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...Line). His lawyers went before Federal Judge Robert Porter Patterson last week. They cited numerous admiralty statutes, including a law passed by Congress in 1912, which holds a ship's master criminally liable if he fails to go to the rescue, provided no serious danger to his own vessel, crew or passengers is involved. The lawyers sought to prove that it followed from these facts that the vessel's owners could also be held legally responsible-a point of law which has never been tested in court. Counsel for the steamship line argued that the case should...
...played in place of Manheimer, while Gordon C. Streeter '34 substituted at right half. Frank H. Kingsley, Jr. '35 and Ferdinand R. Stent '36 were used as fullbacks, substituting for Captain William Wemple '34, who was on the sidelines through the entire practice today because of a broken blood vessel...
...crew had fled. Customs officials hurried to Haverstraw, found the rest of the "Texas Ranger's" crew in jail for vagrancy. The officials boarded the boat. In the hold they found 25,000 cases of Canadian whiskey worth more than $1,000,000. The vessel had been cleverly disguised to resemble the Texas Ranger even down to the funnel paint and the insignia...
Henry Louis Mencken, having been divorced from the finances of the American Mercury last-year, now announces his resignation from its editorship. No one will blame him for his unwillingness to be the last seaman on board a vessel which is patently enreefed, but many will be sorry that the Mercury has come to be such a vessel. Its function, basting the prosperous and needling the Rotarian, is outlived in time when Rotarians are impecunious and craven and the imbecilities of their heyday clotured by depression. The protuberances which the Mercury swatted have largely sunk back into the primeval slime...
Chinese bandits cheerfully take pot shots at almost any foreign vessel plying the yellow waters of the Yangtze-kiang. But never will they fire on a ship of Mei Foo (Standard Oil Co. of New York, now-one of the two operating subsidiaries of merger-born Socony-Vacuum Corp). Socony is a Chinese institution. Socony has sold kerosene in China for more than 50 years.* Socony's agents are venerated in the community. Socony's ships thoughtfully slow down so that their wash will not upset frail sampans bound down river...