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Aboard S. S. Exilona, April 19--Samuel Insull sailed for Casablanca, Morocco, at 8.40 P. M. tonight aboard this American freighter, carrying him back to America for trial on charges of fraud...
...March 12 the Optimist, a tiny German freighter of only 318 tons, warped into a quay at Rotterdam from Hamburg. Dutch stevedores hustling aboard some additional cargo got a good look at the cargo already aboard : cases of rifles, cart ridges, hand grenades, several rolls of barbed wire and a camp forge. After two weeks in port, the Optimist was joined by a party of ten German Nazis and a small dark man with a little chin beard whom they called alternately Schaefer and "der kleine Schwartze." On March 27 the Optimist cleared for the Canary Islands off the west...
French spies in Holland quickly filled in additional details. Three days before the Optimist sailed, another German freighter of almost the same size, the Jupiter, docked at Rotterdam and began taking on cargo for West Africa too. The ships and their Nazi crews were on their way to Ifni, a small Spanish bite in the Atlantic bulge of French Morocco, to run guns to the 150,000 Moorish tribesmen, followers of the "Blue Sultan" Merebbi Rebbo Mehammedan, who fled there before advancing French troops (TIME, March 26), and to start again France's painful Moroccan wars just after final...
...President signed a bill authorizing U. S. consular agents in countries where the U. S. has extraterritorial rights, to arrest and send home any U. S. citizen wanted on criminal charges at home. Thus by acting speedily the President and Congress won a race with the slow-moving freighter Maiotis, still maundering last week somewhere in the Mediterranean with its lone passenger. Henceforth Samuel Insull cannot safely land in such countries as China, Egypt, Morocco. ¶ To Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, the President sent a letter last week advocating passage of a bill taxing...
Married. Mariette Nguyen Huu Hao, 18, Chinese Catholic; and Bao Dai, 21, Buddhist Emperor of Annam; in Hûe, Annam Married. Nila Cram Cook, 25, eccentric onetime disciple of Mahatma Gandhi; and Albert M. Hutchins, 28, steward on the freighter which brought her home to the U. S. from India; in Manhattan...