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Virginia - a field goal and a first down against the New Deal in the renomination of Representative Howard Worth Smith of Alexandria and the defeat of Representative Norman R. Hamilton of Portsmouth. Mr. Smith's opponent was William E. Dodd Jr., 32, son of Franklin Roosevelt's former Ambassador to Germany, picked to run against Judge Smith by Roosevelt henchmen who consider Judge Smith too independent (he helped delay the Wages & Hours Bill). Candidate Dodd was given a campaign manager from Attorney General Cummings' staff, an endorsement by C.I.O.'s John L. Lewis (whose Alexandria home...
Stiff was Mexico's reply last week to the stiff note of U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who demanded three weeks ago prompt compensation for $10,000,000 worth of lands seized since 1927 from U. S. farmers and ranchers in Mexico. To Mr. Hull's assertion that "The taking of property without compensation is not expropriation, it is confiscation," Mexican Foreign Secretary Eduardo Hay replied that no principle of international law "makes obligatory the payment of immediate compensation, nor even deferred compensation, for expropriations of a general and impersonal character...
Lutine herself, 32-gun pride of the British Navy, which sailed Oct. 9, 1799, from Yarmouth Roads, laden with gold ingots worth $10,000,000. Some of the gold was to pay off the English army fighting the French in Holland; the rest was to soothe a banking panic in Hamburg. Half her cargo was insured with Lloyd's. In the North Sea a storm hit her. With bare poles she ran before the wind, struck on the island of Terschelling at the mouth of the Zuider Zee, and sank in 50 feet of water...
Almost as soon as the weather cleared, divers went down after gold, brought up about $300,000 worth. Already sand was drifting thick across the Lutine's decks...
...wreck, tore away great iron ballast blocks from the hull. Said a Netherlander named Eelke Ryn de Beer last fortnight: "I was standing at the edge of the dredger when suddenly at three metres distance I saw how the gold glittered!" It was a bar weighing 120 ounces, worth about $4,000. The scoops had reached the treasure chamber. Then the sand caved in again over the ship; for three days the scoops worked furiously, finally last week brought up a cannon...