Word: reared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sailors on the U. S. S. Procyon last week prepared to receive a new commanding officer. From his country home in Rhode Island, Rear Admiral Thomas Pickett Magruder hurried to the Procyon, off the Pacific Coast, eager to get back into active service after almost two years of penal idleness on the "waiting orders" list...
Instantly despatched to the rescue, besides the ponderous Rodney, were the destroyers Tilbury, Vivian, Thanet, the tugs Resolve and Grappler. Lighters, submarine chasers, mine sweepers, hustled out from all the British coast. Aboard the Tilbury was Rear Admiral Henry Edgar Grace, commander of British submarines, taking a new diving apparatus which in tests oil the Firth of Forth had descended successfully to a depth of 300 feet. In London, King's Messenger routed from his bed Professor Leonard Hill, physiologist of the National Institute of Medical Research, authority on deep sea diving, and despatched him north to join the rescue...
...Admiral Fiske suggested that torpedoes be shot from airplanes, was ignored, went ahead on his own, a year later took out a patent. Though the British adopted a similar device during the War, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels twice turned down the Fiske invention. In 1921 Rear-Admiral Fiske, retired, saw a photograph of a U. S. Navy plane dropping a torpedo. Said he: "It was clear to me that the Government had deliberately taken my patent...
...sued. Rear-Admiral William Adger Moffett, as chief of the Naval Bureau of Aeronautics, was made the defendant. The Government claimed the invention because it had been perfected while the inventor was on active duty, because he had been educated at the U. S. Naval Academy at Government expense. Justice Stafford held that the Sibley case had closed to question the right of service men to take out patents. Hoping perhaps to overthrow the Sibley precedent as well as escape paying the Fiske damages, the Government prepared to appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court...
Died. Edward Walter Eberle, 64, rear admiral, native of Texas, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. Fleet; in Washington, D. C.; of an old infection in his right ear. Rear Admiral Eberle was a lieutenant on the Oregon on its dash around the Horn (1898), had charge of its forward turret at the battle of Santiago...