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...Nominee Roosevelt took three of his four toothy sons, James. Franklin Jr. and John; Robert Delano, a nephew; and George Briggs, Boston friend. Trailing the Myth II around Cape Cod went the Ambassadress, a yacht full of political friends. Close behind the Ambassadress came the Mar con, a cabin cruiser used in the Lindbergh baby search, loaded to the gunwales with newshawks and cameramen...
...Myth II dropped her hook off Marblehead. "Howdy, Colonel!" exclaimed Governor Roosevelt next morning when mousey little Edward Mandell House went aboard for a cockpit chat. A fair breeze whiffed the Myth II around Cape Ann, carrying her snugly into Portsmouth harbor. "Wonderful! Perfectly grand! Simply splendid," bubbled Cruiser Roosevelt & crew at the end of their 300-mi. voyage...
...major reduction in all forms of armaments (see p. 14). Armies were to be cut one-third above necessary "police components." All tanks, large mobile guns and bombing planes were to be abolished along with chemical warfare and poison gas. Battleship fleets were to be cut one-third, cruiser, destroyer and aircraft carrier tonnage onefourth. No nation was to have more than 35,000 tons of submarine. The President raised his voice emphatically to declare: "The time has come when we should cut through the brush and adopt some broad and definite method of reducing the overwhelming burden of armament...
This week Commander Rosendahl was to deliver command of the Akron to Commander Alger Herman Dresel, passenger on the transcontinental flight, then return by train to California to board the battle cruiser West Virginia for sea duty...
Died. Admiral Franz von Hipper, 68, commander of the German scouting squadron in the Battle of Jutland; of apoplexy; in Altona-Othmarschen, Prussia. Encountering superior British cruiser forces under Admiral Beatty (who had defeated him in the battle of Dogger Bank), Admiral Hipper outmaneuvered them, inflicted a terrific battering, but was forced to flee when the rest of the British Grand Fleet steamed up. Earl Beatty said last week: "He was a great fighter and a great fellow...