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Holdup. At Shanghai this week as the U. S. Dollar Line's 22,000-ton President Coolidge prepared to pull out of the Yangtze mouth, Shanghai customs officials, acting on orders from Japanese military authorities, suddenly suspended the vessel's clearance papers. Reason: stowed aboard was silver worth $4,500,000, mostly bullion belonging to the Chinese Government but some of it jewelry and silver ware donated by patriotic Chinese for the purchase of war materials. The consignment was on its way to New York's Chase National Bank. The Japanese claimed that the silver rightfully belonged...
...large float, draped in burgundy and gold fabrics, bearing the kneeling figure of George William Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, and for this occasion a papal legate in a gold mitre and cloth of gold cope. Be fore him stood a tall ostensorium worth $35,000, an altar vessel made of gold objects, diamonds and other jewels donated last winter by thousands of Louisiana Catholics...
...ship's main hawsers fast. Over board went more heaving lines, back & forth skipped the rowboat, and at 6:44 the Queen Mary was snug in her berth, gang planks in position to land her 1,602 passengers. No skipper had ever docked so large a vessel unaided...
General Foods Corporation, which maintains a "college fleet" of trawlers yesterday launched the "Harvard" a $250,000 vessel, from the plant of the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at Fore River. A sister ship, the "Princeton" is to be launched later this month. The "Annapolis," "West Point" and "Yale" are already in commission...
...into the little Welsh port of Fishguard, the motor vessel Innisfallen slipped last week on its regular ferry run across St. George's Channel from Cork. Below decks a cargo of Irish cattle and pigs bellowed and squealed. Higher up, in a snug cabin, a heavyset, greying gentleman of 64 and a red-haired girl of 25 slumbered, as they afterwards said, undisturbed. The noisy beef and bacon had been put ashore long before the two passengers emerged and a newshawk obtained their first honeymoon interview...