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...ships in the Arctic. In the War he commanded the converted yacht convoy Marietta. Since 1928 Admiral Hamlet has been superintendent of the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Conn. His new appointment fills the post left vacant by Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, who died last month of pneumonia, after overtaxing his strength by directing, from his bed, the Coast Guard's search for the Lindbergh baby...
Seamen last week acclaimed a blast from Newcastle-upon-Tyne against the condition in the crews' quarters of many ships. Professor Sir Thomas Oliver, 79, English authority on industrial diseases, declared that, due to insanitary quarters more sailors die of pulmonary tuberculosis, pneumonia and valvular heart disease than do landsmen. U. S. ships, said he, were cleanest in the world, British the worst...
...foundations with an estimated $950,000,000 total capital. In 19-30 they spent $18,627,223 (2%): against cancer $17,529, pneumonia $25,000, heart disease $3,800, children's diseases $605,898, mental disease $936,000, optical ailments $75,416, diphtheria $65,000, tuberculosis $39,885, disease in general...
Died. Hugh Chalmers, 58, oldtime motormaker, onetime president of Chalmers Motor Co. (merged with Chrysler) and Chalkis Manufacturing Co. (antiaircraft guns); of pneumonia; in Beacon...
Died. Rear Admiral Frederick Chamberlayne Billard, 58, Commandant of the U. S. Coast Guard Service; of pneumonia; in Washington. Directing from his bed the Coast Guard's search for the Lindbergh baby, Admiral Billard overtaxed his strength, died before being informed of the Curtis hoax...