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...Isthmian Steamship Co.'s Black Eagle was probably halfway from Manila to Honolulu when the Navy's order came, at once made haste under forced draught. Loaded to the scuppers with rubber, tin, other strategic materials, she would be a fat prize in anyone...
Last July Mariquita was rushed from her sanatorium to the Spanish steamship Monte Albertia in Buenos Aires harbor. The sisters of the sanatorium tipped off Buenos Aires newsmen. Theiraccounts of the case stirred up local lawyers, who got the ship's surgeon to examine Mariquita. He testified that she had a high fever, might not survive the voyage. For this he was arrested by the Spanish captain and thrown in the brig...
Secondly, the Portuguese cracked down on the refugees who have been funneled through Lisbon from all Europe since the start of World War II. By a new law, refugees who do not have visas or immediate steamship or plane reservations must go to prison, pay for their keep (50? to $1.50 a day) while they are there. Stated reason for this decree was to keep wealthy refugees from buying up food supplies, creating a shortage, but it would also isolate fifth columnists disguised as fugitives from Hitler...
Board Member Roger Dearborn Lapham, of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., was the color of parchment; Chair man Clarence Dykstra had just gotten over a ten-day siege of sickness. The disease they were all suffering from was simply fatigue and overwork...
...thus was important out of all proportion to its size. When two German freighters were scuttled in the Peruvian harbor of Callao last week (see p. 41), troops rushed to the L.P. airport at Limatambo. There they found Ernest Eilers, L.P. manager, and Ernest Krefft, manager of Kosmos-Hapag Steamship Agency, preparing to flee from Peru in the L.P. Junkers. The troops took over...