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...court-martial was back in Pensacola, approved by the President. Both officers were dismissed from the service. Both were sentenced to penal terms at hard labor: Brown to serve two years, Thompson one. Under guard of Marines, the disgraced officers set out for the naval prison at Portsmouth...
...last week. Bethlehem's President Eugene G. Grace gloomed that the situation was "very, very serious," that Bethlehem had been forced to import some of its scrap from Mexico and Cuba, that it now had only two weeks' supply on hand. A Wheeling Steel Co. plant in Portsmouth, Ohio cut production 1,300 tons a week because of the shortage. Cleveland mills were able to buy only 65% of their requirements, were rapidly exhausting their reserves. At week's end Iron Age made a somber prediction: steel production would drop to 90% of capacity by fall unless...
...Navy's base at Portsmouth, N.H., three submarines appeared one morning last week for practice dives in the Atlantic. The O-8, the O-9, and the O10 belonged to a class of the smallest (480 tons), oldest (1918) Submarines in the Navy. Age wears submarines faster than any other class of naval vessels, and the eight O-boats would never have been recommissioned, after years of discard, unless World War II had made it absolutely necessary for the Navy to train new crews as fast as possible...
...throaty chuff of the surface Diesels ceased, and the O-9, along with the O-8 and O10 sank into the sea for a deep-water dive. They were built to withstand water pressures down to 250 feet; and off the Isles of Shoals, 15 miles southeast of Portsmouth, they had nearly twice that depth to operate...
...must have folded, bow to stern, like an accordion. Oil slicked the surface. Cork, from the O-9's inner walls, bobbed up into the glare of searchlights. Pieces of the O-9's deck gratings, flakes of paint appeared. In the press room at the Portsmouth base, a Navy veteran said: "Boys, that...