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With his boy's pen Master Bruno dashed off a short story, "The Vessel of the Dead." Hair raising, it resembles (except for lack of sex motive) Il Duce's own lurid serial The Cardinal's Mistress,* penned while he was helping to edit a Socialist sheet...
...three blank shells as a warning for the fugitives to stop. The warning was ignored. He then turned his searchlight on his laterally striped Coast Guard ensign and fired three shots across the fleeing power cruiser's bow. Still she paid no heed. The next shot pierced the vessel's pilot house. She hove to. Running alongside, Mate Schmidt found she was the Josephine K. out of Digby, Nova Scotia with 500 cases of liquor aboard. Unconscious in the cabin lay her captain, William P. Cluett, smashed by the Coast Guard shell, which had split the ship...
...down the shipping lanes of the North Atlantic, charting the location and drift of icebergs. Every spring about three or four hundred of these huge birds come drifting southward from the glaciers of Greenland. It is the duty of the international ice patrol to keep watch and give each vessel passing through the ice areas all information possible concerning the location' and drift of the bergs...
...addition to his appointment as Director of the Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute. Dr. Bigelow is taking to Wood's Hole with him in June, the entire Harvard staff, consisting of Columbus O'D. Iselin '26, recently elected Curator of Oceanography, who is to be master of the vessel, and Miss Virginia B. Walker, who is to be Secretary of the Institute...
...Jersey coast the little vessel ran into a hammering storm. She was only 97 ft. long, with a beam of 22 ft. and a draught of 6 ft. 4 in. U. S. inspectors had approved her only for harbor hauls. When Captain Louis Hough, a white man, saw water in the engineroom, he decided to run for shelter behind Delaware Breakwater. Emanuel Valverde, his wife and Willie went below while the Captain vainly tried to get up a sea-bucking head of steam...