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Apparently the fuse cap on the shell's nose, which detonates it when it strikes its target, had exploded prematurely. When the smoke cleared, the captain and three members of the Marine gun crew were dead, three others lay dying, ten were injured. The 26-year-old Wyoming, demilitarized and used as a training ship since the London Naval Armament Limitation Conference of 1930, is the Navy's second oldest battleship. A court of inquiry promptly met to investigate the Navy's second fatal explosion on the San Clemente training grounds within seven months. The Navy...
...LaFollette Committee's public laundry corporate labor relations are getting the scrubbing of their lives. The sheepishness with which labor spys and executives unfolded their shabby exploits hints that the rule of pry and prowl and deceive will be dropped in the future. General Motors, the target of the current investigation, has oozed unsavory details. Not content with ordinary spying, its men stole union files, deliberately broke the Wisconsin law for registration of detectives, and jammed up union activities. Some of its workers in Lansing read in yesterday's paper that all the officers of their union were detectives...
...told you so!" shouted Pastor's promoter, James J. Johnston, who had promised to explode the box-office prestige of his rival Promoter Mike Jacobs' Joe Louis. "Louis is a terrific hitter but he's not a great fighter. He can't hit a moving target. Pastor didn't fight him because he followed instructions to keep moving and keep out of Louis...
...whip his command into shape. To his purple-faced disgust he found that after a four-months' cruise it took his flagship an hour to up anchor, that "in an hour ten ships did not succeed in forming line, although the leading vessel went dead slow." In final target practice, after a furious fusillade, the target was unscathed. The morale of the fleet was not improved by these revelations, nor by the increasingly bad food, which caused a successful mutiny...
...London, where the Duke of Windsor was taking a fresh dive in prestige, his youngest brother, the Duke of Kent, suddenly found himself the target of a press which, having tasted royal scandal, lusted for more. Kent had got into the news, while nis Duchess was abed with her second child, by going with his orchidaceous friend Mrs. Allen to have his bumps read by a phrenologist and posing with Mrs. Allen on the doorstep (TIME...