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...pleased was President Roosevelt with the work of Homer Stifle Cummings as his Attorney General that last week he decided to keep him on as his chief law officer instead of sending him to the Philippines as Governor General. For the Manila post the President picked Frank Murphy, 40, the redheaded, hard-bitten bachelor Mayor of Detroit. He was an early and ardent pre-convention Roosevelt supporter. An A. E. F. veteran, a lawyer who did post-graduate work at Lincoln's Inn, London, Mayor Murphy has stoutly carried out a liberal relief program in Detroit. So generous...
...exchange was suspended in London and Paris, unofficial traders in London quoted $3.65 to the pound. Greater repercussions took place in Cuba where after suppressing the news of the bank moratorium in the U. S., President Machado finally declared one for Cuba. When Governor General Theodore Roosevelt cabled from Manila to find out what he should do. the weary Treasury told him to do what he liked. He resigned, handing his office over to Vice Governor John Halliday...
...Bonin Islands, 500 mi. south of Japan. From Samoa as a base it has better luck when it takes Truk Island in the Carolines. With dummy battleships it feints at Guam, later at Yap. The latter gesture, as planned, brings the Japanese Grand Fleet at top speed from Manila. The U. S. Battle Force cuts it off, forces it to fight. In a major engagement near Yap the Japs are hammered to bits, losing five capital ships to two for the U. S. With the enemy fleet swept from the sea the U. S. soon retakes Guam and the Philippines...
...will be held among the Caroline and Marshall Islands which Japan took under mandate from Germany after the War. In that event Guam will lie in the thick of the Japanese maneuvers as a possible target for simulated attack. Japanese warships will be operating on the direct route between Manila and Honolulu. Vice Admiral Osumi tried to soothe U. S. alarm at such a prospect...
...there are 940 of them, in 68 fleets in 28 countries, at least one fleet on every continent-are the largest class of one-design racing yachts in the world. They were racing on the Côte d' Azur last week; soon they will be racing at Manila for the Philippine Islands championship; at Honolulu, for the Hawaiian Lipton Championship. The International Championship, No. 1 event for star boats, which Edward A. Fink of Long Beach, Calif., won last summer at Southport, Conn., is sailed every year on the champion's home water; only fleet winners...