Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week's nuptials, involving two pairs of sisters, brought the season's total of weddings among males of the Raleigh crew to 15. A 16th wedding was postponed because Seaman Charles Shapperly of Haw River, N. C. had neglected to post his banns ten days in advance, and the Raleigh sailed for Marseille...
Said Bridegroom Joseph Lionel Archambaud of Pittsfield, Mass. "I don't understand a word she is talking about but . . . anything she says is O. K. . . ." Said Mme Archambaud: "When he asked me to marry him, I understood right away. ..." Said Seaman Shapperly who plans to marry Yvonne Jeanne Gagelias before leaving France, take her back to his home in Haw River, N. C.: "I'll soon have my sweetie talking hillbilly instead of sign language." One Raleigh bridegroom, under age, wired home for permission to marry, got back a cable: "Good luck. Can't be much worse...
Diplomacy was not helped by a clash at week's end outside Shanghai between Japanese sailors and Chinese Peace Preservation militiamen near the Hungjao Military Airdrome. One Japanese officer and a Chinese sentry were killed, a Japanese seaman was reported missing. Angry little Japanese Bluejackets, burning to avenge the death of their comrade, landed under cover of darkness to reinforce the permanent naval garrison in Shanghai. More than 60,000 Chinese from the teeming native quarter, expecting a repetition of the Japanese retaliation bombing of the city in 1932 (TIME, Feb. 1, 1932 et seq.), screamed and fought...
Shipping as a seaman for San Francisco, he was legally admitted to the U. S. on April 12, 1930. For the next two years he shipped from U. S. ports, was arrested once in New Orleans for picketing during a seamen's strike. No charges were preferred and he was released without court hearing. His last job as a seaman was in the Coast & Geodetic Survey as a quartermaster on the U. S. S. Lydonia. It was while serving on the Lydonia that he met his future wife, who was born Agnes Brown in the Black. Craig Hills...
...Caracciola until the tenth lap. Noisiest and swiftest (160 m.p.h.) on the straightaways, Rosemeyer roared up a lead of two-thirds of a lap before the race was one-third run. Headed only when he dropped out for tire changes on the 79th lap, Rosemeyer soon caught young Dick Seaman of England piloting a Mercedes. Then for ten laps Seaman tore like the wind scarcely 15 sec. behind Rosemeyer. Before the finish he stopped for a fuel lap, let Rosemeyer streak home for the $20,000 first prize. The winner averaged 82½ m.p.h., snail slow compared...