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...Biggest of this year's rookies is Jim Weaver, 6 ft. 6 in. pitcher for the St. Louis Browns. Most expensive is the Chicago Cubs' young Outfielder George Stainback, bought for $75,000 from Los Angeles. The Philadelphia Phillies' Out fielder Henry Oana is the only Hawaiian in the league. The New York Yankees have Floyd Newkirk whose pitching hand, like that of famed Mordecai Brown, onetime Chicago Cub, has only three fingers. Luckiest rookie was Glenn Chapman of the Dodgers who, on the first day of practice at Orlando, hit the first ball ever pitched...
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...Lieut. Maki" abruptly fires a torpedo into the Houston, which sinks. Though a Japanese court martial sentences Lieut. Maki to be shot, war has meanwhile been declared. After a terrific air and naval battle most of the U. S. fleet is sunk and Japan as a starter seizes the Hawaiian Islands. The Dream ends as a monument to Lieut. Maki is unveiled in conquered Honolulu...
According to Dreamer Fukunaga the loyalty to the U. S. of the 140,000 Japanese residents of the Hawaiian Islands in the event of war would be "speculative." It was to them that the Chichibu Maru was carrying 77 cases of Dreams, seized by the U. S. customs as "treasonable...
Shark-hunters have no luck with guns or dynamite. A dead shark sinks at once. In his Hawaiian days Sharkman Young used to rip open a dead horse, trail it behind his boat, harpoon the sharks as they swarmed to tear at the flesh. When he went into shark-hunting on a commercial scale, Sharkman Young strung 600-ft. nets along the ocean floor. A shark never turns back. Stopped by a net, it rolls over & over until it is hopelessly entangled. After chemists learned some 15 years ago how to remove the prickly, flint-like denticle from a shark...