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...Navy Board of Inquiry, soon after the crash, said that the S-51 had the right of way on that September night, that the City of Rome had not obeyed navigation laws. Last week, the Boston Board of Steamship Inspectors suspended for nine months the licenses of Captain John Diehl and Third Mate Timothy L. Dreyer of the City of Rome; blamed both the freighter and the submarine...
...Philippines of President Coolidge, leisurely journeyed on as usual after leaving Damaghete, Occidental Negros, where, as in the other southern islands, special orders had been given that fat and lean Filipino females should cease chewing betel-nuts, smoking cigars, ambling about naked. No doubt as the good steamship Mindoro cleft azure wavelets, Mr. Thompson occasionally thought of the political situation in this southern section. He knew, of course, that these southern islands contain overwhelmingly Moro, Mohammedan, polygamous and warlike inhabitants who will not pay taxes as it is against their religion. Nor will these Moros ever forgive the Filipinos...
...Total 1925 profits $8,300,000. Total assets $160,000,000. **Senior partner in half a dozen of the chief British Oriental steamship companies, Vice President of the Suez Canal Co., for the past three decades chairman or a member of a round two score of governmental committees charged with everything from signing a Commercial Treaty with China (1899) to selling German warships allotted to Britain under the Treaty of Versailles, still active...
...Hilscher The McCormick Steamship Company, San Francisco, Calif...
Army-Man Dalton is not to be confused with able Cleveland Businessman H. G. Dalton, President of the Interstate Steamship Co., who was appointed by President Coolidge last October to make a factual report on the then inextricable Shipping Board tangle. What sagacious Shipper Dalton's report was, if any; when it was published, if ever; what action based upon it was subsequently taken...