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...Republic was bound from Hawaii to the eastern U. S., via San Francisco and the Panama Canal. Aboard were 1,800 enlisted men, 750 officers, wives and children. One day out of San Francisco, nine days from the Canal, Master-At-Arms Henry F. Dodd sniffed "a strange odor." He followed his nose four decks down, found a 12 -by-18-inch package. In it were two electrical coils, a time mechanism, two quarts of nitroglycerin. Overboard went the dismembered bomb. Henry Dodd said it was timed to go off well out in the Pacific, would have killed all hands...
...RIDDLE OF THE SANDS-Erskine Childers-Dodd, Mead ($2). From Brunsbüttel to Borkum two Englishmen poked a seven-tonner between the shifting Frisian sands and into Imperial Germany's British-invasion preparations. No ordinary spy story, this is a reprint of a soundly calked yarn of pre-World War I days. To the small-boat sailor its puzzle of channels and fog is better than any cadaver by the mizzen...
...FACE OF THE VERDICT-John Rhode-Dodd, Mead ($2). Dr. Priestley, scientist, again works with Supt.Hanslet and Inspector Jimmy Waghorn. Major Bedworthy is drowned near Blacksand. Accident, says the jury. Maybe, says his friend and neighbor. Priestley plows around in rubber boots among motives of sex and money...
...TROJAN HORSE IN AMERICA-Martin Dies-Dodd, Mead...
...strongholds of American freedom. If we fail to preserve freedom within academic walls, we shall fail to preserve it in the country at large. And if we fail to preserve it there, our boasted defence of American democracy will not be defence. It will be surrender. E. MERRICK DODD, JR. For American Defense, Harvard Group...