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...than its $380,000,000 this year, $10,000,000 or $15,000,000 less than its $360,000,000 next year. Economies had been effected by decommissioning older naval craft, holding the enlisted personnel 4.700 below the authorized maximum of 84,000. As of no further strategic value. Guam was stricken from the Navy's list of Pacific bases, plans prepared to demilitarize...
...Last week President Hoover appointed Captain Edmund Spece Root, U. S. N., to be Governor of Guam, succeeding Captain Willis W. Bradley...
...Sept. 12, 1918, the new wooden steamer Dumaru sailed from San Fran- cisco with a cargo of gasoline and explosives for Honolulu, Guam and Manila. In her Wartime camouflage she looked "like a clown on an evil sea." The grisly tale of what happened to her and her crew was told to Author Lowell Thomas by one of the survivors, Fritz Harmon, first assistant engineer...
...hours after leaving Guam the Dumaru ran into a tropical thunderstorm and was struck by lightning; the cargo in the forward hold exploded. She began to burn. All the crew got safely off but the boat Fritz Harmon was in had 32 men, too many. For five days they tried to make Guam against head winds, then gave it up and headed hopelessly for the Caroline Islands or the Philippines...
Married. Irving T. Bush, president of the Bush Terminal Co., Brooklyn; to Marian Spore, sister of Commander James S. Spore, onetime Governor of Guam; at Reno. Nev., one hour after Mrs. Maud Howard Beard Bush, his second wife, had obtained a Reno divorce in absentia...