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Mutinous Precedent. Briefly revived in Manhattan last week was the ill-famed "Mutiny on the Algic." Three Algic sit-downers (Seamen Clegg Lowder, Rubel Stewart, James Lampkin) pleaded guilty to "willful neglect of duty," awaited punishment befitting a misdemeanor. Because the U. S. Government owned the Algic (but leased it to a private operator), the freighter's C. I. O. crew got into trouble with U. S. authorities last year for staging a sit-down aboard ship at Montevideo, Uruguay. Fourteen were subsequently charged with mutiny, convicted in Baltimore, given 30 to 35 days in jail. The Government accepted...
Your article on Ernest Clegg's painting of Jutland and the surrender at Scapa Flow demonstrates the fallibility of an old salt's memory...
Infantryman Clegg had a box seat. The Revenge happened to be the sixth ship of Admiral Jellicoe's line of battle and the third to open fire. Five days after the battle, Ernest Clegg returned to France. Three weeks later he was severely wounded in the Battle of the Somme. In November 1918 his friend Captain Kiddle invited him out to the Revenge again to witness the surrender of the German Navy...
After the War, Ernest Clegg returned to his home in Manhattan and the civilian occupation of painting. Naturally he wanted to paint the most extraordinary thing that ever happened to him, but there was a living to earn. He earned it by drawing decorative maps for magazines and decorators. Last week, however, at Rockefeller Center's British Empire Building in Manhattan he exhibited the newly completed job in which his heart had been for 20 years: the Battle of Jutland and the surrender at Scapa Flow on canvas...
Over from Brooklyn Navy Yard came U. S. Rear Admiral Harris Laning to make a little speech. Up from Washington came British Captain F. C. Bradley, R. N. to make another. These seadogs found no technical flaw in Soldier Clegg's work, for Soldier Clegg had with great accuracy noted on the spot every shell splash, turret and barbette...