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...Finnish and one Swedish vessel, all carrying woodpulp to Great Britain, were torpedoed by U-boats during the week. Woodpulp (cellulose for explosives) is high on Germany's contraband list. The week's losses attributed to U-boats were 25,452 tons (a decline of 41.416 tons from the week prior), bringing totals for all flags to 47 ships, 196.925 tons. > Great Britain's Ministry of Information last week claimed that their seizures of war materials destined for Germany totaled 186.000 tons. Particularly pleased were they to have intercepted 400 tons of molybdenum concentrates...
Died. Dr. Edward Alexander Wester-marck, 76, Finnish sociologist, a bachelor who was a world-famed authority on marriage ; in Lapinlahti, Finland. No medieval moralist, Dr. Westermarck championed the single standard for marriage, tilted against companionate marriage, polygamy, adultery, homosexuality. His concluding sentence in the first editions of The History of Human Marriage won him honorary vice-presidencies in two feminist societies: "The history of human marriage is the history of a relationship in which women have been gradually triumphing over the passion, prejudices, and selfish interests of men." In 1921, concluding that Woman had been outpaced by Civilization...
...Ambassador Espil is one of Washington's handsomest three diplomats. Other two: Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope, 50; Polish Ambassador Count Jerzy Potocki...
...Nylandska Jaktklubben (Royal Finnish Yacht Club) put up a golden nautilus shell, no larger than a lady's hand, to stimulate international competition at six-meter yacht racing, an old Scandinavian specialty. No longer than it took them to say smorgasbord, rich U. S. yachtsmen began to build six-meter boats (almost one-fourth the length of America's Cup yachts), found them fun to maneuver and comparatively inexpensive to maintain (about $3,000 a year in addition to some $8,000 initial outlay). Within four years there were enough good six-meter sailors...
...seven times, Sweden six times, the U. S. four times. Because a U. S. boat had won the series the past three years (and consequently defended the cup in its home waters), U. S. yachtsmen last winter sportingly offered to hold this year's defense in Finnish waters to spare Europeans the expense of sending their boats across the Atlantic for the third year in a row. So, last week the 18th Scandinavian Gold Cup races were held in the Baltic off Helsingfors, and Manhattan Cottonman George Nichols and his Goose (defending champions) lined up against the slickest sloops...