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Confiscation of the mail--75,000 pieces--was made under regulations designating it as "non-mailable" because the sender had failed to register with the United States government as a foreign agent residing abroad...
...wireless or I will shoot mast down. I am going to shoot at stores and phosphate jetties." This message, flashed ashore by lamp signals, was received one dawn last week on Nauru, a tiny British-mandated atoll just under the equator, 2,000 miles northeast of Australia. The sender was a merchantman raider which, just before making good its threat, hauled down the Japanese flag, ran up the Nazi swastika. None of Nauru's 3,400 inhabitants (194 Europeans) was hurt, but warehouses and platforms loaded with Nauru's main product-guano (seabird droppings) for explosives and fertilizer...
Equipped with sensitive long-range direction finders, FCC's monitors undertake by triangulation to locate the general area in which any bootleg sender-on land, sea or air - is functioning. The inspectors from the secondary stations set out in innocent-looking sedans, fitted with receivers, recorders, direction finders and an FM transmitter with which to talk to one another. Favorite parking place sought by the mobile units is a cemetery, where there are no lights, telephones or overhead wires to interfere with monitoring work. Often field inspectors sleuth around for days before they root out the ethereal blind...
WIJU is not yet a very strong sender, but Cochrane, who will major in Electrical Engineering, intends to build it up into a mighty power unit after mid-years "if all goes well...
...morning last week Coast Guardsmen stationed at Cape May, N. J. intercepted an SOS that shivered their timbers: "Any ship in neighborhood with guns on board . . . lion broken loose. ..." The sender was Royal Netherlands liner Amazone, steaming 90 miles off the coast with nine passengers, half a ton of gunpowder and some 14 wild animals which she was newcastling from New York zoos to a zoo in animal-ridden Venezuela. Her crew packed no firearms...