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...gunboat Sacramento sailed from Cocos Island to Balboz, C. Z. with three castaways discovered last fortnight by Julius Fleischmann (TIME, Nov. 2), who sailed away in the opposite direction on his yacht Camargo. The castaways- Elmer J. Palliser, Paul Stackwick, Gordon Brawner-were in fair health, but fat and flabby from their six-month diet of coconuts and wild...
...exhausted the supply of coconuts near the beach, and that they would return about Nov. 4. The Camargo circled the island, firing her one-pound gun, blowing her whistle, got no response from shore. Then Mr. Fleischmann radioed the U. S. naval base at Balboa, C. Z., whence the gunboat Sacramento was despatched to Cocos Island with medical supplies, a powerful searchlight, equipment for a hazardous search of the island's trackless interior. From Cocos Island the Fleischmann yacht is bound for the Galapagos, Marquezas, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Samoa, Suva, Solomon Islands, New Britain, New Guinea, Timor, Java, Sumatra, Borneo...
When Referee Gunboat Smith had counted six, Carnera started to get up. He then sank back and rested on one knee, finally rose eight seconds after the knock down. Sharkey, maintaining his reputation for hysterical behavior in crucial moments, seized Referee Smith, screeched that he had won the fight by a knock out, then tried to jump out of the ring headfirst. His seconds persuaded him to resume the fight. For the next eleven rounds Sharkey adopted the brilliantly aggressive style which he uses when he is confident of winning, Carnera, devoid of aplomb, countered Sharkey's punches with...
...from Nicaragua roared two U. S. Marine planes carrying medical relief. They had a hard time landing in the rubble. Out of Colon sped the U. S. cruiser Rochester. The gunboat Sacramento set out at once from Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, and the minesweeper Swan steamed up from Trujillo, Honduras, with food, water, bandages. Out of Kingston, Jamaica, raced H. M. S. Danae to help her own people...
...little cruiser Patria and the gunboat Yara blocked the harbor mouth, exchanging shot for shot with the rebels on shore...