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...indefinite distance off the Louisiana coast near "Sixty Deep." Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador, called at the State Department for information, predicted this Incident might become "serious." Rear Admiral Frederick C. Billard, Coast Guard Commandant, called the I'm Alone a "notorious rumrunner" and explained that the U.S. cutter Walcott had ordered the 150-ton two-master to halt for inspection off Trinity Shoals. The Walcott had fired a three-pounder through the I'm Alone's rigging but instead of stopping she had turned and fled, her powerful Diesel engines boosting her out of reach...
Cornered by other U.S. craft 24 hours later on the high seas, the I'm Alone was sent down by gunfire from the cutter Dexter. The man killed was a Negro seaman. The rest of the crew, in irons, were carried to New Orleans aboard the Dexter. Admiral Billard was positive the pursuit began within the twelve-mile limit and therefore within the terms of the British Rum Treaty. But the British embassy was not so sure...
...Jordan, professor of Hygiene and Bacteriology in the University of Chicago, and acknowledged throughout the country as a foremost authority on these subjects, is to give the Cutter Lecture on Preventive Medicine tomorrow afternoon at the Harvard Medical School, on the question of "The Epidemiology of Paratyphoid Infections." The lecture will be held at Amphitheatre Building E, and will start at 5 o'clock. It is open to the medical profession and students, public health students, and the press...
John Clarence Cutter, founder of the lectures, was a figure prominent in the medical profession and devoted to it. He was born in 1851, educated at Amherst, and afterwards at the Dartmouth and Harvard Medical Schools. In 1878 he went to Japan, where he was consulting physician of the Imperial Colonial Department. He stayed in Japan nine years and was decorated by the Emperor before leaving. He then studied in Berlin and Vienna, and finally returned to America. He opened an office in Worcester, where he contracted blood poisoning, from which he died...
...hissed a cutter...