bows before death, keening and shrieking its laments, tossing coins into a saucer to assure a burial safe from medical students. Gershwin's choruses are richly eloquent then, as they are later on when a hurricane shivers the tenements and the Negroes herd together like terror-stricken savages, hearing what they think is God. knocking at the door. Critics roundly approved such moments which had the surge of a powerful musical drama. But :here were bristling arguments over many of the set songs for which Gershwin's brother Ira helped write lyrics. A lullaby called Summer...
...Scott Inc., No. 1 U. S. salvagers, decided to make the Rotterdam rescue herself. Lightening ship as much as possible, they sank eight 34½-ton anchors astern, ran block and tackles from each to the Rotterdam's winches. Then, with the two salvage ships helping somewhat, the stricken liner slowly dragged herself back into deep water. Towed off to Kingston at once, she was found virtually undamaged, was expected back in service in short order...
This notably appeared at Mocha, Red Sea port of the Arabian land of Yemen. Its ruler, the Imam, has been pressed by Italy for weeks to permit Mocha to be used as a port for hospitalization and convalescence of Italian soldiers stricken with tropical diseases in Eritrea. Last week an Italian Naval flotilla sailed into Mocha to exert further pressure, whereat the Imam, wasting no time in appeals to Geneva, begged directly for British help. In a few hours British war boats from Aden raced into Mocha, overawed the Italian flotilla which withdrew. The British returned to Aden. Two days...
...blown away, but, as it was repeated, the Navy heard it from Norfolk to Balboa. Tropical Radio heard it from Miami, Radiomarine heard it at West Palm Beach. Out in the raging night other ships heard it, wallowed about on their course. The Texaco tanker Reaper made for the stricken ship. So did United Fruiters Limon and Platano. So did City Service's Watertown. So did the Dixie's southbound sister Morgan ship El Occidente. From the shore the Coast Guard cutters Saukee and Carrabasset, with breeches buoy and Lyle guns, steamed for the Dixie. Help...