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...were drafted to dig a ditch to divert the Wicomico River and save the town. At Scotland Beach where his cottage was washed away Missouri's onetime (1915-33) Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer had to swim 200 yards for his life before he was hauled into a rowboat. At Dover the Delaware State Capitol was badly soaked. The famed du Pont Highway was closed to traffic from Dover to Salisbury when three bridges were swept away...
After a few words of greeting, Dictator Mussolini grabbed the edge of the skiff which teetered dangerously as he pulled himself aboard, sat down sopping at the tiller while Chancellor Dollfuss rowed the skiff out of earshot of plebeian bathers. During their rowboat conference the two statesmen undoubtedly discussed: 1) the Italian-Austrian-Hungarian trade pact negotiated by Il Duce and Premier Julius Gömbös in Rome (TIME, Aug. 7); 2) the fact that anti-Dollfuss propaganda was again being broadcast to Austria from German radio stations last week, despite the Hitler Government's assurance...
...from shore they noticed near them a line of buoys that seemed to mark no reef, boat-mooring, fishnet or lobster-pot. As they gazed at this strange sight, five planes roaring out from the land circled over them. The girls suddenly crouched cowering in the bottom of their rowboat when the five began to dive on the innocent-seeming line of buoys, blazing away with machine guns. Four times the planes circled and dived, the machine guns hammering savagely. On the fifth dive, one plane fell at the rowboat. Its machine gun lashed the little craft with a whip...
...coroner's jury inquest at Minster, Jean Chesterton's murderer, one John Boahemia, Birmingham mailcarrier, sometime Territorial volunteer gunner in the Royal Air Force, testified that he had mistaken the rowboat for one of the target buoys. It was his first flight with a loaded gun, he said. The jury gave in a verdict of "death by misadventure...
Navy to build 15 cruisers that he was referred to in debate as "a mighty light cruiser" by Missouri's caustic Senator Reed who added that "a rowboat appeared to be in charge of the fleet." When the London Treaty limiting auxiliary naval craft arrived in the Senate, he mischievously used his committee, which had nothing to do with the treaty, to bring out the Navy's dissent with the Hoover policy. He later voted against the treaty's ratification as a bad bargain for U. S. defense...