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...back & forth to avoid almost constant sniping from Chinese on shore. At times there were as many as 20 Japanese warships in the Whangpoo which discharged and reloaded swarms of airplanes, swung their heavy guns to shell first one section of Shanghai and then another, and ferried every available sailor and marine ashore, for in such a battle, as the Japanese soon found, even the navy fights in town...
...this is on the lips of every Tommy-"We don't get enough bleeding pay." As Lieutenant Colonel Sir Arnold Wilson M. P. recently pointed out "army pay in every rank is lower than in the navy or in the air force." The general theory is that a sailor deserves more because he is forced to leave his sweethearts for long periods, an air force man because he is constantly in danger. Coupled with this, sailors and air force men find it easier to make a hit with the girls. So new applicants for the army are not only...
...must to all men, Death came last week to John William Navin Sullivan. Son of a poor Irish sailor, Sullivan was one of the world's four or five most brilliant interpreters of physics to the world of common men-physics being a prosaic name for that vast branch of science which embraces the giddiest reaches of the universe, the four-dimensional time-space continuum of Relativity, the hidden dance and pulsations of electrons. He was also a novelist, a musician, a philosopher-above all, a dreamer...
Souls at Sea (Paramount). On the foggy night in 1841 when the packet William Brown, Liverpool for Boston, disastrously rammed an iceberg off Newfoundland, a seaman named Alexander William Holmes made maritime history. Seaman Holmes, seeing that 32 survivors were too many for his longboat, constituted himself, a sailor and a Negro cook as a jury to decide who should be pitched overboard. Holmes and friends had jettisoned seven men and women before they were picked up by a passing vessel. Brought to Philadelphia for trial, Holmes was convicted of manslaughter with a recommendation for mercy, served six months...
...convicts objecting to favoritism in the arrangement of prison jobs. That causes unfavorable publicity and Jameson's policies are criticized by the prison board. He wins a tentative endorsement of his method of selecting men for work on the road gang but is faced with dismissal when Sailor (Joseph Sawyer) and Kennedy, with the help of Sailor's moll and an old Lincoln touring car, jump the road gang, kidnapping Druggin. What follows is the year's most exciting cops and convicts chase, involving the usual race with a freight train for road crossings, two sensational...