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...Another vessel of the northern patrol, the British submarine Spcarfisk, long overdue, was given up for lost last week. The submarine Sealion was luckier. Rammed by a German merchantman, who sheared off her periscopes and shook her up with depth charges, the Sealion wallowed for two days while making emergency repairs, got home safely...
...downs. At present the position of the Son of the Sun is at highest noon. Richer than all the Caesars, robed in 2,000 years of resplendent (if slightly manipulated) tradition, worshiped as a God by 72,000,000 emotional people, Hirohito is the earth's rarest vessel of authority...
...been killed during a shooting fray, but the nearest bullet was found on the floor four feet from the corpse. Some unknown missile had penetrated the breastbone and windpipe, grazed the esophagus, pierced the large artery (aorta) leading from the heart. Result: "massive, bursting hemorrhages of every blood vessel [in the chest], a great gush of blood from the mouth." Waddie was sure the bullet had done the damage, but attorneys for the suspect in the case insisted that the victim must have been stabbed with a dagger by someone else. Waddie studied the scene, then rigged up a chain...
This week the State Department bluntly informed the Nazis: the U. S. "expects that the vessel will not suffer molestation by ... the German armed forces." The story of a hungry Europe behind the British blockade was clouded with contradictions. Authoritative reports boiled down to this: there was probably food enough to feed the continent meagrely through the winter, if Germany would or could distribute it. Cold probability was that the victims of the Nazis faced famine. Fortnight ago, Herbert Hoover proposed that the British lift their blockade to let ships from the U. S. pass through with supplies for Belgium...
...Republican Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox. Publisher Knox set to work to advance the Navy's deadlines, by last week had done nobly. In negotiation were arrangements to reopen the abandoned, rotting Cramp shipyards at Philadelphia (which turned out many a World War I emergency vessel). Lined up were other private yards at Chester, Pa., Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Beaumont, Tex., Tampa, Fla., Birmingham, Ala., Oakland, Calif., Wilmington, Del. In collaboration with Labor's Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman, Secretary Knox announced a plan to round up unemployed artisans in the interior, transport them to the coasts...