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...doings of Parliament while it is in session. Present Vice-Chamberlain of Britain is burly Jack Hayes, Laborite, one-time heavyweight boxer, onetime metropolitan policeman. More than most Laborite factotums of the Court he is irked by his gaudy trappings. Occasionally he rebels. Last month an oil tanker hove back to England's shore from a Mediterranean cruise and out upon the dock stepped Vice-Chamberlain & Mrs. Hayes with their daughter...
Sixteen miles off Pigeon Point, Cal., the San Juan, 2,000 tons, 47 years old, had been rammed by the Standard Oil tanker 5. C. T. Dodd. Of no passengers and crew, only 42 were saved. Next day grim men sat in the U. S. Steamboat Inspector's office at San Francisco. All agreed that: 1) There was dense fog. 2) The Dodd rammed the San Juan amidships. 3) The San Juan sank in ten minutes. Beyond that there was no agreement. One said no lifeboats were lowered from the San Juan. Another said there were. "The crew...
...each of the seven seas, tankers of Standard Oil of New York meet tankers of Royal Dutch-Shell Oil, bow and do not speak. Last week, Standard Oil of New Jersey reminded the two great rivals that neither has the world's largest tank fleet. The Chester O. Swain, acquired last week and named for a director of the New Jersey Standard, is the company's 96th tanker, the 40th operated under the U. S. flag...
...tanker, Tuscarora, saw the rockets, rescued the crew of the Rofa - five men, one woman. The Rofa was towed for half the night; then she broke loose and the waves gobbled...
Captain Goos tried to haul up the American Girl, too, but gasoline ran over her hot engine, took fire. The flames shot into a towering pyramid, higher than the rescuing ship. An oil tanker avoids flames. The American Girl was abandoned. Said Miss Elder: "It was like watching an old friend drown...