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...dulled, stood at attention. So did plump Assistant Secretary of the Navy Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, and Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President's mother, and Ernest Lee Jahncke of New Orleans. Assistant Secretary Roosevelt's predecessor. High above them rose the knifelike prow of a 10,000-ton cruiser, her anchor ports swathed in damp bunting. The vessel did not budge. Under her steel flanks a workman hurt his ankle, was carried off. The band played "Over There." The boat still stood still. Then the band played "Anchors Aweigh." The cruiser began to move. With one arm full...
...month he noted with interest Montevideo businessmen's protest meetings against heavy taxes. He called in toward Montevideo the regiments he most trusted in the volunteer Army, set them to guard all roads inland from Montevideo's peninsula. The Navy had already been reduced to one small cruiser. Looking for a safe spot to live he turned to the Fire Department which is organized on military lines. To the firehouse he went, ordered the hose laid out, set up his headquarters. Then he gave Uruguay's model Constitution three well-aimed kicks. Last week it had fallen...
...accident was picked up by a German-speaking operator of Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. in Manhattan at 1:46 a.m. It simply reported the crash, and the rescue of four men. Immediately the Coast Guard sent cutters dashing to the position, 20 miles off Barnegat Lightship. The cruiser U. S. S. Portland steamed for the scene. Weatherbound, airplane pilots chafed and champed until dawn. Within a few hours a fleet of rescue ships were circling by sea and air around the Phœbus. They found nothing but small bits of wreckage. The Coast Guard destroyer Tucker took from...
DEATH IS A STOWAWAY-Wesley Price -Godwin ($2). Pirate gold, a yardarm corpse, death and a New York "dick" aboard a treasure cruiser...
...airplane attack on the 'Portland' would not be much of a picnic for the aviators," said Commander R. S. Williams, professor of Naval Science and Tactics, yesterday to a CRIMSON representative, discussing the newly commissioned "treaty cruiser" which is now open to the public Saturday and Sunday afternoons in the Boston Navy Yard. The ship is being inspected by members of the Naval Science department. "There are eight five inch anti-aircraft guns which can shoot 78-pound shells eight miles up into the air, and eight 50-calibre anti-aircraft machine game. If by any chance as airplane should...