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...Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, cousin of King George, was represented by Admiral Mark Kerr before the Royal Commission on Awards to Inventors. A claim was made for royalties for the Battenberg course indicator?an ingenious and invaluable instrument to navigators, aerial or naval?invented by her late husband, Prince Louis of Battenberg (name changed by King George to Milford Haven in 1917), First Lord of the Admiralty in 1914. The claim was sympathetically heard but was thought likely to be disallowed because, at the time of the invention, naval officers were not allowed to sell inventions to the State...
This was magnified into imminent importance by the U. S. press. London, Paris, Rome and Tokyo were being "informally approached." The forthcoming' conference would "deal with matters outside the scope of the Washington Naval Treaty and would probably include aerial but not land armaments." The inevitable "high authority at Washington" stated that foundations for the conference were being laid...
Princeton. N. J. Nov 13. The foot ball session today was sort and unsatisfactory. The quick getaway featuring the Harvard game was lacking, while the line charged unevenly and the aerial attack was erratic there was only dummy scrimmage with no opposition from the scrubs who were dismissed finally with a word of thanks from Coach Roper. The punters and drop-kickers were put through an effective drill and the whole squad wound up the day with a session of tackling the dummy. The probable lineup against. Yale will be McMillan center: Hills and Howard, guards, Beattle and Gates, tackles...
...Harvard team had learned a few new plays. That fact was brought home with increased conviction last Saturday. To state that Harvard played conservative football against Boston University would be to state an absurdity. Any team that gains 128 yards in 14 forward passes is certainly adept in aerial football. Since Haughton's day, however, it has always been a policy to reserve most of the strategy for Princeton and Yale, and then to use it only when necessity calls. Consequently the logical conclusion is that next Saturday will see a further departure from conservatism...
...masts, fifty feet high, are to be placed on top of the west tower of the Stadium from which will be hung a cage aerial of about 50 feet in length. This will give the aerial, when it is up, a clearance of approximately 150 feet above the ground...