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...thoroughly committed to its new gadget. Ordnance ordered 17 of the destroyers, to be built by Reo Motor Car Co. at Lansing, Mich., expects them to be ready for test this spring. If they work as well as their designers (Manhattan's Trackless Tank Corp.) and some Ordnancemen think they will, quantity production will be an easy job for the U.S. motor industry...
...began to list alarmingly to starboard-"at an angle suggesting a motor car with both wheels on one side off." On the flight and hangar decks mechanics and pilots worked frantically in an effort to launch the ship's planes, 60 Swordfish torpedo-carriers and Skua dive-bombers...
...loudspeakers barked: "Everybody to the port side. . . . Prepare to abandon ship." But at the boat stations on the weather deck it was obvious that the motor lifeboats could never be launched because of the heavy list. A destroyer worked up under the overhanging lee deck. Ropes shot up and were made fast. The men, some in overalls, some in underwear, slid down like monkeys to the destroyer's fo'c'sle deck...
...boarding party got aboard, found that the crew of 45 was German, that the vessel was the 5,098-ton German motor-ship Odenwald, that she had cleared from Yokohama for German-held Bordeaux via Cape Horn with a cargo of baled raw rubber and U.S.-made tires and tubes. A dollar bill was found in one of the inners; bags of peanuts were also found. No arms were found except revolvers...
Readers of the Crimson have doubtless heard about the sedition and conspiracy trial of CIO local 544 of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Union in Minneapolis. Because this is a trial for conspiracy, because it reminds one very forcibly of unpleasant labor trials in the last war, and because of the confusing welter of sensational press comment, the Liberal Union wishes to draw attention to the elementary facts of the case...